Happy October! 

(A representation of first vision St. Catherine Laboure received.

Miraculous Medal Shrine, Philadelphia, PA)

Life often overwhelms us with its sorrows and trials. To whom shall we turn?

St. Catherine Laboure was one of the few saints who actually prayed to see Our Lord and Our Lady in this life. One night, her guardian angel woke her and bid her come to the church, where Our Blessed Mother visited her. She seated herself in a chair (which can still be seen in Paris), and Sister Catherine knelt beside her. Sister Catherine rested her hands on her Heavenly Mother's knee, and spoke with her for two hours about her personal matters and her soul. Later, Our Lady appeared to her again to give her the message of the Miraculous Medal for all mankind.

Our Blessed Mother is there for us. She is God's Mother and our Mother too.

Fr. Fulgence Meyer, an inspirational Franciscan writer, told the story of a little girl, watching a Passion Play and seeing the horrible, tragic despair of the traitor Judas. She cried out in an anguished tone, "Why doesn't he go to Mary?"

"Whenever we feel faint in virtue, and notice our love of God is waning, and temptations are gaining in proportion as our will power is losing in momentum; or when because of whatsoever sins we have committed we re inclined to grow discouraged and despondent; we are tempted to despair of ever recovering God's grace and the luster of virtue and the peace of a good conscience; and we are on the point of giving up the struggle for the higher and better things in pusillanimity and disgust, and to be resigned to our spiritual doom: in all such and similar instances that may and sometimes do occur we should imagine we are hearing the child's voice, giving us a message of Heaven, saying, 'Why doesn't he or she go to Mary?'"

~ Rev. Fulgence Meyer, OFM, Who is She? A Treatise on the Blessed Mother, imprimatur 1935.

This is the Month of the Holy Rosary...

Why don't we go to Mary?