HolyCross Family Ministries visited Mrs. Antonia Lwaki at her home in Nsambya estates. We received a warm welcome from her, started with a prayer to guide us through the sharing and testimony on Fr. Peyton during his visit to Uganda.
According to Mrs.Antonia, by that time she was 10 years of age, she says that Fr. Patrick Peyton CSC visited Nyamitanga parish, currently the Archdiocese of Mbarara and estimated the year to have been in 1952 because of her age, she was still a young girl to still remember the exact year. ‘’It was night hours but people came in big numbers’’……said Antonia.
However much she was a young girl, Antonia says that night, she witnessed a lame man called Lazarus who got healed, when Fr. Peyton started the Rosary prayer; he stood up and walked for the first time in his life. She had seen him crippled for a long time, ‘’I was so surprised to see him walk’’…noted Antonia. She said that after the miracle, her family continued to trust in God and Mother Mary and became devotee to her.
Fr. Patrick Peyton was promoting the Rosary prayer in families and the theme was ‘’Amaka agasomwa hamwe, gaguma hamwe’’ meaning ‘’A family that prays together stays together’’.
He staged massive Rosary rallies in key cities of the world and extensively utilized mass communication, helped by world-recognized celebrities of Hollywood at that time, promoting his ministry of binding families through prayer under the Family Rosary.
Antonia said that her family was so prayerful, prayed together as a family and her father, the late Martin Lwaki led the Rosary prayers at home every day.
She said that she grew up loving God, one time contempt to join Nun hood but it was not God’s plan, so she ended up being a mother of 5 children.
Mrs.Antonia is a member of Peyton Prayer Guild, every Monday we are with her for Adoration at St.Peter’s Catholic Church Nsambya at 3pm.