Mission Tag

Kikí y Guillermo Tagle
CHILE, Maria Fischer • “Today, while the bells were ringing at 12:00 noon in Bellavista, our dear Kiki Quiroz de Tagle departed to heaven. The mass will be tomorrow in Bellavista, her shrine, her home, her home, her mission”. On January 17, this news went around the world. Whoever wrote it managed to summarize the life of our dear Kiki Tagle, of the first group of the Family Federation in Chile, in a few words. The Bellavista Shrine was her shrine, her home, her home, her mission…and beyond, as theRead More
Córdoba
ARGENTINA, Juan Barbosa •  With the motto, which is the title of this article, the Schoenstatt Family of Córdoba celebrated the patronal feast of its diocesan shrine, having completed its first 55 years of fruitfulness in consecrated and committed lay vocations, making steady progress in its task of being a light and beacon for all the pilgrims who come to it. And in full expansion of the structures on its grounds! — From the interior of Cordoba: A flood of pilgrims! Very early in the morning, the first visitors wereRead More
Misión Galilea
ARGENTINA, Fr. Juan Molina • For the third consecutive year, young university students of the Schoenstatt Men’s Youth from different parts of the country gathered to experience another edition of the volunteering and mission “Galilea” in Florencio Varela. For ten days they experienced the encounter with Jesus in prayer, community and especially in service to the most excluded. Thus, distributed in different groups, they visited the prisoners, the sick and the children, feeling in them and for them the mercy of God. During these days they experienced that the GalileeRead More
Córdoba
SPAIN, Cristina Ruiz Tirado • In some youths of the Schoenstatt Boys’ and Girls’ Youth of Madrid, the missionary desire grew to take Schoenstatt to Córdoba, where we had begun nine years ago with the Misión País; so we set out and decided to make Schoenstatt known among the youths of Córdoba who wanted to be closer to the Blessed Mother. — So that they could experience Schoenstatt firsthand The daily crowning of the Blessed Mother for this meeting since April 18th, and two months of expectation, preparation, and greatRead More
Misión IPS
PARAGUAY, Martín Ávila • In the first meeting of the Leadership Team, the presentation of the Mission of the Youth Ministry of the Rosary Campaign took place. They spoke about the personal encounter with Christ, an encounter that for the Christian is substantially given in the Eucharist and in the strength of that Sacrament when seeing Christ in others, as Jesus himself says in St. Matthew Chapter 25. In the specific case of the SSI Mission (Mission in the Central Hospital of the SSI – Social Security Institute): “I wasRead More
Con el arzobispo de Tegucigalpa, Mons. Nacher, español de Valencia, hasta hace pocos meses párroco en San Pedro Sula
COSTA RICA, Fr. José Luis Correa • During his recent visit to Honduras, a country that until recently was not on Schoenstatt’s world map, Fr. José Luis Correa visited the Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, José Vicente Nácher Tatay, CM, and the Archbishop of San Pedro Sula, Michael Lenihan, OFM. — The Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, José Vicente Nacher, a Spaniard from Valencia, who until a few months ago was the pastor in San Pedro Sula, welcomed us for half an hour, during which we spoke with him about Schoenstatt in the capitalRead More
Casa del Niño Florencio Varela
ARGENTINA, Gabriela Sarquis • On Monday, June 5th, at the Casa del Niño Father Joseph Kentenich, we sent out the Pilgrim MTA’s that will visit the homes of the families of the children in Florencio Varela, who attend the House and also the management staff, counselors, kitchen and cleaning staff. — What a network of bonds the great Missionary is creating among so many people who, from their gifts and tasks, unite in the effort to give an opportunity to 300 children from low-income families. The parents, the volunteers ofRead More
Santuario de Rosario
ARGENTINA, P. Darío Gatti • On June 4, 2023, we celebrated the 30th anniversary of our Shrine in Rosario and the crowning of the Blessed Mother. Our Archbishop, Eduardo Eliseo Martín, presided over the celebration and also sealed the Covenant of Love. With him at the altar was Ernesto José Fernández, recently elected Auxiliary Bishop, member of our community of the Schoenstatt Institute of Diocesan Priests, and a diocesan priest received the Pilgrim MTA to go on mission with her… — When I say “Rosario” in Argentina, people certainly associateRead More
Barbados on a map
BARBADOS, Father José Luís Correa / Maria Fischer • What happens when a couple from Costa Rica, members of the Family Branch, move to Barbados for work? Schoenstatt was founded on this small island in the Lesser Antilles, the easternmost of the islands, east of St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. — “There is no flag of this country in Schoenstatt, there is no Schoenstatt name known, there was no inhabitant of this Caribbean island in the Original Shrine on Saturday morning, April 24, 2010, when the HolyRead More
Shrine welcomes caretakers
USA, Southern Nebraska Register • All are invited to a Mass at the Cor Mariae Shrine near Crete May 7 to welcome the facility’s new missionary caretakers, Matt and Sara Graeve. — The event will include Mass at 2 p.m. at the shrine, 340 State Highway 103, Crete, followed by a May crowning celebration and dinner at 4:30 p.m. The Graeves’ main responsibility will be to care for the Cor Mariae Shrine and Schoenstatt Center, and ensure that it can remain open for visitors. They will live in the houseRead More