Healing in Lourdes: imitating Bernadette she finds life again
Blaisette CAZENAVE. Imitating Bernadette, she finds her life again… Born Blaisette Soupène in 1808, residing in Lourdes. Disease: Chemosis or chronic ophthalmia, with ectropion for years. Healed in March 1858, aged 50. Miracle recognized on 18 January 1862 by Mons. Laurence, bishop of Tarbes. For many years Blaisette has been suffering from serious eye trouble. This 50-year-old citizen of Lourdes is affected by a chronic infection of the conjunctiva and eyelids, with complications such that the medicine of the time cannot help her. Declared incurable, she decides one day to imitate Bernadette's gestures at the Grotto: drink spring water and wash your face. The second time, she is totally healed! The eyelids have straightened, the fleshy growths have disappeared. The pain and inflammation are gone. Professor Vergez, a medical expert, was able to write, in this regard, that "the supernatural effect was particularly evident in this wonderful healing (...) The organic condition of the eyelids was surprising ... at the rapid recovery of the tissues in their organic conditions , vital and normal, the straightening of the eyelids was added ".
SUPPLICATE TO OUR LADY OF LOURDES
With a heart full of joy and amazement for your visit to our land, we thank you
o Mary for the gift of Your caring attention for us. Your luminous presence in Lourdes is the still new sign of your watchful and maternal goodness. Come among us to keep repeating to us the appeal that you made to Cana in Galilee one day: "Do whatever he tells you" (Jn 2,5: XNUMX). We welcome this invitation as a sign of your maternal mission for the people of the redeemed, given to you by Jesus on the cross, in the hour of passion. Knowing and feeling our Mother fills us with joy and trust: with you we will never be alone and abandoned. Mary, Mother, hope, refuge, thank you.
Holy Mary…
Your words to Lourdes, Mary of Heaven, were prayer and penance! We welcome them as a faithful echo of the Gospel of Jesus, as a program left by the Master to those who want to welcome the gift of new life that makes men children of God. From you today, O Mary, we implore renewed fidelity and generosity to put into practice this gospel cry. Prayer, as a confident abandonment to the goodness of God, who listens and answers, beyond our every request; Penance, as a change of heart and life, to trust God, to assimilate his plan of love for us.
Holy Mary…
Light, gushing water, wind, earth: these are the signs of Lourdes, forever planted by you, O Mary! We want, like the candles of Lourdes, before your venerated image, to shine in the Christian community, for the solidity of our faith. We want to welcome the living water that Jesus gives us in the sacraments, as gestures of his love that heals and regenerates. We want to walk like the Apostles of the Gospel, at the breath of Pentecost, to continue to narrate that God loves us and Christ died and rose for us. We also want to love the places where God has placed us and calls us every day to do His will, the places of our daily sanctification.
Holy Mary…
Mary, Servant of the Lord, Consolation of the Church and of Christians, guide us today and always. Amen. Hello Regina ...
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Blessed be the Holy and Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God