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                          OUR LADY BLESSES AMERICA

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                                 Our Lady of America at St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans, LA in October, 2019
  St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church at Nicholls State University Campus in Thibodaux, LA from March 1, 2020
 

   This chapter is currently under development and will be for some time.  Because many pages of this website are about an ongoing story, that is playing out in real time, it continues to grow.  To lay it all in order, and then to try to weave it into the other chapters, is an ongoing process.  Please visit this page regularly, as it continues to evolve and develop in relation to the other chapters. 

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   Also, when you click on a colored link that is provided within the body of this chapter, please know that all credit is being given to the publishers and content developers of those websites and the information they have put forth.  This website claims none of what they publish as its own product.  This website just attempts to connect the pieces that have been revealed.   We are trying to help discover what the Holy Spirit has (and is) telling the Church Militant in these times of trial, tribulation and glory?

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   Also know, there are many other excellent websites that supply much more information, if you want to know more.  Please do your own research!  If you independently discover information, that you believe might tend to materially add to or modify the information in this chapter, please let us know by emailing us at louisianawim@gmail.com.

 
 
BEFORE WE MATERIALLY BEGIN, CONSIDER THIS PREMISE:
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Catechism of the Catholic Church pertaining to Signs and Symbols
 
•1146 Signs of the human world. In human life, signs and symbols occupy an important place. As a being at once body and spirit, man expresses and perceives spiritual realities through physical signs and symbols. As a social being, man needs signs and symbols to communicate with others, through language, gestures, and actions. the same holds true for his relationship with God.
 
•1147 God speaks to man through the visible creation. The material cosmos is so presented to man's intelligence that he can read there traces of its Creator. Light and darkness, wind and fire, water and earth, the tree and its fruit speak of God and symbolize both his greatness and his nearness.
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                                 St. Louis Cathedral, French Quarter, New Orleans, LA
                                     (The Church and America under a purifying fire!)

AND WE BEGIN:

   Each "Random Act of Faith" builds upon previous ones and there have been many (known and unknown) that brought these two blessings of America into being.  For all practical purposes, in this narrative, we shall begin this chapter on Saturday, July 13, 1996 (Feast of Our Lady of Rosa Mystica).  

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   On that hot and humid Summer day in the French Quarter of New Orleans, many Catholics and other Christians from across South Louisiana gathered at St. Louis Cathedral.  The goal...to publicly walk a rosary procession through the streets around the Cathedral to claim New Orleans and Louisiana under the Kingship of Jesus Christ!  Jesus Christ is King!

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   On that morning, the participants had to jockey for space with the daily tarot card readers in front of the Cathedral.  The regular inhabitants of the areas "the readers" were quite kind to the unexpected "intruders" who were carrying statues, rosaries and medals, etc. 

 

   It really caught their attention and there were many questions that were asked that morning.  Actually, the areas being shared that day were in fact the same areas used by the "readers" each day to earn their income - and the weekend was their best two business-days.  As it turned out, actually, it was a good opportunity to evangelize some who had little idea of who this lady named "Mary" or Her Son "Jesus" was!  By the end of the day, they knew, and all parted better-informed!

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   Note:  It is interesting to briefly ponder how that procession in 1996, and the many other Random Acts of Faith over time, continuing until this day, may have all together synergistically played some part in causing this recent and powerful Louisiana PROCLAMATION in 2025.  This came forth from Baton Rouge, LA 29 years later.  It is one thing to write a "proclamation" like this but another thing altogether to live out this proclamation each day. 

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   Also, it is interesting to consider that now the Church has a Pope whose maternal generations came from just a few miles from this procession route.  An amazing grace supportive to the theory of the annointing that is upon the land and its generations of "little ones" that have lived upon that land over the years!  Our Lady of America, lead us!

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   That Proclamation was then read/prayed live on the air on Radio Maria, US on Monday, July 14, 2025 (Feast of St. Kateri Tekawitha)  with the request that all the listeners that day, as it was read, please place the name of their resident State in place of Louisiana!  A reading or prayer of national spiritual unity on the feast day of the one cannonized saint from this land, that we now call America, that actually pre-dated America by approximately 100 years.

           St. Kateri Tekawitha, pray for what we now call America!

   Now more about the procession in 1996: It was led by Monsignor Robert Guste and the Prayer Warriors of St. Joan of Arc, please click here to see the route taken.  If one takes the time to closely look at the route, one can see why it is no wonder the large procession (of Catholics and non-Catholics) was called "Walk the Way of the Cross"! 

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   Praying about the walk beforehand, it had been noticed that in the early years of New Orleans, many streets around the Cathedral were named after saints...and they remained so.  It was then that the organizers decided to use those named streets, as part of the route. 

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   Those streets intersected with the secularly-named streets to make a cross.  The intersecting of those streets clearly symbolized the battles in the spiritual world versus the battles in secular world that we all live each day.  Then, in the middle of those streets was St. Louis Cathedral.  That symbolized where one turns in order to better be equipped to fight those daily battles. 

