NOVENA – October 18 – Day 3
Follow the novena for Covenant Day. Today, October 11, is the third day. Download the material so you can pray from home.
October 11, 2023
The Original Shrine is the cradle of the entire International Schoenstatt Work. It was here that the first Covenant of Love was sealed on October 18, 1914. Over the years, it has become the source of many graces that unite the whole world in a chain of Shrines. The Original Shrine is a place where many languages are spoken, and everyone understands each other as a family in a place of welcome, transformation, and fruitful mission.
On this page, you will find news about life around the Original Shrine. Learn about activities, projects, and much more.
Follow the novena for Covenant Day. Today, October 11, is the third day. Download the material so you can pray from home.
Follow the novena for Covenant Day. Today, October 10, we are on the second day. Download the material so you can pray from home.
The novena begins today, the 9th, in the Original Schoenstatt Shrine, and will be broadcast live. You are invited to take part. Download the prayers here to follow along or to pray at home.
The Brazilian singer Ziza Fernandes will lead the opening of the Covenant Day novena with a musical performance. The “Serenade for Mary” will be transmitted live from the Original Shrine on October 9th.
We have an invitation for the entire Schoenstatt Family: Shall we pray together for the Synod? United with the whole Church and Pope Francis, we will have a special moment in Schoenstatt’s Original Shrine on September 30th. You are also encouraged to join your group in your country for a moment of prayer.
In the days leading up to World Youth Day, some 450 young people from the USA and from Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries visited the birthplace of the Schoenstatt Movement. We have written about the pilgrims’ experiences in the Original Shrine, but what did these days mean for those who live there on a daily basis? Schoenstatt International asked….
Right there, from your country, you can participate in WYD Lisbon – and it doesn’t matter how old you are! Want to know how? Follow the suggestions of the International Coordination of the Movement
Ten years ago, we were preparing to celebrate the 100th anniversary of our founding as a Schoenstatt Family. On October 18, 2014, we wanted to go on pilgrimage to Schoenstatt to celebrate and renew the Covenant of Love that Father Kentenich and the first sodalists had sealed in the Shrine.
Sister M. Cacilda Becker and Father Henrich Walter were interviewed by Sister. M. Nilza to gather their experiences and ideas about the seven years in which they fulfilled the task of being the first International Coordinators of the Schoenstatt Movement. Since Schoenstatt is a federative movement, their mission has been to exercise the office they assumed: coordinators, at the service of Schoenstatt’s life in the different countries of the world. Father Walter now ceases this responsibility and goes to Austria, while Sister M. Cacilda remains for a period of three additional years. Father Arkadiusz Sosna from Poland, a member of the General Council of the Schoenstatt Fathers, will take over for the Schoenstatt Fathers.
The General Presidency of the Schoenstatt Movement extended the General Statutes of the Movement for another three years and announced the evaluation and revision by the Movement’s International Coordination. In addition, Fr Arkadiusz Sosna and Sr M. Cacilda Becker were appointed as international coordinators.
Father Ignacio Camacho, a Chilean from the Secular Institute of the Schoenstatt Fathers, was appointed to this task by the Bishop of the Diocese of Trier, Monsignor Stephan Ackermann. He will be responsible for the pastoral and administrative life of Schoenstatt’s international center, its Original Shrine, for the next three years.
He says: “The most impressive thing is to see how the Shrine impacts people’s lives”
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