A Catholic Magazine on the Holy Angels Vo l 9 • issue 4• 2018 £ 2,00 € 2,50 $ 5,00 ISSN 2081-5077

Pope urges faithful pray to St the Archangel Ireland visitation of Pilgrim statue Fr Patrick Peyton Reiki Master's healing rough life with angels Coast to Coast DEAR READERS CONTENTS

We know three angels Page 3 Confession in brief

by name: Michael, Page 4 Reiki Master returns Gabriel and Raphael. to God (part 2) Their names always – testimony refer to God. Page 6 Prayer is the weapon

ichael means ‘Who is like So the names of the angels are Page 10 St Michael as God’ (we know that no- directed towards God. Sometimes a brother – testimony body is like God), Raphael we say with pride “Who is like me? means ‘God heals’ and Gabriel Nobody”. But St Michael always says M Page 11 Blessing with means ‘the strength of God’. God is “Who is like God?” St Michael teach- always in the centre and this is the es us not to feed our ego because an- a sword interview crucial difference between the teach- gels are always in the shadow. But ing of the Roman they are present everywhere, they Page 13 Joyful news from and the view on angels by the New are here, too. We have at least five a grotto in Venezuela Age movement. We say “Focus on hundred angels here. These are our Jesus” whereas they say “Focus on guardian angels, the twin brothers of Page angels”. That is why angels are invis- each one of us. If some of you have a 18 Why do we need ible, they do not want to draw our twin brother or sister, you know what ? attention to themselves. it means. You were closely together in There is a story in the Book of your mother’s womb and now you are Page 19 amazed when an angel appeared connected very much. So our guard- doctors! to St John, “I, John, am the one who ian angels are very close to us. heard and saw these things. When I I assure you of the constant Page The Rosary priest had heard and seen them all, I knelt daily prayers of the priests of the 20 at the feet of the angel who had Congregation of St Michael the shown them to me, to worship him; Archangel for all our readers and Page 24 Rosary Coast to Coast but he said, ‘Do no such thing: I am their families. your fellow-servant and the fellow- God bless you. Page 25 The Joyful mysteries servant of your brothers the proph- prayers ets and those who keep the message Fr Peter Prusakiewicz CSMA of this book. God alone you must Marki, Nr Warsaw, Poland Page 27 The Irish mission worship›” (Rev 22:8-9). www.stmichaelthearchangel.info

Page 28 The Knighthood English translations: Agata Pawłowska, Isabel Brak, Joanna Jabłońska Graphics & Layout: Jacek Kawa booklets and sets TheAngels Website: www.stmichaelthearchangel.info Messengers from a loving God www.stmichaelthearchangel.us • www.kjb.24pl A Catholic Quarterly Magazine on Holy Angels Editorial Office:The Angels Magazine Page 29 Missions and retreats Publisher: The Congregation ul. Piłsudskiego 248/252, 05-261 Marki. Poland of Saint Michael the Archangel – Poland Email: [email protected] The editors reserve the right to modify and edit submitted articles with Page 30 Distribution Editor-In-Chief: Father Peter Prusakiewicz (CSMA) a view to brevity, clarity and style. Deputy Editor and Chief Co-ordinator: Noreen Bavister © 2018 CSMA – All rights reserved Co-ordinators Editorial Staff:Agata Pawłowska, Karol Wojteczek, Imprimatur: General Superior of the Congregation of St Michael the Archangel Magdalena Swierczewska, Magdalena Szczecina, Circulation: 4 600 Karolina Szydłowska ISSN 2081-5077 Printed in Poland Page 32 Chaplet to St Michael

2 | The Angels | Vol 9 | issue 4 | 2018 TEACHING OF THE CHURCH

ConfessionFrom Catechism of the Catholic Church. in brief

1485 ‘On the evening of that day, the future. Conversion touches the past first day of the week, Jesus showed and the future, and is nourished by himself to his apostles. He breathed hope in God’s mercy. on them, and said to them: “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins 1491 The sacrament of Penance is a of any, they are forgiven; if you retain whole, consisting in three actions of the sins of any, they are retained”’ the penitent and the priest's absolu- (Jn 20:19, 22-23). tion. The penitent's acts are repent- ance, confession or disclosure of sins 1486 The forgiveness of sins com- to the priest, and the intention to make mitted after Baptism is conferred reparation and do works of reparation. by a particular sacrament called the sacrament of conversion, confession, 1492 Repentance (also called con- Penance, or Reconciliation. trition) must be inspired by motives

that arise from faith. If repentance stock.chroma.pl www. 1487 The sinner wounds God's hon- arises from love of charity for God, our and love, his own human dig- it is called ‘perfect’ contrition; if it is 1496 The spiritual effects of the sac- nity as a man called to be a son of founded on other motives, it is called rament of Penance are: God, and the spiritual well-being of ‘imperfect’. – reconciliation with God by which the Church, of which each Christian the penitent recovers grace; ought to be a living stone. 1493 One who desires to obtain rec- – reconciliation with the Church; onciliation with God and with the – remission of the eternal punish- 1488 To the eyes of faith no evil Church must confess to a priest all the ment incurred by mortal sins; is graver than sin and nothing has unconfessed grave sins he remembers – remission, at least in part, of tempo- worse consequences for sinners after having carefully examined his ral punishments resulting from sin; themselves, for the Church, and for conscience. The confession of venial – peace and serenity of conscience, the whole world. faults, without being necessary in and spiritual consolation; itself, is nevertheless strongly recom- – an increase of spiritual strength for 1489 To return to communion with mended by the Church. the Christian battle. God after having lost it through sin is a process born of the grace of God 1494 The confessor proposes the 1497 Individual and integral con- who is rich in mercy and solicitous performance of certain acts of ‘satis- fession of grave sins followed by ab- for the salvation of men. One must faction’ or ‘penance’ to be performed solution remains the only ordinary ask for this precious gift for oneself by the penitent in order to repair the means of reconciliation with God and for others. harm caused by sin and to re-establish and with the Church. habits befitting a disciple of Christ. 1490 The movement of return to 1498 Through indulgences the faith- God, called conversion and repent- 1495 Only priests who have received ful can obtain the remission of tem- ance, entails sorrow for and abhor- the faculty of absolving from the au- poral punishment resulting from sin rence of sins committed, and the firm thority of the Church can forgive sins for themselves and also for the souls purpose of sinning no more in the in the name of Christ. in Purgatory.

The Angels | Vol 9 | issue 4 | 2018 | 3 TESTIMONIES Reiki Master returns to God (Part 2) Surrender and accepting Jesus’ invitation to the banquet.

In Part 1 Jim Browne shared that he was born into an alcoholic family. From the age of four his father started to beat him and he was bullied and felt totally worthless. Jim’s family went annually to Knock , they were the days Jim felt that he belonged to some family. As a teenager he got a job at Hughes’s shoe shop in Westport, became the top salesman, married a beautiful girl from Cork and was an alcoholic for over twenty years. Towards the latter years of his marriage he became involved in the New Age and was initiated as a Reiki Master. Our Blessed Mother Mary was never far away and took Jim by the hand and led him back her son, Jesus. „„Jim Browne

n 2nd May I could not believe was like a calf at feeding time, with I replied, “Hold it there, Mrs, I am it. I was down at Shannon her head stuck through the two seats an alcoholic. I drank every day for Airport with people being and she proceeded to tell me about 20 years and you have no idea of what Onice to each other and hugging one more miracles and all that was going I saw spinning, everything that I ever another. I thought, “The last time I to be changed. I was thinking about looked at spun at the end of the night, saw anyone like this was on a New all the weekends and all the therapy so go away with your spinning sun Year’s Eve and we were all drunk and I had and this woman is telling me I and leave me alone.” here are these people sober.” I was not am going to be different next week. I have never seen that woman since. able to be near them or witness that On arrival at our destination I level of love, so I moved over to a cor- reluctantly got on the bus as there ner and a woman came over and said, was no plane returning to Ireland “Are you a first timer?” I respond- that evening so I thought I would My first Medjugorje ed, “I am,” and she said, “I could tell by just go to Medjugorje for a day. This the look of you.” She then proceeded lady pushed me into a window seat experience to tell me about all the miracles and and sat next to me saying how much When I arrived at Medjugorje that I would never be the same again. better I was going to be and I said, “I I wanted to go to the Hill of the She started to straighten my hair as it need to sleep, please.” Apparitions. I had met a guy on the was all over the place, and inside I felt She said, “Can I tell you one more bus and asked him to show me where all over the place. The lady happened miracle?” I said, “OK, one.” She said, Our Lady was appearing that evening to be behind me on the plane and she “I saw the sun spinning.” otherwise it might be difficult because

