Monday, February 11, 2013

Follow Lourdes Grotto Festivities





Follow the festivities via live webcam at this link.

webcams at Lourdes France




Click Here for the Story of Lourdes

I AM THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

At five o'clock on the morning of March 25, the Feast of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, Bernadette felt compelled to go again to the grotto. The Lady was already there. "With her two arms hanging down, she raised her eyes and looked up at the sky, and it was then that she told me, joining her hands together now at the height of her breast, that she was the Immaculate Conception. Those were the last words she ever said to me." Four years before these events, Pope Pius IX had proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. For centuries this doctrine-----that the Virgin Mary had been conceived and born without the taint of Original Sin-----had been a pious belief among the ordinary people; but the proclamation of 1854 had made it part of the Church's official teaching.

Click Here for A Prayer to Our Lady of Lourdes

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