Our Lady of Combermere

Combermere in Ontario, Canada is the home of the Madonna House Apostolate(www.madonnahouse.org) .

Combermere means "mother of a plateau in the mountain".

On the 8th June 1960 the statue of Our Lady of Combermere ("standing with arms wide open to welcome and embrace") was installed and blessed. Everyone present united in saying the Prayer of Our Lady of Combermere that the people of Madonna House had been saying every day for years. It has continued to be used there and around the world ever since.

"O Mary, you desire so much to see Jesus loved. Since you love me, this is the favour which I ask of you: to obtain for me a great personal love of Jesus Christ. You obtain from your Son whatever you please; pray then for me, that I may never lose the grace of God, that I may increase in holiness and perfection from day to day, and that I may faithfully and nobly fulfil the great calling in life which your Divine Son has given me. By that grief which you suffered on Calvary when you beheld Jesus die on the Cross, obtain for me a happy death, that by loving Jesus and you, my Mother, on earth, I may share your joy in loving and blessing the Father, the Son and Holy Spirit forever in heaven. Amen.

Our Lady of Combermere, pray for us.