Prayer Mural Campaign
Having the presence of Our Lady’s image on the side of our home will create a center of peace in a needed area of the South Bronx . We hope and pray her constant gaze will bring further peace, forgiveness and love to a city, to a nation in great need. Especially for mothers and children who will see her, may they know the words Our Lady tenderly spoke to St. Juan Diego who carried this divine image in his tilma: “Do not fear this or any other anguish. Am I, your Mother, not here?”
We therefore invite your gifts and prayers to be united with Our Lady of Guadalupe Prayer Mural and to be entwined with her protection of the unborn. The image of Our Lady of Guadalupe adorns many cathedrals, churches, seminaries, shrines, and schools, but Our Lady of Guadalupe Prayer Mural may be the first time her divine image has graced a home for the most vulnerable of women and babies.
Your gift of $12 or more will help homeless expectant mothers choose life for their unborn children. Your prayers and intentions will be placed in our chapel and with the Franciscan Friars for the Renewal for perpetual remembrance.
Our goal is to raise $1.2 million in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe’s feast day on December 12 to meet the material needs of the mothers and babies in our care. That the average number of abortions in the US since the year 2000 is 1.2 million makes the number 12 and the goal of this campaign all the more purposeful.
Our hope is that 100,000 spaces of Our Lady of Guadalupe Prayer Mural will be adopted by you and others in increments of $12 per space and that the accompanying prayers and intentions will endow each gift with heart, truth and perpetual significance.
The greatest poverty and suffering of our time is spiritual, the loss of hope. Our Lady of Guadalupe, revered as the Patroness the Americas, the Unborn, and of the New Evangelization, directs us to the mystery of the Incarnation to discover anew our dignity as sons and daughters of God in Him, to be filled with hope and to give hope to our world. Please join us.
This photo is of the Franciscan Friars for the Renewal’s friary in the South Bronx. The image of Our Lady of Guadalupe was hand painted by Colossal Media (http://colossalmedia.com/).
Good Job. Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us. I am poor, on disability. I will pray for your success. DO you take older, disabled vocations? I can’t do everything. I can do something. Think about it. Thanks.
Dixie Meyers
December 15, 2009
Dear Ms. Meyers, we are not a religious order, but we do need help, even virtual help via email such as this. Tell me a bit about yourself and a skill or two, such as writing perhaps, that you may want to offer. I have some ideas. Let’s discuss. Thanks so much for your comment. Blessings on you. Jim Schaffer
olgmural
July 13, 2010
This is wonderful!! I’m going to include this as Christmas presents for my family and friends. Their own prayer block on the image of Our Lady of Guadelupe while helping homeless pregnant moms! What greater gift is there than that!! God Bless You!!
Brenda Quinn
December 15, 2009
I have always said that art, in all of her forms, is a tool for evangelization that we are not using. Thank you, so much, for creating this project! I will be at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe just after Christmas. Be assured of my prayers for the success of your prayerful artistic project.
Rubi
December 17, 2009