[🩸39th Tears of Blood Anniversary] Her love for priests and for all people around the world is truly inspiring. (Fr. Alexius)

Praise be to Jesus! Praise be to the Blessed Mother! 🙏
Please read the grace-filled testimony of Father Alexius, who received abundant blessings through "Semchigo," one of the Five Spiritualities during his pilgrimage to Naju for the 39th Anniversary of the Blessed Mother's Tears of Blood. May you also be filled with overflowing graces! 😊

Fr Alexius 💌 
🌼39th Anniversary of Our Lady’s Tears of Blood – Naju Shrine, 2025 🌼 

I am deeply grateful to Mama Julia for her selfless gift of bringing the message of the Lord’s love and the tender care of the Blessed Virgin Mary, our beloved Mother.
Her love for priests and for all people around the world is truly inspiring.

This pilgrimage has been a spiritually enriching experience, especially through the Stations of the Cross, the Eucharistic Procession, the Rosary, and Adoration.

I received a profound personal grace: the Spirituality of Semchigo. With this grace, I commit to offering humble service to those entrusted to me.

I will also encourage others to join the Naju pilgrimage next year, so they too may encounter the Lord and Our Lady in a deeper way.

Oct 20, 2025 Fr Alexius

‘Semchigo,’ this spirituality is one that turns everything negative into a positive. “Semchigo” is refraining and/or failing to do something you really wanted to, and instead, truly believing “As If You Did It,” and offering it up graciously.

For example, when you desire to do something, but there also may be a situation that prevents you from doing it, you can regard it as if you already accomplished it by offering up all your resignations, and then surrender it to the Lord for the benefit and peace of others: when you crave delicious food, you can give it up for the sake of others as if you had already eaten it; when you desire fancy clothes but cannot afford it, say “Semchigo,” and accept it in a positive manner as though you made the purchase by offering it up; when there is work that everyone avoids doing, do it willingly as if you really enjoy doing it saying “Semchigo.”