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September 8
Nativity of Our Lady

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Rosary Vigil
7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

 
Happy Birthday, Blessed Mother
 
Welcome to Our Lady of the Roses, Mary Help of Mothers Shrine staffed and directed by St Michael's World Apostolate.  Look for the St Michael's World Apostolate banner when you come.
 
Our Lady of the Roses Shrine on the Vatican Pavilion siteSend us your petition and it will be placed at the feet of Our Lady at the next Rosary Vigil.  Jesus and Our Lady promised to be present at the sacred grounds as long as one person comes here to pray.
 
Michael Bauer, 13. of Cape Cod, Mass., leads the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary.
 
About 130 pilgrims praying the Rosary and extending birthday greetings to their Mother.
 
The moon glows brightly at the Rosary Vigil tonight.  The small red dot in the lower center is the planet Mars.  This is the closest Mars has been to earth in thousands of years.  Is this a sign for the end days?
 
At 9 p.m. the invocation of the blessing of Jesus and Mary: "All who are able to kneel, please kneel, and with faith lift your Rosary up to Heaven and Jesus and Mary will bless us."
 
 
A blimp that was used for the U.S. Open floats overhead. The Arthur Ashe tennis stadium is nearby. The blimp would occasionally fly over the sacred grounds.  The New York State Pavilion, a landmark for pilgrims coming to the Shrine, is in the foreground.
 
 
Our Lady's Shrine helper and long-time devotee Shawee Yohannes distributes the roses that adorn the Shrine to the pilgrims. These roses are blessed by Jesus and Our Lady during the Rosary Vigil and have the power of cure and conversion.
 
Michael Mangan, President of St Michael's World Apostolate, interviews Isabel Harrington (from Panama) and her daughter Michelle (from New Jersey), for St. Michael's Radio Program.
 
Votive candles are passed out to the pilgrims and Shrine Guards for the closing of the Rosary Vigil when all raise them and repeat:

Mary, light of the World, pray for us
Our Lady of the Roses, pray for us
Mary, Help of Mothers, pray for us.

 
 
 
Our Lady of the Roses statue
 
 
 
 
Pilgrims line up to venerate the Rosary kissed by Our Lady
 
 
 
After the final prayers the pilgrims sing Happy Birthday to Our Lady.
 
 
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Last updated: 01/31/07