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Bahía Blanca, Argentina: Foto del Santo Padre con una de las 500 peregrinas que bendijó en 1987 Bahia Blanca: Photo of the Holy Father with one of the 500 Pilgrim MTA’s he blessed in 1987 Bahia Blanca, Argentinien: Bild des Papstes mit einem der 500 Bilder der Pilgernden Gottesmutter, die er 1987 gesegnet hat Foto: Zunini © 2005 |
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Foto que recurrió los medios argentinos, el 2 de abril Photo to be found in various newspapers and websites of Argentina on April 2 Dieses Foto war in vielen Zeitungen und Internetseiten Argentiniens zu sehen |
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Es de la Misa por el Santo Padre en Buenos Aires am Freitag Taken at the Mass for the Holy Father in Buenos Aires, Friday night Aufgenommen in der Messe für den Heiligen Vater in Buenos Aires, am Freitagabend |
INTERNATIONAL. mkf. In the last two days of Easter week, the Schoenstatt Family from every corner of the world has united in prayer for our Holy Father. When the news of his death arrived on April 2nd-the day of the blessing of the Shrine in Hungary - between the sorrow and sense of feeling as an orphan, emories and above all an immense gratitud emerged...
We join all the Schoenstatt Family in fervent prayer so that the good God will do his will with our shepherd, John Pul II", wrote, Marjorie Vicherres deHuapaya, from Lima, on the 31st of March, when the news of the grave condition of the Pope travelled throughout the world. "Today I awoke with a different outlook from all the other days
of the 7 months that I have been working in the Office of World Youth Day of the Schoenstatt Youth", Daniela Ibarrola, from Mexico, wrote on the same day. "We are praying daily in our Homeshrine, we attend Holy Mass, in which I always have the opportunity to pray for the health of the Holy Father. In fact, it has become a joke that I am the "official" person who prays for the Pope, since I did not allow anyone else to do it. This morning there was only silence, not one joke, today was different. The International Schoenstatt Youth is praying for the health and tranquility of our Pope, John Paul II, day of tension, of waiting, days that are truly filled with union among brothers. Schoenstatt is alive in the heart of the Church through the youth from the whole world, united in our Covenant of Love, and today united also in prayer for the health of our pilgrim friend. We invite everyone to unite in this chain of prayer..." Friday night we will meet to pray for the Holy Father.
"Our Schoenstatt Family in Nebraska has been offering during these days until Divine Mercy Sunday, an extra decade of the daily rosary for our Holy Father, along with Holy Hours, many contributions to the Capital of Grace, and the offering of a lady, who belongs to the Movement, of her Parkinson disease", comments Sister Veronica, Nebraska, United States.
The Blessed Mother opens her arms wider...
The University Boys' Youth from Cordoba organized a Heroic Adoration from Friday night to Saturday - as they do each first Friday of the month - this time it was strongly marked by prayers for John Paul II. Members of the Professional Branch in Germany prayed a daily rosary in the Homeshrine, families from Austria opened a "virtual jug" on their web page for the Holy Father, offering the joys and challenges of daily life as contributions to the Capital of Grace. There are Holy Hours, Masses, Adoration and many rosaries are prayed in community in the Shrines of Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Poland, Germany..."The Schoenstatt Rosary Campaign of the Archdiocese of Resistencia unites with the International Schoenstatt Family in prayer for the Pope, John Paul II, and we invite everyone to keep a lighted candle in our Homeshrines as a symbol of the light that His Holiness - inspired by the Holy Spirit - offered to Christianity and the whole whole and that this light will never go out", wrote Silvia and Alejandro Valussi, from Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina.
The churches are full. which does not happen often...people look for centers for prayer in the community, places where believers can meet in their time of anxiety...
In the "meeting" of schoenstatt.de messages appear such as Monika Marschner's, from Wachendonk, Germany:
"Our venerable, beloved, and admired Pope John Paul II is on his death bed - it is difficult to believe - he consoles us transmitting that he is at peace and happy for the awaited encounter with God. He presents himself with such filial love, he is joyful for the encounter with the Blessed Mother, Thrice Admirable Queen and Victress of Schoenstatt, she will shed her graces when he arrives in heaven, when he is named SAINT. He has truly given his life for the stream of graces."
In several newspapers and web pages in Argentina, a picture of a Pilgrim MTA in the arms of a coordinator praying the Rosary, appeared, with news about prayer for the Holy Father.Meanwhile the Schoenstatt Family in Hungary was preparing for the blessing of their first Shrine, in one of the old countries dominated by Communism in Eastern Europe, now free, thanks to the Holy Father, it is the third country of the old Eastern bloc that has a Schoenstatt Shrine. "The Blessed Mother is opening
her arms wider on the day of the blessing of a Shrine", Beth Rockers, a young Schoenstatter from the United States, had written a few days before, as she was departing for Hungary. The Blessed Mother opened her arms to guide her son John Paul II to the House of the Father. "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for Pope John Paul II now and at the hour of his death. Amen"
An event without precedence
In Italy the soccer matches were cancelled and the electoral campaign was suspended, the European Union asked that all flags fly at half mast; the train station in Rome: Termini was renamed by the mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni, "Station John Paul II"; UN like the parliaments of many countries kept moments of silence, the presidents of several states are travelling to Rome, Cardinals and newsmen, professors and politicians cry like children, there is hardly a newspaper in the whole world that does not have him on the front page; Fidel Castro goes to Mass for the first time in 46 years; the most critical journalist in Brazil said that we need a personality and spirituality like the one that he transmitted; lines miles long of persons who wait up to 24 hours to see the face of their beloved Pope John Paul II one more time...
