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“She continues to obtain graces for us, and we need grace to do what she last says in Scripture: ‘Do whatever he tells you.’”
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A Congress of the Clergy took place in Manila, Philippines, in July 2004, with four thousand priests and more than one hundred bishops. All participants received an information package containing material on the Lady of All Nations and accompanied by a letter from His Excellency, Gaudencio Rosales, Archbishop of Manila. In it, he challenged everyone to pray the prayer of the Lady of All Nations daily, to spread the image and to ask others to spread the prayer.
The information package contained the booklets 'Origin, Messages, Significance', 'The Daily Miracle', 'The Eucharistic Experiences' as well as prayer cards in different dialects. Download the letter of Archbishop Rosales
May, 2002: H.E. Bruno Gamberini Archbishop of Campinas, Brazil
Shortly afterwards, on June 16, 2004, the bishop entrusted the building of the construction to the Dutch priest Fr. Pedro de Waard. This was after he had spoken about the prayer of the Lady of All Nations at a National Day of Prayer there. Fr. Pedro de Waard has been the parish priest of the new, almost built church of the Lady of All Nations in Atibaia since January 1, 2008.
Parish priest Fr. Paul Fox had been given a large image of the Lady of All Nations by an Indonesian prayer group and took it as a sign. With the help of the parishioners, construction began in October 2008, and the brickwork is as nice as that of St. Anne’s Church.
2004 Fr. John Hedges from Michigan, USA
.… I wrote and told you about the experience I had of learning more about the Lady of All Nations and about what she does for us. I told you that I participate in pastoral care here in Peru, in a youth prison with underage boys. As you may know, these youngsters have many family problems. They come from broken families and the demon uses them to destroy their own lives. We received a picture of the Blessed Virgin and this expresses how Our Mother who wants to help and fight for us, so that we, as lost sheep, return to the fold and see the eyes of Our Saviour.
Sr. Jacinta Dähler is a Baldegg Sister from Switzerland. She has worked in Tanzania for more than 30 years. In the last 9 years she has been working with fiery zeal for the Lady of All Nations. In her writing of March 2007 she reports to us how new life was breathed into the Action of the Lady of All Nations: 50,000 Prayer cards were printed in the new version in Swahili together with 5,000 Action-leaflets, and six fellow workers have prepared themselves for their apostolate of informing the parish communities about the Lady of All Nations on Sundays after Holy Mass. The people experience great joy; some of them want to spread the prayer card themselves and others are interested in the pilgrim image. With the aid of father Vitus Sichalwe of the Pastoral Department of the Tanzanian conference of bishops, the catholic radio station Radio Tumaini has broadcasted two times a 30 minute question-answer program about this topic, and if it catches on well more broadcasts will follow. As from this month Radio Maria has come to Dar es Salaam and some members of the Lady of All Nations team have made themselves available for the section “Problems in the family” and will later probably be able to work for the Lady of All Nations as well. In the near future Sr. Jacinta will be able to speak in three churches, where the English service gathers people from all over the world – including countries such as Uganda and Kenya – who are mostly attending special courses in Dar es Salaam. For this occasion she has now ordered 10,000 English prayer cards.
For some years now the Lady of All Nations has found hearts that are especially open in India. The Our Lady's prayer has already been translated into more than ten local languages there and hundreds-of-thousands of prayer cards have been distributed. This is thanks in part to the efforts of Pieter van der Veen and Chiel van Soelen. These two professional translators from the Netherlands spend a few months each year in India and elsewhere in Asia visiting bishops throughout those countries to help them come to know and love the Lady of All Nations. 2005 in Cambodia, Burma Imprimatur in Khmer! Letter from Cambodia on Friday, January 21, 2005: ...The beauty of it is that there is no other Marian devotion present in Cambodia. ... The Lady has truly planted her feet in a country where she had not come before. ... Download the letter from Pieter and Chiel Another Imprimatur! Letter from Burma/Myanmar on Friday, February 5, 2005: His Excellency Charles Bo SDB, Archbishop of Yangon welcomes the Lady of All Nations: In a short time the prayer is translated. 200,000 prayer cards and 20,000 posters were printed in time to be distributed during the Eucharistic Congress on February 11, where 60,000 participants and all bishops of Burma were expected.
For the second time, friends of the Lady of All Nations in Wellington, New Zealand, united themselves with the pilgrims at the Sixth International Day of Prayer in Amsterdam. As they did the year before, 2003, Tineke Timmermans and Gwen McBride sent an exact description of how the pilgrim image of the Lady of All Nations has gone all across New Zealand. The way in which Tineke and Gwen began this mission is very original and worth imitating. Both of them made small information packets containing the English video ‘The Crowning of the Marian Era’, a poster-sized copy of the image, and some prayer cards. They passed these packets out to those who were interested at a Marian gathering so that the veneration of the Lady of All Nations would be spread in different areas. More and more people felt called to help with spreading the devotion.
It truly is a pleasure to see the radiant faces of those who receive the image. We have developed a way of working which, though simple and humble, is full of love. We bring the image which you sent me and which we had framed to the homes of the persons who are accustomed to go to Mass but cannot attend for reasons of illness or advanced age.
The owners of the home invite their neighbors and on the first day we give them the materials along with the prayer cards… We describe the image, pray the prayer and a decade of the Rosary and then we leave, returning the following week to pick up the image.
During this week the owner of the home continues to gather at a time which is convenient with their neighbors or, if they prefer, they can take the image and go and visit other neighbors. We also leave them the books which you sent so that they can read them during that week.
Even though we tell them that everyone can pray for his own particular intentions, we ask them that the principal intention be for peace in the world which begins by having peace in our hearts.
There are no words to describe the glory that one feels when the doors are opened. Everywhere there is always an altar prepared with flowers or candles, from the humblest to the wealthiest homes, and they anxiously await Our Lady and prepare a privileged place for her. … I am infinitely thankful for the opportunity which has been given me to be able to take part in this mission and I too hope to continue receiving your news. United in Christ, Gisela
In Miami, Florida, after bringing the pilgrim image for visits to homes of family and friends for several years now, one guardian decided that she should bring the image to those who have never heard of or seen the Lady of All Nations before. Since she lives, like so many others in Miami, in a high-rise apartment building, she thought she would contact others in the building, many of whom she had never met before, to see if they too would be interested in having the image in their apartment for a while.
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