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Dear Margaret, Lowell, and Rosary Makers,
I write to acknowledge the receipt of the beautiful rosaries and cords. Many, many thanks for the wonderful gifts. Rosaries made up of chains are hard and durable. Our people, more especially the spiritually needy, are delighted to have the rosaries. I have already distributed to the sick in the villages and hospitals - this was done during my village and hospital apostolate. Some of these rosaries will be distributed to the Legion of Mary members who are in my parish. The rosaries will increase my parishioners faith especially devotion to Mother Mary.
It is my hope that you will continue sending us rosaries so that the world may know Christ through the heart of our Blessed Mother Mary. Many special thanks should go to the noble hands of the Rosary Makers. To you dear friends, please continue to spread the gospel through the devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. May God bless you always.
With Love and Prayers
Fr. Felix Bzyakulima, Parish Priest
Chikwawa Malawi
THE FOLLOWING LETTERS COME FROM MISSIONARIES ALL OVER THE WORLD
They are just a few of the thousands we have received over the years.
These were published in our December 2004 Newsletter.
It is a most formidable task to keep up with the ever increasing requests but we try our very best.
It takes many monetary donations in addition to the work our rosary and scapular makers do
to supply so many dear prayerful people in poor countries. Consider how blest
those of us are who have money and access to religious goods stores and suppliers
to buy our own rosaries etc. Think about the millions of people worldwide
whose only recourse to acquire these devotional objects is through
your generosity and good works. Thank you kindly.
Our Lady’s Rosary Makers of West Michigan.
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Dear Lowell and Margaret:
Hello, greetings from Papua, New Guinea. I hope and presume that all is progressing well for you Lowell, Margaret and the lovely Rosary Makers. May God continue to use each one of you for His good and glory.
I will want to continue to kindly ask you to please send me rosaries. Sisters, children especially students and other people, ask me for rosaries for they are aware that I am the distributor of your lovely rosaries. When asked I told them I would write to find out from you.
Those that you sent were distributed to the new Catholics in the remotest part of the diocese. They were really appreciative and grateful for your gift. I convey their word of thank you to you Lowell, Margaret, and the Rosary Makers. That was great!
May God and our Mother continue to bless, guide, lead and use you for God's own glory and good.
Amen, bye for now,
Much love & prayers,
Sister Maryanne
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Dear Lowell and Margaret Vickery,
I humbly write to ask of your well-being, health wise and your mission to humanity through the Rosary - the all powerful weapon against the principalities and the god of this earth. Bravo for the wonderful work you are doing! Even though it may appear insignificant in the eyes of the unspiritual (Romans 8), it is great in the eyes of the spiritual and highly approved by God; especially supported by our Blessed Mother Mary.
I write to solicit for small rosaries for small kids. I still have some of the big rosaries.
The rosary has helped many couples to wed in the church and to practice their faith more committed. Every new born baby is given a rosary to start him or her well in the faith when she or he grows up. To this end, couples struggle to wed in order to receive rosaries for their kids. They see these rosaries as special symbols of faith.
Lowell and Margaret, I salute your courage. A smile of God means victory. Bravo!
Thanks and God Bless
Sincerely yours,
Fr. David Anekwe, Chaplain
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Dear Sir/Lady,
The peace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Love of God and the Fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you always.
I am called Father Gebreweld Worku. I am a prior of Cistercian Monastery of St. Joseph in Addis Adaba - Ethiopia.
I am also in charge of the faithful of St. Joseph's Parish. So I need Holy Rosaries to distribute to the faithful of my parish and to others who want to pray rosary.
For myself, I terribly like the Holy Rosary and know the great abundant graces that come to us through praying with the Holy Rosary. I am convinced about it and I let it be propagated to the faithful of good will.
For my praying with rosary and meditating on the mysteries means praising God for His greatness and wonders. He has shared with His creatures and all His redemptive action and His passion, His triumph and Potency … It is also a praise to our Lord due to the privilege she has got from the Almighty God.
