Our Lady of Lourdes

  Immaculate Mary, you appeared to St. Bernadette and gave her a mission to build up Lourdes as a sacred shrine to bring people to God. Through your intercession, countless graces have been given to the thousands of people who have flocked to Lourdes. Some have even received the grace of physical healing. I join [...]

Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Today was easily one of the best days of my life.  Yesterday I finished my 33-day preparation for my second annual renewal of my consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.  I also took some time to myself to pray the 33 meditations (short prayers to the Immaculate Heart of Mary) all over again, though I [...]

A Different Miracle

I recently read a very touching and inspiring article at Guideposts, entitled A Perfect Child, written by Kathleen Lukens in 1994. It is the story of a mother and child’s very special trip to the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France – with a beautiful, perhaps unusual (?) but not really surprising outcome.  Our Lady, after [...]

Our Lady of Lourdes, from India

Mid-June, over at Contemplative Haven, I posted a link to a video of the trailer/promo for the movie, Our Lady of Lourdes, written and produced by Mr. Kamalakar Rao Ponnapalli.  As well as wishing to help in some small way to spread the word about this movie, I was curious as to why Mr. Ponnapalli, a Hindu, was inspired to create [...]