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VOL. 21, NO 1    Published Monthly     January 5, 2008

 

Current Monthly Message of December 25, 2007

THE 25TH DAY OF EACH MONTH, THE BLESSED VIRGIN GIVES A MESSAGE TO THE VISIONARY MARIJA, THAT IS TO BE GIVEN TO THE WORLD.

 

"Dear children! With great joy I bring you the King of Peace for Him to bless you with His blessing. Adore Him and give time to the Creator for whom your heart yearns. Do not forget that you are passers-by on this earth and that things can give you small joys, while through my Son, eternal life is given to you. That is why I am with you, to lead you towards what your heart yearns for. Thank you for having responded to my call."

 

 

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January 1 is the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God. The beautiful picture above, called “ Blue Madonna”  was painted by Irena Jakus. Irena’s apostolate is called Holy Art - Jeweled Masterpieces for God's Glory. For more information on Irena's work, contact us.                                                                                                                     

 

 

Medjugorje

 

   I like to go back in my mind to the human circumstances of the men, women, and children who were invited by Mary to share in Her mission of bringing the world to Christ. With Catherine Laboure, with Juan Diego, with Bernadette at Lourdes, with the children of Fatima and the young people at Medjugorje, it is hard to find a common denominator.

   Except that they were ordinary people, not especially talented. And they were challenged by the people who received any account of a beautiful woman, who came to them and asked for their cooperation in some way to arouse people to the realization that God is active in the world and that Mary wants us to share in Her desire for the salvation of all souls.

   St. Paul says that God has chosen the little, and the weak, and the foolish – to confound the wise.

   In regard to believing and responding to those messages, it is the little, the unsophisticated, the simple, who are the ones who come alive.

   Please, God, we are part of them. They are the bearers of peace.

 

 

Ivan’s Schedule

 

Ivan's schedule as of this writing. If you want to check updates to this schedule, go to www.medjugorje.org  :

 

Jan. 15  - Peter Damian Church, 109 S. Crest Ave., Bartlett, IL 60103, Contact: Colleen 630-289-6401

 

Jan. 16 -  St. Patrick Parish, 406 Walnut Street, Yorkville, IL 60560,Contact: Anita 630-552-3448 or 630-552-7117

 

Jan. 18 - St. Peter Church, 1891 Kaneville Road, Geneva, IL 60134, Contact:  Mary Ann O'Reilly, oreillyma@comcast.net

 

Jan. 19 - St. Edwards Church, 3004 Eleventh St., Rockford, IL 61109, Rev. Fr. Michael Black

 

Jan. 20 - St. Sharbel Maronite Catholic Church, 2920 W. Scenic Dr., Peoria, IL 61615, Contact:  Renee Maroun, reneemaroun@yahoo.com

 

Jan. 21 - Queen of Martyrs Church, 10233 S. Central Park Ave., Evergreen Park, IL. 60805, Fr. David Simonetti, 708 423-8110 ,  frsimonetti@queenofmartyrschurch.com

 

Jan. 22nd - Holy Family Church, 2515 Palatine Rd., Inverness, IL 60067, Contact: Marie Fallon - 847-304-4846, bobf@sunscopeusa.com

 

 February 19-26 Ivan will be in Australia. As of this writing they are the only dates posted.

 

 

 

 

Mirjana

 

Message to Mirjana, December 2, 2007

   Our Lady was very sad and Her eyes filled with tears through the whole time. 

   "Dear Children, Today while I am looking at your hearts, my heart is filled with pain and shudder.  My children, stop for a moment and look into your hearts. Is my Son, your God, truly in the first place?  Are His commandments truly the measure of your life?  I am warning you again: without faith there is no God’s nearness and no God’s Word which is the light of salvation and the light of common sense." 

     Mirjana added: I asked Our Lady painfully not to leave us and not to take Her hands away from us.  Our Lady painfully smiled at my request and left. This time She did not finish Her message with the words "Thank you."

