Cameroon

Paul E. Ekpe
St. Joseph’s Anglophone
P.O. Box 3252, Yaounde
Cameroon
Tel. 237 223 7387

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Dear Mother Patti,

I received an air lift yesterday through UPS. It contains; Rosaries of 15s, 15 special other Rosaries, 2 Crucifixes and 1 small one, 5 bottles of Oil, Novenas etc...

I was delighted to hear from Fr. Jean Claude of a box he received. I told him to enroll and send lists.

The Director of customs in-charge of UPS revealed to me that he will be blessing his marriage on Pentecost Sunday thanks to the intercession of St. Philomena. In addition, he said that his right foot was healed from fracture thanks to the Oil of St. Philomena. He added that he cannot do without St. Philomena's Oil and again, it is not only for physical healing but it obtains also grace for one to be committed Christian.

Ave ........Maria!

Paul E.Ekpe
St. Joseph's Anglophone Parish
Yaounde
Cameroon
Africa

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Dear Patti,

Thanks a million for the great box which arrived, indeed we grateful and very much obliged to you and for all its contents. How is Lisa? I continue to pray for her.

With profound gratitude to you and a happy Pentecost. You are in my daily prayers.

Peace.

Father Ayeah
Cameroon
Africa

Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Dear Patti,

I have them written and will send them by mail, hope that won’t take long before you get them. Also are some completed forms, but if you think that it will late, let me know so I can get them typed immediately. I got a call today to come for my box from UPS and I will be there tomorrow.

I was able to collect the two other boxes at the post office upon completion of the payment for the box and other charges, but this time, the charges were reduced significantly. Now am going to have myself a lot of materials to work with and will only need some much later this year, thanks to your efforts.

Yours in Christ

Michael
Abuja
Nigeria
Yaounde-Cameroon
Africa

Monday, May 4, 2009

Dear Mother Patti,

Please, could you kindly include our school projects! The Archdiocesan Secretariat of Education would be delighted to see the images of the school project in our newsletter. I hope you still have the images that I sent previously. The Secretariat has just renewed our Authorization Letter. I will include a copy in the lists that I will send soon.

What is worth mentioning in the school project is the excitement of the pupils and teachers. They said that the devotion is very interesting and exciting because of its simplicity. According to the report, many families had been able to rediscover the importance of family prayers thanks to the Living Rosary Association of Saint Philomena. This is because decade by decade encourages each member of the family to recite his or her decade before or after the family prayers without necessarily finishing the entire 20 Mysteries of the Rosary. Again, for the fact that one can say the prayer at any time of the day and any where attracts attention of both the children and adults alike. The Archdiocese in getting this report encourages and mandates us to extend the Apostolate even to Catholic Colleges.

More soothe few Crosses we gave out to some schools where there was no Crucifix in the class-room motivated the church authority here to confine this responsibility to us (the Living Rosary of St. Philomena). In view of these contributions by the Living Rosary. This also encouraged the Church hierarchy to designate a Spiritual Adviser to work with us. Fr. Basil, a Parish Priest of St. Peter's Parish Nkolmenyang Yaounde, in his first contact with the members of the association expressed his determination to work with us. He did not hide his feelings by telling members that if they continue with this spirit of commitment that reign in among them now, in less than no time the Living Rosary will be felt and lived by every Catholic and every Christian in the country.

Also, the Carmelite fathers started a two Months training in my Parish last Saturday May 2,2009,for those our members who would like be invested with the Scapular. About 20 members attended the first training. Those who completed the training will be invested with the Scapular on the 16th or 18th of July to commemorate the Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel at one of the Carmelite Parishes here in Yaounde.

Ave Maria!

Paul E. Ekpe
Yaounde-Cameroon
Africa

Monday, April 27, 2009

Dear Mother Patti,

I received 2 boxes via UPS. And small box via the post.

One with Chasubles, Stoles and Chalice including Rosaries, Saint Philomena Oil and cord, brochure, Medals and posters.

The other one came with 8 Crucifixes, posters, Rosaries, brochures, Stations of the Cross, Dedicated Decades magazines, pamphlets, leaflets etc.....

Thanks for sending the boxes. Enrollment started in the school I told you. I have got some lists with me to send but I will have to wait until I might have completed the school enrollment so as to send more lists.

