Monthly Archives: "June 2013"

Fr. Javier Arteaga. There are days that become historic.  May 22nd, at approximately ten o’clock in the morning, a group of Schoenstatt Fathers was gathered in Zion when we received an email with the extraordinary news that the Pallottines had donated the Original Shrine; the email indicated the link to the Pallottine website in Germany.  We searched the page and it said:  “The Pallottine Community gives the Schoenstatt Movement the pilgrimage chapel in Vallendar-Schoenstatt for the jubilee year 2014.   It was decided by the Provincial Assembly, the community’s highest decision-makingRead More
PORTUGAL, Gonçalo Vilela. Another bicycle pilgrimage -- with the Holy Trinity as its theme -- took place at the end of May uniting the Schoenstatt Shrine in Lisbon with the Fatima Shrine, adding 175km to the "Tejo Way."        Read More
Fr. José Melo. The news of the Original Shrine truly became an international phenomenon for the entire Schoenstatt Family.  On 22 May, the news spread like wildfire via the Internet, e-mail, Facebook andmany other platforms.  The joy began timidly, clouded by the doubt of whether the news was true, but little by little, "the shrine is ours" became a jubilant exclamation that united us.  Read More
CHILE, Sr. Yvonne Latsague. Still touched by the immense and undeserved gift that God gave us and the entire International Schoenstatt Family, I want to share the first impressions and celebrations of the Montahue Family in Concepción, Chile, on that joyous day -- 22 May 2013.      Read More