About This Devotion

This page is dedicated to promoting understanding, love, and devotion to the Black Madonna of Perpetual Help. The Black Madonna of Perpetual Help is a blending of two traditional ways of venerating Mary and motherhood. The veneration of Our Lady of Perpetual Help recognizes Mary as a place of refuge. Just as Jesus ran to her as a child for comfort and safety, so we have access to her under this title. The Black Madonna, on the other hand, speaks to the Divine Feminine — resilience, strength, and resistance.

The Black Madonna of Perpetual Help offers refuge, strength, resilience, and resistance to injustice. She is the prototype of the African American womanism movement, the prototype to Brown women everywhere, and to the men who revere them.

The following pages explain the background, history, and iconography of the Black Madonna of Perpetual Help and conclude with devotions to her. We encourage you to ask for her intercession, to read more about her, and to develop a deep relationship with her.

Soon we will be meeting online to discuss the Black Madonna of Perpetual Help, to pray together and ask for her intercession, and to build a strong support network for all our sisters and those who depend on them. Through her intercession, we will grow stronger, as our sisters and our mothers grow stronger.

Amen.

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