"The
Flame of Love sets the world ablaze"
The Movement of the Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary held its
fourth national congress on November 13, 2005, in the hall of the
Saint-Laurent church, in Montreal, with the following theme for this year:
'The Flame of Love sets the world ablaze'. The statue of Our Lady of the Flame
of Love brought back from
Quito
(
Ecuador
) this summer, occupied the place of honor in the congress of this year. The
congress started at 9h30 with the presentation of the program of the day.
Then, a first Rosary was recited followed by a brief history of the Flame of
Love, its messenger and on the Flame of Love Movement. The intervention of
Mrs. Agathe Nebout from the Ivory Coast was well noticed when she described to the assistance how the Flame was
spreading in her country. Gerard Picard, Assistant to the National
Coordinator, gave a talk on his trip to Quito
that took place in August of this year, to take part in the international
meeting of the work of the Movement.
In
the afternoon, the congress continued with a second Rosary. After this, Father
Jacques Griset, C.S.C., gave a beautiful teaching on the Flame of Love based
on the spiritual Diary of Elizabeth Kindelmann. The teaching of Father Jacques
held the attention of the assembly in a particular way. Then, it was the turn
of the National Coordinator, Marcel Dufour, to speak about the work in Canada, in particular following the rental of an
operational center at the beginning of November of this year in the town of
Longueuil, which will make it possible to centralize the operations of the
Movement with a greater effectiveness and will make it possible for the
volunteers to offer their assistance more freely. Michel Quessy, who
translated the spiritual Diary of Elizabeth Kindelmann from Spanish to French,
gave a small talk on the updates he made to his Internet website.
The group of animation and evangelization ‘Arc-en-ciel-jeunesse’, under
the direction of Sister Jacqueline Laflamme, provided the musical animation
and led the assembly in the prayer thanks to their songs and their beautiful
voices.
Unfortunately,
our friends from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Aline and her husband
Clement, could not take part in the congress, as this had been announced,
because a visa of Visitors was not granted to them by the Canadian embassy in
Kigali. We regret their absence, but as Aline says, 'all is grace'.
The
congress ended with the celebration of the Holy Mass in the church followed by
the recitation of the Rosary of the Flame of Love in the presence of the Most
Blessed Sacrament exposed on the Altar.
Some photos
of the event:
