Argentina Tag

Santuario de Rosario
ARGENTINA, P. Darío Gatti • On June 4, 2023, we celebrated the 30th anniversary of our Shrine in Rosario and the crowning of the Blessed Mother. Our Archbishop, Eduardo Eliseo Martín, presided over the celebration and also sealed the Covenant of Love. With him at the altar was Ernesto José Fernández, recently elected Auxiliary Bishop, member of our community of the Schoenstatt Institute of Diocesan Priests, and a diocesan priest received the Pilgrim MTA to go on mission with her… — When I say “Rosario” in Argentina, people certainly associateRead More
Casa del Niño
ARGENTINA, Maria Fischer • Casa del Niño recently launched its new website – with many photos, a concise presentation of mission and vision, an institutional video, options for online donations, and all this not only in Spanish, but also in English and German. — The day care center “Casa del Niño P. José Kentenich” is a social project that is not only important for Florencio Varela or for Argentina, but that radiates far and wide. Many people in other countries of Latin America, in the United States, in Europe andRead More
Colegio Covenant
ARGENTINA, Guillermo Ferreyra • During the month of May, the Covenant School’s pastoral team carried out an activity with the elementary students about our Blessed Mother inspired by Joseph Engling’s “Flowers of May”.  — They were introduced to the personal history of this first congregant and his way of giving gifts to Mary. A picture of Joseph Engling at the School Throughout the month they offered different gifts that they captured in drawings of flowers that they gave to the Blessed Mother as a capital of grace. Just like Joseph,Read More
Colegio Covenant
ARGENTINA, Guillermo Ferreyra • In the days before the celebration of Pentecost, a group of students from the primary level of Covenant School in Gonnet received the sacrament of Confirmation in the Parish “Our Lady of the Visitation”, to which our School belongs. — As part of the preparation, each one of them decorated their confirmation candle with a drawing they designed themselves. In it, they captured their personal characteristics linked to the mission that each one felt they have to give to God to conquer a better world. FlameRead More
Ermita Nogoyá
ARGENTINA, Tita Ríos/Claudia Echenique • This Thursday, May 18, 2023, the Jubilee walk toward the 25th Anniversary of the Wayside Shrine of Our Lady of Schoenstatt in the city of Nogoyá, province of Entre Ríos began. On this covenant day, the pilgrims received a visit from the patroness of the place, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, and then they celebrated the Eucharist. Each month, on the 18th, they will prepare a special afternoon in preparation for the 25th anniversary, which they will celebrate on November 29th. — Many pilgrims cameRead More
La ermita de Goya, la ermita de Delia
ARGENTINA, Maria Fischer • “Delia, from the Wayside Shrine?” I asked Gabriela Sarquis, a member of the Board of Directors of the Casa del Niño, as we traveled to Florencio Varela and talked about everything that comes up during a trip of more than an hour. She spoke about the mother of a friend, Delia, and her commitment to Schoenstatt even in the Province of Corrientes … Yes, we indeed talked about “Delia of the Wayside Shrine”, who is remembered every year in Goya, along with her late husband, whenRead More
Casa del Niño
ARGENTINA, Maria Fischer • “Grapes, grapes, grapes…”. On Tuesday, March 28, when the children of the early shift at Casa del Niño José Kentenich, the day care center in a poor neighborhood of Florencio Varela, received their dessert, the joy was clearly seen and heard. I remembered a story that Veronica Arias had told me a few days ago. A new child in the house did not touch the tomatoes in the salad. The little one didn’t know what it was. He had never seen a tomato in his life,Read More
Colegio Covenant, La Plata
ARGENTINA, Maria Fischer • We begin our visit where it all began ten years ago, when Alejandra Pastene and Guillermo Ferreyra, from the Schoenstatt Institute of Families, together with Maria Pastene and Juan Ignacio Barrena, made their dream come true and founded the Covenant School, a school with Kentenich pedagogy. “Covenant”, can be seen on the door of the house where the initial level or kindergarten is located, and covenant awaits us in the wayside shrine, and in every corner of this house, in every person who greets us, inRead More
Fiesta de Sion - anuncios
ARGENTINA, Claudia Echenique • During the Feast of Sion, the Schoenstatt Fathers of the Father Region announced several news for the year 2023, which include transfers and ordinations in the coming months. — Thanks to the “parish announcements” given by the regional superior, Fr. Tommy Nin Mitchel, we were able to learn that: Juan Pablo Catoggio will return to Argentina in October, after his term as Superior General of the Schoenstatt Fathers and President of the International Presidency of Schoenstatt. Pablo Pol will end his term as rector of theRead More
Fiesta de Sion 2023
ARGENTINA, Claudia Echenique • A week earlier, some Schoenstatt Fathers from the Father Region announced on social media that they were on their way to Florencio Varela, they had arrived after the summer conferences and missions, they were beginning the annual conference, and especially after the pandemic, they were all together again praying around Father’s Sion Shrine. Some traveled many kilometers from Paraguay, Nigeria, Italy, Germany, and from the different branches in Argentina. — On Sunday, February 19th, it was a joy to see 26 Schoenstatt Fathers celebrating the 29thRead More