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Saint Bernadette is the young girl who saw the Virgin Mary at Lourdes. She lived for 21 years after her famous visions of Mary, becoming a nun. The quotations below are taken from a magazine article providing her sayings.
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"I believe Bernadette meditated on the mysteries of the rosary because one day when I told her I was unable to pray, to meditate, she suggested this method to me, 'Transport yourself to the Mount of Olives or to the foot of the cross, and stay there: the Lord will speak to you and you'll listen to him.' Sometimes I said, 'I was there, but the Lord said nothing to me.' But I continued to pray."
"She also told me: 'When you pass the chapel, if you don't have the time to stop, tell your guardian angel to take your message to the Lord in the tabernacle. He'll take it and join you again.'"
"She would say: 'We must receive the Lord well, we have a great interest in giving him a good welcome, a loving reception, because then he must pay the rent.'"
"I said to her, 'How do you manage to remain so long in an act of grace?' She replied: 'I think that it's Our Lady who gives me the Child Jesus. I take him. I speak to him and he speaks to me."
"I know that among the saints, Bernadette had a particular devotion to Saint Joseph. She repeated these invocations: 'Grant me the grace of loving Jesus and Mary as they want to be loved. Saint Joseph, pray for me. Teach me to pray.' And she told me: 'When you're unable to pray, then turn to Saint Joseph.'"
(Taken from an article in the magazine "30 Days, in the Church and in the World," 2008 [year 26, no. 1], p. 59)