February 11th, 2026, Our Lady of Lourdes.
1.) Wilderness Tabernacle foreshadows the Holy Rosary (“555”)
2.) The peace offering formula in the form of roses (15) rather than rams (5), goats (5) and lambs (5).
3.) The Number 5 and the Living Rosary
4.) The Number 5 and the Wedding Ring. The Bride wears silver because she is poor, and the God Man wears gold because He is a King
5.) Mary’s Promised triumph predicted in the Holy Rosary in the Book of Genesis
1.) Wilderness Tabernacle foreshadows the Holy Rosary (“555”)
Since the season of Septuagesima is meant to symbolize the Babylonian captivity, I think it’s fitting that this connection in today’s post be brought to light for the sake of the theme of bondage. Also, equally fitting that it’s the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes and I will show you how this theme of “captivity” is a period of preparation where God teaches His Church (foreshadowed in the Israelites) to offer sacrifice in a pleasing and ordered manner before entering the Promised Land.
And… only Mary can help us do that perfectly. “Only She can help you” as the real Sister Lucia of Fatima said. What many forget is that when God led the Israelites out of Egypt, it wasn’t just for freedom, though that was important, but so, “they can offer sacrifice to Me”. That was a command- dare I say “theme”- God stated over and over to Moses to repeat to Pharaoh. Once they were freed, we see these “sacrificial plans” take shape in the form of the “wilderness tabernacle”:
Isn’t that profound? I made another jaw dropping discovery when I studied the structure of the “wilderness tabernacle” set up by Moses for the time the Israelites spent in the desert before entering the Promised Land. In Numbers 7 Moses has us focus on the meaning of “555”. At the tabernacle’s “dedication” the 12 Israeli Tribe Leaders brought 5 lambs, 5 rams and 5 goats for peace offerings. There is also an offering of two oxen and I’ll come back to that symbolism, but for now I want to stick to the symbolism of multiples fives.
All grace comes down to us THROUGH Mary: In general, 5 is associated with God’s love for mankind. 555 doubles His grace, making it a powerful reminder of His kindness and protection. In the Bible, 5 symbolizes:
- The 5 offerings to God.
- The 10 commandments, which are split into 5 commandments.
- The 5 sections in the Book of Psalms.
- The 5-ingredient holy anointing oil of God’s tabernacle.
- The first 5 books of the Bible.
The grace comes through Mary’s FIVE fingers.
What is striking is we must remember that this “wilderness tabernacle” was temporary. It was a “desert” tabernacle meant to exist only because they were not yet in the Promised Land. So that time of “captivity” was a specific form of “sacrifice” offered to God to subdue them after their past idolatry, to prepare them and also come to KNOW the God Who has freed them. What does “555” and the wilderness tabernacle have to do with our generation and Mary’s prophecy of Fatima? Everything. I will come back to that, but for now, 555 symbolizes THIS in the Old Testament:
Protection against Idolatry: Because Satan wanted Moses’ body for idolatry after his death, 555 can be seen as a symbol of God’s protection and interception (via Saint Michael) to maintain true worship. The Israelites were not allowed to know where Moses’ body was buried, and Saint Michael wrestled Satan over Moses’ body.
The Mediator (Moses/Christ): The number appears in contexts regarding mediation. For example, in Deuteronomy (5th book in the Bible) 5:5, Moses acts as a mediator, representing the Old Covenant. This is connected to 555 representing Christ, the mediator of the New Covenant.
Multiple fives (555) are involved in Abraham’s negotiations with God to save the sinful cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. The word “five” occurs three times (555) in Genesis 18:28. Abraham’s relationship with God motivates him to negotiate five times total (50 to 45, 45 to 40, 40 to 30, 30 to 20 and 20 to 10, Genesis 18:26 – 32) for 5555.
We as Catholics must remember that colors and numbers are NOT superstitious. They are used by God in the liturgical calendar. Perhaps it’s not even a stretch that God made sure we had a book of NUMBERS. Of course, colors and numbers are used by pagans for superstitious reasons like the creepy “angel number” thing, but that was not God’s purpose. He has His own plans, and what satan and pagans can only do is pervert and distract.
