18 June 2025 · 2025-06 newsletter
United in the Covenant – Pilgrims of Hope
Dear Schoenstatt Family and Friends,
Welcome to our Covenant Day – the 18th of June. Last Sunday, our Covenant Sunday, we celebrated the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. This is a celebration that can be a mystery to many, and we may need to pray for the Wisdom to gradually deepen our understanding of the Trinity – Father, Son and Holy Spirit, three persons in one God – and give thanks and praise for this deep mystery.
On Pentecost Sunday (May 27, 1945), Father Kentenich spoke about this mystery and how we may come to a fervent love for the Trinity through Mary.
He said:
“What is the goal, the ultimate and final goal of our education? It is not love for Mary. Love for Mary is only a partial goal, a means to the end, but a means to which we must adhere always and completely. You know how it is with our hearts.
I can say a million times, “I love you.” However, by merely saying in a superficial way “I love you,” the whole wealth will not be transmitted to future generations.
Please come to understand why I am so afraid that we might forget the Blessed Mother…….. But the final goal is the mystery of Redemption and the mystery of the Trinity. (…)
As members of Schoenstatt, we are devoted to the Most Holy Trinity, the Final and Ultimate, the most Universal there is. We are devoted to the mysteries of Redemption.
In order to safely and permanently reach this goal, we allow no one to surpass us in our devotion to Mary.
We go to the Blessed Mother with greatest simplicity and fervour, not to remain with her, but to ascend through her completely to our Lord and to the Triune God. (…)
Seeing this great goal could make us tremble. Hence, the Holy Spirit has to come and continue and complete the miracle of the Holy Night. Did He do that? Today on the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity he showed us how great the ideal is. (…)
Servus Mariae nunquam peribit (a servant of Mary will never perish). As long as we belong to the Blessed Mother, you may rest assured, we will definitely grow in a fervent love for our Lord and for the Trinity. (…)
The educators may only say that they have fulfilled their task if those entrusted to them have been drawn into the entire mystery of Redemption and the Trinity.
The danger is great that we proceed too quickly. A [good] educator will say: Easy does it. Slowly but surely.
People accuse us of being one-sided, of having only the Blessed Mother. If we only were one-sided!
But it has to be an organic one-sidedness; that is to say, from the Blessed Mother we not only draw lines to our own lives, but also to the life of our Lord, to the Heavenly Father, and to the Holy Spirit.
J. Kentenich
Conference for Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary May 27, 1945
(From: “In Covenant with the Blessed Trinity”, Pp126-127)
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