Friends, I have written before of my devotion to the Blessed Mother under her beautiful title and image of Our Lady of Good Counsel.
For the majority of my life I belonged to a parish in Newark named in her honor. As a boy I used to gaze up to the fresco painted above the high altar and look upon her (especially when the sermon was banal and boring, so most of the time).
I also have a great devotion (understatement of the century) to St. Rita of Cascia. Rita was an Augustinian nun who lived in the time when the devotion to Good Counsel had just taken off. The church in Genazzano where the image of Good Counsel rests is under the care of the Augustinians. So it is no surprise that on the day of my wedding at the Shrine of St. Rita in Philadelphia I gazed up from my kneeler before the altar to behold the image of the Mother of Good Counsel.
I bring all of this up because I read today that Leo XIV took a trip to Genazzano today to pray before the miraculous image of the Blessed Mother.
Again, it is far too early to tell what way things will go and there are some very troubling signs thus far but for my part I will pray for this man that Our Lord’s Mother under the title Our Lady of Good Counsel will give him just that – Good Counsel.
It’s something we all could use.
Blessed Mother, Our Lady of Good Counsel, pray for us all!
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