Children, Help My Heart to Triumph!

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Children of Medjugorje, Incorporated, May 3, 1996 - 30 pages

This children's book is best for ages 8-15. It teaches children how to pray the rosary and the beauty and importance of offering a novena for themselves, their family, their friends, or even strangers.

This beautifully illustrated book comes with a coloring book that can be sent to a shrine of Our Lady for her intercession.

At the height of the Bosnian War, Sister Emmanuel remained in Medjugorje with a few members of her community. During that time, memories of her father, a Prisoner of War during WWII, continually surfaced. Remembering how much he suffered, she felt a need to do something to spiritually help those on the front lines. Sister Emmanuel describes a call that she received at that time to appeal to the children for their sacrifices in order to alleviate the war. Children, Help My Heart To Triumph was written in response to that call. It describes for children how to make a 9-day novena of little sacrifices. Included is a coloring book that they can color and mail to Medjugorje where they will be presented at one of Our Lady's apparitions.

About the author (1996)

Sister Emmanuel tells that after receiving her first calling to the Beatitudes Community in 1976, she received another calling - to serve Our Lady in Medjugorje. Sent by her community, she initiated the first branch of the community in Medjugorje in 1989. During the Balkan war in the 90s, Sister Emmanuel became known for her regular faxes about the situation in Herzegovina, always related to the mission of Our Lady. She has had an enormous impact on France, stimulating an extensive response to Medjugorje among French pilgrims, but her apostolate has broadened as her books have been translated into 22 languages and she has traveled widely to make Medjugorje known, particularly in the United States. Today, "Les Enfants de Medjugorje" and "Children of Medjugorje, Inc." allow her to be connected everyday to thousands of people around the world, who are motivated by and spreading, the messages of Our Lady in their own humble way. Sister says that her greatest joy is to be part of a family formed by Our Lady, and being Her extended heart and hands for her children, especially those who do not yet know the love of God.

Bibliographic information

TitleChildren, Help My Heart to Triumph!
AuthorSister Emmanuel Maillard
Edition2, illustrated
PublisherChildren of Medjugorje, Incorporated, 1996
ISBN0615453236, 9780615453231
Length30 pages
  
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