4 | The Angels | Vol 9 | issue 4 | 2018 I was leaving Medjugorje tomorrow. The guy said, “Let’s pray a Hail Mary now that you are here,” and as I said a Hail Mary I heard the words again, “I want you to meet the mother, that I could never be.” So we said a decade of the Rosary. I came back at tea time to the house where our group was staying and I had this urge on the way back in the taxi to go to Confessions. I was 45 years old and had not been to confession since I was 15 years of age. I met a priest in the doorway and I said, “Father, would you hear my confession after our evening meal tonight as I have to go home tomor- priest or a religious person to do that I hate to think I was able to row as someone has died. I would I would not let them near me. But speak those words, but they are love to stay the week but I can’t.” The that night in that bedroom I knew the words I spoke because that priest replied, “Come up now.” So we when he said to me, “James, all your was the place I was in at that time. did not have the evening meal. I said, sins, even those that you cannot re- In Medjugorje as I walked down to “Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It member, are forgiven.” I know noth- the church I remembered I had not is 30 years since my last confession. ing other than Jesus Christ himself cried for 30 years and recalled the I will start at the end, Father. I had was holding me in His arms that reason why. When I was 16 years of lied. No one has died at home. I hate night. Because the other people and age I had won my third Connaught this place already and I am making counsellors were not able to say the College medal for Gaelic Football. I up a lie to get home.” words, “Your sins are forgiven” and I was as strong as the side of a house, I went back over everything in my knew the priest was telling the truth playing full back. The opposition life as I had done the very same thing and I knew that Jesus Christ was in were not allowed to come in and with the nun in Hope House and two every single priest and I knew the score. I was good at it because I was different sponsors. It is the fifth step power of the Confessional and the angry enough to stop any attack. in the twelve step programme: Admit power of forgiveness for the very As I was eating a meal that even- to God and to myself and to another first time. ing, my Father walked behind me human being the exact nature of my I had not been to Mass for years and hit my head and the fork went wrongs. but I went the next day and recalled through my mouth. I took off my that my sister Eileen booked Mass glasses and threw him around the to be said for my parents the month kitchen like toilet paper. I was just before and I would not go. I told her, about to hit him and I realised what Power of the “You will not see me at that Mass.” had happened. God did this before My sister said, “Are you telling me when He held back my hand. If I had confessional you will not be going to Mass for hit my father that night I would have After three hours in the confes- your mother and father?” I replied, killed him stone dead because there sional the priest stood up in front “Eileen, if they are in heaven they will was 16 years of absolute rage and of me. He lifted me up, holding my not need a Mass, if they are in hell it hate and injustice in that fist. I went hands and he put his arms around is no good to them and if they are in outside the back door and I cried my me. Now, for a man to do that I purgatory 200 years that would sort eyes out and some part of me died would not normally let him. For a out the pair of them.” that night.

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The woman replied, “My two sons are at home in bed, and Keith Kelly is A lesson in Give my son a chance in there at Mass and I heard he went So I brought one guy to to Medjugorje a few weeks ago.” forgiveness Medjugorje in October, then two or Keith then got a job with his father I had just been expelled from three, and then I took Paddy. The working as a stonemason, and he rang boarding school that night for drink- reason I took Paddy was because he me to say that he needed to go back to ing, smoking and fighting. And my believed in nothing and was an al- Jesus and His Mother again. I went to father said to me, “What the hell is coholic and believed in Alcoholics his place of work and Keith gave me wrong with you?” He was unable to Anonymous. But not enough to stay the money for his pilgrimage and then see what I had become and what I sober. But when we came back from he put his hand into his back pocket was living with. He could not see I Medjugorje he said, “Jim, I want to and said, “Jim, this is €700 and every- had become what I had witnessed bring my wife and five children.” thing I have saved. I want you to bring when I was two years of age and four I replied, “I will bring your wife and some guy that needs Medjugorje as or five times a week ever since. I will bring the four kids, but I am not much as I did six months ago.” But here I was going to Mass bringing your 18 year old boy, Keith.” I took Con who was a drug ad- for the first time in ten years, in Paddy said, “Why will you not dict, who was barely hanging on. Medjugorje in 2000. Just before the bring Keith?” Con went to the Blue Cross and ‘Sign of Peace’ the priest said, “Before I answered, “Paddy, people cross came home to the house where we you shake hands and offer peace to the street when your son walks down, were staying and said, “Jim, I am anyone, you need to forgive those peo- when your son comes into town on a going to die but at least now, I know ple you have not forgiven.” I started to Saturday night, your phone call comes where I am going.” The week after we cry, shake and I became so weak and from the police station on Sunday went home to Westport, Con came I was shaking so much and the tears morning for you to come in and bring to my house because he had asked were falling like lumps of rice and all him home. Paddy what will I do with for me to get Fr Benny McKay, our I could see in my imagination was like a guy like this in Medjugorje?” spiritual director. Con had confes- my past was put on a projector. Paddy started to cry saying, “But sion and we had Mass and then he I could see all the sacrifices that Jim, he is my son. What will I do died. Some time later Keith rang Mam and Dad had done for me, with him if you do not give him a me and said, “I want to bring 50 I could see that there were many chance?” youngsters from Westport who are times of joy, many times of love, So I agreed to take Keith, and in trouble.” many times of laughter. I saw my the morning we were leaving Knock Keith brought 50 youngsters for the mother going to a jar putting in Airport for Medjugorje I had to go Youth Festival and 50 more the follow- pennies, so that Christmas and my into the bar three times and take him ing year. Then a year later when Keith birthday would be made for me. I out of it, and this was all before eight was 21, I was invited to his home, and said to Jesus that day, “I do not un- in the morning. At Medjugorje I no- I thought, “What is happening here? derstand, Jesus, why you let all this ticed that Keith was at Confessions It must be a birthday party.” happen, but I am asking you one and I saw him going to Mass each His mother Veronica said, “No, thing, go to Mam and Dad now for morning and went off up the hills on Jim, Keith is joining the priesthood.” me and tell them that I love them his own. We were only back at home From the minute I heard those and thanks for giving them to me.” three weeks when a woman ran out words I have never, ever judged an- I continued, “Jesus, I do not under- of the church after me. other human being. I could hear Our stand it, all I ask you is do not waste She said, “Jim Browne, I never Lady’s words telling me to “Mind my it, whatever this pain is, whatever believed in Medjugorje and I spoke own business, that the conversion you can do with it, whatever it can against it and I spoke against you, was to do with her and her Son.” And be turned into I am prepared to do but today…it is true.” she said, “Do you not think what we it, for you to use it in me.” I asked “What happened today?” did for you, that an 18 or 21-year-old

6 | The Angels | Vol 9 | issue 4 | 2018 attractive girls came to stay at my house where there is nothing but a brick wall between us. I do not worry about what I should have done or what I should have said or was she interested? I have been given that gift to hold onto the Mother of God to fill that emptiness and loneliness that was lurking deep inside me for all those years. From 2004 to 2009 I started to bring two planeloads each year to Medjugorje and today I bring about 200 people each year. I still need- ed a job. On Christmas Eve 2004, Sean Conroy, who has been going to Medjugorje since 1984 and who is a friend of the visionary, Vicka, brought me down to meet her and he told me to bring some crucifixes to have them blessed on Christmas Day. I brought 300 crucifixes. When I came home I did not realise the power of Christmas Day until I gave the first crucifix away to my friend, John, on 7th January 2005, because John was told he could not be a fa- ther and his wife could not have a baby. Ten months later, in October, Matthew James was born. People have come out of inten- www. stock.chroma.pl www. sive care. I received a letter yester- „„ day from the USA about a lady from Boston who flew from California to was out of our reach, Jim? Put them of the girls had become free again, say ‘good bye’ to her sister who was in on the plane and leave the rest to us.” and I was going to make up for all the a coma. She taped one of the blessed lost time in my marriage and since Christmas Day crucifixes to her sis- my marriage. But it never happened. ter’s chest and when she got home Here I am separated now eighteen she received a phone call to say her Love of the Mother years and the last person I was with sister was certain to recover and was was my wife. I did not realise what now in a general ward. Two days later of God was happening to me, and then it she started rehab. This awful emptiness was inside dawned on me that I had fallen in These crucifixes are blessed by me. I started bringing planeloads love with the Mother of God. And Jesus and His mother and they have of people. I went back to get a little if she was the only woman that I given life and brought life. Alcoholics notebook with all my old girlfriends’ needed and that was very impor- have found a way to stop drinking, phone numbers inside, because some tant because hundreds of very young drug addicts have found a way not to

