Dear Casa Friends,

How thankful we are that you are part of our Casa family. Your emails of love and support, have been a great source of encouragement to us. We are excited to finally be here in San Luis to begin the on-site creation of Mother Mary's Casa. There is much to do to manifest the Casa on the earth plane. The website is your Casa home for up to date news, so please visit often.

Through this website and newsletter we are delighted to share with you and the world, the love of our Divine Mother Mary. That love changed my life. She came to me and I wasn't even looking for her. How blessed I feel that, because, of her unconditional love, I was finally able to love myself and see myself as a Holy child of God. She will give that gift to you as well. Just ask and she will come running into your heart.

Know you are loved,
Susan

My Dearest Children...

Close your eyes and imagine the greatest love you have ever experienced coming into your life. It is coming, my child, with all the wonder, hopes an dreams you could ever imagine. For you are coming to a point in your journeys of awakening to an incredible discovery. A discovery you have been seeking all your lives.

You are about to wake up from a dream of sorrow, into a world of joy. You are about to dance with abandon, and sing out with a voice that the whole would can hear. For each of you are coming to a moment where you will meet Divine Love face-to-face, and it will embrace you and welcome you home.

In that moment you will understand you have never been lost, you have never been abandoned, you have never been alone. You will then remember you have always been loved and have always been the delight of the heart of God. The time is coming my child!

Wait in anticipation of that moment, a miracle of awareness that you will have discovered, the Love you are waiting for is YOU.

Through her messenger
Susan Sanderford

Reflections on our August visit to San Luis, Colorado, the Casa property, and Milt and Susan Sanderford.

Susan is a Medium (but having met her in person she seems very much like a large), Milt is definitely a large, Mother Mary and Jesus are extra extra extra large, and the Holy Spirit is too big for words.

The Casa will be bread (lachma) for those who hunger spiritually and refreshment for those who are thirsty for God's love.

Eat, drink and be merry (or is that Mary?) for the Holy Spirit is upon this project.

Our love and hugs go out to Susan and Milt as they get settled into their new home, and mission.

The Fruit of the Spirit,
Rich & Jeannie Howard
New York

Wars, rumors of wars, rising death tolls and violence around the world, reminders of the disaster that was Hurricane Katrina, threats of nuclear proliferation. Will it ever end?

Oh that we were able to understand it all. I doubt we ever will with these limited human minds, but one day we will. We'll eventually see how it all fit together to form a perfect process for understanding and accepting the lessons we came to this planet earth-school to learn.

For our sanity we need to stop asking "Why?" and we need to pray for our hearts to be brought to peace as we reach out to offer our love and compassion and assistance to those in need. Most important is learning to offer those same gifts of love, compassion and assistance to ourselves in our individual times of challenge. After all, becoming love is what it is all about.

One day we'll see that everything, every bit of it was in Divine order. All the things we decided were negative, horrific, and punishing, we will eventually come to awareness as to why it happened — and that it was indeed ALL in Divine order — for a Divine purpose.

The best thing we can do for ourselves, and those around us, is to ask the Creator to bring us to peace with the process. If you pray to God, Jesus, that great Jewish Mother Mary, Allah, Buddha, whomever, if you ask to be brought to peace — they will respond immediately. It's then up to you to accept.

Will there be more catastrophes of increasing magnitude in the coming years? Yes. Are they to be feared? No. Are these a form of punishment? No. They are gifts from the divine for our individual soul growth as well as the elevation of the mass consciousness of the planet. (Not an easy concept to understand, much less to accept.)

Understand what has happened to those whose physical lives has ended. The souls that occupied those bodies are back home. Having completed their assignment here, they have returned to spirit from where we all came and to where we will eventually all return.

Those souls were immediately welcomed by their loved ones, angels, guides and helpers in an amazing reunion. They were birthed back into spirit, that place where we reside in the Creator's presence for eternity. Their lives have not been cut short. They live on with purpose and meaning, and they continue their journey in a new dimension.

Planet earth is just a temporary dimension for us to experience what we chose to experience. Spirit (what some call heaven) is where the action is. That's where we really live, free of this dense and vulnerable five-senses earthly body.

We are all smack-dab in the middle of our eternal life, and planet earth is but a paragraph in our never ending story. So, what's the worst of your fears? Death?

Physical death liberates your soul to return where true life exists. Death is a graduation from earth-school, back to reality. Not the end — but a new beginning. What a perfect plan. Enjoy the ride — don't fear it!

When Mother Mary appeared to the children in Medjugorje, Bosnia, she shared that her birth day was August 5th. (Not September 8th as celebrated by the church.) How appropriate, we felt, that we were finally able to move into our new San Luis, Colorado home, on August 5th, 2006.

How fortunate we were to have friends of the Casa travel to San Luis to join our celebration. Recently moved to Alamosa, Colorado from Florida, were Linda Patrick and Dan Stief.gg Driving up from Sedona, Arizona, a member of the Casa board of directors, Jane Anderson.

Making the trip from the Denver area, Jim Anderson, Sara Nagel, and Scott Tinker. All dear and loving friends. From Taos, New Mexico, came a new friend Belle Ukena. What a great time to visit the Casa property for a special blessing and a remembering of Mary's birthday.

We all met at Cafe La Rosa Mystica in San Luis, and caravanned the five-miles south to the future home of Casa de Santa Maria. As we turned onto the Casa road, seemingly from out of nowhere we were greeted by a beautiful hawk.

Positioning himself just in front of the lead car, he led the procession. As if knowing where we were headed and why, the lone hawk alighted on top of the electric pole at the Casa driveway, waiting for our arrival.

Forming a circle, all nine pilgrims gathered around the place Mother Mary's totem carving will eventually stand, as Susan gave a prayer of blessing and consecration of the land. Gazing over the surrounding area, Milt shared how fitting it seemed that, when they first visited, both he and Susan rejected this area.

"It was not our choice. Not the area, not the climate, not the state. Nothing about it!" Why fitting? "It shows, without question, this was Spirit directed from the beginning, and continues to be!"

We returned to the cafe for a nice lunch, then on to check out Susan & Milt's new home, just hours after they had moved in. What a fitting welcome to San Luis, and the on-site work that will soon begin at the Casa de Santa Maria.

Casa T-Shirt

While visiting healer John of God at his Casa Dom de Incino in Brazil in May of 2005, We received the commission from Jesus and Mother Mary to create the Casa de Santa Maria. During that same visit, I was shown a vision of the symbol that would represent the Casa de Santa Maria.

The symbol is the broken heart being healed through the power of the Holy Spirit, (represented by the wings) as it moves through the heart of the Holy Trinity. This symbol (to the left) represents our desire to surrender to Divine Spirit to heal our lives so that we may become Divine Love.

We have reproduced a beautifully embroidered version of the Casa symbol for our Casa T-Shirts. It is our desire that, as you wear this T-Shirt, it will remind you and others to turn to Spirit for guidance and love as you travel this earth journey, knowing that help is available, if we but ask.

Your purchase will help to build and maintain the Casa.

The Casa De Santa Maria T-Shirt is made of a top quality 50% cotton/polyester blend, and is available in white.

Sizes available in: small, medium, large, X-Large, XX-Large. (Tall sizes available upon special request).

$30.00 each (shipping included)

The Casa De Santa Maria is a not-for-profit organization and currently exempt under
section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. All donations are tax deductible and may be sent to:

Casa de Santa Maria • P.O. Box 64 • San Luis, CO 81152
Email: casadesantamaria@mac.com

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