Letters to the Editor
Write us and tell us what is happening in
your country, in your town. Due to the escalating persecution and pressure put
upon Catholics willing to speak out and defend our Catholic Faith and Our Lady
of Fatima, the editor has chosen to eliminate the full names of those who may
be endangered. Share your stories with Our Lady’s readers, and we ask all
to keep Our Lady’s dear ones in your prayers and your Rosaries.
Millions Will Die
Cities
Destroyed
Children Hurt
Dear Father Gruner,
I am sorry for
taking so long to answer your letter, and also to thank you for all the
information you sent me about Our Lady of Fatima.
The situation in
the world in general, including the priests in particular, take the risk of
exploding sooner or later.
Our people are
wondering, "where are we going?"
America is
threatening Iraq over and over, and Israel is making noise. If for some reason
the war is declared with Iraq, millions of people will die, cities will be
destroyed, and children will be hurt. Who will be blamed? America.
Allow me to thank
you for all your activity and time to warn the people to keep praying to God
and Our Lady of Fatima to put an end to this war.
I am very happy to
tell you that the people here still have faith in the Virgin Mary.
It is a regular
tradition in our literature to talk and practice a good Faith. Faith gets us
through bad times and aggravation.
I sincerely and
deeply thank you in the name of the Lord.
Bishop
Emeritus, Lebanon
Oppressed by anti-Christian
Government,
Priests and Nuns fear to Distribute Catholic
Literature
Dear Father Gruner,
Months have passed
so quickly since your Peace Conference. You did splendidly well. Because of
your success, you had to face some opponents. But that should never discourage
you. Rome also has not understood your apostolate.
The devil is
around us. You have not committed any heresy; on the contrary, you have
promoted the devotion to Our Lady during these days of contempt against
Her.
Even in my own
parish, lots of sectarian groups have gone away from the Church and formed
Pentecostal groups, and their only business is to speak against Our Lady and
statues.
Our Government
goes anti-Christian and, of course, anti-Mary. Framed laws, which frighten
priests, nuns and us. We are scared even to distribute the printed leaflets and
books to the people at large. Even distribution of holy pictures and rosaries
also may be banned by the government. You have rightly understood our problem
here.
But this law does
not deter us from our apostolate of preaching. I pray for you and you must
continue your good work more vigorously as you grow older and weaker. You are
blessed with sincere hard working staff and helpers. I request your prayers
very much.
Thanking you and
with best wishes,
Yours sincerely in
Christ,
Father
M.,
India
The Holy Rosary and the
Brown Scapular
Saved Father and Brother
Dear Father Gruner,
I’ll share a
story with you about the Brown Scapular. Last January, my brother was coming
home from work, it was stormy, the roads weren’t very nice. He was late.
My mom was getting worried. I thought he was working overtime and everything
was okay. But my mom was insisting something was wrong. She was right. Not long
after we had a phone call. It was my brother, he had just been in a car
accident with an 18-wheeler. His car was completely destroyed, but he came out
of it without a scratch. He didn’t even have whiplash the following days.
He was wearing his scapular. He never goes without it and he was saying his
Rosary at the same time. So we know Who saved him.
The police
couldn’t understand how he came out of it uninjured. And then, a couple of
weeks later, it was my dad. He got into an accident with another car. The
vehicles were destroyed and he also was not injured. He, too, was wearing his
scapular. Just thought you would like to read this.
F. Hope, ON,
Canada
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