So, please send me as many rosaries as you can. God bless you and all your apostolate.
Fr. Gebreweld Worku
Cistercia Monastery of St. Joseph
Addis Ababa - Ethiopia
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Thank you for the Rosaries & all!
Out in the Boondocks are always used! I'll spread them around to the other pastors, too.
God bless all of you and your work. As an old Redemptorist I know how wonderful & valuable devotion to Mary and her Rosary is!
God Bless!!!
Fr. Bill Wright
Nong Khai, Thailand
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Dear Lowell, Margaret and Rosary Makers
I am in receipt of your precious parcel full of beautiful rosaries, religious articles and scapulars - for which I'm very grateful to you. Very sincerely I thank you for your noble service. Thanks a lot for all the trouble and great pain to send them to me. In all because of the real sacrifice that you have done we're benefited. And it shows how much you love us, shows your care and concern for us. All that you send and distributed to the people of this locality, to the children of the school and those who are in need to strengthen their faith.
Please do continue to send me your rosaries whenever it is possible. May God bless your noble service. our prayers will follow you.
With Love,
Sister Jaya
Kerala
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My Dearest Lowell & Margaret
I am writing to ask a big favor. The beautiful month of May, the month of Our Blessed Mother Mary is fast approaching and our people are anxious to have some rosaries.
I am sorry to disturb you, but I know you will help me. Can you send me some rosaries for Our Lady's fervent devotees? Both, they and myself will be deeply grateful to you. It is quite some time since I heard from you. I hope you are keeping well.
Let me take this opportunity to offer you my best greetings. Our prayers will follow you. Keep well. Best wishes to you dear friend, the Rosary Makers.
Your ever grateful,
Sr. M. Imelda
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Dearest, Greatest indirect Missionary of Missions Lowell & Margaret,
Greetings and blessings to you from Rev. Fr. Daniel Arockiadass from India.
I will be wrong if I do not express my gratitude. May the Risen Christ bless you and your children and great children. May our Mother Mary bless you.
I, along with the people who recite your Rosary, beg the divine Master and our Mother to bless you for ever and ever. Your sacrifice is sacred for inculcating the habit of reciting prayers and Rosaries in the Mission Countries like India, Burma, Nairobee and Australia. I send the Rosaries, Pictures, Scapulars, Metals to these countries. Hundreds of people recite prayers because of your unending tireless help. Your marvelous help will be greatly rewarded.
I am now in charge of Urutur which was baptized in 1985. Mr. Rame Reddy was Baptized first from this village. All other people rejected him and promulgated a rule that no one from the village should attend any of his family functions. So he was kept separate from others. Years went on, one day his wife died. No one came to take the body to the burial ground. On the third day four men came from outside and took the dead body to the burial ground. People of the village got angry, went to beat them but the four men disappeared before their eyes. Seeing this miracle 32 families were baptized. They are Catholics now. They have strong faith in Jesus. Even today, when there is no rain. They all take the statue of our Dear Mother with Child Jesus around the village. At once the rain will shower. All the people, even Hindus, take the statue of our Lord around the village during famine.
Prayers bring down heaven. People are very poor. I distribute your Rosaries to such interior village people. I send some to Burma, Africa and Australia. Your sacrifice is great, marvelous and noble. Please remember that there are many missionaries and people pray for you continually. All your blood related people are blessed. Please continue to support this poor Mission with Rosaries, some money every month and a chalice if you can. May God bless you all. With gratitude and prayers, I end. I hope this letter may reach you safe. May our Mother Mary intercede for you.
Yours in Jesus,
Rev. Fr. Daniel Arockiadass
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Dear Lowell & Margaret,
Just a wee note to say "thank you" for the donation of Rosaries (200) you sent over to us. May our Lady intercede for all the Rosary makers. Let your work be blessed.
I pray for you.
