Here at our Lady’s Shrine our Rosary Octave of Prayer will begin on Wednesday, October 7. AMM staff will pray the Rosary daily through next Wednesday, October 14. We hope you, too, will pray the rosary each of the eight days of this octave of prayer. Send us your intentions and the names of your loved ones to be remembered during the eight days of prayer. You may also burn Votive Lights for your special intentions. Pope Francis has urged all Catholics to pray the Rosary daily to unite us as one spiritual family and to help the Church in its time of trial. Saint Pope John Paul II taught that through this ancient prayer, we receive abundant grace, “as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.” 

Would you like to give a spiritually enriching Christmas gift to someone you love? I invite you to send our beautiful Christmas cards to your relatives and friends. The cards not only share beautiful sentiments of the season as we celebrate the birth of our infant Savior, Jesus, but they will also offer your recipients a share in an octave of Masses beginning on Christmas Day here at our Lady’s National Shrine.This year we have three new Christmas cards available. Be sure to request them early. The names of your recipients will be placed at our Lady’s Shrine for remembrance in the Christmas octave of Masses, beginning on Christmas Day and ending on January 1. Read Fr. Kevin’s letter about the faith of Mary as Mother of our Savior, Jesus Christ.