Rome, Italy

 

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Less than a day after the service, a rare tornado struck the centre of Rome and the Vatican. Two days later, senior Vatican officials stated privately that they would meet with Rev. Kevin Annett and The Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared (FRD) from Canada to discuss their demand that the remains of children who died under the care of the Catholic church be surrendered for a proper burial.

 

Until the October 11 ceremony, the Vatican had refused to respond to the FRD and its letters to the Pope. One church insider recently informed Rev. Annett that the Curia's willingness to meet with him and the FRD represents "a major admission that genocide went on ... the Pope's back is to the wall on this one."

 

Besides a return of the remains of residential school children, the FRD has called for the Catholic church to surrender the guilty, revoke genocidal papal bulls such as the Inter Caetera of 1493, and appear before an international war crimes tribunal.

Held across from St. Peter's Square following the Pope's weekly Sunday service, the October 11 ceremony was officiated by Rev. Annett, who was commissioned by families of the dead and aboriginal elders in Vancouver to hold the service.

Rev. Annett said prayers for the dead and scattered on the pavement in front of the Vatican water and soil from the site of a mass grave at a Catholic Indian Residential school in Canada.

The service proceeded undisturbed, despite the presence of numerous police and Vatican security forces nearby.

Rev. Annett also conducted a symbolic exorcism during the service, aimed at what he termed the "spirit of anti-Christ and worldliness" that rules the Vatican. 

Rev. Annett splashed sacred water from the land near a residential school on the pavement in front of the Vatican three times as he spoke, and then scattered soil from a mass grave at the same school to the winds, saying,

"We lay these elements of the murdered Indian children to rest, here where their murder was planned, so that their spirits may always be a witness against the Lie that poses as the church of Christ."

 

The Italian media extensively reported the event and Annett's lectures on genocide in Canada that occurred across Italy. 

In response to Annett's trip, several Italian municipal governments have indicated their willingness to sponsor Rev. Annett to return to Italy, and to endorse the FRD's annual Aboriginal Holocaust Memorial Day on April 15, 2010.

Rev. Annett conducted the service as part of a month long speaking tour he conducted in Europe. He spoke to communities in Italy, England and Ireland, including survivors of crimes in Catholic schools and orphanages in Ireland, and screened his award-winning documentary film on genocide in Canadian residential schools, UNREPENTANT.

In the coming months, similar ceremonies will be conducted by Rev. Annett andresidential school survivors at Roman Catholic, Anglican and United churches across Canada. Annett and FRD members plan to return to Europe during late March andApril, 2010.

The full text of Kevin's service is reprinted below.

Note: The soil used in this memorial service was obtained with the blessing and permission of some of the aboriginal families whose relatives lie in the mass grave in question. In the words of one of the elders who authorized this event, Chief Louis Daniels of the Anishinabe Nation,

"Kevin Annett has the permission of my clan and nation to conduct any kind of service or public event needed to bring the truth and the children home." (July 8, 2009)

 

(Angels and spirits of heaven, we ask you to be present and witness today to bring into the light and vanquish all the hidden darkness and wayward spirits that confuse and deny our goodness. Amen.)

Angel of the City of Rome and of the Roman Catholic Church and the Vatican, we call upon you to listen and respond.

Hear the truth. Your soul and purpose has been corrupted by the spirit of the world. You have betrayed and killed the Holy Spirit and Christ, and murdered the innocent.

The cries of the murdered children of the Indian residential schools have reached the heavens, and call out for justice. Their blood is on the hands of this church.

Let this truth set the guilty free, and bring them in tears and repentance to the graves of their victims. To the guilty, we say:

May the Christ of Compassion awaken your hearts and let you see what you have become, and change you.

May the Christ of Truth open all the locked secrets and hidden graves.

May the Christ of Justice bring the guilty to judgement and the lost children home.

Water is sprinkled.

Let all lies and corruption leave this place. May those trapped within here be washed clean and made new, and struck by the sword of God, which cuts down all in this world and in ourselves that hates and kills our humanity.

Water is sprinkled.

Let all wayward spirits depart from here, so that the truth may be laid bare for all to see.

Water is sprinkled.

Let anti-Christ depart from here, and may the last be first, and the first last.

Silence.

We lay these ashes of the murdered Indian residential school children to rest, here where their murder was planned, so that their spirits may always be a witness against the Lie that poses as Christ's church. May their little souls find eternal peace: earth to earth, ashes to ashes, and dust to dust. Amen.

The graveyard soil is scattered three times.

May we continue to offer our lives as living sacrifices for justice, and as witnesses to these crimes. Keep us always restless for what is right.

We ask this in the name of the living Christ, who said, Whatever you do to the least of my children, you do to me. In his name we pray, Amen. 

For more information contact Rev. Annett at this email.

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