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.”  

On May 18, Fr. Kevin McCracken, CM, and a group of pilgrims will begin the Association’s pilgrimage of prayer and remembrance to France. Highlights of the journey will be the Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal in Paris, the Basilica of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, the beaches at Normandy, and the grotto at Lourdes. Read Fr. Kevin’s letter about this spiritual journey. We hope you will join us in spirit and prayer on this journey of faith by sending your petitions to be remembered in the Masses offered during the pilgrimage. In commemoration of this pilgrimage, we are offering three new gifts— a Pink Imitation Murano Glass Bead Rosary, a Black Wood Bead Rosary, and a Pink Imitation Murano Glass Bead Chaplet.  All gifts requested will be held at our office until after the pilgrimage so they can be blessed with water from Lourdes. Gifts will then be mailed to you. 

Follow the pilgrimage itinerary and mass schedule and recite the prayer to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal each day of the pilgrimage. You can also follow Fr. Kevin and the other pilgrims each day of their pilgrimage on our homepage, Facebook, or Twitter.  

You are invited to journey with Fr. Kevin McCracken and other members of our Lady’s Association to France, May 18 – 26, 2019, with an option to extend your trip to Lourdes for three additional days. Start with a visit to the Chapel where the story of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal began and travel through the French countryside and beaches while praying for healing and hope with new friends. Highlights of this trip will be the Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, Notre Dame Cathedral, the Basilica of St. Therese Lisieux, Normandy Beaches, Sainte Mere Eglise, Rouen, Caen, Carentan, and then Lourdes if you decide to extend your journey. To receive a full color itinerary brochure or for more details, call our office at 1-800-264-MARY(6279) or click here. You may also download a printable copy by clicking here. Space is limited so don’t delay in signing up!  We look forward to seeing you on this pilgrimage.