22 November 2021 · 2021-11 newsletter
Family, be what you are: Domestic Church
Dear Schoenstatt Family Members,
May Our Blessed Mother send you many blessings and graces from her shrine on this covenant day – 18th November.
During the month of November we remember all those who have died. In particular we remember the members of our own family and close friends and we give thanks for the example they left us and all they did for us during their time here on earth. We also remember the members of our Australian Schoenstatt Family who have died, particularly those who have died during these past twelve months.
On the occasion of the Silver Jubilee of Ordination of Father Kentenich (8th July 1935, but celebrated on 11th August 1935), he said he wanted to use the celebration to thank “all Schoenstatt children, the dead, the living and generations to come.”
“I thank those who had worked and given their lives for Schoenstatt”, Father Kentenich said. “Our deceased are not dead, they are with us today. The work that has been created here is just as much the work of those who co-operated with me. I am inconceivable without you. My whole work cannot be explained without your most personal and profound co-operation. This applies in the first place to our dead……. We want to be faithful to our deceased….. I know what this loyalty to our dead means to our generation. The Family has brought forth great people. We want to remain true to them. Faithfulness to them is faithfulness to our MTA, to our shrine, to our ideal.”
Here in Australia we remember those Sisters, Fathers, members from all States and from all branches- the Families, Mothers, Women, Men, Young Men, Young Women, Girls and members of the Pilgrim Mother Apostolate who have witnessed to Schoenstatt through their loyalty to their Covenant of Love.
We pray for the repose of their souls. We can best repay them for their contribution to Schoenstatt by remaining loyal to our MTA, to our father and founder and to our Schoenstatt Family. We do this by striving to live our Australian mission:
“One Heart in the Father for the Family of God”
United in our Covenant of Love,
Shirley Hall
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