Our Lady of Lourdes

Immaculate Mary, Your praises we sing!

Today we honor the church approved apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes. Today marks the anniversary of Our Lady’s first visit to St. Bernadette. Like any other feast honoring Marian apparitions it is not only celebrating the apparition itself as no one is bound to believe private revelation but instead the dogma behind them. In the case of Our Lady of Lourdes that dogma is The Immaculate Conception of Mary. In her final apparition to Bernadette, Mary reveals “I am the Immaculate Conception.” In revealing herself in this way, Mary calls the faithful to recall the unique privilege she has from God and the love she has for us as our Heavenly Mother. Due to the multitudes of the sick who make pilgrimage to Lourdes to seek healing through Our Lady’s intercession, today is the World Day of the Sick. 


Mary Reveals Her Name (The Song of Bernadette)

Many Catholic Churches have Lourdes Grottos. In Buffalo New York there is Our Lady of Victory Basilica, St. Gregory the Great, St. John the Baptist as well as many others.
 
I personally when praying the Angelus today created the following. I do not assume it's approval for public use.
 
V./The Mother of the Lord appeared to St. Bernadette 
R./and she received a message from the Queen of Heaven. Hail Mary...

"I am the Immaculate Conception!" Hail Mary...

V./And many Miracles occurred 
R./for the Mother of God appeared among us. Hail Mary...
 
V./ Pray for us Our Lady of Lourdes
R./ That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
 
 Let us pray. Pour forth, we beseech you, O Lord, your grace into our hearts: that we, to whom the Mother of Christ your Son made known the message of prayer and penance, may by Christ's Passion and Cross be brought to the glory of his Resurrection. Through the same Christ our Lord and Mary, Immaculate, the Health of the Sick. Amen.

More about Our Lady can be found on the section titled as such here. 

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