The Annual Outdoor Novena or nine days of prayer in honor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is being held at the Carmelite Monastery, 9150 Clayton Rd., Ladue. This is a view of part of the processional opening the service. In the foreground is Rev. Alphonse Simon, director of King's House of Retreats, Belleville, who is preaching the sermons.
Sister Mary Jane after making her final vows as a Carmelite nun at Jackson, Mississippi, talked from behind the grill with her mother, Mrs. Thomas J. Flynn of St. Louis.
In A Pink Marble Pavilion on the monastery lawn, many of those attending lit candles before the statue of Our Lady of Fatima prior to the service. At Fatima the Blessed Virgin Mary is said to have warned the world that peace will not come without prayer.
