Totus Tuus - Totus 2us

Our Lady of Lourdes

_{Feast day - 11th February, which is also the World Day of the Sick}

3 2us by Monsignor Leo Maasburg       ♦

_{"Sickness and suffering are a big puzzle to human beings. We're all created for health - health is the normal state of man. But sickness and suffering are a reality of our life, nobody can avoid it completely, it will hit everybody at a certain moment in their life. Since we believe that for God there is no trash, everything he has permitted he can use for a good end, the secret of suffering and of sickness reveals a big mystery, a mystery of God's greatness. I believe this was the reason of Our Lady's appearing on 11th February 1858 to Bernadette Soubirous. But she didn't appear to explain suffering, she appears silently, she doesn't say anything the first three apparitions, and she just holds a rosary in her hand and Bernadette prays the rosary. The beginning of that revealing, of the understanding of the mystery of suffering is prayer. If we ask Our Lord, if we enter, if we approach Him in prayer, He can reveal to us the mystery of suffering."}

Marien       ♦

_{"I try to pray the rosary at least every day and it’s a true help and a true feeling of being loved by Christ through his mother, Mary."}