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Steven Barrett
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| Location: | Hadley, Absurdistan, AKA , Massachusetts USA |
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| First Name: | Steven | | Gender: | Male | | Faith History: | Catholic, Episcopal communicant, Baptist, Catholic |
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Posted: Fri Sep 12th, 2008 08:31 pm |
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 Forgive the corny subtitle. Lately I've taken a keener interest in Lourdes thanks to reading Fr. James Martin, SJ's spiritual memoir My Life with the Saints (Loyola, 2006). He described his pilgrimmage to Lourdes and gave some background to St. Bernadette and the Visitation. And of course, this weekend, I believe the Pope is scheduled to be there.
My dad had been there several times and for some while I had a black and white somebody had taken of him kneeling and praying the Rosary where I believe there's a plaque on the ground marking where the Saint first saw Mary. Say a prayer I can find that picture again!    Even during my "protestant Avignon years" that photo always had grabbed a soft-spot in my heart. It was taken by the base AF chaplain's office. I'm sure I'll find it. But I can still recall a ton of slides he took of the crutches hanging at the grotto, the nighttime processions and of course the daytime parades/processions of the " malades." If anybody can get a hold of Fr. Martin's book, by all means do so. It's a great book covering a wide variety of saints that are particularly special to him and many others as well. Some haven't been made "official saints," but he does a good job of highlighting what makes them saintly.
Besides the official Lourdes website, does anybody have a good website concerning Lourdes he or she'd like to recommend? What what I've been able to understand, and it's still in the nascent stages, the Church is looking into expanding the actual number of cures it's learning of in various areas of healing, not just relating to the physically crippled; but also people suffering from one or another form of mental illness, condition, esp. depression(s).
Now I wonder, have I opened up a grotto's worth of healing information ? Qui?
(That, plus the "ici" mentioned by Kim in another thread is about as much as my French goes. It'd take the Father Himself, more than Mary, to heal me from what a Parisian waiter would do if he got a taste of my "french.")
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James Michael Curley to a young Thomas “Tip” O’Neill -- “Son, it’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.”
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Posted: Tue Sep 16th, 2008 06:31 pm |
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Steven Barrett wrote: Forgive the corny subtitle. Lately I've taken a keener interest in Lourdes thanks to reading Fr. James Martin, SJ's spiritual memoir My Life with the Saints (Loyola, 2006). He described his pilgrimmage to Lourdes and gave some background to St. Bernadette and the Visitation. And of course, this weekend, I believe the Pope is scheduled to be there.
The pope was there to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the apparitions. Unfortunately, I missed the whole thing due to hurricane-induced power outages.
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