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by bcadmin | Feb 11, 2022 | 2022, Apparitions, Apparitions and the Direction of Human Acts, Aquinas, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Lourdes, miracles, News, Rev. Peter M.J. Stravinskas, signs and wonders, St. Bernadette Soubirous, St. John Henry Cardinal Newman, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
Fr. Peter Stravinskas on miracles: If you believe in God, no explanation is necessary; if you don’t believe, no explanation is possible.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 11, 2022 | Featured, Lives of Saints, Lourdes, News, Pope Benedict XVI, St. Bernadette Soubirous, Therese of Lisieux | 0 |
On the night I arrived at Lourdes, I made my way to an English language Mass. Facing the Grotto on the far side of the river Gave was a modern church, concrete and ascetically uninspiring, however, within minutes of walking into its packed auditorium a voice called my name, and turning I saw some familiar […]
by bcadmin | Dec 8, 2021 | Advent, Father Edward Looney, Featured, Immaculate Conception, Mary, Miraculous Medal, News, St. Bernadette Soubirous, St. Catherine Labouré | 0 |
During my high school years, I believed the Immaculate Conception was the conception of Jesus. I was taking instruction in religion from a teacher who had a master’s degree in Catholic theology. On Dec. 8, he stood up in front of the class and said, “T…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 12, 2021 | Best of Week, Featured, Lourdes, Marian apparitions, Mary, News, Saints, St. Bernadette Soubirous | 0 |
Yesterday was the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, because on that day, February 11, 1858, our beautiful Mother Mary appeared to 14-year-old St. Bernadette Soubirous for the first time. Our Lady came back to see Bernadette (and Bernadette came to the grotto to see Our Lady) 17 more times, their final meeting there being […]
by bcadmin | Feb 9, 2021 | Erika Kidd, Faith and Culture, Featured, Helen Alvare, Local News, Lourdes, News, Protestant, St. Bernadette Soubirous, University of Notre Dame, v | 0 |
Erika Kidd remembers when, still Protestant, she and her husband were curious about the University of Notre Dame’s famous Grotto, a shrine to Mary modeled after the place she appeared to St. Bernadette Soubirous in 1858 in Lourdes, France. Erika described watching a Catholic couple approach the shrine, kneel and pray, and she and her husband felt compelled to do the same. A wave of realization about the body’s role in worship washed over her.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 2, 2020 | Black Death, Bubonic plague, Featured, News, Our Lady of Lourdes, Plague, Saints, St. Achatius, St. Aloysius Gonzaga, St. Barbara, St. Bernadette Soubirous, St. Blaise, St. Catherine of Alexandria, St. Christopher, St. Corona, St. Cyriacus, St. Denis, St. Erasmus, St. Eustachius, St. George, St. Giles, St. Guy, St. Margaret of Antioch, St. Pantaleone, St. Roch, St. Sebastian, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, St. Vitus, U.S. & World News | 0 |
The Catholic Church has had a long tradition of calling on saints and praying for their intercession in sickness and difficult times.
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