Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:03 am Post subject: SSPX priest & faithful in grave danger & deprivation
Please pray for an SSPX priest in Zimbabwe. (I am not sure if it is safe to post his name on the internet while he is still in danger, so please do not post his name if you know it.) Just pray for the SSPX priest and faithful in Zimbabwe. An email I received tonight:
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We just learned this weekend, he is at his mission parish in Zimbabwe for three weeks at a time. Since he has been there, they have closed the borders. The police officers are being murdered and this "revolutionary party" (my term for them) is cutting off hands of those who will not work for them in the diamond mines. He has made it to the US Embassy at least once, as far as we know. He was able to get a hold of his family, at least once, possibly twice this past weekend. He relayed he has gone back to his mission, where he is able to do more for Christ. People are dropping dead in the streets around him from starvation, disease, etc and asking him to baptize them! Please keep him in your prayers!
Another email I received 3 months ago (01/09/2008) about the hardships facing the SSPX faithful there:
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In your charity, please pray for a dear friend, G_____n, and her family who are
undergoing incredible sufferings. They live in Zimbabwe where they cannot get
food unless they buy it on the black market with American dollars, and
electricity and phone lines are luxuries that work sporadically. (If you don't
know what's going on in Zimbabwe, Google "Mugabe," and you can read about their
dictator and how he has been trying to kill off the white people by starving
them to death.)
They have been living on sorghum and soy mush for 4 months, but even that is no
longer available as they have no American money. Her 3 children (all boys) are
8, 10, and 12. Imagine how you would feel if all you could give your children
for their Christmas dinner was mush. I am going to wire them some money today via ______
(so it will reach them).
I don't have time to go into details here as I have to go to work; I just
wanted to get a quick note out so some friends/family could help storm heaven
for them. This friend spent over 2 years in the convent in France, and
her brother is an SSPX priest who was stationed in Dickinson, TX for a couple
(?) of years.
No, they cannot just leave the country: it is hard for many Americans to
understand the problems they are facing in Zimbabwe and S. Africa. They are
waiting for the last passport so they can leave. It takes 4 YEARS to get a
passport because they keep "losing" the paperwork/money. They have been waiting
3 1/2 years for the last passport, so there is some light at the end of the
tunnel!
If you would like to know more, or if you'd like to donate a few dollars
(according to G_____n, $5 would feed them for a week), you can call me or email me.
Thank you for your prayers. May God bless you.
An update that I received about G______n and her family on 1/24/08:
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There is still quite a bit they can't buy (flour, milk, shoes,
underwear) even with the money sent. Zimbabwe does not grow any wheat now,
thanks to their corrupt government, and G_____n told me that the food the Red
Cross hands out goes on the black market (at an outrageous price) and not to
the starving.
Are donations needed and where would we send them? Also, if this is a newsletter can others receive it?
Our family will begin to offer up our Sorrowful Mysteries for this small enclave of the true Catholic Faith.
May God bless and preserve them.
~In JMJ
Thank you for the prayers! The emails I posted are not newsletters -- they were written by friends of mine. I don't know if it is still possible to send money to that family, but I will let you know.
Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 1851 Location: Upstate New York
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 8:49 am Post subject:
PrayTheRosary wrote:
Marybonita wrote:
Are donations needed and where would we send them? Also, if this is a newsletter can others receive it?
Our family will begin to offer up our Sorrowful Mysteries for this small enclave of the true Catholic Faith.
May God bless and preserve them.
~In JMJ
Thank you for the prayers! The emails I posted are not newsletters -- they were written by friends of mine. I don't know if it is still possible to send money to that family, but I will let you know.
Yes, please do let us know. _________________ Conversi ad Dominum!
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 8:53 am Post subject: THIS IS A PRIORTY!
My prayers are with these people who are being martyred for the Faith and this crying out for assistance affects me deeply. May Almighty God help them in their hour of need. Where is the UN when such atrocities are allowed to continue? Where is the assembled cries of outrage from the other nations of the world? Why is this dictator allowed to get away with these murders of the innocent? Where are the assembled voices of our Congress demanding action to protect the innocent? Why indeed!
Blessed Mother, please intercede with your Divine Son to stop these atrocities. _________________ Pre-Vatican II Catholic-16 yrs Catholic schooling.
