Posted on 08/11/2008 4:20:35 PM PDT by NYer
.- A Spanish man said this week that the pilgrimage he took in 2003 to the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes was the beginning point of his conversion and the basis for a new book on his testimony.
Fifty one year-old Antonio Escobedo Garcia’s book “What Joy!” recounts that after suffering a “a grave lesion in the lumbar zone” of his back, a friend invited him to make a pilgrimage to Lourdes. “I agreed not because I thought I was going to be cured, but because I just wanted to get out and see the oaks and yew trees in the area, because I love trees and nature,” he said.
According to the AVAN news agency, Escobedo made the pilgrimage with his wife and experienced “a strong feeling” upon arriving at the Shrine. “It was moving to see the masses of people from all over the world who were there and the fraternity that was present in the place and that everybody treated each other with,” he said, adding that at that moment he felt interiorly “the need to talk to the Virgin and for her to answer.”
In his book, he said the pilgrimage to Lourdes “did not physically cure my lesion in the lumbar zone, but I did feel a peace like I had never before felt, which has helped me day by day to face my serious pain with joy and serenity.”
Now Escobedo attends Mass every day and prays the Rosary with his wife and his four children. He also promotes the Rosary to hundreds of people in his hometown of Valencia.
A conversion of heart! Beautiful.
Beautiful... thanks for the post..
This is the true healing. Our bodies all will wear out and die, sooner or later, of easy things or difficult things, and we must surely suffer if we live long enough.
But healing of the soul is the real healing, and lasts forever.
But healing of the soul is the real healing, and lasts forever.
Well said,Dear Friend.
If there is not a cross in our lives and no suffering here on earth, than we are not following the will of God because it is through trials and suffering that our faith grows.
I wish you a Blessed evening!
I wish my dad could go to Lourdes; he is suffering from melanoma which metasticized to his lung.
Prayers for your dad’s healing. I hope he’s better soon.
Thank you so much. I spent much of Saturday morning and afternoon sending prayer requests (that he would be added to prayer chains) all over the world via the internet. He must be on tons of prayer chains.
The internet can be such a blessing. I so appreciate the prayers.
May God bless Antonio Escobedo Garcia bountifully.
Including your dad in my Rosary!
God bless you Salvation, thank you so much.
His name is Paul E.
Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!
My pleasure.
How’s he doing today?
Thank you for asking! He is undergoing radiation for squamous skin cancer, he has only four more days to go. Then soon he will consult with a doctor at the John Wayne Cancer Center on what his options are for the melanoma. I don’t think their are alot out there, but I’m praying for a miracle! I submitted his name to tons of different prayer chains, so he has many praying for him. I can’t imagine life without my dad, I just hope and pray Jesus will “lend” him to us a while longer. I tell Jesus... “Lord, you will have him for eternity, can you just let him stay with us a while longer?”
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