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                          OUR LADY BLESSES AMERICA

                               WITH HOLY WATER













                                            Our Lady of America at St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans, LA
             and at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church on Nicholls State University Campus in Thibodaux, LA


 
   This chapter is currently under development and will be for some time.  After 33 years of gathering information, the amount of experiential information that is avaiilable is great.  Because it is a ongoing story, playing out in real time, it continues to grow.  To lay it all in order and then to weave it into the other chapters is a constant process.  Please visit this page regularly, as it continues to develop. 
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   Also know, there are many other excellent websites as well that will supply much more information, if you want to know even more.  Please do your own research!  If you independently discover information, that you believe might tend to materially add to the information in this chapter, please let us know by emailing us at louisianawim@gmail.com.   
 
 
BEFORE WE BEGIN, CONSIDER THIS:
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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 purifying fire!)


AND WE BEGIN:

   Each "Random Act of Faith" builds on previous ones (and there have been many that are known and many that are not known). For all practical purposes, 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 to publicly walk a rosary procession through the streets around the Cathedral to claim back New Orleans and Louisiana for God! 

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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.  They were quite kind to these unsual "intruders" carrying statues, rosaries and medals, etc.  It really caught their attention.  Actually, it was a good opportunity to evangelize some who had little idea of who this lady named "Mary" or Her Son "Jesus" was!

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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, may have all together played some part in causing this powerful Louisiana PROCLAMATION in 2025, that recently come forth from Baton Rouge 29 years later.   Thank you for this Governor Landry!

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

   For more about the procession, it was led by Monsignor Robert Guste and the Prayer Warriors of St. Joan of Arc, please click here to see the route.  If one takes the time to look at it, one can easily 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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  In the early years of New Orleans, many streets around the Cathedral were named after saints.  It was decided to use those named streets, as part of the route.  In doing so, a cross was walked through the French Quarter that day, while praying the rosary, in the Divine Will.  Also, prayer was offered to "Reverse the Curse(s)" place upon the State, the City and the Church by many ungodly men and women over the years.  ​

   Note:  The above is much like using the symbolisn of the dragon image of 1812 that is discussed on the page titled: "Louisiana and the Holy Eucharist".  That can be read by clicking here.)  Good examples that there is so much concealed in history, that once revealed through prayer, can be used today to inspire and act upon with faith!

   For more about Monsignor Guste and New Orleans and the spiritual warfare we write about so often in this website, please click on this 2008 narrative by Spirit Daily.  Monsignor Guste died on August 3, 2010.  A priest with strong faith and courage!  He was not afraid to openly talk about (and do something about) the clear and present spiritual danger to our eternal lives that satan and his demons pose.

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   After the procession that day, one of the prayer warrior participants made a comment.  She said that the Mississippi River needed to be blessed with Holy Water.  Itself a great idea.  Another Random Act of Faith brought forth by the Holy Spirit. 

 

   It took 5 years and many new relationships later to develop before the Holy Spirit brought that spontaneous inspiration to a reality in 2001.  It connected Louisiana to Minnesota in a new way never before envisioned.  The Mississippi River was the connection.  For more on that great river, again, go to the page titled: "Louisiana and the Holy Eucharist", by clickng here.

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   The Holy Water that was ultimately used for the blessing was transported there in 2001 by Fr. Duane Stenzel, OFM, the-then director of Lumen Christi Retreat Center, in Houma, LA.  It had been gathered from 64 locations around the world over the years by Holy Guardian Angels Parish in Bridge City, LA.  The pastor of that parish was Monsignior Joseph Luminais and he called it "Easter Water".   (Monsignior Luminais is now deceased.  Read about his life here.)

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   The "Easter Water" was poured at the exact point in Lake Itasca, MN where the Mississippi River begins.  To see an image of the water being poured, please click here.  One can easily see the profile of a woman shown on the right edge of the image.  It showed up on that one image (no others) that was taken at the exact time the water was poured.  The Holy Water was poured at 3:33 pm on the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.  The prayer that was prayed at the pouring was this one.  Why that exact time, click here.

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Note:  The presence of that woman's profile will 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 on the same exact liturgical feast day and at the same exact time on June 19, 2020.

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   Note:  No one knew on June 22, 2001 that later in the year America would face a severe crisis on September 11, 2001.  Additionally, no one in the "collection and pouring groups" knew that on that same liturgical Friday in 2001, an extremely secular "dark exercise" was beginning in America.  An exercise that 19 years later was to become a reality.  

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   The topic of that 2001 "drill" (a pandemic) would be the real second crisis that would later face America in 2020. Even before understanding how bad it would ultimately be, Louisiana-connected Catholics began, on January 6, 2020 (the birth date of St. Joan of Arc), to gather Holy Water in order to return to that same Lake Itasca location to repeat the Random Act of Faith of 2001.  (By April and May of 2020 the sacramental exile was so bad in Louisiana that Holy Water in some parishes in some dioceses could not be found.  Churches were locked tight!)  In 2020 the Holy Water was poured intentionally under Our Lady's title of "Our Lady of America"! 

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   Note:  Why under Our Lady of America's 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 resided St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church on Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, LA.  For the comparison of the two profiles, click here.

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   For quick reference 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 Gulf of America).  On that morning that image was captured by one of the prayer warriors that was involved with the gathering and pouring of the Holy Water in 2020.

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   And, if you wonder why that sunrise would make anyone think it was somehow connected to when the Holy Water actually reached the Gulf of America, please consider the crown on the statue of the Our Lady of America, that was residenced roughly two miles away from the image of the sunrise in Thibodaux, Louisiana.  To see the image of the sunrise and the image of the crown on the head of her statue alongside each other, please click here.  Our Lady had been asked to please confirm to all the day the Holy Water reached the Gulf of Mexico and She did exactly that!

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   She did all this in 2020.  Three years before Her serious "Announcement" or "Warning" to America revealed on this page of this website.  She wants us to know that She and Her Son will not leave America but Her Children in America must do as She stated at Cana, "whatever He tells you"!  Is America doing that?

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   If you want to try and understand the power of the Mass and the Sacramentals, such as Holy Water 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 much 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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   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, please see below.  Thank you for being interested enough to have read this all the way through. 

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   Take care and have a Great Day in the Lord!​​