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Rosary Vigil
Saturday July 31  Sacred Grounds  7:30 p.m.

Welcome to Our Lady of the Roses, Mary Help of Mothers Shrine, staffed and directed by St. Michael's World Apostolate.  Send us your petition and we will place it in the petition box at Our Lady's feet during the Rosary Vigil.

All roses are blessed by Jesus and Mary with the power of cure and conversion. They are passed out near the end of the Vigil (and Holy Hour) to the pilgrims who later press them in a book and laminate them on special cards (printed by SMWA) for distribution to all God's children, especially the ill and suffering. We receive many testimonials of the power of these mystical roses.

Jesus and Mary promised to be present as long as there is one person praying here

Each Vigil at 9 p.m., during a solemn interval, the pilgrims kneel and raise their Rosary to Heaven invoking the powerful intercession of Jesus and Mary.

After inviting the pilgrims to the Veronica's Memorial Mass, Fr. Skurla gives his priestly blessing to the crowd

The pilgrims line up for a special blessing

Some announcements from SMWA President, Michael Mangan

Rosaries, medals and other sacramentals are available at our service area, which is operated by Peter Frank, lay Order of St. Michael. The Message from Heaven is also made available as the pilgrims help themselves to the free brochures and newsletters.

Michael Mangan interviews Rosemary Sibley, asst. organizer of Philadelphia, who is relating the lengthy vision of Our Lord that she and a first-time pilgrim of Portland, Maine experienced at the 34th Anniversary Sunday Holy Hour in June.  The interview will be aired on St. Michael's Radio Program.

Shrine guard, Michael Bauer from Cape Cod, Mass.

Pilgrims bring roses to adorn the Shrine.  Our Lady's Shrine helpers distribute them to everyone later in the evening. These roses are blessed by Jesus and Our Lady during the Rosary Vigil and have the power of cure and conversion.  Anne Scrivener, the organizer from Baltimore, Maryland, helps out.

Shrine guard, Frank Gibney, leads the Angelus

Each Rosary Vigil concludes with all the pilgrims
raising candles while saying the invocation:
Mary, Light of the World, pray for us,
Our Lady of the Roses, pray for us,
Mary, Help of Mothers, pray for us.

Final prayers close the Vigil