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   That cross was indeed walked through the French Quarter that day in 1996, while praying the rosary, in the Divine Will.  Prayer was focused to "Reverse the Curse(s)" that had been long-placed upon the State, the City and the Church by many ungodly men and women during the first years of the State beginning in or before 1812.  More on that on this page and this page.  

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   There were no incidents along the walk.  In fact, many on the streets appeared in awe of the procession moving through the streets about 3:00 pm.  At least one person actually pulled a rosary out of his pocket.  When processing on Rampart Street, it was uplifting to look down Orleans Avenue toward the river and see the large statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the rear of the Cathedral.  The power of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was clearly perceived as Jesus was being lifted up by the procession.

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   Note:  Again, more about the curses being prayed against is discussed in the chapter titled, "Louisiana and the Holy Eucharist".    The "dragon image" revealed and discussed there is a good example that much is concealed in history, that once revealed through prayer and in time, can be used today to inspire and to act upon with child-like faith!  Being a scholar is nice but not required!

   For more about Monsignor Guste and New Orleans and the spiritual warfare that is addressed so often in this website, please click on this 2008 narrative by Spirit Daily.  Monsignor Guste died on August 3, 2010.  He was a priest with strong faith and courage!  He was not afraid to openly talk about (and actively do something about) the clear and present spiritual danger to our eternal lives that satan and his demons pose in rage, day and night.  (Very often in the early morning hours between 2 am and 4 am.)

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   Extremely important to what will follow, after the procession that July day in 1996, inspired by the Holy Spirit, one of the prayer warrior participants made a comment.  She said that the Mississippi River needed to be blessed with Holy Water.  In itself, that was a great idea. 

 

   But the question then became: How best to do that?  It was sensed that day that it was more than to just simply go out to the water's edge in New Orleans (at the Moon Walk) and bless the river.  That perception ended up being a correct one.  Our Lady had something much bigger in mind for Her Children to do but it had to play out over time - the way She and Her Son wanted it done.

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   It took 5 years and many new relationships to develop before the Holy Spirit brought that spontaneous comment in 1996 to completion by another Random Act of Faith in 2001 (and then a repeat performance in 2020).  It would take a connection between Louisiana and Minnesota that was never envisioned.  The Mississippi River was the connection and Her "Louisianawim", acting child-like, were to get it done.  Again, for more on that great river and its symbolic importance, go to the page titled: "Louisiana and the Holy Eucharist".

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   The "Holy Water" that was ultimately used for the first blessing was transported there in 2001 by Fr. Duane Stenzel, OFM, the-then director of Lumen Christi Retreat Center, in Houma, LA.  Around 2002 he bacame the Spiritual Director of Radio Maria US.  Fr. Duane is now deaceased and buried in Alexandria, LA. 

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  The Holy Water had been gathered from 64 locations around the world over the prior years by the parishioners at Holy Guardian Angels Parish in Bridge City, LA.  The pastor of that parish, over those years, who was inspired to ask his parishioners to gather it, was Monsignior Joseph Luminais.  He called it "Easter Water".   (Monsignior Luminais is now deceased.  Read about his life here.)

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   That "Easter Water" was poured in 2001 at the exact point in Lake Itasca, MN where the Mississippi River begins.  To see an image of the water being poured, at that spot, please click here.  Upon viewing that image, one can easily see the solid white profile of a woman shown along the right edge of the image.  It showed up on that one image only.  It was taken at the exact time the water was poured.  

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Note:  The presence of that woman's profile will be understood to be  extremely important 19 years later when South Louisiana-connected Catholics again poured Holy Water into the great river at the same exact location and time and on the same exact liturgical feast day - that year on Friday, June 19, 2020.  By that second "pouring" in 2020, much will have already occurred in South Louisiana that connected all this to Our Lady of America.  It was only then that the depth of connection could be better understood - and it was indeed better understood.

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   In summary, the Holy Water was poured at 3:33 pm for each pouring, on the Friday of the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, 19 years apart, and that feast day is always 19 days after Pentecost.  The prayer that was prayed at the first pouring in 2001 was this one.  Why that exact time?  Please click here.  To see just one website's comments on the scriptural meaning of the number 19, please click here.  

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   Note:  Our Lady, knew on Friday, June 22, 2001 that America would later that year face a severe crisis on September 11, 2001.  She was trying to prepare and bless America for what was coming.  

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   Note:  Let the reader recall, Our Lady confirmed the 2001 blessing by leaving Her profile in one image.  In 2020, She chose to do more than that.  After the Holy Water was poured that day, She immediately moved one of Her "Priest Sons" from Minnesota to arrive at that rural location in the deep forests of Minnesota.  He was asked for, and he ended up praying, a prayer blessing over that second pouring in 2020.  Thank you for everything Our Lady - under your title of Our Lady of America!

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   Also, no one, except Our Lady, knew that on that same liturgical Friday in 2001, an extremely secular exercise was beginning in America.  It was an exercise connected to a reality that was going to be occurring 19 years later (at the same time as the second pouring was to occur).  And, the topic of that Washington D.C.-connected "drill" in 2001 - was a plan on how to respond to a future national pandemic!  That 2001 "drill" was called "Dark Winter" - although it was in June.  Consider all that a while!  

