Feast Day Celebration of Our Lady of Perpetual Help

Also known as Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, her Feast Day is celebrated on June 27 by the universal Church. The devotion to this Marian advocation revolves around the picture of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, painted on wood, with background of gold. It is Byzantine in style and is supposed to have been painted in the thirteenth century. It represents the Mother of God holding the Divine Child while the Archangels Michael and Gabriel presenting Him the instruments of His Passion. Over the figures in the picture are some Greek letters which form the abbreviated words Mother of God, Jesus Christ, Archangel Michael, and Archangel Gabriel respectively.- (catholicnewsagency.com) St. Lambert Parish celebrates the Feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help on the Saturday following June 27, the actual Feast Day. A perpetual novena every Wednesday and a Mass on first Wednesday of the month is also celebrated in her honor. Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Pray for Us.