It’s back to school time! Please join AMM members in remembering all students and educators in prayers. Click here to share the names of those you’d like remembered in the daily Mass and prayers offered at the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal throughout the coming school year. For the suggested offering of $10.00 each, you may also request the popular “Backpack Mary Medal” to give as a thoughtful back-to-school gift for a special child, grandchild, or teacher. As an even more powerful expression of your faith and devotion, request up to 100 free, blessed Miraculous Medals that you can distribute to nearby Catholic schoolchildren, educators, and family members. Each comes on an attractive fold-over card explaining its origin. (Browse AMM’s online gift shop for more medal options and our new “Back to School” Votive Light card.) As Fr. Kevin’s letter reminds us, the most helpful knowledge is that which is gained in context of a life of faith-filled prayer. 

Our Lady, Seat of Wisdom, pray for us

Would you like to give a spiritually enriching Christmas gift to someone you love? I invite you to send our beautiful Christmas cards to your relatives and friends. The cards not only share beautiful sentiments of the season as we celebrate the birth of our infant Savior, Jesus, but they will also offer your recipients a share in an octave of Masses beginning on Christmas Day here at our Lady’s National Shrine.This year we have three new Christmas cards available. Be sure to request them early. The names of your recipients will be placed at our Lady’s Shrine for remembrance in the Christmas octave of Masses, beginning on Christmas Day and ending on January 1. Read Fr. Kevin’s letter about the faith of Mary as Mother of our Savior, Jesus Christ. 

We seek our Blessed Mother’s intercession for all the intentions we hold close to our heart. But, how much does our Blessed Mother’s intercession aid our intentions, especially for healing? It is immeasurable! Our Mother Mary is our greatest intercessor. She purifies our intentions making them presentable to Christ Jesus. If you know someone in need of Mary’s intercession, use our beautiful new Healing Remembrance Card to bring comfort and strength to those who might be suffering from addiction, physical, spiritual, or emotional pain. You may also burn a Votive Light here at our Lady’s Shrine for your loved one. Our Lady promised Saint Catherine Labouré that she would obtain God’s grace for all who seek her intercession. By using the Healing Remembrance Card, you will be asking Mary to intercede and to bring her Son’s miraculous healing to your loved one in their time of need. Read more about Mary’s intercession for us and God’s grace in Fr. Kevin’s letter.  

There is no disability, sickness, or injury that God cannot cure, and there is no loneliness, depression, or addiction stronger than his loving compassion and mercy. Use our new Healing Remembrance Card to bring comfort and strength to someone suffering from addiction, physical, spiritual, or emotional pain. You may also burn a Votive Light here at our Lady’s Shrine for your loved one. Our Lady promised Saint Catherine Labouré that she would obtain God’s grace for all who seek her intercession. By using the Healing Remembrance Card, you will be asking Mary to intercede during your loved one’s time of suffering to bring her Son’s miraculous healing. Read more about God’s grace in Fr. Kevin’s letter.

“We proclaim your death, O Lord, and profess your resurrection…” These words powerfully profess our belief in Christ’s saving work. By his resurrection, Jesus returned humanity to the grace of participating forever in his glory. Read Fr. Kevin’s message about proclaiming the good news of our belief in life over death. Send me your petitions to be remembered here at the Shrine in our Easter Octave of Masses beginning on Easter Sunday and concluding on Divine Mercy Sunday. Burn Votive Lights for family and friends. To help you announce the Easter blessings promised to us by Jesus, send one of our new Easter cards to someone you love. When you do so, you will not only be sharing the good news of Jesus’ promise to us, but you will also be offering your loved one a spiritual remembrance in our Easter Octave of Masses.  

A cherished Christmas tradition at our Lady’s Association is sharing Christmas cards for you to send as spiritual gifts to relatives, friends, neighbors, co-workers, and anyone else in need of God’s loving grace. The cards will not only warm the hearts of those who receive them, but will also grant your recipients a share in an Octave of Masses beginning on Christmas Day offered here at our Lady’s Shrine. This year we are excited to offer three new Christmas cards. Read Fr. Kevin’s letter about the power of creating lasting Christmas memories with your loved ones. Any intentions you send us will be placed at our Lady’s Shrine for remembrance in the Christmas Octave beginning on Christmas Day and ending on January 1. Request your Christmas cards today and send us your intentions.

If someone close to you is grieving the loss of a loved one, I invite you to send them our new Memorial Remembrance Card, and send me the name of the departed person so he or she can be remembered in the prayers and daily Mass here at the Shrine for one year. Mary’s image on the card inspires us to realize that she stands by us in our sorrow just as she stood by Jesus as he died for us on the cross. You might also want to burn a Votive Light for your departed loved one. Read more about the love and comfort Jesus and his Blessed Mother have for us in Fr. Kevin’s letter.

Jesus is risen, and so are we! Read Fr. Kevin’s message about the resurrection of Jesus redeeming mankind forever and why Easter is a time of hopeful transformation. Send me your petitions to be remembered here at the Shrine in our Easter Octave of Masses beginning on Easter Sunday and concluding on Divine Mercy Sunday. Burn Votive Lights for family and friends. To help you announce the Easter blessings promised to us by Jesus, send our new Easter card to someone you love. When you do so, you will not only be sharing the good news of Jesus’ promise to us, but you will also be offering your loved one a spiritual remembrance in our Easter Octave of Masses.  

Saint John Paul II said that, “the future of humanity passes by way of the family, and it is therefore indispensable and urgent that every person of good will should endeavor to save and foster the values and requirements of the family.”  As a way to help in this most important endeavor, I invite you to send your family petitions to the Shrine for remembrance. Ask our Lady to intercede with her Son for a family in need. Send our new Family Prayer Remembrance Certificate to the family for whom you are praying. Your care, whether it’s during a joyous phase of life or a difficult time, will be a sign of Mary’s care. Read what Fr. Kevin has to say about the importance of family prayer. 

Jesus is the Divine Physician. He worked miracles of healing during his life on earth, and he continues working miracles of healing now, especially through the intercession of his and our Blessed Mother Mary.  Our Lady promised that she would obtain God’s grace for all who seek her intercession. By using our Healing Remembrance Certificate, to bring comfort and strength to someone suffering from illness, injury, or emotional pain, you are asking Mary to intercede during their time of suffering and to bring her Son’s miraculous healing.  Read more about Mary’s healing intercession in Fr. Kevin’s letter.