"Our younger daughter Cheryl Simpson had an accidental fall from the third floor of the building. By God's grace, she was rushed immediately to Aditya Birla hospital in Pune. After the emergency care, she was diagnosed with severe Traumatic Brain Injury, classified in medical terms as Diffuse Axonal Injury. She was indicated a 50% chance for recovery and 50% mortality. The injury was so severe, that she was in deep coma for almost 2 weeks.
We surrendered her fully to God though we couldn't accept the situation. We asked every person whom we know to pray for her and offered masses in Churches with full faith that God will heal our daughter. As advised by you (Juliet), my wife who was in deep shock and trauma went for a day's prayer in Tabor Ashram and consequently for a 3 day retreat. By God's grace and fervent prayers our daughter opened her right eye after a week and was out of the ventilator the next week.
The following week most of the monitoring systems attached to her were removed, as she displayed signs of stability. All this while the only thing we did was to pray continuously especially the Rosary and the chaplet of Divine Mercy and ask her friends and relatives for more and more prayers. She was out of the ICU after 31 days and a week after that was discharged from the hospital.
Once we came home in the next few days she started walking and is now uttering a few words sporadically. It is biggest miracle that we have seen right in front of our eyes and this single event has demonstrated the loving care of God and Mother Mary and the power of prayer. We firmly believe that God who has done so much for us will do much more and that our daughter will soon return to her normal life. The chief doctor who took care of her in the hospital did admit it is not the medicine but the prayers and faith and all the goodness around that has healed her. Thank you God and we praise and glorify your most holy name"
Currently she has started walking around and recognizing us and our elder daughter. She utters small words now and then and is undergoing physio and occupational therapies. She is yet to fully speak and probably might need to undergo surgeries for her left eye in the next few months.
We would like to thank you for your prayers and for all the prayer groups that prayed for her in a very special way. We would like to thank you for that spiritual lady in Goa who is witnessing the grace of Mother Mary as well for her prayers. We would request more prayers so that God help her open the other eye and enable her to praise Him through her speech and restore her to normal health. Please share this testimony on our behalf to show the world the wonderful God that we believe in and this great miracle that he has worked in our lives.
With thanks & Prayers
Janet & Simpson
PS: (I held Chery's hand and made her type that last line - "Thank You God and we Praise and Glorify Your Most Holy Name")
26 May 2012 22:08
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"When Mary has taken root in a soul she produces in it wonders of grace which only she can produce; for she alone is the fruitful virgin who never had and never will have her equal in purity and fruitfulness. Together with the Holy Spirit Mary produced the greatest thing that ever was or ever will be: a God-man. She will consequently produce the marvels which will be seen in the latter times. The formation and the education of the great saints who will come at the end of the world are reserved to her, for only this singular and wondrous virgin can produce in union with the Holy Spirit singular and wondrous things."
--St. Louis Marie de Montfort
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Mary, Our Mother, is engaged in a deadly warfare with Satan, who is trying to destroy the presence of Christ in His Church. This offers us an insight into why she has been appearing throughout the ages, beckoning us to pray and fast, take the Gospel of Christ seriously, and allow ourselves to be converted.
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Our Lady came to Fatima with an urgent call for prayer and penance, for consecration and devotion of the Five First Saturdays to the Immaculate Heart of Mary to save souls from going to hell and for peace in the world.
At Ganxim (better known as Batim), thousands of rosaries and other forms of prayer like the Stations of the Cross, Holy Masses and the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament are being offered every First Saturday by the pilgrims ever since the 1st of October 1994. One can imagine therefore the contribution of the pilgrims towards saving souls and bringing peace especially to Goa.
