Rafael Amaya Tag

bolsas de caridad
ECUADOR, Fr. Rafael Amaya / María Fischer • They did it once again. As since the beginning of the pandemic, and during all these difficult years, and even this year 2023. Once a month, the Schoenstatt Shrine in the city of Quito becomes a House of Bread, a House of Charity, where, in a long line, the poor of the neighborhood wait for their “charity bags” with food and what they need to survive. They are families where no one has a job, single mothers, the elderly. Schoenstatters with socialRead More
Navidad para todos
ECUADOR, Fr. Rafael Amaya • From our shrine, from the Church, we help people in a state of chronic poverty. There are 270 families that we assist with non-perishable food, and we give them “charity bags”. Every first Wednesday of the month they receive the groceries, except at Christmas, when we deliver them on the 24th after the Christmas Eve Mass. — The charity bags contain: 2 kg of rice, 2 kg of sugar, 2 kg of oatmeal, 2 kg of soup noodles, 2 kg of noodles, oil, butter, salt,Read More
odontólogos
ECUADOR, Fr. Rafael Amaya • Yesterday I gave a special blessing: 14 young dentists came to offer their profession to Jesus in the shrine in Quito. — This is what they shared with us: “On 20 August, we celebrated a mass to bless our doctor’s coats in the Schoenstatt shrine. It was a moment to thank God and our parents for their infinite love and their sacrifices. We entrusted ourselves to God with the blessing given by Fr. Rafael, that we may remain humble and always use the gift ofRead More
Quito bolsos de caridad
ECUADOR, Maria Fischer • What gives a Schoenstatt shrine its life? The building? The altar? The picture of the Blessed Mother? That community that gathers there to pray? The Schoenstatters who feel at home in it? The capital of grace? These are all good and valid reasons, but the “insider reasons” do not mean anything to ordinary people, to society. Do we have “outsider reasons” to explain what gives a Schoenstatt shrine its life? In Quito, Ecuador, there is one. — In Quito, Ecuador, there is an outside reason thatRead More