All rights reserved. This Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes can be prayed at any time, but it is especially appropriate in the days before February 11, the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. I went on taking off my stockings. This was the first of 18 visits, many of them with 20,000 people present. Keywords: Our Lady of Lourdes, Mary of Lourdes, Lourdes, Feast Day Rome Newsroom (CNA) - "Lourdes is the place where numerous sick usually come to entrust to She wore upon her head a white veil which gave just a glimpse of hair. Catherine of Siena, 37. ", Herouard said in his homily that the hope brought by Christ's death and resurrection reminds us that we are made for a "life that does not end. As she conveyed the repeated message to Fr. Great emphasis is placed on devotion to the Eucharist and just as at the wedding feast of Cana, Mary points to her Son. Her message was a request for prayer and penance. Dymphna Feast Day Mass Join us in celebrating St. Dymphna's feast day, Monday May 15th. The Elect Lady Revelation (D&C 25) | Religious Studies Center Less than twenty years later, on November 13, 1907, his successor, Pope St. Pius X proclaimed that it be observed throughout the universal Church. To read Pope Francis message for the 30th World Day of the Sick, click here. In 18 January 1862, Pope Pius IX authorized Bishop Bertrand-Svre Laurence to permit the veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lourdes. Federal Tax Identification Number: 81-0596847. There she saw the woman, who then asked her to return for the next 15 days. Bernadette saw the Blessed Virgin Mary two more times in 1858: on the Wednesday after Easter, and on the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Feast Moreover, the minutes of the final meetings of the Relief Society clearly indicate that she never questioned her right or her authority to instruct the sisters of the Church in their duties as she saw them. On Feb. 11, the Catholic Church celebrates the liturgical memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes, recalling a series of 18 appearances that the Blessed Virgin Mary made to a 14-year-old French peasant girl, Saint Bernadette Soubirous. I shall delight with her in the joy of Jesus Himself in perfect safety. '", "He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there shall be no more death or mourning, wailing or pain, for the old order has passed away. As Jesus often repeats: 'Your faith has saved you.
