Saint Bernadette of Lourdes
There are Saints
among us whose greatest virtues have been their lifelong battles against
their human nature. Those of us who are privileged to study their
lives, have a tendency to ignore what we believe to be their
shortcomings, in an effort to go directly to their source of
sanctification. When we do this, we miss the teaching the Lord has to
give us by the example of His suffering servant. We go for the dream,
and miss the journey. The sanctification is in the journey.
Saint Bernadette of Lourdes used
to complain about the accounts she read on the Lives of the Saints, in
that they all seemed too sugar coated. She said of the Saints,
“They were human beings with
faults and weaknesses, like all of us.” Mother Angelica once
said, referring to the authors of lives of the Saints, “They
should all be given forty years each in purgatory, for making these
Saints seem so perfect.” Bernadette probably felt the same
way.
To the little Saint
Bernadette of Lourdes, the many gifts she was given during her lifetime:
one, that of
beholding
the
presence of Mary, the
Mother of God, eighteen times in the year 1858;
another, her
ecstasies during
those Apparitions, were just that,
gifts. She believed
that these were aids
from the good God to help her get through a sacrificial life amidst a
barrage of attacks, and to suppress her own fiery inclination to fight
those attacks. She prayed the gifts would offset her imperfections,
which included a strong will, a fierce temper, and a stinging tongue.
What she may never have reallized is how Our Lord Jesus and His Mother
Mary were able to use these traits for their glory.
We once wrote that
Bernadette was a simple girl, an illiterate at the time that Our Lady
appeared to her, but never did we consider her a
stupid girl. Her
behavior throughout the period of the Apparitions, her
inner strength to
hold up against great powers in the government and the Church, are a
strong indicator of this. Her life after the Apparitions, and in
the Convent of Saint Gildard in Nevers, is proof of her strength.
We never knew much
about Bernadette. As a young man, I became enraptured by the
Apparitions of Our Lady to Bernadette, after reading
The Song of Bernadette.
I fell in love with Mary, but never thought much about Bernadette. Even
the first time Penny and I visited Lourdes, we didn’t see or hear much
of the little visionary. This is as Bernadette wanted it. With the
exception of the Cachot, where she lived during the time of the
Apparitions, the Boly Mill, where she was born, and the Maison
Paternelle, where the family lived after the Apparitions, Bernadette is
not considered a major part of the Shrine. But Bernadette is very
important, both as the intermediary for Mary during that period of time
in 1858, and as a role mode
for today.
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The Visionary of Lourdes
"I cannot promise you happiness in this world, but in the next."
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The life of Saint Bernadette of Lourdes
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We start at the birthplace of Bernadette, the
Boly Mill
in Lourdes.
Visit the Cachot
where she lived during the apparitions, and
La Maison Paternelle
where she lived after the apparitions.
Enter the
Grotto of
Massabiele where our Lady
appeared to her. Scenes from
Nevers,
and see her beautiful incorrupt body.
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Saints And
Other Powerful
Women in the Church
Bob and Penny have taken 10 of the
most powerful women in the Church of yesterday and today, and shared them in
a way that can be understood by all. They write about these women in their
simple and engaging style, which has placed them among the most popular
Catholic writers of the day.
Each of these 10 women are Role Models for the faithful of today. Read
how they suffered rejection by their peers, discrimination because of sex,
and how they rose above all of it to become movers and shakers of the world.
There is a common thread, which gave them the strength to go on when others
would have backed down -their devotion to the Holy Eucharist and Mother Mary
and an unbending commitment to their vows, most especially that of
obedience.
St. Clare of Assisi
Sister Moon to
Francis’ Brother Sun Foundress of the Poor Clares - Miracle of the
Eucharist
St.
Clare of Montefalco
Mystic
- Read how they found the Crucified Lord and see the means of Crucifixion
they found in her heart - Incorrupt Body
St.
Catherine of Siena
Doctor
of Church - Stigmatist Mystic - brought Papacy back to Rome - Mystically
Married to Jesus
St.
Rita of Cascia
Role Model for
women of every generation - Saint of the Impossible - Incorrrupt Body
St.
Teresa of Avila
Reformer
of the Carmelites - Doctor of the Church - Mystic - Transverberation of
the heart
St.
Bernadette Visionary
of Lourdes - Incorrupt body
St.
Thérèse of Lisieux
Doctor of the
Church - Saint of the Little Way - Spends her Heaven doing good on Earth
New
chapter on recently proclaimed
St.
Katharine Drexel
Saint
of the Native and African Americans
Sr.
Briege McKenna
Healing Ministry
Mother Angelica
Foundress
- Eternal Word Television Network
WEWN Radio - Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament
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Saints And Other
Powerful
Men
In The Church
Down through the ages, men and
women have given their lives to carry out the command of Jesus. Bob
and Penny Lord have tracked the lives of 12 men who have said, Yes!
to Jesus, and dedicated their lives to that Yes!, some at the cost of
their lives. Their biographies parallel the times of crisis in our
Church. Bob and Penny have set their sights on the man and the time in
which he lived. They have started at the beginning of our infant
Church, with one of the greatest adventurers our Faith has ever known, Paul
the Apostle, and continued to our present day, ending with a Paul of the
Electronic Age, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.
They have focus on the problems in the world and the Church at these
crucial times in our history, the men the Lord sent to save the world and
the Church from destruction, the struggles they encountered along the way,
and the ultimate triumph of Jesus through His Powerful Men in the Church.
St. Paul
Jesus
spoke to him; he converted, and archenemy of the Christians became Apostle
to Gentile World
St.
Augustine
Doctor
of the Church - Sinner turned Saint - Read how his mother prayed him to
holiness.
St.
Francis of Assisi
Most like Jesus -lived the Gospel life - Brother Sun - Stigmatist -
Founder of Franciscans
St.
Anthony
Finder of Lost Souls - Great homilist, Mystic, Hammer of Heretics, Miracle
of the Eucharist
St.
Peregrine
The Cancer Saint, Incorrupt body
St.
John of the Cross
Reformer of
Carmelites - Doctor of the Church - Mystic - Poet - Soldier of Christ
St.
John Vianney Patron
Saint of Parish Priests, had visions of Mother Mary - did battle with the
devil.
St.
John Bosco
Mystic - Visionary - Prophesied these last days - Pied-piper of lost
children of the streets.
St.
Maxmilian Kolbe
- founded Knights of the Immaculata, died as a Martyr in Auschwitz.
Saint
Miguel Pro
Martyr of Mexico of
the 20th century
Blessed
Padre Pio Visionary,
Stigmatist for 50 yrs, bi-located, perfect confessor, transverberation of
the heart.
Archbishop
Fulton J. Sheen
- First Televangelist -
A Prophet of these latter days-maligned and misunderstood.
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