Goa is exceptionally privileged to have the gift of Ganxim, where Our Lady is bestowing her blessings, spiritual graces and physical cures! Many extra-ordinary miracles have been published in the Batim News and Views. To mention just two:
Case I - A three-month-old Hindu boy, Neil Harmalkar; suffering from Pyogenic Meningitis was lying critically ill in the ICU, at the GMC Hospital, when the nurse in attendance, Mrs A Vaz, thought of telling his father about the happenings at Batim and the miraculous water of the Batim well, and suggested that the child be given some. The father having readily agreed, the nurse took the permission of the doctor in-charge and put a few drops in the child’s mouth and asked the father of the child to pour some water on its forehead. The moment the water touched the child’s forehead; the child opened his eyes and was on the way to recovery. He is now 5 years old, sound and healthy, without any defect. (Condensed from Batim News and Views dated 2/11/2001)
Case 2 - Mr Neville D’Souza from Fatorda was suffering from chronic kidney problem for 16 years. His condition had deteriorated to such an extent that his doctor in Nadiad in Gujarat advised him to have a kidney transplant and the operation was scheduled in July 2006. Meanwhile, he and his family members were praying hard and were attending the Five First Saturdays at Batim. His condition had started improving gradually. When he went back to Nadiad, for his last check-up before the operation, the doctor was so amazed that his condition was so good that he did not need to have the kidney transplant. (Condensed from Batim News and Views dated 2/9/2006)
BBC TV Telecast : Strangely but providentially the BBC TV team was in Goa, and in Ganxim on the first of the three mammoth gatherings on the 13th of October, the 13th of November, and the 13th of December 1996. A vast crowd of around 15000 had filled the grounds of SS Simon and Jude Church and was spilling down the hill of Ganxim.
At the centre of the scene was Iveta in a crucified posture on the ground undergoing briefly the suffering and death of Our Lord, watched by a well known Goan priest from close quarters, and by several nuns and the crowd around.
The BBC TV televised the scene worldwide on the same day. For this reason, Batim attracts pilgrims from all over the world.
Any Country, Diocese or Parish should be proud to have been gifted with such supernatural events as the Apparitions of Our Lady, and be grateful for the fruits already produced.
The Moral of the Main Story: God appreciates the Faith of the simple and the humble better than the lofty theories of the learned and the sophisticated.
The Navhind Times, Panorama
Sunday March 11, 2007
26 May 2012 22:08
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My name is Cottie from Mumbai. 18 years ago I read about Iveta a visionary had visited Goa after reading this article I was keen to visit Goa hence I did come to this place.
It was on Maundy Thursday in the morning I visited this place Batim church I met a lady at the entrance of this Church on the mountain, I told her of my desire to visit this church she said the door of the church was locked and she had the keys since I came from Mumbai she told her son then 10/12 years old to open the church and show me the church.
I could not walk fast so my husband, daughter and the boy walked together in front of me, I was lagging behind, to my surprise midway I was seeing a big full size woman dressed in white with a blue belt walking in front of me backing the church. My mouth was shut I wanted to tell this to my husband and daughter I found it strange hence I said to myself I will tell them later now first let us reach the church. As I entered the church I saw the same dressed woman on the altar. I was sobbing bitterly my husband and daughter asked me why I was crying I said I do not know why I m crying but this same Mother Mary came to bring me to the church. I saw her like a full size human being looking beautiful.
Again after another visit to Goa after 8 years or so my second desire was to see the church the door was closed I prayed outside to the tall cross and the black cross and went away happily at least I made a visit to the place Batim, I stayed in a hotel that very night I got up to go the washroom to my surprise the hotel lights were off even the generator was not working in the middle of the night I saw a small ray of light coming from the slit of the window I finished from the washroom and out of curiosity I looked out of the window I saw the same tall cross of Batim church was giving light like a powerful tube light the cross was out of the hotel near the swimming pool to the second floor,then I remembered this cross I saw in the morning at Batim church.
3 years ago I came to Batim Church to pray now for my daughter to be blessed with a second child I came in March and prayed to my mother and the two crosses in the compound to our surprise we got the news she was pregnant.
