July 16, 2013
Dear Friends,
Today
is our feast day - the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. We remember
you - Our Lady's Workers - especially in our prayers today. Please
continue to pray for us.
Thank you, friends and benefactors, for
your continued support of this organization dedicated to the promotion
of Our Lady's Message of Garabandal and for your untiring efforts to
make this message known throughout the world. We have good news to share
with you today.
We are very pleased to report on the successful reception of our Youtube Channel - Message of Garabandal.
Launched only six months ago, we have already attracted over 25,000
views for the online documentaries. This response has exceeded even our
most optimistic hopes for promotion by way of this new platform. We are
off to a strong start with no sign of slowing down.
We want to
express our gratitude to our colleagues, fellow promoters in Portugal
and Brazil, in France, in the Netherlands and Belgium, Germany and
Poland, Argentina, Mexico and Colombia - as well as India, Spain, Italy,
Japan, the Philippines, Russia and the Ukraine, the Czech Republic and
Hungary and many others who have made this effort successful by their
support.
In February of this year, the New York Center marked
the forty fifth anniversary of its founding. Most of those present at
the incorporation have passed away, many good people who offered their
various talents to Our Lady of Mount Carmel over the decades are no
longer with us. We remember their contributions today in the firm
assurance that their works are known to God and rewarded in Heaven.
To celebrate this milestone, we completed the redesign of our eleven year old website - www.garabandal.us - in May. This website remains our tribute to those whose irreplaceable work is only now finding its widest audience.
Thanks
to recent advances in online technology we have been able to
incorporate full translation into sixty languages, streaming video,
inclusive design for mobile phones and tablets, and a new archive for
the legacy PDF content taken from the best writing of NEEDLES and GARABANDAL Magazine from 1972 through the last edition in 2002.
Since
the re launch we have welcomed viewers from over 110 countries and
territories. Traffic continues to flow steadily and the feedback we have
received to date has been very positive.
In our troubled
times, the Message of Garabandal continues to spread across the globe
and lately, it seems, with a greater sense of urgency than ever before.
Please
remember to LIVE this Message Our Lady has give us: personal
conversion, sorrow for sin, prayers of reparation, manifest love for our
neighbors, humble sacrifices, ordinary penances, ardor for Christ in
the Eucharist, prayer for priests, obedience to the lawful authority of
the Church in union with the Holy Father, devotion to Saint Michael,
filiation with the Mother of God signified by the brown scapular and our
faithful recitation of the daily rosary.
Please continue to
make this Message known as Our Lady requested. Begin with your family
and associates. Advance these devotions Our Lady emphasized at
Garabandal wherever you can without disturbing the peace of the
community of all believers.
Finally, in this our Forty Fifth
Anniversary year and the third year of the Golden Anniversary of the
Apparitions, we would like to remember Richard Everson for his
invaluable contribution in producing the groundbreaking Events of Garabandal documentary in 1971.
How
many people in these past decades have come to a deeper conviction of
the reality of God, the love of the Holy Virgin, and the truth of
Garabandal through this accomplishment? Would Garabandal have endured so
securely through the passing years without the powerful visual impact
of the filmed ecstasies and the strong evidence they have offered to the
validity of the phenomena?
Events is the primary
source for organization and inspiration for all those who have attempted
to relate the story of Garabandal using photography and film - a method
which Richard Everson pioneered for the English language audience. It
is a contribution as valuable in its way as Conchita's Diary,
the documented testimony of the eyewitnesses, and the writings of the
priests and promoters of the first generation of Garabandalists.
Although displaced by The Message of Garabandal and the other documentaries of the Nineties, we have uploaded Events to
our Youtube Channel as a tribute to Dick, a great friend to Joey
Lomangino and the Workers of the New York Center. We thank God for his
work today.
In Union of Prayer,
The Workers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel de Garabandal
Lindenhurst, NY USA | | |
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