Visitations of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Missionary Image Visitations, Signs, Wonders and Healings

Cathy Grinn, our Visitation coordinator for the Missionary Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, sent me this report:

My heart is full of joy and awe at the goodness of Our Lord and the beautiful way Our Lady leads us to healing!!!! Not only was it a physical healing, it was spiritual healing as well!  Our Lady brought a woman back to Jesus after many years of being away from the Church!  After her prayer in front of the Image, Confession and Eucharist, she was later healed. 

She had been suffering from Stage 4 Liver Cancer that had moved to other parts of her body. The test results that she received showed no pelvis cancer, no cancer in the chest, 70% liver cancer GONE, and a tumor that had been 2.5 cm was now .07 mm! Father Phil, Pastor of St. Michael Parish in Monroe, Michigan, shared this, with her permission, on his Facebook Live. Within a month of praying with Our Lady, going to Confession and receiving Jesus in the Eucharist, she was completely healed.

Praise God for his mercy and love. I was so blessed and so excited to see Our Lady bringing us a beautiful miracle during this pandemic. A ray of hope that we needed in these troubling times.
 
During Her Christmas travels, Our Lady was brought into a home for a woman in Corning, New York, who has MS and is in a wheelchair.  Her son died tragically in December and Brian Mizzoni, our Guardian of the Image, wanted to share Our Lady with her. Brian brought the Image into the woman’s home, set the Image up and went back toward the door. On the floor where the Image had entered, he saw a small red flower that resembled 4 rose petals.  He asked the woman if she had any flowers. She did not, nor were there any in the house or outside the house. A likely sign from Our Lady. (See the photo below.)

Later, in Lake City, Michigan, Jeanne, the parish secretary who helped Father Alex at St. Stephens Parish coordinate the Visitation, took some photographs. He wrote, “I was on my way out. I took a couple of pictures of the church decorations, then went back up to Her to take just a couple more. I was thinking, ‘I’ve never had a rosary turn to gold, it’s not like I need proof that you’re here. What could you possibly do anyway, change a picture after I take it?’ I smiled and left.”
 
After looking at her photos when she got home, the two pictures that she took one right after the other, with no adjustments to her phone settings, were very different. One photo appeared to almost look 3D or as if Our Lady was floating outside the photo in the same way that the Image looked to her in the church as she stared at her face during her veneration of it. As the Visitation continued, Jeanne shared that the parish was extremely blessed in a number of personal ways and that they have requested two additional Visitations with Our Lady this year.

“How has it happened to me, that the Mother of my Lord should come to me?”  Luke 1:41-4

Guardian Maryanne O’Toole of Newark, New Jersey, shared, “What an honor and privilege it was to have received Our Lady during the pandemic!  What a gift!  We live in northern New Jersey in the Archdiocese of Newark and our churches are locked … not open even for private prayer or a visit to the Blessed Sacrament!  In the midst of this darkness, this total eclipse of our Holy Catholic Church, came Our Lady of Guadalupe to our home … our life, our sweetness and our hope!  As I ponder Her arrival, I was reminded that not only has Our Lady arrived, but She brings with Her Baby Jesus.  We were no longer being deprived of Our Lord; Our Lady had brought Him to us!!”

During the pandemic many signs and wonders were witnessed by the faithful and the courageous who answered the call to host a Visitation and share Our Lady with the world as best they could.  As with all Visitations, Our Lady was in control and the blessings flowed as well as God’s mercy through His Mother! 
 
On the 4^th of July Our Lady was set up on the front lawn as a steady flow of people came to venerate and pray with Our Lady.  A neighbor, completely unaware of who Our Lady of Guadalupe is, shared “I was drawn here by her beauty.” Our Guardian, Maryanne O’Toole, shared, “I was so moved by the presence of Our Lady in the neighborhood. I could feel Her graces and blessings flowing out to the nearby homes, our entire block, the neighborhood and even passersby in cars and on foot.”

God bless our priests who opened their hearts and allowed the Holy Spirit to lead during the pandemic as they came up with creative ways to continue to share Our Lord with His people.  As we continue to heal from this pandemic, physically, mentally and socially, may God continue to bless us and show mercy to those who need His divine love. And may we continue to open our hearts to His call to share His love through His loving Mother. Mary always brings us Jesus, the perfect love our hearts desire.