[covenant-greetings] Covenant Greetings April 2011

[M. Kornelia Fischer]

A little late, but heartfelt and from the Shrine of Memholz, in southern 
Germany:Happy Covenant Day with our beloved MTA and withall her 
allies.There are 42 18th's to the centenary of the Covenant of Love, 41 
days to go, physically or spiritually, along with all the Schoenstatt 
Family to the Original Shrine to renew the Covenant of Love in its 
creative, missionary strength andinternationally inner-connected 
attached, that is, in the spirit of 2014.

"The 18th of every month is not only a day of remembrance for us, 
rather, it is also and above all a day of renewal, a day in which we 
renew the Covenant of Love that the Blessed Mother sealed in Schoenstatt 
on October 18, 1914 and who returns to seal it now with us inserting our 
giving of self into that first covenat", said Father Kentenich in 
conference about the Covenant of Love in Nueve Helvecia, Uruguay. And he 
continued saying:"A few days ago a man from Montevideo came to the 
Shrine with a large bouquet of flowers.I asked him why he came here.He 
replied that he wanted to seal the Covenant of Love with the Mater ter 
Admirabilis.I see you and thousands of people, who through time will 
come on pilgrimage to this Shrine, symbolized in this man (...)All of 
those who are here should feel united by the attachment of the Covenant 
of Love, I could almost say that we should be the "bouquet of flowers" 
for the Blessed Mother.Now, let us go with confidence to her Shrine to 
implore these graces.I repeat, with much confidence, since the measure 
of grace that we receive depends on Her....Let us think again abpit the 
bouquet of flowers.The spiritual bouquet that we offer Mary should be 
formed by a great and unconquerable confidence, through the profound 
desire of being sheltered in God, through the willingness to be 
interiorly transformed and for the serious effort of being defenders of 
good and noble things..."

With this confidence and "united by the attachment of the Covenant of 
Love, during this Holy Week, hundreds and hundreds of youth departed and 
continue to departto go on mission -- accompanied by the prayers of many 
members of our large Schoenstatt Family, Via Facebook and via our 
international web page schoenstatt.orgwe received a request to unite in 
prayer for the missions in Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Italy, 
Uruguay and Paraguay, as well as the reponse of so many countries that 
can be summarized in a phrase:"Everyone united in the missions".This is 
the reality of the Covenant of Love, which makes us a missionary 
family...During the Mass in preparation for 2014, which wascelebrated 
for Iceland last Saturday, Father José María García invited everyone to 
unite in prayer with the young missionaries of our Movement, in their 
effort to take Christ and the MTA to so many people.

This experience of feeling united to a covenant network forms an 
essential part of the pilgrimage toward 2014.We want to express this 
experience in a truly touching moment at the opening of the Year of the 
Shrine Current on the eve of October 18th, at 9:00 p.m. (time at the 
Original Shrine).In Schoenstatt, The group of pilgrims from the various 
shrines meet shortly before 9 p.m. on the streets leading to the 
Original Shrine and wait for one another. Then all move at the same time 
towards the Original Shrine where flambeau torches, fires and lights are 
simultaneously enkindled. The bell at the Original Shrine will ring out 
and the bells of the surrounding shrines will join in as we pray our 
Pilgrimage Prayer 2014: "With great joy we start out on our pilgrimage 
to your shrine ..."

At the same moment flambeau torches, fires or candles, can be lit at all 
shrines, wayside shrines, chapels, home shrines and heart shrines 
throughout the world ... as a sign of unity with the Original Shrine, as 
a greeting to the Original Shrine, and as an expression of the life and 
grace flowing back from all the shrines.

This moment when the earth is encircled by a network of lights and fire 
can be seen from aeroplanes and the international space station. The 
fire from the fire at the Original Shrine has reached the boundaries of 
the earth. It is a visible reality and can change the world. With its 
flambeau torch each shrine throughout the world greets the Original Shrine.

The other day,a young German girl -- who just returned from a three week 
trip to Argentina and Chile, who experienceda trip from Shrine to Shrine 
as family -- commented:"Maybe I will be at the Metro in Munich at that 
time, returning from work.Internally I will light a candle...and perhaps 
at that moment some strnager who is traveling on the same train will 
also do it, and two heart shrines will meet...How exciting!!!"

In the joy of the reality of this Covenant of Love I greet you from this 
daughter Shrine, where last night we unitedourselves to the Original 
Shrine and to all the Shrines, wayside shrines, and home shrines of the 
world, I wish you a very blessed Holy Week,

Sister Kornelia

We hope to carry out the definitive transition of our international web 
page to the new site: www.schoenstatt.org 
<http://www.schoenstatt.org/>during the week after Easter.This means 
that schoenstatt.de will cease to function as the international web page 
although there will still be a link for some time that will direct to 
schoenstatt.org.It is an Easter gift to be able to continue this more 
international site with the same spirit!!As of now, we count on your 
prayers to see this long awaited desire become concrete.

Do you want to experience the Covenant Mass of April 18th in the 
Original Shrine?Celebrant:

Msgr. Dr. Peter Wolf - 
http://schoenstatt-tv.de/DE/Mediathek.html?film=2011-017

*Meditations for Holy Week: *

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