Olivier Schopfer January 12 at 1:50am Reply
Dear Friend of the World Council of Churches,
At the beginning of a new year, let me share the poem that our new general secretary, Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, quoted in his introductory sermon, when he took office yesterday:
This is the dream we carry through the world
that something fantastic will happen
that it has to happen
that time will open by itself
that doors shall open by themselves
that the heart will find itself open
that mountain springs will jump up
that the dream will open by itself
that we one early morning
will slip into a harbour
that we have never known.
Olav H. Hauge (Norwegian poet)
The full text of the sermon can be found here:
http://www.oikoumene.org/?id=7495
For many communities, the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity will start on the 18th of January. Resources for this week are available in English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese on the WCC website:
http://www.oikoumene.org/?id=3193
A Facebook group on the Week of Prayer allows you to learn about related events and share the events that you are aware of:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2232091100
With friendly greetings from the WCC Communications Team.
Rev. Olivier Schopfer
Executive web editor
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22 April 2009: This Easter day
"This Easter day is a great day of joy and glory.
I love Jesus in this luminous glory, and how I love his Mother too. All the bells were decorated with flowers, there was great happiness. It was a day of love, the day when everything was done according to God’s wishes. The entire earth was united.
She said to me: 'May this feast of Easter bring joy to my children. Tell them that I do not forget them, that I wait for them to come before me. Tell them that if they ask me, I will always come to help them.' She asks her children on earth to love her divine Son, console his Heart and cease to persecute him.
She said to me: 'I love them so much!' And I saw all her affection, tenderness and maternal love for all her children of the universe. She carried for each one a gift, a look, a blessing. I saw with my own eyes inexhaustible treasures of grace.
I saw her carrying to each one in particular a special blessing, with many graces to help them in their weakness, warm their hearts, and bring back life to their souls."
Clemence Ledoux, 9 April 1953
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NOW AVAILABLE: "The Gate Was Open Wide - Life of Clémence Ledoux" by Monique Plassard (320 pages).
You can order from us in Barna (address below), label cheque to "Fraternity of Mary Immaculate Queen".
Cost - Ireland: Euro 20 + 3 postage; Britain: £16.30 + £7.50 postage;
Other Europe: Euro 20 + 9.20 postage; Rest of World: $29 + $16.50 postage (special postage rates for multiple orders).
Each Fraternity priest offers Mass once a month for our benefactors - with our thanks for prayers and donations.
Fraternity of Mary Immaculate Queen
"Síol Dóchais", Ballard, Barna, Co. Galway, Ireland
Tel: +353-(0)91-592196
Email: miq@eircom.net - for all correspondence, to subscribe/unsubscribe to "Thought of Mere" (monthly meditation), or to receive the "Letter to the Messengers of Mary Immaculate Queen" (quarterly magazine)
Fraternity website: http://maryimmaculatequeen.free.fr
"This Easter day is a great day of joy and glory.
I love Jesus in this luminous glory, and how I love his Mother too. All the bells were decorated with flowers, there was great happiness. It was a day of love, the day when everything was done according to God’s wishes. The entire earth was united.
She said to me: 'May this feast of Easter bring joy to my children. Tell them that I do not forget them, that I wait for them to come before me. Tell them that if they ask me, I will always come to help them.' She asks her children on earth to love her divine Son, console his Heart and cease to persecute him.
She said to me: 'I love them so much!' And I saw all her affection, tenderness and maternal love for all her children of the universe. She carried for each one a gift, a look, a blessing. I saw with my own eyes inexhaustible treasures of grace.
I saw her carrying to each one in particular a special blessing, with many graces to help them in their weakness, warm their hearts, and bring back life to their souls."
Clemence Ledoux, 9 April 1953
*****************************************************************************************
NOW AVAILABLE: "The Gate Was Open Wide - Life of Clémence Ledoux" by Monique Plassard (320 pages).
You can order from us in Barna (address below), label cheque to "Fraternity of Mary Immaculate Queen".
Cost - Ireland: Euro 20 + 3 postage; Britain: £16.30 + £7.50 postage;
Other Europe: Euro 20 + 9.20 postage; Rest of World: $29 + $16.50 postage (special postage rates for multiple orders).
Each Fraternity priest offers Mass once a month for our benefactors - with our thanks for prayers and donations.
Fraternity of Mary Immaculate Queen
"Síol Dóchais", Ballard, Barna, Co. Galway, Ireland
Tel: +353-(0)91-592196
Email: miq@eircom.net - for all correspondence, to subscribe/unsubscribe to "Thought of Mere" (monthly meditation), or to receive the "Letter to the Messengers of Mary Immaculate Queen" (quarterly magazine)
Fraternity website: http://maryimmaculatequeen.free.fr
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