The Angels | Vol 9 | issue 4 | 2018 | 7 TESTIMONIES NEWS FROM AUSTRALIA want to take drugs again, and moth- Th at September I spoke in Sligo ers have a way of not worrying. One and the lady who organized the talk mother told me that she put the cru- asked if I would lead a retreat if she cifi x into her son’s car, and went up brought 50 or 60 people to my prayer to bed and slept for the fi rst time in room in Westport. more than eleven years. I agreed, but was rather confused as to what I would do with them. Th e Wednesday night before the Pope Leo XIII group arrived I sat at the kitchen ta- ble, blessed myself and my pen just Fr Anthony ‘ t o o k o ff ’. prayer I wrote for two hours and then For the past 15 years I have been retired to bed. With all the excite- meets invited all over Ireland giving my ment I was unable to sleep and got testimony and speaking against the up early and wrote for a further two Pope dangers of New Age practices. At the and a half hours. Th e pen fl owed, I beginning of the talks or at my prayer wrote what I didn’t know, not believ- group meetings I explain and pray the ing what was happening. Francis importance of the beautiful prayer (a I looked at the AA program and minor exorcism) that anyone can pray starting to insert biblical references n July, Fr Anthony Casamento to ask Our Lord to drive the lingering in order to break all compulsions. CSMA, was invited by the infl uence of Satan away from a place. For example, ‘Our free will.’ Governor General of Australia Saint Michael, the Archangel, defend Everyone said the retreats were Ito be part of the offi cial Australian us in battle; be our protection against inspiring and I took them to Boston Government delegation on a re- the wickedness and snares of the devil... and also to the Betania II Retreat cent State visit to the . Th is prayer is known as the Prayer to Center in Medway, Massachusetts. It’s During the visit, Fr Anthony was Saint Michael written by His Holiness called “Surrender and accept Jesus’ presented by His Excellency the Pope Leo XIII, on 13th October 1884. invitation to the banquet.” Governor General of Australia A man called Frank Kelly oft en Since then I have been invited (Sir Peter Cosgrove) to the led retreats at Betania II Retreat back to Boston and Michigan three Holy Father, where he inquired Center in Medway, Massachusetts, times, Connecticut twice, Liverpool about Fr Anthony’s ministry as USA. In June 2016 I was invited and Manchester in England and I Vice President of the Australian to Boston, USA to speak for four have led eight retreats in Ireland. Catholic University. Following the nights leading up to the feast day of Many healings occur during the visit with , Fr Anthony St Anthony (as he had interceded retreats, as one priest said, “We were also met with the Secretary of for many miracles in my life). Frank saturated in God’s Word.” State, Cardinal Parolin. Kelly had a near-death experience I’ll fi nish with the words of my and met Jesus. Th e Lord asked Frank spiritual director, Fr Benny Mc Hale. if he would like to go back and do “Th rough his own compelling testi- the work that he was asked to do by mony, unique sense of humour and God the Father. Frank replied, “Yes.” very personal style of communicating Th is man has unbelievable gift s the Gospel, he has led many people and when he prayed over me he said, to the Lord. I have no doubt he will “St Ignatius of Loyola has been teach- continue to do so.” ing you for the past eight years.” I asked “Teaching me what?” He an- Jim Browne swered, “You will soon know.” Westport, Co. Mayo. Ireland

8 | The Angels | Vol 9 | issue 4 | 2018 FROM THE HOLY SEE

Prayer is the weapon Pope urges faithful to end the rosary with the prayer to St Michael the Archangel.

ope Francis has asked all of the Holy Mother of God,” the state- and the abuses committed in the pre- Catholics to pray the rosa- ment added. sent and in the past, and committed ry daily during the month of Pope Francis said that recitation to combating without any hesitation, POctober, asking Mary and St Michael of the rosary would invoke Mary’s so that evil may not prevail.” the Archangel to intercede for the intercession, placing the Church Pope Francis also encouraged protection of the Church in a mo- under her “protective mantle.” He that Catholics end the rosary with ment of “spiritual turbulence.” also encouraged the prayer of Sub the recitation of the prayer to St On 29th September 2018 a state- Tuum Praesidium: “We fl y to Th y Michael the Archangel, composed ment from the Vatican said that Pope protection, O Holy Mother of God. by Pope Leo XIII: “Saint Michael Francis had recently affi rmed that Do not despise our petitions in our Archangel, defend us in battle, be prayer “is the weapon against the necessities, but deliver us always our protection against the wicked- Great Accuser who ‘goes around the from all dangers, O Glorious and ness and snares of the Devil; may world seeking to accuse.’ Only prayer Blessed Virgin.” God rebuke him, we humbly pray; can defeat him.” Th e Holy Father did not specify and do thou, O Prince of the heav- “Th e Russian mystics and the the “spiritual turbulence” to which enly host, by the power of God, cast great saints of all the traditions ad- he referred, but did say that prayer into hell Satan and all the evil spirits vised, in moments of spiritual turbu- could help the Church to become who prowl through the world seek- lence, to shelter beneath the mantle “more aware of the faults, the errors ing the ruin of souls. Amen.”

The Angels | Vol 9 | issue 4 | 2018 | 9 TESTIMONIES St Michael as a brother Over two years ago, I had the good fortune to go on pilgrim- age with the Michaelite Fathers to the grotto of St Michael the Archangel on Mount Gargano. I had earlier visited many other Christian and this was another.

fter entering the grotto, I had - that is: into the best possible hands a feeling - difficult to describe - was enough. I left the altar, my heart – it was a light, or joy, which permeated with peace and calm. It Astretched the bounds of my heart as was like being in an antechamber of well as a deep conviction that I was heaven. standing on holy ground. We stayed On the following day, when we in Gargano for three days. went to make our farewells to St During a night prayer vigil in the Michael the Archangel at the grotto, grotto we were told by one of the someone pointed out the ‘Tau’ sym- Michaelite Sisters, who care for this bol by the entrance, which had been church, that St Michael was observ- carved in the rock by St Francis of ing us closely during these days and Assisi, who felt himself unworthy to of the words that St Michael the was allowing each of the pilgrims to enter the grotto in which St Michael Archangel is an angel of mercy, and individually approach the rock on dwelt. I felt shamed in the light of that – in spite of his majesty – he is which the altar and the statue stood his humility. like a BROTHER to us. and on which was left an imprint of Has my life changed? The words I would like to thank everyone St Michael’s foot and to extend a “Who is like God?” are carved on who has helped me and who contin- hand into the opening to touch the the gravestones of my parents and ues to help me to open my heart to place. Totally focused and in total in-laws. I entered the women’s lay the presence of God in the Blessed silence, by the dimmed light of the order ‘Mi-Ka-El’ in Miejsce Piastowe. Trinity, to the Blessed Virgin Mary grotto, we stood in line and removed We meet there every month for and St Michael the Archangel. I our shoes. The image of Moses ap- days of recollection. I return to my would like to thank the Michaelite proaching the burning bush came responsibilities, both within my Sisters, whose eyes are filled with to mind and with it the words: “You family and in my work as a doctor, joy, despite their very busy days, stand on holy ground.” My heart was with new strength and energy, having and to the Mother General, Sister filled with joy but also with trepida- been “given wings”. Nataneala, for her witness to her tion. All the difficult situations which I have recently had the faith. I thank everyone who brings I wished to bring before God came opportunity to participate in a retreat the person of St Michael the into my mind. Also, the very thought in my home town, connected with the Archangel, and his faith and cour- that St Michael knows all about them pilgrimage of the statue of St Michael age, closer to us as lay people. and can present them to God, that I the Archangel around Poland. I was could entrust this heavy load to him once more made aware of the truth Małgorzata Siwiec, Poland

10 | The Angels | Vol 9 | issue 4 | 2018 THROUGH LIFE WITH ANGELS Blessing with a sword Interview with Sister Aurelia not happen very often. Most pilgrims mother had a dream of St Michael. Opoń CSSMA working in arrive here to pray. He promised to liberate her daugh- the Shrine of St Michael the ter if she took her here and put her Archangel in Monte Sant’Angelo, What do they pray about? hand on the stamped foot of the Gargano, Italy. They usually ask for the grace of archangel. Of course, there were lots liberation for themselves or for their of difficulties to bring that girl into How did you get here to Monte relatives and friends. They seem to Sant’Angelo? know this place is unique because St Fr Wladyslaw Suchy, rector of the Michael is a specialist in casting the shrine, asked us to help him many years demons away. Lots of pilgrims come ago. Unfortunately, we were not able to to ask about the grace of parenthood get this job due to lack of vocations or consent within a family. to our congregation. In 2008 Mother Superior decided to close one of the Many people write testimonies houses in Poland to open one here, after the visit to the Shrine of in Monte Sant’Angelo, in the cradle of St Michael. Do you remember our spirituality. In the beginning three anything particular? sisters, including me, were sent to Italy. Yes. I met a couple who could not have a baby for a long time. A year What are your tasks? after their pilgrimage to the shrine We work at the shrine mainly. We they came back with a child to give serve the pilgrims and collect their thanks to God and St Michael. There intentions and doing the ministry in are a whole lot of cases of votive the sacristy as well. We also run the offerings. Italians have a custom to Pilgrim’s House. Winter is rather a thank St Michael for graces for their quiet period, whereas summer re- children. They bring hearts or mas- quires lots of work. Holy Masses are cots with a child’s name written on celebrated here every hour from 7 it. We store them either in the ar- o’clock in the morning. chive or local museum. I had an amazing meeting with a It is only ten years since you ar- lady who came here for the first time rived here. Have you discovered and described all the details of the something new for yourself? grotto. She said she had a dream: “I Yes. I can say that I rediscovered didn’t even know such a sanctuary the “Who is like God” motto. I existed but I dreamt of St Michael. often witness St Michael’s powerful He looked exactly like this one here. intercession in the liberation of the He said he left his foot stamped on enslaved or possessed who come to the stone. I came here and saw all this shrine. There have been situations like he said.” where the possessed person cannot I remember a young possessed even pass the gate. But such cases do girl, who arrived here because her „„Sr Aurelia Opon CSSMA

