Our Lady of Perpetual Help: Meaning of the Image - Explaining the Faith with Fr. Chris Alar
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- The image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help is one of the most known in all of Christianity. But what does it mean? Why do the Greek letters say? Why is Jesus' sandal hanging off of his foot? Why does Jesus, as a child, look like an adult? What do the colors signify? Fr. Chris Alar answers these questions and more.
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Praying for the soul of my daughter Anna. Also my family. Please, Mother Mary, help us sell my daughter's house! Praying for our country. Amen! Amen!
Amme Parisudha Amme, LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP KINDLY INTERCEDE FOR OUR FAMILY AMMA
Thank you Father Chris
Pray for your Father's health.
Ty
May God Almighty have mercy to Dad to Fr. Chris
Fr. Chris, I will pray for you and your family! You remain to be a good example for us all. May God bless you, your dear ones, all of the Marians and Marian Helpers abundantly always!
Thank you and God bless you
OLPH help us to be closer to Jesus
BLESSED MOTHER MARY PLEASE PRAY FOR US! AMEN
Pray for my children to convert to their faith and for my family to be delivered from all evil,
Amén 🙏🏼
Amen 🙏🏻
Amen
😊 bless dear father Christ for all of his good talks
Thank you, Fr. Chris! God bless you!
OLPH pray for Moya & family facing difficult times. Amen
Thank you so very much Father Chris.
Our Lady of Perpetual Succor, Pray for us. Amen
I loved this talk! Thank for all your work and sacrifices in researching and preparing for your talks. We appreciate it. God bless you and protect you. May our Lady of Perpetual help come to your dad’s assistance. 🙏🏼
Thank you so much
Thank you Father Chris.
Father Chris be blessed ubandantly
U2
When I was a child before Vatican II my childhood parish held an Our Lady of Perpetual Help Novena every year in February before Lent. A missionary priest came to conduct the novena. I loved it❤. The church was packed every night. Standing room only. They would have folding chairs on each side of the center aisle and on the side aisles. Beautiful hymns and finished with benediction. After Vatican II this all ceased, including Benediction. 😢
THANK YOU FR. CHRIS for the very ' Informative & Brilliant ' Meaning Of The ' ICON ' ( Inage of Our LADY Of Perpetual Help ),,, BLESSINGS 🙏🙏🙏💓💓💓✝️✝️✝️
I too find my Catholic completely different since Vatican ll 😢.
Ohhh My God 😢
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Yep. It’s really quite sad. As a new Catholic it makes me ill. 😷 You are soooooo blessed to have been a part of that ❤❤❤
Our Lady of Perpetual Help pray for us and our USA🛐🙏📿🇺🇲💜
Yes! This is great timing to learn about Our Lady of Perpetual Help. We need her and many prayers more than ever!
Pray for my husband who has had major surgery and conversion of all our family members who have fallen from the faith.
Amme Parisudha Amme, our Lady of perpetual help, kindly bless our family
Thank you Father Chris enjoyable talk 🙏🕍
THANK YOU GOD for Father Chris Alar's mouth! He has taught us all so very much!!!
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Thank you, Fr. Chris, for this wonderful talk about our Mother of Perpetual Help. I have been a devotee of Hers since i was young, and I can attest to many miracles in my life through Her powerful intercession. Mother of Perpetual Help, pray for us. 🙏💛
Our Lady of Perpetual help, I consecrate my husband and son to you for their conversion. Your children ❤️ you 🙏🏿
Fascinating, Father Alar. I read that Saint Luke painted the original icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help.
When I was a child , my mother was devoted to our Lady of Perpetual Help. She went to The Shrine of Perpetual Help in Baclaran in the Philippines , every Wednesday. . This is my favorite memory of my mother and our Mother of Perpetual Help. Our Lady of Perpetual Help , pray for my mother and our family. 🙏 😊❤❤❤
❤ thank you very much Father 🙏💕
Thank you Fr Chris for this beautiful talk. I truly believe in to Jesus through Mary. Thank You Jesus for giving us Your mother. Let’s continue praying for each other.
Praise the Lord
Alleluia
thanks Father Chris Alar for sharing this and I have forward this. Praying too for your parents' health
Hope to see you back in the Philippines 🇵🇭💗👊
Thank you for sharing and God bless you
I have this image given to me by my daughter who found it in a junk shop. It has a glorious gold background. I have hanging beneath the crucifix in my home. I am so pleased to have this image of the Lady of Perpetual Help.
