Honoring Our Lady of Lourdes

As anyone who has been there knows, the most common sight at the shrine in Lourdes, France is not churches, not water, not rosaries: it is the smile. That is the mystery in the midst of so much suffering, everyone in Lourdes is smiling, because it’s a place of love that puts us in touch with reality, the deepest reality: God is here and he loves us.
 

 

 

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