The Angels | Vol 9 | issue 4 | 2018 | 11 THROUGH LIFE WITH ANGELS the grotto because a demon mani- be impossible without the shrine fested himself almost at once. The because there are only rocks around. PRAYER OF fight was really long but the mum The area discourages farming or CONSECRATION and her friends just pulled the girl industry. (according to María Esperanza) inside to St Michael. Eventually, St Michael is a supreme figure she was free. for them. They say they do not Such situations always touch me feel worthy to enter the sanctuary deeply in my heart. presbytery at all. There are people PLEA TO who go up to Gargano on foot and Do you have a particular personal get into the shrine on their knees. OUR LORD experience? This tradition stretches back to the The very fact that I am here is early times of local devotion when a a significant grace for me. I have prayer was said on each step leading AND SAVIOUR never thought of leaving my coun- into the cave. try. When I first came to Gargano Jesus, enter into our contempla- I knew not a single word in Italian. How about the procession of 29th tive space as we offer You our life Two sisters and I had a three-month September? as Our Lord and Saviour. course of Italian with the great help Local people say St Michael can- We wholly surrender to You, of priests from the shrine. And then not leave the grotto otherwise it Our Lord and Our God. we started to work. The beginning would collapse. So the replica of the We surrender our health, fam- is always the hardest. St Michael figure is taken on pro- ily, resource, work, skills, friend- cession. However, it has an original ships, time, our successes and Can you see an increase of pil- sword. The moment a bishop blesses failures; we let go of everything. grims and greater interest in them with the sword is very emo- We surrender our understand- the devotion to St Michael the tional and most crucial for them. ing, the decisions You may make Archangel? Rectors of parishes also bless their regarding our lives, our commit- Yes. The number of pilgrims is parishioners with the sword. In the ments and our will. rising. The Michaelite Fathers pro- past, during difficult times such as We surrender all that we are mote the shrine via the internet. They natural disasters, bishops used to and wish to be according to Your organize retreats, the news of which bless the area with the sword of St Holy Will. goes even to other continents. There Michael. All the problems were to We are Yours, all our present, was a man from the U.S. who took a be overcome. That is why the sword past and future. relic stone from the grotto. After com- is so special for the locals. Take our existence, Lord, it is ing back to his homeland he spoke Yours by law. Pardon our weak- about it so enthusiastically that in one How can you encourage others nesses so we may lead a new life. month we had an order which we to visit St Michael in Monte Take us, Lord and enlighten our could not handle as we usually do. We Sant’Angelo? flame of love. also have lots of orders from Mexico Dear readers, I warmly invite Thank you, Lord. Amen. and Latin America. you all to come to the shrine. St Promises: each one should Michael does miracles, great things. write this prayer and carry it as What does the shrine mean for It is worth seeing the annual pro- a formula. It will be the weapon local people? cession; this is a manifestation of St that will awake our sensibilities Monte Sant’Angelo inhabitants Michael’s holiness and power. and a new horizon will show appreciate the shrine a lot. The town itself. developed due to the apparitions. Fr Peter Prusakiewicz CSMA Tourists and pilgrims arrive and was speaking Taken from the locals can live on. It would to Sr Aurelia Opoń CSSMA www.mariaesperanza.org

12 | The Angels | Vol 9 | issue 4 | 2018 NEWS FROM SOUTH AMERICA Joyful news from (Part 1) a grotto in Venezuela There are many indications a pleasant hum of conversation, jokes that Venezuela has given the and laughter, a joyful holiday atmos- world a new saint for the 21st phere. Today, the whole area is bathed century. Padre Pio said of her in sunlight and the hills of the Valles that she would be our conso- del Tuy are clearly visible, with the lation once he himself was no green meadows at the Bethany foot- longer in the world. To some hills, above which towers Mount Sion extent she is already. with the replica of the Last Supper at its summit. The ‘heavenly’ atmosphere makes one want to simply slow down walk slowly. Here, there is no rea- and take time to reflect. son to hurry. Slowly, I traverse the “Stefan, Stefan!” Dulce, the forest path between the pilgrims’ Venezualan lady whom I met only a Iaccommodation and the altar for open few days ago and who has been look- air Mass. Mass has just recently fin- ing after us, calls out to me excitedly ished and there are fewer and fewer from her place on a bench near the people in the square before the altar. altar. She can’t shout any louder so Some have remained for a moment of as not to disturb the people still im- silent prayer. Others have stayed be- mersed in prayer around us. Opening „„Maria Esperanza with her husband hind to chat with old friends. There is her eyes wide, she is trying to draw my attention to something. Unfortunately, I haven’t the foggiest idea what it is that she is trying to show me. “What is it?” I ask in a half whis- per, when I finally manage to get closer, still walking unhurriedly. “Didn’t you see it? It flew just by you, right by your eyes.” “What didn’t I see? Dulce, you must tell me.” “A blue butterfly. A great big butt e r fl y.” “Really?” I take a deep breath. I can’t quite believe that it was THAT VERY but- terfly of which I had heard tell so „„Pieta in Bethany, Venezuela much.

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“Yes, Stefan, it was THAT but- on a boat on its way to the hospital. Many masters of the spiritual terfly. I’ve seen it only once this year Her mother named her María and life are in agreement on one point. and then only at a distance. It then was to have no idea that she had If we consciously and freely allow flew away. It was so near you – at given birth to an extraordinary per- God into our lives and agree to His touching distance.” son, whom God had chosen to fulfil plan, then everything takes on its “You’re joking.” a very particular mission. own momentum. This is true of the “Stefan, I tell you. It was within Her full name was María Holy Spirit. The Spirit, after all, blows touching distance.” Esperanza de Bianchini, a girl who where it will – “you hear its sound, lived in such close communion with but you cannot tell where it comes God that her greatest wish was to be- from or where it is going” (John 3:8). come a nun. She was not yet to know The life of María Esperanza is a good A husband found that the Divine plan for her life was example. When she arrives in Rome to be very different from that of her she meets a man. All the signs and by Heaven itself childhood imaginings. As a young she had received were ful- She was born on Thursday, 22nd girl, she already heard the voice of filled, even the fact that her future November 1928. It was an interest- God and was not indifferent to it. husband wears a sword; a somewhat ing year. Alexander Fleming had She tried her hardest to discern and unusual occurrence in the second only just made the discovery which listen to what God was telling her. half of the twentieth century. It is was to bring the world penicillin. In She also listened to the advice of her soon made clear that Geo – María’s Madrid, Josemaría Escrivá had just spiritual directors. Finally, she knew intended - is a bishop’s bodyguard founded Opus Dei. In Boston, the what she was to do – she was to go to who does in fact wear a symbolic first prototype of a respirator had Rome to find her husband. She was sword during Holy Mass. However, been used for the first time. That not to be a nun. God wanted her to María is after all, only human. She very same year, close to the place attain sainthood as a wife, mother takes fright at the speed with which where the Caroni meets the great and grandmother – as well as beyond these events are occurring and runs Orinoco River, a little girl was born her own family circle. home to Caracas. It is here that her confessor, Fr Emerano Farnholz, hav- ing listened to the whole story (María had learnt of her future husband in a , from, among others, St John Bosco) tells her, under obedience, to return to Rome to her lost love. When they do finally get married, Geo is already well aware that he is to share his life with an extraordinary woman, whom God has endowed with, among others, the gift of proph- ecy. When Geo hears his own life story related to him by his new wife (which she could not have known, as he had not then told her), and in perfect Italian, - even though María’s Italian was then far from perfect- he is made fully aware of this gift. His life was never to be the same again: instead, it became the antechamber „„Women praying by the Grotto of Paradise.

