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Sunday, February 11, 2007

Our Lady of Lourdes



Our Lady of Lourdes appeared to Bernadette Soubirous, a 14-year-old peasant girl from Lourdes, France.

The first appearance of Our Lady to Bernadette was on Thursday, 11th of February 1858. Then on, Our Lady appeared to Bernadette on on February 14, 18-21, 23-25, 27, 28, March 1-4, 25, April 7, and July 16.

Our Lady requested for a chapel to be built in the site of the apparitions and when asked who the Lady was, she replied, "I am the Immaculate Conception", in Bernadette's native dialect.

Our Lady asked Bernadette to wash her face at the fountain but there was no fountain there, so Bernadette dug a hole in the ground, and with muddy water washed her face while people ridiculed her, however from there sprang the famous fountain of water that has healing attributes. Many sick people have bathed themselves in that water and there have been at least 64 reported miraculous healings. Bernadette said, "One must have faith and pray, the water will have no virtue without faith.". Therefore, most importantly, we need to have faith in our good Lord in order to have healing take place.

Millions of people from all over the world go to Lourdes yearly in the hope of obtaining help from the generous Mother of God.

Bernadette became a nun, she died when she was 35 and her body is still incorrupt.

Hail Mary, poor and humble Woman, Blessed by the Most High!
Virgin of hope, dawn of a new era,
We join in your song of praise,
To celebrate the Lord’s mercy,
To proclaim the coming of the Kingdom and the full liberation of humanity.

Hail Mary, lowly handmaid of the Lord,
Glorious Mother of Christ!
Faithful Virgin, holy dwelling-place of the Word,
Teach us to persevere in listening to the Word,
And to be docile to the voice of the Spirit,
Attentive to his promptings in the depths of our conscience
And to his manifestations in the events of history.

Hail Mary, Woman of sorrows, Mother of the living!
Virgin spouse beneath the Cross, the new Eve,
Be our guide along the paths of the world.
Teach us to experience and to spread the love of Christ,
to stand with you before the innumerable crosses on
which your Son is still crucified.

Hail Mary, woman of faith, First of the disciples!
Virgin Mother of the Church,
help us always to account for the hope that is in us,
with trust in human goodness and the Father’s love.
Teach us to build up the world beginning from within: in the depths of silence and prayer,
in the joy of fraternal love, in the unique fruitfulness of the Cross.

Holy Mary, Mother of believers, Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us!

Amen.

This prayer was said during the Holy Father's August 15, 2004 visit to Lourdes, France. The Pope asked her among other things to "be our guide along the paths of the world."

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