Lourdes: before healing he finds the path of prayer

Jeanne GESTAS. Before healing, find the path of prayer ... Born on January 8, 1897, residing in Bègles (France). Disease: Dyspeptic disorders with post-operative occlusive complications. Healed on August 22, 1947, at the age of 50. Miracle recognized on July 13, 1952 by Archbishop Paul Richaud of Bordeaux. Jeanne is amazed. It had been so long since something like this had happened to her that she had almost excluded it from her life. But what? Prayer. As soon as she arrived in Lourdes in 1946, Jeanne's life, neither easy nor happy, studded with physical suffering, actually begins to take on meaning, without her really realizing it. It weighs only 44 kg. But he has started to pray again, and this is perhaps essential. It is as if an unreasonable hope takes hold of her ... On her return, her doctor considers her condition with a skeptical look. A year later, on August 21, 1947, he left once again for Lourdes, with the National pilgrimage. During her first bath, on August 22, she experiences a "uprooting sensation" that scares her. However, he spends a pretty good afternoon. The next day, he takes a bath again. This time she comes out of the pools with the security of being healed. On the same day, abandon all food precautions. He comes home and resumes his normal activity, the taste for life, and ... weight!

Prayer

O most pure Virgin, Immaculate Mary, who in your apparitions in Lourdes, you showed yourself wrapped in a white blanket, obtain for me the virtue of purity, so dear to you and to Jesus, your Divine Son, and make me ready to die first to stain myself with mortal guilt.

Holy Mary…

Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.

Prayer

O Immaculate Virgin, our Mother, who have deigned to manifest yourselves to an unknown girl, let us live in the humility and simplicity of the children of God, to have part in your heavenly communications. Grant us to be able to do penance for our past mistakes, make us live with a great horror of sin, and more and more united to Christian virtues, so that your Heart remains open above us and does not cease to pour the graces, which make us live down here divine love and make it ever more worthy of the eternal crown. So be it.

Litanies to Our Lady of Lourdes (optional)

Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy;
Christ pity, Christ pity;
Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy;

Our Lady of Lourdes, Immaculate Virgin pray for us;
Our Lady of Lourdes, Mother of the Divine Savior, pray for us;
Our Lady of Lourdes, whom you have chosen as an interpreter

a weak and poor girl prays for us;
Our Lady of Lourdes, whom you made flow on earth

a spring that gives comfort to so many pilgrims pray for us;
Our Lady of Lourdes, dispenser of the gifts of Heaven, pray for us;
Our Lady of Lourdes, to whom Jesus can refuse nothing, pray for us;
Our Lady of Lourdes, whom no one has ever invoked in vain, pray for us;
Our Lady of Lourdes, consoler of the afflicted, pray for us;
Our Lady of Lourdes, who heals from all diseases, pray for us;
Our Lady of Lourdes, hope of the pilgrims, pray for us;
Our Lady of Lourdes, who prays for sinners, prays for us;
Our Lady of Lourdes, who invites us to penance, pray for us;
Our Lady of Lourdes, support of the holy Church, pray for us;
Our Lady of Lourdes, advocate of the souls in purgatory, pray for us;
Our Lady of Lourdes, Virgin of the Holy Rosary, pray for us;

Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world forgive us Lord;
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world hear us O Lord;
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us;

Pray for us, Our Lady of Lourdes

So that we are made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let's pray:

Lord Jesus, we bless you and thank you for all the graces that, through your Mother in Lourdes, you have spread on your people in prayer and suffering. Grant that we too, through the intercession of Our Lady of Lourdes, may have part of these goods to better love and serve you! Amen