I DEEPLY admire the dedication that these Catholic missionaries portray as they experience the hardships and tropical disease of Africa! May God keep them safe and protect them. Oremus! _________________ Regina sine labe originali concepta, ora pro nobis!
Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 380 Location: Valley View, Texas
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 4:32 pm Post subject:
Dear friends and Benefactors of Zimbabwe
I take the opportunity to tell you of some events which have taken place in our priory of Zimbabwe. Operation “SOS Zimbabwe” which was started a few months ago continues while food parcels from a number of countries have helped and supported our 450 faithful.
We have received 99% of the parcels sent! Thanks to the goodness of the Catholic employees of the Post Office, taxes were not charged and every Sunday we were able to distribute the food to a hundred families!
Oh if you could but see the joy of parents and children alike when they see the contents of these boxes! Truly, all this food has come at the right moment. One can find nothing anymore here in Zimbabwe, and if there still is a few scraps upon the shelves the prices are beyond reach!
It will not be surprising, if before the end of 2008 the UN deliver a report of the death of 4 million Zimbabweans, unless things change drastically. I believe it. The crisis is certainly not over!
Thanks to all these countries, we are also trying to import food from South Africa. We are at the present on the point of binding a contract with an importer which will assure an enormous quantity of food. For this reason we ask you not to send any food parcels, but rather funds to be sent through your district superior to our superior in South Africa. This seems now to be more efficacious.
Our mission at Tafara (30 km from the Priory), has developed well. The origin of this mission is due to a young girl, Lucy, of 15. It was she who invited all the children of the village to catechism. This was in 2006. One of these girls, Mary-Debra, 14 years of age, died of cancer of the brain. She rendered her soul to God only one month after her baptism. Since then, there are ever more and more faithful. More than 200 people come now every Sunday to catechism. Even the head of the village, filled with admiration before this change amongst his people, has now become a catechumen! Before the mission was established, there would always be fighting (tearing off of clothes before all the people) as well as jealousies and every other type of evil. Now, peace reigns and at the strike of the 17h30 daily bell, all come to recite the rosary in our little providential chapel. What a joy it was last Christmas to baptise 31 children, all of whom came from this mission! Let us pray that one day we may be able to build a real chapel at Tafara.
Notwithstanding this deathly atmosphere, our priory continues to shine forth its rays over the country. After the holidays, our catechism lessons began again with more than 250 children, divided into 17 groups around our 15 catechists. Oh how good the good God is to have sent us so many innocent little souls to be received and to grow in the holy Catholic faith.
Innocent souls indeed since the law here in Zimbabwe still prohibits abortion, euthanasia, pornography, prostitution, homosexuality, immodest dress and behaviour etc.... In a certain way we are here in a world still well protected. Since most of our faithful are without electricity there is no question of the television!
Because necessities in mission countries are never exhausted, we are praying to be able to buy the house next door. School teachers are immigrating to South Africa since they can no longer live on the salary they receive here. Passports are no longer available and so these people try and cross the border through the boundary river infested with crocodiles. Not a few have been swallowed up by these prehistoric beasts! So our children receive no more scholarly education. Added to this, our aged can no longer pay their rent or feed themselves. For this reason we wish to start a school and at the same time an old age home. This house next door seems sufficiently big to accomplish these two aims. It would also be simple to open the fence between and so enlarge our property. The price of this house: 114 000 euros!!
Please remember also in your prayers a young man by the name of Pius who left mid February for our seminary in Australia. If God so wishes it, he will be our first black priestly vocation from Zimbabwe. This priory has already given 11 vocations!
Dear friends, I hope that this news from our country will give you the courage to help us. May God render you a hundred fold, if not in this life, then in the next!
Our Lord is sowing His garden again. Martyrs blood will revive His Church yet again. This came from an e-mail I received today. Hope it helps.
If you wish to help, you can send money to the District Office in Kansas City specifying that you want this to go to the Zimbabwean SSPX mission. They will get the money to SSPX Zimbabwe somehow. These poor people have been living without enough food for many months, and the recent border closure and politcal unrest have just the problems worse.
Please pray that the borders reopen so that food and aid can be sent to them.