14 | The Angels | Vol 9 | issue 4 | 2018 „„The land chosen by Our Lady

the money is found to purchase the “Stefan, you must realise that they land, to build the church and accom- don’t just come for the asking. There A new mission modation for pilgrims, to construct are some months when pilgrims see The newly-weds returned to the Way of the Cross and the replica them very often and others when Venezuela, which was henceforth to of the Last Supper on Mount Sion. they are simply not there.” be their home. Her beloved Mother This is the place of which María will “And yet you say that one such of God tells María that she is to find say that there she feels a closeness to butterfly today flew right past me… the land consecrated to Her, which God, the like of which she has never I still don’t quite believe it.” will serve the people as an “Ark of felt elsewhere. A new task now awaits “Yes, yes! Definitely!” Dulce says, Redemption”, a land chosen and María Esperanza. Having started a interrupting. “I was there and I saw marked out for this purpose by the family and taken on the role of wife it. You were lost in thought but I was Virgin Mary herself. The Virgin tells and mother, she is now to work to nevertheless under the impression her very clearly that the place is by a spread devotion to Mary in Venezuela, that you saw it.” river close to sugar cane plantations; other countries in South America and “I can’t quite believe that I moreover, that it lies close by a beauti- beyond; a mission she is to continue could have failed to notice such an ful grotto. The last and most signifi- for the rest of her life. occurrence…” cant characteristic of the place is that “You see, Stefan,” Magda now every so often, great blue butterflies butts in, “that’s just how it is. We call are to be seen flying out of the grotto When we don’t seem out to God. We ask where He is be- as a sign of the Virgin Mary’s presence. cause he does not seem to be listen- When María Esperanza goes to to get an answer ing. We search for Him. We feel lost the town of Cua, she is, therefore, im- “Have you really not seen those and abandoned. We complain that mediately able to recognise that this butterflies yet?” I asked some of María nothing is happening and that God was the place Our Blessed Lady had Esperanza’s grandchildren sitting at is not giving us an answer. It gener- referred to, and so, she sets to work. the next table. They are our hosts ally turns out that He is right beside In this work, she has the assistance with whom I and other members of us. I think the same is true of the of her husband and children. The the ‘Who is like God’ editorial team Blessed Virgin Mary. Today she was Blessed Virgin is to become beloved are staying. right beside you at the very moment by the whole of the Bianchini family. “We’ve not seen them yet, this when you were praying. Don’t upset Indeed, it is thanks to the Virgin that year,” Nacho admits, stoically. yourself that you couldn’t perceive

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Her. It was only a sign. What matters this “Ark of Redemption”, shown to Joy is the main characteristic of is Her presence – She was there.” María Esperanza by Our Lady? The the time spent with these people. This was only one of the many visionary discovered it 65km from There is no room for sadness, hope- similar conversations at the sup- the capital of Venezuela. To Bethany lessness or despair. It is as if they per table with the daughters and we take the motorway running from hold some secret inside knowledge grandchildren of María Esperanza, Caracas to Charavelle, where we take and are moving towards a set goal, or else in the mornings, while visit- the turn-off for Cua. Travelling a fur- their steps sure and steadfast and ing Bethany and during our prayer ther 12km, we then come to it on our with smiles on their faces. I feel together. It is indeed impossible left, directly beside the slowly flowing good here. that such conversations should not stream known as ‘Tarma’, where we From Mount Sion we see the take place in a location especially reach our final destination, Finca de whole of Bethany. We can see the chosen by Our Lady. Members of Betania. We have arrived. roof of the chapel used for open- the Bianchini family have inherited The journey itself provided us with air Mass, where, many years ago, a their mother’s and grandmother’s a feast for the eyes. We are surrounded took place. This love of the Rosary. We pray the by hills, then by mountains, which rise was on 8th December 1991. During Rosary several times a day, at the ever higher above us. They remind us the Consecration, Fr Otto Ossa table or in the car. Here, prayer has of the Bieszczady in Poland. The main Aristizábal noticed an abundant a different savour. It doesn’t drag and difference, though, is that instead of flow of blood from the host lying on it is a pleasure. It is something you beech trees on the slopes, we now the paten. Today we can adore this truly want to do with these people; see exotic, tropical vegetation. The bleeding host in Los Teques, near people who have not so much be- blueness of the sky forms the perfect Caracas, where it has been placed lieved as seen with their own eyes. backdrop for a painter painting the in a special monstrance. Here lies They have witnessed miracles and beautiful white clouds. the building site where a hospital what they say is authentic and cred- “Look, Stefan, look!” The ever- to serve the needs of the poor peo- ible. They have certainly much to smiling Maria Coromoto, one of the ple of the surrounding area is to be teach us. six daughters of María Esperanza, established. St Pio had instructed turns to me. “It’s an angel! Can you María Esperanza to build a hospital see it?” modelled on the Casa Sollievo della It’s true. The clouds above us have Sofferenza (House for the Relief of Finca de Betania taken on the form of an angel. Suffering) in San Giovanni Rotondo. Where are all these places actually “It’s incredible,” says her husband. There is also a site on which a cathe- situated? Where is the “New Ship”, “What a day!” dral will be erected, right next to the

„„The church in Bethany

16 | The Angels | Vol 9 | issue 4 | 2018 miraculous grotto from which, every once in a while, there issue blue but- terflies, the grotto in which María Esperanza had the honour of meeting Our Blessed Lady – one of the most important encounters of her life.

Grotto “Come on, get up! We need to be on our way!” said the 47 year-old María Esperanza to her husband and children one February evening in 1976. “But where, Mummy? It’s already after 9 p.m.” said her eldest daughter, in surprise. “Mary is calling us. Come on. We have a mission. We’re going to „„Statue of Our Lady by the Grotto feel that our Good Mother is calling us very clearly. We’ve not a moment the Blessed Virgin had appeared. order to help them ascend tall Mount to lose!” When the Holy Mother eventually Sion… so they can attain salvation.” María Esperanza’s nearest and appeared, she rose to the height of On 22nd August of that year, on dearest were to experience many the trees. I could see that she was the Feast of the Queenship of Mary, such happenings during her life. This beautiful: she had chestnut hair, the second apparition took place. inspired visionary was to rouse the light brown eyes, small lips and a Mary assured the visionary that, household on more than one occa- straight nose. She had a beautiful were people but to take up their daily sion in order to go and pray in a place complexion – it was like silk. She crosses, there would be no more suf- chosen by the Blessed Mother. This was bronzed, beautiful and very fering, tears or death: “All of you will journey in February, 1976, however, young. Her hair reached to her daily sing a never-ending ‘Alleluia, was unique. The entire family prayed shoulders. The Mother of God ex- Alleluia, Alleluia!’ with my Son.” for many long days and nights until it tended her arms and light streamed Over time, María Esperanza happened… On 25th March, precise- from the palms of her hands and all received more apparitions of the ly on the Feast of the Annunciation of around was bathed in extraordinary Blessed Mother. It was no coincidence Our Lady, the Mother of God herself brightness. It felt to me as if Mary is that these occurred on feast days of appeared to María Esperanza. The fu- a beam of light which penetrates my Our Lady: of the Annunciation, the ture stigmatist had made no mistake. soul, shaking every fibre of my heart. , the solemnity of “We were at the grotto, when I Inside, I felt very humble, very the Immaculate Conception, or of suddenly saw a great and beauti- weak and feeble. I was nothing com- Our Lady of Lourdes. During these ful cloud,” she was later to recall pared to the beauty which blinded encounters, Mary gradually revealed in her journals. “My friend said to me. I then heard an interior voice: her purpose. Betania was in the fu- me, ‘María, the farm is on fire! It’s “My little daughter, tell my children ture to be a place of healing, the sal- burning like a candle!’ To which I of all races that I love them. Their vation of mankind, but, above all, a answered, ‘Yes, I know. I can see differences do not matter – to me, all place where people would be recon- the fire.’” The problem was that my children are the same. There is no ciled with God. it was not a fire. The flames were rich or poor, ugly or beautiful, black coming from the place from which or white. I come to gather them all in Stefan Czerniecki, Poland