Again, our promoter in Bata in Guinea Equatorial told me that he already sent some lists in three different occasions. And that he will be traveling to Malabo for some Apostolate. Hope that is true. If so I'm very delighted.

Also, I went to collect the reply to the report I submitted at the Archdiocesan Secretariat of Education, I was told to come back on Friday because they are making their reply in both English and French language respectively. I'm will likely send a copy along with the lists.

But from look of things, the Church wants us to go ahead with the school project. This is because the Secretary General asks me to show him a simple of the enrollment form. He appreciated the simplicity of the devotion.

Furthermore, for the fact that we give Crucifix sometime to be placed in some of the class-rooms where there is none is something he admires so much.

Added to the above, the Carmelite fathers shall begin training for some members who wish to wear the Scapular on May 2nd through July, 2009, in my Parish. Those who completed the training section shall officially be invested with the Scapular on Saturday July 18, 2009, to mark the Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. I will send you detail of the program when time comes.

Ave Maria.......
Paul E. Ekpe
Yaounde-Cameroon
Africa

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Dear Mrs. Patti Melvin,

Thanks a million for your letter of December 22,2008 which I received last month. Thanks a lot too, for the scripts calendar and Sacramentals. I am most grateful for enrolling me into the Universal Living Rosary Association. My number is 11721. And my Decade is the CRUCIFIXION.

I started my decade prayer on the day assigned -19.03.09. Since then, I have been saying my decade everyday for the assigned intentions included.

In order to get more members for the Universal Living Rosary Association of Saint Philomena (ULRA), I made many copies of the leaflets carrying information about ULRA and GARMENT OF GRACE, and I shared them to many of my friends, family members and colleagues in and out of Cameroon. I want many people to know about and join the ULRA.

Please, I like you to do me a favor of sending me the biographies of St Philomena and Pauline Jaricot. It is very necessary to know about them so that I will be more explicit to all those who are interested.
My address has changed. I now work in Douala, instead of Buea.

Sisters of St Therese, Makepe
Cameroon
West Africa

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Dear Mother Patti,

I wish to inform you that I encouraged one of our promoters, Lilian Shuka to go to Bamenda Central prison and begin enrollment there last year.

She accepted and today Living Rosary is operating in the Bamenda prison. Today she sent 330 names enrolled.

On that note I will be sending her a box just after Easter Sunday.

Also, I told her to take pictures and the impression of the prisoners and the prison officials for onward publications.

Back here in Yaounde, the Catholic Prison Commission has also affiliated the Living Rosary as one of its members. That is to say that I can attend any conference or seminar that the Commission may organize. Wishing you and all our staff a very happy Easter in advance.

AVE MARIA!
Paul E.Ekpe
Yaounde-Cameroon
Africa

Monday, April 6, 2009

Dear Mother Patti,

The Dedicated Decade for this Spring is so good in its title"Fatima Our Promise and Hope". I gave some to the enrolled members of my Parish yesterday including our three Priests. They so much appreciate them. It is rich in information and inspiration. What make it more exciting is the information and pictures from Cameroon.

I hope some people will write to you. Please, do remind them to visit our center.

Wishing you and all our staff all the best during the Holy Week and happy Easter in advance.

AVE MARIA!

Paul E. Ekpe
Yaounde-Cameroon
Africa

Monday, March 23, 2009

Dear Mother Patti,

I'm happy to send you some photos as promised. These were the product of the school project that I wrote you about.

Hope you received the report I sent already. The lists are on its way to you, mom. More school enrollment has started.

Thanks for your prayers.

My Parish Priest published information about the Living Rosary on our Parish bulletin at the first Sunday of Lent. I will see him again for another publication.

I told the directors of those schools to be patient for the Crucifixes. They really needed them.

Ave Maria!

Paul E. EKpe
St. Joseph's Anglophone Parish,
Yaounde-Cameroon
Africa

Paul E. EKpe, St. Joseph's Anglophone Parish,, Yaounde-Cameroon, Africa

Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Dear Mother Patti,

I sincerely apologize for have not been able to communicate before now. Hope you will forgive me.

I have just completed 2 sections of one school and lists of 1,665 names went off this morning. Hope it arrives safe. Many post office stamps on it.

