Light a Candle
The offering of a burning candle before our altars and shrines is an act of prayer to God, our blessed Mother, or the saints.
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St. Anthony’s Bread
This devotion to St. Anthony goes back to the Thirteenth Century. It isa source of many favors and graces and is of great aid to the poor and needy.
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Submit Your Prayer Request
Post your prayer request. Your prayer requests will be placed on the altar for remembrance at Mass.
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Our Lady of Lourdes
On February 11, 1858, the Blessed Virgin appeared for the first time to Bernadette Soubirous in the recess of the Massabielle cliff near Lourdes, at the foot of the Pyrenees. Bernadette, then just fourteen, reported seeing a most beautiful woman, young and not taller than herself, dressed in white. A long rosary hung from her arm. She greeted Bernadette with a slight bow and seemed to invite her to pray. She passed the beads through her fingers as Bernadette recited the rosary.
On February 25th Bernadette was told, “Go, drink at the spring and wash in it.” Perplexed, she started for the river Gave; but the maiden in white pointed to the floor of the cave. “I went there,” Bernadette recounts, “but I only saw a little dirty water.
Prayer of the Month
O Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Mother, inspired by the knowledge that no one who ever sought your help was left unanswered, I come to you now fully confident that you will hear my plea.
So humbly I ask you to grant my petition. (Here please mention your intentions.)
Grant me, too, the grace to imitate your virtues and persevere in a good Christian life.
Amen.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.