 

“If only you could see just once the tears that run down Our Lady's face when She speaks of the non-believers, I'm sure you'd pray with all your heart. Mary says that this is time for deciding, thus, we who say we believe in God have a great responsibility when we know that our prayers and sacrifices dry the tears from Our Lady's face.” ~ Mirjana

 

 

 

On Prayer

  

 

   In January we start a new year. And we do so with the Solemnity of The Mother of God. Many years ago the new year began on the Feast of the Annunciation which, in England, was called Lady Day. Many people make New Year’s resolutions. This year perhaps you would make a Marian one: to pray the Holy Rosary each day; or if you do so already, to pray more than one; to join a Marian group; to place another image of Our Lady in your home; to tell someone who does not know about the Mother of God about Her and how kind and loving She is. Or think of your own way. Each year begins with a day in honor of Our Blessed Mother. So, in a way, each year, is a “little Marian Year.”


 You can contact Brother Craig at monkadorer@verizon.net

 

 

 

 

Jakov

Photo credit: Information Center, Mir Medjugorje

 

Pray and Fast

 

The following is part of a talk given by the visionary Jakov Colo on Saturday 22 May, 2004, to pilgrims gathered in the yellow hall in Medjugorje.

 

   Our Lady says: “It is enough that you just open your heart. I will do the rest.” This is what happened to me. It is important that you consecrate yourself to Our Lady and say your ‘Fiat,’ your ‘Yes.’ From that day on my life has been changed.

   At the beginning of the apparitions Our Lady gave us Her messages. She invited us to pray for conversion and peace, with prayers, fasting and the Holy Mass. Many people say that the messages are more or less the same, or ask why has She been giving so many messages, why have the apparitions gone on for such a long time. There is always the same question: why?  But there is something else we should ask or say: Thank you, Lord. Thank you for this great gift.

   We ask why because we are not able to understand how great the grace is that we are given here, why Our Lady has been coming. She is here because of us, because She loves us so much, because She wants to bring us all to Jesus.   A priest who visited Medjugorje once said: Medjugorje is Jesus Christ, and Our Lady’s messages are directions on how to get close to Jesus.

   For the one who does not live the messages of Our Lady, the messages may seem the same or similar, and almost a repetition of what has been said already. But for everyone who has accepted and lives the messages of Our Lady, then each new message is renewed strength for life; each new message is a message for life.

   Our Lady invited us to pray, to pray the Holy Rosary every day. We can see how important this is. It is so important that even the Holy Father has given us a Fourth Mystery of the Rosary! It is important because Our Lady has been inviting us for many years to pray the Rosary.

   Our prayer should become prayer with the heart, to feel great joy and peace while praying. Our prayer should turn into joy. There is no one who can pray well if he is forced to pray. We have to feel a desire in our heart to start praying. Prayer should become our nourishment. But prayer is another great gift. It is a response to all our questions. Our Lady says, “Pray and you will get all response through prayer.”

   Our Lady invited us to pray in our families as well. She has said that we should put God in the first place and find time for God. If God reigns in our families then our family could become a ‘holy family.’ We should pray with our own children and be good examples to them so that they may understand who God and His Blessed Mother is for us, who they can come to when they have difficulties, who will be always there to help them. Parents have a great responsibility. Fr Slavko used to say if we give the faith to our children from the first days of their life, from their early childhood, even if one day they go the wrong way, they will come back because of the little seeds we have planted in their heart. That is why it is important to put God in the first place in our families. If God is among us, then we will have peace. We shall have love in our families and this is what our children need.

   Our Lady invites us to fast, to fast on bread and water on Wednesdays and Fridays. (Jakov then asked the pilgrims if any of them fasted on bread and water the previous day – Friday).

   I think it is important to start living the messages of Our Lady while you are here. We have to learn here how to live Her messages. How are you going to bring something back home with you if you have not learned while you are here?

   Why is it important to fast? Because Our Lady keeps repeating that fasting is important to us. Through prayer and fasting you can reach everything. You can even stop wars. And that’s why fasting is important. But when we fast we should fast out of love and not everyone should know that you are fasting. I think you are all very humble, because none of you wanted to raise your hands when I asked if anyone fasted yesterday!

                                                                                                                                The Medjugorje Message, UK


 

 

Jakov’s Christmas Message

 

At the last daily apparition to Jakov Colo on September 12th, 1998, Our Lady told him that henceforth he would have one apparition a year, every December 25th, on Christmas Day. This is also how it was this year. The apparition began at 2:29 pm and lasted 6 minutes.

