[Kd1871-covenant-solidarity] Happy Easter 2016

[Maria Fischer]

Dear friends of schoenstatt.org, collaborators, readers ...

Happy Easter to each of you, with the Easter greeting of the Holy Father:
"Jesus Christ is risen! Love has defeated hatred, life has conquered 
death, light has banished darkness!" today,
and of our Father Kentenich at Easter 64 years ago:
"My dear friends, the sadness of Good Friday is over and today, 
everywhere, Easter bells resound again.
What do they announce? What do they want to sing to our souls? What we 
heard in the liturgy: "Truly the Lord has risen, alleluia."


May the joy in the Resurrection of our Lord, our Risen Lord, make us 
remove all stones from the graves of our thinking, our solidarity acting 
and our joy in the mission.
Betweenhis prayer "O Cross of Christ" 
<http://www.schoenstatt.org/en/francis/message/2016/03/o-cross-of-christ-symbol-of-divine-love-and-of-human-injustice/>and 
the messages of the Easter Vigil and today our Pope Francis shows us the 
place of the missionary disciple, of the solidarity ally facing the 
cross. The place is the place of Mary. At the foot of the Cross of 
Christ suffering today in the homeless, refugees, prisoners, the sick, 
the abandoned children, disappointed, sleeping and angry Christians and 
Schoenstatters,of those who do not find comfort, guidance, forgiveness 
and motivation to go ahead.

The Pope cannot get all the homeless off the streets of Rome. But he 
distributed sleeping bags and Easter candy and does not leave alone 
Christ in his Cross.
We cannot give a home to all families of Paraguay and the world;but we 
can build a house for and maybe a 100 more. 
<http://www.schoenstatt.org/en/100-houses-of-solidarity/>More: we can 
become friends of these poor families. Living in covenant solidarity 
with them. In my home shrine, I have a flower made of gum, the gift of 
my friend Luz in one of the houses of solidarity, one of the most 
precious gifts I have received (there are some more but one cannot share 
all stories of covenant solidarity).

We cannot read and we less we can translate all articles of 
schoenstatt.org. But today a young African read an old article on 
schoenstatt.org and shared:

I am very glad if I remember that I had been a receiver of Mariya Arafasha foundation.Thank you for those whose founded this.I got every thing that helped me to continue my secondary studies since 2008,now I am about to finish my UNIVERSITY STUDIES.Thank you very much.

And we got that one article translated that shared of the beginning of 
Schoenstatt in a city in Venezuela with the Pilgrim Mother. And today, 
this Easter, we are helping to start Schoenstatt in a city at Western 
Holland where a family read this article and asks a Pilgrim Mother to 
start Schoenstatt ...

That is my place as a disciple. In my visit to that one prisoner who I 
do not leave alone. In my suitcase donated to a refugee. In my 
scholarship for a child. In my prayer and my tears for the stranded 
migrants in Idomeni. In my interest in them and their painmade mine, 
made prayer for them, made capital of grace for them, made intercession 
in the Mass, made a few minutes of my precious time reading what Francis 
says about them or what we have in Schoenstatt.org, made message sent 
via Facebook and Whatsapp… Touching the flesh of Christ in them.
This is how we can celebrate Easter. The Cross of Jesus is the Word with 
which God has responded to the evil of the world, Francis says. This is 
how we remove the stone that locks us in.
Happy Easter,
in covenant solidarity with the Risen Lord,
Maria
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