{"id":32007,"date":"2015-02-11T11:16:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T15:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=32007"},"modified":"2015-02-11T11:16:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T15:16:11","slug":"our-lady-of-lourdes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/02\/our-lady-of-lourdes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Lady of Lourdes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Lourdes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-32008 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Lourdes-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lourdes\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Lourdes-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Lourdes-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Lourdes.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>On February 11, 1858, a very young Bernadette Soubirous (1844\u201379) \u00a0and two other young girls were gathering kindling wood for families. At some point in the wood-gathering expedition, Bernadette was alone on the shores of the River Gave, near the grotto of Massabielle. It was here that Our Lady, Mary the Mother of God, unexpectedly appeared to her. \u00a0From this moment until July 16, <span class=\"text_exposed_show\">\u201cthe beautiful Lady in white\u201d appeared 18 times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">As the history goes, on March 25, the feast of the Annunciation of the Lord, Bernadette asked the beautiful woman in white: \u201cWould you please tell me who you are?\u201d The answer she heard was: \u201cI am the Immaculate Conception.\u201d The title was something Bernadette never knew until this moment. Remember, only four years earlier did\u00a0Pope Pius IX define(December 8, 1854) Mary\u2019s Immaculate Conception. This grotto named <strong><em>Our Lady of Lourdes<\/em><\/strong> has become one of the most famous shrines in Western Europe dedicated to Mary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Countless pilgrims go there to present their petition for a healing and cure &#8211;miracles are frequent. In 1890, Pope Leo XIII permitted the local Diocese of Tarbes, in which Lourdes is located, to celebrate this feast; Pope Pius X extended it to the universal Church in 1907. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Liturgically, we acclaim Mary as the sinless Mother of God, and the sacred Liturgy recalls for us \u00a0the name that our Lady gave herself when she said \u201cI am the Immaculate Conception.\u201d Bernadette entered in 1866 the Sisters of Charity and Christian Instruction of Nevers. She died in 1879 and was canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1933.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s feast is the World Day of Prayer for the Sick. Let&#8217;s remember those in need of a healing and cure from God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 11, 1858, a very young Bernadette Soubirous (1844\u201379) \u00a0and two other young girls were gathering kindling wood for families. At some point in the wood-gathering expedition, Bernadette was alone on the shores of the River Gave, near the grotto of Massabielle. It was here that Our Lady, Mary the Mother of God, unexpectedly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/02\/our-lady-of-lourdes-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our Lady of Lourdes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2647,1971],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32009,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32007\/revisions\/32009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}