Lenten Family Day

1. On April 2, 2006, about 175 people attended the Lenten Family Day at St. Agnes Church in St. Paul. Deb Bauer gave a powerful testimony of her husband’s heroic battle with cancer until his death a few years ago. Dan Bauer had led Schoenstatt boys’ groups at his home for several years and is mentioned in Father Jonathan Niehaus’s book, Omne Regnum. He died surrounded by his family in front of their home shrine, Ora Pro Nobis Deum. Father Randal Kasel (soon to be stationed at St. Agnes Church) gave a talk on another suffering soul who died of cancer only last year: Jennifer Goossens. Jennifer was a loving wife and mother of five daughters. She and her husband were part of the delegation who first introduced Schoenstatt into the Archdiocese. Following the testimonies, we viewed a PowerPoint presentation on suffering, showing various photos of the lives of these two “Schoenstatt heroes”. Afterwards we prayed the Stations of the Cross and had benediction of the Blessed Sacrament with Father Robert Altier and renewed our covenant of love with our MTA. We finished the day with a pot luck dinner. The day was richly blessed by the One on the Cross.

The home shrine: where heaven touches earth

The Schoenstatt Family of Minnesota has reason to celebrate! Five new home shrines have been blessed this year so far: Mother of the Prince of Peace; Nazareth; Mary, Mother of Divine Grace; Resurrection; and Heroic Confidence. The river of grace from the shrine is growing...