Hi everyone. All for the Sacred and Eucaristic Heart of Jesus, all through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Jesus, all in union with Saint Joseph. This is the motto of the Apostolate for Family Consecration. They are a family apostolate in Bloomingdale, Ohio.

Jerry and Gwen Coniker started this apostolate to help to consecrate families in the Truth and to build God centered communities. It was around the mid 1970s that it was created, if I remember correctly. Since that time all 12 of their living children (the 13th one is in heaven) are in the Catholic faith still. I know that most, if not all, but I do think all of them help this Apostolate.

There are 950 acres of land up there that is for the families to enjoy when they come to visit and for the many events. Gwen Coniker was buried there and you could visit her coffin. They received permission to bury her there in the little room in the chapel. They also received permission to pray to her and to ask people to pray to her to get her to be beatified and then canonized.

You need to come to understand who they are. All their tapes and videos, network, and programs are to be used to help bring about the world peace promised at Fatima. The time is late, is what Mr. Coniker said and we need to use these programs now to evangelize other families. He said home school is not enough, we must evangelize other families so that our kids will grow up in a world of peace. Our kids can be the great evangelists of this time or if we let it happen, the great martyrs; Mr. Coniker said. He tells how to evangelize so that we as layman will know how.

In Fatima, Our Lady said that their would be an annihilation of nations if we don't straighten up. Yes there will be the greatest dark age we will ever see if we don't do what we can now while we still have the freedom to now, Mr. Coniker said.

This annihilation does not have to happen. It is conditional. If their are enough families doing what our Lady wants then this will bring about the peace promised to the world, which has never happened before.

The Holy Father, John Paul II, approves of this apostolate and their work. Mother Teresa and Cardinal Arinze approve of it. Alot of their members are the best teachers in Rome. All of their programs are Vatican approved and their catechism is too. Their childrens cathechisms from 1rst to 12th grade is Vatican approved. Just see, if you don't believe me at www.familyland.org

They need your money to succeed in this work that is God's work. They need you to come to one of there Totus Tuus conferences for the weekend and to see what they are about. You will be given an abundance of graces, and your families too. Come to a fest or marriage weekend too. They need you to continue this vital work.

I want to tell you that they have 5 missions: here in the USA, in Africa, in the Phillippines, in Europe, and in Mexico. They are a member of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Immaculate Conception in Mexico.

They were invited to the Phillippines to help evangelize the people by the Archbishop in Manila. He could have asked for food from the Apostolate, but he ask for spiritual food instead.

You are needed. The Apostolate is in debt. They are trying to keep up their network on sky angel and get on cable. They are already on cable in some areas.

I have been there on a family fest. That is how I know they need you and they are a spiritual goldmine. They helped my husband to love the Blessed Mother more and grow in love with Christ in a way that is very noticable to me. He is different. Before the fest, he had a bad attitude about praying the rosary each day as a family and a bad attitude about praying the Chaplet of Divine Mercy daily. He wants to now and he aks me to pray with him now. He loves me more now and is more respectful towards me. He used to have a hot temper, and now he is more in control. It is making me happy and grateful. The Apostolate also helped our nephew to like to say the rosary. We took him up there with us and on the way back he asked to say an extra rosary with us on the same day. He would not pray the rosary, but a few times before. That was only if we made him pray it before. It is amazing. Please help support the Apostolate. I am begging you to call them or write to them. Just check out their website. Please help in any way you can and please pray for them.

There is so much more I want to tell you about them, but I will let you go. I have spoken so much already. Thank you for your time and help. But before I go,I want to say that there is room for you to go on the last family fest and there is room for you still to go on the Totus Tuus weekend. Dr. Scott Hahn and his wife will be at the Totus Tuus weekend and so will, I think her name is Donna Cori Gibson to sing. Cardinal Arinze goes to the fests to speak, as far as I know, amost every year if not every year. He will come to one of their fests this year and that fest is already sold out unfortunately. He loves the Apostolate. His homeland I think in Nigeria is a part of where the Apostolate's missions are. He even wrote a letter to Mr. Coniker saying how he wanted to be there for Gwen's funeral but couldn't. Later on he came though. Gwen got a private audience with the Pope John Paul II for 10 minutes and that is rare, but the Pope saw something beautiful in her. Mother Teresa held her face in a picture with her. It is awesome. You can see it at Catholic familyland.

Cardinal Arinze will be there for a banquet dinner. He will be with each family privately for 10 minutes. I think there are still openings for that event this month so just call the apostolate at 1800FORMARY or go to the website for more information.

If you would like to talk to me about the apostolate, please let me know or if you would like just go to their website or give them a call for all the information you will want to know. You won't regret it. God bless you.

-- Sonya (johnsonya2003@hotmail.com), July 06, 2004

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Sorry about this, but I wanted to let you know that they also have a picture of the Holy Family blessing us to help promote the Holy Family apparition in Fatima that you can use to do the Sacred Heart Consecration. It has been approved. The Holy Family did appear in Fatima. They are the only Apostolate who does promote this, as far as I know. They are the only Apostolate with the Roman curia the direct staff of Rome backing them up, I think.

They were given a half hour audience with the reall Sister Lucia. I think they got permission with Cardinal Ratzinger and anyhow they showed her the picture of the Holy Family to ask her what she thought of it since she seen the real apparition of course. She said that it was the best a human can do. They also have film that you can purchase on the interview, I think. The Apostolate has an original statue of this picture and it was made in the Phillippines. Soon little statues will be available for consecrating families to the Sacred Heart.

Fr. Bernard Geiger over at Family land gave me some help in my own prayer life. He had a prayer card he made himself and it was an act of Faith of God's love. It has made me accept God's love more and believe in His love more, which he said we need to make acts of faith to do if I understand correctly. Not many are taught to make act of faith like this he said.

-- sonya (johnsonya2003@hotmail.com), July 06, 2004.