The Worcester Voice

October 7, 2007                  

Dear Members of the Seeds of Hope,  

In regard to a phone call placed on Saturday night at 9:44PM, a male voice identified himself as a member of the Seeds of Hope but refused to identify himself for fear of being publicized on the internet.  

The incoming phone number 413-782-0590 was identified as Neil Harrington’s yet this number is listed as the phone number to the Seeds of Hope.  

I have now two more questions I am additionally requesting to be answered:  “Why is this phone number not listed in the name Seeds of Hope Inc.?  Secondly, while we know this phone is located at 33 Garland Street, Neil Harrington’s home; why did Neil fail to place the call when he is represented as the “head” of the Seeds of Hope and when it was Neil himself who desired to be in direct contact with me? 

I was surprised and taken back that you, supposedly an informed member representing the Seeds of Hope contacted me without any prior knowledge of Neil’s request to speak to the Worcester Voice. Your excuse of Neil being too busy as a reason for his failure to inform you furthers the point that the members of the Seeds of Hope are not knowledgeable of Neil’s actions.  Further after stating you had read the articles about Neil on the Voice web site, you admitted that you had not listened to the message clearly posted at the beginning of the article.  

I also found the timing of the phone call to be less than professional, but in the spirit of God’s openness and concern for all I received your phone call. 

I hope we are in agreement (I am referencing our forty-five minute conversation) that the Seeds of Hope will supply to the Worcester Voice various documents in regards to letter of request date October 3, 2007. This letter was sent based on a message that Neil Harrington left on September 22, 2007 stating he wanted to present his side of his story. The audio of this message is available on the Voice web site.

Items currently in question:  

Documentation supplied by the Office of the Secretary of State showing the current “bad standing” of the Seeds of Hope has been removed. Though Seeds of Hope are incorporated and a non-profit and listed as such Seeds of Hope is NOT IN GOOD STANDING FOR FAILURE TO FILE WITH THE STATE SINCE 2001. Please provide documentation indicating Seeds of Hope filed yearly since 2001.  

Your statement that the Attorney General stated Seeds of Hope was in good standing is erroneous. Such filings are conducted with the Office of Secretary of State, William Gavin. 

Documentation from the Federal Government, Department of Internal Revenue Service which displays the granting of a “tax exempt status” for the Seeds of Hope. 

Transparent financial disclosure as to the organization assisting homeless that were given funds as listed as purpose in the eleven page incorporation filing with the State of Massachusetts. 

Bank statement for the month of April and May 2006 after trip to Louisiana as your presentation in our telephone conversation was that the Seeds of Hope did not take $7,000 in donations home to Massachusetts from this trip. 

Proof via plane ticket, or itinerary and a letter from the Bishop of Springfield or Houma Louisiana granting permission to Fr. Gerald Hayes to conduct the 2007 Pentecost Eucharist celebration in Neil’s home.  

Clarification of the statement that this unidentified caller who stated he knows of “hundreds of priests who have been falsely accused of sexual abuse” when asked directly no names could be identified. 

As I informed you, eleven individuals have come forward regarding allegations of sexual abuse by John Szantyr spanning thirty years from three different States.   

Yes, we welcome John Szantyr to stand trial however it was John Szantyr who fled Worcester County in 1988 when the accusations of sexual abuse first surfaced.  It has been John Szantyr who has postponed the trial under a guise of being incompetent since 2004. 

John Szantyr has also been Neil’s spiritual director since 1994 and the fact Neil had a spiritual director before this date is really an irrelevant point. Your statement in regards to this further illustrates an attempt to twist facts in order to avoid accountability.     

Agreement to allow outside testing of alleged tears which have been publicly stated by Neil Harrington in regards to his Blessed Virgin Mary statue. 

For clarification the Worcester Voice had never stated that Tuesday night prayer cenacles did not continue in Enfield CT. Neil continued a Thursday night prayer meeting in his home after the agreement of 1998 with the Hartford Diocese not to disseminate any of his messages which was attended by the members of the Seeds of Hope that Neil claimed were chosen by heaven. I do agree no formal conclusion was issued by the commission due to the fact Neil made this agreement. Any attempt to misstate the conclusion of this commission would be in direct contradiction to the teaching of Our Lord Jesus Christ. 

Once public newspaper articles are written, and once statements are made publicly in regards to mystical phenomena, all this becomes your duty to present transparent documentation in regards to such claims. 

Please see to it in the future that any communications initiated are made during appropriate business hours and are not the product of an attempt to make deceitful statements or to mislead those who were not parties to this call. 

One in our Lord Jesus Christ 

Mary T. Jean

CC: Most Reverend Timothy A McDonnell

      Faithful: Seeds of Hope