Virgin Mary Called To Aid China

In what we see as a an odd move by the Vatican, a special prayer has been penned to aid the suffering in China. The prayer was recently penned and released in several languages. Below is the full text of the English version of this special prayer which, among other things, asks that the Chinese not be afraid to mention the name of Jesus.

Virgin Most Holy, mother of the Incarnate Word and our mother,
venerated in the shrine of Sheshan under the title "Help of Christians,"
the entire church in China looks to you with devout affection.

We come before you today to implore your protection.
Look upon the people of God and, with a mother's care, guide them
along the paths of truth and love, so that they may always be
a leaven of harmonious coexistence among all citizens.

When you obediently said "Yes" in the house of Nazareth,
you allowed God's eternal Son to take flesh in your virginal womb
and thus to begin in history the work of our redemption.

You willingly and generously cooperated in that work,
allowing the sword of pain to pierce your soul,
until the supreme hour of the cross, when you kept watch on Calvary,
standing beside your Son, who died that we might live.

From that moment, you became, in a new way,
the mother of all those who receive your son Jesus in faith
and choose to follow in his footsteps by taking up his cross.

Mother of hope, in the darkness of Holy Saturday you journeyed
with unfailing trust toward the dawn of Easter.
Grant that your children may discern at all times,
even those that are darkest, the signs of God's loving presence.

Our Lady of Sheshan, sustain all those in China,
who, amid their daily trials, continue to believe, to hope, to love.
May they never be afraid to speak of Jesus to the world,
and of the world to Jesus.

In the statue overlooking the shrine you lift your son on high,
offering him to the world with open arms in a gesture of love.

Help Catholics always to be credible witnesses to this love,
ever clinging to the rock of Peter on which the church is built.
Mother of China and all Asia, pray for us, now and forever. Amen!

In the meantime, stories of strange events that occurred before the mega-quake are emerging. According to Whitley Striebers' Unknown Country, swarms of frogs were seen clogging the streets in China days before the quake as well as linear clouds crossing the sky. Oddly, just yesterday we ourselves saw a black, linear cloud crossing the sky in Missouri; this occurred before we had read the recent report of such clouds sightings near the Chinese earthquake. Events are building strangely and concurrently around the globe...what it means we do not know but the times are getting very interesting.