The first 45 Knights in Oceania
On Vanuatu, an island quite some distance from Australia, Fr. Louis Bochkoltz accepted 45 new Knights. This is one of the first enrolments to the Militia Immaculatae in Oceania. There are also new Knights in New Caledonia and Fiji island — we will write about those in a few days.
On Saturday 1st October 2016, the first Saturday of the month of the Holy Rosary, our small Mission in Vanuatu was blessed by the Immaculate Virgin Mary. Having arrived almost one week earlier, Fr. Bochkoltz had prepared the faithful for their "promise" towards Our Lady (the word "consecration" being yet too difficult for them).
With 13 children and 1 adult having received the grace of Baptism and becoming children of God that same morning, a good 50 people were present in the church around 4 pm. At that time we started our procession with a local stretcher for Our Lady's statue. In the village, we stopped at each lot of bamboo huts, praying one decade of the rosary and blessing these houses at each station. Every time more and more people were joining the procession and singing the hymns as we went along. So, when we arrived back at the church, more than 100 people were crowded inside! It was now time to start the ceremony to make new Knights of the Immaculata!

m October 28, 2016 to 31 July, 2017 the Society of Saint Pius X is organising a pilgrimage throughout the Philippines. It is called "MARY'S MISSION TOUR" — a 2000 km (1,200 mile) walk with the pilgrim statue of Our Lady of Fatima in which Pilgrim Virgin Walkers strive to spread devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary throughout the world! It’s Fatima continued — souls called to conversion and to sanctification — through the Immaculate Heart of Mary.


