My people, make I yarn una wetin happen for Lourdes today! This na the day wey we dey celebrate Our Lady of Lourdes, wey show face for 1858 to one small girl, St. Bernadette. This girl wey dey only fourteen years, na she the first to see wetin we go fit call heavenly mama!
Between February and July of that year, Mary come dey appear to Bernadette like say she get wahala for her mind. Every time, na for one small grotto she dey meet am. E be like film, but na real life! Mary come dey tell her say, ‘I am the Immaculate Conception.’ This one na serious matter, my guys!
As Mary dey show face, miracles come dey happen like bush fire! Pipo dey waka come Lourdes, and many dey find healing as dem dey enter holy water wey dey there. Wetin make this place sweet pass be say, na where pipo dey find hope and their life dey change. People dey call this place ‘place of grace’ because na there dem dey reconnect to God, and na so many people go back as better pipo.
No forget say today na also Thirty-Four Anniversary of the World Day of the Sick! Na Pope John Paul II start this. We dey use am to remember all the sick pipo. E go dey sweet if you fit remember to pray for dem and do small charity for your corner.
For the Grotto for Lourdes, e no be only prayer we dey do, but plenty people dey gather dey do processions, dey sing and dey call upon Mama Mary. E go make your heart dey sweet anytime you see pipo dey carry candle dey follow the light! Na so e dey happen for there. People hundred and thousand dey gather, and e be like holiday for dem!
As we dey celebrate Our Lady of Lourdes, our mind go dey on conversion, prayer, and charity. Dis na wetin she carry come as she show face. Na her message to us, say make we dey kind and love each other!
You fit ask yourself, how I fit show love for my own community today? Abeg, try give something to sick pipo, whether na food or some cash. This na the true spirit of Lourdes!
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