St. Louis Review

Our Lady of Guadalupe’s message for life continues to be proclaimed along highways, with their 14th billboard now on display on Tesson Ferry Road in south St. Louis County.

Our Lady of Guadalupe for Life is a nonprofit organization founded nearly 25 years ago by Anna Maria Usselmann and several friends, who felt compelled by the Blessed Mother to share a widespread message of love for all life.

The billboards include a number for OptionLine (1-800-712-4357), which connects mothers facing an unexpected pregnancy with help.

At the Sept. 11 blessing of the billboard, Assumption pastor Father Edward Nemeth said that Mary has long been known as the patroness of the unborn and star of the new evangelization.

"Our country is fighting for its soul, and this is what gives me hope — seeing the devotion to Our Lady," he said.

Our Lady of Guadalupe’s message for life continues to be proclaimed along highways Organization launches 14th billoard in south St. Louis County

In the midafternoon on Sept. 24, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen became the first U.S.-born bishop to be declared blessed.

Blessed Sheen, a native of the Diocese of Peoria, Illinois, was beatified at a Mass at The Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis as 50,000 faithful celebrated.

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, pro-prefect for the Dicastery for Evangelization, celebrated the Mass and offered the homily.

People from more than 10 countries and at least 49 states were registered for the Mass, said Msgr. Jason Gray, executive director of the Archbishop Fulton Sheen Foundation and a priest of the Diocese of Peoria.

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Following the example of Archbishop Fulton Sheen, young adults gathered for a Holy Hour of eucharistic adoration on the eve of his beatification. The Old Cathedral was packed to the brim for the evening, led by the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal.

“Fulton Sheen became this powerful instrument of God’s grace, but he became that powerful instrument of God’s grace because he said yes to dying again and again and again, and he knew where to find that power to be able to do that,” Father Malachy Napier, CFR, said during his reflection. “To walk the road to heaven, we need food for the journey. This is precisely how Jesus comes in the Eucharist.”

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On the eve of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen’s beatification, the faithful came together to lift their voices in prayer at a solemn Evening Prayer Service Sept. 23 at the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis.

The hour and a half prayer service was at near capacity with more than 1,500 people in attendance, including Archbishop Mitchell T. Rozanski, who presided; homilist Bishop Robert E. Barron of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota; and Cardinal Louis Antonio Tagle, Pope Leo XIV’s papal delegate who will preside at the beatification Mass Sept. 24.

Beyond his work of evangelizing through the media, Bishop Barron also said Archbishop Sheen reflected holiness in his life through three major components: a surrender to God’s will, embracing a sense of unworthiness and humility and answering the call to mission.

“Sheen himself would have said that a blessed holy person is someone who is a friend of Jesus Christ,” Bishop Barron said. “Over and again throughout his career, he insisted: Christianity is not an abstract philosophy or a set of moral convictions, but rather a relationship to a living person,” Jesus Christ.

Faithful lift their voices in prayer on eve of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen’s beatification Some 1,500 attended Evening Prayer at Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis