May you have asked yourself, “Self, why should I get images blessed?” They just hang on a wall and is there any benefit to do that? Well let us look at the blessing itself. BLESSING OF AN IMAGE of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Blessed Virgin Mary, or any Saint P: Our help is in the…
Prayers to and by Blessed Bartolo Longo From his writings The Rosary a Teacher of Life The Rosary is a teacher of life, a teacher full of gentleness and love, where people beneath the gaze of Mary, almost without noticing, discover they are being slowly educated in preparation for the second life, that which is…
The 54 day Rosary Novena history Among the numerous texts and prayers written by Blessed Bartolo Longo, there is the “Novena of Petition”, composed in July of 1879. Having been struck down with typhoid fever, Bartolo Longo wrote it in order to ask for graces in the most desperate cases. Every day he went before…