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No se preocupen por la realización de su deseo... Amo a los que me aman. Do not worry about the fulfillment of your desire…I love those who love me (Spr 8,17) Macht euch keine Sorgen um die Erfüllung eures Wunsches... Ich liebe, die mich lieben (Spr 8,17) |
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Entonces atraeré desde aqui los corazónes jovenes... Then from here I will draw youthful hearts to myself... Dann will ich von hier aus die jugendlichen Herzen an mich ziehen… Fotos: POS Fischer © 2007 |
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... en Santa Maria, Brasil.. ... in Santa Maria, Brazil... ... in Santa Maria, Brasilien... Foto: Maria Emilia Campo de Alonso © 2007 |
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... en Tuparenda, Paraguay... ... in Tuparenda, Paraguay... ... in Tuparenda, Paraguay... Foto: Estela Franco © 2007 |
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...en el puerto de Mar del Plata ... at the harbour of Mar del Plata … im Hafen von Mar del Plata Foto: Maria Fernanda Vitiello © 2007 |
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... en Ituzaingó, Argentina ...in Ituzaingó, Argentina ...in Ituzaingó, Argentinien Foto: Alejandra Unzain © 2007 |
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... en Puerto Rico... ... in Puerto Rico... ... in Puerto Rico... Foto: Edgardo Rivera © 2007 |
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... y en el Santuario Original ...and at the Original Shrine ... und im Urheiligtum... Foto: POS Fischer © 2007 |
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Father Nicolás Schwizer
Why is man today not captured by God, why is he penetrated so little by His Spirit? Father explains it: It is because everything stays in the head and does not reach the heart. The heart remains closed and hardened.
What then is the meaning of our Covenant of Love? The meaning is that I surrender my heart to Blessed Mother: exchange of hearts. What does She do with my heart? She takes it to Christ, She takes it to the Father. The ultimate meaning of the Covenant: to give my heart to Christ, to give my heart to God.
Therefore, what is our task?
If we want to belong to Christ. If we want to belong to Him forever, we have to take seriously our covenant in daily life. What does it mean to request our claims of love with the Blessed Mother?: to ask Her to enkindle in my heart my love for Christ, for God, to the highest degree possible. And Blessed Mother is obliged to do so because that is the meaning of the Covenant of Love.
Therefore, let us consciously ask Her in the Shrine to give us the grace of a heart which is on fire for Christ.
Let us look at another aspect. God wants that through the Covenant of Love, man may be healed anew because modern man is sick. Father Kentenich indicates that in modern man there is a great incapacity for religious experience; that in him there is a great obstacle in his affectivity before God.
The greatest wound in man’s affective domain is his incapacity to give and to receive love. The man of our times, affirms our Father and Founder, is a type of itinerant beggar in the field of love. He possesses an acute anemia in the quality of his personal attachments.
One of the greatest goals for the man of tomorrow must be, therefore, to win the heart for God.
Truths of the faith should become experiences of faith. We need to feel the truths of faith. We need to be able to touch them, to feel them. We need to be able to touch faith which has become life in a person or in a community. Through these experiences which have captured our heart, affective attachments are generated which bind us to God and to the supernatural world.
Here then comes forth the important decision of our Covenant of Love with Blessed Mother. Love knows the transmission of life. If I love Mary, She transmits her life to me. The purest and warmest affectivity is imprinted on Her. If I attach myself to Her with childlikeness, then she awakens in me my emotions. She gives me her own love for God and for others. Through the Covenant, I learn to love as Mary loves and to love all that She loves.
Therefore, it is the way to heal man today…..to give him deep religious experiences…..to win his love and his heart for God and for the supernatural world. Thus we should lead our brothers and sisters to the Covenant of Love. We should awaken and inflame the love for Mary in them.
Only through that warm attachment to Her will they begin to imitate Her in her their attitude and behavior. Father asks us all to be apostles of the Covenant of Love. His wish is that everyone would seal the Covenant of Love, that everyone would discover the richness of sharing their lives with Mary.
We have to invite our relatives, friends, family, and fellow-workers to the Covenant of Love.
Translation: Carlos Cantú. Family Federation. La Feria, Texas USA 022507