Please send your special intentions for remembrance during AMM’s Annunciation Novena of Masses and request to burn Votive Lights at Our Lady’s Shrine. This year’s novena begins Monday, March 16. Your prayer requests will be remembered throughout the nine days and on Wednesday, March 25, the Solemnity of the Annunciation. We pray to unite our will with God’s, with an unconditional and joyous YES, as Mary did. This year, we pray especially that our surrender will lead us to greater serenity within ourselves and peace that flows out to our families, our community, our nation, and the world. As Saint Paul wrote to the Philippians, when we appeal to the Lord with quietude, prayer, and thanksgiving, God’s peace, which surpasses all understanding, will guard our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. “May it be done to me according to your Word.”