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[gatorsforterri] Fw: [JMJsouthpinellas] Fatima prayer vigil tomorrow night
From: Chris Nestor
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:09:13 -0500
To: gatorsforterri@yahoogroups.com
Gators for Terri,
I hope you get this information about the prayer vigil tomorrow. I met 2 of you on Monday at Woodside when we prayed the rosary. You gave some shirts to my children. (Everyone likes the shirts and they ask about them when we go to pray at the hospice) I hope you can come tomorrow. There is someone who is working to get Mel Gibson to come sometime in the future. God willing this may work out. God bless you for all you do!
In Christ,
Chris Nestor
+JMJ+ Dear Friends,
Sunday evening the Pilgrim Virgin statue of Fatima will be at the Woodside Hospice at 7 pm. This is the statue commissioned by the Bishop of Fatima October 13, 1947 to travel the world.
We will be having a candlelight prayer service and rosary. Please arrive a little before 7pm and bring your rosary and a candle. (Battery operated candles would be wonderful for the children so they can participate also)
Here is a brief history of the Pilgrim statue through which God has worked great miracles throughout the world:
The history of the International Pilgrim Virgin Statue begins in 1946. At that time, after the youth of Portugal attended a Congress in Fatima, they took the Statue from display in the Cova on pilgrimage to Lisbon. As they walked the route they stopped at the towns and people gathered to pray. In Lisbon when they entered the cathedral, the miracle of doves occurred. Many other phenomena also occurred inspiring devotion and inspiring the fervor among the people.
The statue was returned to its place in the Cova de Iria but many people wished for a visit in their own communities. The Bishop asked Sr. Lucia in a letter about sending the statue on tour. Sr. Lucia responded with a letter suggesting that the new statue, just then being made, by the famous sculptor Jose Thedim be used as a pilgrim statue. The Bishop agreed and, on May 13, 1947, this new statue was blessed and named the International Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima.
Almost before it began its journey, so many places wanted her visit that it was realized a second statue should also be blessed. This second statue, made also by Jose Thedim, was completed and blessed by the Bishop of Fatima on October 13, 1947 (Exactly 30 years to the day after the great miracle of the sun which was to draw the world's attention to Mary's message.)
This second statue was en route from Palm Beach to Minnesota and it will be here for our prayers on Sunday. Please come and invite others by: passing along this e-mail, announcements at church, or phone calls.
We pray Our Lady of Fatima will intercede for Terri, our court system, and our legislature.
If you need directions or assistance please call Chris 727-397-2561 or e-mail chrisnestor@juno.com
In Christ, Chris
Prayer Vigil at 7 p.m. tonight at Hospice ...
"HOWEVER, religiosity in the form of paraphanalia should be kept OUT of this. I have stated it before, IF this is what the general public is going to see, the general public will simply say that it is just a small group of "religious" nuts and will turn their backs on the fight for Terri's life. This SERIOUSLY needs to be seen as the citizens of Florida and the United States and other countries, as hundreds of ANGRY "citizens" at the thought of MURDERING an innocent girl WHO WANTS TO LIVE and who is ONLY disabled and NOT a vegetable."
Yes, it worked wonders in the Elian Gonzalez debacle.