Our Lady of Divine Love: devotion, the sanctuary, prayers, the pilgrimage on foot
OUR LADY OF DIVINE LOVE
Via del Santuario, 10 - 00134 Rome
The Sanctuary of the Madonna del Divino Amore is a sanctuary in Rome made up of two churches: the old one is from 1745, the new one is from 1999. It is still a pilgrimage destination dear to the Romans. During the summer, every Saturday night pilgrimage takes place on foot from Rome to the Sanctuary
PRAYER TO OUR LADY OF DIVINE LOVE
of John Paul II
O Mary, beloved Bride of Divine Love, always bless this place and the pilgrims who come to it with your maternal presence.
Get to the city of Rome, to Italy, to the world the gift of peace that your Son Jesus has left to those who believe in him.
O our Mother, let no one ever pass by this Shrine without receiving in the heart the consoling certainty of Divine Love. Amen.
SUPPLICATE TO OUR LADY OF DIVINE LOVE
O Holy Spirit, God of Love, Sanctifying God! On this day dedicated to you, we miserable and poor, we understand better that everything comes from you and no good is outside of you! Without you we cannot know and love God. Without you we cannot pronounce the most holy name of Jesus.
You are so great and yet so unknown! You are the infinite Benefactor of souls and yet you are the Forgotten!
You are Love and you are not loved! We beg you - You are only our health! Go back to living with full faith in our souls.
Go back to living in the whole world! Burn in us all sin, encourage us to holiness - inflame our heart with pure love.
In the world God is not known - he is not loved, indeed he is hated, he is abandoned, he is fought. - Never as in these times do God's forgetfulness and wickedness triumph. - Never before are few friends of God, and very persecuted by the friends of Satan!
Society seems to have gone mad in the pursuit of pleasure, in vice, in fantasies, in cruelties, in scandals.
O God Love, listen to our invocation! Come to relive in us with the faith of the first Christians! With the fortress and the love that animated the martyrs!
It arouses in the souls warmed and cooled by a whole material and vicious life, the love of mortification, penance, purity, patience, sweetness.
O illuminating Spirit, come and show yourself! Let us find the way of Faith, that Faith that makes us recognize God in our souls - God in Your ministers, whom we have often despised and slandered - God in our brothers - God in the whole world.
O Divine Spirit, how much we need You!
We have gone blind - we have despised the gifts of God - we have rejected His Fatherly concern, because we did not understand! We are therefore poor and miserable because we have rejected infinite wealth.
But You now come to illuminate our darkness, just as you illuminated the apostles in the Upper Room; they too had not understood many things about their Master! ...
We too gather now around our Mother of Divine Love, just like the Apostles then and we wait with great desire, waiting for You: light - strength - Love!
PRAYER TO OUR LADY OF DIVINE LOVE
O infinite charity! Look at souls, families and the world on this consecrated day. See how much I hate! Where did the great commandment of love of neighbor go? Selfishness reigns in souls, discord reigns in families, hatred everywhere in the world! Men let themselves be dominated by their passions, and the commandments are trampled on to reach their pleasure. They are crimes, dishonesty, scandals, and all this because men cannot see the Lord in their brothers. Their eyes are obscured by hatred and vice.
You are offended, God of Love! You are so offended. But what can we do to repair so badly? You alone with your light can finally illuminate a lot of darkness and this we ask you with all your heart today.
Come and instill in us the charity towards our brothers and sisters, that charity which led the first Christians to love each other until they were recognized as such for this love. That charity that enabled them to give their lives for each other, that charity that pushed them to share their substances with the poorest and made them happy when they were reunited.
Come God Love to pacify the hearts of the brothers divided among them! Come and pacify discordant and hate-torn nations!
Come and be You only the Inspirer and Executor of every good work, so that everything begins for You and for You to be accomplished.
SUPPLICATE TO OUR LADY OF DIVINE LOVE
After having begged God for Infinite Love, today we cling stronger to Your feet, O Mary, and we look at you in silence, because we see in you God of Love, Holy Virgin,
Mother and Bride of Divine Love!
In what other creature did He show himself most to souls?
You are beautiful, o Maria, you are all beautiful! And in You we can know His infinite Beauty, His Power, His Goodness, His Love.
In you we see living your desires for perfection in piety, in humility, in charity.
You show yourself today to our souls, not only because our eye remains entranced, but because our love and our will set in motion to resemble you and become saints.
You, sweetest Mother, do not leave us alone in this work, but kindly support us, help us, always watch us.
But, look again or Mother: do you see in what trouble we live?
See what concerns your Christian children are having today?
O Mother, we do not pray to you today for our material needs, we no longer fear suffering from deprivation and poverty, but many other things are pressing us in this hour of darkness.
Now let's fear for our souls! We fear, for the Holy Church, for the Vicar of Your Divine Son, for all the clergy. No, we do not ask you for material bread today but we ask you to remove the punishments deserved for our sins from us and from all over the world. You alone can obtain forgiveness and Divine Mercy. You alone can make God Love live in our hearts again.
O Mother, have mercy on us!
If, then, for our purification, for our good, you do not want to completely remove Divine Justice, at least grant us plenty of strength, give us the courage to embrace all the suffering without giving anything to the enemy, without fear of death for the name. of Jesus.
O Maria, make us strong!
O Mary, grant us the merits of the holy souls who console you!
O Our Virgin Mother, our Salvation, save us from this safe shipwreck - present the innocence of the little ones to your Son.
O Mary, our hope, obtain for us forgiveness and Divine Mercy for the merit of humble souls, so dear to you.
We mean, oh Holy Mother! We understand what dangers lie above us, and we invoke You! We cry out to you with all our strength: O Mary, help! O Mother, have mercy! We cling tightly to Your feet and confidently await Your Love. Amen.
NIGHT PILGRIMAGE ON FOOT
The night pilgrimage on foot is held every Saturday, from the first after Easter to the last of October with a half-night departure from Rome, Piazza di Porta Capena, and arrival at 5 on Sunday at the Sanctuary. In addition to the pilgrimages on Saturday, there are two extraordinary ones: on August 14, the eve of the Assumption of Mary Most Holy, and on December 7, the eve of the Immaculate Conception. The pilgrims of the night walk the Via Appia Antica up to Quo Vadis, then the Via Ardeatina, passing over the Catacombs of San Callisto and in front of the Mausoleum of the Fosse Ardeatine; they bring to the feet of the Virgin, together with their intentions, also the needs, the hopes of the eternal city and the mission of the Church of Rome. No booking is required to participate.