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Mission of the Night of the Shrine rekindled
Nachrichten - News - Noticias
 published: 2007-09-07

Sharing this Gift of Love to Build a New World

Mission of the Night of the Shrine rekindled

 

Nacht des Heiligtums – Jugend verbunden in der Liebe zum Heiligtum

Noche del Santuario – jóvenes unidos en amor al Santuario

Night of the Shrine – youth united in love for the Shrine

Nacht des Heiligtums – Jugend verbunden in der Liebe zum Heiligtum

Foto: Martin Scheider © 2007

 

Olenka Hand in Monterrey

Olenka Hand en Monterrey

Olenka Hand in Monterrey

Olenka Hand in Monterrey

 
Pilgerweg  

Caminando ...

On pilgrimage...

Pilgerweg

 
Die Voluntäre im Heiligtum von Monterrey  

Los voluntarios en el Santuario de Monterrey

The volunteers in the Shrine of Monterrey

Die Voluntäre im Heiligtum von Monterrey

Fotos: Alan Cabello © 2007

 
2006: Abschluss des Schoenstatt Summer  

2006: Cierre del Schoenstatt Summer

2006: closing act of the Schoenstatt Summer

2006: Abschluss des Schoenstatt Summer

 
Team 2006  

Equipo de 2006

2006 team

Team 2006

Fotos: Olenka Hand © 2007

 
   

USA, Olenka Hand. 2006 volunteer, Olenka Hand from Texas, shares the impact of meeting in Monterrey, Mexico with 4 other teammates from last year’s project to celebrate this year’s Night of the Shrine - Your Face for (Y)our Faith.

‘We pray for all your young people who will visit the Original Shrine... There, give them graces of home, transformation and apostolic mission. You and me for them!’

Five of us volunteers, from Mexico, Germany and the USA, reunited on Night of the Shrine 2007 in Monterrey, Mexico - for each other, for the Blessed Mother, for this year’s new team, for our mission: ‘Blessed Mother, united with you and led by the enthusiasm of youthful hearts, we wish to build a new world.’ We haven’t forgotten. We haven’t given up.

Last year, we found our home in the shrine, and in each other - My Home is Your Home. We found a place of rest, comfort, freedom… Shelter. Our experience in Schoenstatt had changed our worlds. Or, more aptly, we entered our worlds again with a changed heart, a shift in perspective, purpose, direction… Our eyes took in everything differently than before. We understood our mission as instruments of the Blessed Mother; instruments that are real, alive and affective, able to change the world we walk through in simple and unspectacular ways.

This is the Night of the Shrine: young people who live for their faith

And so, coming from our home in the shrine, having held the Blessed Mother in our eyes - allowing her to see us and fill our bodies and spirits with her love, transforming our littleness into her strength and beauty - we left the shrine in Monterrey. We left each other again with faces recommitted to live for our faith in this world.

It is a faith that binds us, one we can never abandon because it’s our life breath … ‘inflamed for Christ, our life, our inmost fire.’ Our faith is God’s love, and our hearts cannot but be filled with youthful enthusiasm to bring God’s love to His people.

This is the Night of the Shrine: young people who live for their faith, united in the shrine, sharing this gift of love, on their way to 2014 to celebrate 100 years of one of the most incredible gifts of love given to man: our covenant with the Blessed Mother, who leads us to her Son, homewards to the Father. You and me for them!

Thank you Blessed Mother.

 


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