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lang="EN-US">Dear friends of schoenstatt.org, collaborators,
readers ...</span></p>
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lang="EN-US"> Happy Easter to each of you, with the Easter
greeting of the Holy Father:<br>
"Jesus Christ is risen! Love has defeated hatred, life has
conquered death, light has banished darkness!" today,<br>
and of our Father Kentenich at Easter 64 years ago:<br>
"My dear friends, the sadness of Good Friday is over and today,
everywhere, Easter bells resound again.<br>
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."</span><span
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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.<br>
Between<a
href="http://www.schoenstatt.org/en/francis/message/2016/03/o-cross-of-christ-symbol-of-divine-love-and-of-human-injustice/">
his prayer "O Cross of Christ" </a>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,<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>of those who do not find
comfort, guidance, forgiveness and motivation to go ahead.</span></p>
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lang="EN-US"> 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.<br>
We cannot give a home to all families of Paraguay and the world;<a
href="http://www.schoenstatt.org/en/100-houses-of-solidarity/">
but we can build a house for and maybe a 100 more. </a>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).</span><span
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lang="EN-US"><o:p>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: </o:p></span><br>
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<pre wrap="">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.</pre>
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lang="EN-US"><o:p>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 ...<br>
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New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US"> 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 pain<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>made 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.<br>
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.<br>
Happy Easter, <br>
in covenant solidarity with the Risen Lord, <br>
Maria</span><br>
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