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         OUR LADY BLESSES AMERICA

 WITH HOLY WATER IN 2001 AND 2020













                                 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
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AND WE BEGIN:

   Each "Random Act of Faith" builds upon all 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 the King!  This rosary procession was just one of the numerous "land claimings or "land assignments" carried out by Louisiana Catholics over many years in the name of Our Lady and/or Her Son, Jesus all across Louisiana!

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   On that morning, some 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 somewhat strange statues, and rosaries and medals, etc. 

 

​The growing numbers really caught their attention and there were many questions that were asked that morning by individuals who had no idea about what was getting ready to go on.  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 typically their best two business-days of the week.  In spite of that, we were welcomed. 

 

   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!  Even if they had heard, what they knew was in error.  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, 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 and every day.  Some may not agree with all the decisions Governor Landry may be making each day as governor, as he attempts to run the State of Louisiana in a political world.  This decision was a good one!  

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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 anointing that is upon the land and its generations of "little ones" that have lived upon that land over the years!  Our Lady of America, Our Lady of Prompt Succor, lead him!  Let's all pray for Pope Leo XIV.  Let him be open to receive the Louisiana anointing and act in accordance with it.

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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, located in New Orleans.  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"!  It surrounded the Cathedral.  

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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 design the route using those named streets. 

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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 the 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.  Where to be "centered".  

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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 on Bourbon Street.  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 and His Cross 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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   Note and update before reading below:  At the USCCB General Assembly in November of 2025, in Baltimore, the United States Bishops voted to approve the consecration of America to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, on the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on Friday, June 12, 2026.  Please note this liturgical day and the two blessings of America, were made on the same liturgical day in 2001 and 2022. 

 

   We thank Our Lady, under the title of Our Lady of America, for leading Louisiana Catholics (and others) to carryout those Random Acts of Faith ahead of this 2026 consecration.  Our Lady leads the way through the hearts and actions of Her Children!

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NOW ON WITH THE BLESSINGS!

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   Extremely important to what will follow, after the procession that July day in 1996, that was 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 its next material Random Act of Faith in 2001 (and then a repeat performance of that in 2020).  It would take a connection between Louisiana and Minnesota to develop and that was never envisioned. 

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   The Mississippi River (the "Great River") was the connection and Her "Louisianawim", acting child-like, 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 on Friday, June 22, 2001 (Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus) 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. 

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   Note:  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.  ​​​​The signficance of the presence of that woman's profile will be more fully understood 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 and America 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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   To repeat, the Holy Water was poured at 3:33 pm for each pouring, on the respective Fridays of the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, 19 years apart.  (That feast day is always 19 days after Pentecost.)  The prayer that was prayed at the first pouring in 2001 was this one.  The prayer that was prayed at the second pouring in 2020 was this one.  (After reading the prayer of 2020, consider that just recently the U.S. Bishops have decided to consecrate America to the Sacred Heart of Jesus!)  Thank you Holy Spirit!  To read more about that go to Chapter V.  

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   Note:  Why at 3:33 pm?  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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   How amazing!  Our Lady, knew on Friday, June 22, 2001 that America would later that year face a severe crisis on September 11, 2001.  Although not known by Her Children in 2001, She also knew Her Louisiana Catholic Children would return to this same location in 2020, for a repeat performance, with America facing another crisis.  Then, She would allow them to see the connections between the two.  

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   Note:  Let the reader recall, Our Lady confirmed the act of 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!  You confirmed the efficacy of it all.

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   Also, no one in the pouring group knew, but Our Lady knew, that on that same liturgical Friday in 2001, an extremely secular exercise was beginning in America.  It was an exercise directly connected to a reality that was going to be occurring 19 years later (at the same time as the second pouring was to occur).  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".  Prayerfully consider all that for awhile!  

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  Then further consider:  Only Our Lady knew that the Church would be actually facing that "Dark Winter" 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 never be left alone. 

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

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   By April and May of 2020 the Church was certainly in deep trouble.  It was so bad in Louisiana that newly blessed holy water, 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" available.  It was called that because one literally had to covertly pick it up at the "back door" of the church.  Rumor had it that in one diocese priests were even restricted to blessing more holy water.  The Church in Louisiana had entered a time of "fear" like never before experienced in its history.  A period of "Sacramental Exile"!  In the face of all that, the Louisianawim were on a mission to gather more holy water!  

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   To very simply review: 

   In 2001, the Holy Water was perceived to be poured generally under Our Lady's guidance.  That was confirmed by the profile in the picture taken while the Holy Water was poured. 

   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 was residing 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 of the 2001 picture image and the statue in Thibodaux, 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 in 2020, click here.​​​​​​​

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    The locations where the Holy Water came from in 2020, click here.

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    To wrap up the Holy Water's journey down the "Great River", please view an image of the sunrise in Thibodaux, Louiaiana, on September 11, 2020.  That was the date when the Holy Water had been calculated to reach (and, in fact, apparently 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.  That sunrise was confirmed by images taken in Houma, LA that day.

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   And, if you wonder why that sunrise was connected the Holy Water destination and Our Lady of America, please consider 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 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 by Her crown!  Thank you Blessed Mother for anwering those requests.

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   As an example of what hundreds of Catholics (and some non-Catholics) did and/or that is still being done along the "Great River" and the many rivers that feed it, beginning on June 19, 2020, please click here and here.  Yes, this continues even today along multiple American waterways.  You can do it today as well where you are!   It must always be done with sincere faith of the power of the sacramentals. (For more on the sacramentals, go to the CCC beginning on Paragraph 1667). 

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   At this point, take a break, and please take a few minutes and listen to the LA Family Forum's (from Baton Rouge) powerful rendition of The Louisiana Blessing.    How beautiful!  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.  Thank you Our Lady, for allowing all to see these connections.

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   Note:  Interestingly, later in the summer of 2020 a separate "land assignment" was carried out by other 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?

 

    Then, four years later Our Lady gave a very serious "Announcement" or "Warning" to America on the Solemnity of the Assumption on April 8, 2024 narrated in Chapter IV.  By allowing Her Children to see the connections between 2001 and 2020 and Jesus' Sacred Heart, She wanted us to know that, no matter what, She and Her Son will not leave America on its own, if we turn to them with faith.  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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       A key question:  Is America now doing what Her Son is saying?

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