[covenant-greetings] Covenant Greetings

[M. Kornelia Fischer]

Happy 18^th , with only 48 18^th 's until October 18, 2014!

I just returned from the Covenant Mass and the renewal of the Covenant 
of Love in the Original Shrine; just like every 18^th , we gathered 
spiritually with all of you in the Shrines, wayside shrines and 
homehrines of the world. Many pilgrims visited the Original Shrine today 
-- a man from Madrid who wanted to finally know the place of origin, a 
couple from Bahia Blanca, Argentina, families of the German Family 
Federation, and about 60 youth who were in Schoenstatt to prepare for 
"Night of the Shrine", the large pilgrimage of German youth to Original 
Shrine, which will be held next weekend. The large tent was set up in 
the parking lot of House Marienau...The climax of Night of the Shrine is 
the Covenant for the youth of the world, which is sealed at midnight in 
the Original Shrine.

The youth were also in charge of the Covenant Mass and the renewal of 
the Covenant of Love in the Original Shrine. There are always 
anniversaries in Schoenstatt. But today, August 18, 2010 -- it is worth 
mentioning. On August 18, 2009, the new design of the web page 
schoenstatt.de <http://schoenstatt.de> appeared after a year of 
preparation (there is also a more international address: 
www.schoenstatt-mta.org <http://www.schoenstatt-mta.org>) Since that 
day, it has received a half a million visits, exactly 654,335 visits. In 
a large part this web page is your work, the work of all of us. For that 
reason, I think that today it is worthwhile to celebrate it together. 
There were visits from 124 countries of the world, among those countries 
like Iran, Jamaica, Bulgaria, Laos, Lesotho, Tjikistan, Nepal, Guam and 
Cambodia...where no one expected a Schoenstatt presence, or interest 
about Schoenstatt. The visitors from these countries remained online up 
to 23 minutes in a single visit.

During this year, translations that were published included: 749 
articles in English, 995 in Spanish, 795 in German, 490 in Portuguese, 
and 689 in Italian. There were 11 commentaries from Italian readers, 54 
in Portuguese, 69 in English and hundreds in German and even more in 
Spanish...

But it is not only about numbers. behind each one of the articles that 
is published, as well as general information, there are one or more 
people who write the text, one or more who take the photos, there are 
people who edit and correct the texts with the standards of spelling and 
journalism, others translate ( to four other languages), there people 
who send the articles for bulletins, who download them to the web page 
to correct errors that were missed by the editiors...in conclusion, each 
news item, every piece of information goes through many hands -- and 
many hearts -- before appearing on the web page at everyone's reach. 
Besides the more than one thousand authors, there is a complete team of 
dozens of translators and editors, programmers -- and they are all 
volunteers, the majority from the United States and the Latin American 
countries (moreover, there are two Italians, one South African and two 
Germans on the team). Throughout the year youth from different countries 
spend a few weeks or months as collaborators in the Schoenstatt Press 
Office.

To make all this possible, some money is also needed. About 3000 Euros 
annually are needed to maintain the web page including tools (from 
computers to biromes?) server, electricity, coffee, cookies. All of this 
was donated last year by people who collaborate in this way with what we 
call schoenstatt.de of all of us.

We always need more collaborators. Especially translators and web designers.

At this time we especially need people who can translate

· from Italian to any other language

· from German to English or Spanish

· from Spanish or English to Portuguese

· from any language to German (this is urgent)

But there is more. This web page, just like the Shrine, lives from the 
love of its visitors...it lives from the visits that become encounters, 
and from encounters that become attachments.

*/_For all of this: Thank you very much for every visit!_/*_._

In Paraguay everything is ready for the opening of the Theatrical Work, 
Kentenich: A Man, A Mission. This work will be presented on stage on 
August 27th and 28th and in September on the 3rd, 4th, 8th, 10th, 11th, 
and 17th at the Paraguayan Japanese Center at 8:30 p.m.

In Schoenstatt, four seminarians of the Schoenstatt Fathers from Nigeria 
are preparing for their diaconate ordination on September 5th.

From the Original Shrine, I bid you farewell, imploring the MTA and 
Father Kentenich for abundant blessings for each one of you,

Sister Kornelia

> > Video of the renewal of the today's Covenant of Love at 
www.schoentatt-tv.de <http://www.schoentatt-tv.de> ( Also the Mass this 
morning at the Sion Shrine and the Mass last night in the Shrine of 
Families) www.schoenstatt.de <http://www.schoenstatt.de>



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