Our Lady of Czestochowa & the Black Madonnas: Miraculous! Explaining the Faith w/Fr. Chris Alar

I had a tattoo of Buddha and I'm Catholic now and got it covered up with Our Lady of Czestochowa.

My mother was 14 when the Soviets invaded Poland in 1939. She happened to be in a hospital recovering from meningitis. By the time she left the hospital, she learned her family was sent to a Russian gulag. She was permitted to take some personal belongings before being shipped to another gulag. She took an image of Our Lady of Czestochowa, which was nothing more than a postcard in a modest wooden frame. My grandmother had always prayed to the picture, as did her children. My mother kept the picture throughout her life, it always hung above her bed. In 1940 my grandmother died. I grew up knowing that when she died, she came to say goodbye to my mother. An aunt who was with my grandmother when she died confirmed the details in the late 40s when she was finally able to leave the gulag and return to Poland. I treasured the image my entire life and have always known there is so much more than this life. I guess it’s my gift from the Lady of Czestochowa. (I should also mention, my mother gave me the picture because I treasured it. But I then gave it to my niece as she had married a Muslim man and converted to Islam. She valued the image for its antiquity. But she has since returned to Christianity and brought her daughter too.)

A long time ago, there was a group of Poles arrived in our city (Raleigh, North Carolina). They had a large picture of Our Lady of Czestochowa. They tried to find a parish to take the picture, but none would, except our parish, St Joseph. Having the image has brought great grace to our parish. On the feast of Corpus Christi, when we have our procession, the men carry the empty frame. Under the communists, they were not allowed to carry the image, so they carried the frame. So we keep the tradition.

We live near the Shrine of Our Lady Of Czestochowa in Doylestown PA and my family and I started going there during the pandemic. Outside the shrine, they have a huge rosary garden which we walked through many times Then, we started going there every first Saturday for the devotion. We've been going ever since. The Pauline fathers listen to confessions for hours because of the huge lines that wrap around the church every single first Saturday without fail. In the lower church, there are countless relics many different saints surrounding the altar which you can see up close. On the walls around the altar in the lower church are many rosaries and crutches which symbolize healing.

Our Lady of Czestochowa saved my soul - and marriage. Our Lady pray for us.❤❤❤

My husband is from Poland you're so happy to hear about your talk he didn't know about the history he only heard a few stories in miracles. The death of a child leaves a scar even if it wasn't abortion! My old grandchild died at the hands of an incompetent doctor who did brain surgery that was high risk and should have been discouraged. My daughter lives with that pain of losing that child everyday and the suffering post-op. Pray for all lost children 🙏🙏💔💔

Father Alar thank you for telling the history of our lady of Czestochowa. We pray she will always protect you for speaking the truth. You are true Catholic Shepard

Our Lady of Czestochowa please protest Father Chris! And all of Our dear Marian priests and brothers and seminaries! Our Lady feast day is Aug 26 ( my birthday) I am so happy to learn of Our Lady of Czestochowa today through this Divine Mercy website! So much to learn about our Beautiful Catholic faith! So much Gratitude to the Divine Mercy Ministries! Thank you from the bottom of my heart! Our Lady of Czestochowa, Pray for us!🙏

Our Lady, please save my son from perdition. Please bring him home healthy and safe. May he repent, convert, and accept God’s mercy and love!!

So happy i heard this talk Fr. CHRIS❤!!! I picked up a prayer card of this image a few months ago at a catholic bookshop because i was attracted to it and had never seen it. It sits on my bedside table. So happy i found it now.

My son (8 years old) LOVES the story about Our Lady of Częstochowa and her image! He is not Catholic but I pray for his conversion to the fullness of the Christian faith - The Catholic faith! Our Lady of Częstochowa, pray for us 🙏🏻❤️

Thank you Fr Chris for this enlightened talk. God bless

Thank you Fr.Chris Alar,God bless you always and all the ministry 🙏❤️

Love Our Lady of Częstochowa. I was born on 8-26 her Feast Day—then really studied and learned so much about her. Great job as always here Father Chris! 😊❤

Thanks for the enlightenment of the image. Blessing to you Fr. Chris for the great effort in keeping our faith above the norm. Amen

I am praying for you, Fr. Chris; praying for your parents and family, too. HAPPY PRIESTS' DAY to you and all the Marian priests. God bless.

Thank you Father Alar. I saw her Chapel by the Old Market in Warsaw while on an Official Travel. I bought a picture of her and set her on a corner table in my home. My Mother and I said the Rosary with a lighted beeswax candle facing her picture every Saturday. One day I accidentally forgot to extinguish the candle when the next morning I realized the frame of the picture caught on fire and was burned into charcoal but did not cause any damages to the picture of Our Lady Częstochowa and neither my walls and my house. I was flabbergasted and burst out it into tears 😭 and my deceased Mom a devotee to the Blessed Mother was smiling Hail Mary full of grace ….+++

Thank you Fr Chris for this informative talk on Our Lady of Czestochowa & the Black Madonnas, May God bless you & strengthen your ministry, God bless the Marians!

Fr. Chris, thank you for this wonderful story of Our Lady of Częstochowa and the Black Madonna’s, a great episode on Explaining the Faith. So gentle and caring Lady she is, shows us how the miraculous power of her love and compassion protect and defend the people who believe in her. And the power of the rosary truly does wonders, that we must sincerely believe and pray daily at her request for our salvation. Thank you, Our Lady of Częstochowa, we love you.

This why it is imperative that repenting of one’s sins and to ask Our Lady for her intercession! God bless you Father Alar and your order of Marianists!! 🙏❤️🕊🌟🎶🌹🎚️💞