mda/mev. The Joseph Kentenich Pedagogical Centers have the task of promoting – in different confines of society – a pedagogy which responds to the modern challenges, and to help those who are daily faced with the mission of being architects of a new world…a more human, solidary, and spiritual world. Through talks, publications, assistance to schools, educators, parents and families, these Pedagogical Centers want to help forge an educational community having as a basis a pedagogy which responds to the needs of the present times.
The Pedagogical Centers want to transmit the light they have discovered in Father Kentenich to other educators, parents of families, and other institutions; and thus help to contribute to that change which they so desire for Latin America and the world. They will achieve this through the pedagogical proposals of Joseph Kentenich in constant dialogue with reality, and with the main sciences which deal with educational problems.
Uniting our strengths!
The Kentenich Pedagogical Centers are already a reality in several countries: Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Brazil.
With the primary objective of sharing treasures and getting to know the strong points of each one of the Centers, the first conference for Kentenich Pedagogical Centers took place in August of 2009 in New Schoenstatt, Florencio Varela, Argentina. Representatives from the Kentenich Pedagogical Centers from some Latin American countries participated: Ecuador, Chile, Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil. It was a special time where they shared dreams and inspirations. Therefore, the participants worked out the following declaration:
- We are grateful to God and Blessed Mother for having gathered us and for being able to support this desire in common.
- We recognize this conference as a milestone in the pedagogical reflection concerning our Father and the history of our centers.
- We are conscious that the future of this unity in diversity needs the strong cultivation of spirit, interpretation of the signs of the times, and a dynamic structure that will permit it.
- We ask our respective leadership commissions to consider the intention of our associating, generating a common space which will make articulation possible and a greater development for each one of our centers – present and future – respecting their originality, ideas and projects.
The Pedagogical Centers Joseph Kentenich – projects of Covenant Culture
In Covenant…
Since it was the first Saturday of the month, the Mass “toward 2014” in Covenant with the Pedagogical Centers was transmitted by Schoenstatt-TV. The main celebrant greeted everyone who “virtually” united themselves to this Mass in the Original Shrine and who joined the large number of people who participated in this Eucharist in person.
Taking the phrase “in covenant with the Pedagogical Centers” seriously, the pilgrims toward the jubilee should expect an “infusion” of graces and gifts of understanding and apply Father Kentenich’s pedagogy, and advance of what can be expected in the jubilee upon visiting the tents of covenant culture…
The participants prayed for everyone who offered their talents and their time in the Pedagogical Centers, for the intentions of Pope Francis for this month of May, and for Father Ivan Flores, who began to take the Pilgrim MTA to the families in Jaborovsk in Siberia. He learned about Schoenstatt through schoenstatt.org, and he received the Pilgrim MTA from Buenos Aires, while the pictures, holy cards of the Blessed Mother, unity crosses, and medals are still arriving by mail from Germany…Missionaries during this year of the Missionary Current.
After the Fellhofer’s invitation to participate in breakfast, the participants renewed their Covenant of Love, this time listening to the song of the Consecration Prayer in Tamil.
