Schoenstatt – Reaching out Category

Rosario
Fr. José María Iturrería, National Advisor of the Schoenstatt Rosary Campaign of the Pilgrim Mother of Schoenstatt in Argentina • On the occasion of the Year of Prayer in preparation for the Holy Year 2025, Fr. José María Iturrería, national advisor of the Schoenstatt Rosary Campaign in Argentina, invites all the missionaries to a series of workshops to deepen in prayer – but not to take refuge in something merely interior, but to be transformers of reality, strengthened in prayer. We share the letter of presentation because we think thatRead More
Esta cita se encuentra a lo largo de Library Way, un tramo de la calle 41 Este, que conduce a la Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York. La placa fue esculpida por Gregg LeFevre
UNITED STATES/SPAIN, Miguel Ángel Rubio • Last Easter I was in New York. One day, as I was walking along 41st Street near 5th Avenue, where the Public Library is located, I noticed that the floor was covered with metal plaques with quotes from famous people. One of them caught my eye with the following inscription: “The universe is made of stories, not atoms” (Muriel Rukeyser 1913-1980. “The Speed of Darkness”). The inscription stood on a background that resembled a molecular lattice in which the atoms were shaped like openRead More
Vía Crucis Castelli
ARGENTINA, Guillermo Ferreyra • Last Good Friday I had the opportunity to travel to experience the representation of the Stations of the Cross organized by the Adsum Pater mission in the town of Castelli, belonging to the diocese of Chascomús. — What are Adsum Pater missions? This activity was born a few years ago in the Shrine of La Plata, and is aimed at young university students, who dedicate Holy Week to this activity in which they combine a time of retreat and reflection with a time to go outRead More
Caminos de santidad matrimonial
ARGENTINA, Editors • The Institute of Marriage and Family of the Catholic University of Argentina (UCA) presented the book “Caminos de Santidad Matrimonial” (Paths of Marital Sanctity) by Leonardo Cozzi and Paola Risuleo, members of the Institute of Schoenstatt Families. Schoenstatt.org had already reported on the book immediately after its publication. — Fewer vocations? The coincidence in time is remarkable. On the same day, the Holy See published the Pontifical Yearbook 2024 and the Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2022, in which the number of bishops, priests, religious and deaconsRead More
coppie
ITALY, Vanda Rebuffat and Eugenio Minici • As a follow-up to the Married Couples’ Coffee (which we spoke about earlier), in which several couples from Terricciola (Pisa) participated, the couples decided to continue the journey of growth (with a view to the creation and consolidation of a community of married couples), inspired by the spirituality of the Schoenstatt Movement. On Saturday, March 16, the second meeting of the new cycle was held on the theme “United we are stronger”. The meeting, as usual, was led by two couples from theRead More
Huerta Casa del Niño
ARGENTINA, Juan Diego Stellatelli • The vegetable garden at Casa del Niño is beginning to bear fruit. The first squashes have already been prepared in our kitchen. — What are the benefits of a vegetable garden for the children? It promotes teamwork, cooperation and camaraderie, patience, perseverance and a sense of responsibility. It promotes an awareness of life. Children realize that a plant needs care, attention, waiting, development, and a process to finally produce a final result (flower, vegetable, fruit). It stimulates the senses as they learn through touch, smell,Read More
Sant'Egidio en Ucrania
NEWSLETTER OF THE SANT’EGIDIO COMMUNITY • I received the newsletter on February 22nd, I read it on February 24th, the second anniversary of the beginning of the war against Ukraine. Sant’Egidio, this young Movement from Together for Europe is in Ukraine, it is doing in Ukraine what Schoenstatt cannot do there, simply because it is not in this martyred country. With the permission of Sant’Egidio (of course, as they wrote to me) we share this newsletter in covenant solidarity. — Two years after the beginning of the war in Ukraine,Read More
Uvira
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, Father Jean Marie Bisimwa • The Schoenstatt Fathers have been living and working in Uvira, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, for four years. 2020, the first year of the pandemic that largely spared Africa, was a fruitful year; in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where Schoenstatt has been growing for years and where several Schoenstatt Fathers come from, the first branch of the Schoenstatt Fathers was founded.In the meantime, a Shrine is being built and the work of the Fathers in the Bon PasteurRead More
Misión Juvenil La Plata
ARGENTINA, Lilita and Carlos Ricciardi • From January 27 to February 4 of this year, the Archdiocesan Youth Mission of the Archdiocese of La Plata for young people aged 14 to 25 took place in the city of Villa Elisa (14.7 km from La Plata) under the motto “Let us proclaim greatness in its simplicity”. — We learned about it through the announcement made by Father Guillermo Khidir at the Sunday Mass in the Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish. At the end of the service, we asked him how weRead More
Colonia de verano
ARGENTINA, Juan Diego Stellatelli / María Fischer • The Casa del Niño in Florencio Varela recently received a donation of around €60 from Germany… in the middle of the summer season in the southern hemisphere. And the question arose spontaneously: What do our 300 children do during the very long summer vacation? We know that there is no school. We know that the families in this desperately poor district can’t go on vacation by the sea. Is the Casa del Niño actually open? Is there a program? There is. —Read More