The Healing Journey

April 14, 2026

“Do not forget that God is more powerful than all the evil in the world.”
— Our Lady

In her book, “Our Lady of Kibeho,” Immaculée Ilibagiza talks about her personal experiences surrounding the Blessed Mother’s apparitions to three school girls in Rwanda during the 1980s. She was still young when the Blessed Mother first appeared in a forgotten part of the country, but she tells the story of how her father joined a group of others led by their parish priest to go to the village and witness for themselves what was occurring. The first high school girl that Our Lady appeared to was Alphonsine.

She wrote: “Dad shared that Alphonsine spent much of her time dancing and singing beautiful songs that the Holy Mother had taught her. He wanted us to hear one of these songs from heaven, called “Turakwambaza Mubyeyi” (“We Are Calling Upon You, Mother”), so he did something we rarely heard him do—he sang.” Here is the song that the Blessed Mother taught them during these Church-approved apparitions. It should have meaning for us all.

Queen of Heaven and Earth,
We call upon you, Mother,
Be our advocate to Jesus,
Teach us to love him and to do his will,
Bring him into the world,
So we can help him to save mankind.
Queen of Heaven and Earth,
Mother of God and mother of ours,
Listen to those who call upon you,
Help them to know God better,
Pray for them and intercede for them.
You lived on Earth, Mother,
You know how easily we get lost,
We need to know the true way,
The way that Jesus taught,
Pray for us that he sends us his messengers.
Look at the young people trying to follow Jesus,
Pray for us to have purity of heart,
Pray that we commit to the goods of Heaven,
So that we can be his messengers.
There are those who don’t understand
Why Jesus wants us to follow him,
Pray for them and pray for us,
That we may know his will and believe his words,
So we can grow to be his true messengers.

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