FOR OUR LADY OF LOURDES

FOR OUR LADY OF LOURDES[1]

“Blessed are they who have not seen ...”[2]

but who have sought

on mountain paths

your beauty poised

above a winter rose.

“Blessed are they ...”

for life shall be for them

this only: your name

and the fair music of your smile.

Sister M Julian RSM

 In: The Refuge of Beauty.  1954

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[1] Lourdes, France, is a place of pilgrimage where, according to Catholic Church teaching, in 1858 the Blessed Virgin appeared  to St Bernadette Soubirous on eighteen occasions

[2] John XX:29