Please mail checks (specify in an attached note that you want it to go help the SSPX in Zimbabwe) to:
Society of Saint Pius X
Regina Coeli House
11485 N. Farley Road
Platte City, MO 64079 _________________ Jesus, Mary, Joseph save souls!
Joined: 26 Oct 2005 Posts: 443 Location: Upstate South Carolina (not St Marys)
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 8:12 pm Post subject:
We have a young man here from Zimbabwe who we pick up and take to TLM on Sundays who has family there in country. He knows this good priest and his family attends this church. He is due to return to Zimbabwe at the end of the semester for the summer.
They have our prayers.
St. Joshua Ora Pro Nobis
Jim Dorchak _________________ The NO is like a box of Chocolates.............
I thank God that there are still priests who are willing to sacrifice all for the conversion of souls. This thread brings tears of joy to my eyes, knowing that so many souls are being brought to Christ through brave and selfless missionaries.
It will only be true, traditional Catholicism that brings conversions in such astounding numbers.
Would that I could go and help..........I hope our money reaches them.
This morning, I received the following from Father Angles, District Superior of the SSPX in Ireland.
John,
Concerning the alarming post on the situation of Zimbabwe I have a comment which you may pass on to the originator of the news, which have worried to death family and friends of Father Thomas:
I spoke today with the district superior in South Africa and with both priests in Harare, and they are perfectly well, preaching a retreat, with plenty of food (actually several tons which they are distributing to the needy). The border is not closed, the airport works as usual, police are not being murdered, people are not dying on the streets and begging for baptism. Our priests are not in danger. Cut the drama.
they are perfectly well, preaching a retreat, with plenty of food (actually several tons which they are distributing to the needy). The border is not closed, the airport works as usual, police are not being murdered, people are not dying on the streets and begging for baptism. Our priests are not in danger.
Wow! Our prayers really worked fast!
I am delighted that all is well and my prayers continue for the wonderful SSPX priests. _________________ Regina sine labe originali concepta, ora pro nobis!
Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 380 Location: Valley View, Texas
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 7:12 am Post subject:
I received this email this morning from Fr. Daniels, District Superior of southern Africa:
Fr. Daniels, District Superior of southern Africa, wrote:
Dear Colleen,
Thank you for your letter, your concern, and above all, your prudence in finding out the facts before you act. The situation of Zimbabwe is obviously not good and hard for everyone. Our priests (two of them), in Zimbabwe are not trapped and the borders have not been closed. They are at this moment peacefully preaching a St. Ignatius retreat to 9 men. There may indeed have been unrests here and there, even an atrocity or two, but, recent e-mails have taken on a "spectacular Hollywood" image. By the way, the crime here in SA (even around our priory) is, and has been 100 times worse (without exaggeration) than anywhere in Zimbabwe.
Please do pray for these poor countries. Private donations are always welcome and will be applied to the aim you intend it for. Nevertheless, please do not call for donations in your chapel without the permission of the district superior. We have a rule in the SSPX that such requests must pass from superior (me) through superior (of the other district.)
May God and His Holy Mother bless and guide you always.
Servus Mariae
Fr. C. Daniels
Superior of the SSPX in southern Africa
If you'd like to make a private donation, you can do so in a couple of ways:
To help the Society in Southern Africa, make all cheques payable to the:
"Society of St. Pius X (South Africa)"
Our Lady of Sorrows Priory
11 Amelia St., Roodepoort
Or, bank transfers may be done to:
Nedbank, Westgate branch
Acc. No. 1982 290250
Bank clearing code: 19 - 82 - 41
Or, as Dymphna17 wrote above, mail checks (specify in an attached note that you want it to go help the SSPX in Zimbabwe) to:
Society of Saint Pius X
Regina Coeli House
11485 N. Farley Road
Platte City, MO 64079
Palm Sunday procession at the Priory in Harare
Dancing for Joy ... never had, nor even seen, so much food!!
Notwithstanding the immense problems in Zimbabwe, God blessed our chapel with twenty new soldiers for Christ. These received the sacrament of Confirmation from the hands of His Lordship, Bishop De Galarretta on the feast of All Saints, 1st of November 2007 _________________ http://www.ColleenHammond.com
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