I will send photos via e-mail. The problem of crucifixes is in almost all the class-rooms. I counted about 100 class-rooms without a Crucifix including some director’s offices.

Also, enrollment in other sections of the school will begin this coming week.

Meanwhile, yesterday, Re. Fr. Cornelius visited our center. He came for the event of Pope's visit to Cameroon and since he heard about our Center in Yaounde, he said it was a great opportunity for him visiting our center for the first time. He is a Parish Priest of one Parish in a jungle village in the South West Region of Cameroon.

I gave him enrolment lists and items including Stations of the Cross pictures to frame and place in his Parish. He went also with Oil and cord and some important brochures.

More so, some members who had come for the visit of our Holy Father and for the Pontifical Mass at the National Stadium tomorrow had been calling and visiting our center. For such members, it is double opportunity attending Pope's Mass and discovering our center.

Our Holy Father came since yesterday at 4:00 p.m., Yaounde time. He will leave for Angola on March 20, 2009, at 9:00 a.m. Yaounde time.

Let's all pray for his safe trip to Africa and that his trip to increase the faith of our Christians. And that Our Lady Queen of the Apostles to accompany him throughout the journey.

Ave Maria!

Paul E. EKpe
Yaounde-Cameroon.
Africa

Saturday, March 7, 2009
Dear Patti,

Greetings. Thank you immensely for the last box arrived with all the wonderful contains we are indeed grateful and very much to you. I hope please God that Lisa is responding to treatment, she is my prayers. What about Sr. Emerentia? Hope her situation has improved. I just posted a letter to you two days ago with lists of 630 Universal Living Rosary Association of Saint Philomena members’ names for registration by airmail; it will take some time before it gets to you.

Kindly join me to thank God on the 5th of April which is the 45th anniversary of my priestly ordination. Thanks for the photo with your brother priest which you sent me on his anniversary I have it before me. Once more many thanks for all AND PRAYERFUL BEST WISHES FOR A FRUITFUL LENTEN SEASON AND A

Happy Easter

Shalom

Fr Joseph Ayeah
Catholic Mission Bambui
Cameroon
West Africa

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Dear Mrs. Patti,

It’s now that I am actually seeing the fruit of our Universal Living Rosary Association of Saint Philomena (ULRA) apostolate in the seminaries. As Claretian missionaries, we have the possibilities of working any where in the world. Now this is Francis in Spain to begin a nice work there. I am sure you must have gotten his address. Fr. Innocent and Fr. Patrick are there in East Africa, We are here now in central Africa and soon we will get more people to work in Congo and other countries. Most of us got to know the ULRA in our seminary days in the Claretian Seminary in Nigeria.

In all these, I can only say thanks be to God. We will try our best to get future priests and missionaries involved in it. In such a way that it spreads naturally all round the world. Our interest is always on the decade.

Mrs. Patti, LET US GET THE WHOLE WORLD ENTANGLED IN THIS CHAIN OF DECADES THROUGH WHICH OUR BLESSED MOTHER AND OUR PATRONNESS WILL LEAD US TO CHRIST JESUS.

I am just so happy today that Francis expressed the desire to handle the Immaculata. It may interest you to know that Francis is not alone. He is there with other promoters I worked with in the Claretian institute of Philosophy: Michael Chima, cmf; Gilles Njobam, cmf. For all these let us say THANKS BE TO GOD.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, Be my salvation.
Jude Thaddeus Langeh Basebang, cmf
ThÉologat ClarÉtain,
Republic of Cameroon,
Central Africa

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Dear Mrs. Patti,

On the 22nd of December 2008, this family visited us and we had a recollection with them in our community. They are Universal Living Rosary Association of Saint Philomena (ULRA) members. During the recollection, we gave a talk on the scapular and the entire household was enrolled into the scapular confraternity. Find attached some pictures.

Here are the names:
TANJU CHARLES TANGOACHE
TANJU NKENGAKA EVELYN
TANGOACHE BRIAN LEKEFUA
TANGOACHE GLEN TELELEN
TANGOACHE BARRY NGULEFEH
TANGOACHE CHARLYNE LECHIDEM
LEKEFUA ACHA
NKEMASON TUIDOR
CECILIA BISSAH EYAMBE
AKWANI MAUREEN
BECHINE FEH MBENGU

Immaculate Heart of Mary, Be my salvation.
Jude Thaddeus Langeh Basebang, cmf
ThÉologat ClarÉtain
Republic of Cameroon,
Central Africa

Jude Thaddeus Langeh Basebang, cmf, ThÉologat ClarÉtain, Republic of Cameroon, Central Africa.

