VATICAN - The Month of Mary - «Qué Soy Era Immaculada Councepciou»:
the 18 Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lourdes in 1858 (14)
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Wednesday 3 March: the smile 14th apparition. “According to the local police officer, that morning 4000 people waited for Bernadette who arrived about 6.45am. After praying on her knees for a long time, she stood up, her eyes filled with tears and cried: «The Lady did not appear to me». However later that day after school she felt the Lady was calling. She returned to the Grotto and she saw the Lady who explained: «You did not see me this morning because there were a few people here who had come simply to judge your behaviour in my presence; these unworthy people spent the whole night here dishonouring the Grotto». Bernadette disappointment was a sort of expiation.
What a witness! Our Lady sees everything through God' s light. Bernadette went to the parish priest and said: «The Lady smiled when I said you asked for a miracle. When I asked her to make the rosebush at the grotto flower she smiled again; but she still wishes for her chapel to be built». Rev. Peyramale replied: «"If the lady wants her chapel, let her tell you her name, and ask her to make the rosebush at the grotto flower"».” (J.M.) (Agenzia Fides 18/5/2007; righe 11, parole 169)
Links:
Hymn 18 (Night Litanies) Lourdes booklet
http://www.fides.org/ita/approfondire/preghiere/altre/aa_0041.pdf
Links:
Hymn 18 (Night Litanies) Lourdes booklet
http://www.fides.org/ita/approfondire/preghiere/altre/aa_0042.pdf
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