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Over the last few months, I have enjoyed listening to an audio version of the Bible. I listen to it at times when I can’t pick up and read the Bible; whilst in the Why do we car or when doing housework. It has led me to discover frag- ments to which I had earlier not paid much attention or else had need miracles? entirely misunderstood. but by signs which are part of its very the authenticity of which is confirmed nature”. These characteristics are the by the miracles which God works, to ight-year-old Daniel happened heart and soul of the true Church. verify the fact that we are not false to be with me the last time I “I believe in one Holy, Catholic and prophets, but true witnesses who have was listening. The person on Apostolic Church”. The holy nature ourselves been transformed and sanc- Ethe audio tape was just finishing the of the Church, is expressed in the tified. In St John’s Gospel Jesus tells his very last words of St Mark’s Gospel: Niceno-Constantinopolitan or Nicene disciples, “Truly, truly I say to you, he “…while they, going out, preached Creed in the words: “I believe in one who believes in me will also do the everywhere, the Lord working with holy catholic and apostolic Church”. works that I do; and greater works them and confirming the word by Blessed Fr Bronislaw is at pains to than these will he do, because I go the signs that accompanied it” (Mark stress that Jesus’ main purpose in es- to the Father.” (Jn. 14:12) The glori- 16:20). I asked Daniel: “Do you un- tablishing the Church was to make fied name of Him who sits at the right derstand these words?” us “holy and immaculate”. He states, hand of the Father has even greater “Yes,” he retorted, and summed “It is principally the Holy Spirit who power, which is granted by the Holy it up like this: “They preached and the acts to transform our old nature into Spirit to all that believe. Jesus also as- Lord worked miracles.” The child’s the new and who leads people to holi- sured believers that He would give clear and unambiguous answer as- ness, through his sanctifying grace. In them whatever they ask in His name. tounded me. I was also struck by the order to be a visible characteristic of I have the impression that a ‘false thought that there is no true Gospel the Church, this holiness must make Gospel’ has stolen into the lives of without signs and wonders. They are itself manifest not only in the prac- many Christians. It is the conviction God’s seal of approval confirming the tice of all the Christian virtues and that miracles, and the gifts authenticity and truth of the Gospel. all the teachings of the Gospel to the of the Holy Spirit are only for a few The whole of the Acts of the Apostles greatest extent, but also through the chosen people or that they are ac- speaks of the fact that the glory of God presence of its outward signs, such as tually unnecessary, while, in truth, and the power of the Holy Spirit was prophecy, miracles and other gifts of they are crucial factors confirming so strong in the believers of the Early the Holy Spirit.” the authentic witness of the faithful. Church that even Peter’s shadow as The last sentence of the above quo- If people cannot see the fruits of the he passed had the power to heal and tation from Fr Markiewicz is worth Spirit, i.e. miracles, prophecy and cast out demons (Acts 5:15). Because emphasising: prophecy and miracles Jesus’ answers to our prayers in our people saw miracles take place when and the gifts of the Holy Spirit are own lives, as believers, and, above the Good News was proclaimed they outward signs of the true Church all else, if they do not see our love, accepted Jesus Christ as their Healer, and the holiness of its members. As then we cannot profess to proclaim Lord and Saviour. Christians, we should endeavour that a powerful Gospel and to be part of Fr Bronislaw Markiewicz de- the Church be authentic and recog- the true Church. Do we then deceive scribed the characteristics of the nised as such. The final words of St others as well as ourselves? flock of Christ, which “is recognised Mark’s Gospel also speak of this. We not by signs attributed to it by men, are called to proclaim the Good News, Joanna Krzywonos, Poland

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told the doctor I would have to go home, but she said it was out of the question as I was due in surgery in half an hour. So I was very puz- zled to find myself back in X-ray and then taken back to the ward. Suddenly, a young lady doctor came rushing up saying that I did not need surgery, then left saying she would be back later. My son was visiting at the time and we were both very puzzled. When the doctor did return she told me that the surgeons and doc- tors were seeking an explanation as

By rawpixel on By rawpixel to why it was, that in the first X-ray my foot was a mess, but in the second X-ray, taken shortly after the first, everything was back into place in my foot. This, however, is not the end of my testimony. Miracle amazed The lady doctor gave me a hard look, shook her head and rushed off saying she’d never had such an ex- perience before. I was then taken to the doctors! have my leg plastered and went home with crutches. On my arrival home “Yes, I know what plans I have in mind for you, Yahweh declares, I could see my husband was suffer- plans for peace, not for disaster, to give you future and hope. When ing. We got a doctor immediately, he you call to me and come and pray to me, I shall listen to you. When called an ambulance and my husband you search for me, you will find me” was taken to hospital two hours after Jeremiah 29.11-13 I was discharged. My husband was put on irrigation for two days and then taken to theatre where it was Little did I know that once Padre husband struggled to pick me up and discovered, just in time, that he had Pio came into my life things would I was eventually taken to hospital. I cancer of the bladder. Thanks be to never be the same again. He made had the usual X-ray and was told I God this has not returned. me realise that I was in a wilderness would be admitted because my leg His illness might have been dis- with regard to my faith. Even now, was broken and my foot was mangled covered too late. It has been my after several years, I find it incredible and in a mess. They were unable to experience and the experience of how he came to our aid. put my leg in a cast as my foot needed many that Saint Pio does not always It was whilst taking my son’s dog surgery and a pin inserted. This was work in a straight line or in a way for a walk, that the dog made a sud- on a Saturday. we expect. den leap causing me to catch my foot On Monday my daughter visited BUT HE NEVER DOES in a crack in the ground. I fell and me and said that my husband was ABANDON US. knew I had broken my leg, but most unable to visit as he was unwell and of the agony came from my foot. My was passing blood. I immediately D.E. Gloucester

The Angels | Vol 9 | issue 4 | 2018 | 19 CONTEMPORARY SAINTS The Rosary Priest On 18th December 2017 a Holy Cross priest, Father Patrick Peyton, C.S.C. was declared Venerable by our Holy Father, Pope Francis.

Born: 9th January 1909. Attymass, of people through radio, television, County Mayo. Ireland. and worldwide, preached crusades and Died: 3rd June 1992 Los Angeles, promoted the Rosary. Fr Peyton is the California, United States. founder of the ‘Family Rosary Crusade’. Ordained: 15th June 1941 Fr Peyton was one of Ireland’s most Congreation served: Congreation famous priests and was internationally of the Holy Cross known at the ‘Rosary Priest’. Parents: Patrick Peyton and Mary Gillard Birth of Fr Peyton „„Fr Patrick Peyton C.S.C. he Family Rosary Crusade is a Patrick Peyton was born on 9th worldwide campaign that even- January 1909 in the townland of Education tually became a Roman Catholic Carracastle in the parish of Attymass, Patrick’s education began in Bofield Tmovement founded by Patrick Peyton, County Mayo, Ireland. He was the sixth Mixed National School when he en- an Irish-American priest. This endeav- of nine children of John Peyton and rolled there, aged five, in May 1914. our came to be a personal mission to Mary Gillard. Patrick was baptized on He was first taught by Maria Loftus, a undertake the promotion of the pray- 10th January1909. teacher who made a lasting impression ing of the Rosary by families as a means There were four boys and five girls on him. The other teachers at that time to unite them. in the family and they all lived together were Tadhg O’Leary (Principal) and The inspiration to start the cam- in a simple three-roomed thatched cot- the principal’s wife, Maria Kelly from paign came from Fr Peyton’s patron, tage. His father, John, owned a small Bonniconlon. Patrick had already gone the Blessed Virgin Mary, whom he farm but was in poor health most of the to live with his grandparents, Robert and credits as the one who interceded be- time, so his wife Mary and his children Kitty Gillard in Bonniconlon before he fore God and her son Jesus Christ for did the majority of the farm chores. came to Bofield. In 1917 he left Bofield his recovery from tuberculosis in 1941. John Peyton was a devout Catholic School and went to live with them again, The campaign’s objective is to and he observed an inflexible rule that the reason being the health of his grand- promote the praying of the Rosary by every night the Peyton family would father. As well as being elderly Robert families. Fr Peyton believed that to- gather around the fireside and recite Gillard was now practically blind. While gether as a family, in unison praying the Rosary. This had been the prac- staying in Rathreedane, Patrick enrolled the Rosary, the family is united before tice since John and Mary Gillard of in Bonniconlon National School and Christ and drawn closer to God. Rathreedane, Bonniconlon, were first was taught by Jonah Loftus, brother of The Venerable Father Patrick married in March 1899. Therefore, Maria. Patrick was to later come back to Peyton, also known as The Rosary the Rosary became an integral part of Bofield but it proved to be an unhappy Priest, made the phrase popular “the the Peyton family and it was to mould experience. Shortly before his fifteenth family that prays together stays togeth- and shape them into loyal followers of birthday he got into trouble with the er” and who fostered prayer by millions Christ and His Blessed Mother. Principal, Tadhg O’Leary. The records

