Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary (Our Lady of Victories)

 

conversion through the miraculous medal

 𝗠𝗶𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗜𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗠𝗶𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗮𝗹

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Claude Newman was a twenty-year-old African-American who, in 1943, awaited execution in a prison in Mississippi. His crime was that of ambushing and shooting a man named Sid Cook, his beloved grandmother’s abusive second husband. One day, noticing a medal hanging around the neck of a fellow prisoner, Claude asked the young man what it was. The latter responded by casting the medal to the ground with a curse saying, “Take it.”

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The medal was a Miraculous Medal of Our Lady of Graces, and though knowing nothing about it or who it represented, Claude picked up the oval trinket and hung it around his neck.

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The Miraculous Medal of Our Lady of Graces

During the night, Claude was awakened by a touch on his wrist to behold a glowing vision whom he later described as “the most beautiful woman that God ever created.”

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The lady calmed the frightened man and said, “If you would like me to be your mother, and you my child, send for a Priest of the Catholic Church.” And she disappeared.

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“A ghost, a ghost!” screamed Claude, at the same time clamouring for a Catholic Priest.

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The next morning Father Robert O’Leary, SVD, (who later wrote the story) was summoned. After listening to the extraordinary account, he found that Claude was illiterate, and knew nearly nothing about religion. So he proceeded to carefully catechize not only him but four other inmates who were deeply impressed by Claude’s account. Occasionally, two sisters from Father O’Leary’s church joined the catechetical team. Several weeks later, when Father introduced the sacrament of confession, Claude volunteered, “Oh, I know about that! The Lady told me that when we go to confession we are kneeling down not before a priest, but before the cross of her Son. And that when we are truly sorry for our sins, and we confess our sins, the Blood He shed flows down over us and washes us free from all sins.”

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The priest and nuns were stunned at this new revelation. Seeing their surprise, Claude heartily apologized, “O, don’t be angry, don’t be angry. I didn’t mean to blurt it out!”

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“The Lady told me that when we go to confession we are kneeling down not before a priest, but before the cross of her Son.”

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But assuring him that he was far from angry, Father O’Leary asked Claude if he had seen the Lady again. Taking the priest aside, the young man said, “She told me that if you doubted me or showed hesitancy, I was to remind you that lying in a ditch in Holland in 1940, you made a vow to her which she’s still waiting for you to keep.”

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This revelation convinced Father of Claude’s claim. In fact, during the war, O’Leary had promised to build a church in honour of the Immaculate Conception, a promise he fulfilled in 1947. This church stands to this day in Clarksdale, Mississippi. As Father and Claude returned to the class on confession, Claude told his classmates, “You should not be afraid of confession. You’re really telling God your sins, not the priest. You know, the Lady said that confession is something like a telephone. We talk through the priest to God, and God talks back to us through the priest.”

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When about a week later Father O’Leary and the sisters were preparing to teach on the Blessed Sacrament, Claude asked if he could share what the Lady had told him about the Eucharist. The catechist joyfully acquiesced, and Claude related, “The Lady told me that in Communion, I will only see what looks like a piece of bread. But she told me that It is really and truly her Son, and that He will be with me just as He was with her Father O’Leary testified: “I’ve never seen anyone go to his death as joyfully and as happily.”

Before He was born in Bethlehem. She told me that I should spend my time like she did during her lifetime with Him, in loving Him, adoring Him, thanking Him, praising Him, and asking Him for blessings. I shouldn’t be distracted or bothered by anybody else or anything else, but I should spend those few minutes in my thoughts alone with Him.”

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Finally, the catechumens were received into the Church. The baptismal records of St. Mary’s parish (Vicksburg) record Claude’s baptismal day as January 16, 1944. He was scheduled for execution on January 20th.

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As Sheriff Williamson asked Claude if he had a last request, he couldn’t believe the answer:

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“Well, all my friends are all shook up. The jailer is all shook up. But you don’t understand. I’m not going to die; only this body is. I’m going to be with Her. So, then, I would like to have a party.”

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And so, he had his party with cake and ice cream and his fellow inmates were allowed to attend. On the morning of execution, Claude was full of joy. As he prepared with Father O’Leary, Sheriff Williamson rushed in shouting that the governor had granted a two-week reprieve. To his amazement, Claude broke down in sobs, inconsolable, crying:

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“But you don’t understand! If you ever saw her face, and looked into her eyes, you wouldn’t want to live another day! What have I done wrong these past weeks that God would refuse me my going home? Why, Father? Why must I still remain here for two weeks?”

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Then Father O’Leary had an inspiration. There was a prisoner, James Hughs, who, despite having been raised Catholic, had led a horribly immoral life, and was also on death row for murder. James had a particular hatred for Claude, and all priests as well. Father O’Leary then proposed that Claude offer his disappointment on not being executed that day for Hughs’ conversion, which Claude did, generously offering his prayers and last two weeks for the salvation of his fellow inmate.

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Finally, Claude was executed on February 4, 1944.

