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This is the link to the website of the shrine of Blessed Mary MacKillop at North Sydney, where her body is buried in the chapel:
http://www.marymackillop.org.au/prayer-space/add-a-prayer.cfm?loadref=33
You can send prayer petitions to her shrine via this link.
Prayers to find a good spouse
A lady in the USA asked for a petition to be placed at the shrine of Blessed Mary MacKillop in Australia. One at the petitions was for her 28 year old daughter Lyn to find a good husband. A few days after the petition was placed at Blessed Mary Mackillop’s tomb, Lyn’s mother received a telephone call from a man that Lyn had dated eight years ago. Lyn and her former boyfriend went on a pilgrimage to Lourdes, in France to pray there to discern God’s will for their lives. They have since married. Another of the mother’s petitions to Blessed Mary MacKillop was also answered. Her son decided to give up living with his girlfriend. They started to attend Mass regularly and also began making preparations to marry.
Blessed Mary MacKillop “fixes” a microwave oven
I had arranged to go on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Blessed Mary MacKillop at North Sydney. On the morning that I was due to go I discovered that my microwave oven had stopped working. When I went to the shrine I prayed for many important petitions. I also mentioned to Blessed Mary, the little matter of my microwave oven. When I arrived home I tried my microwave oven again. It was still not working. After this I slammed the oven door very hard and the microwave started working! It seems that the only thing that was wrong was that there was a fault in the closing mechanism of the door. The microwave oven was not fully closing. It only appeared to be fully closed.
These stories are in my book Help from heaven (Answers to prayer) which can be read free-online by pressing here.
I thank St Rita for the special things that she has done for me. St Rita really is the saint of the impossible.
The picture above is from the shrine church of St Rita in Rome.
My backyard Lourdes Shrine
A severe cough (The devotion of the Three Hail Marys)
During a long bus trip, Clare developed a very severe cough that was loud and prolonged. The lady who was sitting behind her took out a holy card of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal and silently continuously prayed a devotion that is known as The Three Hail Marys, to ask for a healing of the cough. Later on another passenger came up to the lady and touched her with a relic of Saint Philomena. The next morning Clare was completely free of the cough.
The Three Hail Marys Devotion consists of saying three Hail Marys followed by the invocation “O Mary my mother keep me from mortal sin”. This devotion is in honour the power, wisdom and love with which the Blessed Trinity has infused into the heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Many favours have been granted throughout the centuries to those who practice this devotion.
This story comes from the book: Help from heaven (Answers to prayer), which can be read free-online by pressing here.
The Hail Mary Prayer
Hail Mary full of grace
The Lord is with thee
Blessed art thou among women
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus
Holy Mary Mother of God
Pray for us sinners now
and at the hour of our death. Amen.
In the 1980’s an outdoor shrine of Mary Help of Christians was built and blessed in Sydney. Our daughter was three years of age at the time. She had severe autism and could not talk. The man who was in charge of the shrine was a friend of our family. He told us that he had a plan to hold regular gatherings at the shrine, where people would pray for specially chosen intentions. e.g. a person with cancer. He selected our daughter as the first person who would be prayed for. We willingly agreed. It was his hope that our daughter would receive a miracle healing. On the appointed day, a group of people gathered at the shrine. A Jesuit priest brought our daughter up to the microphone and introduced her to the people and explained to them that she had autism. He asked them to join with him in saying the Rosary for her healing. At the end of the Rosary the priest asked the people to keep this intention in their prayers. There was no instant miracle that day, but in the years to come our daughter made spectacular progress.
Useful information
The powerful intercession of the Holy Souls in Purgatory for their benefactors and ways to help them
Novena to St Philomena the Wonder Worker for the healing of autism
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