From Ocean to Ocean
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The Częstochowa icon of the Virgin Mary is in the lead of the From Ocean to Ocean pro-life procession
Archbishop Elisey of Sourozh:
“This initiative may attract people to defense of true and natural family and draw eastern and western people together under the protecting veil of the Mother of God.”
Carlo Casini
(Member of European Parliament):
“It is with pleasure that I express my support for the pilgrim voyage of the icon of the Black Madonna from Ocean to Ocean.
May this initiative foster greater devotion and respect for human life at all stages.”
Dr. Anna Záborská
(Member of European Parliament):
“European nations are on a decline—their population getting older every year, with hundreds of thousands of unborn children killed. Respect for human life is not a universal value anymore; it became a controversial issue...
With this in mind, I would like to express my full support for peregrination of the icon of Mother of God from Czestochowa from Pacific to Atlantic Ocean, as a response to serious challenges of our time.”
The UK has become the 19th but not nearly the last country that picked up the baton in defense of life and family.
Having ovecome a difficulty at the border, Our Blessed Mother in the icon of Czestochowa came to the Principality of Liechtenstein on October 14, 2012.
On Thursday October 11, 2012 the copy of the holy icon of the Mother of God of Czestochowa arrived in Salzburg where it was received with great reverence at the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church of the Holy Apostel and Evangelist St. Mark.
Great Britain will be the first English-speaking country that Our Lady in the Icon of Czestochowa will visit. For the past several months, the British organization committee for the peregrination has been very active under the direction of Dr. Thomas Ward, the director and founder of the National Association of Catholic Families (NACF).
In the late evening of September 28th, the Icon of the Black Madonna journeyed through the Alpine mountain chain and arrived in Austria. For the last two days, She travelled through northern Italy.
Our Blessed Mother Mary in the Icon of Czestochowa, peregrinating across the world for the protection of the civilization of life, has traveled 30,000 kilometers through 12 countries.
On Thursday afternoon, September 20th, almost a thousand people were greeting Our Blessed Mother in the Icon of Czestochowa in front of the Church of The Blessed Virgin Mary — Queen of the Church and St. Maximilian Kolbe.
Interview with Kateřina Ucháčová — the coordinator of the Czech-phase of the “From Ocean to Ocean” pilgrimage.
Provisional timetable for visit to the United Kingdom, November 5-16 2012, the Feast of Our Lady's Queenship 2012
The pro-life and pro-family pilgrimage with Częstochowa icon of Our Lady has crossed Poland. (August, 12—26, 2012)
The first part of the international pilgrimage of the Chestochowa icon of Virgin Mary through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belorussia, and Ukraine reported by the capaign's originator Igor Beloborodov.
In the afternoon, on August 12th, the pastor with several priests from neighboring parishes and numerous faithful awaited Our Blessed Mother in front of the Catholic church in Suprasl.
Singing Akathist in honor of the Mother of God, Orthodox priests together with the faithful carried the Icon of Our Lady around the various Vilnius' churches.
Pilgrimage Journal
- Mother’s Day Celebrated With The Icon Of Our Lady Of Czestochowa
- Icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa venerated by the Orthodox Church in Portugal
- „From Ocean to Ocean” – a photo-exhibition at Jasna Góra
- Our Lady of Czestochowa stood on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean
- CZESTOCHOWA ICON ALREADY IN FATIMA
- In Algarve Our Lady of Czestochowa unites Catholics and Orthodox
- World Youth Day celebrated with Our Lady of Czestochowa
