Jour trois, day three of your Spiritual Journey to Lourdes

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Third day of Spiritual Journey, First day of School !

Today we attend Formation (school) to be stagiaires (trainees) taught by a formeatuer (teacher) in the Sanctuary! See how much we have already learned! You are all considered 1st year stagaires serving a stage (traineeship).

You will work under the direction of the Hospitalité Notre Dame de Lourdes, an association that has organized volunteer service for volunteers from all over the world since 1885!

Today we learn about what happened in Lourdes and from Bernadette we learn the Message of Lourdes as given to her by Our Lady, Penance, Penance, Penance, Pray for sinners!

Read more about the Message of Lourdes

Be sure to click the read more links. The information provided in these links will be essential for the rest of our journey as well as learning, living, loving and sharing The Message of Lourdes!

Let's take a walk, on the Footsteps of Bernadette Tour!

" ...lend me your shoes to show me your way to holiness..."

Let's visit all the places near and dear to St. Bernadette, read more. On the walking tour in Lourdes, we are limited to how far we can walk through town. Today, we can see all the places that St. Bernadette treasures!

Family Life:The Boly Mill

"Vocation of Love" Bernadette was born into a family of love with all the

challenges and joys of normal everyday family life.

Sacramental Life: Parish Church

"A child of God", Bernadette was a Christian and then declared a saint because she fully lived the grace of her baptism.

Prayer Life: Bartrès

“Eucharistic Desire ” Bernadette’s desire for her First Holy Communion

grew as her prayer life in solitude increased.

Spiritual Life: the Cachot

“School of Humility”, where Bernadette's family lived through hard times.

Let us pray for an increase in humility: Lord—more of YOU and less of me!

Holy Life: the Grotto

“School of Prayer” Bernadette saw the Mother of God

eighteen times in the Grotto at Lourdes.

Religious Life: the Hospice

“Living the Message of Lourdes” Bernadette prayed for her vocation. She waited to know where God called her to live a life of holiness, to best live the Message of Lourdes to sanctity in her everyday life.