Our Lady of Lourdes is a Roman Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated in honour of the Marian apparitions that reportedly occurred in 1858 in the vicinity of Lourdes in France.
Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes February 1st (Thursday) – February 4th (Sunday) Parish Festival (Parish Grounds) Ride tickets and Raffle tickets can be purchased in advance at Carnival Central, our Holy Boutique, or the Parish Office.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for them. Comment: Feel free to add your own petitions for prayer on this thread, and, as with all Feast Day threads, post your favourite hymns, prayers, experiences, funny stories etc.
Lourdes has had a special place in the hearts of many popes in the past 156 years. Blessed Pope John Paul II made three pilgrimages to Lourdes. He also proclaimed February 11, the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, as World Day of the Sick. Lourdes and St. Bernadette also figure prominently in the life of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.
11 th of February, Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. On this day, we celebrate and honor the Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Saint Bernadette Soubirous, the first of which took place on 11 February 1858.
This weekend we celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. The exact day is Saturday, February 11. It’s our patronal feast. Our foundress, St. Katharine Drexel, was given the honor of naming the parish and she chose Our Lady of Lourdes because she was the patron of her beloved spiritual director, Bishop Ryan.
The Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes will be celebrated at all the weekend Masses, February 9 and 10, 2019. Among the events that weekend will be the presentation of our annual Fleur de lis Awards, Come and enjoy our famous French Meat Pies and caramel rolls, faith and fellowship at the first church to be named after the apparition at Lourdes in …
He used Our Lady of Lourdes to heal my wife, Helen, of her severe rheumatoid arthritis and osteo porrhosis. In June 1996, together with 40 members of the Singapore St. Francis Xavier’s Church, Serangoon Garden, we went on pilgrimages to Vatican, Assisi, Lourdes, Fatima and SantaRem.
The liturgical feast of Our Lady of Lourdes was established for February 11, approved by Pope Leo XIII, and first granted to the Diocese of Tarbes in the year 1890. Less than twenty years later, on November 13, 1907, his successor, Pope St. Pius X proclaimed that it be observed throughout the universal Church.
If you start praying today you can complete a novena by the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes ‘Her painful cancer was God’s way of punishing her because she went against the Church’s teachings …
This weekend we celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. The exact day is Saturday, February 11. It’s our patronal feast. Our foundress, St. Katharine Drexel, was given the honor of naming the parish and she chose Our Lady of Lourdes because she was the patron of her beloved spiritual director, Bishop Ryan.
The Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes became worldwide in 1907. Lourdes has become a place of pilgrimage and healing, but even more of faith. Church authorities have recognized over 60 miraculous cures, although there have probably been many more.
The Celebration of Our Lady of Lourdes Feast Day at Our Parish The Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes by Jean Heimann · February 10, 2017 February 11 marks the first apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1858 to St. Bernadette Soubirous.
The liturgical feast of Our Lady of Lourdes was established for February 11, approved by Pope Leo XIII, and first granted to the Diocese of Tarbes in the year 1890. Less than twenty years later, on November 13, 1907, his successor, Pope St. Pius X proclaimed that it be observed throughout the universal Church.
The Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes commemorates the first of 18 appearances of the Virgin Mary to a 14-year-old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous. The young girl's visions occurred between February 11 and July 16, 1858, near the town of Lourdes. The Virgin led her to a nearby grotto, and the …
Today we celebrate the Feast of the Apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes. For, it was on the 11th February, 1858 that St. Bernadette Soubirous, at fourteen years of age, witnessed this first of Eighteen Apparitions in the cave at the rock of Massabielle, close to Lourdes.
If you start praying today you can complete a novena by the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes ‘Her painful cancer was God’s way of punishing her because she went against the Church’s teachings …
February 11 is the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, the date of the first appearance of Our Lady to Bernadette. April 16 is the feast day of St. Bernadette. In 2008 we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Blessed Virgin’s apparitions at Lourdes, where she identified herself to St. Bernadette as the Immaculate Conception.
This Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes can be prayed at any time, but it is especially appropriate in the days before February 11, the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. Many Catholics begin the novena on February 2, the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord , to complete it on February 10, the eve of the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes.
Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes Lourdes, an ancient village in the valley of the Pyrenees mountains, is in the extreme southwest of France near the Spanish border. It is the site of the most famous series of apparitions of the Virgin Mary and the most visited pilgrimage shrine in Christendom.