Our Lady of America
November 3, 2008
Election Day
St. Charles Borromeo
Vatican Official Discusses Our Lady of America!
September 16, 2008: ARCHBISHOP BURKE TALKS TO INSIDE THE VATICAN ON EVE OF ELECTION
Excerpt from full story available at Inside the Vatican
6. You mentioned Our Lady of Guadalupe in one of your answers.
Was the decline in morals as you perceive it, one of the reasons why you
approved devotion to Our Lady of America in the archdiocese of St Louis?
The Mother of God, by her apparitions as Our Lady of Guadalupe to Saint Juan Diego,
fostered, in a dramatic way, the respect for all human life. Devotion to Our Lady of
Guadalupe brought an end to the cruel practice of human sacrifice, and brought
together into one race the Native American and the Europeans who
were on the verge of a bloody conflict. I have been praying fervently,
through the intercession of Our Lady of Guadalupe, that the citizens of
the United States of America will vote, on November 4th, for the safeguarding of
the right to life and of the integrity of marriage.
The devotion to Our Lady of America is distinct from the devotion to Our Lady of
Guadalupe who also has the title of Mother of America. Devotion to Our Lady of
America was approved many years ago by the late Archbishop Paul Leibold of Cincinnati,
Ohio. Having studied the devotion and noting, in particular, its emphasis on the gift
of the divine life of grace in the individual soul, which is reflected, above all,
in the practice of the virtue of purity, I encouraged the devotion in the
Archdiocese of Saint Louis. The new enthusiasm for the devotion to
Our Lady of America seems providential to me, for it helps the faithful to
fortify themselves against the evils of pornography and other violations of
pure and selfless love.
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