BRAZIL, Sandra Lezcano. Ideas are beginning to take shape, projects are already underway, and this is all upon the Opening of the Triennium threshold, where each Schoenstatt Family will begin on pilgrimage towards 2014. The official opening at the international level will be on October 17th and the national level on October 18th. A special edition of the Schoenstatt Movement's Tabor Magazine in Brazil has provided an issue with reflections and information about the great Jubilee that the Schoenstatt Movement will celebrate in the year 2014.  Read More
PHILIPPINES, Ines Altena/Sr. Charito Maria. Each year at the Schoenstatt Shrine near Cebu City, Philippines, there are ten days of celebration for Schoenstatt's Founding Day. As part of the culture, the Schoenstatt Family is preparing for the celebration with a Novena or nine days of prayer.      Read More
Sr. M. Jacoba Kesselheim. The sixth General Chapter of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary which has been in session since the 8th September 2010, has elected a new Superior General and a new General Council.        Read More
GUATEMALA/COSTA RICA, mkf. "Since about ten years ago, the Original Shrine, in the creative strength of the Covenant of Love, has had another - humble but efficient - instrument to establish attachments among countries, continents, communities, and people who wait for what Schoenstatt has to offer: "this website", said Gonzalo Vega, from Costa Rica. On September 20th, thanks to this instrument, it was "Guatemala Day". Schoenstatters who had met each other a long time ago met again and a couples' group was formed! Thanks to aRead More
ROME/SPAIN, VIS. A press conference was held this morning in the Holy See Press Office to present the next World Youth Day, which is due to be held in the Spanish capital city of Madrid in August 2011.        Read More
mkf. Because of the grave political and social situation being experienced in Ecuador, Father Eduardo Auza, Director of the Movement in Ecuador, on September 30th - immediately after the beginning of the police revolt which provoked institutional chaos and ended in a violent confrontation with the military and the retention of the president, Rafael Correa, for several hours, and in addition to two deaths and at least 30 wounded - sent a letter to the entire Movement. In the letter, it can be proved how the CULTURE OF THERead More
SOUTH AFRICA, Sarah-Leah Pimentel. The Schoenstatt Women's League in Johannesburg recently held their annual retreat. In many ways, this retreat was very different from any other they had ever been on before as a group. It was the first time that they led the retreat themselves because Sr. Joanne, who previously gave direction to the group was transferred to another city at the start of the year and also spends a significant amount of time giving assistance to the Movement in Nigeria and Kenya. Having to be leaders and participantsRead More
CHILE, Yolanda Pinto Torres. In John Pozzobon's Pensamientos he said, "I prayed the rosary to nourish my covenant." On September 11th, missionaries of the Schoenstatt Rosary Campaign group traveled with the Blessed Mother to the Saint Joseph Mine for the second time to nourish the spirit of the miners' families in Copiapó the city, where the thirty-three miners have been trapped for weeks.    Read More