Fr. Louis M'mango
Malawi
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Dear Director,
Greetings from Chipini Catholic Parish, Zomba Diocese, Malawi. I hope you are well and that Our Lady blesses you always through her intercessions. I, Rev. Fr. Ennock Gwengwea, parish priest of the above parish would like to seek your assistance that our parish may receive a donation of rosaries which could be distributed to our parishioners, our catechumens and our boys and girls who are ready for their First Communion.
Chipini Catholic Parish is one of 15 parishes in Zomba Diocese. It is in the remotest location of our diocese whereby a lot of commitment is needed on my part to assist my parishioners give reverence to our Lady of the Rosary through prayers of the rosary.
Every Sunday morning before the celebration of the Eucharist, the congregation recites the five decades on the Mysteries of Christ. However, most of them have no rosaries and instead they use their fingers or else follow the prayers mentally without knowing where about on the beads. Most of them are of goodwill but they lack the material to assist them to pray better.
Another important aspect of the rosary is that it gives a Catholic believer a sense of belonging to the church when they put it on their neck as an identity of being a Catholic Christian. I have just taken over this parish from the Comboni Missionaries over a year now and already I feel this need. Most of them come to me looking for a rosary but I cannot help them find one.
If you have any assistance may you assist this parish. May you be blessed always.
Yours sincerely,
Rev. Fr. Enock Gwengwea
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Dear Our Lady Rosary Makers, Lowell and Margaret,
Thank you for all the friendship and help during these years of ministry in Brazil. We have been learning about the water problem in the world. The campaign for Human Development concentrated on this issue. We have the most water right here in the state of Amazonas and many countries are trying to take over the Amazon valley for the water. Who owns the water rights here in Amazonas? The water company was sold to the French. The people have a popular saying, drink the water from the Black River Champagne water. All of Brazil prayed about this and has come up with valuable solutions for the world and for Brazil. Lepers!
Last letter I told you about the lepers. After one year and eight months, the material I sent for the lepers was finally released by the customs agents of Brazil. It is amazing that leper carts can cause so much hassle. These carts were specially built to help the lepers, people with no hands and no feet, to be mobile. They have finally arrived and I am very happy. We are doing well with our projects.
The van project needs more help. However, we did receive help from you. Our well projects are underway. We need help to complete St. Catherine of Sienna. The rains have destroyed seven houses. We were able to help the families relocate and pay rent for them until the city can provide better housing.
This year the rains have been daily and heavy. In all my 26 years in Brazil, I have not seen so much rain. The Amazon river will be well over flood level and many families will be looking for places to stay until the water recedes. There is so much to be done and you all have helped.
Many thanks for your past help and blessings on your help in the years to come. Blessings and health.
Padre Martin
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Application for Religious Articles,
I am a Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Blantyre, in Malawi, Central Africa. I am currently teaching at a diocesan minor seminary called Pius XII. During the weekend I assist at Ntenje Parish which is 40km away from the seminary. The need for religious articles (Rosaries, leaflets, crucifix, books) is so great among the Christian faithful entrusted to my care. I, therefore, write to ask for your assistance in providing the needed religious articles.
Your regular and continued support in the growth of the people of God will be appreciated. So many people will benefit from your help. I should be grateful if you would give my request your favorable consideration. May God bless you and your generous work in Evangelization.
Yours in Christ,
Fr. Felix Nanyallo
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My dear and very loving Lowell and Margaret Vickery,
Greetings of love, joy and peace of Christ to you from your brother Fr. Arockianathan in Jesus Christ.
I hope and pray earnestly that you are blessed with good health and mind and body to carry on the ministry of proclaiming the power of the Holy Rosary and the devotion to our Blessed Mother Mary.
By the grace of God, I am fine and trying to do something beautiful for the Lord in and through my ministry at St. Joseph's Church, Nagarjuna Sagar. Perhaps you might wonder why I am writing to you. As I mentioned above I am the new parish priest of the place mentioned above. I had been a missionary in Papua New Guinea and I fell ill so bad that I could no longer serve there as missionary due to constant sickness. I was also teaching in the major seminaries of our own for more than two years and half in India before I left to Papua New Guinea. Now I am appointed here to serve the people.