Our Lady gave the following message:
"Dear children! Today, in a special way I call you to become open to God and for each of your hearts today to become a place of Jesus' birth. Little children, through all this time that God permits me to be with you, I desire to lead you to the joy of your life. Little children, the only true joy of your life is God. Therefore, dear children, do not seek joy in things of this earth but open your hearts and accept God. Little children, everything passes, only God remains in your heart. Thank you for having responded to my call."

 

 

 

 

Jeff with his angel shirt

 

Medjugorje Mustard Seed, Help the Message Grow

By Jeff Pettit

 

   Before I married my wife Becky, who is Catholic, I was raised as a Methodist. After several years of receiving Communion in a Catholic church, I was told that I was not allowed to take Communion because I was not Catholic!  More out of frustration than anything else at the time, I joined the Church. I was so busy with my life and was so marginal at both being a Methodist and a Catholic that I could barely tell the difference. My life was all about working in a dog-eat-dog high-tech company for 50+ hours a week and was full of stress, and anxiety. Then, after twenty five years of living in a pressure cooker, the lid flew off.

   I was mountain biking in the woods in eastern Oregon when I had a life changing accident. I was traveling downhill fast when my tires hit a hole and I flew over the handlebars and landed on my head. I had broken my C1 (the one Christopher Reeves broke), C3 and C4 vertebra in my neck  and my T4, T5 and T6 vertebra in my back, most of my ribs on my left side were crushed, my sternum was broken, and I broke three of my teeth when a stick went into my mouth

   My friend Brian called 911 and we waited for them to find us. I laid there for two hours in excruciating pain, praying the Our Father with Brian and asking God to please get me out of this alive.  After many of the rescuers and ER doctors commented that I must have had a guardian angel with me, my wife Becky noticed later, when going through the clothes they had cut off me, that I had a T-shirt with a big angel on the back! Little did I know where that angel would take me.

   After eight months of living in a neck and back brace, John, a parishioner friend of mine, asked me if I would like to play guitar for his music ministry group. Even though I had played music in a rock band in high school, I felt awkward because I was not familiar with the style of music, or the actual parts of the Mass. Carol, our music director, had heard that I recorded music as a hobby, and asked me to record a Christmas CD of the parish’s music ministry in just two months.  All of a sudden, many talented parishioners wanted to record Christian songs that they had written, and encouraged me to do the same.  After we released our first Christmas music CD, I began to write my first Christian music.

   Several friends I knew had been diagnosed with cancer. One of them, Ken, was diagnosed with terminal cancer.  Having lost my mother at the age of five to cancer, I began to think about how awful that must be to know your life is going to end in a very short time. I began to write a song titled “Mustard Seed” that was about the power of prayer and how not to worry about your future. The chorus of the song was from Mathew 6: 24-34.

   A few months later, Becky’s aunt, Sister Ina Marie, had decided to go to Medjugorje and she asked Jim, my father in-law, if he wanted to go. Becky and I were very concerned that these two elderly people were going to go to Bosnia, and so we watched a video to see what this was all about.  In the movie, the Blessed Mother had told the children to begin their conversions by reading the scripture Mathew 6:24-34. My mouth fell open and I stood in amazement about not only what was going on over there, but the direct connection to my song that I had just written.  I felt this was my direct call to come see what the Blessed Mother was doing in Bosnia. My wife and I quickly signed up with her father and aunt through a Medjugorje pilgrimage organization in Portland Oregon called Center of Peace West.

   Before we knew it, we were standing in Medjugorje on a warm June night looking at a sign hung in front of the church saying “25th anniversary.”  We could feel the Spirit in the air, beautiful music coming from the church, thousands of people praying. The incredible sound of the people singing in Mass was like nothing I had ever heard back home, but at the same time I was apprehensive because after just a short time of playing Catholic music, I was about to lead the music for a Mass at St. James parish in Medjugorje!

   Our first experience of Medjugorje is beyond this article, but it will suffice for now to say we had more guardian angel and spiritual events. We spent many nights with thousands of people in perfect harmony in adoration of the Eucharist. Time flew and not wanting to leave, we sadly left for home, but we knew we had been greatly affected by this little town on the edge of Heaven. We spent the rest of the summer reading every Medjugorje book we could get our hands on and painting the messages of the five stones on rocks from Apparition Hill. We started to pray the Rosary daily and I began to discover saints, plenary indulgences, miracles of the Eucharist, etc.

