At the conclusion of the Angelus prayer this Sunday, Pope Francis asked to pray to the Virgin of Mount Carmel, whose feast day is celebrated on July 16, to give peace to all those who suffer because of war.
“The Mother of God, whom the day after tomorrow we will celebrate as the Blessed Virgin of Mount Carmel, give consolation and obtain peace to all populations that are oppressed by the horror of war,” the Holy Father said before the thousands of faithful gathered. in St. Peter’s Square.
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“Please, let us not forget the martyred Ukraine, Palestine, Israel and Myanmar,” he encouraged.
The Holy Father also recalled that this July 14th is Sea Sunday, and for this reason he raised his prayers “for those who work in the maritime sector and for those who care for them.”
The Virgin of Mount Carmel, also known as Our Lady of Mount Carmel or Saint Mary of Mount Carmel, is one of the best-known Marian devotions in the world.
On July 16, 1251, Saint Simon Stock, superior of the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, prayed to God asking for strength for his Carmelite brothers who were suffering persecution. At that moment the Virgin Mary appeared to him.
The Mother of God wore the habit of the Order and gave the saint the famous Carmelite scapular, promising that she would save whoever wore it from hell.
This occurred in Aylesford (England) and marked the beginning of the devotion to the “Queen and Lady of Mount Carmel”, which has spread throughout the planet.
Walter Sanchez Silva
I have been a husband since 2008. My wife and I have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before he was born. Since I joined ACI Prensa in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Cologne, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and of Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the Family synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Synodality, in 2023. I closely follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers persecution from the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as current ecclesiastical events in the region.