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The Lady spoke to me

The Lady spoke to me

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 Today, February 11, as our Church celebrates the Memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes we are first invited to reflect on a passage from the book of Revelation (11:19---12:17a), entitled "The great sign of the woman in the heavens". Our treasure, which follows, is from a letter by Saint Marie Bernadette Soubirous, virgin. The Book of Revelation, also called the Apocalypse of John, is the final book of the New Testament and is written in a highly symbolic, visionary style. Traditionally attributed to St. John while in exile on the island of Patmos, it presents a series of dramatic visions involving heavenly worship, letters to seven churches, cosmic conflict, persecution, judgment, and ultimate renewal. Its imagery—beasts, seals, trumpets, bowls, angels, and a radiant heavenly city—draws deeply on Old Testament prophetic language, especially from Daniel, Ezekiel, Isaiah, and Exodus. Rather than being a coded timetable of future events, Revelation is best understood as an apocalyptic work meant to encourage suffering believers, assuring them that history is not chaotic but guided by God's providence and sovereignty. The primary message of Revelation is one of hope and perseverance: Jesus Christ, the slain yet risen Lamb, reigns as Lord of history and will definitively triumph over evil. The book calls Christians to faithful witness, moral vigilance, and courage amid trials, reminding them that earthly powers are temporary and that true allegiance belongs to God alone. Its climax is not destruction but renewal—the defeat of sin and death, the final judgment, and the vision of the new heaven and new earth where God dwells with His people and wipes away every tear. At its heart, Revelation proclaims that no suffering endured for Christ is in vain and that faithful endurance leads to eternal glory. Our Lady of Lourdes is one of the devotional names or titles under which the Catholic Church venerates the Virgin Mary. The name commemorates a series of 18 apparitions reported by a 14-year-old girl, Bernadette Soubirous, in Lourdes, France in 1858. After the first reported apparition on 11 February 1858, Bernadette told her mother that a "Lady" had spoken to her in the cave of Massabielle while Bernadette, her sister, and a friend were gathering firewood. Bernadette reported similar apparitions of the "Lady" over the ensuing weeks, in the last of which the "Lady" identified herself as "the Immaculate Conception". On 18 January 1862, the local Bishop of Tarbes Bertrand-Sévère Laurence endorsed the veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lourdes. The principal message of Our Lady of Lourdes is a gentle but urgent call to conversion of heart, prayer, and trust in God's mercy. Through her appearances to Saint Bernadette in 1858, Mary repeatedly invited the faithful to pray—especially the Rosary—do penance for sinners, and approach God with humility and simplicity. Her self-identification as the Immaculate Conception affirmed the Church's teaching on grace and purity, while the healing spring revealed at Lourdes became a sign of God's compassion for the suffering. Above all, Lourdes proclaims that God draws near to the poor and lowly, offering hope, healing, and a path back to deeper faith. Marian devotion has since steadily increased as ecclesiastical investigations sanctioned her visions. In later years, a large church was built at the site that has since become a major site of religious pilgrimage. Saint Marie Bernadette Soubirous, also known as Bernadette of Lourdes, was a miller's daughter from Lourdes, France, and is best known for experiencing apparitions of a "young lady" who asked for a chapel to be built at the nearby cave-grotto. These apparitions occurred between 11 February and 16 July 1858, and the young lady who appeared to her identified herself as the "Immaculate Conception". Pope Pius XI beatified Soubirous on 14 June 1925 and canonized her on 8 December 1933. Her feast day, initially specified as 18 February – the day Mary promised to make her happy, not in this life, but in the other – is now observed in most places on the date of her death, 16 April.
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