The world has come to its knees; The Pope who changed it has died.
"At this moment I am hearing the news of the death of the Holy Father through RAI. I want to be close to everyone so that we can all pray together. A saint has entered Paradise!"
Maria, Tedeschi, La Plata, Argentina
Master! You will never die, you will always be in our hearts!
Jan Koci, Bolivia
Pope John Paul II is an example of life, we should be like him. My lifetime dream was to see him personally, and I did, I am grateful for the work that he did for our humanity.
Jose Barriaga, La Paz, Bolivia
As Schoenstatters, as Christians, we unite in intimate prayer at this moment with the firm conviction and the interior peace that he is ' no longer suffering to now live in "Eternal Joy".. Surely, we will miss him. We, his children, who during these 26 years have felt protected and loved in the lap of our Good Shepherd, think that there will never be a Pope like him. At these moments the phrase, that is repeated rhythmically by the multitude of those who encountered him, resounds in my ears: "John Paul Two, we love you.. John Paul Two, we love you...John Paul Two, we love you, John Paul Two, we love you..."
Now all that is left, is for all of us to unite to thank God, for giving us this Pope and to thank him for all we received in these 26 years of his Papacy. In prayer, we ask our Holy Father that from heaven he will send a Shepherd as holy as he to the Christian people. United in the sorrow that we have lost him, but happy and joyful that he rests in peace in the arms of our Father in heaven and in the arms of the Blessed Mother, our mother, as brothers in the Covenant, we unite ourselves strongly in prayer for our Pope, John Paul II.
Liliana Bracci, Cordoba, Argentina
We are praying the rosary with the Pioneers, close to the Schoenstatt Shrine in Jaragua, for our Holy Father. When I arrived at my house, I saw the news on the television: "The Holy Father has returned to the house of the Lord". That left us sad, since the Pope was our "John of God" as he is called in Brazil, he is no longer with us guiding our Holy Church with love. But, without doubt, our beloved Blessed Mother went to receive him and take him to the presence of Jesus. The most impressive thing was
the current of prayer throughout the world. We felt united and we were united in prayer. The Pope has left, he accomplished his mission and he left us many gifts, an example of love, charity, humility and holiness in the present day. May he now give us God's blessing from heaven.
Cassio Leal, Brazil
A picture of the Holy Father close to a Pilgrim MTA Shrine is the tribute that Schoensatt in Bahia Blanca gives: this Pilgrim MTA Shrine was blessed by His Holiness when he visited our city, Bahia Blanc on the 7th of April 1987 along with 500 Pilgrim MTA’s that circulate in our diocese. Today in Mass we prayed with this image and we recalled what he always said: All Yours! Certainly, She received him into eternal glory with her motherly affection and Queen of the People.
Diana Zunini, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
We have all been united spiritually with the Holy Father in his agony and death, which has been the last teaching about the meaning of life. As children of the Church we feel profoundly united to his person, more so, by sharing with him an immense love for our Blessed Mother. Do not doubt this, John Paul II was a "Schoenstatter".
Maximiano Silva, Valdivia, Chile
Life is only a small pilgrimage, we know this in theory, but when the Lord calls us a strong aura of sadness invades us when we lose one of our loved ones. This is what I feel when I see that the Holy Father is going to the House of the Father, and even if I know that he he will enjoy the maximum blessing of our Lord and that our Mother will receive him and embrace him in her arms, his departure still hurts in my soul. Be exemplary. How many teaching he leaves us, and how much we have to learn from him. I deposited the prayers of this day in the Captial of Grace, asking our Blessed Mother to cover him with her love and to protect at this moment.
Monica Zehnder, Cordoba
I cry at the loss of a father who always guided me.
Monika Gensow, Bielefeld, Germany
Thanks, Holy Father, for having come to Paraguay, to canonize Saint Roque Gonzalez de Santacruz and his martyr companions. Today the people of Paraguay is in permanent vigil and prayer for the eternal repose in the arms of the Lord. We are in our Homeshrine praying for the Holy Father who returned to the House of the Lord.
Julio Zucchini, Paraguay
I have been thinking about the Young People that I met on my last visit to Schoenstatt. How sad they must be, because they were looking forward so much to being with the Holy Father at World Youth Day. Please let them know that I am praying for them.
In our Lady,
Father John Reardon, Philadelphia, USA
I keep in my heart, as a great treasure, an image: The eyes of so many pilgrims fixed on the figure of His Holiness, who with difficulty was addressing the pilgrims of the Schoenstatt Family in Castel Gandolfo, on the 9th of September 2004.
Lately, his figure was physically weak and tired, he transmitted strength, firmness, joy, hope to everyone. In these days of so much sadness before the end of his life, this image has returned to my heart time and again...The Pope's words, reaffirmed the mission that our Father Kentenich left us, and he urged us to embrace the charism with filial confidence, certain that we will go through the road that he marked for us, holding, our mother, Mary's hand.
Patricia Schelstraete, Cordoba, Argentina
"Surely there will always be someone who even before the greatness of John Paul II in his last days of suffering, knows how to use his popularity to place himself in the center of attention, with criticisms and negative comments, that infuriates me tremendously", commenteda young Schoenstatt man Sunday morning shortly after the death of John Paul II. "It doesn't matter", his friend commented, how many tears will be shed when Hans Kung dies?"
Translation: Celina Garza, Harlingen, Texas, USA