Please take a moment to read Father Kevin’s Easter letter telling of the Association’s work to share the joy of the Resurrection. As part of AMM’s ministry to members, we offer beautiful Easter cards you can request and send to loved ones. The card assures the recipient of a special gift of prayer on Easter Sunday and remembrance in the Easter Octave of Masses.

Any petitions you wish to send will rest near Mary’s National Shrine Altar to be remembered throughout Lent and our Easter celebrations. Also, you are invited to join hundreds of members in our AMM family who are requesting a Votive Light to represent their spiritual presence at the Shrine here in Perryville, Missouri.

We are an Easter people, infinitely blessed by God “ … who in his great mercy gave us a new birth to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead...”  1 Peter 1:3

Ash Wednesday is February 17. Throughout the holy season of Lent, let us pray through Mary to unite ourselves more fully with her Son, Jesus Christ. AMM offers various resources and opportunities to help you along your spiritual journey:

• Send your special intentions to be placed near Mary's Shrine Altar

• Request a Votive Light to burn

• Pray this Ash Wednesday prayer 

• Pray this prayer for Lent each day

• Request Easter Cards to send to loved ones 

Do you have family members and friends who are in great need of healing?

Share your personal petitions for remembrance throughout AMM’s Our Lady of Lourdes Octave of Masses. We will place your requests near Mary’s National Shrine Altar. From February 11-18.  Pray this daily prayer  and request a Votive Light  to symbolize your presence here at the Shrine. Mary asks us to turn to her with faith and in confident trust. Through her powerful intercession, she will obtain all that we need.  Father Kevin writes about Saint Bernadette’s apparitions and the miraculous healing in Lourdes, France, of a young boy cured of complete blindness and paralysis in 1938.

“O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee. Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.”  

We hope you’ll take a moment now to enjoy the Association’s Spring Bulletin newsletter. We’ll be celebrating family life and sharing stories of earthly and spiritual families. Father Kevin shares a look back on his early years with family, growing up in California. Father Ron offers some very practical ways families can observe Lent together in prayer—thus growing closer to one another through that. Don’t miss Don Fulford’s reflection on one elderly couple’s enduring love. And there’s a special invitation to your family to visit the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal here in Perryville – for our annual May Procession, or anytime!

At AMM, it is our mission and our promise to do all we can to support you and your family through prayer along your spiritual journey. We hope the Spring Bulletin inspires your Lent!