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Monday, January 29, 2024

PRAYER TO THE IMMACULATE VIRGIN MARY - OUR LADY OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION


✝️“I AM THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION.”✝️

O EVER-IMMACULATE VIRGIN MARY, Mother of Mercy, Health of the sick, Refuge of sinners, Comforter of the afflicted, You know my wants, my troubles, my sufferings; look with mercy on me.
By appearing in the Grotto of Lourdes,
You were pleased to make it a privileged sanctuary, whence You dispense Your favours; and already many sufferers have obtained the Cure of their infirmities, both spiritual and corporal.
I come, therefore, with complete confidence to implore Your maternal intercession. Obtain, O loving Mother, the grant of my requests… if it is accordingly to the Will of GOD!
Through gratitude for Your favours,
I will endeavour to imitate Your virtues,
that I may one day share Your glory,
and bless you in eternity. Amen.

Friday, February 11, 2022

PRAYER TO OUR LADY OF LOURDES FOR PERSONAL INTENTIONS






Our Lady of Lourdes,
 Mother of Christ, you had influence with your divine son while upon the earth. You have the same influence now in heaven. Pray for us; obtain for us from your Divine Son our special requests if it be the Divine Will. Amen.

Be blessed, O most pure Virgin, for having vouchsafed to manifest your shining with life, sweetness, and beauty, in the Grotto of Lourdes, saying to the child, St. Bernadette, “I am the Immaculate Conception.” A thousand times we congratulate you upon your Immaculate Conception. And now, O ever Immaculate Virgin, Mother of mercy, Health of the Sick, Refuge of Sinners, Comforter of the afflicted, you know our wants, our troubles, our sufferings Deign to cast upon us a look of mercy.

By appearing in the Grotto of Lourdes, you were pleased to make it a privileged sanctuary, whence you dispense your favors, and already many have obtained the cure of their infirmities, both spiritual and physical. We come, therefore, with the most unbounded confidence to implore your maternal intercession. Obtain for us, O loving Mother, the granting of our request --- (NAME YOUR REQUEST) ---

Through gratitude for your favors, we will endeavor to imitate your virtues, that we may one day share your glory.

Our Lady of Lourdes, Mother of Christ, you had influence with your divine son while upon earth. You have the same influence now in heaven. Pray for us; obtain for us from your Divine Son our special requests if it be the Divine Will. Amen.

OUR LADY OF LOURDES, PRAY FOR US.

SAINT BERNADETTE, PRAY FOR US.

Thursday, February 10, 2022

OUR LADY OF LOURDES February 11 - Feast







OUR LADY OF LOURDES

February 11 - Feast




Prayer of Consecration to Our Lady of Lourdes –

The Immaculate Conception




Holy Mary, Mother of God, Virgin Immaculate,

you appeared 18 times to Bernadette at the grotto in Lourdes

to remind Christians of what the truths in the Gospel require of them.

You call them to prayer, penance, the Eucharist, and the life of

the church.

To answer your call more fully,

I dedicate myself, through you, to your Son Jesus Christ.

Make me willing to accept what He said.

By the fervor of my faith,

by the conduct of my life in all its aspects,

by my devotion to the sick,

let me work with you in the comforting of those who suffer

and in the reconciliation of people

that the church may be one and there be peace in the world.

All this I ask, confident that you, Our Lady, willfully answer my prayer.

Blessed be the Holy and Immaculate Conception of the

Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God. Amen.




Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us!

St. Bernadette, pray for us!

Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Our Lady of Lourdes: February 11 Feast Day


 OUR LADY OF LOURDES 


Also called as: Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception


Feast Day: 11 February


Location: Lourdes, France


Date: 

February 11 to July 16, 1858


Witness: Saint Bernadette Soubirous


Type: Marian apparition


Approval: 

January 18, 1862

Bishop Bertrand-Sévère Laurence 

Diocese of Tarbes


Shrine

Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, Lourdes, France


Patronage:

Lourdes, France, Quezon City, Tagaytay City, Barangay Granada of Bacolod, Daegu, South Korea, Tennessee, Diocese of Lancaster, Bodily ills, Sick people, Protection from diseases


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Our Lady of Lourdes


In 1858, 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous told her friends that a beautiful young lady was appearing to her in a rock formation on the outskirts of her small town of Lourdes. A friend asked Bernadette to do her a favor—to take her rosary along the next time she knelt before the beautiful young lady. Bernadette obliged. Later, Bernadette told her friend how the lady had reacted: the lady had noticed that Bernadette was not holding her own rosary, said that she was not there to make relics, and told Bernadette to return next time with her own rosary, not someone else’s.


