Prayer and Spirituality - 1. The covenant of love of October 18, 1914 leads to a marked covenant spirituality. The inner dynamics of the covenant of love with Mary aim at making the baptismal covenant the fundamental meaning, the fundamental force, the fundamental norm, and the fundamental form of every Christian and Christian community. The covenant of love should grow and develop organically and lead to a covenant of love with the Triune God: With Mary — through Christ — in the Holy Spirit — to the Father 2. In the Schoenstatt Shrine, Mary acts as Mother and Educator. Here in a special way, she bestows the graces of finding a home, of inner transformation, and of apostolic fruitfulness. The attachment to her person leads one into her attitude of childlike surrender to the Father God, of unconditionally following Jesus even to the cross, of openness to the Holy Spirit, of love for all human beings and the willingness to cooperate in the redemption of the world. 3. In the light of practical faith in Divine Providence, the will of the God of the covenant can be discerned in the order of creation and redemption, in the events of the times and of life, and in the voices of souls. The human person as a 3 General Statute of the Apostolic Movement of Schoenstatt Version of January 2017 covenant partner is invited to freely consent to the plans of God in accordance with the law of the open door. 4. Instrument spirituality urges a person to respond to God’s guidance and to act with daring faith: Weak, yet chosen instruments make themselves available for the renewal of the Church and the evangelization of the world. 5. The covenant of love with Mary leads to the ideal of everyday sanctity which, in all situations of daily life, strives for the God-pleasing harmony between an affective attachment to God, people, work, and things. 6. The pedagogy arising from the covenant of love emphasizes the connection between nature and grace, between the First Cause and the secondary causes, between ideas and life. Its goal is the formation of the independent and autonomous personality. Trust and selfless service to life, which are the fundamental forces in a pedagogical dialogue, enable the individual person and the community to establish bonds with persons, places, and ideas. They provide the motivation and ability to work in the apostolate.

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