Our Lady of Perpetual Help

Truly unfortunate are we poor children of Eve; for, guilty before God of her fault, and condemned to the same penalty, we have to wander about in this valley of tears as exiles from our country, and to weep over our many afflictions of body and soul.  But blessed is he who, in the midst [...]

Feastday of Our Lady of Perpetual Help

Grace will flow through her gentle hands and fall on the book that her Spouse will write for you, and all will become simple, because fundamentally, it will be the book of love. All things are simple to those who love.
And as you go through this, you will notice, finally, that she has spoken very [...]

Icon Intrigue (Part 2 of 2)

In my post a few days ago, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, I featured an icon which I had seen on the website of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, Eparchy of Newton, MA.  I incorrectly presumed that because it was unidentified in terms of being the work of any current artist, it was a very old [...]

Icon Intrigue (Part 1 of 2)

The Icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help has had a very interesting history, full of adventure and mystery.
The story reads like a modern-day thriller, from a merchant in Crete in the 1400s who stole the Icon from a local church, to its eventual placement in the Church of Saint Alphonsus in Rome, where it [...]

Our Lady of Perpetual Help

At Contemplative Haven today, I posted about the novena I will be doing in preparation for the Feastday of Our Lady of Perpetual Help.  The links to the two novena aids can also be found in my sidebar here, just to the left, under “More Mary”.
There are many variations on the original Icon of Our [...]