"The age of miracles is passed."
Thus spoke the cynical voice of a doubting
age. God had been shouldered out of His
universe. There was no place for Him in the
exclusive little system that man had developed
to his own complete satisfaction.
Men looked to earth and hoped to make it
their heaven.
Women embraced love that was not love and
wondered why their hearts were hungry.
There were wars and famine, cruelty and
greed, lust and disbelief in God and in man
...and heaven and Mary very far away.
Then one lovely day, upon a bare rock in
southern France a fair lady spoke to a child
... a fountain broke from the barren earth...
miracles piled on miracles... and Lourdes
was born.
It was Mary's challenge of faith to a world
which had lost faith in her Son.
O God, who by the Immaculate conception
of the Virgin didst prepare a worthy dwelling
place for thy Son, we humbly beseech thee
that we, who celebrate the apparition of the
same Blessed Virgin, may obtain health of
soul and body through the same Lord Jesus
Christ, thy Son, who livest and reignest with
thee in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world
without end. Amen
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