The Seeds of Hope
Including a letter from a former member of the “Inner Twelve Chosen People”
Richard Salbato 10-10-2007
Coming to a parish near you and placed in the back of the Church you may find publications from a group called, Seeds of Hope. Some of these publications are: Ten Commandments Book, Sanctifying The Day, Rebuild My Church, Sacrament of Mercy, The Seven Deadly Sins & the Gifts & Fruits of the Holy Spirit. These may seem good and edifying to you. But let us see where these publications come from because most people will not even think about the source, only the edification.
Neil Harrington Jr., a postal worker living in Springfield, Massachusetts claims that the Blessed Virgin Mary began appearing to him delivering weekly messages in 1992. These visitations occurred while Harrington attended his parent’s weekly prayer cenacle at their Enfield, Connecticut home. On May 1st 1994 Fr. John Szantyr gave a statue of the Rosa Mystica Blessed Virgin Mary to Harrington as a gift. Harrington and Szantyr had become acquainted months before at the Enfield prayer cenacle. According to Harrington this Rosa Mystica statue began to “weep” a substance from the eyes the first evening he had it in his possession. Days later the statue was transported to Harrington’s parents home for the weekly prayer cenacle, where it allegedly “wept” again, and was witnessed by a number of people.
Later in 1994, Harrington claims that the Virgin Mary herself chose Fr John (Szantyr) to be his spiritual director. Since that day Fr John Szantyr has been the only spiritual director that Neil has had. Around that same time, Neil Harrington Jr. claimed that the members of the Seeds of Hope were also named by The Blessed Virgin Mary. These 12 men were all attendees of the Enfield prayer cenacle. According Neil Harrington Jr. these men were chosen to help him spread throughout the world the messages he was receiving from the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Francis of Assisi. While remaining weekly attendees of the Enfield cenacle, the men began meeting on a separate night; and those meetings were held at various locations and homes in the greater Springfield, Massachusetts area until 1998 when the Seeds of Hope established a permanent home in the converted attic of Harrington’s Springfield home. The group retained their P.O. Box in Ludlow, MA as it was originally established. Years later Harrington claimed that God through St Francis had named him “the head" of the group and his spiritual director Fr John (Szantyr) "the heart".
In Neil’s messages in which he claims have come from heaven, they have called Fr John Szantyr, a “blessed priest and a spiritual vessel.” In separate messages Neil Jr. alleges that he receives from St Francis, Fr John Szantyr is referred to as “Blessed Padre John.”
In August, 1995 the Hartford Diocesan Commission was established to review Neil's so called weeping Blessed Virgin statue. While the four priest commission sat in the Enfield Ct. "apparition room" during the Tuesday night prayer cenacle which had consistently for over a year yielded some type of phenomena, the Blessed Virgin Mary statue failed to weep.
More:
http://www.unitypublishing.com/Apparitions/SeedsOfHope.htm
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