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Profesionales Jovenes

Posted On 17.03.2023In Covenant Life

I am a thought of God

COSTA RICA Ma. Amparo Ruiz • God the Father invites, calls and gathers. “I am a thought of God” was the theme of the retreat for young professionals held March 11 and 12 in San José, Costa Rica. — We began early Saturday morning at the convent of the Sisters of the Cross. A group of 27 young professionals accepted the invitation to break the hectic pace and enter into dialogue and communion with the Father. We were joined by two young Central American women from Guatemala and Panama. ToRead More
Cruce de los andes

Posted On 08.02.2023In Covenant Life

Across the mountains

SOUTH AMERICA, ACIprensa /mf • “Fourteen days ago, one hundred youths and a dozen Schoenstatt Fathers left Mendoza to cross the Andes on foot to reach the Marian Shrine in Santiago de Chile. Each day they experienced the sunrise and sunset in prayer, and faith encouraged them to walk 400 kilometers and gave them the strength to arrive. The faith that Jesus hoped to find in his country. The faith that moves mountains or overcomes them. The faith that heals and performs miracles. Our task for today is to askRead More
ermita Villa Urquiza
ARGENTINA, Claudia Echenique/Tita Ríos • A new wayside shrine of Our Lady of Schoenstatt has been erected on the banks of the Paraná River in the town of Villa Urquiza, province of Entre Ríos. The initiative emerged from the Madrugadores of the region and was coordinated together with the Villa Urquiza City Hall for its construction. — On Saturday, June 4, Archbishop Juan Alberto Puiggari went to bless it and accompanied the group of the Madrugadores, several neighbors of the place, brothers, and sisters of the Shrine of La Loma,Read More
By Bettina Betzner, Germany  • Dear Pope Francis, I would like to have a personal conversation with you about ‘Laudato Si’. I would like to seek your warm closeness, to look into your eyes, to be captured by your warm gaze, to be moved by your spiritual depth and your authenticity, to make your concern my concern… I had this experience when I saw the film “A Man of His Word” by Wim Wenders. —   Meeting you has changed something in me. After your message in the film IRead More
POPE’S VIDEO – INTENTIONS FOR FEBRUARY • “This month I make a special request: that we may take good care of creation – a gift freely given – cultivating and protecting it for future generations.” This is Pope Francis’ prayer in the video message with his prayer intention for February. “Believers and unbelievers agree that the hearth is our comment heritage, the fruits of which should benefit everyone.” Pope Francis says that in the world we live, “relationship between poverty and the fragility of the planet requires another way ofRead More
ARGENTINA, Paraná, APF Digital and Schoenstatt.org editorial team • The first pilgrims began arriving at La Loma Shrine around 7:14 p.m., south of the city, in the Paracao neighborhood, the final point in the 33rd edition of the Villages’ Pilgrimage that began 5: 00 p.m. on Friday from one of Hasenkamp’s access roads. They arrived exhausted, some were crying, using canes, or leaning on another person’s shoulder, others sang, with arms raised. The conclusion of a laudable demonstration of faith that gathered more than 25,000 people – the majority youngRead More
By María Fischer, schoenstatt.org editorial team • “A Holy Father that interprets the world based on the experiences of his native South America, from a real and a not a theoretical close proximity to the poor,” commented a visibly moved German reporter, during the primary transmission on public television. “He didn’t return. It’s as if he never left the towns, his favourite place of ministry and being, when he lived in Buenos Aires,” he added, to immediately say that in Europe, we should not fall into the temptation of dismissingRead More
By M. Fischer • “A convincing, prophetic and challenging encyclical”, is how Bishop Luis Infante of Aysen, Chile described the Encyclical Laudato Si, which was published today in Arabic, English, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and German. On Sunday at the Angelus Pope Francis ask that the Encyclical Laudato Si, about caring for our “common home, might be received with open hearts. He stressed that “This home is being destroyed, and that harms everyone, especially the poorest. My appeal is, therefore, to responsibility, based on the task that God has givenRead More