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Posted On 19.08.2015In Original Shrine

Let me become an apostle … Franz Reinisch update

Maria Fischer, Editors schoenstatt.org • “I think, speak and act not because and how others think, speak and act, but because it is my inner conviction!” A statement by Fr Franz Reinisch whose beatification process was opened in Trier in May 2013. He was a Pallottine Father; he was a Schoenstatter; he was a person who felt obliged to follow his conscience, and who died on that account. On 21 August 1942 Reinisch was executed in Brandenburg, Berlin. Again this year this important date will be commemorated with a gathering atRead More

Posted On 06.08.2015In Dilexit ecclesiam

A statue of Saint Joseph for the Cathedral of Havana – a contribution of solidarity within the framework of Pope Francis’ visit to Cuba

CUBA/ARGENTINA, AICA and Osvaldo Martín • A statue of Saint Joseph, a little over six feet high and weighing about 176lbs, will be transported from the Basilica de San José de Flores [The Basilica of Saint Joseph of Flowers] to the Cathedral of Havana, Cuba, where it will be blessed by Pope Francis during his apostolic visit on 19-22 September. Behind this gesture toward the Cuban people is a story of a neighbor from the Flores’ neighborhood. He is profoundly devoted to Saint Joseph, and he moved heaven and earthRead More

Posted On 02.08.2015In Church - Francis - Movements, Francis - Message

“To receive Communion” means to draw from Christ the grace which enables us to share with others all we are and all we have

FRANCIS IN ROME • In the sweltering Roman summer, under the hot midday sun on 26 July 2015, Pope Francis reflected on the Gospel of the multiplication of the loaves in front of thousands of pilgrims who, despite the intense heat, gathered in St. Peters Square to hear him and receive his blessing. “To receive Communion means to draw from Christ the grace which enables us to share with others all we are and all we have,” he said. These echo his words during his visit to Bañado Norte inRead More

Posted On 01.08.2015In Church - Francis - Movements, Francis - Message, Projects

“I ask you to pray for the freedom of each of us, of everyone”

PARAGUAY, by María Fischer, with Fr. Pedro Kühlcke • “After having read the Gospel, Orlando drew closer to greet me and told me: ‘I ask you to pray for the freedom of each one of us, of everyone.’ This is the blessing that Orlando asked for each of us. This is the blessing that we now ask together: freedom.” This is how Pope Francis began the most spontaneous speech of his trip through South America on Sunday 12 July. “Orlando, the youth that made the Pope change his speech,” wereRead More

Posted On 31.07.2015In Church - Francis - Movements, Francis - Initiatives and Gestures

Thank you, Holy Father, for blessing Paraguay…

Francis in Paraguay, María Esther Duarte, Ciudad del Este • At the same moment the Pope arrived in Paraguay, my children, Miguel, Enrique, Ester, and I arrived at the airport in Asunción beginning a series of many unforgettable and emotional moments. Greetings and glances As we traveled through the streets and before we knew it, we had arrived in front of the Youth Shrine, where we parked. We walked to the roped off area, where the Holy Father would pass (in the Popemobile) on his way to the Apostolic Nunciature.Read More

Posted On 25.07.2015In Church - Francis - Movements, Francis - Message

The poor have much to teach us about humanity, goodness, sacrifice and solidarity

FRANCIS – WEEKLY QUOTES • Every part of the Church, and many others outside of her – believers or non-believers – have received Pope Francis` clear and hope-filled words. They are also words that motivate us to assume the responsibility we all have to build a world in accordance to the Will of God, in the strength of the Spirit and through the way of Christ. Cardinals and bishops, priests, men and women religious, novices and seminarians, families, the youth and elderly, communities and institutes have received this challenge toRead More

Posted On 23.07.2015In Covenant Life

Jumas Curitiba begins the project “At the Blessed Mother’s House”

BRAZIL, www.jumasbrasil.com.br • On Saturday, July 4, the Jumas (Boys` Youth) of Curitiba began a new project: “At the Blessed Mother’s House,” which consists of the groups taking responsibility to do maintenance work once a month at the Magnificat Tabor Shrine. In this way, they will make the Blessed Mother’s House more beautiful by doing jobs that the employees cannot do or that they simply do not have time to do. A new look for the place The “Apostoles” [Apostles] Group that meets at the shrine carried out the firstRead More

Posted On 21.07.2015In Church - Francis - Movements

The Francis revolution

LATIN AMERICA, Jorge Armas, Generación Francisco • Bañado Norte in Asunción, where more than 30 thousand people live, is one of many neighbourhoods in Latin America where one can clearly see the “existential peripheries and the social trash” produced by “civilisation that has gone too far” as well opposite that comes from the people: radically humanising neighbourliness, committed solidarity and deep faith. Pope Francis promised to visit his brothers in Bañado, rain or shine. And so he did. Entering one of the tin shanties, an 85-year old man hugged him,Read More

Posted On 21.07.2015In Church - Francis - Movements, Francis - Message

You, the most humble, the exploited and excluded, you can and do much

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

Posted On 18.07.2015In Church - Francis - Movements, Francis - Message

Service, to serve, to serve and nothing else, and to serve when we are tired, and to serve when people tire us

By the editors • “Today I wish to speak to the priests, seminarians, and men and women religious, and offer them some thoughts. I do have some words prepared, but I don’t really feel like reading (laughter from the faithful). So I will give that text to the President of the Conference of Religious so that it can be published,” said Pope Francis on Wednesday 8 July at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Presentation in Quinche. Before speaking to the public, the Pontiff paused in front of theRead More

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