Bernadette’s unvarnished recounting of the lady’s reaction was blunt, but reasonable and, more importantly, authentic. This plainspokenness fit a pattern. Over and over again, whenever little, uneducated Bernadette was asked about the beautiful young lady she saw in the grotto, her answers never changed and also included startling but authentic details. Bernadette reported that when she and the lady prayed the rosary together, the lady only said the Our Father and the Glory Be. Mary didn’t pray the Hail Mary. How could she pray to herself? Would she say “Hail Me?” Bernadette reported that the lady spoke to her in the Lourdes’ dialect which Bernadette herself grew up with, slightly different from standard French. Bernadette stated that a golden rose rested on each of the lady’s feet. Of course! And when Bernadette respectfully asked the lady her name, she didn’t understand the big words in the response: “I am the Immaculate Conception.”


In addition to the miraculous cures associated with the healing waters of Lourdes, the very character of Bernadette, as well as the tone and content of her accounts, removed all doubt that the beautiful young lady she saw was indeed the Virgin Mary. Our Lady of Lourdes is perhaps the most powerful and prolific physical healer in the history of the Church after Christ himself. Through her intercession, and through the waters that flow in her magnificent shrine, many thousands have been cured of their infirmities, as medical records prove beyond any doubt. Holy Mary has appeared at various times and in various places, but mostly to the simple and mostly in the country. She loves the faith of the simple, and speaks to them in simple language. In this, Mary reflects the words of her Son Jesus. He speaks plainly. His message is clear. And Mary’s simple words always point to the simple words of her own Son.


God is like the sun whose fiery brilliance scorches the eyes of all who look right at Him. Get too close and you’ll be burned. Like the sun, the Creator of the world can be distant, mysterious, and intimidating. But Mary is like the moon, bathed in a soft, pleasant glow. She’s close to us, and easy on the eyes. The sun’s heat and light may make life possible, but the sun itself is dangerous and remote. But Mary can be approached by man. And like the moon, she doesn’t produce her own light, but just reflects in a softer tone the powerful rays of the enormous star whose light generates life itself.


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Text: Wikipedia and mycatholiclife.org

Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes :Day 8

 

NOVENA TO OUR LADY OF LOURDES


OPENING PRAYER


Be blessed, O most pure Virgin, for having vouchsafed to manifest your shining with life, sweetness and beauty, in the Grotto of Lourdes, saying to the child, St. Bernadette: 'I am the Immaculate Conception. ' A thousand times we congratulate you upon your Immaculate Conception. And now, O ever Immaculate Virgin, Mother of mercy, Health of the sick, Refuge of sinners, Comforter of the afflicted, you know our wants, our troubles, our sufferings deign to cast upon us a look of mercy.


By appearing in the Grotto of Lourdes, you were pleased to make it a privileged sanctuary, whence you dispense your favors, and already many have obtained the cure of their infirmities, both spiritual and physical. We come, therefore, with the most unbounded confidence to implore your maternal intercession. Obtain for us, O loving Mother, the granting of our request.


(state your request)


Through gratitude for your favors, we will endeavor to imitate your virtues, that we may one day share your glory. 


Our Lady of Lourdes, Mother of Christ, you had influence with your divine son while upon earth. You have the same influence now in Heaven. Pray for us; obtain for us from your Divine Son our special requests if it be the Divine Will. Amen.


Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.


Saint Bernadette, pray for us.


DAY 8


O Immaculate Mother of God, from heaven itself you came to appear to the little Bernadette in the rough Grotto of Lourdes! And as Bernadette knelt at your feet and the miraculous spring burst forth and as multitudes have knelt ever since before your shrine, O Mother of God, we kneel before you today to ask that in your mercy you plead with your Divine Son to grant the special favor we seek in this novena.


(make your request)


O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes, glorious in your assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God, Virgin Mary, Queen and Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation. Amen.


Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.


Saint Bernadette, pray for us.

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