HUNGARY, Sr. Gertrud-Maria Erhard. "Tired and restless, we were sitting together as a couple in our Home-Shrine with the visit of the Father Eye Symbol," relates Istvan Endredy, a member of the diocesan council of the Schoenstatt Movement in Budapest. "After our couples' group meeting, we felt 'renewed.' Unusually, the next day I did not have to work and it made it possible for us to have anew, after a long time, a good married dialog. Perhaps we owe it to the visit of the Father Eye Symbol….."

mkf. "The Mass for Chile was very pretty, I followed it on the Internet at dawn. The snow that was falling outside was impressive!" wrote Cassio Leal, who was connected to the Original Shrine from São Paulo, Brazil at three o'clock in the morning; and it truly was impressive. Not only because of the snow that fell all night returning winter to Schoenstatt. What was impressive was the number of brave souls who in spite of the snow filled the Shrine for a Holy Mass to mark the week since the Chilean earthquake occurred at exactly the same time. There was a poster on the altar that is also on the altar rails of all the Chilean Shrines with an inscription that summarizes the feelings and the deeds of the entire Schoenstatt Family during the last week: In Covenant with Chile.

Fr. José Luis Correa. "Priests today" is the title which the priests of the Focolare and Schoenstatt Movements along with the collaboration of ICCRS (International Catholic Charismatic Renewal) and other Church organizations is inviting priests, seminarians, and those interested to a conference for the closing of the Year for Priests, which will be held in Rome on June 9, 2010, from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in the Paul VI Hall.

CHILE. "In these times of pain for the death of loved ones, times of insecurity and material losses for so many of our brothers and sisters," Fr. Mariano Irureta on behalf of the Schoenstatt Family National Council of Chile and Fr. Eduardo Aguirre, Director of the Movement, issued a message asking for prayer and solidarity with the victims as well as asking for mutual help in viewing the catastrophe from the standpoint of Divine Providence. We publish here the entire message.

ITALY, Lito and Rosita Musolino. On Saturday, March 6, 2010, the community of Belmonte bid farewell to Bishop Rafael Biernaski at the Matri Ecclesiae Shrine. He was named Auxiliary Bishop to his home diocesis, Curitiba, Brazil. Bishop Biernaski had accompanied the community in Belmonte since the blessing of the Shrine at the Schoenstatt International Center in Rome. The episcopal ordination will take place on April 15th in Curitiba.

Michael and Margaret Fenelon. Heaven has become a reality! This is the gift Father Kentenich has given to us through this life that is ours, our Schoenstatt life. 45 years ago Heaven once again touched the earth in a very real way. On February 23, 1964 our parents, Raymond and Eleanor Yank, invited Father to their home asking that the Blessed Mother might be drawn down into their home shrine to make it a place of grace. The reality of her presence there as Mother and Educator over the many years has proven to be true in all aspects of life, as father and mother and all the seven children, spouses, and eventual 31 grandchildren would be given the grace to strive to grow in childlikeness before God. The growth is never ending, and continues on.

Francisco Grondona, Diego Asili, mkf. What is Schoenstatt's gift to the Church for 2014? "We are the gift, as a Schoenstatt Movement renewed in the Covenant of Love", is Father José María García's answer. A year after Conference 2014, Diego Asili and Francisco Grondona interviewed him on the contribution of Schoenstatt to Church and World in the context of the centenary of the Covenant of Love. This third and final part of the interview (first part here - second part here) revolves on Schoenstat's message to the church and the renewal in the Covenant of Love on October 18, 2014, as expresión of Schoenstatt's renewal.

Francisco Grondona/Diego Asili/mkf. In the second part of the interview wiht Father José Maria Garcia on behalf of the anniversary of Conference 2014, realized in the PressOffice, the conversation resolves around the task of Team 2014 commissioned in December 2009, the importance of the authentic life growing from the local Schoenstatt families as subject of all the celebrations, and how Schoenstatt will prepare for to celebrate, together, as a family, the birthday of the Covenant of Love. This is the second part of the interview; the first one can be found here, the third one will follow son. The entire interview is also available as mp3.