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Hold your beads

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December 10
“In the evening when you go to sleep, hold your beads, doze off reciting them, do like those babies who go to sleep mumbling, ‘Mamma! Mamma!'”
– St. Bernadette
Today’s Reflection:
What a precious image: a baby falling asleep, knowing he or she is protected and cared for. Today, open your heart and mind to this image, but instead of a baby, place yourself in the arms of our Mother. How safe do you feel as you lie within Her care? Pray a few times, “Mamma! Mamma!”
  

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What will be the crown

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August 16
“What will be the crown of those who, humble within and humiliated without, have imitated the humility of our Savior in all its fullness!
-St. Bernadette
Today’s Reflection:
In this quote, St. Bernadette reveals to us the way in which humility comes “packaged.” What is it? What is the connection between it and becoming “humble within?”
  

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St. Bernadette and the healing waters

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This Friday we celebrate the Feast of St. Bernadette Soubirous. She was the humble, peasant girl, on whom was bestowed one of the greatest of earthly blessings…to be visited and spoken to by Our Blessed Mother, Mary. It is a remarkable story that sadly, even many Catholics, are not familiar with.

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Mary Visits Her Children: Our Lady of Lourdes

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Perhaps no other appearance of the Blessed Virgin Mary has captured people’s hearts and imaginations like those she made to Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes, France in 1858. Our Lady appeared eighteen times that year to an impoverished, uneducated fourteen-year-old girl who lived with her family in an old jail. Since that time, more than five thousand healings are reported to have taken place in the spot where the Blessed Mother appeared; sixty-four of them the Catholic Church has proclaimed “miraculous.” Read the rest…