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<font color="#000066">Blessed Covenant Day! <span
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color: black;" lang="EN-US">Once again, as the worldwide
Schoenstatt Family,we celebrate the 18<sup>th</sup>,
celebrating our Covenant of Love, united from Shrine to Shrine,
from heart to heart, united in our great jubilee pilgrimage
towards the jubilee of the Covenant of Love. <br>
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<h4><span style="color: #ffcc00;">ONLY <span style="color:
#000080;">972 days 14 hours and 8 minutes</span> from <span
style="color: #000080;"> OCTOBER 18, 2014!</span></span></h4>
We can unite to the Original Shrine today via the video of the Holy
Mass celebrated there this morning - The Holy Mass towards 2014, in
Covenant with Ruanda - available soon at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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With much joy, we forward to all of you the latest official
2014-newsletter which we regard the best Covenant Greeting to share
at this moment of our pilgrimage. You find it also at
schoenstatt.org.<br>
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mystery: Our entire pilgrimage, our whole procession,
always centres on the divine. <br>
<em>JK, Rome Conferences 1965 </em></p>
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<p>Dear Pilgrims<br>
as we journey on together I want to look back and to look
forward. </p>
<p>Since the last newsletter much has happened. many of you
will have heard of the passing of Fr. Jonathan Niehaus, a
Schoenstatt Father from the United States - a man who was
remembered for his love of our Founder and the wish to
pass that message and vision on to the whole world, a
thought central to our ongoing pilgrimage and Jubilee.</p>
<p>Closely following this event I was able to move in to the
Bundesheim (House of the Covenant) where the offices of
Team 2014 and the working teams are taking shape. Phones,
computers, but above all the teams are beginning to occupy
the space that will be the place of our pilgrimage towards
2014. It was great to gather those who were around, and
there were quite a few, for a little celebration - a
birthday to remember.</p>
<p>It was in those offices that a number of meetings took
place. At the end of this month our website will see a
small transformation as by then we can bring you those
“hard facts” that you want for you preparation.
Negotiations with those involved in transport, the
celebration, catering etc... have advance so far now that
over the next 3 months packages, prices and more can be
published... Oh, and by the way, you will soon be able to
book your trip online... Exciting...</p>
<p>We would like to invite you to pass this Newsletter to
all those you know who journey with us towards 2014.
Invite them to subscribe:</p>
<p>To subscribe - <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.schoenstatt2014.org/en/mailing-list/%20">click
here</a></p>
<p><em>Fr. Andrew Pastore</em><br>
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<p>The Cardinals of our Church are meeting today, 17
February, in the new Synod Hall in the Vatican for a day
of prayer and reflection on the subject of "the
proclamation of the Gospel today, between <em>Missio ad
gentes</em> (Mission to all people) and new
evangelisation". At the same time we are receiving the
third of our information and motivational newsletters for
our great "pilgrimage to the Original Shrine on 18 October
2014, which is open to all", as the Message 2014 stated,
because we know that "places and times have the character
of sacramentals" for us. It is an open pilgrimage, a
pilgrimage for everyone, which will lead us afterwards to
Rome, to the "heart of the Church, in order to renew our
commitment to her and to emphasise our missionary
character." As a missionary Family we are on pilgrimage to
the Original Shrine and to Rome, in order to bear our
covenant of love into the world of work, of politics, the
family, youth, the Church and pedagogy, and in this way
create a covenant culture as a practical contribution to
the new evangelisation of the world in which we live. <br>
<br>
"For missionary activity renews the Church, revitalizes
faith and Christian identity, and offers fresh enthusiasm
and new incentive. <em>Faith is strengthened when it is
given to others!</em> It is in commitment to the
Church's universal mission that the new evangelization of
Christian peoples will find inspiration and support." This
passage from the Encyclical letter <em>Redemptoris Missio</em>
by John Paul II – the masterly document on the new
evangelization that has stood the test of time –
characterises the meaning of our pilgrimage 2014 extremely
well.<br>
<br>
The covenant of love, the fruit of our baptismal covenant,
is strengthened and renewed ... if we pass it on! It is in
this spirit we walk our pilgrim way with élan, motivated
by our desire to meet as a missionary family at the
jubilee. "There are four of us in our family, my two girls
Danna and Ariane, my husband Rodrigo and I," writes Yeni
S, a young mother from Comodoro Rivadavia in the
Argentine. "Ever since we got to know the Movement, and
visited the shrine in Santa Maria in 2010, when my
youngest was only 23 days old and we dedicated her to the
MTA, our longing has grown to be in Schoenstatt in 2014.
