In a previous blog, I gave you the Novena Of Our Lady of Muswell, which I personally pray perpetually. I have found this Novena to be so powerfull.
In the 3 year period before I entered monastic religious life, I set up and co-ran an all night Eucharistic Adoration vigil in Our Lady of Muswell parish. At one point in the vigil, the group would all come up to the alter to stand before the Blessed Sacrament, where the statue of Our Lady of Muswell was. We all then took it in turns to say out loud, or in the silence of our hearts, a specific prayer intention, which could be something personal or generic.
And then miraculous things started to happen...
I thought I would share some examples with you, because if there is anyone out there praying the Novena to Our Lady of Muswell, or asking specifically for Our Lady of Muswell's intercession and starts to experience the same sort of miracles, then I would recommend that you go and speak with your parish priest and tell him all about it - maybe show him this website.
Ok, here we go...
#1 The Patter of Tiny Feet
Without giving any names, there was a lovely married couple in Our Lady of Muswell parish, who both faithfully supported the Eucharistic Adoration vigils every year. They had been trying for their first baby for almost 10 years without success. This of course had been extremely difficult for both of them. They were such lovely people too and you could tell they would be great parents. Anyway, in the third year of the night vigils, the last year before I entered the monastery, the woman conceived and gave birth to a beautifull bouncing boy.
#2 The Miraculous Cure
One of the ladies in the night vigil group knew of a man back in the Philippines who had been diagnosed with cancer and from how it sounded, his condition was quite advanced. As a vigil group we prayed for him before the Blessed Sacrament, calling on Our Lady of Muswell's powerfull, primary intercession. Within the same year a woman in the vigil group gave me a letter from this man's wife saying that her husband had gone for a scan/further medical tests and the cancer had miraculously disappeared.
#3 The Christian Convert Asylum Seeker
One Sunday a woman and her younger brother turned up for Mass in Our Lady of Muswell parish. They stood at the back of the church and stuck out a bit because you could sort of tell it was their first time at a Mass, as they didn't know when to sit/stand/kneel etc.
Turned out the woman was a Muslim from Iraq and her younger brother was a Muslim-Christian convert. He had just fled Iraq after the underground home Christian church, he had been attending, was raided by the Police and he had to go into hiding before being smuggled across the border by his uncle.
This young Muslim-Christian convert had applied for Asylum in the UK but been rejected by the British Home Office and was at risk of being deported. His Muslim sister brought him to Our Lady of Muswell parish because she said 'there was something about this church'.
The young Christian convert man joined Our Lady of Muswell parish and attended the night Eucharistic Adoration vigils. As a group we often prayed for him before the Blessed Sacrament, calling on Our Lady of Muswell's powerfull Primary Intercession. When this man got his Asylum appeal date, from the British Home Office, I went with him as the parish representative / provided a supporting written statement.
On the date of the Asylum appeal hearing our lawyer warned us that it was not good news - our allocated female judge had a fearsome reputation. The young man went into the court room by himself first, to be grilled 1:1 by the British Home Office laywer, desperate to prove that he was not a genuine Christian convert.
When it was my time to go into the court, to give evidence about the parish reference/ supporting written statement, the British Home Office laywer seemed to be avoiding eye contact with me. He was supposed to start cross examining me but instead, he seemed to shift uncomfortably in his seat and turned his face to the female Judge and said that he could not cross examine me because of a 'conflict of interest'. The female Judge snapped harshly back at him, asking him to explain. The British Home Office Lawyer squirmed again in his seat and said that his own Mother was a member of Our Lady of Muswell parish. I couldn't believe my ears! Just think about how many lawyers there are in the British Home Office and by God's providence we got the probable only lawyer who's Mother was a member of the same Catholic parish! The statistical probability of that happening must be enormous. I sensed the hand of God at work and indeed it was.
The female Judge snapped back again at the British Home Office lawyer and chastised him, telling him that this was not grounds for 'conflict of interest' and that he should 'do his job and get on with it'. The British Home Office lawyer picked up my written parish supporting testimony for the young Muslim-Christian convert, looked me straight in the eye and then dropped his head. 'I have no questions for this witness' he told the Judge. The Judge nearly exploded in rage and banged her hammer. 'Overruled', she said - by that she meant that the original British Home Office decision to deny Asylum was over-ruled. Asylum had been granted.
As soon as were outside the courthouse, we practically ran over to Westminster Cathedral to give thanks in The Lady Chapel and Blessed Sacrament Chapel! I'll never forget it!
#4 Monastic Reform
Remember I was a Novice with a Monastic order that wasn't signed up to the Catholic Churches Safeguarding Policy and that I had observed some concerns, so I did not feel it was God's Will for me to take Vows with that particular Monastic order? Well, it turns out that it was a prompt from The Holy Spirit. Over this last year I and a great number of ex-Nuns, from the same Monastic Order have all given our spiritual abuse testimonies to the Church and Independent Safeguarding agencies. I have only spoke with 3 others but despite us all being years apart, different countries, different levels of profession, all our spiritual abuse testimonies were consistent and therefore in some way all connected to one particular Nun. This Nun is still in the congregation but as a whole a great miracle has taken place - they have made the first steps of compliance with some aspects of the Catholic Church's safeguarding policy. After decades, this is a real miracle and entirely credited to The Sacred Heart, through the powerfull Primary Intercession of Our Lady of Muswell. Now I know why God sent me there, to be God's little unworthy vessel in His great plan to help this Monastic Order. In all our weakness God's power is always manifested. Our Lady of Muswell, pray for me.
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For me, all these things felt extremely personal. I felt like Our Lady of Muswell, was trying to show me the power of her Primary Intercession. I think it was an act of kindness to help me have real confidence in my Blessed Mother and possibly as some sort of pre-figuration for what lay ahead for me and my vocation.
Obviously for confidentiality reasons, I can't go into the miracles I've experienced, through Our Lady of Muswell's powerfull Primary Intercession during my time in the monastery and especially in the last 18 months, since I left but it has been 'Biblical' in it's power and strength - it has really blown my socks off.
The Bible is truth. God really does stand on the poor man's side and The Blessed Virgin Mary is God's powerfull Primary Intercessor. Never doubt this.
Pray Our Lady of Muswell's Novena - perpetually if you can. Call on Our Lady's powerfull Primary Intercession. Tell your parish Priest if you experience similar powerfull miracles.
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