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History
October 7, 2000
Feast of Our Lady
of the Rosary
Dear Children
of Mary:
We would like to
take this opportunity to introduce ourselves, Alex and Beryl Lemos.
We have been travel agents for 25 years. Unknown to us, many years
ago Our Lord started to prepare us for a special mission. At this
point, we were 'Sunday Catholics', thinking we were on our way to
Heaven...... little did we know!!!!!
In 1989, our inner
healing and deeper relationship with Our Lord and Our Mother began.
This, we believe was our preparation for our first visit as a family
to Betania, Venezuela. After a most beautiful experience in Betania,
there was no turning back. We dedicated our company to Our Blessed
Mother and called ourselves 'Mary's Pilgrims'.
With God's help,
we only focus on pilgrimages. We have taken 25 pilgrim groups to
Betania and have been accompanied by our two sons at least 20 times.
Betania is truly home to us, and Maria Esperanza and family are our
very dear friends.
Again with God's
help, we have organized and always accompanied our pilgrimages to
different religious shrines around the world. For months before a
pilgrimage, we pray at Mass and in front of the Most Blessed
Sacrament and ask Jesus and Mary to go ahead of us and do all the
planning and preparation... to take care of every minute detail
according to His Holy and Divine Will... and believe us, they
take care of every minute detail according to His Will.
Through these experiences, we are learning to
trust in our God and abandon everything to Him. There have been
times when we have taken 400 pilgrims, just the two of us and of
course, our partners JESUS & MARY. What better partners could
we ask for!! By the way, we have invited them to be our partners in
our journey through this earthly life.... HIS BURDEN IS EASY AND
HIS YOKE IS LIGHT! Our mission is to bring others to this
realization, and this is our fervent, daily prayer for all our
pilgrims... those who have traveled with us or will travel with us.
We also pray that all of Mary's Pilgrims will bring Jesus & Mary to
all we come in contact with... a snowball effect... so that every
knee will bow and every tongue confess that:
JESUS CHRIST IS LORD!"
In the past eight years, with Jesus and Mary's
help, we have been organizing Marian Cruise Conferences. We sail in
the Caribbean, the Mediterranean and the Orient. We have a full
Catholic Conference on the ship. Our focus at our conference, as
well as at our ports-of-call, is to spread the MESSAGE OF FATIMA
and DIVINE MERCY. ðWe carry a miraculous pilgrim statue of Our
Lady of Fatima, as well as a statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and
St. Anne.
Our theme is always Our Lady of the Most
Blessed Sacrament. In preparation for our pilgrimages, as ask
our pilgrims to DAILY: hear Holy Mass, pray for at least one hour in
front of the Most Blessed Sacrament, read Holy Scriptures, pray the
twenty decades of the Rosary, make sacrifices and do penance for the
success of OUR mission.
On the ship, we enjoy the love of Jesus and
Mary through at least two Masses daily (also, one or two Masses for
the crew daily), Perpetual Adoration, fifteen decades of the Rosary,
the Hour of Divine Mercy, Bible studies, healing services,
confessions, talks and much more. Our priests are always available
for spiritual guidance.
We are always accompanied by many Marian
priests, sometimes up to 10. We are relying on Our Mother's chosen
sons to lead and guide us. We also have special speakers from around
the world. Our priests and speakers are given at least two
opportunities, each, to address the pilgrims. As soon as we dock,
they are taken to the churches, hospitals, prisons, schools,
clinics, etc. to pray with and speak to the local people.
We, the pilgrims go in procession with the
local people to the churches and celebrate Holy Mass. Thousands of
rosaries and hundreds of other religious articles are distributed by
our pilgrims. We also ask for food, clothing and religious articles
to be brought for the poor and distributed at the ports-of-call.
We pray that, if it is the Will of God, you
will join us on one of our very special pilgrimages. Please pray for
our mission and our family. May the HOLY SPIRIT guide us and
MAY OUR FATHER'S WILL BE DONE, with no exceptions. Let us
challenge one another to double our prayer lives and sacrifices as
we enter the new Millennium. May God bless you and your families
abundantly and watch over you at all times.
Yours in Jesus, Mary & Joseph,
Alex & Beryl Lemos
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