As the pilgrimage of the Czestochowa Icon continued in Latvia, we are observing increasing interest. The meetings are drawing crowds and there is growing interest in the media. The Mother of God was greeted in the Roman Catholic Church of The Holy Trinity in Riga on Wednesday morning. The pastor, seeing the church full of people, although it was early morning and a work day, joked that only the Mother of God could bring such crowds to the church.
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The altar on wheels, the "Life Mobile ", which was hastily built over the past three months, arrived in Latvia. Our Lady of Czestochowa can now travel comfortably and safely under the cover of reinforced glass-windows.
The final touches took extra time.
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Despite the oppressive heat, the Mother of God in her icon is traveling through Latvia. On the third day of the pilgrimage we encountered our first surprise in the village of Gulbene. Although this is a small parish, nevertheless Our Lady was greeted by three priests in addition to the pastor, but also to our amazement, one other priest joined us in prayer later.
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All were astonished by the huge crowds of the faithful, who for half the night were standing in a huge queue in front of Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Daugavpils to individually pay respects to the Mother of God. In the morning, on the second day of the Latvian peregrination on July 29, the icon visited another parish in the city.
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After several hours of waiting at the Belarusian-Latvian border, the Czestochowa icon arrived in Latvia as planned on July 28, in the company of Fr. Andrew Steckiewicz of Minsk. Orthodox Archpriest Pawel Serdiuk, coordinator of the pilgrimage in Belarus, was especially helpful in facilitating the border crossing.
- Our Lady with catholic youth of Belarus in Ivianiec
- Letter from Prior of Jasna Góra
- With police escort Our Lady crosses the streets of Kiev in a pro-life car rally
- Visiting in Ukraine
- Pilgrims Seek Victory Over Russia’s Culture of Death
- Mobile belfry and “Night Wolves” brought the Icon to Homyel
- Mogilev – with the Icon of Czestochowa and fervent prayer around the hospital, where unborn child are being kill
- Borisov – on the main town square for all
- Famous Russian singer “Pelageja” with her concert supports the pilgrimage “From Ocean to Ocean”
- “Black Madonna” at home, in the church and on the streets