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continue our pilgrimage with the same attitude and the same goal
- Letter by Fr. José María García</a><br>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Dear Friends,<br>
Filled with great gratitude for all the life and all the
expectations that have been generated around the jubilee of
our international Family, and at this moment when my
contribution to our common pilgrimage has to change, I want to
turn to you all via our media – our international page and our
Jubilee Newsletter.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">You have received the news that
I have to give up my responsibility as leader of Team 2014 for
health reasons. When I think back on the three years since the
Conference 2014, when our Family experienced a Cenacle
situation, I feel greatly enriched by the fact that at many
places, in communities and individuals, new life has broken
through in the strength of the "grace of 2014", and given a
concrete form to the "steps along our pilgrim way". I thank
all of you from my heart – my closest collaborators as well as
those people somewhere in the world who have decided
generously and enthusiastically to commit themselves to live
the current of life and grace of the covenant of love, which
moves our Family into its second century. There are countless
genuine testimonies of love in the covenant, for which we must
thank. It is a love that makes our faith in the loyalty of the
MTA in the shrine both concrete and effective, as well as our
commitment to the Church and society, which God the Father has
entrusted to us. Thank you, because this strengthened me each
day and gave me the motivation for the work I was able to do
in our original Schoenstatt.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>I thank the Blessed Mother for
her faithfulness to the covenant of love. She relies on us
despite our weaknesses, or even just because, like her, we
experience that we are small in the face of our mission. That
is the seal set on a work of God. Since we know and experience
that we never live at the heights of the mission entrusted to
us, and never will, we accept each day anew and consecrate to
her what we have, what we are able to do, what we do, and what
remains to be done. She is the one who brings about great
things through her covenant partners. She doesn't want any
other covenant partners than us. She counts on us as people
and as a Family, just as we are, who join her in singing
humbly: "My spirit rejoices in God, my Saviour, for he has
looked upon the lowliness ... of his Schoenstatt. ... The
Almighty has done great things for me."</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>If there is one thing that has
made a profound impression on me in the time of grace of
Conference 2014 and the triennium of preparation for the
jubilee, it is the fact that we have a mission. We don't need
to justify ourselves or hide our mission when we offer it to
the Church and the people of our times – precisely in this
attitude of the Magnificat.</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>I thank our Father and Founder,
because love for him has awakened so much life in his
children, who thus pass on his priestly love for the Church
and world, and because his mission and his educational wisdom
become credible and effective in the selfless commitment and
missionary activity of his children.</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>In the covenant with many, and
through the contribution of many, the Blessed Mother has
brought about great things in our Family in this time of the
triennium. She works, she tests and gives a covenant culture.
For the rest of our pilgrimage we have a secure and strong
foundation. 2014 continues. In the strength of the currents of
life in our international Family I invite you to shape the
spirituality of the covenant of love with every step on our
pilgrim way, in the way in which the Lord counts on us.</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>I am now continuing my
pilgrimage in a different way, but with the same attitude and
with the same goal. In this spirit and in deep union with you
all, you can count on my contribution, my prayers and my
priestly blessing.</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>God willing, we will meet again
in October 2014 in Schoenstatt and Rome.</b></p>
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<p><span style="color: #888888;"><em><img style="vertical-align:
bottom;" src="cid:part2.05000603.02000700@schoenstatt.org"
alt="" height="58" width="240"></em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #888888;"><em>Fr. José María García </em></span></p>
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(also for comments and prayer&pilgrimage commitment)<br>
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Dear brothers and sisters,</div>
<div>I am very sorry about what is happening. Evidently the devil
is at play, but the Blessed Mother is always triumphant. Even so,
we should not remain idle, rather we must contribute our little
grain of sand. I do not think it is necessary to speak of Father
José María and all that he signifies, on the personal level and in
our concrete mission for the web page. His resignation cannot
immobilize us. The image of the apostles after the death of Jesus
comes to mind; they were completely demoralized, downhearted,
disconcerted. And what does the Gospel tell us? Mary was with
them, presiding at their prayer. <br>
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For this reason, I propose that we freely form a "circle of his
allies", as of now, around Father José María offering to pray one
rosary, one decade, or at least 3 Hail Marys. We can
never surpass the Blessed Mother's generosity, and let us think
that with each Hail Mary, we are "pulling on the Blessed Mother's
mantle". Let us pull until She tires of us and She heals Father
José María!!! Obviously, you can invite everyone who wants to
join us, the more the better.</div>
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Schoenstatt is a child of war. Let us not be terrified, let us
fight. </div>
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United in the struggle, hope, and with the certainty that the MTA
will be victorious,</div>
<div>Monina Crivelli<br>
schoenstatt.org<br>
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