Posted On December 16, 2011 In Covenant Life

“Advent Vigil… as a family”

PERU, Carmen Roldán de Scamarone. What is Advent? How can it be lived as a family? Many arrived without knowing the answer to these two questions, but as time passed, they learned that the essence of Advent is that it is a time of "waiting with hope…as a family," Father Paul Jaimes said. The entire Church waits for the coming of the God Child, his birth in every heart, with the resolution of preparing for His second coming. It is that simple! The challenge isRead More
PARAGUAY, P. Antonio Cosp. On December 17th, the Mass “toward 2014” will be celebrated in covenant with Paraguay.  It comes at a moment when the Schoenstatt Movement from Paraguay looks with gratitude at a year of great creativity in all spheres and in all the dioceses.  The motto – Family in covenant – for a new Paraguay – announces the goal for 2011-2012:  to present a covenant culture.    Read More
GERMANY, fma. "Colleagues differ ... some greatly," reflected one of the participants late in the afternoon of 26 November, as they looked at the almost untouched buffet supper. "Fortunately!" remarked a neighbour and both laughed heartily. Then they turned to take in the comment of another participant, "But it is true, isn't it, that for an arch-choleric character it is a difficult process if someone is slower than I am." Fr Kentenich's pedagogy is both practical and applicable in leading staff - that was the experience of many leaders.Read More
CHILE, Margarita Popelka de Olea. At the beginning of Mary's month (which is in November in this part of the world), a wish that began in 2008 for the Pilgrim Mother to visit faraway Easter Island materialized. The request for three images was made to Sister M. Consuelo, the Campaign Secretary, and they were delivered at a Mass on November 8th in the Bellavista Shrine. Father Andres Larrain blessed them. And so the trip began with the conviction: Mother will take charge of everything.  Read More

Posted On December 13, 2011 In Covenant Life

Getting to know John Pozzobon

PARAGUAY, Marcelo Luzardi. Brother Ernesto Brandstetter belongs to the Institute of the Brothers of Mary; he is from Munich in southern Germany. During his youth, he studied carpentry, architecture, and then he entered the Schoenstatt Movement in Vallendar in 1957. In 1967, when he saw that the founding of the Institute in Brazil needed support, he traveled to Santa Maria, where he joined the Brothers who were living there while he worked in the Woma carpentry, which already belonged to the Institute. This workshop makes almost all theRead More
org. On December 12th, thousands of missionaries of the Rosary Campaign celebrate the day of the Patroness of the Americas once again - it is also the birthday of a very simple man, who only God could have thought to call to complement the Schoenstatt Work with that large Movement of people and pilgrims that Father Kentenich had wanted from the beginning. Schoenstatt emerged from the catacombs with the Rosary Campaign, and it has literally extended to the ends of the earth. The strength and the warmth ofRead More

Posted On December 10, 2011 In Jubilee 2014

December 10th: in covenant with Panama

Agathe Hug/org. Panama is the hook in Central America that joins North America with South America, which hangs from Colombia. The narrowest part of its territory is only fifty-four kilometers wide. A limit separates Panama from Costa Rica and the other, from Colombia. The Atlantic Ocean flanks one side while the Pacific flanks the other side. On December 10th, Schoenstatt's gaze will be directed toward Panama, when the Mass "toward 2014" is celebrated in covenant with this country.  Read More

Posted On December 10, 2011 In Covenant Life

A Culture of Bonding

GERMANY, fma. "The weal or woe of thousands depends on the internal problematic of the leaders of our economy..." - a sentence in the closing discussion at the Conference of the International Kentenich Academy for Leaders (IKAF), in which the studies, papers, experiences and discoveries of three intensive days resounded - "... as well as on what we do for a culture of bonding." Bonding as a structural force, a culture of bonding as a practical form of a covenant culture in leading a business. A good dozen business peopleRead More