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2010: Days of Prayer in Thailand, Scotland, Ivory Coast, Switzerland and on
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It did not, however, just end with a nice Holy Mass and a joyful trip, because, as Fr. Beemster desired, a framed picture of the Lady of All Nations returned with them to Volendam.
“Every month,” Fr. Beemster told us, “we draw lots in the catechism class to choose which child will be allowed to take in the pilgrim image for the coming month. There is always a great shout for joy by the lucky one that is chosen. I then bring the pilgrim image personally to each family and then collect it again. It would not be so easy if I were to bring a picture or a statue of Jesus, but, interestingly, people are always open to Mary even when they don't actively practice their faith. The nice thing is that behind the Lady of All Nations, the cross is visible. That way, Our Lady always comes with Jesus into each house. Before I say good-bye to the family, I make a small sign of the cross on the foreheads of each of the children and take the opportunity to also personally bless the parents.”
Since May 2007 the image of the Lady of All Nations has been present in a small hermitage on the heights of the island of Capri, Italy. see
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.
----- Original Message ----- From: Malinee To: info@de-vrouwe.net Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 05:20 Subject: Greetings from Thailand!
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Thank you for your email and for the attachments. I am so happy to year from you.
As requested, please find attached The Lady of All Nations prayer in new Thai version. The new Thai version was translated and checked by Rev. Father Sirichai, the Pastor of the Holy Redeemer Church...
We have been celebrating the Day of Prayers for our Lady of All Nations in Thailand since 2001. I'll send you some photos we had in last year's celebration. This year we're going to celebrate it on 5 June 2010. We are still thinking which liturgy we going to use. Grateful if you could kindly share to us the readings, Gospel, prayer of the faithful you're going to use in Amsterdam in this year's The Day of Prayers. Any comments/suggestions from you to make this celebration even more better and fruitful, would be much appreciated.
Please pray for Thailand, especially in this time of political unrest.
Thank you and God bless.
In Christ through our Lady of All Nations, Malinee
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. 2010 in India
Scotland, Greenock June 12, 2010
Little Sisters of The Poor Holy Rosary Residence 44 Union Street Greenock pa16 8dp
Ivory Coast, Abidjan August 21, 2010
Day of Prayer in honor of the Mother of All Nations au Sanctuaire Mariale d'Abidjan Contact: Regina MORIE 00225 22 43 64 77 / 00225 05 84 60 52 Lydie BAH 00225 07 57 51 51
Switzerland,Zug October 2, 2010
Germany, Cologne October 23, 2010
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Michael from Kumasi in Ghana sent us a message on the Contact form for testimonies
Ines Klement from Germany recounts her visit to Starkville, Mississippi. 68% of the inhabitants are black, most of them Baptists and very poor. The last time she was there, 8 years ago, the "Brickfire Project" was caring for 1,500 Afro-American children. To this day the project is still going on.
Right at the outset, she went with Helen, the project manager, to the hospital to visit her mother. After a difficult hernia operation the doctors also found a carcinoma. It became infected after the operation and the wound, which was the size of a fist, would not heal. Ines told the patient about the Lady of all Nations and gave her a prayer card which poor Emma took to her heart and said, “She is going to stay very close to me now. Pray with me!” So they prayed the prayer of the Lady of all Nations several times together.
On the way home from the hospital Helen confided the great financial problems to Ines. The state does not support the project; on the contrary, they demanded a huge sum from her. Helen is a Baptist, but she asked for prayer cards for her coworkers so that they could pray together for the children’s welfare organisation and her mother. Two days later, Ines was asked to go with Helen to the hospital since her mother was in very poor condition and wanted to see her again. Helen told her about the first miracle: she received a call from the state excusing themselves for demanding so much money from her. Out of the sum of money they had demanded from her, they wanted to make a contribution for the project because she was taking care of the children from the slums with such great zeal. They were still operating on her mother as she was telling her this. They prayed the prayer together time and again. When the doctor returned he spoke of a miracle because they were just about to give up when they managed to find what was causing the infection. In the days to follow, her mother made a quick recovery and was soon allowed to return home. Helen now wants to hang up the image and the prayer of the Lady of all Nations in her office so that everyone who comes to the “Brickfire Project” will see and know it.