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Father O’Leary testified: “I’ve never seen anyone go to his death as joyfully and as happily. Even the official witnesses and the newspaper reporters were amazed. They said they couldn’t understand how anyone could sit in the electric chair beaming with happiness.”

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Claude had obtained from Our Lady that James have a glimpse of his place in hell. This glimpse had horrified him and, full of fear of God, he had asked to go to Confession. This is what happened: When the time came for James Hughs to be executed, he violently refused all spiritual assistance, cursing and blaspheming even while seated on the electric chair. He was asked if he had a last word.

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Suddenly, looking to a corner of the room, there was a surprised, then horrified, look on his face, and he shouted, “Get me a priest!”

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Father O’Leary, who was in the room, approached and heard the man’s full confession.

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Then Sheriff Williamson, who could not bear his curiosity, asked the condemned man what was in the corner. James explained that he had seen Claude Newman and the Blessed Virgin behind him, her hands on his shoulders. Then, Claude had obtained from Our Lady that he, James, have a glimpse of his place in hell. That’s when, filled with horror, he demanded a priest. Once again the simple wearing of the Miraculous Medal of Our Lady of Graces called down Our Lady’s maternal gaze, and saved not only one, but many souls in that Mississippi prison.

Irish Persecution 16th century

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𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗜𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲

𝗢𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗿𝗼𝗺𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹 (1599-1658, a Puritan = group of English Protestants who sought to "purify" people of their Catholic faith)

Oliver Cromwell is a super villain in Catholic history. He came to Ireland in 1649 and began a brutal suppression of Catholics, which created strife that is still reverberating today. He committed war crimes against Catholics. He took Catholic land and gave it to Protestants just so Catholics wouldn’t have power. In short, he was the worst.

He also helped enforce penal laws, which effectively made it illegal to be Catholic. The Irish gave exactly zero regards to this, and instead hid their faith and moved their seminaries to other countries while remaining very much Catholic and sometimes dying for that. The Rosary remained an important part of their faith, though they adopted small penal rosaries that were harder to detect.

Cromwell knew he failed at subduing the Irish to Protestantism, and he blamed the Rosary. He wrote to his superiors:

“𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘐𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘦𝘵. 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘨𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘨𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘶𝘯𝘴. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘐𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘻𝘻𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘺 𝘨𝘶𝘯𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳.”

You bet we do hold up our rosaries, Oliver, and you better believe we don’t surrender.

the consistent message on The ROSARY

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𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗟𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝘂𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝘁

The Rosary is a common theme in Marian apparitions. Here are some of the times she has made it clear that she wants us to pray it:

1973 (Akita, Japan): Our Lady warns Sr. Agnes that we ought to “Pray very much the prayers of the Rosary.”

1917 (Fatima): The Blessed Virgin revealed herself as “Our Lady of the Rosary” and requested frequent recitation of it.

1858 (Lourdes): Our Lady was holding a Rosary in her first apparition. The first thing she said to Bernadette was a request that Bernadette pray her Rosary. They later prayed it together.

1830 (Miraculous Medal): On Mary’s first apparition to St. Catherine Labouré, before she even brought up the Miraculous Medal, she bemoaned the fact the Rosary wasn’t prayed more often.

There are more, but you get the idea. The Blessed Virgin loves the Rosary. She wants us to talk to her by praying it. 

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 MOM is not BDO, but SHE FIND WAYS..

Not SM but SHE got it all for u.. Not LIPOVITAN but SHE gets u going.. Not REXONA but SHE will never let u down.. Not GLOBE but SHE's making great things possible.. Not METROBANK but in HER u are in good hands.. Lalong di SIYA REBISCO, pero pangako, pag SIYA kasama mo, ang "sarap ng feeling mo!" HAPPY MOTHER's DAY!

ave maris stella: a very SVD song

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Below is an ancient hymn to Mary called Ave Maris Stella dating back to the 8th century — a perfect summation of Mary’s role according to the meaning of her name.

Hail bright star of ocean

God’s own Mother blest,

Ever sinless Virgin,

Gate of Heavenly rest.

Taking that sweet Ave,

Which from Gabriel came,

Peace confirm within us,

Changing Eva’s name.

Break the captive’s fetters,

Light on blindness pour;

All our ills expelling,

Every bliss implore.

Show thyself a Mother;

May the Word Divine,

Born for us thine Infant,

Hear our prayers through thine.

Virgin all excelling,

Mildest of the mild;

Freed from guilt, preserve us

Pure and undefiled.

Keep our life all spotless,

Make our way secure,

Till we find in Jesus,

Joy for evermore.

Through the highest Heaven

To the almighty Three,

Father, Son and Spirit

One same glory be. Amen.

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new wine, new wineskin

 

tita baby has always used this analogy to refer to the blessed mother's justification of an immaculate conception. an old tainted spiritually weak human body cannot bear the holy of holies, no other than the only beloved Son of God.

this reality came to fore in the past days when our old (steel, rusted) pipes burst when our local deep well-based by the developer new san jose builders finally gave way to the official wawa dam-based manila water due to relatively very strong surge of water supplies.