20 | The Angels | Vol 9 | issue 4 | 2018 at Currower show that he attended only Obtaining their father’s consent was a with Holy Cross. During this visit he fifty-two days and he was eventually difficult beginning to his journey. His -fa approached Father Pat Dolan, C.S.C. struck off the roll. The reason for his ther agreed that he and his brother, Tom, (Congregation of Holy Cross), and said, absence was that he started to help more could make the trip to America and live “I want to join Holy Cross.” at home on the farm. with their sister on one condition saying: Monsignor Kelly wrote a letter of “Go down on your knees and make me recommendation in which he stated, a promise here before the picture of the “I envy the community or the bishop . From now on there will be that finally gets him.” Priesthood nobody but yourself to advise you and to With great joy, in 1929, Patrick From an early age Patrick wanted decide for you. But your first responsibil- and Tom entered Holy Cross Minor to be a priest. Every Sunday he trudged ity will always be to save your soul, and Seminary at the University of Notre the long journey from his home in the so I want you to promise to be faithful Dame in South Bend, Indiana. In June townland of Carracastle to the church to Our Lord in America”. 1932, at the age of 23, Patrick and his in Attymass where he served Mass as a Greeted by their sister, Nellie, brother, Tom, graduated and began boy. He often remained behind praying Patrick and Tom were mesmerized by the novitiate at Holy Cross. This was until the second Mass, served that Mass “Scranton, the Electric City”. Nellie set an intensive year of spiritual exercises as well, and then trod wearily home to up a meeting with Monsignor Kelly, that included living with and learning Carracastle again. The local parish priest which Patrick declined. For weeks about the Congregation of Holy Cross. at that time, Fr Roger O’Donnell, had a Patrick searched, without success, for They professed their temporary vows great influence on him and it was dur- employment. Monsignor Kelly tracked with Holy Cross in 1933 and started ing this period that Patrick’s vocation him down and offered him a job as a studying for a Bachelor of Arts at the to the priesthood was really nurtured. sexton (janitor) in the cathedral, which University of Notre Dame. Fr O’Donnell’s mortal remains now he accepted. After completing their bachelor de- lie in the church grounds in Attymass. Finally, while working in the cathe- grees (Patrick with Honours) in 1937, However, due to the poor family circum- dral, with the silence, peace, and joy of the Peyton brothers began theological stances Patrick was unable to continue talking to Our Lord and Our Blessed training at Holy Cross College, on the his schooling beyond the few brief spells Mother, Patrick experienced a sense of campus of the Catholic University of spent in local national schools in the area being at home and in a place of hap- America in Washington, D.C. In addi- and this meant his chances of going into piness. Patrick’s dream of becoming a tion to theology and canon law, Patrick the priesthood were rather limited. missionary priest was awakened in a also acquired knowledge that would When he wrote to the Society of new land. benefit him as a missionary. African Missionaries they rejected him However, Patrick’s dream was chal- Patrick lived with seminarians who on the basis of his standard of math- lenged again by his lack of education so were also preparing for the missions at ematics. This was a crushing blow to he enrolled at St Thomas High School. the house called the Bengalese while Patrick, but, as we see later, it wasn’t His brother, Tom, also made the deci- Thomas lived at Holy Cross College, going to deter him from getting in any sion to become a priest and Monsignor as he planned to serve in the United way he could. Kelly helped them both. States. Patrick’s oft-denied dream to be a missionary priest was now seemingly within reach. Patrick’s promise The call to Holy Cross In 1927, at 18 years of age, Patrick In the spring of 1929, the Holy decided that he wanted to sell real es- Cross priests from Notre Dame, A mother’s prayer and tate in the United States. He already Indiana, visited Patrick’s new parish had family members in America: three in Scranton, PA. Their preaching and a Mother’s answer! sisters, three uncles and other relatives presence spurred Patrick to express and In October 1938, Patrick’s health settled in Scranton, Pennsylvania. realize a desire to become a missionary began to deteriorate and in November

The Angels | Vol 9 | issue 4 | 2018 | 21 CONTEMPORARY SAINTS he was diagnosed with advanced tu- berculosis. His condition grew pro- gressively worse. In October 1939, the doctors offer Patrick two options: a risky surgery, with little hope of suc- cess, or simply to pray. Father Cornelius Hagerty, C.S.C. visited and described a passage from St Paul, stating that faith is transmitted from mother to son. “You have the Faith, Pat,” he said, “but you’re not using it. You brought it with you from Ireland. Your mother gave it to you, just as her mother had given it to her.” Patrick’s Auntie Annie shared with Patrick, “Your mother’s con- stant prayer was that your suffer- ings would come upon her, that you would get well and go back to your w or k .” Father Hagerty spoke of Mary, Our Blessed Mother’s intercession: “What she asks for and insists on she obtains. She has never failed anyone who had recourse to her with faith and perseverance.”

“Since you have your faith, why www.en.wikipedia.org don’t you use it?” „„Our Lady of Rosary by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1650 Patrick did what his former men- tor suggested and prayed to Mary, His first assignment was as a chap- Our Blessed Mother, for a cure. On lain to a group of Holy Cross brothers October 31, 1939 he knew in his Ordination who taught at the Vincentian Institute heart that he had been cured. His in Albany, New York. depression, darkness and feeling of to the priesthood Father Peyton dutifully fulfilled loneliness were replaced by lightness, Patrick returned from the brink his commitments as chaplain to the freedom and hope. Patrick saw Our of death and was ordained with his Brothers and it was in this time that Lady in a new light: how human, ap- brother, Tom, and other classmates on a dream of establishing the Family proachable and sensitive she is to our June 15, 1941 at Sacred Heart Church Rosary in the homes of 10 million needs. at the University of Notre Dame. “That people began to take shape. “When I needed her and her power day I gave my heart and soul in love Father Pat began the Family Rosary and her friendship, she didn’t forget to Mary,” he said. Crusade, getting volunteer students that ever since I had been a little child Father Peyton was certain that his and Brothers and Sisters from the and could open my mouth, I had used return to health had come about for Vincentian Institute to assist him in that power to say the Rosary; so when a specific purpose, namely, to foster writing letters to bishops asking their I needed her friendship, she was glad devotion to Mary, but the question help to organize a Rosary campaign to give it to me.” remained of how to achieve this goal. and the word continues to this day.

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Today people from many coun- tries visit the Fr Patrick Peyton CSC, Aims Memorial Centre, Attymass, Ballina, The aims of the modern day mis- County Mayo, Ireland. sion adopted for the Family Rosary un- The Fr Peyton CSC Memorial Centre der the stewardship of the Holy Cross was officially opened and dedicated on Family Ministries include: 10th October 1998. The Centre com- • Under the sponsorship of the memorates the life and apostolic work of Congregation of Holy Cross, Holy Fr Peyton CSC. The Centre is a place of Cross Family Ministries serves Jesus respite, prayer and peace. It is highly re- Christ and His Church throughout spected by pilgrims and is a popular tour- the world by promoting and sup- ist attraction. Its many features include: porting the spiritual well-being of • The spectacular presentation of Fr the family. Peyton’s life story. • Faithfulness to Mary, the Mother of • The photographic exhibition of the God; the Family Rosary and Family prayer crusades. Rosary International encourage • The Heritage Room which includes family prayer, especially the Rosary. Fr Peyton’s vestments along with arlier this year the faithful • Family Theatre Productions directs rare photographs. of Poland, Ireland, England, its efforts to the evangelization of • Spiritual direction and counselling. Scotland, Wales and their culture using mass media to enter- • Take time-out to pray in the oratory Eisles responded to what they sense tain, inspire and educate families. where a recording of Fr Peyton pray- as a movement of the Holy Spirit ing the Rosary is inspiring. to gather around the coasts of • Enjoy the spectacular view of the Ox their nations and pray to Jesus, Mountains from the contemplation the , for a renewal Research garden which is dedicated to “Peace of faith and respect for human life in Ireland”. through the powerful intercession and education • Recite the Rosary in the Rosary of Our Lady of the Rosary The Father Peyton Family Institute Garden. For the British Isles starting on focuses on research and education in For more information, the Feast of St Joseph, 19th March family life ministry and the relation- email: [email protected] began Forty Days of Spiritual ship of spirituality to the family. or call +353 (0) 96 453 74 Preparation under the Protection of St Joseph, ending on 27th April, the day of the fiftieth anniversa- Prayer for the Beatification ry of the Abortion Act coming into effect, for a day of intense of Venerable Patrick Peyton reparation, prayer and sacrifice for the tragedy of its passing and Dear Jesus, Father Peyton devoted his priestly life to strengthening the implementation. families of the world by calling them to pray together every day, especially the It concluded on Sunday 29th Rosary. His message is as important for us now as it was during his life on earth. April 2018 at 3:00pm, the fifth We beg you, therefore, to hasten the day of his beatification, so that your Sunday of Easter with the Rosary on faithful people everywhere will remember his message that the family that prays the coast of the British Isles. People together stays together, will imitate him in his devotion to your Mother and ours, attended Sunday Mass and made and will be inspired by his holy life to draw ever closer to you with childlike con- a pilgrimage to an area of coast of fidence and love. Amen. the British Isles at 3:00pm to pray Taken from www.fatherpeyton.org the Rosary for Faith, Life and Peace.

The Angels | Vol 9 | issue 4 | 2018 | 23 THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Rosary Coast to Coast USA Return of our nation to God and to Holiness

54 day Novena in the USA concluded with the Rosary Coast to Coast featuring hun- dreds of Rosary Rallies across the A th country on 7 October the Feast of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary. The Rosary Coast to Coast was anchored by the 3rd annual National Rosary join the Rosary Coast to Coast on Our Lady calls to her children Rally starting with Sunday Mass at St Sunday, 7th October 2018 at Pismo to pray unceasingly; if fulfilled, it Peter’s Church on Capitol Hill. The Beach, California. The group all will change the world, for Mary Rosary was prayed in unison across joined simultaneously with other cit- has promised that at the end, her the country and novena prayers with ies in the US reciting the Rosary fol- Immaculate Heart will triumph. intentions of the return of the nation lowed by the Divine Mercy chaplet. Let’s continue to storm heaven to God and to Holiness followed by Canada followed the example of with our prayers, our Rosary, our the Marian Consecration. Cardinal Poland, UK, Australia and US. The fasting for a renewal of faith and Burke blessed and endorsed ‘Rosary event was organized by Children of peace for every nation in the world Coast To Coast’, under the banner the Canada in partnership and the entire human race. of the new Holy League Of Nations. with Fr Richard Heilman, one of the Whilst in America Fr Peter driving forces behind the coast-to- Noreen Bavister, CSMA office Prusakiewicz CSMA was invited to coast Rosary in the United States.

