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Madrugadores de Guatemala
GUATEMALA, Edgar Leonel Tórtola • “We did not give up. This Saturday, July 26, 2023, we could not use the chapel where we are always allowed to pray the rosary, since there was a retreat, so the Madrugadores (early risers) decided to hold the meeting in a public square, which is known as John Paul II, in Guatemala City”. This is the beginning of an article published in schoenstatt.org about the first dawn of the Madrugadores of Guatemala in a public place. It was not going to be the last…sinceRead More
Fundación de Madrugadores en Honduras
HONDURAS, Carlos Alfaro • With the founding of the first Madrugadores community in Honduras on Saturday, August 26, 2023, all Central American countries have at least one Community. — On August 26, the founding community of Madrugadores in Honduras met for the first time in the Parish of Cristo Resucitado, in the city of Tegucigalpa. Accompanied by their pastor, Fr. Javier Martinez, eleven men came to live for the first time this experience that puts them in contact, in this stream of life, with all the communities in 19 countriesRead More
Primer aniversario de los Madrugadores
GUATEMALA, Edgar Leonel Tórtola • It is incredible how time passes so fast; it seems that the week no longer has 7 days, nor the day 24 hours, so without realizing it we have reached our first year of Madrugadores in Guatemala. It has been a very gratifying experience and to see how our Mother continues to attract us and continues to do her work with each one of us. — We started with one rosary a month, then this year we decided to do two and lately we haveRead More
Madrugada bajo la lluvia, Ciudad de Guatemala
GUATEMALA, Edgar Tortola • We did not give up. This Saturday, July 26, the chapel where we are always allowed to pray the Rosary could not be used because a retreat was being held there, so we Madrugadores decided to hold the meeting in a public square known as Plaza Juan Pablo II, in Guatemala City. — However, we didn’t expect it to start raining during the night… It poured with rain in the early morning, and when we started, it continued to rain, although the rain was already lighter.Read More
Tomás Carrasco Cortés, nuevo obispo de Calama
CHILE, iglesia.cl / Fr. José Luis Correa • Pope Francis has appointed as bishop of Calama the priest Tomás Abel Carrasco Cortés, until now pastor of La Sagrada Familia in the city of Los Angeles and advisor to the Madrugadores. — The priest Tomás Abel Carrasco Cortés, was born on November 13, 1970 in El Huachi, rural sector of Santa Bárbara, Biobío region; being the third of six siblings. He received his elementary education in a rural school in Santa Barbara and his secondary education in the Liceo A-59 ofRead More
Costa Rica
COSTA RICA, Carlos Alfaro • The Madrugadores stream of life, which arrived in Costa Rica in 2007, in union with the Schoenstatt Rosary Campaign, reached three new dioceses last year: Ciudad Quesada, Puntarenas and Limón, which are added to the Archdiocese of San José and the dioceses of Liberia-Tilarán, Alajuela and Cartago. — In June of last year, the first visit was made to the diocese of Perez Zeledon, the last diocese in the country to be conquered by our beloved Blessed Mother, with the objective of creating new communitiesRead More
madrugadores Córdoba
ARGENTINA, Juan Barbosa • The Madrugadores, in Cordoba, gathered last night at the Eucharist to celebrate their first ten years since that November 17, 2012 when they began their early mornings of prayer and, since then, their biweekly meetings have never been interrupted. As they say, “many of us have not come to all the madrugadas but MARY… She has never missed any of them!”. Fr. Juan José Riba, currently 700 km from Cordoba, did not want to miss the event and celebrated a heartfelt Mass of thanksgiving. — Inside…Read More
El Salvador
EL SALVADOR, Lee Aguiñada Bernal •  Almost one hundred Salvadoran Schoenstatters gathered to participate in our second National Conference and to reaffirm our apostolic commitment to go out on mission. — Last Saturday, October 29th, we gathered again as one family, all the groups of the branches and apostolates of Schoenstatt El Salvador. The last time we were together was in 2019, which then for reasons of the Covid-19 pandemic, it was impossible to organize it in the same way. An encounter, a journey, a celebration Couples representing the FamilyRead More
Santuario de Corrientes
ARGENTINA, Inés Petiti / Maria Fischer • With the presence of thousands of pilgrims from the city and province of Corrientes, from several provinces of Argentina, from Paraguay, Brazil, and Chile, and with many others who were present via live transmission, the long-awaited Schoenstatt Shrine “Tierra de Maria” (Mary’s Land) in Corrientes was blessed on September 11th. — To kick off the blessing of the Shrine in Güemes 1411, where there has been a wayside shrine for many years, several activities took place on Saturday, October 10th. At 2:00 p.m.,Read More
Guatemala
GUATEMALA, Edgar Tórtola • Edgar Tórtola tells his real story of how he met the Madrugadores in El Salvador and how he was instrumental in their founding in Guatemala. — I am Guatemalan, but I was fortunate to work in El Salvador for 27 years at the cement company Holcim until I retired four years ago. At Holcim, I had the opportunity to work with Vinicio Reyes when I was in the concrete department, and little by little we realized that we needed to get closer to God. So, IRead More