Girls’ Youth Tag

BRAZIL, Jaqueline Montoya/Alessandra Veras • During the weekend of 11-12 September in Atibaia, Brazilian state of São Paulo, the Shrine of Father’s Permanent Presence was invaded by the joy and enthusiasm of the Schoenstatt Girls’ Youth members, as they held their regional meeting. More than 220 young girls from twenty-three cities from the southeastern region and from Paraná renewed their passion for the ideal and were sent out from the Shrine.  They took with them the mission of being little Marys for new times, as the Founder, Fr. Joseph KentenichRead More
BRAZIL, via Jumasbrasil.com.br • Schoenstatt reaching out, doors of mercy: this was the motto that gave ninety-three missionaries from the Schoenstatt Youth the motivation to give up a week of vacation, work and the cares of the world, to dedicate themselves entirely to taking the Word of God, his love and his mercy to the people of Braganca Paulista, San Pablo. The Tabor Youth Missions 2016 took place 16-23 July in the neighborhoods of Aguas Claras, Vem Viver and Enedina Cortez. The youths divided into three missionary communities, and theyRead More
PARAGUAY, by Johana and Horacio Chávez Tottil • It was a chilly morning in Tupãrenda, but it was sunny. From the beginning of Holy Mass in Most Holy Trinity Church, the warmth of the youths’ was evident with the Girls’ Youth flags during the procession and they were present during the liturgy, because this Holy Mass was a “conquest” of the Girls’ Youth from the Dioceses of San Lorenzo and Caácupé. The women who followed Jesus Fr. Pedro Kühlcke, the Girls’ Youth adviser, celebrated this Mass and in the homily,Read More
BURUNDI, Diomède Mujojoma • The members of the Schoenstatt Movement’s Girls’ Youth from the parishes of Buhonga and Kamenge gathered at the Mont Sion Gikungu Schoenstatt Shrine on Saturday, 16 April 2016, to carry out a pilgrimage and to cross a Holy Door of Divine Mercy. Upon arriving at 9:30 a.m., the Sister, who is responsible for the Schoenstatt Rosary Campaign, welcomed them, and they went in procession to the Shrine singing songs to the Blessed Mother. The Sister who accompanied them presented an introduction about the Holy Door ofRead More
MÉXICO, by Cristel Amellaly González Galavis, Girls’ Youth from Monclova, Coah. México • You do not realize how much you want, or how much you love something until you experience it in every part of your being. It is like most things when you become interested in a person or a new activity. First you arrive at something completely unknown, then you try to learn something and the deeper you get, the smaller you feel before the magnitude of what it is, and consequently, you become more interested. That happenedRead More
Around the Original Shrine, Inés Lagos • “Sister, do you have girls?” Many people who live in Vallendar or its surrounding areas and who know Schoenstatt Zeit (Time in Schoenstatt) ask this question. This “Time in Schoenstatt” gathers girls from the youths of different countries for two months in which we work in the Sisters’ different houses, and we visit the most significant places in the Movement’s history. But above all, it was about a “time for Schoenstatt”: to live Schoenstatt, to allow ourselves to be sheltered by the BlessedRead More