Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

I was going to say that I hope pro-lifers in England will support
this endeavor, but I suspect it more likely that this endeavor will
support pro-lifers in England.

By Fr Peter West

Our Lord compared the growth of the Kingdom of God to the growth of a
small mustard seed into a large shrub. (Mark 4, 30-3-32).  This is a
reminder that sometimes great enterprises have very small beginnings.
 At this moment, a small band of pro-life missionaries are on a
pilgrimage across Russia.   From a worldly perspective their efforts
might seem insignificant. However, seen through the eyes of faith, their
journey has the potential to be of enormous significance for the
building of a culture of life and the family in Russia all of Europe.

The small band left the port city of Vladivostok on the Pacific
Coast of Russia on June 14th with a replica of the famous icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa.
The revered image of our Blessed Mother, displayed on a specially
designed secure trailer, will be venerated across eight time zones in
Russia, and eventually will zigzag across Europe to Fatima, Portugal
and, hopefully, will even come to the United States in the spring of
2013.

What would motivate a small band of believers to undertake what is being called the “From Ocean to Ocean International
Campaign in Defense of Life” – to go to such extreme measures for what
many will perceive as a quaint religious observance? The pilgrimage,
or peregrination, of the icon, is intended as a response to nearly a
century of legalized abortion in Russia, and to stop the spread of this
deadly scourge to the rest of the world?   Anyone who has studied
Scripture or Church history will recognize the purpose of this
extraordinary event. They believe that the victory of life will come
about through the powerful intercession of Mary, the Mother of God, as
foretold in the Book of Revelation (Rev. 11,19-12,18)

In the Old Testament, the Jews carried the Ark of the Covenant into battle (cf. Joshua 3, 3-6). Many Fathers of the Church
compare Mary to the Ark of the New Covenant, such as St. Ambrose. 
Saint Ambrose wrote “The Ark contained the Tablets of the Law; Mary
contained in her womb the heir of the Testament. The Ark bore the Law;
Mary bore the Gospel. The Ark made the voice of God heard; Mary gave us
the very Word of God. The Ark shone forth with the purest gold; Mary
shone forth both inwardly and outwardly with the splendor of her
virginity. The gold which adorned the Ark came from the interior of the
earth; the gold with which Mary shone forth came from the mines of
Heaven.” (Serm. xlii. 6, Int. Opp., S. Ambrosii)

Though the practice of peregrination with icons of the Blessed
Mother has fallen out of favor in much of the Catholic world, its
history is worth noting. Even in the West, the faithful have over the
centuries venerated the images of the Blessed Virgin Mary and called on
her intercession in times of great distress.

In 1571, when the Bishop of Mexico
heard that Europe was threatened with an invasion from the Turkish
Navy, he sent a replica of the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Pope
Pius V. The Pope gave the image to Admiral Andrea Doria, who carried it
into battle on one of the lead ships at Lepanto. On October 7, 1571,
Christian forces defeated the much larger Turkish Navy and saved Europe
from invasion.

Here is the rest of the article: http://www.lovingit.co.uk/2012/06/pilgrimage-with-our-lady-of-czestochowa-in-defense-of-life.html

Her is the story of her as our patroness: http://www.enteringcanaan.com/our-lady-of-czestochowa.html

It is always so amazing to find these things and so many confirmations of the work and God's hand it in, as with this statement by the Pope recently and the name of the ministry "Entering Canaan"

http://reclaimingourchildren.typepad.com/lumina_a_ray_of_light_aft/2012/10/year-of-faith-entering-canaan.html

Praise God ….