What is quite remarkable is how Our Lord says, “I have delivered you from the HOUSE OF BONDAGE” quite frequently as His reference to Egypt in the Old Testament. The Church is indeed a house and she is currently in BONDAGE with her children. If the Church is also in her own “captivity” and “bondage” as I have described in my past posts and she too is also trying to subdue herself from past idolatry, prepare for the wedding of the Lamb and get to know her Bridegroom, what must she offer Him in our own time of “dedication” in this wilderness tabernacle as we await the proper consecration of Russia to Mary’s Immaculate Heart and restoration of the papacy? We offer another “555”. Not rams, lambs and goats, but what Our Lady told us to offer at Fatima in place of those “holocausts”. Mysteries. ROSES. We bring Her 5 joys, 5 sorrows and 5 glories and through HER PURE HANDS, She offers them to the Trinity on our behalf WITHOUT BLEMISH, A SPOTLESS VICTIM:
2.) The peace offering formula in the form of roses rather than rams, goats and lambs.
Joyful Mysteries:
1.) The first Joyful Mystery is the Annunciation. I bind this Snow White bud in the symbol of Mary’s Triumph with the petition of the fruit of humility. Lay this bouquet at Thy Feet.
2.) The second Joyful Mystery is the Visitation. I bind this Snow White bud in the symbol of Mary’s Triumph with the petition of the fruit of charity. Lay this bouquet at Thy Feet.
3.) The third Joyful Mystery is the Nativity. I bind this Snow White bud in the symbol of Mary’s Triumph with the petition of the fruit of spiritual childhood and poverty. Lay this bouquet at Thy Feet.
4.) The fourth Joyful Mystery is the Presentation. I bind this Snow White bud in the symbol of Mary’s Triumph with the petition of the fruit of obedience. Lay this bouquet at Thy Feet.
5.) The fifth Joyful Mystery is the Finding of Jesus in the Temple. I bind this Snow White bud with the petition of the fruit of piety. Lay this bouquet at Thy Feet.
Sorrowful Mysteries:
1.) The first Sorrowful Mystery is the Agony in the Garden. I bind this Snow Red bud in the symbol of Mary’s Triumph with the petition of the fruit of sorrow for sin. Lay this bouquet at Thy Feet.
2.) The second Sorrowful Mystery is the Scourging at the Pillar. I bind this Snow Red bud in the symbol of Mary’s Triumph with the petition of the fruit of purity. Lay this bouquet at Thy Feet.
3.) The third Sorrowful Mystery is the Crowning of Thorns. I bind this Snow Red bud in the symbol of Mary’s Triumph with the petition of the fruit of courage. Lay this bouquet at Thy Feet.
4.) The fourth Sorrowful Mystery is the Carrying of the Cross. I bind this Snow Red bud in the symbol of Mary’s Triumph with the petition of the fruit of patience. Lay this bouquet at Thy Feet.
5.) The fifth Sorrowful Mystery is the Crucifixion. I bind this Snow Red bud in the symbol of Mary’s Triumph with the petition of the fruit of self-denial. Lay this bouquet at Thy Feet.
Glorious Mysteries:
1.) The first Glorious Mystery is the Resurrection. I bind this Snow Yellow bud in the symbol of Mary’s Triumph with the petition of the fruit of faith. Lay this bouquet at Thy Feet.
2.) The second Glorious Mystery is the Ascension. I bind this Snow Yellow bud in the symbol of Mary’s Triumph with the petition of the fruit of hope. Lay this bouquet at Thy Feet.
3.) The third Glorious Mystery is the Descent of the Holy Ghost. I bind this Snow Yellow bud in the symbol of Mary’s Triumph with the petition of the fruit of love of the Holy Ghost. Lay this bouquet at Thy Feet.
4.) The fourth Glorious Mystery is the Assumption. I bind this Snow Yellow bud in the symbol of Mary’s triumph with the petition of fruit of a holy life and a holy death. Lay this bouquet at Thy Feet.
