Our Lady of Knock
Reposted from Spring 2007. Have a most blessed Feast of Our Lady of Knock today!
As you can see, this isn't exactly a photograph of Our Lady of Knock, however, as we read about this lovely Marian Apparition in Knock Ireland, my soon-to-be-contractor 4 year old carefully lined up his equipment at the foot of Mary. Apparently she's the "Site Manager" of his crew and was keeping a very close eye on the operations taking place in the sandbox nearby!!
It was a lovely Springlike afternoon and we read about this beautiful devotion to Our Lady as the Queen of Knock Ireland and how her image was taken during the persecutions to far-away Hungary and it shed tears of blood for 3 hours.
There is great devotion to this beautiful Lady in Ireland as well as worldwide and we were so glad to learn more about her as we have our own Irish roots!
Here is the Hail Mary in Gaelic: We'll do this for copywork into our Marian Scrapbook.
Sé do bheath' a Mhuire, atá lán de ghrásta, tá an Tiarna leat.
Is beannaithe thú idir mná agus is beannaithe toradh do bhruinne losa.
A Naomh Mhuire, a mháthair Dé, guí orainn na peacaithe, anois is ar uair ar mbás. Amen.
We learned much from this very beautiful Marian Site: Catholictradition.Org
We will pray this Litany to Our Lady of Knock during evening prayers this week as well!
PRAYER TO OUR LADY OF KNOCK, IRELAND
Eleventh Century Irish Litany of Mary
Great Mary,
Greatest of Marys,
Greatest of Women,
Mother of Eternal Glory,
Mother of the Golden Light,
Honor of the Sky,
Temple of the Divinity,
Fountain of the Gardens,
Serence as the Moon,
Bright as the Sun,
Garden Enclosed,
Temple of the Living God,
Light of Nazareth,
Beauty of the World,
Queen of Life,
Ladder of Heaven,
Mother of God.
Pray for us.
I hope you will find some time to discover more about this beautiful devotion to Our Lady! May God and his Heavenly Queen bless you today and always! Mary, Queen Mother, Pray for Us!
(Photos courtesy of Catholictradition.org and Patron Saints Index)
What a beautiful litany!
Posted by: Suzanne Temple | March 13, 2007 at 09:36 PM
I love your Mondays with Mary ideas, Meredith.
Posted by: Karen E. | March 15, 2007 at 06:51 AM
Meredith I had a friend come back from Ireland recently and she gave me a bottle of holy water from Knock...it was lovely to drink this water and bless myself with it!
Posted by: aussieannie | August 22, 2008 at 01:04 AM