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, which speaks to resilience, strength, and even 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, she is the prototype to Brown women everywhere, and the men who revere them.

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

Amen.