Friday, October 19, 2001 6:46 PM
Persecution and Prayer
On October 5, Ana Lizarralde attended the Ecclesistical Tribunal to which she was ordered to appear by her Bishop in Uruguay (see forum mailing of September 10, /forum/forum408.html ). She was accompanied by her lawyer. The tribunal stuck, however, to the 1995 Notification and insisted that TLIG is forbidden and refused to listen to any argument. Ana presented the Canon Law defence, prepared by Anthony Jeremy but they ignored it.
Ana writes:
“My Bishop in question didn’t meet with me, even though I had asked him twice for a meeting. I was questioned by the judge, minutes of the questioning were written and I had to sign the document at the end. In this document it it is written that I accept the Notification and its statements and that I’m not going to diffuse TLIG. I argued very strongly that what the Notification says is not to diffuse TLIG in churches or ecclesistical areas and that we can continue with our Prayer Meetings in homes and our personal reading. But they consider the Notification as a prohibition. So, problems will go on.”
“I’ll keep on diffusing but being extra careful. I think we’ve got to be brave and defend the messages.”
“You know, ordinary people ignore inner church problems but they have common sense, and they can sense that this Bishop’s attitude does not go along with what is expected of a good shepherd.”
Another country where TLIG is suffering persecution by the hierarchy is the Philippines which Vassula has recently been prevented from visiting for evangelization meetings.
Fr. Richie Santos sends the following request for prayer for a gathering of youth.
“We need prayers from the prayerful TLIG victim souls and other TLIG brothers and sisters. This October 19 – 21, less than 20 youth leaders will be attending a True Life in God for Youth retreat entitled “LIGHT UP THE WORLD” which means “Living In God’s Holy Trinity Unity Program”. Hopefully the youth participants will commit themselves to be youth evangelizers-in-training. They will be introduced to the TLIG messages using personal meditation, group sharing, happy sing-along and other youth activites assisting them on their desire to make sense out of what is happening in our world today and do something spiritually worthwhile and meaningful. Please pray that the hearts and minds of these youths may open to the work of the Holy Spirit and the challenge of the Love Hymn, to the praise and glory of the Holy Trinity.”
May we make this a daily prayer: ‘True Life in God, make us holy!”‘
Fr. Richie R. Santos, sdb
