February 11 is the memorial feast of Our Lady of Lourdes and is also the World Day of Prayer for the Sick, as proclaimed by Saint John Paul II. Do you have family or friends in need of healing?

Share your petitions for remembrance throughout AMM’s Our Lady of Lourdes Octave of Masses, which begins on February 11. We will place your requests near Mary’s Altar at the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal.

You are invited to pray this prayer daily and request a Votive Light to burn as a symbol of your devotion. May each of us place our trust in the Immaculate Conception so that she may obtain for us all that we need.

Fr. Clay writes in his Lourdes letter of Saint Bernadette, the seer to whom the Mother of God appeared in Lourdes in 1858. On the meaning of human suffering, Bernadette reflected: “Here below, pure Love cannot exist without suffering. O Jesus, Jesus, I no longer feel my cross when I think of yours … [In heaven] I shall find my Mother in all the splendour of her glory. I shall delight with her in the joy of Jesus himself in perfect safety. ”Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us! O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.