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Fall 2011 Inside Our Lady of Kibeho Mission to Paraguay The New Roman Missal Companions of the Cross Calendar $10 each Available through the office. ...................................................... WHAT’S INSIDE Credits The Urgent Appeal of the Mother of the Word .............. 3 Publisher The Companions of the Cross is a quarterly publication The Companions of the Cross designed to encourage spiritual growth and to share Fr. Jake Randall, Champion of the Holy Spirit .............. 6 about God’s movement within a new community of Catholic priests, and candidates for the priesthood. Editors-in-Chief Fr. Scott McCaig, Moderator The Companions’ ministries are made possible by the The Call to Prayer......................................................... 7 prayerful generosity of its supporters, to whom we are Fr. Rick Jaworski, Vice-Moderator most grateful. 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NAME DATE SIGNATURE I would like a free subscription to the Companions quarterly newsletter Please pray for the following special intention: & Please complete this form, place in postage-paid envelope provided and mail to: Companions of the Cross, 199 Bayswater Ave., Ottawa, ON K1Y 2G5. In the U.S., please mail to: Companions of the Cross, 6725 Reed Road, Houston, TX 77087-6830. Your support of our community is very much appreciated! F EATURE by Fr. Scott McCaig, CC The Urgent Appeal of the Mother of the Word n November 28th, 1981, at 12:35 would like your friends to have faith, be- the apparitions as worthy of belief. To my in the afternoon something remark- cause they do not believe strongly enough.” knowledge, the visions in Kibeho are the O able happened in the tiny village By March 2nd 1982, two other students latest Marian apparitions to receive official of Kibeho in the central African country from the school - Nathalie Mukamazim- recognition by the Church. of Rwanda. The Blessed Virgin Mary ap- paka and Marie Claire Mukangango (who peared to a high school student named was initially a great skeptic and opponent Other children in Kibeho had also claimed Alphonsine Mumureke at a very humble of the first two visionaries) were also hav- apparitions of Jesus and Mary, but the bish- Catholic boarding school. ing apparitions of Mary. Signs and wonders op’s theological commission determined abounded, and Our Lady brought messag- that the essential message of the appari- While serving in the school dining room es from heaven that would have momen- tions was given to the first three visionar- Alphonsine heard a voice calling to her: tous consequences for Rwanda and the ies. Therefore, the approval extended only “My daughter.” When she turned to the whole world! to the apparitions of Alphonsine, Nathalie, voice she was enveloped in the vision of a and Marie-Claire. Investigations into the woman she describes this way: “She had a On June 29th, 2001 the local Bishop, Au- other visionaries may be taken up some seamless white dress and also a white veil gustin Misago of Ginkongoro, presented time in the future. on her head. Her hands were clasped to- his declaration on the authenticity of the gether on her breast, and her fingers point- apparitions. A few days later he announced Many people who have heard of these ap- ed to the sky... I could not determine the his declaration publically saying, “Yes, the paritions are aware that Our Lady warned colour of her skin, but she was of incompa- Virgin Mary did appear in Kibeho on Nov. of great dangers to the people of Rwanda. rable beauty.” Alphonsine asked her, “Who 28, 1981,” and then over “the course of Many have heard that Our Lady described are you?” and the woman replied: “I am the the following six months.” On July 2nd of with startling accuracy the events of the Mother of the Word … I have come to calm the same year, the Holy See officially re- ethnic genocide that engulfed that country you because I have heard your prayers. I leased this declaration, thereby approving some 13 years later. But what many people C OMPANIONS OF THE C ROSS F ALL 2 0 1 1 ...............................................................................................................................3 ... ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... fering, otherwise unavoidable in this life on earth, is an obliged path to reach heavenly glory. The Virgin said to her seers, notably to Nathalie on May 15th, 1982: “No one gets to heaven without suffering.” Or “Mary’s child doesn’t separate with the cross” But suffering is also a means of expiating the sin of the world and to participate in the suffer- ings of Jesus and Mary for the salvation of the world. The seers have been in- vited to live this message in a concrete way, to accept suffering with faith and joy, to mortify themselves, and to re- nounce pleasures for the conversion of the world. Thus, Kibeho reminds us of the place of the cross in the life of the Christian and of the Church. 6. Pray unceasingly and without hy- pocrisy: Human beings don’t pray, and even among those who do pray, many don’t pray properly. The Virgin asks us (through the seers) to pray a lot for the world, to teach others to pray, and to pray in the place of those do not know is that Our Lady also made love nor peace.” “If you don’t repent who don’t pray. The Virgin asks us to an urgent appeal to the whole world! She and don’t convert your hearts, you will put more goodwill into praying and to brought messages of maternal love and all fall into the abyss.” pray without hypocrisy. warning that speak directly to each of us in our own countries and our own lives. It 3. The Virgin’s deep sadness: The seers 7. Devotion to Mary: notably concret- is these messages that we would do well to were really surprised to see her weep- ized by a regular and sincere recitation consider closely. ing on August 15th, 1982 (the appari- of the rosary. tion wherein she predicted the geno- The diocese of Ginkongoro, where the ap- cide and showed the visionaries what 8. The rosary of the sorrows of the paritions occurred, has summarized the es- it would look like). The Mother of the Virgin Mary: The Seer Marie Claire sential message in ten points. With a few Word is strongly afflicted because of Mukangango received revelations on added explanatory notes, a few grammati- the incredulity and the impenitence of this topic. The Virgin likes this rosary cal corrections, and a bit of necessary edit- human beings. She complains about a great deal. Known in the past, it had ing - this is the list of the essential elements our bad behaviour characterized by fallen into oblivion. Our Lady of Kibe- of the message of the Mother of the Word dissolution of morality, dissensions, ho wants it to be put in honour and at Kibeho: complaisance in evil and continual spread in the Church. But this “rosary disobedience to the commandments of sorrows” doesn’t replace the regular 1. An urgent call to repentance and to of God. Holy Rosary. the conversion of hearts: “Repent, repent, repent!” “Convert your heart 4.

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