At the 129th Supreme Convention last August in Denver, the Order launched a new Marian Prayer program dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Hundreds of large, framed icons of Our Lady of Guadalupe were distributed and will be used in a two-year program. The first year of the program will culminate with the second internationalGuadalupe Festival to be held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on August 5, 2012 just before the 130th Supreme Convention in Anaheim.
Each of the icons which will be passed among the councils received a papal blessing and was touched to the original miraculous image of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. Moreover, each bears the signature of the rector of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe and was sealed with soil from Mexico's Tepeyac Hill where Our Lady appeared in 1531. More information on the program is in the October Columbia magazine.
The goal of the program is for each of the more than 140,000 councils to host at least one prayer service, so that Knights of Columbus members and all Catholics will learn of the Order's devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe and strengthen their own devotion to the Patroness of the Americas.
Read more about the Knights of Columbus prayer program here.
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