This parish consists of 409 Catholics and the rest, vast majority are Hindus and very few do belong to other religions. People are tribal, basically very poor and rejected by the society as well as by the government. Yet they have a great and deep devotion to our Lady. I really get surprised about their faith, love towards our Blessed Mother. Do help me with some rosaries as well as the holy pictures of our Lady. As further request, this year I have 50 orphans who receive education as well as shelter in the orphanage at free of cost. The account balance at the parish is nil and nothing. I am worried how I would help the poor ones and I cannot express my anxieties in words. Therefore I request you to help me in any way possible - either as mass intentions or through any one of your friends. As my token of brotherly love let me offer my prayers entrusting you at the care of Our Mother all the time to guard, lead in your life.
Please do pray for this poor priest and ask Our Blessed Mother to protect me at this time of tribulation and worries. Winding up with gratitude and love,
Your loving little brother in Christ,
Fr. Arockianathan
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Dear Friends in our Mother Mary,
I received a few days back your parcel of rosaries & pictures. I do not know how to thank you for the beautiful rosaries. I am happy many will use it and save many souls for Jesus.
These days when I meet people, they ask for the rosary. I have my rosary always in my pocket. So I give it away.
May Our Mother bless you and yours for this very noble work. I speak often to people about praying many rosaries a day.
Yours gratefully,
Sister M. Annuciata
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Dear Fr. Pettit, Margaret and Lowell, and Rosary Makers,
I returned from Pecos, Texas. Thank you for remembering me. I received the Rosary Makers Newsletter yesterday. It is always an inspiration to read about all the great work you do throughout the world! Thank you for the rosaries for the prison work in Pecos, Texas. These rosaries are a welcome gift to the prisoners, some 70% of who are Catholics.
The retreat we had for the prisoners was very successful. I have to tell you that in the short time (4 months) I was there, I worked in the prison. The 300 or so rosaries you gave me to take were all gone. At the closing of the retreat, we had touched (God touched) some 100 men. The remaining rosaries were not enough to give one each to all the men who came. We could have used some more! Thank you in the name of these men and those who helped us with the retreat.
Then, there is the annual trip to Mexico, where we usually take some 300 rosaries; but you have heard about this enough. You have done so much for the 82 missions - two priests try to take care of on foot, jeep, or horseback.
Finally, I returned to my work in the Diocese of Grand Rapids, MI, and the Cursillo Movement. In the Spanish Cursillos, we were able to give around 150 rosaries. As with the work at St. Joseph the Worker Church, the people making the Cursillos are from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, etc.
You are all in my prayers and in the prayers of so many lives you have touched with your sacrifices, prayers, and rosaries, Again, God bless you!
Fr. Pedro V Garcia
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Dearest Lowell and Margaret,
With great joy and gratitude I received your most welcome parcel of 200 Rosaries. Very kind of you! I also thank you for the lovely scapulars and pictures. May the good God bless and reward you as He alone can. Be sure my prayers will follow you and the generous rosary and scapular makers. You are really fervent and zealous missionaries and your noble apostolate must be very pleasing to Jesus and His Blessed Mother Mary. I admire your self sacrifice and work that you do in honor of Our Lady.
All of us are delighted with the arrival of the parcel of rosaries. They are very beautiful and lovely. The beautiful month of May awakens fresh fervor and devotion in our parish. They attend daily mass and the Congregation recites the rosary.
I thank you very sincerely for your generosity and promise my prayer for the success of your apostolate. Kindly convey my thanks to your friends who made these beautiful rosaries. May God bless you all! Thank you once again.
Ever Grateful,
Sr. M. Beatrice
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Dear Donors,
Greeting and all good things to you. I wish to thank you very much again for the precious gift of your rosaries. You are really very generous and I am sincerely grateful to you. Already I have distributed them around to the old people, youth, and the sick, especially those affected by HIV/AIDS as my apostolate. They are surprised to receive the rosaries free of cost.
