A Mothers Plea
Immaculee IlibagizaAuthor, International BestSeller, Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst The Rwandan HolocaustJuly 2007“I challenge the reader to hear the sound of Our Lady’s call echoing throughout the pages of A Mother’s Plea. In 1981, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared near my small village in Rwanda, Africa. She warned us a terrible situation was going to happen if her call for prayer and conversion was not heeded. She asked that a chapel be built and that we should attend Mass and pray the Rosary. Obviously, we did not listen. Now I pray the world will never forget the 100 days in 1994 when more than one million Rwandans were slaughtered by their own countrymen. A Mother’s Plea is an urgent reminder that whether we live in a major American city or in a small village in the African countryside, we must do our part to ensure peace for our children; and for the future of our nations.”Francis Cardinal George, OMIArchbishop of ChicagoSepteber  2007“This is the vividly personal story of a priest in a Chicago parish coming to terms with what the priesthood demands of a man in a great modern city. Profoundly conscious of the sin and unbelief that distort human lives and that touch him too, Father Bus is sometimes desperate in face of the hostile disregard for the Church so prevalent today.”