Joseph Engling Tag

GERMANY, Sister Cordula-Maria Leidig • On Saturday, 8 October, the first “Belmonte Day” took place at the Father Kentenich House in Wiesbaden. During the last gathering of the Diocesan Council of Families, the first ‘Belmonte work group’ was formed, which meets around the 8th of every month (because the symbolic laying of the cornerstone was held on 8 December 1965, and the blessing of the Shrine was 8 September 2004; for this group the 8th is a “Belmonte Day”.) The gathering began with a time of Eucharistic Adoration: for listeningRead More
Editors schoenstatt.org • As Fr Juan Pablo Catoggio, the Chairman of the General Presidium of the Schoenstatt Movement, has just learnt, a decisive step was taken in the beatification process of Joseph Engling on 7 April. Fr Joachim Schmiedl , Schoenstatt Father, made the following information available on his Facebook page: “On 7 April 2016 the Pallottine Postulator General, Fr Jan Korycki SAC, handed over the “Positio super vita, virtutibus et fama sanctitatis Josephi Engling Alumni Societatis Apostolatus Catholici” to the Vatican Congregation for Beatifications and Canonisations. In the lastRead More
FRANCE, schoenstatt.org with material by Françoise Moniez, in: Doyenné de Cambrai • On 12 September 2015, the Schoenstatt shrine celebrated the 50th anniversary its inauguration, in the presence of the Archbishop of Cambrai, François Garnier; Michael Gerber, the auxiliary bishop for the Diocese of Freiburg in Germany; Fr. Micheal Hergl as the interpreter; and Frs. Fleury, François Triquet and Jean-Marie Moura from the Diocese of Cambrai. More than 200 people gathered in the open air to participate the solemn Mass – from France, Belgium, Argentina, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, as wellRead More
Victoria*, a German student, has a special connection to Joseph Engling. She tells the readers of schoenstatt.org how this happened and what she wants to achieve for Joseph Engling • Dear brothers and sisters in the covenant of love, I am Victoria, live in Germany, and am studying history and Catholic theology. From birth I have been spastic. Since 2006 I have been asking Joseph Engling, one of the best-known Schoenstatters of the Founding Generation, to intercede for my healing, but so far without success. I am sure it isRead More
mda. “If things happened in similar difficult situations for Joseph Engling, then it also has to be possible for me.  And for Joseph Engling, the key thing was his personal ideal upon which he was always grounded,” someone wrote. – “Love and allowing oneself to be led by love, because in the end, love is what counts and remains.  Everything else fades, but the love is remembered.  That is what took me to Cambrai,” said another.  Two people’s testimonies who have had a profound encounter with Joseph Engling in Cambrai,Read More