Fr. Roger Landry
Columbia Catholic Ministry, Notre Dame Church, Manhattan
Reflection on St. Bernadette Soubirous
February 11, 2023
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This is the outline for the meditation:
- Introduction
- February 18, 2004 Mass at the Grotto where Our Lady appeared to her.
- Five lessons she can teach us
- First Lesson — Humility, in birth, education, poverty, suspicion, as a result of the apparitions, in the convent.
- Second Lesson — Prayer, together with Mary, in view of a Church where people could pray. Prayer especially for sinners, as our Lady asked.
- Third Lesson — Redemptive suffering, her own and then at Lourdes.
- Fourth Lesson — The Sign of the Cross, the “summit of our faith” (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Fifth Lesson — The Eucharist, her first Communion, comparing the apparitions to Holy Communion, our sublime destiny.
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