Posted on 11/16/2014 6:06:14 PM PST by Coleus
As the Bishops of the United States gather in Baltimore this week for their fall meeting, the family and the recent Synod on the Family are forefront in many bishops’ minds.
Now more than ever, there is a need to focus people on the sanctification of the family. Our culture is trying to push impurity as the accepted standard of moral behavior within families and purity is viewed as an unachievable standard for normal people.
But we know that Our Lord calls us all to purity and fifty years ago he sent his mother, calling herself Our Lady of America, to a sister in Ohio to call us to purity and sanctification of the family. Today, there is a movement underway to have the Bishops of the United States fulfill her requests with the promise to pour forth many graces.
The devotion to Our Lady of America has its source in private revelations to Sister Mary Ephrem (baptized Mildred) Neuzil, who was born in 1916 and was professed, in 1933, in the Congregation of the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus, which has its generalate in Dayton, Ohio. She had a number of mystical experiences culminating in vision of Our Lady under the title of Our Lady of America in the late 1950’s.
Our Lady’s messages to Sister Mary Ephrem Neuzil have been approved by and promoted by several bishops. For further information, none other than Raymond Cardinal Burke has investigated these apparitions and submitted a positive written report on the matter to his fellow bishops in 2007.
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Been familiar with this devotion for a few years, and wished it got the attention it deserves. I believe it is genuine, but of course the bishops dally.
Then again, look at Fatima.
If anything, the message is more pertinent now than ever before.
I know there is another title of Our Lady, I believe somewhere in the Green Bay WI area, called “Our Lady of Good Help”.
Often when I think of the Green Bay, WI area, I think much more of the famous NFL team, the Green Bay Packers and Lanbeau Field.
My Indiana Parish was Our Lady of Good Hope! Now I belong to St. Michael’s.
Catholic Ping.
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