DEAR RITA & EVERYONE, I JUST WANTED TO TELL YOU WE HAVE HAD SO MANY PRAYERS ANSWERED MOST ESPECIALLY SINCE WE HAVE HAD THE IMAGE STATUE IN OUR HOME A FEW MONTHS AGO PRAYERS BEING MIRACULOUSLY ANSWERED FOR OUR CHILDREN & GRANDCHILDREN, OUR DAUGHTERS HEART HAS LITERALLY ALMOST HEALED ... SHE IS ALSO PREGNANT AND THAT IS ALSO A MIRACLE THAT SHE CARRIED THE BABY THIS FAR, SHE IS SO THANKFUL AND ALSO HER CARDIOLOGIST CANT FIGURE OUT HOW SHE IS DOING SO WELL, AND EVEN AGREED WITH HER IT MUST BE PRAYERS BEING SAID FOR HER, HE ALSO TOLD HER IN HER 4TH MONTH TO ABORT THE BABY, MAYBE HE WILL HAVE A CONVERSION, WE HOPE. OTHERS IN MY FAMILY HAVE CHANGED SINCE WE GOT THE STATUE. THEY ARE MORE UNDERSTANDING AND PATIENT AND LOVE BEING A CATHOLIC MORE THAN EVER BEFORE ...WE THANK JESUS, MARY, RITA AND YOU ALL. PRAISE ALL OF HEAVEN. WE ARE ALSO SO EAGER TO HAVE MANY MORE PRAYERS ANSWERED, WE ARE GIVING OUR MARRIED CHILDREN A 10 INCH STATUE EACH FOR THEIR HOMES AND RED PRAYER MANUAL IF THEY WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SAY THE PRAYERS IF THEY SO CHOOSE TO. THE STATUE WE KNOW WILL HELP THEM WITH MANY GRACES AS THEY PRAY BEFORE IT AS IT HAS HELPED US IN OUR HOME AND LIVES. LOVE YOU ALL  

 
Rita speaks:  The other day I was in the store and a woman came in crying and she embraced me and she said, "The Blue Books saved my life, I was really depressed and having so much trouble and I got a Blue Book in 1999 and it saved my life." She was buying 3 Blue Books and she says she reads it all the time.

Another woman told me the same day how she used the Blue Books all day and studied them — they tell her what she needs. She loves Jesus so much.
 

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P.S. WE ALSO HAD ORDERED THE CRUCIFIX THAT FELIX CARVED WITH THE IMAGE STATUE SO WE ALSO FEEL THE  NUMEROUS PRAYERS BEING ANSWERED BY HAVING THEM BOTH IN OUR HOME, WE ARE SO THANKFUL FOR THE LEAP OF FAITH WE HAD IN ORDERING THEM BOTH AND ALSO THIS GIFT FROM HEAVEN FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE THEM SO CLOSE TO US AS TO BE RIGHT IN OUR HOME WITH US. OUR LADY OF CLEARWATER & AND FELIX'S CRUCIFIX. THANK YOU SHEPHERDS OF CHRIST. CRAIG & MARGRET.

Excerpt from Priestly Newsletter 1998 - ISSUE FOUR

    Shortly before he was to die from cancer, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin left us these inspiring words about peace: "It is the first day of November, and fall is giving way to winter. Soon the trees will lose the vibrant colors of their leaves and snow will cover the ground. The earth will shut down, and people will race to and from their destinations bundled up for warmth. Chicago winters are harsh. It is a time of dying.

    "But we know that spring will soon come with all its new life and wonder.

    "It is quite clear that I will not be alive in the spring. But I will soon experience new life in a different way...

    "What I would like to leave behind is a simple prayer that each of you may find what I have found—God's special gift to us all: the gift of peace. When we are at peace, we find the freedom to be most fully who we are, even in the worst of times. We let go of what is non-essential and embrace what is essential. We empty ourselves so that God may more fully work within us. And we become instruments in the hands of the Lord."³

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Notes:

3. Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, The Gift of Peace, Loyola University Press, pp. 151-153.
    

end of excerpt from Priestly Newsletter 1998 - ISSUE FOUR