   That fall a singer friend of mine, Patti, was diagnosed with terminal cancer. I began to sing “Mustard Seed” to her during prayer groups. After only three months of chemotherapy, prayer sessions and the song “Mustard Seed,” her cancer had shrunk to an operable size and she is in good spirits and cancer free today. Ken, the original terminal cancer patient, is also still alive. His cancers shrunk to the point that he could be operated on. Although he has to have chemotherapy treatments after his operations, his spirits are high in testimony to faith the size of a tiny seed.

   Several months later, I was practicing music for a youth Mass that Sunday evening while looking at a picture of the Blessed Mother. I was playing around with an old Bert Bacharach song, “What the World Needs Now is Love Sweet Love,” when the Blessed Mother’s messages started to fall into a song.  Every word in this song was from Our Lady’s messages. Before the Mass that night I had written the music and Our Lady had written the lyrics to “Surrender to God’s Love.”  I sang it for meditation at Mass that very same night. The song has grown to be one of my favorites. It was sung at a Mass with the statue of Fatima when the statue was visiting Portland, Oregon. I did an interview with MIR radio in Medjugorje about the song on my pilgrimage to Medjugorje last May, and they are playing it on their radio station now. I have sung it to pilgrims on Apparition Hill and they have told me that Mary was smiling.

   As an ex-Protestant I was very taken by the fact that Mary’s messages were for the whole world. This was not a story about the Blessed Mother, or even Catholics, but it was a message for the entire world to surrender yourself and discover the love of God. I started to craft my movie footage of the experience as soon as I got home from my first visit. I was struggling with how to get this urgent message to non-Catholics.  When Mary says God loves all souls, She means all souls: Non-believers, all Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and all believers. I wanted my movie to not be just a documentary but to focus on the importance of Her message calling us to Christ.

   During this time my wife had a glorious dream that she was in our church but without its choir loft and she still heard beautiful music like nothing she had heard before. She was joyous but confused. Then a young woman with long hair said they are thanking you! She was then looking down at me painting a scene of Bethlehem on the wall. She asked God what all of this meant and suddenly the doors to the church swung open and the music flowed out of the church like a big cloud into the world.

   So even now, though I just lost my job of 28 years, I feel like God’s Providence is in control and Jesus has wrapped a warm blanket around my soul!

Editor’s note: Jeff is from Forest Grove, OR. You can visit his website www.MustardSeedrecording.com, where you can download your own copy of this music and see a 10 minute snippet of the video. Proceeds from the sale of the CD’s and DVD’s will be used to duplicate and distribute the media of Our Lady’s messages. I have copies of both and they are wonderful. In my heart I feel the song “Mustard Seed” should be spread everywhere to be a comfort and to help people internalize the message of MT 6:24-34. I think it was Plato who said that if you want to get your message spread in the best possible way, put it to music. Jeff has done that beautifully.

 

Jeff in St. James

 

 

 Prayer Cloth Testimonies

   Adriana Morello, from Western Australia, wrote to us recently with the following testimony: “I have wonderful news to tell. I gave the Legion of Mary at my parish about 50 prayer cloths with the story and prayer that goes with it. One of the Legion members took a prayer cloth skeptically. On a Tuesday, her nephew fell gravely ill with no notice of ill health prior to this. On the following Thursday, doctors found diabetes which he never knew he had. He had to have 6 drips and blood transfusions all in a matter of 24 hours from loss of so much blood, and he was going into a coma. The family was informed and the skeptic asked for the family’s permission to use the prayer cloth on her nephew. They said okay. She laid the cloth over her nephew and said the prayer. By Sunday her nephew was sitting up in a stable condition and able to tell his story. He said for the first 2 days he could remember nothing but when he woke up Sunday, just before he did, he saw 2 bright lights. He is well now, nothing wrong with him, and he was discharged and sent home. Doctors are baffled!” 

