Monday Morning Rosary Group
Fr. Kentenich’s life during WWII
By John Debner
The Monday Morning Rosary Group is still reading “A Father to Many: The Life and Work of Father Kentenich” by Fr. Estaban Uriburu. There is much to learn about Fr. Kentenich's life during WWII.
Monday, January 27 of this year was the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and International Holocaust Remembrance Day. As our book recounts, there were 2,720 Catholic priests who passed through or died in the Dachau concentration camp where Fr. Kentenich spent a period of time. As providence would have it, our book readings and historical observance coincided.
Immediately after the end of the war, Fr. Kentenich wasted no time in spreading Schoenstatt devotion internationally. At age 60, he traveled to South America to the first Schoenstatt daughter shrine. The shrine was established in Uruguay in 1935 in a Swiss settlement called Colonia Suiza by the Sisters of Mary who had brought plans with them for the construction of a replica chapel.
The rosary group will be praying the Sorrowful Mysteries throughout Lent.
We invite you to join the Monday Morning Rosary Group for Mass, Holy Rosary, discussion, prayer and fellowship each Monday morning. We gather for 8:30 am Mass at Our Lady of Guadalupe-Helotes and then meet at Cor Unum in Patre Shrine at Mount Schoenstatt to pray the Schoenstatt Rosary at 9:30am. Afterward, everyone gathers in Kentenich Hall to share a light breakfast and engage in fellowship and a discussion led by John Debner.