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                          LOUISIANA AND
           THE SIXTH GLORIOUS MYSTERY














                                           Our Lady of Lourdes 
                                          St. Bridget of Sweden 
                                                 Schriever, LA
        (Our Lady of Lourdes and Her rosary.  Count the six decades!)

   Note:  St. Bridget Parish was the last diocesan parish of Fr. Simon Peter Engurait, who became Bishop Simon Peter Engurait, of the Houma-Thibodaux Diocese, on Friday, September 5, 2025.  Bishop Simon Peter was the first African-born Bishop to be assigned to mainland America.  What a healing and revival of Faith in Louisiana since the life and times of William Joseph Seymour!   

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THE GLORIOUS RETURN OF HER SON, JESUS!
"The Light" Returns into the darkness of this World!   
                                         
   The praying of the Sixth Glorious Mystery of Our Lady's Rosary, to plead for Her Son's return into the darkness of this present world, began at the Our Lady of  Compassionate Protection Shrine site in Houma, LA on May 17, 1998.  (This additional decade is also called the "Lagniappe Decade".)  There is no doubt that upon Jesus' return, the whole world will know, with certainty, that His Mother is truly Queen of Heaven and Earth, as has been prayed for over hundreds of years by the Fifth Glorious Mystery. 

   When He returns in Glory, it will then be known to all that "Queen of Heaven and Earth" is not just some symbolic title given to Our Lady by just a few extreme devotees.  No, it will then be fully realized by all that She truly is the Mother of Jesus - the Mother of God - a Mother of Life to all! 

   She is a Mediatrix of, and to, the graces Her Son released by His life and death on a cross!  The Catechism of the Catholic Church and Holy Scripture declares Her Greatness!  To read that, please click here. 

   This Sixth Glorious Mystery is an additional decade of the rosary that is optional.  But, when prayed with faith, it greatly pleases Our Lady and is believed to be very efficacious to facilitating the return of Her Son.  A date we are waiting for with expectation!  

   Think about it!  Can Jesus really refuse such a request to return when it is faithfully prayed as part of His dear Mother's rosary!  The Holy Rosary - an obedient act of prayer that His Holy Mother has repreatedly asked us to pray for many years. 
                       Think of Her Fatima messages in 1917.

   Does Jesus respond to His Mother?  Of course He does!  Remember the interaction between Jesus and His Mother at the wedding in Cana in the Gospel of John 2: 1-12.  He could not refuse Her when She requested help for Her Children in distress or crisis.  Help was needed, She requested, and He responded.  He will again respond to Her now, as well, if we pray Her rosary in faith.  The world needs His return - as prayed for in Louisiana's "lagniappe decade"!  Come, Lord Jesus!  Bring your Light into this world!  

   The spiritual director of the Our Lady of Compassionate Protection Shrine, in Houma, LA, is Fr. Paul Bergeron (a retired priest of the Diocese of Lafayette, LA).  Fr. Paul was born in Houma and is now retired there.  The administrator of the shrine is Mary Helpers, Inc. from Marrero, Louisiana.  Also, assisting at the shrine are members of the Servite Order.

   Together they have faithfully served Our Lady and the visitors to the shrine, that is named for Her, since March 17, 1996, under the title of Our Lady of Compassionate Protection.  To read a short narrative of how this additional mystery began at the shrine in 1998, please click here.  To find out more about the monthly involvement of Mary's Helpers, on the Westbank of New Orleans, and the shrine click here.

   Note: If you have an interest to learn how the shrine came to exist on March 17, 1996 and/or how the title of Our Lady of Compassionate Protection began, please listen to the powerful personal testimony of Lou Saia, the visionary, by clicking on these videos produced by Cajun Miracles Podcast from Houma. LA:                                                         Part 1                                                                                                         Part 2                                                                                                         Part 3

   Now, a little background about the sixth decade:  A sixth mystery to the rosary is not a new thing.  It was a part of Our Lady's visits to Lourdes in 1858.  To see the rosary that hung on St. Bernadette's wall in her home, please click here.  To hear and read two excellent presentations about the Carmelite Six Decade Rosary, prayed at Lourdes, please click here  and here.  For another beautiful blog on the history and the praying of the Briggitine Rosary, please click here.

   This latest practice (that has come forth from extreme South Louisiana and from the Shrine of Our Lady of Compassionate Protection, in Houma, LA, on May 17th of 1998), is certainly not to replace or compete with the Briggitine Rosary - that has been prayed for years around the world for expressed reasons.  If you are inclined to pray the Briggitine or Carmelite Rosary, as it has been prayed for years, please continue to do so. 

   For now, just discern whether, at least at times, maybe the "Lagniappe Decade" should be prayed as well.  It is so simple a practice.  And what is the additional decade being prayed for?

                THE GLORIOUS RETURN OF JESUS! 

