Favours granted through the intercession of Blessed Mary MacKillop of Australia, Feast day August 8.
Prayers to find a good spouse
A lady in the USA asked for a petition to be placed at the shrine of Blessed Mary MacKillop in Australia. One at the petitions was for her 28 year old daughter Lyn to find a good husband. A few days after the petition was placed at Blessed Mary Mackillop’s tomb, Lyn's mother received a telephone call from a man that Lyn had dated eight years ago. Lyn and her former boyfriend went on a pilgrimage to Lourdes, in France to pray there to discern God's will for their lives. They have since married. Another of the mother's petitions to Blessed Mary MacKillop was also answered. Her son decided to give up living with his girlfriend. They started to attend Mass regularly and also began making preparations to marry.
Blessed Mary MacKillop “fixes” a microwave oven
I had arranged to go on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Blessed Mary MacKillop at North Sydney. On the morning that I was due to go I discovered that my microwave oven had stopped working. When I went to the shrine I prayed for many important petitions. I also mentioned to Blessed Mary, the little matter of my microwave oven. When I arrived home I tried my microwave oven again. It was still not working. After this I slammed the oven door very hard and the microwave started working! It seems that the only thing that was wrong was that there was a fault in the closing mechanism of the door. The microwave oven was not fully closing. It only appeared to be fully closed.
Blessed Mary MacKillop’s help in my life
In primary school, I and my two sisters attended Saint Martha’s boarding school at Leichhardt, which I now know was one of the schools that Blessed Mary MacKillop used to visit, and I was also privileged to stay at one of the places in Rome, where Blessed Mary MacKillop had lodged. There is a framed photograph of Blessed Mary MacKillop there, which was donated by an Australian priest to commemorate Mary’s visit. Our family attended her beatification on my oldest daughter’s fifteenth birthday. I mention this because we made a special pilgrimage to Blessed Mary MacKillop’s tomb when my daughter was three years of age, to pray for a healing of her autism. My daughter has made spectacular progress.
Blessed Mary MacKillop has granted me several favours. I will share one of them here. My son John suffers from severe autism. Some of my other children are also on the autism spectrum. John is a tall boy and he lost a lot of weight and as a consequence he became alarming thin. We did not know what was causing this problem. Our family and the carers in his group home feared that if the situation did not improve, that he might not survive. Doctors could not find the cause. The situation continued to go downhill and John lost even more weight, even though he was eating large amounts of food. One of my daughters and I visited the tomb of Blessed Mary MacKillop at North Sydney to pray for a healing for John. I organized with a Sister of Saint Joseph at the shrine, for an official novena to be made for John. I asked for it to begin as soon as possible. The sister said that it had to be delayed for a few days, and she suggested a day to start the novena, without knowing it, she chose John’s birthday, August 4, the feast of St John Vianney, the saint who John is named after, and who is also the patron saint of our parish here in Doonside.
After our visit to the shrine, we walked down to Circular Quay. There at the Quay was a ferry named: Mary MacKillop. I had heard of it through radio and television, but had never seen it before. We then traveled to Saint Patrick’s, Church Hill in the city. There were Catholic Weeklys for sale and there was a picture of Blessed Mary MacKillop and an article about her on the cover page. When I arrived home I logged onto the internet and went to a big American website that I visit often. There was a link there, telling everyone about the planned Mary MacKillop feast day celebrations at North Sydney.
I was very worried about John, and I took hope in these signs and continued to pray and I also asked others to pray for John. The cause of John’s weight loss was found and remedies were put into place to stop him from losing even more weight and to help him to gain weight. In time things went back to normal and John’s weight was okay again. We also prayed for and to the Holy Souls In Purgatory seeking their intercession for a healing for John. The story of their intercession is on this web page. It is entitled: A weight loss crisis
I thank Blessed Mary MacKillop for all that she has done in my life.
Special note
There are more Blessed Mary MacKillop testimonies in my online book on answers to prayer
Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop (hymn)
Saint Mary of the Cross
From your throne of grace
Tenderly cast your gaze
Upon the human race
Saint Mary of the Cross
help and guide us
Saint Mary of the Cross
pray for us.
Saint Mary of the Cross
Please hear us when we pray
And guide us through the challenges
That we meet today.
Saint Mary of the Cross
help and guide us
Saint Mary of the Cross
pray for us.
Saint Mary of the Cross
You persevered when trouble came
Teach us who struggle on this earth
to do the very same.
Saint Mary of the Cross
help and guide us
Saint Mary of the Cross
pray for us.
Keep the people of this land
safe within your care
Help us to use our talents
and with each other share.
Saint Mary of the Cross
help and guide us
Saint Mary of the Cross
pray for us.
Saint Mary help and guide us
so in heaven we may meet
and all the saints and angels
Joyfully we’ll greet.
Saint Mary of the Cross
help and guide us
Saint Mary of the Cross
pray for us.
by Mary Ann Matulis
I found this link for written music for the Lourdes hymn.
It includes an audio too. The melody of the Lourdes hymn fits the words of the Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop Hymn.
Play the audio of the music and sing the Mary MacKillop hymn to it.
