Our Lady of Perpetual Help    by Bob and Penny Lord
Price: $4.95 USD. 3740 words. Published by Journeys of Faith  on June 17, 2011. .
How do you write about Our Lady and not cry? How does your heart not fill up with emotion, so that you just want to burst? We want to share that Lady with you, the Mother whom we love, whose title tells what she has always done, help! We are referring to the image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, or as She is sometimes known.

Our Lady of La Salette    by Bob and Penny Lord
Price: $4.95 USD. 4350 words. Published by Journeys of Faith  on June 18, 2011. .
The visit of my Mary to earth on September 19, 1846 is usually referred to as OUR LADY OF TEARS or OUR LADY WHO WEPT. We sometimes believe that the only reason she is not weeping all the time is because she has the Beatific Vision of her Magnificent Son to comfort her.

Our Lady of Beauraing    by Bob and Penny Lord
Price: $4.95 USD. 7160 words. Published by Journeys of Faith  on June 18, 2011. .
Mary’s appearance to 5 children in Beauraing, Belgium, in November and December of 1932 has always fascinated us. There are so many aspects of the visit from Our Heavenly Lady that we don’t quite understand. But we know there was a need for Mary to come to our aid in this place at this time. Nothing is by coincidence with her.

Our Lady of Banneux    by Bob and Penny Lord
Price: $4.95 USD. 5260 words. Published by Journeys of Faith  on June 18, 2011. .
Twelve days after Our Lady with the Golden Heart said “Goodbye” to the five children in Beauraing, Belgium, she made her presence felt again in Banneux, Belgium, some fifty miles to the northeast.Mariette Beco, an 11 year old girl, saw a beautiful young lady, dressed in white, standing above the ground outside her house. It begins again. OR DOES IT CONTINUE?

Our Lady of Lourdes    by Bob and Penny Lord
Price: $4.95 USD. 9440 words. Published by Journeys of Faith  on June 18, 2011. .
Lourdes is such a tribute to, and affirmation of, the love and care, the concern, patience, and attention that is showered on us by our Heavenly Family. It is also a magnificent prayer of faith the world has been given in the the desire of Our Sweet Mary, Bernadette’s Aquero (Dear One), to take care of our physical and spiritual needs.

Our Lady of Ostra Brama    by Bob and Penny Lord
Price: $3.95 USD. 2770 words. Published by Journeys of Faith  on June 20, 2011. .
The tradition of the image of Our Lady of the Gate goes way back, to before the time it was placed in the Chapel above the gate. There are legends supporting, it came to Lithuania by way of Poland in the late Fourteenth Century, when a Polish princess married into a royal Lithuanian family. Her name was Jadwiga.

Our Lady of Akita    by Bob and Penny Lord
Price: $3.95 USD. 9150 words. Published by Journeys of Faith  on June 22, 2011. .
We follow Mother Mary on a journey again to a far-off place, high up in the mountains, where no one would consider going. We have never really paid much attention to what towns are located where in Japan, other than Tokyo, Nagasaki and Hiroshima. In looking on a map, we find Akita to be a thriving metropolis, in the north of the country.

Our Lady of San Juan de Los Lagos    by Bob and Penny Lord
Price: $3.95 USD. 2970 words. Published by Journeys of Faith  on June 22, 2011. .
In 1531, Our Lady of Guadalupe came on Tepeyac Hill and identified Herself as Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception. Almost one hundred years later, we find that these Indians, too, had a devotion to Our Lady, with their hearts centered on a statue they referred to as Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception.

Our Lady of Zapopan    by Bob and Penny Lord
Price: $3.95 USD. 3290 words. Published by Journeys of Faith  on June 22, 2011. .
Fr. Antonio de Segovia donated the sacred image of Our Lady, and it was first placed in a very simple hermitage with a flat roof made of palms. Sometime later a larger, more accomodating Chapel was built. In those days, the image was not encased in an arch or protected in any way. Around 1608 or 1609, this small Chapel, by now very old, fell into ruins.

Our Lady of Macerata    by Bob and Penny Lord
Price: $3.95 USD. 1820 words. Published by Journeys of Faith  on June 22, 2011. .
It was the year 1447 and all of Italy was being attacked by a new enemy - the plague. The casualties surpassed the numbers lost in any war. The citizens of Italy were dying by the thousands, as the pestilence spread from city to city and village to village. No one was safe! The plague was nearing Macerata's borders, when the citizens of the town decided to call a Town Council meeting.