For Catholics in Britain, there can be no more important place to pray for life and for the family than at a shrine of which the history began nearly1000 years ago in 1061. It is 10th annual pilgrimage in thanksgiving for the gift of life on Monday, 8th April, next Monday week - and for the intentions of the Pope.
In the Middle Ages Walsingham was known throughout Europe as Little Nazareth - the home of the Holy Family. During that thousand years, there can never have been a greater peril to the sanctity of life, to marriage and to the family than there is today.
As Blessed Pope John Paul II said: “ ... a great prayer for life is urgently needed ... ”, Evangelium Vitae 100.
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On March 24, Our Lady of Czestochowa was taken to the Church of St. Simon in Vila Fresca de Azeitão, after having being welcomed and venerated by the faithful in the Church of Seixal.
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During the whole day of March 23, the National Shrine of Christ the King, located in Almada, Diocese of Setubal, hosted the Icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa, offering to the many visitors that passed by on that day the chance to pray next to her for the defense of Life and for Peace in the world.
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The association “Ajuda de Berço” (Help to the Cradle) welcomed Our Lady of Czestochowa on March 21 and 22, in its house in Monsanto, Lisbon.
Sandra Anastácio, the director of this institution explained that “it was a visit which filled everybody with emotion and many blessings.
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The Icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa arrived at the parish of the Most Holy Name of Jesus in Odivelas.
On Monday, 18th of March, Fr. Artur Karbowy SAC came with a group of lay people to the international seat of the “World Apostolate of Fatima”, in Fatima, to receive the Icon and to take it to Odivelas.
At 17h45, the Icon was welcomed by the parishioners and the parish priest, Fr. João Francisco Pietrus SAC. Right after arrival, she was taken with great joy into the parish church where she will remain till Thursday evening, March 21.
- Our Lady of Czestochowa in the north of Portugal
- The Black Madonna visits catholic School of Saint Michel
- Consolata Missionaries welcomed the Icon of Czestochowa
- Rosary for Life in the Little Chapel of the Apparitions in Fatima
- ICON OF OUR LADY OF CZESTOCHOWA IN THE BYZANTINE CHAPEL IN FATIMA
- ICON OF OUR LADY OF CZESTOCHOWA HAS ARRIVED IN PORTUGAL
- Farewell to Spain in Badajoz
- Celebrations in the Diocese of Coria-Cáceres
- At the cathedral in Plasencja
- The Visit in Salamanca