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One of the most successful advertising campaigns of all time asks its audience, "Got Milk?"
Its popularity stretches across barriers of language, politics, and culture. In the two decades since it was first released, it has been copied widely in takeoffs such as “Got Freud?” and “Got Joy?” The campaign’s success is generally attributed to its simplicity: Two short words and a photo of a peanut butter sandwich missing a single bite, or a celebrity with a white milk mustache. It appeals to people everywhere, addressing body, mind, and heart.
In the early 1800s, God launched a similarly holistic appeal to a world struggling with war and revolution, dramatic economic and cultural upheaval, and widespread loss of faith. His campaign, bigger than the milk industry’s, was carried out through an insignificant Daughter of Charity who for years was known mainly for her trademark question: “Have you got enough?”
The Call. On a bright…
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This article was recommended to me by a Catholic friend in Montana. Both of us are devoted to our Blessed Mother, and her Miraculous Medal. My friend was right, this article is a concise and beautiful summation of Saint Catherine Laboure and our Lady’s Miraculous Medal. This article has been a blessing to me; thank you for publishing it.
...“in other words, nothing special.” “her tasks were simple”.......‘forty-six years of mundane labor’...‘it was a life of routine and monotony, and the simple work had it’s challenges….she kept at it for decades.”
These excerpts from the article speak, no, SHOUT to me. I have been Catholic since the minute I was conceived, yet am embarassed to admit, I did not know the name, much less the story behind the ‘Miraculous Medal’ until about 5 years ago. Our little, and I mean little church has a devoted group of ‘church ladies’ who pray the Miraculous Medal Novena every Tues. am after mass. It was they who educated me, and I am infinitely grateful to them and of course St. Catherine Laboure. OLMM has indeed strengthemed my spirit and faith, witnessing the very real miraculous graces of God, if we but only ask with a sincere heart. The novena helps me to do so.
Thank you for providing this article, the information is timeless, and invaluable.
JB
I love articles like these. Thank you!
I haven’t got enough patience and i ask God to grant me according to His mercies. God bless!
Beautiful Article. May Jesus continue raise more Catherines and Ann Bathenhorn
I just thought I’d offer this for anyone who is struggling as I have been.
I wear a Miraculous Medal around my neck—I took it off of my father a few years ago when he died, and initially put it on as a remembrance of him. I never knew what it was until this past Easter Sunday, when while confiding in my sister about a very difficult financial situation I am going through, she saw the chain and asked to see it.
She immediately recognized it, told me what it was called—and that was it. She also separately suggested I look into the lives of the saints for perspective and inspiration.
Last week, in a very dark hour, I remembered her suggestion, and randomly looked up St. Catherine (that was my mother’s name), and low and behold, there was the story of this medal. Incredible.
Fast forward to today, as I’m praying and trying to hear God’s voice, I again looked up St. Catherine and found this article. If you read the last two paragraphs, you’ll see words that while written for all of us, are a stunning and direct answer to me.
Halfway through my life, and I am only just beginning to see the power of God.
This article was a very good one which inspired me to purchase some necklaces. I recall this issue had a link to order the necklaces/medals. Does anyone know of the link that was in the issue? There are many necklaces online, but I’m having a hard time finding the ones that I originally ordered online from the link that was in this issue. Or, does anyone have the hard copy of this issue that you could let me know the link? It would be greatly appreciated.