Wednesday, February 10, 2010

A Reflection for the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes

Where There Is Suffering, There is Mary

By Mark Miravalle

STUBENVILLE, Ohio, FEB. 10, 2010 (Zenit.org).- On Feb. 11, 1858, the Immaculate One appeared to a true anawim, a "blessed poor of the Lord" from the mountain town of Lourdes -- 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous.

Beside the River Gave in the grotto of Massabielle, "Aquero" or "that One" -- as Bernadette first referred to her in her local patois dialect -- appeared with rosary in hand to convey a global message of prayer and penance in reparation to God for sin and for the conversion of sinners.

After the instruction by the Lady to dig for water, which caused a stream from which a supernatural generosity of miracles would flow down to our own day, Bernadette received the great Marian self-revelation which would awe the faithful and bewilder the theologian: "I am the Immaculate Conception."

Read this article here: http://www.zenit.org/article-28319?l=english

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