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Eucharistic celebration by Msgr. Jerry Bitoon with Rev. Fr. Larry Ramos. Also, recognition of the donor of the image of the patron saint of the Parish and blessings of the different images of the Virgin Mary of the parishioners.
l'ex-voto de la Vierge (pour avoir épargné le village durant la guerre 39-45 ; Jean Boet - architecte et Antoine Servian - sculpteur), à Rognes [13840]
"For me, Mary was a woman who sacrificed, who was innocent, who was dedicated to her son."
~Donata from Lithuania
'Mary Console the Children of a Land Sprinkled With Blood and Tears'
Our Lady of Siluva, Patroness of Lithuania, in the Lithuanian Chapel, Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, D.C., USA.
There was a side chapel with an alatr featuring Mary and Jesus in the Basilica Dei Santi Giovanni E Paolo in Venice
"Do not be afraid, I will not harm you. I am from heaven."
— Our Lady's words to Sister Lucia. (Sunday, May 13, 1917)
Today is the feast day of OUR LADY OF FATIMA
"I am the Lady of the Rosary, I have come to warn the faithful to amend their lives and ask for pardon for their sins. They must not offend Our Lord any more, for He is already too grievously offended by the sins of men. People must say the Rosary. Let them continue saying it everyday."
© Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Parish
"Mary is a stepping-stone to Jesus."
~Bethanie from the UK
Statue of Sts. Anne & Mary in the church of San Genarro, Little Italy, New York City, USA.
"The Virgin for me is a real mother here. I give her my five children; I put my children in her hands every day. I think I couldn't live without her help."
~Alba from Argentina
Stained glass of Our Lady of Mount Carmel from St. Michael's RC Parish Church, Linlithgow, Scotland.
"Je veux remercier la Sainte Marie a propos ma mère … Je demande pour protéger ma famille et pour faire la paix à tout le monde."
I want to give thanks to St. Mary for my mother...I asked [the Virgin] to take my family into her care and to bring peace to all the world."
~Fida from Lebanon
Icon of Our Lady in the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of Uspenski, Helsinki, Finland.
How to describe El Roccio
El Rocío, the most significant town in the vicinity of the Parque Nacional de Doñana, surprises first-timers. Its streets, unpaved and covered in sand, are lined with colourfully decked-out single-storey houses with sweeping verandahs, left empty half the time. But this is no ghost town: these are the well-tended properties of 115 hermandades (brotherhoods), whose pilgrims converge on the town every Pentecost (Whitsunday) weekend for the Romería del Rocío, Spain’s largest religious festival. And at most weekends, the hermandades arrive in a flurry of festive fun for other ceremonies.
Beyond its uniquely exotic ambience, El Rocío impresses with its striking setting in front of luminous Doñana marismas (wetlands), where herds of deer drink at dawn and, at certain times of year, pink flocks of flamingos gather in massive numbers.
First and foremost El Roccio is a place of Catholic religious pilgrimage as only the Spaniards can do, a nation that turns religion into a party. Secondly traditional Andalucian dress and love of horses and horse drawn carriages bring it all back to bygone days . Thirdly the Spanish Devotion to The Blessed Virgin Mary is particularly strong and very public, not at all subtle.
All of these combine to make a place that is unique and somewhat special and not at all like the cowboy town that some refer to El Roccio as, more a genuine place of traditional religious pilgrimage.
"I know Our Lady, the Virgin Mary, I believe she's the mother of Christ, our Lord Saviour. I respect her as a mother and I believe she is the mother of all. Some of what I know about her: she is a virgin, she conceived by the Holy Spirit and she gave birth to Jesus Christ our Lord who came and saved us from our sins, and I love her as a mother."
~Francis from Liberia
Statue of Our Lady outside a small city parish church in Ottawa, Canada.
"I think that Our Lady is the best person in the world and I think we should pray to her because, if we pray to her, she will give us what we want. So I think we should thank her and we should praise her and glorify her . I think the prayers we should say is the rosary and after that be thankful to Our Lady and pray for everyone that needs our prayers. I am very thankful to Our Lady for having Jesus because without Jesus we wouldn't be anything and, yep, I thank Our Lady for listening to God so that we could have Jesus."
~Belita, age 8, from Ghana
Mosaic of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in the Jesuit parish of the Immaculate Conception, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
"I used to pray the rosary for a long time but in the past when I prayed the rosary I felt that the prayer was quite empty. But one day I really wanted to change it and I said to Mary, ‘Mary, please, please, please, I want to have a relationship with you.’ And since this moment, everything changed for me and this prayer to pray the rosary became very full for me and very alive."
~Barbora from the Czech Republic
Church of Our Lady of Before Týn, Prague, Czech Republic.
Photo of the Day, Thursday, March 15, 2012: The statue of Mary praising God in our grotto near the Portiuncula chapel. The quiet grotto in a wooded corner of campus is a favorite spot for a quiet moment of prayer and meditation for our students.
