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Happy Covenant Day! I just returned from the Original Shrine,
where along with about 700 pilgrims from the Archdiocese of Freiburg
(in southern Germany) and many more people - among them families from
all of Germany, members of the General Chapter of the Sisters of Mary,
youth from Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Mexico, deacons and
seminarians from Congo, Burundi, India and Nigeria -we renewed the
Covenant of Love, in the light of hundreds of candles, in the darkness
of an autumn night full of stars<br>
...Within a month, at the same
time, we will again surround the Original Shrine with candles in hand:
on October 17th, on the eve of October 18th, when those who have the
privilege of being here will initiate the triennium of the preparation
for 2014 along with our Father...and as a Family, we will begin the
large pilgrimage towards the Original Shrine and Rome.
<div>On this night we consciously remember everyone who is renewing
their Covenant of love on this 18th at some Shrine, wayside shrine,
Homeshrine or heart shrine.</div>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"
class="yiv23310691MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"
id="ms__id98" lang="ES-AR">It
was the highlight of a day filled with life, joy and commitment around
the Original Shrine. It began early in the morning with the Mass in
preparation for 2014, celebrated in covenant with Schoenstatt </span><span
style="font-size: 12pt;" id="ms__id99" lang="ES-AR">in
Cote d’Ivoire, in África. Families from all of Germany gathered hours
later in the Shrine of Families to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of
the House of Families. Some youth became actors in a video which will
be offered before October 18th to everyone for the opening of the
triennium. At noon the pilgrims from Freiburg arrived...Only the
Blessed Mother knows about all the activities around her Shrines and
wayside shrines, and all the madness of missionary love on this
day...30 youth from Germany on their second mission in this country
(happy to be bearers of the return stream...) youth from Uruguay on
their Mary's Crusade, so many missionaries, who are still celebrating
the 60th Anniversary of the Rosary Campaign...</span></p>
</div>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"
class="yiv23310691MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"
id="ms__id101" lang="ES-AR">We
are still in the special week in which we recall the anniversary of
Father Kentenich's death, in this centenary year of his priestly
ordination and on the eve of the beginning of the year of the Father
current, as the first year of the triennium to 2014. I want to share
part of the Covenant Letter from Father Javier Arteaga, Director of the
Schoenstatt Movement in Argentina with everyone, in which he perfectly
summarizes the grace and the challenge of the time we are living:</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"
class="yiv23310691MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"
lang="ES-AR"> <br>
</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"
class="yiv23310691MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"
id="ms__id103" lang="ES-AR">For this "gift of God" who is Father
Kentenich, we give thanks to the Lord. That is fine, <strong>but it
is not enough. </strong>I
believe that only giving thanks to God for having gifted us with such a
great priest, father and founder is not enough, it is not worthy of a
spiritual child of Father Kentenich. He would tell us: thank you, but
<strong>what part of my task are you going to assume today, in your
time? What aspect of my mission are you going to embody in your
atmosphere? "You, in your own way, can help me carry out the
responsibility and share the mission of the Family" </strong></span></i><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt;" id="ms__id104" lang="ES-AR"><span
id="ms__id107"> (Father. J. K., 31 of May 1949)</span>. </span></i><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="ES-AR"></span></i>
</p>
<p
style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"
class="yiv23310691MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"
id="ms__id108" lang="ES-AR">Beloved brothers and sisters, next <strong>October
18th, we will begin the triennium on the way to 2014</strong> and we
will do it together as a Family with the Founding Father. Just as the <strong>Founding
Father</strong> was at the beginning of the Schoenstatt history in the
same way this year we want to take his hand to <strong>travel with him
and like him through these 3 years until</strong> we reach the jubilee
of 2014. <strong>With him and like him, with his same spirit and
attitudes</strong>,
like new prophets of Mary bulding our time for God, renewing (our
world) with a family spirit, we want to reach 2014 and in this way
celebrate <strong>one hundred years of a living Covenant. "Yes,
Father, we go with you!"</strong></span></i><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="ES-AR"></span></i>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="yiv23310691MsoNormal"><span
style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt;" id="ms__id109" lang="ES-PY">On
October
17, in Schoenstatt, we will go on pilgrimage from the Adoration
Church towards the Original Shrine, where we will respond to the
Blessed Mother and Father Kentenich (that is how a young man expressed
it, obviously thinking about the Crusade of the Andes): "Schoenstatt
2014 - Onward!" Or rather: Nothing without me, nothing without us!
On the pilgrimage we want to take everyone who is spiritually on
pilgrimage with us towards the Original Shrine on that night and who in
this way want to give the first step of their "pilgrimage 2014". We
want to name the Shrines of the world not only to pray: From all the
wayside shrines of the world - we go on pilgrimage to you...</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="yiv23310691MsoNormal"><span
style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt;" id="ms__id112" lang="ES-PY">Here,
at
the moment of speaking about this subject, the idea, which may be a
bit crazy, emerged among some youth and couples that everyone should be
invited to send -a photo or the name -of the Shrine, wayside shrine the
Homeshrine, the work shrine, the heartshrine if they want to be
present to say to the Blessed Mother, Father, the Original Shrine,
and to the entire international family: Nothing without me, nothing
without us...</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 35.4pt;"
class="yiv23310691MsoNormal"><i><span
style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt;" id="ms__id113" lang="ES-PY">This
pilgrimage will be transmitted live via Schoenstatt-TV</span></i>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 35.4pt;"
class="yiv23310691MsoNormal"><i><span
style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt;" id="ms__id115" lang="ES-PY"> (7.30
– 10.00 German time). <span id="ms__id116"> </span></span></i>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="yiv23310691MsoNormal"><span
style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt;" id="ms__id114" lang="ES-PY">How
wonderful
to imagine that on October 18th, from so many shrines,
wayside shrines, places of work...we will begin the spiritual
pilgrimage that will take us to October 18, 2014, to receive the "grace
2014" in the renewal of the Covenant of Love in its creative missionary
strength attached and internationally interconnected...As fruit of this
renewal of the Covenant of Love we hope for the renewal of the entire
Schoenstatt Family and a worldwide Covenant culture.</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="yiv23310691MsoNormal"><span
style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt;" id="ms__id117" lang="ES-PY">And
to
think that all of this begins with the first step that we will take
on October 17th/18th...each one from his/her Shrine, in his/her own
way, in his/her Covenant.</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="yiv23310691MsoNormal"><span
style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt;" id="ms__id119" lang="ES-PY">United
in the Covenant of Love, I greet you from the Original Shrine with
gratitude for all your commitment to schoenstatt.de </span>
</p>
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style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt;" id="ms__id118" lang="ES-PY"> </span>
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<p class="yiv23310691MsoNormal"><span
style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt;" id="ms__id121" lang="ES-PY">Sister Kornelia</span>
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style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt;" lang="ES-PY"><br>
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<p class="yiv23310691MsoNormal"><span
style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt;" lang="ES-PY"><br>
Videos de hoy en la mediateca o aun el livestream de <a
class="yiv23310691moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.schoenstatt-tv.de/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.schoenstatt-tv.de</a><br>
Informaciones sobre 2014 hay también en: <a
class="yiv23310691moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://cmsms.schoenstatt.de/es/centenario.htm" rel="nofollow"
target="_blank">http://cmsms.schoenstatt.de/en/k2014.htm</a><br>
<br>
</span></p>
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style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt;" lang="ES-PY"> </span>
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