Given the limitations with COVID-19 protocols, the chapel is not large enough to welcome people to attend Mass. Each first Saturday through the winter we will live stream our Mass on our Facebook page followed by a half hour of prayer. Please join us.
While Fr. Walter Riley is celebrating Mass on this date in 2010 at the Santo home, the consecrated hosts begins to spontaneously bleed. It does so for several weeks. This host is still used for adoration and benediction with pilgrims who visit the Santo home.
From the end of November of 2018 until February of 2019, the chapel at the Santo home was renovated with new lighting, paint, and new furnishings. On this date in 2019, Bishop Robert McManus celebrated Mass and blessed the chapel.
On December 8, 2020, Pope Francis asked that we honor Saint Joseph in a special way until December 8, 2021. This is in recognition of the 150th anniversary of the proclamation of this great saint as the Patron of the Universal Church. We will honor the patron of the Church and the terror of demons with a special Mass on his feast day. It will be live streamed from Audrey's chapel. Following it, join us for a half hour of prayer before the Blessed Sacrament with Audrey's chaplet and the abbreviated chaplet of the 7 Joys and Sorrows of Saint Joseph. Join us to pray that the Church would recognize the virtue and holiness of Audrey's life that she may be an example and intercessor for the whole Church. Call for an appointment for private prayer in Audrey's chapel in ten minute intervals. Special discounts in our gift store for those who visit on this day.
This great feast celebrates the arrival of the Angel Gabriel to Our Lady in Nazareth. Hailing her favor and grace, he brings the good news that the Savior is to be born of her, if she is willing. Her response echoes through history and changes the universe as she surrenders to the Father's will. This new Eve now begets the new Adam who will undo the first one's sin and reconcile us to the Father. Please check back to see how the Foundation will mark this date.
This observance of the Lord's entrance into Jerusalem begins what Christians identify as Holy Week. Even today, palms are blessed in remembrance of this triumphant arrival of the Messiah to his own city. Please consult your local parish for the times of the blessing of palms, weekend Masses and the distribution of palms.
This day is called Good even though the Lord died this day because by His death, we are saved from sin and its penalty of death. Because Christ died, we who deserve death have been ransomed and saved from death. In Him, by our baptism, we are given the promise of the inheritance of eternal life. Consult your local parish and listings for services to mark this day as a most sacred one. It is a day of fast and abstinence, meaning no meat or meat products for anyone over 14, and only one full meal (ort its equivalent in two smaller meals) for those who are between 16 and 59 years of age. Please check your local parish and listings for services to make this day holy. Many Christians keep the paschal feast until tomorrow evening, no meat or meat products and not more than one meal during the day.
Audrey was called to the glory of God on the vigil evening of this feast. This Second Sunday of Easter celebrates the mercy of God as revealed to Saint Faustina, a cloistered Polish nun during the Nazi atrocities and the devastation of World War II. Today, as much as we ever have, we need to trust in the mercy of God. Please consult your local parish for prayers and devotions on this important liturgical feast.
On this date, God came to take Audrey to his eternal glory. Surrounded by her family and close friends, Audrey passed peacefully to our Lord. As she did, she cried out, the only thing she had spoke in nearly twenty years since her accident. Fr. George Joyce commented that it was the cry of Christ from the cross. In imitation of Him, she surrendered totally and wholeheartedly to God's will to her last breath.
With the permission of Bishop Reilly, Bagislau Lapinski comes to the Santo home and performs scientific DNA testing on the host that appeared to bleed from the Mass that Bishop Flanagan celebrated in 1992. The testing and results were filmed on a video recorder where Mr. Lapinski explains the process and together they await the results of the testing. The results and the reaction of those present were recorded as they verified it is unquestionably human blood.
Weather permitting, and in accordance with COVID-19 regulations, we will hold Mass outside behind the Foundation House on the first Saturdays through the summer. Following Mass, the museum and gift shop will be open for visitors, again given the regulations of COVID-19.
An image of Saint Rita of Cascia in Audrey's room was the first religious object to spontaneously bleed. On this date in 1996, the feast of Saint Rita of Cascia, a second host begins to bleed during a Mass that Fr. George Joyce celebrates in the Santo home.
On this day in 1996, at a Mass celebrated by Fr. George Joyce, and concelebrated with Fr. Potvin and Fr. Tom McCarthy, a fourth host bleeds during Mass. The moment is recorded live on video by a film crew from Franciscan Media.
Weather permitting, and in accordance with COVID-19 regulations, we will hold Mass outside behind the Foundation House on the first Saturdays through the summer. Following Mass, the museum and gift shop will be open for visitors, again given the regulations of COVID-19.
Weather permitting, and in accordance with COVID-19 regulations, we will hold Mass outside behind the Foundation House on the first Saturdays through the summer. Following Mass, the museum and gift shop will be open for visitors, again given the regulations of COVID-19.
The development of the Atomic bomb, known as the Manhattan Project, needed to be proven by the actual detonation of the bomb. The testing was performed on this date, at a site named Trinity in the New Mexico desert. Please check back to join us for a prayer service for an end to the nuclear threat and the promotion of peace in our world, in our time.
The feast day of Saint Charbel (also rendered as Sharbel) of Lebanon, a hermit monk, and a relative of Audrey. There is a miracle of oil during his life when he desired to be a hermit. And upon his death, oil exuded from his body through the ground where he had been buried. His body continued to weep oil until he was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1977. He is known as the "Hermit of Lebanon." He is a patron saint for the Foundation for Audrey's cause.