Posted on 09/14/2004 9:06:28 PM PDT by Salvation
Gonna print that out to read on the train home.
Do you have any info on that beautiful icon?
Thanks for the posting, for the icon, and the picture of the Pieta!
Although I wrote the following at another FR Catholic post on Our Lady of Sorrows, it seems appropriate to add it here as well. Just something from the heart of a curmudgeon:
Our Lady of Sorrows, forgive us for adding to your sorrows by our faults and sins. Pray to your Son Jesus that He would pardon and forgive us for our faults and sins that grieve His Heart. Help us all to remember the great sacrifices of Christ on the Cross for us, and the sacrifice you also made for us as you stood at the foot of the Cross and suffered with Him because you also wanted our redemption.
You're welcome. Beautiful pictures as well as prayers!
thank you for your prayer.
Here's the url on the icon:
http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/andre/images/t_sorrows.jpg
Thanks, Pyro.
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That is my favorite icon and title for Mary - Our Lady of Perpetual Help! Thanks for posting it!
It is one of my favorite icons/titles of Mary too! I inherited this devotion from my mother. I have a copy of the icon from Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Catholic parish in Albuquerque, NM. I got it there just after Christmas in December 2002. I had it blessed by the priest there. It now hangs on the wall in my room, in my "icon corner," along with my other religious art. I also got a smaller one for my mom there too, and had it blessed too. I hope to see the original in Rome someday.
I got a copy of the book that this is from, "The Glories of Mary," from TAN Books recently. I was supposed to read it on my vacation to England last week. I visited the Brompton Oratory and the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham while I was there. Unfortunately, I only was able to read St. Alphonsus' introduction on the plane ride there. I plan to read this excerpt this evening after work.
TAN's "The Glories of Mary" is wonderful! It is a blessing and you will be well-fed from it! It was a favorite of mine when I read it a few years ago when I was still Anglican.
Father,
As Your Son was raised on the cross,
His Mother Mary stood by Him, sharing His
suffering. May she, who is also our spiritual
Mother and Patroness in Heaven, help us to find
renewed strength at the cross of Christ and so to
come to share in His rising to new life, where He
lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one
God, forever and ever. Amen.
Brompton? Is that where Holy Trinity Anglican Church is? Isn't that the church where Nicky Gumbel started the ALPHA course? (Sorry for threadjacking, I was looking at a ALPHA for Catholics website the other day)
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