24 | The Angels | Vol 9 | issue 4 | 2018 PRAYERS The Joyful mysteries Reflecting on you? Will you create a place for Him Elizabeth’s unborn child recognized in your heart? Will you nourish and and rejoiced in the presence of the Christ as the light protect His light and allow it to be Lord. of the world brought forth from you to shine out Who are you called to hasten to on the world? serve? How will you bring Jesus to Mother Mary, please help us to them? The First Joyful Mystery: say “yes.” Mother Mary, teach us to let our souls magnify the glory of the Lord. The Annunciation Help us to bring His light to one The Second Joyful Mystery: another. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and The Visitation the Word was God. What came to The Third Joyful Mystery: be through him was life, and this “If we walk in the light as he is in the life was the light of the human race.” light, then we have fellowship with one The Nativity (Jn 1:1,4) another, and the blood of his Son Jesus cleanses us from all sin.” (1 Jn 1:7) “I am the light of the world. God made the world to be light. Whoever follows me will not walk But He gave mankind the gift of free Mary did not remain idle as she in darkness, but will have the light will, and man has often chosen dark- waited for the coming of the Lord. of life.” (Jn 8:12) ness. Nevertheless, our loving Father She knew that in truth, He is already does not leave us forsaken. The light here. He lives in the elderly, the sick, The light of the world is here, of the world returns to redeem us. Of the poor, and the lonely. He lives in born into a night of silence. The His own choice, His return depends our neighbour in need, and in the stable is dark and cold. There is no on the “yes” of one simple young girl... innocence of the unborn child. visible glory here. But look at the His return depends on us. Our Blessed Mother set out in star in the sky- a sign of wonder What will you say? Will you allow haste to assist her cousin in a time and hope marks the place where our the light of Christ to dwell within of need. And at Mary’s coming, Saviour lies. Little Lord Jesus, teach us tonight. Show us the stars that shine in the darkness of our lives, pointing the way to You. Thank You for the gift of Your Blessed Mother. Help us to rest in her embrace like You did, and to trust in her loving care. Little Lord Jesus, we bring You all our gifts this night, and entrust them into the hands of Your Mother for safekeeping. We have no fine gold, or frankincense, or myrrh. But please

www.en.wikipedia.org accept our love and devotion; our „„Anno Domini, by Edwin Long, 1883, showing the flight to Egypt perseverance in prayer; our tears

The Angels | Vol 9 | issue 4 | 2018 | 25 PRAYERS and our sufferings, united to Yours. To You we offer everything.

The Fourth Joyful Mystery: The Presentation

“You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a bushel basket. It is set on a lampstand where it gives light to all in the house. Just so, your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father.” (Mt 5:14-16)

Mary’s Child was born into trou- bled times. There will always be those who threaten the light of Christ. But He is not meant to be hidden away. Mary knew how to protect Him. She brought Him to the temple and dedi- cated Him to God. What will you bring to God? What gifts has He given you, and how can you dedicate them back to Him? Bring them to your Father’s house, and entrust them to His care.

Mother Mary, teach us how to www.en.wikipedia.org protect and develop our gifts. Help „„Jesus found in the Temple, by James Tissot, 1886-94 us present them back to God and let Him use them to shine His light care that the light in you does not questions. And all who heard him upon the world. become darkness.” (Mt 6:22-3) were astounded at his understand- ing.” (Lk 2:46-7) Joseph and Mary suffered the loss Lord Jesus, help us to seek You in The Fifth Joyful Mystery: of their holy Child. Do you some- Your Father’s House. Teach us Your times fear you have lost Him? In ways and open our eyes to see the The Finding of times when your heart feels in dark- light of truth. Fill us, body and soul, ness, where do you search for peace with your light, so that when others the Child Jesus and joy, for light? meet us, they too will be astounded The Child Jesus was not found and changed by the light of Your love. in the Temple among worldly things. Mary and Joseph found Him in His Father’s (Hail Holy Queen…) “When your eye is sound, then your House, “in the midst of the teachers, whole body is filled with light. Take listening to them and asking them J.S., USA

26 | The Angels | Vol 9 | issue 4 | 2018 NEWS FROM IRELAND 2018 Irish Mission Visitation of the large pilgrim statue of St Michael the Archangel in Ireland.

arge crowds came to greet the pilgrim statue of St Michael the Archangel at the locations shown below. Each venue started with Mass followed Lby a Eucharistic Healing Hour. Talks: St Michael and St Faustina, Knighthood of St Michael the Archangel. Concluding with an individual blessing of the scapu- lars and relic stones from the Shrine in Mont Sant’ Angelo, Foggia, Italy. Fr Peter Prusakiewicz CSMA will be returning to Ireland and new venues in July 2019.

• 6th Sept 2018 / Church of Immaculate Conception, Mitchelstown, Co. Cork. • 7th Sept / Pallottine Retreat Centre, Th urles, Co. Tipperary. • 8th Sept / St Eunan’s Cathedral, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal. • 9th Sept / St Columba’s Church, Termon, Co. Donegal. • 9th Sept / Ards Friary, Co. Donegal. • 11th Sept / St Anne’s RC Church, Cranmore Rd, Sligo, Co. Sligo. • 11th Sept / Dominican Friary, Temple Street, Sligo, Co. Sligo. • 12th Sept / Immaculate Conception, Ballymote, Co. Sligo. • 12th Sept / Th e Oratory of Mary Mother of God, Co.Tyrone. • 13th Sept / St Patrick Chapel, Cullyhanna, Co. Armagh. • 15th & 16th Sept / St Cronan’s Church, Swords, Dublin.

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L. In the name of the Father, and of 3. By the intercession of St Michael the Son and of the Holy Spirit. and the celestial Choir of Thrones, A. Amen may the Lord infuse into our hearts a true and sincere spirit of Say the following prayer on the medal: humility. Amen. (1 Our Father, 3 Hail Marys) O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me. 4. By the intercession of St Michael and Glory be to the Father, etc. the celestial Choir of Dominions, may the Lord give us grace to gov- 1. By the intercession of St Michael ern our senses and subdue our un- and the celestial Choir of ruly passions. Amen. Seraphim, may the Lord make us (1 Our Father, 3 Hail Marys) worthy to burn with the fire of per- fect charity. Amen. 5. By the intercession of St Michael (1 Our Father on the first large and the celestial Choir of Powers, bead, 3 Hail Marys on the next may the Lord vouchsafe to protect „„St Michael icon by T Smith, England three small beads) our souls against the snares and temptations of the Devil. Amen. 2. By the intercession of St Michael (1 Our Father, 3 Hail Marys) protected by them in this mortal and the celestial Choir of life and conducted hereafter to eter- Cherubim, may the Lord vouchsafe 6. By the intercession of St Michael nal glory. Amen. to grant us grace to leave the ways and the celestial Choir of Virtues, (1 Our Father, 3 Hail Marys) of wickedness, to run in the paths may the Lord deliver us from evil of Christian perfection. Amen. and suffer us not to fall into temp- Recite on the next four beads: (1 Our Father, 3 Hail Marys) tation. Amen. (1 Our Father, 3 Hail Marys) 1 Our Father in honour of St Michael 7. By the intercession of St Michael 1 Our Father in honour of St Prayer and the Celestial Choir of Gabriel of Pope Leo XIII Principalities, may God fill our 1 Our Father in honour of St souls with a true spirit of obedi- Raphael Saint Michael the Archangel, ence. Amen. 1 Our Father in honour of our defend us in battle, (1 Our Father, 3 Hail Marys) Guardian Angel be our protection against the wickedness 8. By the intercession of St Michael and O glorious prince, St Michael, chief and snares of the Devil. the celestial Choir of Archangels, and commander of the heavenly May God rebuke him, may the Lord give us perseverance hosts, guardian of souls, vanquisher we humbly pray and do thou, in faith and in all good works, in of rebel spirits, servant in the house O Prince of the heavenly host, order that we gain the glory of of the Divine King, and our admirable by the Divine Power of God, cast into hell Satan Paradise. Amen. conductor, who shines with excellence and all the evil spirits (1 Our Father, 3 Hail Marys) and superhuman virtue, vouchsafe to who wander throughout deliver us from evil, who turn to you the world seeking 9. By the intercession of St Michael with confidence, and enable us by your the ruin of souls. and the celestial Choir of Angels, gracious protection to serve God more Amen. may the Lord grant us to be and more faithfully every day. Amen.