Dear Confreres, Redemptoristine sisters, Sisters associated with our mission and charism, Our lay collaborators, associates and missionaries, and dear devotees of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, we invite you on this, the feast of Our Mother of Perpetual Help to gaze into the icon, look at it, contemplate it, and be drawn into the mystery of God that it represents.
It represents God’s love in sending his Son Jesus, born for us, through Mary’s response to the Spirit of God, and Jesus’ mission in leading us back to the love of God. This is the mystery of Redemption.
On this, the Feast of Our Mother of Perpetual Help we invite you to prayer and contemplation of Our very special Icon, the Icon on the mystery of Love, the mystery of Redemption, the mystery of a God made human, Jesus, in the arms of his mother Mary
In God’s great providence we Redemptorists, Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, the Lord Jesus our Redeemer in the arms of Mary his Mother, sons of the great St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, announcers of the Good News of Redemption are custodians of this beautiful icon in our Redemptorist Church of St. Alphonsus on the Via Merulana in Rome from where we have conducted the novena for this special feast and from the very sanctuary of the Church under the high altar that has the Original Icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help.
We wish each one of you on behalf of Fr. Rogério Gomes our Superior General and the entire General Council here in Rome and the Community of Redemptorists at San Alfonso in Rome a wonderful and joy-filled feast of Our Mother of Perpetual Help.
30 сен 2024