We would like to place this intention with the thousands
of prayers that are sent to the Original Shrine from all
the shrines in the world. Let us meet there at the jubilee
..."<br>
<br>
Yes, our pilgrimage to 2014 is progressing decisively and
grows in strength "with every step on our pilgrim way":
with everyone who joins us in the attitude of pilgrimage;
with every step of a pilgrim, community or country
"towards 2014"; it grows in strength with every project
that is started or continued, as for example, the "Mission
to Nigeria" of the students in Chile, with every
pilgrimage prayer either in a shrine or at a simple
wayside shrine somewhere in the world, with every Holy
Mass in covenant with a country, with every Pilgrim Mother
carried into a new home, with every translation "with
which I work for every kilometre to the Original Shrine",
as one of our collaborators in Chile wrote recently. It
grows in strength with each original initiative, such as
that of the Portuguese cyclists who are cycling the
kilometres to the Original Shrine as they visit Portugal's
Marian places of pilgrimage.<br>
<br>
It grows in strength <em>for everyone</em> through the
formative power of the covenant of love in <em>one </em>person,
in <em>one</em> initiative, <em>one</em> community – and
it grows in strength for each individual person who has to
take a particularly difficult step in the strength of the
steps taken by others, as our Holy Father has emphasised
in his message for Lent:<br>
"The Lord’s disciples, united with him through the
Eucharist, live in a fellowship that binds them one to
another as members of a single body. This means that the
other is part of me, and that his or her life, his or her
salvation, concern my own life and salvation. Here we
touch upon a profound aspect of communion: our existence
is related to that of others, for better or for worse.
Both our sins and our acts of love have a social
dimension. ... Christians can also express their
membership in the one body which is the Church through
concrete concern for the poorest of the poor. Concern for
one another likewise means acknowledging the good that the
Lord is doing in others and giving thanks for the wonders
of grace that Almighty God in his goodness continuously
accomplishes in his children."<br>
<br>
The recent comment of a young woman in Germany fits in
with this, "I notice time and again that 2014 becomes a
reality wherever we are, or it simply doesn't exist. The
vital principle 2014! So it is at the same time a total
challenge!"<br>
<br>
The pilgrimage to 2014 gains in strength for each of us
and for the whole Family with every contribution with
which we fill the jars, "with gratitude and repentance,
with love and longing." A simple, sincere testimony found
among the petitions that arrive at the Original Shrine
week after week via the internet gave me particular joy,
"Blessed Mother, the joy that I can give you with my
little request brings me to your shrine, which I have
already visited twice. THANK YOU!"<br>
<br>
The three questions that are part of our pilgrimage prayer
ground us and make the great ideas and visions very
personal as they motivate us on our way to 2014.</p>
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<li>For what do I want to thank?</li>
<li>What will I place in the jar today?</li>
<li>Which missionary steps will I take today?</li>
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<p>The answers are to be found in the covenant lives of the
pilgrims, whether they are individuals or communities. The
answers – concrete, topical and real – are the content and
decisive power of each "real step" we take to reach the
shrine and meet with the worldwide, missionary Church.<br>
<br>
The steps of our Jubilee pilgrimage can be steps through
darkness, suffering and human powerlessness – both
personal and communal – yet in the power of the covenant
of love, and the grace of 2014, they are the steps taken
during a common pilgrimage, steps – and that is the light
of Easter on any and every darkness along our way – with
Jesus Christ in the serious and hopeful climate of the
pilgrimage that make them testimonies of faith at every
moment. The pilgrim who sets out for the shrine is
accompanied in the communion of faith and love not only by
the others with whom he or she undertakes the "pilgrimage"
(cf. Ps 84,6), but also by the Lord himself, who goes with
us as he did with the disciples on the way to Emmaus (cf.
Lk 24, 13-55).</p>
<p><em>With best wishes and my blessing from the shrine</em><br>
<em>Fr José María García</em></p>
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<p>The Father Symbol is on pilgrimage in Argentina
– and was present at the 60th anniversary of the
Father Shrine and the 10th anniversary of the
blessing of the Father Statue in Florencio
Varela (where it had also been present 10 years
ago!).</p>
<p>The Schoenstatt Family of Chile is conquering
the kilometers that are separating their Shrines
from the Original Shrine<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<p>Have a look at this website of the Institute of
Diocesan Priests where you can see the Jubilee
taking shape - click here <u><a
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<p>Brazil is singing: “Towards the centennial of
the Covenant of Love” during all the pilgrimages
to the Shrines… Many Bishops already sing along
as they hear it so often! </p>
<p>Do you know the Cyclists of Our Lady of
Schoenstatt? Some Schoenstatt members from the
Shrine in Aveiro, Portugal, are pedalling
towards 2014 – they want to cover the 2,600 km
that separate their Shrine from the Original
Shrine with bike pilgrimages to Marian Shrines
in Portugal:<br>
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<b>Fr. Andrew Pastore</b><br>
Schoenstatt International Communication Office 2014<br>
Pater-Josef-Kentenich-Str.1<br>
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<b>P. José Maria Garcia</b><br>
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<p><b>Schw. M. Luciane Machens</b><br>
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<p><b>Fr. Amdrew Pastore</b><br>
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