5.) The fifth Glorious Mystery is the Coronation of Mary. I bind this Snow Yellow bud in the symbol of Mary’s Triumph with the petition of the fruit of love of Mary. Lay this bouquet at Thy Feet.
3.) The Number 5 and the Living Rosary:
Pink: Seven Joys of Mary
White: Joyful Mysteries
Red: Sorrowful Mysteries
Yellow: Glorious Mysteries
Blue: Seven Sorrows of Mary
Saint Philomena is so fittingly the Patron of the children of Mary and of the Living Rosary and if you add Mary’s Seven Joys (pink roses) and Seven Sorrows (blue roses) we have a perfect LIVING ROSARY of “5” offerings. We can see the Seven Joys and Sorrows as the “two oxen” as well. 15+2=17 and 17… symbolizes the MYSTERY OF INIQUITY in the great whore of Babylon in Apocalypse 17. We can win this battle through the Holy Rosary and Rosary of Seven Sorrows. See again this pattern of COLORS: pink, white, red, yellow and blue GATHERED BY THE VIRGIN MOST TRUE.
We can desire to become living roses, living victims and living martyrs of Mary’s Immaculate Heart to pave the way for Her Triumph. We the Church are tied to Her victory. That is why my sister martyr princess, Aflavia, and I wear miraculous medals surrounded with roses. We were so fittingly able to touch our rose Miraculous Medals to her first class relic at a Solemn High Mass in her honor. We were also enrolled in the Miraculous Medal together on the feast of the Assumption, 2025. Are you enrolled? Many know about scapular enrollment but so few know about Miraculous Medal enrollment!
4.) The Number 5 and the Wedding Ring. The Bride wears silver because she is poor, and the God Man wears gold because He is a King:
When I made this discovery, again through Biblical evidence confirmed by Marian apparitions, that Christ as Husband wears the covenant wedding ring on a chain around the neck and the bride wears the miraculous medal AROUND THE NECK as her vow to Him, I was again totally and utterly gobsmacked. God truly does the opposite of any worldly bridegroom!
Whatever they do, He must surely roll His eyes… and then do the exact opposite. I won’t include the MIRACULOUS story of my Great Grandma’s Miraculous Medal turning pure gold, after her death, but will include it here (scroll down to Personal Story of how the Medal became the center of the Marian Vow for the Carmelite Sister Martrys charism and request for martyrdom).
But the medal and ring I want to laser focus on in this section is the silver rose medal Aflavia and I wear, and wish to wear always around the neck even in a Carmelite Habit, and Our Lord’s gold covenant wedding ring and the story behind it connecting to scripture.
Let me start first with the “covenant ring”. Back in 2016, before I entered Carmel, I expressed to my Grammie that I desired to have a betrothal ring with Our Lord. My “Gram” comes from a total lineage of 100% French family members. Fitting since today is a FRENCH apparition.
My great grandma’s family came over from France and even when she lived in America she went to a Canadian French boarding school in Canada (she hated it by the way; means nuns and the whole nine yards). My Gram obtained the wedding ring that belonged to her grandmother “Virginie” (translates to pure virgin; I know, I know!).
Grammie got it resized to fit my finger and it was gifted to me on Christmas morning, 2016. What struck me, and as I pondered its perhaps mysterious and supernatural meaning, was that there were FIVE white stones in the ring. I never fully understood their meaning until, now. When I entered Carmel, I was given permission to place this ring on CHRIST THE KING’S FINGER.
