November 28th: Help Us Celebrate the Feast Day of Our Lady of Kibeho

When the Blessed Mother started appearing to three young college girls in a small village of Kibeho in 1981, my life changed forever. My family had a deep devotion to Our Lady always, and this was a beautiful reminder that She loved us. My latest book: “If Only We Had Listened: Heaven Warned Rwanda Long before the Genocide,” was written in honor of Our Lady of Kibeho and is being released on the 20th anniversary of Her last apparition, November 28th. It is my long standing dream to fulfill Our Lady’s wishes and make November 28th the officially recognized Feast Day of Our Lady of Kibeho. The Catholic Church sanctioned this feast day since 2001 when the Vatican, after twelve years of investigation, concluded that the visitations and messages from the Blessed Mother in Kibeho were as genuine as those at Lourdes, Fatima, or Guadalupe. I beg you to encourage your parish to help us celebrate November28th as the Feast of Our Lady of Kibeho as She requested. Please remind people to join in prayer along with 100,000 pilgrims from around the world, who will be celebrating on the shrine, including 25 pilgrims joining me from the USA! The Feast begins on November27th. Thousands walk to the shrine for days, even weeks on foot, to mortify themselves and pray all the way... Miracles and healings happen on that day, not only to those who are present, but also those who are there in their hearts! We will remember them all. Thank you so much for helping us celebrate this beautiful occasion and I would like to ask that you join me in sharing this beautiful prayer to Our Lady of Kibeho that we used to say:

Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Word, Mother of all those who believe in Him and who welcome Him into their life, we are here before you to contemplate You. We believe that you are amongst us, like a mother in the midst of her children, even though we do not see You with our bodily eyes.

We bless you, the Sure way that leads us to Jesus the Savior, for, all the favors which You endlessly pour out upon us, especially, that, in your meekness, You were gracious enough to appear miraculously in Kibeho, just when our world needed it most.

Grant us always the light and the strength necessary to accept, with all seriousness, Your call to us to be converted, to repent, and to live according to your Son’s Gospel. Teach us how to pray with sincerity, and to love one another as He loved us, so that, just as You have requested, we may always be beautiful flowers diffusing their pleasant fragrance everywhere and upon everyone.

Holy Mary, Our Lady of Sorrows, teach us to understand the value of the cross in our lives, so that whatever is still lacking to the sufferings of Christ we may fill up in our own bodies for His mystical Body, which is the Church. And, when our pilgrimage on this earth comes to an end, may we live eternally with You in the kingdom of Heaven.

Amen.

Imprimatur: Gikongore, the 25^th of March, 2006

+August Misgo-Bishop of Gikongoro