Entrusting the Mission to Our Lady...

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As Mary put it so beautifully in the last blog entry of Entrusting her heart to Our Lady, it is with that thought in mind that we me move forward to share this video of the official start to the Mission...Entrusting the Mission to Our Lady.

It brings back memories from August 2011 when we had a meeting with the local committee at the Shrine...

A little background...We had traveled to Kenya in August 2011 to bring the Enthronement to various sub-parishes in Father William's home area of Nyg'oma, as well as attending the groundbreaking of Laura's Place, an educational resource center, which is now complete  (we will share the grand opening and the story of the center with corresponding videos in the near future).

Father William had arranged a meeting with Father Richard and the local committee at the Shrine for a future Enthronement Mission...looking back on that meeting now over a year ago and seeing what God did is such a blessing!  We met and shared the vision of the Enthronement Mission and left the committee with information along with the Pilgrim Statue of Mary.

As with any Enthronement, that is the first step...presenting the Pilgrim Statue of Mary.  Our Lady opens the door for the Enthronement as she will always lead you to her Son and our Savior Jesus.

We left Kenya that evening not knowing the time or how it would unfold...but God knew.

The doors began to open for this Mission to Kenya...also in the fall of last year was the First World Congress of the Sacred Heart in Paray-le-Monial, France (see the website for more information http://www.sacredheartapostolate.com ).  The World Congress began with the Entrustment of the World Congress to Our Lady...and we felt called to do the same in Kenya.

Entrusting the Mission to our Lady was an extension of the Pilgrim Statue, which we had left with those from the Shrine over a year ago - she always leads us to Jesus...

The Entrustment of the Mission establishes the protection of the mission and ourselves to Our Lady, knowing that she will guide us and point us to Jesus...to His most Loving and Merciful Heart.

In addition to all this...today is the Feast of Saint Anthony Claret (1807-1870)...as we realized that today was the day we would send this blog entry out to everyone we decided to look him up in the Office of Readings and as we read about him, it brought smiles to all of our faces!  Part of what is written is this:  "Saint Claret after becoming a priest spent several years preaching and established a missionary order."  We saw a glimpse of how God brought two worlds together through the efforts of Father William  and how through our Diocese and the many missionaries we have here and now we are ALL called to be missionaries whether we travel halfway around the world or never leave our own backyards.  A perfect example of this is Saint Therese, The Little Flower, who is one of the Patron Saints of Missionaries and she never even left the convent!  We are all called to holiness and missionary activity of the Church!  The prayers of all of you, whether you traveled or not, is the foundation of all of God's work!

This summer we had sent the outlines of the Mission to Father Richard with the words of Entrusting the Mission to Our Lady...however, we had no idea until we arrived and saw what Father Richard and the committee had done to bring that to reality with the Procession/Rosary that officially opened the Mission, a gift which was straight from above...

The video that follows gives you a glimpse into the beauty of that Entrustment and the love of Our Lady for each of us by leading us always to her Son..."I love you Lord, my strength." (Psalm 18)