[covenant-greetings] Covenant Greetings - from Tuparenda, Paraguay

[Covenant Greetings]

Dear and friends and collaborators of schoenstatt.org

A month from the opening of the Year of the Shrine current worldwide, 
we, as a Schoenstatt Family, are celebrating the 18^th united from 
Shrine to Shrine, heart to heart.

Today our brothers from the Shrine of Tuparenda, the National Shrine of 
Paraguay, extend their Covenant greetings, allowing us to share the 
experience of the celebration in their Shrine with all of them through 
photos and testimonies.How wonderful to be able to experience it together!

/Monina/

Maria Luz Fleitas relates:"Peru passed the torch to Paraguay!The 
Paraguayan Schoenstatt Family carried out the Covenant greeting with the 
celebration of the Holy Mass, presided by Father Antonio Cosp Fonclara 
in Saint Mary of the Trinity Church, Tuparenda, City of Ypacaraí, where 
more than 1,000 people arrived; it is located 32 kilometers from 
Asunción!This celebration was done with feeling and above all with the 
spirit of forging the covenant culture on the pilgrimage toward the 
Schoenstatt centenary.The missionaries of the Schoenstatt Rosary 
Campaign arrived with their Pilgrim MTAs and went up to Saint Mary of 
the Trinity Church with the Auxiliary MTA.It was a day of celebration, 
the day when our month-long celebration of October 18^th begins.The 
Apostolic Federation of Families was in charge of the 3^rd Sunday Mass; 
they provided the Saint Mary Choir's beautiful songs.Ever since the 
Family found out that Paraguay would extend the Covenant greeting to all 
of Schoenstatt, there was a great commotion on this road..."

*Large international get-together in Tuparenda*

The "dwelling of God" welcomed 3,000 pilgrims this September 18^th ; 
half of them were youth on their annual diocesan pilgrimage with their 
bishop and their priests to celebrate the month of the youth.Moreover, 
approximately thirty couples told the Blessed Mother that Her love has 
captivated them in such a way that they were offering her a Blank Check 
of their lives and thirty-five engaged couples held an educational 
workshop about love.

Perhaps the most important thing was the thousands of hearts from every 
corner of the world that placed their gaze and their hearts beating in 
unison with the Paraguayans on this active wait to 2014.

After concentrating our spiritual presence in the Original Shrine, we 
are now rotating from country to country.Each 18^th is a acquiring a 
decisive importance.Perhaps it will be one of the most lasting fruits of 
our pilgrimage to the 100th Anniversary.

During the main Mass at nine, Father Antonio Cosp, the rector of the 
Shrine, explained the parable of the wise and just owner who paid 
everyone equally for unequal work...He explained how something similar 
happened with the Shrine's gift of the first grace:the Blessed Mother 
invites everyone to find a home in Her heart, so that from there by her 
hand, we can grow by having the same gaze that God the Father has on all 
the events of life, and that we may set many ablaze to live with 
generosity and unconditional surrender.

/Father Antonio Cosp/

*_Photo album_* 
<https://picasaweb.google.com/maluz18/Dia18EnElSantuarioDeTuparenda?authkey=Gv1sRgCLDB-oDJ0pybIQ&feat=email>

<https://picasaweb.google.com/maluz18/Dia18EnElSantuarioDeTuparenda?authkey=Gv1sRgCLDB-oDJ0pybIQ&feat=email> 


*__* 
<https://picasaweb.google.com/maluz18/Dia18EnElSantuarioDeTuparenda?authkey=Gv1sRgCLDB-oDJ0pybIQ&feat=email>

Father José María García, Head of the preparation for Jubilee 2014 and 
of our website, along with Team 2014, extends his greeting from the 
Original Shrine:

"Greetings from the Original Shrine to all of you, friends, and 
collaborators of schoenstatt.org, one month from the opening of the Year 
of the Shrine current on our pilgrimage toward the Covenant of Love 
Jubilee, which we will celebrate on October 18, 2014.Every 18^th , when 
heaven touches earth, we go on pilgrimage to our Shrines, wayside 
shrines, Home shrines and heart shrines to renew our Covenant of 
Love.The shrine of Father's heart is the origin; our shrines and the 
cycle closes when everyone will consecrate their heart in the COVENANT 
OF LOVE as a living shrine where She and the most Blessed Trinity 
work.In this network of shrines, we once again tell the Blessed Mother, 
Father Kentenich, and the entire family:Your covenant our mission.We 
build Schoenstatt together*:NOTHING WITHOUT YOU, NOTHING WITHOUT US.*

**

It seems to me that it is a gift of the MTA at this moment of 
preparation toward the large Jubilee 2014, that month to month, the 
"Covenant Greeting" opens the doors of one of our Shrines somewhere in 
the world, allowing us to participate in the special graces of that 
Shrine and in the lives and commitment of the local family thereby 
uniting us in the covenant like a large, pilgrim family, praying "on 
every step of our pilgrimage:

/Inflame in us anew the fire of our /

/Love for you, the Family, and for Father Kentenich./

/Give us the strength to forge a Covenant culture in our world, /

/educate us to be your missionaries for this century"/

//

I will remember you in the Eucharist -- especially on the Saturdays in 
the Mass for the intentions of Jubilee 2014 in the Original Shrine -- 
and in my prayers.

??/Fr. José María García./

//

Celina M. Garza: Spanish/English translationMelissa Peña-Janknegt: 
English edit


Video of the Holy Mass celebrated in Schoenstatt, Mount Sion Shrine, in 
the morning of September 18 - with sermon in three languages (english, 
german, spanish) 
<http://www.schoenstatt-tv.de/DE/Mediathek.html?film=2011-052>

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www.schoenstatt.org
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