Letters From Our Visitors . . .
Quite often we receive letters from our visitors, expressing their reactions to our website and sharing with us the stories of their lives. We thought the following letters might help some of you. They have been reprinted with permission.
Love for Our Eucharistic Lord Alive in Zambia
Dear Sister Margaret Mary,
I am very happy to have received your letter directing me to your website. I read many topics with interest on your website, though we have been communicating, but I did not have enough information as I now do. You are doing great job in God's field. Congratulations.
I would like to add that among friends my name should be added. As you know we communicate since 2001 and I have received many prayer cards and CD from you which I spread, not only in my diocese(Mongu diocese- Zambia- Central Africa) where at least the Bishop, each priest in the diocese and each religious congragation received your prayer cards and CD. But also, your CDs and prayer cards were spread throughout the country. I would say, you are well know in Zambia.
Your CDs and prayer cards were also spread in England(especially west and south Yorkshire), in Italy (though many wanted them to be traslated in Italian),and in Germany. Problably that's where this zealous young man living in Germany came upon your lovely Eucharistic Prayer Cards as he says.
All those who came to be in contact with your CD reaaly enjoyed it and appreciated your work. I know many including myself who never remove it from the card cd player. So, you can be assured of your work being spread beyond american boarders.
Sr. Margaret hope you are all fine as I saw on the photos. Thanks for the wonderful God's work you, and your people do out there.
Wilfrid
Fr. Wilfrid Hodari
Four year old in California loves the CD "Lift Jesus High"
The Lord's Beauty and love radiates through your singing and words on your wonderful CD, "Lift Jesus High".
May I share with you - while driving with my four year old granddaughter, she asked me to turn on some music from the radio. Having your CD in my car, I decided to play that for her - as she's very nicely learning the rosary and loves singing. Her first comments were to turn it louder. When we arrived at her home the CD hadn't finished, and she wanted to stay in the car to hear the rest. Instead, we took it inside with us, though we didn't get to finish playing it. The next day we went to do some shopping, and she wanted to listen to the CD again and completely, which we did. She truly loved it!
May I ask you to send me four more of the CD's "Lift Jesus High".
Name withheld by request
Our prayer card for all mankind to adore Our Eucharistic Lord will be spread in Germany!
A zealous young man living in Germany wants to spread love for Our Eucharistic Lord by translating 'This is My Body' into German and distributing the card throughout the country:Dear Sisters,
Peace of Christ be with you always!
I came upon your lovely Eucharistic Prayer Cards and was wondering if there is any way to produce one of them with German text. I am a Catholic layman, married with two little ones, and come originally from Ireland but have lived in Germany for the past 6 years and am earnest to promote Eucharistic Adoration in my parish and elsewhere. At the moment we only have one hour per month in our parish. Germany, like much of Europe, is a spiritual wilderness which desperately needs to find the Risen Savior once again.
To give you some more background information, I am in my 30s, married since 2001 and we have two little parcels of joy to date.
There is exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in the city near where we live every day from 8am to 6pm and I go in in the mornings if I have time. Visits can be from 5 minutes to half an hour. When I have a free weekend I spend two hours there. It is the most beautiful place on earth. Sadly my own parish is very weak on Adoration and the church is nearly always closed during the day (a common feature in European cities, sadly) for security reasons.
I have been through some difficult times in life in the last year but He has pulled me through, along with the intercession of Our Lady and little Saint Therese. It is amazing how suffering will draw you into God's own heart. He asked me last year what would I give up for Him and I answered everything. Then I was tested but never doubted God's promise of faithfulness. As Venerable Zelie Martin, mother of the Little Flower, wrote in a letter to her sister "we are purified in a crucible of suffering."
Name withheld by request
Awe struck after an encounter with Jesus
A high school girl came with a small group of girls for a weekend retreat. Just before leaving she came up to me and was filled with emotion as she told me a little about her experience during adoration. She later sent us this message:Dear Sister Margaret Mary and Sister Maureen,
I really never expected to feel God's presence so strongly at the retreat. I've made it my goal to say the rosary once a day now. I never realized how present our Lord is, during adoration. I mean, He literally was sitting on the altar listening to us. It's amazing, when you think about it. I was speaking to one of the others girls from the retreat and we both want to come back. I was wondering if we could plan another retreat soon. I hope all is well and I thank you again for the great experience. Bless you.
Kelsey
A battle won after fighting feelings of anger and unforgiveness . . .
Below is a letter from Teresa, a woman whose 21 year old son was killed in an automobile accident about one year ago. Please remember her in your prayers. She and her son were very close. He was attending college in Florida and he called her every day. As can be expected, since the accident Teresa has struggled with many emotions, including anger and unforgiveness towards the young man who was driving the car in which her son was killed. But her faith is strong, and recently she wrote the following:I went to the tabernacle today and told Jesus that I unite myself with him on the cross. That I will help him carry the cross. I closed my eyes yesterday and imagined removing his crown of thorns and wiping his head and kissing his precious wounds to sooth him. I told him I offer all my pain to sooth his wounds. . . . the devil toys with me hour to hour. Sometimes it is like I hear a voice that laughs at me and says, "you are a failure... you will never be holy . ... you can't control your words, judgements, anger.... " then I just beg Jesus to not give up on me. To be in my heart and love me forever. I have been trying to say the 15 prayers to St. Brigid. Prayer is the only thing that does give me peace... however sometimes it brings me to such sorrow that I actually feel pain within my heart physically. When I am in the shower is the most difficult. The other day I just started to weep and I said out loud to Jesus.... "I am going to have this pain until I take my last Breath... aren't I Jesus? then I continued... Okay. okay Jesus... I will until I am with you in eternity." Mercy mercy. The one year anniversary of Nick's death will be on Divine Mercy Sunday. I am begging God with all my might that his soul shall not be in purgatory any longer and that he will be in Jesus' presence .... no more pain or suffering.... too much of that on earth. I wish that I could hear my son's voice.... that he would be able to tell me he is with Jesus. Or I wish he could share with me how beautiful our Lady was when she was there when he died. Or how loving Jesus was to him when he held his arms out to him that moment his soul left his body.
Teresa
Contraception and reparation and sacrilegious Communions
We received this letter from a woman who had just read the meditation on our site, God’s Gift.I want you to know how touched I was by your website and the story of the Mother who used birth control. My story is so similar, after 2 boys, Joseph and Adam, I was not open to life, then I had a conversion through the messages of Our lady in Medjugorje, very soon after, had my son David, and then the fourth, my long awaited daughter Jennifer. But I go a little further with my story where as I received Communion every Sunday for 20 years in this state, prior to my conversion. I tell you this, because I want to share this great miracle of Mercy. I read somewhere, revealed to a Saint, that when you receive the Eucharist sacrilegiously, it is, as if you are offering up Jesus to Satan. Jesus said, there is no punishment on earth, to justify it. Ever since reading that, I have never ceased crying for that sin. One of the main reasons being, that since, I have a great devotion to Our Lord in the Eucharist, and we know this grace comes from Him. How can we comprehend, His mercy, on this particular gift to me, who offended Him so deeply in that manner? And He even gave me the grace, to recognize all of this, including my deep sorrow, which is another special gift.
I also read somewhere that around 90% of Catholics use or support birth control, and I imagine, most are receiving the Eucharist. Ohhh, if I could only make them understand, this great offense to Our Lord. I will spend the rest of my time here on earth, in reparation for this particular offense to Jesus. May He have mercy on them, as He had on me.
Name withheld by request
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