Prayers for you Fr. Chris and for your father, Mr. Alar. May he will be able to endure his health issues and be free from all dangers in the aid of our intercessor, Mary our Mother of Perpetual Help.🙏🏻
Ty
Fr. Chris I just got done watching this video a few minutes ago and I found it pretty interesting. When I arrived at my parish an hour before the Saturday Vigil Mass I prayed the Divine Mercy Chaplet for your dad in hopes that he stays stable. I also asked Jesus to watch over you as well. I also prayed my Rosary earlier in the day for your dad as well. I think you realize that there's a lot of Marian Helpers who going to pray for you dad in the same amount as we prayed for your mom. Keep us all posted on how your dad is doing and if you're having to rush back home at a moment's notice then have the other priests, while celebrating the live streams Masses, let us know so that we can pray even more. God bless you Fr. Chris now and always.
U2
I was born on her feast day and so this is my most favorite title and image of the Blessed Virgin Mary, my Mother of Perpetual Help. What's fascinating is that we have an image of that that is old as I am because my papa gave it to my mama as present while she was pregnant of me. I strive to make her known in various ways. I do pray the rosary, and I have the apostolate of making rosaries and scatter it for free. In our country, Philippines, The National Shrine of Our Mother of Perpetual Help is one of the Top 2 churches that is most visited by pilgrims and devotees. We are called Pueblo Amante de Maria too. Everything in life are connected if we would contemplate. Im turning 28 this year, please pray for my vocation and that is to become a holy priest. Ad Jesum per Mariam!
Jesus and Mary loves us.
Our lady of the perpetual mary, intercede for all of us from this valley of tears 😢 💙 praying for peace, harmony 🙏 ❤️ 😊 & love for each other good morning father Chris alar I'm really happy that your dad is now on the better hand good health to you too keep up the good 👍 😊 works of charity spreading around the world god bless us all thanks father 😮❤
Thank you and God bless you
Wow Great talk Father Chris 👏🏻👏🏻Prayers for your Dad❤️🙏🏻
Thanks so much
Mother of perpetual help pray for us.. Mamma Maria we beseech you to fulfill all our petitions. May you protect the house and family in NRT. Bless us always with your loving divine presence in everyone in the family. Amen .
Thank you for clearing this up for me! I am a convert (11 years now), but when I was a teen and lived in Louisiana (lots of Catholics), I remember Our Lady of Prompt Succor was very important there. During the war of 1812, Our Lady of Prompt Succor was invoked in New Orleans by the Ursuline nuns… who invited the Protestants to pray the Rosary with them and New Orleans was saved. I have been feeling so strongly for years now that it is Our Lady of Prompt Succor who will bring Catholics and Protestants together and save our nation and the world, and the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus will triumph. 🌹❤❤✝️
Yes
Mother of Perpetual Help pray for us 🙏
Our Lady of Perpetual Help…pray for us!
Our Lady of Perpetual Help pray for us in my family, relatives and friends and my country 🇵🇭
thanks, Father
My dear Our Mother of Perpetual Help please help us to be more closer to your beloved
son our Lord Jesus Christ.
please pray for peace to end the
war in middle east in on the world.Thank you
Fr. Chris you re awesome.GOD BLESS YOU ALL MARIANS.❤❤❤
i've been waiting for this for so long Father. thank you!
There is a university here named after Our Lady of Perpetual Help and She is our patron. I went to High School there and we would start the day with a prayer and would always say at the end of our prayers "Our Lady of Perpetual Help, pray for us." When I was going to college, my mother prayed to our Blessed Mother Mary to give her an idea where to enroll us (financial matters) then a few days after, she read from the newspaper that there were scholarship grants and I qualified. So I didn't have to move out during College. Our Mother Mary is truly someone we can call always to help and intercede for us.
Thank you Fr. chris for explaining the image of Our Mother of Perpetual Help as i am a devotee of the novena of Our Mother of Perpetual Help every Wednesday. Since I cannot find any church here in the Uk who does the novena i do it through the small booklet of the novena of perpetual help from the redemptorist church in my country who does the novena every wednesday and nowadays it is through the you tube but there are some modern ones that came up but i still follow the old ways of the novena, and i make sure to have it every wednesday. I bought some images of this while we visited the shrine of Our Mother of Perpetual Help in Rome and as you say the background is in gold and the photo i bought i planned to put it in a frame and one day i was browsing in one of the charity shop and there was a frame in gold edges and some stones decorations . I just ignore it but it seems that something pulled me to it but i thought what shall i do about this frame but on the third time that i gone near it i just decided to buy it and it was still wrapped in its original transparent protection so brought it home and i remember about the photo of Our Perpetual help and it is perfectly suited to it with the gold bacground of the image it fits so nicely that it has a proper place on my small altar in my room in which i joined the novena from you tube every Wednesday night
my husband and I were married on the feast day, June 27, 1982
Awesome
Thank You father♥️My mother loves that image of our queen 💞🙏💞and our savior 💞🙏💞miss you nay in heaven 🕯️🕊️🕯️
Blessed day Fr Alar, hello from the Philippines, my family and I attended your talk here on Divine Mercy at Silang Cavite last year. Respectfully I would like to recommend the Holy Octave of consecration to God the Father. Praying to the Most Holy Trinity that you see my message. Praying for your perseverance. Praise be to the Most Holy Trinity now and forever ❤️🔥🕊️🙏
Thank you and God bless you
Praying for your beloved Dad
May our blessed lady continue to intercede for him.
