Healing Waters

Our Lady of Lourdes

~~~ Genesis 1:1-19 ~~~ Psalm 104 ~~~ Mark 6:53-56 ~~~

The God who created heaven and earth.

The God who said, "Let there be light"....

The God who brought forth all manner of life in the universe...

The God who placed the sun and the moon in the skies...

this is the God who also created you.

This is the God who walked the earth in the person of Jesus

healing and blessing others.

This is the God who sen his Son to be born of a woman.

This is the God who came down to live among us.

This is the God in whom we place our trust.

This is the God in whom we profess to be our Lord.

It is this same God whom people long ago flocked to for healing.

This same God is here for you today.

Whatever villages or towns or countryside he entered,
they laid the sick in the marketplaces
and begged him that they might touch only the tassel on his cloak;
and as many as touched it were healed.

Touching the tassel from his cloak was sufficient to heal.

Or was that the only contributing factor to one's healing?  

Perhaps there was something invisible occurring within each person who was healed...

they had faith...they believed something so slight as touching a few threads

from his clothing had his power to heal.

They came...they touched...they believed.

So often a healing will happen in an unanticipated fashion.

A part of you will be healed; if not physically,

then in mind, spirit, or soul.

Whatever the healing it will come through love and compassion.

God created you and wants you to be whole,

united with him...united with his will for you.

God has seen fit to imbue the waters at Lourdes with his healing power.

Just as at the wedding at Cana the Blessed Mother intercedes on our behalf.

If God is truly God, which we know him to be,

then changing water into wine...allowing his healing to pour forth as water,

pales in comparison to his creation of water itself.

He can do all things.

Ask for the healing you desire,

knowing that God will give you the healing you need more.

Prayer to Our Lady of Lourdes

O ever immaculate Virgin, Mother of mercy, health of the sick, refuge of sinners, comfort of the afflicted,

you know my wants, my troubles, my sufferings; deign to cast upon me a look of mercy.

By appearing in the Grotto of Lourdes, you were pleased to make it a privileged sanctuary,

whence you dispense your favors, and already many sufferers have obtained the cure of their infirmities,

both spiritual and corporal. I come, therefore, with the most unbounded confidence,

to implore your maternal intercession. Obtain, O loving Mother, the grant of my requests.

 I will endeavor to imitate your virtues, that I may one day share your glory,

and bless you in eternity. Amen.

The Lord bless you and keep you.

The Lord let his face shine upon you and keep you safe

in mind, body, spirit, and soul.

You are loved more than you can understand.