June 1, 2007

My Dear Friends in Christ --- Blessings be upon you abundantly +

I sincerely wish to thank you for your kindness recently expressed to me for your holistic trustful needs in seeking prayers both from me and from my dedicated staff at the Office of the Apostolate of Divine Mercy and Healing. I also thank you for your thoughtfulness in uniting with me in my personal requested prayer of Gratitude to God and to His Holy Mother of Divine Providence as I privately and prayerfully spend this my 50^th anniversary in Holy Orders / Ordination, June 1, 1957 – 2007. God and His Holy Mother have been exceptionally and magnificently good to me. My only joy was and is to share it with the people God loves and whom He allows me to meet, love and “anointingly” bless.

You are in my prayers specifically and individually not only in my daily time before the Blessed Sacrament, but more so on that day of my June 1st, 2007, fiftieth anniversary as a Priest. I quietly and joyfully will spend all alone my gratitude to God and especially to Our Lady of Divine Providence at my favorite spot at St. Joseph Monastery where so often I “drink from Our Lord’s Refreshing Well.”

In this particularly favored moment in my service to God and to the Church (to God’s universal people where I have served, and if God so intends to provide, hopefully to continue with the Lord’s grace) you will hold a very special “memento” where remembrances are held most precious, that being, at my daily Holy Mass.

In your Godly added kindness, please pray for me, for my distant and remaining small family, for my devoted, zealous and faithful working Apostolate Staff. Pray for all the people whom the Lord has allowed His simple servants to embrace with Healing Love --Charisma Signs-- which and whose only purpose is to confirm the Gospel Message. In your religious concern, so often and in so many ways expressed to me, pray also for all clerical religious or lay persons who with honest, staunch, unselfish and unreserved friendship have remained true to God, and to His earthly assignment both to and by others, religious or lay persons. Keep me in prayer for my own health that God would still wish to use me to be His divinely / humanly effective priest adhering to The Holy Spirit’s Anointed Guidance. The Church needs only one element, and that is the Spirit of God. Bless you for this!

Pray, I repeat, from your goodness and mercy, for all silent, sacrificial, suffering clergy who with their unselfish loyalty and ministerial zeal serve the good Lord, inspiring their people with hope to faith and good works. We need your prayers as we leaders attempt to do His work under the Divine Guidance so providentially provided for us. THANK YOU +

I “anointingly” bless you with the happiness of my fifty years in the Holy Sacrament of Priesthood, that being, soulwinning. May Our Blessed Dear Lord through His Holy Mother of Divine Providence be with you, and upon you. May we both presently and hopefully look forward to the possibility of future days in which we all can continue to try to be the change we wish to see in the world.

Bless You,

Father Ralph A. DiORIO, Jr. +