Rose petals miracle of Lipa remembered

The Confraternity of Mary Mediatrix of All Grace-Lipa City Chapter, is spearheading A Day of Prayer for World Peace and Sanctification of the Clergy on Wednesday, September 12, at the Chapel of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Antipolo del Norte, Lipa City.

It also marks the feast day of the Holy Name of Mary as well as the 45th anniversary of the dedication of the Lipa Carmel Monastery Chapel and the 70th year of a people’s devotion to Mary Mediatrix of All Grace.

According to accounts, in 1948, the Blessed Mother appeared several times to a young novitiate, Sister Teresita Castillo, who witnessed the unexplainable manifestation of rose petals in her bedroom, and around the convent.

To this day, throngs of faithful from Batangas and other parts of the country, and even abroad, continue to propagate devotion to Mary Mediatrix of All Grace.

Various images of Mary as Mediatrix of All Grace are expected to join the procession on Wednesday, said Dr. Robert Magsino, president of the Confraternity of Mary Mediatrix of All Grace.

A Eucharistic celebration, several Marian conferences and sharing on Marian devotion follow throughout the day, capped by a final Eucharistic celebration at 3 p.m.

In August 2013, we escorted the family of the wife’s cousin, Lourdes Aquino-Templado, to the Carmelite convent in Lipa to hear mass.

Weeks later, after the Templados returned to California, Lulu found something unusual on top of her prayer book at her own private chapel within the house – a dry rose petal.

She thought it was impossible to find something as remote as a rose petal in her chapel when there wasn’t a single twig, much less a bouquet of roses in the immediate vicinity.

A few days after, she saw another dry rose petal at the foot of the statue of the Blessed Mother in the very same chapel.

She has not found a suitable explanation for the little mystery in her household except to believe that the Blessed Mother must be keeping an eye on her.