World Day of the Sick

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Let’s all pray to Our Lady of Lourdes to intercede for the sick on the 12th World Day of the Sick, which is also the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, February 11.

In a message, Pope John Paul II said,

“Dear sick people, if you unite your pain to his sufferings, you can be his privileged cooperators in the salvation of souls,” he wrote.

“Your suffering is never useless,” the 84-year-old pope told them. “In fact, it is precious because it is a mysterious but real sharing in the saving mission of the Son of God.”

The pope, explaining that the World Day of the Sick is observed on the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, said Christians are called to “entrust themselves to Christ and to his heavenly mother, who never abandon those who turn to them in times of pain and trial.”

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