Years after I left, I then did something I didn’t even realize until later would be completely scripture based. I framed my favorite photo of the 12 year old Child Jesus in a frame with a crown and layered the gold chained necklace with the ring around His neck and the circle of the ring perfectly matched the shape of His Body He is holding:
When I was studying my verse for verse break down of the Canticle of Canticles, I was reading how the bride begs the King to place her as a SEAL on His Heart. At first glance that just appears as an in the moment romantic thing to say, but it has real meaning. The union between Christ and His bride, the Church in the Canticles shows how when they become one in spirit, they become one in name. The heart, contrary to what many think, “place your right hand over your heart”, and we place our hand on our right chest…is not really accurate. More like, “place your right hand in the center of your chest”, because that is actually where the human heart lies:
The bride is therefore telling her beloved, to “place the wedding ring of the covenantal promise of our love” on His Heart. This is done when He puts the chain around His neck and the ring is resting securely on His chest IN THE MIDDLE WHERE HIS HEART IS as we see in the photo above. What is perfect about the ring being a circle and the Body of Christ being a circle is that His Body is also His bride, the Church, and so this ring encompassing His Body as a firmament confirms this absolute promise that HE HIMSELF is her firmament of protection as Head and Husband. He Himself is the Body, but when He becomes one with His bride, the Church, she too is typified in the Eucharist. He houses her, and she houses Him: “I to my Beloved and my Beloved to me.” Go back and look at the photo and see the ring encompassing the Body!
Where does the Miraculous Medal come into all of this? Ever wonder why Our Lady specifically wanted it worn around THE NECK? That answer lies in Cantata of Love:
Thus the Fathers of the Church saw in the tower of David, the glory of Jerusalem. The Virgin Mary Herself (Turris Davidica), TRUE NECK OF THE MYSTICAL BODY, connecting the Head (Christ) to all the other members.
If we understand that ONLY in Mary can the bride stay connected in union with her Bridegroom, Christ, then the verse in the Canticles where Our Lord “loses His senses” by her “glance” and “NECKLACE”… I think we have our answer. He finds her irresistible because of Mary connecting them. You can’t say marriage without Mary. “Will you MARY me”? You can’t say MARY Christmas without Mary. Just as the birth of Christ depended on Mary, so too does the marriage of Jesus and His bride the Church, depend on Mary. HE WEARS THE PROMISE around His neck! We, the Church, wear the “necklace of grace” that supplies us with Mary’s virtue, as our vow and “sign”.
The last correlation I will draw to the Miraculous Medal, the Canticles and even the Marian consecration chain worn on the wrist is again from the Cantata of Love as “JEWELS OF THE COVENANT”:
Do you remember how beautiful you were then? I loaded you with jewels. GAVE YOU A BRACELET FOR YOUR WRIST AND A NECKLACE FOR YOUR THROAT. You were loaded with GOLD and SILVER. The features at the same time apply to a mare. A CAPTIVE WOMAN IN EXILE, and a beloved bride. Necklaces, rings and earring are at the same time the harness of a mare, the irons of a captive, and the jewels worn by the bride at her neck, nose and ears.
Therese even comments on this choice of gold and silver going together and, I am paraphrasing, how one symbolized poverty and the other riches. We can’t separate them, as Christ, being born poor in a stable, did not separate them either, though THE King. All of these very same patterns of a “captive” transitioning into a “wife” for Christ the Bridegroom are striking and profound. This really reminds me of Frodo wearing the ring around HIS NECK.
The FIVE stones can also represent Our Lord’s Five Senses, His Five Wounds and Mary’s Five Principle Wounds in Her Heart. The theme of multiple fives is a repeated theme and is again being asked of us in the New Covenant as we prepare for The King’s Wedding! We offer “holocausts” in the form of the Holy Rosary, Seven Sorrows Rosary (commemorating her Seven Joys) and Her First Saturday Devotion where She asks us to participate on FIVE first consecutive Saturday’s. Our “whole burnt offering”!
5.) Mary’s Promised triumph predicted in the Holy Rosary in the Book of Genesis:
We WILL receive the covenantal promise through Our Lord’s “covenant ring”. It’s also predicted in Genesis 3:15:
I will put enmities between thee and the Woman, and thy seed and Her seed: She shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for Her Heel.
“3:15”: there are THREE mysteries, FIVE each…
ONLY SHE CAN HELP YOU. The wedding between Christ and His bride, the Church, is a COVENANTAL promise, and this wedding will happen the moment Mary’s Immaculate Heart Triumphs. Are you ready? Get your pink, white, red, yellow and blue roses! The time is nigh. The ARK of the covenant is Mary, and She, like Her Son, doesn’t break a promise.
AVE MARIA, CHRIST IS KING!
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