My love, thanks and best wishes to one and all, God bless and love you and may His Holy Mother guide and protect you. Yours in Mary the Mother of our Lord,
Sister Bernadette
Adelaide Lamola
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My very dear Lowell & Margaret,
With a grateful heart, I thank you both and your devoted rosary makers for the 200 beautiful rosaries, the brown scapulars, cards, and other much appreciated trinkets. May Jesus smile on each one of you tenderly; may our sweet loving "Mother" bless each one of you in her own sweet way!!
The much wanted rosaries will be given to those who long to have one and can't afford to buy one.
Well, as I went through the letters sent to us, I realized that dear Lowell is not too well. Yes I have re-doubled my prayers for your speedy recovery. I'm sure you are o.k. by now. Won't Our Blessed Mother take care of his beloved "Errand Boy?" Surely she will.
I close, let me thank you both over and over again for your gracious gift - the Rosaries - for the FERVENT people of Chennai. They are poor but love to pray!!
Affectionately, in Mary Our Mother,
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Dear Director:
Loving greetings to you in the precious name of Jesus.
By the way, I had been somewhat regularly receiving your lovely and precious gift of your parcel of your rosaries and religious articles without fail for some years. But now it's a very long gap that I did not receive it. And I feel very sad to say that I miss it a lot. In your name, I have been distributing freely to so many hundreds of people. For some months people keep on asking for your rosaries and religious articles.
So, I'm very eagerly looking forward to, as well anxiously waiting for, your parcel. May I request you to please mail it immediately or at the earliest to me.
Looking forward and thanking you in anticipation.
Yours in Christ,
Fr. Amal Raj
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My Dearest Lowell and Margaret,
How shall I thank you for your big and most welcome parcel of 200 beautiful rosaries, scapulars, pictures and medals which I have just received! I cannot express my joy and gratitude to you adequately. May the good God and His Blessed Mother bless and reward you abundantly - full measure, pressed down and running over, and be sure, our poor prayers will always follow you and the devout Rosary and Scapular Makers. How many sacrifices all of you make to spread devotion to our dear Mother Mary. She will undoubtedly repay you and yours and bless the great work you are doing.
Your big parcel arrived just as our parish pilgrims started their nine day walk to the Shrine of Our Lady of Vailankanni. This feast is celebrated on September 8th, the Birthday of Our Lady. Eighty men walked together in our batch. In your names, we gave each of them a rosary. You can imagine their joy and gratitude!
Dear Lowell and Margaret, I hope you are fine. Much love to all the good Rosary and Scapular Makers. May God bless and love you. Thanks a million once again.
Your ever grateful,
Sr. M. Imelda
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Dear Lowell & Margaret,
Greetings from Zambia!
We have received your wonderful assignment of rosary beads. Thank you so much. The appetite for these gifts of Our Lady is insatiable. The people are so thrilled.
At the moment, the refugees from Angola are returning to their country and the busses pass through our village. So I intend to give at least one batch of your rosaries to these people who are so brave and have suffered much.
Once again, thank you so much. Let us pray for each other.
God bless,
Fr. Adrian John M. Robson, offm conv, parish priest
Ikelenge, Zambia
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Dear Lowell and Margaret,
How good to hear from you!
Thank you very much for the Rosaries you are saying for me.
Whenever you can afford to send me rosaries, I assure you they will go into the best hands in foreign, more or less, poor countries where there is very much faith.
I am glad you are both still working at your great cause. I think you will be going straight to heaven where I hope you will pull me in!
May the Lord keep you in the palm of His hand, and know that you are always in my prayers.
In Domiino,
Fr. Paul B. Marx, OSB
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Dear Sharon Laundroche,
Thank you for your kind note and the fifty rosaries from the rosary Makers at St. Ann’s. Chris DeCastro gave them to me some weeks ago and I’m a bit remiss in getting back to you.
