Schoenstatt - Encounter 21. 2. - 19. 3. 2000

A Celebration of Love - Covenant Day in Schoenstatt: Schoenstatt members present there on March 18th, 2000, joyfully represented the international Schoenstatt there for the covenant renewal. Una celebración de amor Día de Alianza en Schoenstatt - Marzo 18, 2000

Struggling for Unity – Ecumenical Challenges and the Covenant: Each year, a workshop is held in Schoenstatt on salient church issues. This year, the "Common Declaration" of the Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, signed on October 31st, 1999, in Augsburg, was the subject

Encounter with the "Scuola Abba" of the Fokulare Movement: On March 3rd , 2000, leading members of the Fokular Movement and their "Scuola Abba" met with members of the Joseph Kentenich Institute.

Hour of Reconciliation and Forgiveness – in unity with the Pope's "Mea Culpa"

Schoenstatt Encounters: A presentation in the Father Kentenich House led 250 visitors to Schoenstatt in Argentina; people came from Australia, Slowenia, USA – for the first time - , as well as from Saffig, Germany, for the first time in 15 years.

Brief News from Schoenstatt

On March 18^th, 2000, Fr. Willi Seidemann died in Alf. He was a member of the Schoenstatt Priests' Institute and deeply attached to Schoenstatt in the Limburg diocese. For many years, he worked as diocesan leader. He felt close to Milwaukee, to Cambrai, and to the place at the river Lys where Josef Engling offered his life for Schoenstatt. In 1999, when the international Schoenstatt Movement prepared for the Anniversary of May 31^st, Fr. Seidemann was diagnosed with cancer and had to undergo a severe surgery. He offered everything for Schoenstatt. Short before Christmas 1999, he moved to the home for old aged people in Alf, where his friend, Schoenstatt priest Fr. Jakob Ries, lived. Fr. Ries died on January 2^nd, 2000. Fr. Seidemann could not attend the funeral due to his sickness. For weeks, he consciously prepared for his going home to the Eternal Father. His great longing, a Josef Engling Memorial on Mt. Moriah, went with him during his last days.

Before Lent, 30 priests came for a retreat in House Marienau.

Schoenstatt Mothers Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Speyer, Münster, and Würzburg had retreats in Schoenstatt. Youth from the Trier diocese met in the Sonnenau.

This year, the Schoenstatt Prayer Community, associated with the Adoration Sisters in Schoenstatt, is celebrating the Golden Anniversary. Therefore, 50 representatives made a pilgrimage to Rome, starting from Schoenstatt on March 18^th. Among them are participants from Sweden, and USA. The group is looking forward to the Pope's return from his pilgrimage to the Holy Land and hopes to see him on March 28^th.

Father Kentenich's nameday was commemorated on March 20^th (postponed due to 2^nd Lent Sunday on March 19^th) with a festive holy Mass in the Adoration Church at 9:30 am. The Founder Chapel was decorated with red roses and white lilies.

• Begegnungen in Schönstatt: 22. Januar - 20. Februar 2000
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