vocation Tag

PARAGUAY, by Amín Ahmad SDB • My name is Amín; I am a religious, Salesian of Don Bosco.  I am 25 years old. Seven years ago, when I began my vocational road, at least once a month, I always went to the Shrine and prayed to the Blessed Mother for my vocation. Today in my religious life, I concretely feel the Blessed Mother’s closeness.  When something does not go well for me or I have a problem, and I do not have options for solving it, I place it inRead More
From Msgr. Peter Wolf, DD • It will be a highpoint of the Year of Mercy when Pope Francis canonises Mother Teresa of Calcutta on 4 September. Even while she was alive many people saw her as a saint, and when they met her they felt that they were meeting more than a committed person, or a well-known personality. At any rate I will never forget my encounter with her. It was during the Katholikentag in Freiburg in 1978. A small group of people responsible for the vocations pastorate hadRead More
By Fr Egon M. Zillekens, Rector, Schoenstatt Priests’ Federation, Editors schoenstatt.org • On 18 July 2015 fifty years had passed since the foundation of the Secular Institute of Schoenstatt Fathers, a community of priests that lives the same spirituality as all the other communities and members of the worldwide Schoenstatt Movement, but at the same time serves the entire Schoenstatt Movement as its pars motrix et centralis (its central and moving part), and is hence the focus of interest for everyone. The fifth General Chapter of the Schoenstatt Fathers isRead More
NIGERIA, by Father Juan Pablo Catoggio, Superior of the Schoenstatt Fathers in Nigeria • Lately a new government has been elected, as the country has lived democratically for sixteen years. Before this election, the PDP –Popular Democratic Party– governed, however this time, it lost the election. Now a coalition –the APC, All Progressive Party, is governing. Everything, the elections, and the transition occurred through a clean democratic process. The outgoing president, Jonathan Goodluck, is a (non-Catholic) Christian, the new one, Muhammadu Buhari, is a Muslim. The great dramas of NigeriaRead More