We are a smaller parish in the city of Detroit, MI. Following the call of the Holy Father, we have been praying the rosary more often: each Sunday before Mass, during our Advent posadas and in a procession on our feastday. Many of our parishioners are converts to Catholicism and we get a fair number of visitors. So, having the rosaries available is a big help to spreading the devotion.
God bless you and the Rosary Makers.– and thank you for making strong rosaries.
In Christ,
Fr. Dan Trapp, Pastor
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Dear Rosary Makers,
I want to express my sincere thanks to you for providing the young pilgrims of the Diocese of Gaylord, MI, with rosaries for their trip to the Steubenville summer your conference. As you know, the Holy Father has made an earnest appeal for a renewal of devotion to the meditation of the rosary through His letter “On the Most Holy Rosary.”
May God continue to bless you in your apostolate!
In Christ Jesus,
Rev. Daniel Gallagher
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Dear Devotees of Mary.
Greetings to you from distant Kenya. Having Rosary News of May 2002, I felt an urge to write to you. We are Apostolic Carmelites from India and Sri Lanka working as missionaries in our Apostolic Carmel Girl’s Secondary School.
We have quite a number of Catholic students whom we encourage to have a devotion to Mary. In fact, there is a group that pray the rosary in school during their lunch interval. Being a Carmelite Congregation, we try to instill in them a devotion to Our Mother of Carmel.
Having read you newsletter, I thought I could request you, through your kindness, to send us rosaries, scapulars, or pictures—whatever your generosity can spare.
Yours is a great work. We can repay you through a remembrance in our prayers. May Our Mother reward you with a deep experience of Jesus indwelling in your heart. Do remember to pray for Kenya and her people and especially for the families. Thank you and God bless you always.
In Christ and Mary
Sister M. Valerie, A.C.
Kenya, India
NOTE: 200 rosaries and 100 scapulars shipped 10-25-2004
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Dear Lowell and Margaret,
When I told a member of the legion of Mary in Molave, Zambonaga Del Sur that I was going on my vacation to the states, he asked me to try to find some rosaries for them.
Thanks to your organization, I will be sure to give them 100 rosaries and still have some for the poor in Jose Fina.
Both groups will be very grateful.
Peace, love and all good
Elgin Nehom, O.F.N
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Dear Mr. & Mrs. Lowell Vickery,
Just a few days ago I received your parcel. I do not know … a thousand rosaries. I didn’t count yet. But for sure, I think that much of the rosaries will be enough for at least a year for me and for the people. Thanks a lot for this donation!
I am going to distribute these rosaries to the people in my parishes when they receive some sacraments, for instance: Baptism, First Holy Communion, Confirmation, and Marriage. Usually I do that because I have nothing else to give them on these occasions. They are happy, because they are getting something precious. And I am glad, too, because I can see smiles on their faces. Of course, because it is a gift from you, I am going to give them these rosaries for free.
Maybe you are a little bit surprised to get my letter after a long time since you sent your parcel. Honestly I can say I received these rosaries just four days ago, which is six and a half months later. As I understood well, the rosaries have been made by hand. Truly it makes me so grateful for you and for your dedication.
This fall we have a sacrament of Confirmation in one of my parishes. That will be a very good occasion to share these rosaries. Lai Valley is a very remote place. The people suffer because of problems in their homeland. This area is still dangerous with war because the two clans who live there are enemies. It makes me a little bit sad. How can I preach about Jesus’ love when they are ready to fight? For the sake of the Christian, Catholic people, I still keep service for them. I think I’m supposed to do that.
I want to assure you that I still remember the time I spent in your community when I visited my good friend Fr. Arthur last year. Truly that was a great time for me. Looking forward, I hope I will come again to visit him when I am on my next home leave in 2006 or 2007. Yes, I only have the opportunity to go home once every three years.
Once more I want to assure you that I am very appreciative of your gifts. Thanks a lot!
May God bless you and your job always,
Fr. Paul Dudek, MSF
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