   Darin Hanson from Illinois wrote:On Labor Day week-end, my dad had a heart attack. For all intents and purposes, he was dead; he was here only by machines in the hospital.  When I got my next issue of “The Spirit of Medjugorje “in the mail, I sat down to read it and when reading about the prayer cloth I had a calling saying " get one."  Well, I called June Klins and explained the issue at hand, and June had it in the mail before the mail man got out of bed that day! Up until this point Dad hadn't made one lick of improvement, not a one! The doctors said at a few points that it would be best to let him go. My sister prayed with the prayer cloth for about a week and a half for everyone but especially for Pops. She told me about how she sleeps with the prayer cloth and prays with it daily, all day long at times.  The next Saturday, which was just over two months from when my dad had the heart attack, I got a call from his wife, and she said that Dad came right out of the coma and asked for Burger King! “

Editor’s note:  New readers can go to Prayer Cloth Library on this website to read the information on the story behind these prayer cloths and testimonies.

 

 

 

 

St. Augustine Christmas ornament

 

 

Prayer of St. Augustine

Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit, that my thoughts may all be holy.

Act in me, O Holy Spirit, that my work, too, may be holy.

Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, that I love but what is holy.

Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, to defend all that is holy.

Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, that I always may be holy.

 

 

 

 

Saint for the Year

By June Klins

    For the last few years we have been randomly choosing the name of a saint to be our “holy protector” for the year. St. Faustina’s community used to do this every year on New Year’s Day. This can be a fun and educational thing to do with your family, friends, prayer group or parish. Almost always there is a connection between the saint and the person or organization who randomly picked it. Sometimes you might not see it at first, but throughout the year, if you read about your saint you will usually discover it.

   Although any list of saints can be used, we usually use the list of saints provided by Children of Medjugorje at www.childrenofmedjugorje.com. Above the list it says, “You can also pick extra papers for the persons you carry in your heart but who are not present physically. The tradition goes that it is the saint who chooses you, not the other way around. The saint wishes to spend a year closer to you, to talk to you, to help you… It is up to us then to learn more about the life, the writings of the saint. As we pray with the saint everyday, he or she will help us from the Heavens, in all the little aspects of our lives. He or she is also praying for us.”

   This year St. Augustine picked “The Spirit of Medjugorje!”  I was excited because this is the same saint who had picked me in 2006. They say our saints stay with us after the year is over, so St. Augustine has double duty with me!  I am thrilled because St. Augustine was a great writer, so I know he will help this newsletter.

   When I was putting my Christmas decorations away a few weeks after I randomly picked St. Augustine, I realized I had a Christmas ornament of St. Augustine I had bought in the Cathedral when we went to St. Augustine, FL one year on vacation. I guess he has been with me for a very long time! Incidentally, St. Augustine, FL ,played an important part in my Medjugorje journey. You can read about that in Volume II of The Best of “The Spirit of Medjugorje.”

   Along with each saint in the Children of Medjugorje list is a prayer mission. The prayer mission is often significant too. Our prayer mission said, “Pray for peace in all hearts.”  Wow!  Isn’t that what the main message of Medjugorje is all about?! 

   Thank you, St. Augustine, for choosing us. We are looking forward to praying and working with you this year! 

 

 

 

 

My Saint for 2007

By Geri Galle

   The saint who picked me is St. Raphael. I've had several experiences with him through the year. The most recent, was in September when I went to pick my mother up at the hospital ER. She had injured her knee. When I arrived she was well and in the process of being discharged, but I suddenly felt sick. The nurse took my blood pressure and found it dangerously low (63/4?). Subsequently, I was admitted. It was really quite comical as they helped my mother off the stretcher and helped me on. I was wheeled to the critical care section of the ER and my mother followed me in a wheelchair as my daughter pushed her along. As all this was going on, I began to wonder if this was my time, was I being called home? I was quite calm as I realized I was ready if it was God's will. However, once I was hooked up to all the monitors, a male nurse came in, took my hand, and said “Hi, my name is Raphael and I'm going to take care of you." At that moment, I laughed out loud, knowing that it was not my time and that all would be well. It was but a reminder, to keep my focus on God and not let myself be sucked into things of the world. Needless to say, I had every test imaginable, from brain scan to every cardiac test available and nothing could be found wrong. I had the most compete check-up of my life! It turned out my nurse, Raphael, was named after the saint, since he was born on his feast day! Imagine.

Editor’s note: Geri is from Piscataway, New Jersey.

