I didn't realize until today that the 30th Anniversary novena started yesterday but we can join now.
http://www.medjugorje.org/anniversarynovena.htm
Let us combine these two novenas in one - the Penance Novena and the 30th Anniversary Novena. (penance novena posted below)
We thank God for allowing Our Lady 30 wonderful years visiting and teaching us - every day through the 'school of prayer' in Medjugorje. We beg God for the natural disasters in the United States to end so we can recover, rebuild, regroup, heal and reflect on how to respond and grow in our conversion. Urgently we beg for God's help with the wildfires in the southwest and the floods in the midwest. For the onward recovery for the tornado victims in Missouri, KS, OK, AL, GA and MS. And the many other disasters and tragedies surrounding us. Even those in our own communities, lives and families in these most trying times. During this novena, we also wish to thank God for all the advancement of the Gospel of Life in the last year, with the passage of crucial legislation to protect innocent life.
Penance Novena To Stop Arizona Fire - What to do:
- Daily Prayer to Our Lady of Good Help (See Below)
- Chaplet of Divine Mercy Often Throughout the Day, especially at 3pm
- Confession
- Attend Weekday Masses
- Pray Daily the Rosary
- Fast: Deny Pleasures (sweets, soda, avoid television, avoid air conditioning during day, avoid alcohol/coffee, etc...)
- If Daily duty allows: Daily Holy Hour before Jesus in the Eucharist (tabernacle or Adoration Chapel)
- Offer Up Sufferings
- Do An Act of Charity
"OUR LADY OF GOOD HELP" - ONLY APPROVED U.S. APPARITION
The Peshtigo Fire—Miraculous Preservation -
Much has been written about the great Peshtigo Fire, which claimed an estimated 2500 lives; 10 times more than the great Chicago Fire, (whichoccurred the same day). Our intent here, however, is to show how this tragedy played an important role in the events which occurred at Robinsonville. In early October of 1859, Adele Brise received her first vision of theBlessed Virgin Mary. On the following Sunday, October 9th, when theBlessed Mother appeared to Adele for the third time, she warned: “If they do not convert and do penance, my Son will be obliged to punish them.” We do not propose to pass judgment on the reasons for this catastrophe, but, one day short of 12 years after the Robinsonville apparition, on October 8, 1871, the great calamity fell and a tragedy begat a miracle. The Belgian colony which embraced a large part of the peninsula and included Robinsonville, was visited by the same whirlwind of fire and windthat devastated Peshtigo. When the tornado of fire approached Robinsonville (Champion), Sister Adele and her companions were determined not to abandon the Chapel. Encircled bythe inferno, the Sisters, the children, area farmers and their familiesfled to the Shrine for protection. The statue of Mary was raised reverently and was processed around the sanctuary. When wind and fire threatened suffocation, they turned in another direction to hope and pray, saying the rosary. Hours later, rains came in a downpour, extinguishingthe fiery fury outside the Chapel. The Robinsonville area was destroyed and desolate…except for the convent, the school, the Chapel, and the five acres of land consecrated to the Virgin Mary. Though the fire singed the Chapel fence, it had not entered the Chapel grounds. Those assembled at the Chapel, realizing that they had witnessed a miracle, were asked by Sister Adele to retire to the Convent, where they were made as comfortable as possible for the rest of the night. http://www.shrineofourladyofgoodhelp.com/
PRAYER TO OUR LADY OF GOOD HELP
Our Lady of Good Help, Mother of God, Mother of Jesus, and Mother of the Church, it is with confidence in Thy tender mercy that we place before Thee as intercessor to Thy Divine Son. Resting our hope confidentially in Thy Immaculate Heart to obtain for us that which will give glory to Thine only-begotten Son, we thank Thee. O Queen of Heaven, as Thou didst ask Sister Adele to teach the children to holy catechism, so also teach us how to make the Heart of Jesus reign and triumph in us and around us, as it has reigned and triumphed in Thee. Reign over us, dearest Queen, that we may be Thine in prosperity and in adversity, in joy and in sorrow, in health and in sickness, in life and in death.
Other infolinks referring to this:
http://www.gbdioc.org/whoarewe/diocesan-facilities/32-shrine-of-our-lady-of-good-help.html
http://www.spiritdaily.org/ourladygoodhelp.htm
Joining hearts, we raise a song to the Lord on High, confident of heaven's help.
Emmanuel - God is with us!!