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  Then consider this:  Only Our Lady knew that the Church would be facing that "Dark Winter" in reality in 2020 in the middle of a Church-led "sacramental exile"!  The Church had gone impotent in fear!  She knew Her Children would need to know in 2020, and thereafter. that no matter how bad it may appear to get, She and Her Son were always there.  Her Children needed to know that they would not be left alone.  This clear example of how She is allowed to make Her presence known to Her Children, when necessary, is critical when considering Her many other appearances  and messages around the world, and Her Warning to America in 2024.

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   Even before understanding how bad it would ultimately become in America in 2020, Louisiana-connected Catholics faithfully began, on January 6, 2020 (the birth date of St. Joan of Arc), to gather Holy Water to return to that same Lake Itasca location to repeat the Random Act of Faith that had been carried out in 2001. 

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   By April and May of 2020 the Church was certainly in deep "sacramental exile".  It was so bad in Louisiana that newly blessed holy water in some parishes, in some dioceses, could not be found at all.  In fear, churches were locked tight!  Fortunately, some priests had what was called "back door holy water".  It was called that because one literally had to covertly pick it up at the back door of the church.  The Church in Louisiana had entered a time of "fear" like never before experienced in its history.  

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   To review:  In 2020 the Holy Water was poured intentionally under Our Lady's title of "Our Lady of America"!  Why under that title?  By that time, the connection had been made between the profile of the woman in the 2001 picture and the profile of the original statue of Our Lady of America, that had resided at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, LA, commencing on May 1, 2020 (the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker).  To compare the two profiles, please click here.  Thank you Fr. Mitch for listening to, and acting on, your inspirations and allowing that 1993 World Youth Day statue of Our Lady of America to be placed in that church - where it remains today.

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   For easy reference to some of the information pertaining to the pouring of the Holy Water at Lake Itasca, MN at 3:33 pm on June 19, 2020, please see:

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            The image of the pouring of the Holy Water, click here.

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  The prayer that was prayed as the Holy Water was poured, click here.

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        The locations where the Holy Water came from, click here.

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   And, an image of the sunrise in Thibodaux, Louiaiana, on September 11, 2020, when the Holy Water had been calculated to reach (and it did reach the now-named Gulf of America).  On that morning that image was captured at sunrise by one of the prayer warriors (Paula) who was involved with the gathering and pouring of the Holy Water earlier in 2020.

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   And, if you wonder why that sunrise was connected to when the Holy Water actually reached the Gulf of America, please view the crown on the statue of the Our Lady of America, that was residing roughly two miles away from the where the image of the sunrise in Thibodaux, Louisiana was taken.  To see the image of the sunrise and the image of the crown on the head of the Our Lady of America statue alongside each other, please click here.  Many had asked Our Lady of America to please confirm the day the Holy Water would reach the gulf - and She did exactly that!

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   She did all that in 2020.  Four years before Her very serious "Announcement" or "Warning" to America on the Solemnity of the Assumption on April 8, 2024 narrated on this page of this website.  She wanted us to know in 2001 and 2020 that She and Her Son will not leave America on its own.  They will be with America throughout it all.  But, at the same time, Her Children in America must do as She earlier said at Cana, at that famous wedding, described in John 2, when She said "Do whatever He tells you"! 

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                     Is America now doing what Her Son is saying?

 

   At this point, please take a few minutes and listen to the LA Family Forum's (from Baton Rouge) beautiful rendition of The Louisiana Blessing.    This video was being developed at the same time as (and was unknown by) Catholics from across Louisiana as they collected Holy Water in 2020, to pour into the Mississippi River, at its headwaters at Lake Itasca, MN, to bless America, on Friday, June 19, 2020 for the second time!  (The first time was on Friday, June 22, 2001.)  In each of those years, America faced a grave crisis!  (Those Random Acts of Faith that involved Louisiana and Lake Itasca, MN is more covered in the chapter titled, "Our Lady Blesses America".)

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   Note:  Interestingly, later in the summer of 2020 a separate "land assignment" was carried out by Catholics that ultimately began "Operation True Cross".  To read all about that, please click here.  The Holy Spirit works in wonderful ways!   

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   If you want to try and understand the power of the Mass and the Sacramentals, such as Holy Water, when used with faith, please check out these sites (and there are many more sites that are available, if you want to know more):

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                              National Eucharistic Revival Blog 

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                                            CHURCH POP

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                                           Why Holy Water?

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MORE TO COME!

   
   There is more that can be written about the pourings in 2001 and 2020 and what they may mean to us today, as well as, what our responses might next be.  Many good teachings in all that too.  More information will be added over time. 

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   Important!  Please visit the chapter page titled Our Lady Speaks to America in 2024.  What is on that page, and what She is warning America about, is extremely critical!  Time is of the essence!

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   In the meantime, if you want to talk about all or any of this and/or want to have a presentation made to your parish or prayer group about any part of it and/or the chapter connected to it, please see below.  Thank you for being interested enough to have read this all the way through.   

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                       Praise God and have a Great Day in the Lord!

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