Wednesday – 5th Week in Ordinary Time – A – Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes
Today we celebrate the optional memorial of Our Lady’s apparitions at Lourdes, where our Blessed Mother in 1858, in Lourdes, France, appeared in this poor mill town marked by sickness, poverty, and marginalization. She appears to Saint Bernadette Soubirous, a fourteen-year-old impoverished girl who encounters a lady in the grotto of Massabielle while gathering firewood. This occurred on the 11th of February, 1858.