"My relationship with Mary is like that of knowing I suppose having a relative that you don’t know very well, that you want to know more because you know that they are in the background and that they are supporting you and loving you, but you're not quite sure how to love them back, and I want to reach out and love her back."
~Anne-Marie from the UK
Medieval statue of Our Lady from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, USA.
The central altar. The venerated icon painted by St Luke of the Blessed Virgin, known as the Madonna del Popolo, and enshrined at the high altar of the Santa Maria del Popolo. Donated to the church by Pope Gregory IX in 1231, it was previously in the treasury of the Lateran. The altar is from 1627.
"I am very Catholic and I am very devoted to the Virgin Mary. I've loved her since I was a child, because my mother taught me how to love her. I think that through her I have found the Sacred Heart of Jesus in my heart. I would like to give her thanks for her intercession in everything that I have got in my life."
~Miguel from Colombia
Statue of Our Lady from San Carlos Borromeo Mission, Carmel, California, USA.
"Whenever I feel like everything is crumbling around me, I can always find refuge in her loving arms."
~Emmy from the USA
Statue of Our Lady of the Rosary from church of San Genarro, Little Italy, New York City, USA.
le retable en bois polychrome (XVIème siècle) et la statue de la vierge en marbre de Carrare, de la chapelle Notre Dame de Caderot (reconstruite au XVIIIème siècle), à Berre l'Étang [13130]
"Our Lady is a good friend to me. Ever since I was a little child, Mary is the one who has protected me, she is the friend I confide in."
~Seday from Ethipoia
Medieval statue of Our Lady from The Cloisters, New York City.
"When I think of Mary, I think of the maternal instinct, and the Trinity...but I think of her influence on Jesus, and I think having a relationship with her and having her being a good intermediary is something I think about...I think about Mary when I say the rosary and I think she does intercede for us and I think it's good to have a personal relationship with her and I think of her as like a mother."
~Patt from Georgia, USA
Patt recently died of cancer. May perpetual light shine upon her.
Painting of the Madonna and Child from a church on the island of Seurasaari, Helsinki, Finland.
"I find that when I really have special need or when I have special concerns that invariably the thought of Mary pops into my mind, and it becomes very real and very important in this process. It's very hard to explain because my natural instinct would be to go to the Highest Power but I find that Mary for some reason is a real source of consolation and love and takes on added importance during those times."
~Jerry from Washington, D.C.
Pieta in the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Pingtung County, Taiwan.
屏東萬金，
在萬巒東北方約4公里處，
有著一間不大不小頗有特色的教堂，
樸實的鄉村環境，
聖母堂給人心靈的安定。
這是台灣第一間被教宗受封為聖殿的教堂，
詳細的歷史背景解說，
詳載於大地雜誌某一期......
"Mary is the mother of Jesus which to me means she is the reason we have Christmas."
~Celia from Leeds, England
Nativity in Pueblo de Los Angeles, California, USA.
"Each day we offer up everything to Our Lady, who is dearest to her son and nearest to her son."
~Patricia from Ireland
Marian grotto at St. Bernard's Abbey, Cullman, Alabama, USA.
"Mary is special to me because she gave birth to someone who sacrificed himself for us, and without Mary doing that, Jesus wouldn’t have been born."
~Adriene from Conyers, Georgia, USA
Our Lady of the Holy Spirit, stained glass in the abbey church of Monastery of the Holy Spirit (Trappist) in Conyers, GA, USA.
"Mary is a friend who invites me to the quiet life of Nazareth, to that hidden and unknown world, to be hidden and unknown in the world and to live that out today, where I am."
~Anne-Marie from Hungary
Statue of the Immaculate Conception in Budapest, Hungary.
Partly composite figure of Mary, holding a model of the Window of Heaven, which symbolises the Conception.
"Both my grandmother and my mother had a very strong devotion to the Blessed Mother. They taught me about Fatima, Our Lady of Fatima, and they said the rosary almost every day. So they instilled a devotion to the rosary and the Blessed Mother in me at a very young age."
~Anthony from the USA
Statue of Our Lady in Our Lady of Victory Catholic school, Tyrone, Georgia, USA.
"For me, Mary represents the way to purity, the way to her Son Jesus Christ. She is just showing us by her love, par sa douceur maternelle, le chemin vers son fils Jesus Christ. C'est elle qui nous porte vers la foi."
"She is just showing us by her love, by her maternal sweetness, the way to her Son Jesus Christ. It is she who opens the door of faith for us."
~Perrine from France
'Annunciation' from the parish of St. Thomas More, Decatur, Georgia, USA.
"Our Lady is a special woman in the sense that she is the one through whom God gave us His Son, His only Son. And she is an exemplary Christian mother in the home. We see in her a humility which no other woman had ever shown and lived. She is duty conscious and prayerful. She does everything with humility."
~Fr. George Nze Muoba from Nigeria
Statue of Our Lady in a parish church in Florida, USA.