ngome 5

Seven months later... 

on the 8th of December 1957...

the Feast of the Immaculate Conception... 

Sister Reinolda made a journey for the first time to the Ngome area to visit a sick person. 

She had never previously been to Ngome.

During her time at Ngome, she felt the certainty within her heart that this was the place where the Shrine the Blessed Virgin had requested should be built. 

After consulting with Father Ignatius Jutz, the parish priest of Nongoma, a number of wells were found in the forest below the Ngome school.

Four months later... 

Sister Reinolda had an eighth encounter with the Blessed Virgin.

It was the 17th of April 1958.

Like a command!

´Go to your place. 

Hurry up, the hour is advanced. 

I must keep back the streams of Grace with force

because you do not make any effort to help me. 

I am asking for help from you, My chosen ones!´

Q: ´What are we supposed to do?´

A: ´Be hosts! 

Prepare hosts for me! 

Hosts who put themselves completely at my disposal. 

Only a flaming sea of hosts can drive back the hate of the godless world... 

and restrain the angry hand of the Father. 

Don’t get tired. 

I find consolation in revealing Myself to you. 

I shall never abandon you.´

Q: ´Where is the place of the springs?´

A: ´On your property on the mountain.´

With a movement of the hand... 

She indicated a second time the very same direction!

´Don’t be afraid, make haste to make it known.´

Sister Reinolda began to feel the need for a picture... 

of ´Our Lady, the Tabernacle of the Most High´. 

With the consent of Bishop Aurelian Bilgeri of Eshowe and the support of Archabbot Suso Brechter of Saint Ottilien, a Munich artist Joseph Aman painted the picture according to the instructions given to him by Sister Reinolda. 

The painting was taken to Ngome on the 1st of May 1963.

Urged by Father Ignatius Jutz... 

Bishop Aurelian Bilgeri allowed Brother Jacob Riedmann to build a small chapel... 

on the Ngome farm in the area where seven springs were situated. 

Father Ignatius blessed the chapel on Pentecost Sunday in May 1966. 

The picture of “Our Lady, the Tabernacle of the Most High”... 

which had originally been put up in the Ngome school...

now found a permanent place in the little chapel.

Sister Reinolda kept on asking the Bishop to believe in her encounters with Our Lady... 

and to give permission to ´tell all the world´ about the message she had received. 

The Bishop remained cautious and did not want the ´Ngome Affair´ to become public.

In Sister Reinolda’s diary the following entry is found:

´In the intervening years, I have very frequently experienced Mary’s protection. I was not idle, and Mary lavishly [rijkelijk] distributed Graces. Ever since my encounters with Mary, I have to this day the urge to prepare tabernacles. Thus, I began work with fallen-away Catholics. 

Where years ago I failed, Mary’s help was victorious. A great number of marriages were blessed and many have returned to the Church after twenty to twenty-five years. Mary is active!´

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Sister Reinolda asked her Superior for permission... 

to spend her holidays in Ngome... 

so she could do missionary work among the relatively few people there.

When Sister Reinolda and Sister Klara Woelfle OSB went to Ngome for a fortnight, they slept in the small school. They had been allowed to take the Blessed Sacrament, and towards evening when they had completed their pastoral visits to the surrounding people, they had adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. 

At the end of their missionary endeavour, they also had the joy of seeing Father Ignatz baptize fourteen catechumens.

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