I ask this in jesus name
Amen 🙏🏾
Thank you and God bless you
Thank you for explaining this wonderful masterpiece. I have this icon displayed in the center of my fireplace mantle and have always been drawn to it. It was a miracle I even found it… I was at a thrift store and saw a lady look at it and put it in her cart, and I said a little prayer that I wanted it so bad, but could not afford one at a regular store…she ended up putting it back on the shelf and somebody came and marked it $.99! I love it :-) thank you again.
My husband and I just visited the apparition site of Mary in Champion Wisconsin. Beautiful place.
My daughter, my friend and myself also just visited. What a great experience and such a holy place. Love those dedicated priests!❤🙏🏼
Pray for my family they need to know the lord in all his love , grace and might
Thank you Fr Chris for everything you do. Your way of teaching touches my soul and makes me want to strive in virtue. God bless you in all you do love you father❤️❤️
Thank you so much for watching and God bless you
Ty Fr Chris for the clarity on this icon I love our lady perpetual help but never understood the icon you are so missed when you are away God bless you for all you do
Our. Lady. Of. Perpetual. Help. Pray. For. Us. Amen 🙏🏻 ❤
Ty🙏 Father Chris for this beautiful explanation of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. Just Beautiful. ♥️ May Our Lady of Perpetual Help cover you, your family with her motherly protection and all the Marian Priest and Seminarians. Amen🙏🧎♀️🧎♀️🙏
Wonderful! I never knew these things! Great video Fr Alar! God bless you!
U2
Thank you Fr. Chris! I have had a beautiful Image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in our homes for over 20 years and never fully understood the meaning of the Icon. I was just drawn to her. When you mentioned someone praying and not getting an answer, I know, much like St. Monica, sometimes bigger things about to happen take time. I have seen posts on social media of Moms praying for their children for over 40 years. I have prayed for 8 years for a certain problem affecting one of my adult children. It took 8 years for the beautiful outcome. We just don't know. It is all God's timing. We cannot give up.🙏
Yes
Praying for the healing of the father of Fr Chris Alar thru the intercession of our Mother of Perpetual Help.
Ty
Mother of perpetual health pray for my family in God's name 🙏
Mother Ever Help Us
Thank you Ft!!!!
Thank you Fr. Alar for speaking on Our Lady of Perpetual Help’s Icon!
She was instrumental in helping my mom make her final confession before my mom passed!
My sister and I prayed a Novena to our OL of Perpetual Help.
I am forever grateful to Our Lady!
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Awesome
Father Chris I'm praying for your Father and for you and your family🛐🙏📿❤
Thank you very much and God bless you
Praying for your father🙏🙏🙏
:) ty for this video Father Chris Alar I love this image and I am constantly saving it via screenshot now i know so much about it m a y GOD BLESS you and your entire family 🙏
Wonderful!
Our Patron Saint Our Mother of Perpetual help. And my first devotion we celebrate every Wednesday and special 1st. Wednesday.
Our Mother of Perpetual help, Pray for Us🙏❤️🙏
My dear friend Nina (may she RIP) had given me this image years ago. What a blessing!
I grew up going to mass/ novena to the Mother of Perpetual Help every Wednesday with my Mom. I continued that til college and after I got married.
thanks Fr Chris! We have a parish named after OLPH in my hometown...now I know more about it
Awesome
Father Chris thankyou Godbless you your family Anen
Our lady of perpetual help pray for us Please pray for the UK Amen
This was a great teaching!! Really appreciate it!!
Glad it was helpful
Thank you...excellent as usual...just got back at church and am now watching your feed on first Sat
Ty
God bless you Fr.Chris beautiful talk of Our Lady of perpetual help ❤ would you please give a talk about the Infant of Prague 🙏I have a great devotion to this and I love the statue of the Infant of Prague at the Shrine i am in the UK so I watch you on RUclips and I am always drawn the the beautiful statue near the Alter, Child Jesus pray for us Anen
Yes, planning on it
MOTHEROF Perpetual Help Pray for us . HEALIN G to All the Children of Safety. please. PRAY FOR our Safty . PEACE IN ourNation in our. NEIGHBOORHOO
In the Philippines, we pray the novena to Mother of Perpetual Help every Wednesday!
