The unprecedented Family Missions on the island of Formentera
Missioning in paradise: The Schoenstatt Family of Pozuelo spent this past Holy Week on Family Missions in the paradise island of Formentera, Spain.
April 4, 2024
Missioning in paradise: The Schoenstatt Family of Pozuelo spent this past Holy Week on Family Missions in the paradise island of Formentera, Spain.
“People who come to us to pray and to attend Holy Mass are at the beginning of their spiritual journey and formation. They even need to learn to make the sign of the cross and get acquainted with many basic Catholic prayers”. Let’s take a look at the work the Schoenstatt Fathers are doing in the state of Punjab in northern India
The essence of Schoenstatt’s third milestone, the mission of May 31st, is centered on the Divine Force, which calls us to be a Schoenstatt going forth and to live an organic world in our thinking and loving, as a living contribution to the Church and the world today. This anniversary challenges us and invites us to delve deeper into the mission of being bearers of the charism of our Father and Founder.
The National Delegates’ Conference of the German Schoenstatt Movement, which took place March 1 – 3, 2024 at the Father Kentenich House, focused on the charism. The positive developments in the investigations into Fr. Kentenich by various teams were reported. It included a synodal meeting at the Marienschule, where Fr. Kentenich met several times with the Schoenstatt Family.
The Mother and Queen Men’s Rosary is a large Schoenstatt apostolate involving more than one million men. They meet frequently to pray the rosary and, in many places, they engage in social work. Now, for the first time, a prison in the state of Piauí has a Rosary group.
The Apostolic Family Federation (AFF) United States of America Territory Welcomes Perpetual Consecration of Course 8 in the community.
This will be the 24th Schoenstatt Daughter Shrine in Brazil. It is administered by a lay association and receives spiritual and pastoral accompaniment from the Schoenstatt Institute of Families.
Representatives of the different law enforcement agencies of Ecuador, on a national level, went to the National Shrine of Schoenstatt to pray for peace and the protection of their men and women, who find themselves in times of unusual violence. They carried the graces that Mary gives in her Shrine back to their homes and to their colleagues.
The meeting of diocesan priests interested in the Schoenstatt Movement resulted in the formation of a new branch of the Movement and a gift for the priestly column in Italy.
The Italian Schoenstatt leaders met at the International Shrine in Belmonte, Rome, to evaluate their mission as a community and to envision it towards the future.
Please be sure to check out the official website and the program that will mark the celebration of the 75th anniversary of Schoenstatt’s Third Historic Milestone.
Bishop Ricardo Hoepers’ testimony expresses a profound experience of faith: “There are so many people in the Diocese of Rio Grande who share in the experience of the Mother and Queen visiting their homes, that this has convinced me that the presence of the Virgin of Schoenstatt within the families is the surest way for a diocese, for a particular Church, to evolve and, above all, to be strengthened in the faith”. And he concludes: “In the Diocese of Rio Grande, the Mother and Queen visits practically every family, everywhere”.
A Place, a Movement, a Way of Life, a Mission