PERPETUAL HELP

Would, could, should

a store or a service
put up a sign: "Perpetual Help"?

Yet mothers have that requisite
listed on their resume.

“Ma!” “Mommy!” “Help!”

Okay, in modern times,
dads as well.

Mary at a wedding – helped
in a panic: the wedding had
run out of wine.
Mary simply said,
“Do whatever Jesus tells you to do.”

Mary in her ikon of Perpetual Help
simply keeps saying the same thing:
“Do whatever Jesus tells you to do.”

“Surprise! It works,

that is,

if we work and pray

with Christ.”

© Andy Costello, 2010

Today, June 27, is

the traditional day

to celebrate the Feast

of Our Lady of

Pereptual Help -

a title of Mary that we
Redemptorists were

asked by Pope Pius IX

to promote - since

way back in 1865.