I have great faith in the happenings at the Church of Batim (St Simon and St Jude).
13 Sep 2016
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "When Mary has taken root in a soul she produces in it wonders of grace which only she can produce; for she alone is the fruitful virgin who never had and never will have her equal in purity and fruitfulness. Together with the Holy Spirit Mary produced the greatest thing that ever was or ever will be: a God-man. She will consequently produce the marvels which will be seen in the latter times. The formation and the education of the great saints who will come at the end of the world are reserved to her, for only this singular and wondrous virgin can produce in union with the Holy Spirit singular and wondrous things."
--St. Louis Marie de Montfort
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mary, Our Mother, is engaged in a deadly warfare with Satan, who is trying to destroy the presence of Christ in His Church. This offers us an insight into why she has been appearing throughout the ages, beckoning us to pray and fast, take the Gospel of Christ seriously, and allow ourselves to be converted.
--------------------------------------------------------
Our Lady came to Fatima with an urgent call for prayer and penance, for consecration and devotion of the Five First Saturdays to the Immaculate Heart of Mary to save souls from going to hell and for peace in the world.
At Ganxim (better known as Batim), thousands of rosaries and other forms of prayer like the Stations of the Cross, Holy Masses and the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament are being offered every First Saturday by the pilgrims ever since the 1st of October 1994. One can imagine therefore the contribution of the pilgrims towards saving souls and bringing peace especially to Goa.
Goa is exceptionally privileged to have the gift of Ganxim, where Our Lady is bestowing her blessings, spiritual graces and physical cures! Many extra-ordinary miracles have been published in the Batim News and Views. To mention just two:
Case I - A three-month-old Hindu boy, Neil Harmalkar; suffering from Pyogenic Meningitis was lying critically ill in the ICU, at the GMC Hospital, when the nurse in attendance, Mrs A Vaz, thought of telling his father about the happenings at Batim and the miraculous water of the Batim well, and suggested that the child be given some. The father having readily agreed, the nurse took the permission of the doctor in-charge and put a few drops in the child’s mouth and asked the father of the child to pour some water on its forehead. The moment the water touched the child’s forehead; the child opened his eyes and was on the way to recovery. He is now 5 years old, sound and healthy, without any defect. (Condensed from Batim News and Views dated 2/11/2001)
Case 2 - Mr Neville D’Souza from Fatorda was suffering from chronic kidney problem for 16 years. His condition had deteriorated to such an extent that his doctor in Nadiad in Gujarat advised him to have a kidney transplant and the operation was scheduled in July 2006. Meanwhile, he and his family members were praying hard and were attending the Five First Saturdays at Batim. His condition had started improving gradually. When he went back to Nadiad, for his last check-up before the operation, the doctor was so amazed that his condition was so good that he did not need to have the kidney transplant. (Condensed from Batim News and Views dated 2/9/2006)
BBC TV Telecast : Strangely but providentially the BBC TV team was in Goa, and in Ganxim on the first of the three mammoth gatherings on the 13th of October, the 13th of November, and the 13th of December 1996. A vast crowd of around 15000 had filled the grounds of SS Simon and Jude Church and was spilling down the hill of Ganxim.
At the centre of the scene was Iveta in a crucified posture on the ground undergoing briefly the suffering and death of Our Lord, watched by a well known Goan priest from close quarters, and by several nuns and the crowd around.
The BBC TV televised the scene worldwide on the same day. For this reason, Batim attracts pilgrims from all over the world.
Any Country, Diocese or Parish should be proud to have been gifted with such supernatural events as the Apparitions of Our Lady, and be grateful for the fruits already produced.
The Moral of the Main Story: God appreciates the Faith of the simple and the humble better than the lofty theories of the learned and the sophisticated.
The Navhind Times, Panorama
Sunday March 11, 2007
Posted By : The Navhind Times, Goa Newspaper on 12/03/2007
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