This simple, yet profound and challenging statement solidified the name for our Home Shrine in our hearts. I guess you can say we are in the “business” of helping one another integrate truth into our lives. It has been no small challenge to face the truth of our sinfulness and allow Mary to transform us and our relationships. In our world truth has been distorted and confused by the father of lies.
As we seek to live out Schoenstatt’s ideal of being new personalities and families for a new world, we take the name of our Shrine to heart as our family mission. It is not enough to speak truth, to be right about an issue. We must be willing to go deeper into relationship with others through prayer, edifying words, as well as corporal and spiritual acts of mercy. It begins with self-education and flows out “like ripples in the water” as Fr. Kentenich has said.
This year’s motto Lead from the Shrine with Trust in Divine Providence and Charity to All reminds us to look to our Home Shrine first. Turn to God and Our Blessed Mother first before every decision or action. What does she tell us? What is the mission that has been entrusted to us? Begin there.
Jill and Patrick Mach
Schoenstatt Family League, North Texas