Thank you, Fr Chris ! I learned a few things that wasn't aware of !! May the Holy Spirit continue to inspire and guide you for more talks ! God bless you and keep you and your parents healthy and safe . 🙏🙏🙏❤️
Thank you Mama Mary ❤️🌹. Amen 🙏🏼
Thank you so much for this wonderful talk, Father Chris. It’s very personal to my family and me. God bless you as you ride the roller coaster of your dad‘s volatile health. I pray God gives you grace and strength. Every Wednesday my mother, who had a life long solid devotion to Our Lady of Perpetual Help, prayed at Boston’s Basilica every Wednesday . (I Sent you my brother’s historical recollections via email). Praying for a miracle for Chris M who visited there with me.
God bless our Marian family.
Awesome, I just read your email too. Thank you for sharing that I want to get there myself!
Thank you Fr. Chris for all your teachings and wisdom, may our Lady of Perpetual Help continue to pray for us..
Father Chris please pray for me to get a balance in my life. 🙏🙏🙏
Wow, what Fr. Alar is telling us about the image is what my mom told me. Maybe she heard it in church because we go to the Redemptorist church every Wednesday for the novena.
Our Lady of Perpetual help, Immaculate Conception pray for us.
Thank you Fr. Chris Alar,God bless you always ❤️🙏
Thank you Father for your wonderful lectures. I’m listening to it from
Singapore
Welcome!
They should NEVER have come out with any reformation whatsoever. That’s the problem with the Church today another other things. I believe, and as a new Catholic (3 years) I can’t stand it. I LOVE LOVE LOVE tradition and how rich the Faith is. I am on fire in love with it and our Lord. It’s just a shame really what has happened and it is soooooo much worse than ever before. But, this is all supposed to happen. This is all God’s permissive Will I also believe. I just take great comfort in what our Lord said to St. Peter, “Upon this rock I will build My Church, the gates of hell will never prevail against My Church” . So in other words, no matter what happens the Church will never ever go away. Right?
Thank you Fr. Chris..May Our Lady of Perpetual Help pray for us and help us to be closer to Jesus..I pray for our country and all those that our suffering in this world with illnesses and mental health.. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Amen
Thank you Father Chris and the other Marians 🙏🏼🌹😇
Our lady of perpetual help pray for me and my family in the name of Jesus 🙏
I commit my new project in your capable hands. Our Lady of Perpetual Help. Pray for my family.
This is a new Mary for me and heard of her but I never seen this image it’s beautiful!
How is your dad doing Fr Alar and nice haircut!
Thank you and God bless you And we appreciate the prayers for him.
@@DivineMercy_Official be blessed!
Thank. You. Father. Chris. As. Always. Brilliant. Talk. Learning. Alot. And. Praying. For. Your. Dad. And. Family. God. Bless. Your. Friend. From. Dublin. Ireland. 😊❤
Thank you and God bless you
Thank you Fr. Chris for explaining about “Our Lady of Perpetual Help”. Now I understand the meaning of the two Angels and the writings🙏✝️🛐❤️
Thank You Father Chris - from Philippines here...
Thank you very Rev fr Chris Alar Amazing Explaining Our lady of perpetual help! Really Amazing Very helpful information God bless you Praise the lord 🙏💙🌹🕊🕯✝️🕯🕊🌹💙🙏
Thank you for watching with us and God bless you
Thank you Fr. Chris for sharing about Our Mother Of Perpetual Help,
here in uk they do the Novena on Thursday.Our
Mother Of Perpetual Help consecrate us and protect us from any danger
give us peace in mylife,my family
n on the world.
Thank you Fr. Chris for your words of wisdom giving us more knowledge about our faith as true faithful catholic.GOD BLESS you,your family,your dads healing. Thank you Marians for your prayers.❤❤❤
Thank you Fr. Chris, I will keep you and your family in my prayers. I have a picture of Our Lady 0f Perpetual Help made of colored straw. It is very well done. I bought it at Value Village, a thrif store.
Father Alar, thank you so much for this beautiful and meaningful talk. I never paid much attention to this amazing image. I have Our Lady of Guadalupe image but now I will include Our Lady Of Perpetual Help and bring her and The Christ Chid into my home and welcome them with love and care. 🥲❤❤ Much blessings and prayers for you and your father and your family and congregation.
Thank you and God bless you
Thank you Father 🙏
May God bless an keep you all safe so you can continue to spread our faith to all of us in need . We are all in need of our lord. Everyday I need him . Now I need him. I’m sad and have anxiety. Lord please help me. I love you. 💕
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Our Lady of Perpetual Help is one of my favorite Marian icons/images. I really can't explain why, but my guess is that it's got to do with the weekly Wednesday novenas we attended in my childhood.