By Sr Rebecca Sampang
On Tuesday, March 25, the joyful Marian Feast of the Annunciation, the Schoenstatt Shrine at Mt Richon was full as around 45 people came to witness another young adult ‘exchange her heart’ with the Blessed Mother in Schoenstatt’s Jubilee Year.
Adeline Bock Tuang Wern chose this feast to make her Covenant of Love with the Mother Thrice Admirable.
Before the ceremony, Fr Kenneth Asaba, parish priest of St Brigid’s, Midland was able to hear Adeline’s confession.
He then officiated in the ceremony in which Adeline received a blessed medal with the image of the Mother Thrice Admirable; a candle to symbolise her Baptismal covenant and a small Pilgrim Mother Shrine to take home with her. Adeline then knelt to pray her consecration prayer out loud.
“Of that moment,: Adeline said “I felt a sense of joy. I recalled my past life, which flashed before my mind and felt happy to have inwardly grown from then until now. And our Blessed Mother has been carrying me through.”
Adeline came forward and placed pieces of paper into the jar at the altar as a symbol of all the prayers and sacrifices she had made in preparation for her Covenant of Love.
These were her personal gifts to the Blessed Mother. Following this she signed the Covenant Book.
Adeline’s friends, members of the Schoenstatt Movement, the young women who made their preparation with Adeline and fellow parishioners from St Emily’s, Canning Vale, all came to celebrate with her after the ceremony.
Recalling the event a few days later, Adeline said: “I am still living that moment of my Covenant of Love. And I have been telling people about it.
“It felt so right, in my heart, to have made the decision to seal the Covenant of Love with the Blessed Mother.
“I am so excited to begin my life’s journey again, anew and with a greater purpose in life.”
The next Novena Night is on Friday, 7.30pm, May 7 with the theme: The Covenant of Love in the Third Milestone 1949. Everyone is welcome to join.