   If you simply allow the Holy Spirit move you to pray it occasionally, after a while, you will see this new practice grow in your heart!  Why?  At least because we need more of Jesus in the world.  The lagniappe decade will hasten Him to our help!

   In this case, of considering this additional decade, amd its efficacy, that came from this shrine in 1998, the long-prayed Briggitine Rosary (that had already included six decades) actually confirmed, that the Louisiana sixth decade rosary was to also now be prayed - asking for His Glorious Return! 

   If you are ever inclined to pray for the Triumph of Our Lady's Immaculate Heart and the simultaneous Glorious Eucharistic Return of Jesus, try this one additional decade to the rosary you are now praying!  It is so simple and powerful!  There is no downside to this request.  Who can seriously argue against the fact that we certainly now need the Light of Jesus in this dark world?  On another page of this narrative, one can read how serious Our Lady of America is about pointing out just one of the symptoms of this darkness.  Recall, the subtitle of this decade has always been:
         "The Light" Returns into this World!  Come, Lord Jesus!
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   A serious confirmation to this new practice of an additional decade came along approximately four years after May 17, 1998, when on October 16, 2002, Pope John Paul II, unexpectedly, surprised the Church with an Apostlic Letter titled, Rosarium Virginus Mariae, introducing the Mysteries of Light! 

   Praise God!  "The Light" is returning into the darkness of this world!  If you would like to read that letter, please click here.   The new Mysteries of Light only further confirmed to all, at that time, that the "Lagniappe Decade", that asked in 1998 for His Light to return and shine in the world, was indeed very appropriate!

   A question to ponder:  Could the Papal Letter in 2002, and the new mysteries it exposed, have been in part a "fruit" of the "Lagniappe" Decade started in 1998?  If not a "fruit", certainly, a "confirmation" to pray, at least at times, the "lagniappe decade"! 

   In practice, the praying of the six decades is simply using a normal five decade rosary and then praying one additional decade at the end of the present glorious mysteries.  It is no harder than that!   One would title this last decade: The Glorious Return of Jesus (The Light Returns into the Darkness of this World)!    

   His Glorious Return fulfills the redemptive plan of God.  When Jesus returns, His "Holy Light" will dispel and overcome all darkness in this world!  It is what His Church seeks in expectation! His return will also immediately validate Our Lady's standing as the Mother of God and Queen of Heaven and Earth as well as Her desire for Her Children on earth to bring forth life...not death.  She can be called our Mother of Life - a life that is everlasting!

   To revisit how She recently and profoundly and openly announced on April 8, 2024 the existence of the present darkness upon and to America, please visit another page on this website by clicking here.  That was a very important "Announcement" or "warning" to America" from Her!  She is doing all She can to show America examples of the darkness we must turn away from.  Is American listening to Her as much as the Aztecs listened in 1531?  Does not look like it.   

   Our Lady wants to be known as our Mother of Life!  That is because She represents "Life".  She is the fullness of Life itself!  To listen to a recent song produced by the Mother of Life Apostolate from Houma, LA, please click here.  This is also perfectly in line with Her messages as our Lady of America where She requests that our youth live in purity.   South Louisiana is a "safe place" for the devotion to Her as "Our Lady of America" to be practiced by Her youth!

   Note:  Consider making a pilgrimage to the original, and 1993 Denver World Youth Day statue of Our Lady of America, as designed by Sr. Mildred, located at St. Thomas Aquinas Church at Nicholls State University Campus in Thibodaux, LA.  To see some Random Acts of Faith facilitated by Our Lady of America out of Louisiana, please click here.

   All the above is tremendously consistent with scripture and especially Rev. Chapter 22, as we close the Holy Scriptures by calling for Jesus' return.  When praying with that scripture chapter, as we move through the Great Novena toward the year 2033, consider how many pieces are coming together in readying ourselves for His Glorious Return - and now with a Pope having maternal generational routes from Louisiana!  Who could have ever imagined!

   Additionally, all the above is also very consistent with, and complimentary to, this very powerful and fruitful movement of God, that has been residenced in the Diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana for many years, led by Fr. Conley Bertrand, its Director and Founder:

                              COME, LORD JESUS!

   To read about one modern-day example of the power of the rosary, please click here.  To see the Bishop declare it in his own words, please click here.

   To see who and how Our Lady and Her Rosary can touch anyone, if even there is just little openness to Her Grace, please click here.

    By praying the rosary for the Glorious Return of Jesus, we are praying and helping to prepare the Church and the World for the exact trial that is written about in the Catechism of the Catholic Church - The Church's Ultimate Trial (Paragraphs 675-677).   

   Finally, but certainly not the least of importance, consider making a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Compassionate Protection in Houma, LA - and maybe even on one of the Mass days on the 17th of each month!  To do that, please contact Mary's Helpers in Marrero, LA for details.

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