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February 11, 2012 (Jas 5:16) Confess therefore your sins one to another: and pray one for another, that you may be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man availeth much. POPE BENEDICT XVI: Absence of God Man's Worst Sickness VIA MANILA:
Proof that God, Mary Care There's a saying, “God cures; the doctor collects the fee.” That surely applies to those free miraculous healings. This Saturday, February 11, is the feast of our Lady of Lourdes designated as “World Day of Prayer of the Sick” by Pope John Paul II in 1992.
It was to Bernadette Soubirous, a poor, unlettered 14-year-old asthmatic girl that the Blessed Mother appeared. The first of 18 apparitions took place on February 11, 1858, at a cave in Massabielle, France, while the girl was saying the rosary and gathering firewood.
On Feb. 24, the Lady asked her to scrape the ground and muddy water trickled out. That became the eternal fountain from which miraculous healings of the sick and incurable are taking place. Since then, thousands have been cured. However, to date only about 2,000 are authenticated with the Medical Bureau of Lourdes, certified by a distinguished team of physicians, who include atheists.
DOCTOR OF MIRACLES- Interview with Dr. Patrick Theillier, head of the Medical Bureau of Our Lady of Lourdes.
EXCERPT: What is then the spiritual meaning of miracle?
- The reality of miracle depends first of all on our understanding of God's action in the universe. As we know there are people who question the existence of God (atheists) or people who do not ask the question if God exists (agnostics). One can believe that God exists and at the same time one can be convinced that God is completely outside our world. In our cultural sphere people often treat God as a great clockmaker who set the mechanism of the world once and switched himself off. But Christianity claims something different. Man is loved by God who will do anything to show us his love, especially through signs. For example, miracles are such signs.
We often do not notice them because we believe - especially in our materially developed civilisation - that everything depends on what we have at our disposal: our strength, financial resources, material means. Thus we have lost the sense of sacrum which for instance the people of Africa have. When I meet them at various conferences they tell me there are many miracles among them. They say that they do not even mention them since they continuously have them. 'We have not got medicines that the West has so we pray over the sick and they are cured'.
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