[wagglebee]

Obviously, there are many out there who will discount St. Bernadette and this is done primarily out of ignorance of Marian teachings and the Blessed Mother's true role in the Church.

Nevertheless, even these people are unable to provide an explanation of how this young girl with almost no education could have made up the term Immaculate Conception as all agree that she had no idea what the term even meant. Nor can they explain why Saint Bernadette declined money that her family so desperately needed. These same people cannot provide an explanation about how so many have been cured at Lourdes.

And finally, they have no explanation as to why Saint Bernadette's body remains uncorrupt nearly 130 years after her death.

[wagglebee]

Ping.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

She, because of the way she lived the rest of her life, with tenacity, devotion, and strong love of Jesus and the Eucharist, is one of my favorite saints.

As she was nearing the end of her life, and the officials kept pestering her for details about the apparitions, she laid in her bed in high pain from her knee, and had a picture of a monstrance pinned where she could see it so she could look on a picture of the one she loved.

[TotusTuus]

Here is another article with a similar view of interpreting the events that happened at Lourdes with St. Bernadette.

BIBLE AND LOURDES ROSARY AND LOURDES

[k omalley]

My sweet patron saint, Bernadette, how I love her. I read "Song of Bernadette" for the first time when I was thirteen years old. I read it again when I was 50 yrs old and loved it even more. It represented everything that is true, pure, holy, beautiful, and Catholic.

[Salvation]

OUR LADY OF LOURDES:[Saint Bernardette Soubirous]

Review of “Bernadette of Lourdes" [Biography]

[Salvation]

My priest has visited there and evidently stayed there too because he talked about at the end of the day being able to sit between the Blessed Sacrament and the incorrupt body of St. Bernadette for a long time.

[Nihil Obstat]

As she knelt there in ecstasy, she repeated several times, sobbing, the one word, "Penance." They learned afterwards that she was repeating it after our Lady. This, then is our Lady's one public utterance; and, as I say, it is the message of Lourdes. We are to make there, in common, what reparation we can for our common faults. The true music of Lourdes is not the "Lord, he whom thou lovest is sick" that thunders across the square; not the Ave, Ave, that sweeps down the terraces. It is the Parce, Domine, parce populo tuo— the confession of our sins, and a desperate cry for pardon.

Thank you for this post. "The Song of Bernadette" movie and book kind of frame the story in a different way. I knew the visits of the Virgin to Bernadette happened as Lent began but I never made the connection to penance. It was great to read this homily, which was given just before world war 2 started and before the book was written.

[Salvation]

BTTT on the 150th Anniversary of Lourdes.