Dear Mrs. Patti,

Greetings from YaoundÉ. I posted to you some registration forms and an annual report of our activities for the year 2008 well interspaced with pictures. Hope you will find them interesting. I am equally attaching some pictures. You will find me with Rev. Fr. Alexandre MVOGO, cmf; A ClarÉtain missionary working in Akono, here in the Archdiocese of YaoundÉ. He is currently registering many people.

God Bless You.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, Be my salvation.

Jude Thaddeus Langeh Basebang, cmf
ThÉologat ClarÉtain
YaoundÉ
Central Province
Republic of Cameroon
Central Africa

Jude Thaddeus Langeh Basebang, cmf, ThÉologat ClarÉtain, YaoundÉ, Central Province, Republic of Cameroon, Central Africa.

Saturday, January 10, 2009
Dear Mother Patti,

Today, I met Rev. Fr. Basil Roger Mendunga, the spiritual adviser that was appointed by the Archbishop of Yaounde to the Living Rosary Association of Saint Philomena (ULRA).

I went with about a hundred members. It was an occasion for us to present the Living Rosary and its objectives to the Parishioners. Following the explanation during the Mass that took place at 10:00 a.m., at St. Peter Parish, Nkolmenga, about 30 KM from our Missionary Center, about 30 new members registered immediately.

After the Mass, father Basil Roger took us to his Parish hall where he again spoke to all the members. He said he knew the Living Rosary in 2006, when Paul (that is I) came to launch the ULRA at St. Therese's Parish Melen-Baab, about 50 KM from our Missionary Center, where he served as assistant Parish Priest. He continued by saying that what inspired him about the ULRA is that at that time when Paul and members of the association presented a Chalice and Patern to the Parish Priest. Knowing that the Parish needed such help and assisting the Parish with such gift was a remarkable thing in his life.

In conclusion, he said he will help us in anywhere and at any time that the association may need him regarding retreats and seminars. And that since the Archbishop himself has found him worthy of the ULRA; he will do his best to spread the association within and outside his Parish. He is at his 30’s.

At the end of the reception which the Parish organized for us, I presented him with a framed picture of St. Philomena, Chaplet of St. Philomena, Novena and other leaflets both in French language.

The occasion lasted five and half hours.

Below are some photos taken there though he was not wearing his vest.

Hope Richard Fox will help to open the photos.

I will be sending some lists and photos via post this coming week.
Ave Maria!

Paul E.Ekpe
St. Joseph's Anglophone Parish
YaoundÉ -Cameroon
Africa

St. Joseph's Anglophone Parish , YaoundÉ, Cameroon, Africa

New Universal Living Rosary Association of Saint Philomena members in Bamenda, Cameroon, Africa

Friday, January 2, 2009

Dear Mother Patti,

On the behalf of the members and promoters of the living Rosary, I wish you and all the staff of Universal Living Rosary Association of Saint Philomena (ULRA) a very happy New Year.

Here are some photos (see below) taken today at a Mass celebrated by a Carmelite father, Rev. Fr. Leger Marie.

Below is Fr. Leger Marie's testimony made on January 1, 2009, at the occasion of Mary, Mother of God.

The Carmelite Father, Rev. Fr. Leger Marie told us that he was saved by the Scapular from a very serious accident after celebrating a Mass with a Bishop of Ndume-Abong Bang in the East Region of Cameroon last December 12,2008. He said he was in comma for 3 days.

He continued by saying that there was no doubt in his mind that it was Our Lady of Mount Carmel that had saved him from such accident.

He went on to say that Our Lady is very much nearer to any of her child wearing the Scapular. All she needs from us the Fr. continued is to live a chaste life.

Training and formation for those to be invested with the Scapular shall begin in February, 2009.

During the celebration, twenty new members were invested with the Scapular.

I shall send lists and some photos via the post.

Ave Maria!

Paul E.
Cameroon