{"id":17925,"date":"2016-09-26T19:18:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T00:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=17925"},"modified":"2016-09-26T19:27:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T00:27:25","slug":"92616newsletter-9-26-2016-60th-anniversary-our-lady-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=17925","title":{"rendered":"9\/26 NEWSLETTER 9.26.2016 – 60TH ANNIVERSARY OUR LADY OF AMERICA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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OUR LADY OF AMERICA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Sixty years ago today the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Sister Mary Ephrem and proclaimed these words:<\/p>\n

“I am Our Lady of America. I desire that my children honor me, especially by the purity of their lives.”<\/b><\/p>\n

By these words she acknowledged our nation’s long and historical dedication to her as the Immaculate Conception, manifested by our nation\u2019s consecration to her and our response to that Dogma which proclaims that she is without sin. \u00a0 With these \u00a0words she invites all of us to imitate her as the\u00a0perfect\u00a0model of purity.<\/p>\n

Just the day before (September 25, 1956) she had appeared to Sr. Mary Ephrem as Our Lady of Lourdes. \u00a0You may recall the apparition of Our Lady at Lourdes was Heavenly confirmation of the dogma of Mary\u2019s immaculate nature proclaimed by Pope Pius IX in 1854. \u00a0When she appeared to Sr. Ephrem as Our Lady of Lourdes she said:
\n“I am pleased, my child, with the love and honor my children in America give to me, especially through my glorious and unique privilege of the Immaculate Conception. I promise to reward their love by working through the power of my Son\u2019s Heart and my Immaculate Heart miracles of grace among them. I do not promise miracles of the body, but of the soul\u2026 For it is mainly through these miracles of grace that the Holy Trinity is glorified among men and nations. Let America continue and grow in its love for me, and I in return, in union with the Heart of my Son, promise to work wonders in her. My child, I desire that this be known.”<\/b>
\nAs Our Lady of Lourdes she promises the graces necessary to follow her towards a life of purity. \u00a0 As Our Lady of America she teaches us\u00a0to seek purity and live life in a state of sanctifying grace through\u00a0openness to grace,\u00a0\u00a0prayer, works and the Sacraments.
\nPlease pray that our bishops will soon fulfill her request and\u00a0\u00a0acknowledge her as Our Lady of America, the Immaculate Virgin. \u00a0By their acts Our Lady promises an outpouring of graces for America and the world.
\n\u201cBy thy Holy and Immaculate Conception, oh Mary, deliver us from evil.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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