The sin of our first parents, the Fall of Adam and Eve, has left the human race with dire consequences: we're separated from God, we've lost our integrity, our ability to trust ourselves, others and God. we suffer illness and pain, we toil and attempt to survive by the sweat of our brows, we die. Not a happy picture, not the way it was before the Fall. Yet, God's infinite mercy and compassion has given us a Way out of this: Jesus. His life and expiation for the Great Sin, has made reunion with God a reality and the reversal of these "punishments" possible. Besides his salvific death and resurrection, during his life, moved with compassion, he worked countless miracles of healing, both physical and spiritual, and even took care of feeding the multitudes who came to hear him. Compassion and Mercy are gifts shared by his mother, who, in her numerous visits to our world over the centuries, has been the instrument for on-going healing.
Today we honor her as Our Lady of Lourdes, a well-known place of pilgrimage and physical as well as spiritual cures. As the first woman, Eve, chose to break away from God, so Mary, the new Eve by her choice to allow God to take flesh in her womb so that the human race might be reunited with its Creator. She, like Jesus, continues to look with pity upon us, and to intercede with Jesus to heal the sick. Lourdes has become synonymous with healing; may we not hesitate to approach Mary for the healing we or others need.
Bro. Rene
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