Dear Founder Generation Youth!
May 7, 2010
Many heartfelt greetings to each of you from our Confidentia Shrine! I hope you are enjoying each day of May dedicated to our Mother and Queen
Do you realize that we will soon be on our way to Milwaukee? I want to update you on some things about the National Convention. The different branches are preparing a spiritual gift for Father Kentenich’s 100Th Anniversary of priesthood. The mother’s branch is offering hours of adoration, the couples are striving to re-new their covenant with our father and founder. And we?? Hey, let’s hurry up and start preparing our spiritual gift.
We first need to brain storm and come up with some ideas and then choose the one which is more fitting for the occasion and which inspires us to strive. I have here a couple of suggestions:
1. to pray a morning prayer everyday
2. to pray 100 times (each one of us) the prayer for Father’s canonization
3. What about 100 answered prayers from all of us? This is a real challenge, but could be an excellent gift for our father and founder. Each girl can take care to get 15 answered prayers made explicitly to Fr. Kentenich. The prayers can be collected from different people; you can invite the other girls from the group to participate. What is an answered prayer? It is a petition asking Fr. Kentenich for his intercession. The petition has to be written down. I can send you the format sheet to collect the petitions answered, in case you decide to strive to conquer this gift. It can be: asking him to help you with a test; a sick person can ask for Fr. Kentenich’s intercession for a recovery; another petition can be asking his help with the sale of a house, or as simple as to ask him to help you find something you lost. This gift would confirm of Fr. Kentenich’s continuous new-presence and care for his Schoenstatt children and at the same time give witness to his saintly life and priesthood. We could collect all of them in a box shaped like the Father-eye symbol. It would represent our gift to the Church: our saintly father and founder.
You can continue brainstorming and decide: what is the gift we want to offer? And let me know ASAP what you would like. I suggest you choose one from among you to be in charge to contact me after your meeting and inform me.
I will have T-shirts of our Youth ideal to wear for the National Convention! I am so excited!!!! We could also prepare a little booklet with prayers and songs.
Here is also a prayer we will start praying TODAY- for a blessed and fruitful pilgrimage and National Convention. We will pray it everyday.
Dear Mother Thrice Admirable Queen and Victress of Schoenstatt, my dear Founder Generation Queen! Please prepare my heart for a deep encounter with our father and founder and with you in the Exile places. I know that during the 14 years F. Kentenich spent in exile he stood with you under the cross. During these years our father and founder suffered betrayals, misunderstandings, trials, separation and condemnation. However it also revealed God’s power through the direct intervention of the Blessed Mother and proved our founder’s confidence and loyalty to the mission entrusted to him by God.
Mother, let me experience a grace-filled pilgrimage. Help me thank our father and founder worthily through my striving to become like you. Help me be a blessing for our Schoenstatt youth realm- a new Founder Generation Hero and make the Covenant of Love my life!
Bless all members of the Schoenstatt youth whom we will represent, our families and friends, (here you can make a pause and add your special intention for this pilgrimage) and the whole Schoenstatt family in our country. Amen
United in the Covenant of Love
Yours truly,
Sr.Mara
