Pictures and Video of the 3rd Annual "One For Mary" Prayer-Walk

I was very busy this spring and missed our deadline for stuffing the fliers inside the bags of 400-500 runners for the St. Joseph Jubilee Jog 5 K. We've had 8-12+ individual attend our 1st and 2nd Annual "One For Mary" prayer walk in 2008 and 2009. This year I had the great honor of sharing the 3rd Annual "One For Mary" prayer-walk with Sr. Henrica and Sr. Campion who are with the Sisters of Christian Charity and live in the convent attached to St. Joseph School.

This convent is a real "jewel-box" treasure!! But, unfortunately, Sr. Henrica and Sr. Campion and their 2-3 other sisters will be having to move out of the convent which is located at 1801 Forest Avenue. There's a dream vision out there which we've shared among some Rosary prayer supporters within the St. Joseph Parish of perhaps using this building for a Rosary Prayer Center that could connect with other parishes throughout the Chicagoland area. It would be place where people could come to pray the Rosary, walk the "One For Mary" mile in devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and take part in discernment meetings that help revive and spread the devotion to the Rosary Prayer here in America and around the world.

3rd Annual "One For Mary" Devotional Prayer-walk Saturday June 5th 2010

The Men’s Rosary League of Saint Joseph Parish invites you to join them on a ONE MILE DEVOTIONAL WALK honoring our Blessed Mother on the eve of the Feast of Corpus Christi - Saturday morning – June 5, 2010 at 8 am in the parking lot behind Mallinckrodt in the Park 1041 Ridge Road, Wilmette, IL 60091

Please call Fred Smart at 847-878-8090 for more information.

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2nd Annual "One For Mary" Devotional Walk Saturday May 30th 8 am

The Men’s Rosary League of Saint Joseph Parish invites you to join them on a ONE MILE DEVOTIONAL WALK honoring our Blessed Mother on the eve of the Feast of the Visitation - Saturday morning – May 30, 2008 8 am in the parking lot behind Mallinckrodt in the Park 1041 Ridge Road, Wilmette, IL 60091

Please call Fred Smart at 847-878-8090 for more information.

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The First "One For Mary" Devotional Prayer-Walk - Version 2

Editor's Note: We forgot to thank Sister Janice and Sister Mary Ann at the Sisters of Christian Charity Western Province.

PS. Another great event in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary and our Lord's Divine Mercy took place in Chicago on the same day as our "First Annual One For Mary" prayer-walk as follows:

THE UNVEILING WAS AT 5:00 PM CENTRAL TIME
AT THE SANCTUARY OF THE DIVINE MERCY
AT ST. STANISLAUS KOSTKA,
1300 N. NOBLE STREET, CHICAGO.
WWW.AMOTHERSPLEA.ORG

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The Miracle "Light Of Mary"

I believe every individual has experienced a "God Wink". Author SQuire Rushnell coined the phrase "When God Winks" in a series of books that incorporate several different examinations of the phrase and how it works it's magic in our daily lives.

At 1:41 min/sec into the video of our "One For Mary" devotional prayer-walk you will see a great "light" during the time when the conversation shifted to questions about where the orginal statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary was located above the entrance door to the Mallinckrodt campus building - formerly the Western Province headquarters of the Sisters of Christian Charity. I refer to this as the "Light of Mary" for the light emmanated from underneath the portico where the statue of Our Lady was located prior to being removed along the way to being restored by individuals from the St. Joseph Parish community. This wonderful statue of Our Lady in all of her new glory can be seen in the Garden Shrine behind St. Joseph School - across the street from Mallinckrodt Park - in last part of our video.

The First "One For Mary" Devotional Prayer-Walk

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1 MILE DEVOTIONAL WALK: MAY 31, 2008 - 7 AM

This may appear to be "last minute" but we are thrilled to get the approval to go ahead with this informal "first shot" at manifesting this "One For Mary" vision. Here's the flyer which will be inserted in the 500+ race bags for the runners of the upcoming 14th Annual St. Joseph School Jubilee Jog 5 K run scheduled for this coming Monday - Memorial Day - May 26, 2008:

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The flyer has bag-access through a race donation in the name of the St. Joseph Parish Men's Rosary League and reads:

Friends of The Blessed Virgin Mary

Invite you to join them on a

ONE MILE DEVOTIONAL WALK

honoring our Blessed Mother on the feast of the Visitation


Saturday morning – May 31, 2008 7:00 am in
Mallincrodt Park (parking lot)

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Editor's Note: It's interesting and very appropriate that Saturday May 31st is also the day the we are called to pray the Five Joyful Mysteries which include the Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth:

THE VISITATION

1. Mary's cousin Elizabeth conceived a son in her old age . . . for nothing is impossible with God.
2. Charity prompts Mary to hasten to visit Elizabeth in the hour of her need.
3. The journey to Elizabeth's home is about eighty miles requiring four or five days.
4. Though long and arduous, the journey is joyous, for Mary bears with her the Incarnate Word.
5. At Mary's salutation, John the Baptist is sanctified in his mother's womb.
6. Elizabeth exclaims: "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb."
7. "How have I deserved that the mother of my Lord should come to me?"
8. "Blessed is she who believed that the Lord's words to her would be fulfilled."
9. Mary replies: "My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, and my spirit finds joy in God my Savior."
10. Mary serves her cousin in all humility for three months until the birth of John the Baptist.

PS. Special thanks to Tom Considine et. al. with the St. Joseph Mens Rosary League for their support in receiving and sharing this vision.