 

 

 

Fasting Analogy

 

   One evening last week during our family prayer we read from the Gospel of Luke, Chapter 4, where it tells us that Jesus went into the desert where He fasted and prayed for forty days and nights. Among other things, this sparked questions from our four children about why we need to fast. They range in age from 7 - 13, so I was looking for a simple analogy to try to explain it to them. Thanks be to the Holy Spirit for coming through, because I did not know how I would explain it to them!  In front of me was a half full cup of coffee.  I showed it to them and asked them to look in it. I told them to imagine that we are the coffee cup and that God wants to fill us with pure clean water.  "As much as the cup can hold, that's how much water God wants to pour in," I told them. And I asked them, "What if I were to pour in that much water right now, what would happen?"  "It would spill...It would overflow," came the replies. "Yes, and what about the water inside the cup, would it be clear and pure?" I asked.  "No, coffee-colored," they replied. And they understood that through fasting we empty ourselves so that God can fill us.

Editor’s note: Mike is from Spotswood, New Jersey.

 

 

 

 

St. Therese statue in the yellow building in Medjugorje

 

The First Step to Sanctity

By Fr. Albert Joseph Mary Shamon

 

   Our first step to sanctity is realizing that nothing in life is worth so much as our becoming saints. Peguy once wrote that there is only one tragedy in life – the tragedy of not becoming a saint.

   Often people have little desire to become saints, because saints have gotten such poor press.  Either they are presented as untouchable or are caricatured as persons who go about longfaced, with eyes upturned toward Heaven, hands folded, bodies skinny as toothpicks; in other words, a pretty gloomy lot, unnatural, abnormal, always worrying about sin, always thinking about doing penance; and when they are pictured on holy cards, you’ll generally find a skull and crossbones at their feet.

   Actually, real saints aren’t at all like that. A saint is the most human person in the world. The glory of God, said St. Irenaeus, is man fully human. And saints are the glory of God.

   St. Francis De Sales used to say that a sad saint is a sorry saint. For saints are great lovers of God, and lovers of God are joyful! …

   The very first step to sanctity is desire. When Theodosia asked her brother St. Thomas, “What must I do to become a saint?” the great genius from Rocca Sicca zeroed in, as always, to the heart of the matter and shot back a terse two-word answer: “Desire it!”

   People get only what they go after. They go after only what they desire. Desire consequently is the mother of action.

   If Caesar did not desire to rule the Roman Empire, he would never have crossed the Rubicon. If Cortez did not desire to conquer Mexico, he would never have burned his boats behind him. No desire – no action; no action – no nothing.

   Dale Carnegie posited as the first requisite to becoming a public speaker a strong and persistent desire. He wrote that “If your desire is so strong that you go after your subject with the persistence and energy of a bulldog after a cat, nothing underneath the Milky Way will defeat you.”

   The same is true of sanctity. If we don’t become saints, it will be nobody’s fault but our own…

   Editor’s note: The above was excerpted from Fr. Shamon’s excellent little book Three Steps to Sanctity

 

 

 

 

 

 

“A Spiritual Banquet”

 

   We still have many copies of Volume II of The Best of “The Spirit of Medjugorje.”  If you are looking for a way to spend the Christmas money Santa left in your stocking, consider a donation to our book project. (See p. 8). If you know of an organization or a library that would like a free book, please let us know.  Dawn Curazzato, author of  Memoirs of a Miracle wrote: "Medjugorje has been called 'The Edge of Heaven,' 'Mary's School' and 'The Confessional of the World'. It has also been called 'The Continuation of Fatima.' Author June Klins has prepared a Spiritual Banquet, giving us the flavor of Medjugorje through a mixture of information about Medjugorje, the Visionaries, Testimonies and Messages from the Blessed Mother. Our Lady calls us to a better way of life through prayer, penance, confession, fasting and peace. This book captures the very essence of Medjugorje and its importance to the world. Highly recommended.

 

 

HELP WANTED -  We are in need of help with the mailing, especially in the winter months when some of our regular helpers are unable to travel.  No experience necessary. Qualifications: 1) Must live in the Erie area. 2) Desire to help Our Lady spread the messages. There is no salary but the retirement benefits are “out of this world!”  Our Lady never forgets you if you help Her. Contact June at 898-2143 if you can help.

 

A big thanks to Ruth Bonanti, Ruth Burick, Joanne McIntire, Louise Lotze, Vilma Smith, and Joan, Val and Reine Wieszczyk for help with the December mailing. Thank you to Diana Stillwell, Bernard Gallagher and Carolanne Kilichowski for their photos in this issue.

 


 

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