Dearest Friends and Benefactors,
In simple thanksgiving for your devout prayers and generous sacrifices for the mission, we send you our warm greetings and humble prayers that you may have a holy Christmas and a happy new year.
On Christmas Day, we will offer our humble Communion for your intentions. May the Holy Infant, born in the manger to be our True Bread, enable us all to grow in charity and grant us life everlasting.
Very sincerely yours, on behalf of all the patients
of the mission, their families and loved ones,
ACIM-Asia /
Rosa Mystica Health Mission Staff
Thank you for helping make 2014 a meaningful year....
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| Baptism of an adult from Kawas - a mission village in Sarangani Province |
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| Level 1 Catechism Class (Baptism and First Communion) First Communion of a chapel construction worker, pupils and patients from 3 mission areas |
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| Recollection Day for the patients and residents of the mission village in Kawas, Sarangani Province. |
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| Recollection and Christmas bonus for chapel construction workers |
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| Chapel in progress |
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| Catechism pupils gathering blossoms for their lesson on Altar Flower Arrangement |
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| Beginners' Class (Sign of the Cross, Holy Trinity, Basic Prayers) |
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Level 2 Catechism Class (Lesson: Holy Sacrifice of the Mass by Ella May Horan)
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| Thank you for all the difference you made in our lives. |
And may we send to you the deepest gratitude of Leodiza for the transformation she has seen in her husband. She learned of the mission in 2012, when a mission patient whom she met at the public hospital ward introduced her to Tradition. She came to the chapel to seek for Baptism for her child. She and her husband faithfully attended the preparatory catechism and Masses and persevered after the baby's Baptism. This year, her husband was invited to work for the chapel construction. A few days ago, she came to us and with tears expressed her sincere thanks for the grace that her husband stopped his drinking vice through the counseling provided by the mission staff and the regular contact with the Priest, and, most especially for the special grace that her husband learned to pray. She heard, very recently, for the first time in their married life with nine children, her husband praying the basic prayers. She was astonished to hear him pray aloud because she had thought all along that he preferred to pray in silence during their family prayers. When she asked him why she only heard him pray aloud recently, he simply answered, "because I didn't know how to pray. I only learned at the mission!" Thank you very much for helping make the mission possible!
Because you have poured out yourself to the hungry
and satisfied the afflicted soul,
and satisfied the afflicted soul,
may your light shine in darkness and may your darkness be
as noonday.
May the Lord give you rest continually and fill your soul with brightness
and make you as a fountain whose waters shall not fail.
May the places left desolate for ages be built in you
that in you the foundations of generation and generation be raised up.
May you be delighted in God, lifted above the high places of the earth
... for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.
(extracted from Isaiah 58: 7-14)
May the Lord give you rest continually and fill your soul with brightness
and make you as a fountain whose waters shall not fail.
May the places left desolate for ages be built in you
that in you the foundations of generation and generation be raised up.
May you be delighted in God, lifted above the high places of the earth
... for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.
(extracted from Isaiah 58: 7-14)
Merry Christmas and a blessed new year to you
and to your dear ones!
and to your dear ones!
