Bernadette knew what it was like to be accompanied by great crowds too. Indeed it was the crowds she was attracting to herself that made her decide she must leave Lourdes. She had begun to be followed wherever she went. On one occasion, she heard...
We are called to reach out to those who find themselves in the existential peripheries of our societies and to show particular solidarity with the most vulnerable of our brothers and sisters: the poor, the disabled, the unborn and the sick,...
After a day of searing heat, it was a pleasant change for the weather in Lourdes to turn somewhat, with a cooler and drizzly day. But the pilgrims did not allow it it dampen their spirits as proved when all gathered for a group photo in the...
On this Feast of St Barnabas, we have listened to the passage from the Acts of the Apostles telling us about his part in the birth of the early Church, along with Saul, shortly to become Paul. They are among the many figures that appear in this...
In this striking image of the meeting of Blind Bartimaeus with Jesus, the Bulgarian artist Julia Stankova provides a sense of expectation and empathy between the two. The able-sighted crowd are the distracted ones. Jesus is the one who listens,...