Friends of the Children of Mary
Our Spiritual Advisor:
Msgr. Frank Lane, Ph.D.
Our Board of Trustees:
Mother Margaret Mary, CM
John Heise
Michael Iannarino
Dean Melchi
Kathy Melchi
Michael StickleOur Many Wonderful Volunteers! God is so good! He sends so many wonderful people to help us here at Children of Mary. For instance:
- Fr. Lutz who provided us with an altar and beautiful adoring angels.
- Fr. Timothy Hayes from Blessed Sacrament parish who comes on First Saturdays to offer Mass and hear confessions and is always there when we need him.
- Fr. Klee, who comes on First Fridays to offer Mass, hear our confessions, and assist us with his support in many ways.
- Dennis Busson of Busson Portrait Directories (http://www.bussonportraitdirectories.com or call 1-800-685-3002). Busson is a rapidly growing pro-life church pictorial directory company, the country's leading provider of top quality church pictorial publications. They printed our prayer cards and did a beautiful job. Please call them if your parish is making a directory.
- Bruce Bennet of ArWebb Office Plus, who has been so generous in donating a CD duplicator, helping us with envelopes for mailing our CDs, and many other office needs.
- Tom Hummer, our graphic design artist from Cleveland who has done all the graphics work for us on our prayer cards and CD cover.
- Charlie Franks who has helped us for years in many ways, including helping us with firewood.
- Frank Luciotti, former Grand Knight, who has been a wonderful support and benefactor.
- The Women of St. Edwards in Granville who have donated time and money helping us with mailing our CD and prayer cards to the Adoration Chapels in the USA and Canada; in addition, one of the members donated a web site and another is our webmaster.
- The Knights of Columbus who have been a great support in many areas: providing us with a new computer when our old one ‘died’, supplying us with books, coming to the rescue bringing firewood when our supply was very low, as well as financial assistance.
- The members of the rosary prayer group from St. Andrew’s, the Little Flower Rosary Group, who have donated money, beautiful statues of Our Lady of Divine Providence and St. Joseph that we have in our chapel, food items and gift certificates.
- PIME Missionaries who gave us beautiful statues and vestments and other church goods.
Many, many individuals help by praying for us everyday and by helping in other various ways and through their financial contributions. When this endeavor was first undertaken, I prayed and asked Our Lord what work He would have the Sisters do to support ourselves financially. His response was to spend our time working for His glory and He would provide for all our needs. He has done just that. We live simply and spend our lives adoring Him and praying that all people will come to know the joy and peace of loving Him and living in His will. We share with all whom He sends what He has given us, and then we share the greatest gift He has given us - His Presence with us in the Holy Eucharist.
To all who have assisted us in any way, we thank you. We thank God for you. And we pray that Our Lord and Our Lady will bless you abundantly with grace and peace and great joy, and with holiness – a holiness that satiates His thirst to be loved by spending time with Him in adoration; holiness that always does His will and is so profound that you are even willing to suffer for the sake of the Beloved.
God bless you, People of God! Please pray for us, and be assured of our prayers.
Pictured below are people who come once a week or more to help us:
Frank and Julia Lazzaro, who come every week to cut firewood and work in the flower gardens
Mary Brown teaching us how to sew - and 'unsew'!
Mary Cohagan, whom some call 'Sister Mary Without Vows', helps with everything!
Jaron, 'our photographer', is a brand new Catholic!
Suz, our new webmaster, helped us redesign our website!
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