Regina is a 52-year old lady. She is a very prayerful person, and is a member of the Blue Army. In March 2005 she went to the Mary Consolatrix Monastery to be prayed over. She was then suffering from what was said to be ovarian cancer. Regina says that in 1992 she had bleeding and in 1993 she was discovered to have mayoma. Around August 2004 Regina felt her stomach becoming big. By March 2005 her stomach had become really big. In the months following, Regina was feeling weaker. On November 4, 2005, a first Friday, Regina suddenly felt very weak. She was on the second floor of her home. She just became weaker and weaker. A special minister of the Eucharist came to her home and gave her Holy Communion. According to accounts of neighbors, she went unconscious.
The family members were summoned from far and near, friends and neighbors came to Regina’s home. As the morning wore off, she became even weaker. There was no movement from her, no response, apparently no life although there was weak breathing once in a while. According to some, Regina’s body felt cold. Those around her were crying. At a certain point Regina suddenly held out both arms and started to speak in English - something which she does not normally do. All were astounded. She was saying things like “yes Lord, yes Mama Mary”. This was at about 3:00 p.m.
That evening at around 10:00 Regina seemed to have breathed her last. Arrangement and plans were made for her wake. The family chose a casket for her body. Suddenly about 5:00 the next morning Regina woke up, stood up, asked for water, and wanted to walk to the bathroom and have a bath on her own. She was surprised to find herself on the ground floor (she had been carried downstairs the day before). Regina was also surprised to see so many of her relatives and neighbors in her home, and wondered what the commotion was all about.
Regina then told her family and those around her that she had gone to a place where she met an old man holding some keys. There was a big door in front of her through which she wanted to go, but she could not. She tried a couple of times to open it, with no success. The old man told her she had to go back where she came from, but she answered that she did not know how to get back. Whereupon she suddenly regained consciousness and got up.
When asked about the episode of holding out her arms and saying “yes Lord …”, Regina said that she saw the figure of Jesus Divine Mercy standing in front of her and speaking to her. Beside Jesus was the Blessed Mother Mary who also spoke to her. Regina could not quite describe the figure of the Blessed Mother so her husband started showing her pictures of the Blessed Mother: No, it wasn’t Our Lady of Lourdes, nor of Guadalupe. Then a prayer-card fell to the floor from among the stack of holy pictures which they had on top of a table, and Regina cried “there, that’s the one I saw!” It was the picture of Mary, the Lady of All Nations.
From this day on Regina became progressively better and stronger. She has been able to go about normally. Everything seemed well, except that her stomach was still big. As a result of this healing, both Regina and her husband have been inspired to spread the devotion to Jesus Divine Mercy and Mary the Lady of All Nations. By March 2006 we learned from a friend that Regina is doing very well, and that her stomach has now gone back to normal size.
At the start of December, right after a series of disastrous storms, another one, a much larger and stronger one, threatened to again hit the whole country. When this news came out, the appeal for prayer went flying across the country through text messages and everybody really prayed.
The prayer of the Lady of All Nations was frequently aired on national TV while we prayed and braced ourselves for the disaster -- which never came. Even CNN reported that it was a very unusual thing that happened: This powerful typhoon was headed straight for the Philippines, but, quite strangely, it veered, changing direction, and went away!
A newly converted lawyer was accused of being an accomplice in a bank robbery by a former client and put in jail. He passed his time alongside drug dealers and murderers with the Rosary and the Bible, praying for them and everybody who was brought to him in this prison. His sister spread the prayer card among friends and acquaintances and asked them to pray for her brother. After three weeks, this lawyer, who strongly felt the help of Jesus and Mary in this time, was released, after the important clues were found and the case was solved. There were quite a few conversions in his circle of friends and many began to pray and go to confession again. At the time of his conversion a few months before all of this took place, this lawyer had offered himself in expiation for the conversion of the world...
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