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About Us and Our Mission

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A handful of volunteers to Lourdes and their friends began Friends of Lourdes USA. They responded with this website which was designed and overseen by gifted young men and women who look to this work as their own way of helping spread the message of Lourdes. We are pleased to have Francis Cardinal George, OMI, of Chicago, Illinois, as our Honorary Chairman. He guides us through his Bishops and Priests.

Our goal is to create awareness of the 150th anniversary celebration of Our Lady of Lourdes. This remembrance and celebration can be a graced opportunity for our people. A healing and reconciling love are the hallmarks of Mary’s message at Lourdes. This message is even more timely now, one hundred-fifty years later as we make our way in today’s wounded and fractured world. At Lourdes, Our Lady presented herself as the Immaculate Conception, the title that identifies her as patroness of the United States. This anniversary observance can be a special moment of renewal for us in the United States.

What specifically do we want to see happen through this effort?

  • For the Bishops and Priests to encourage and support various initiatives designed to mark this observance both within their diocese and on the national level.
  • The encouragement of devotions in the tradition of Lourdes which are both Eucharistic and Marian can stir hearts to a rededication to prayer, penance, and healing.
  • The inclusion of teaching on Lourdes in the diocesan newspapers, parish bulletins, religious education, and adult faith formation can open new horizons for the people entrusted in their care.
  • The promotion of pilgrimages to shrines of Our Lady in the United States and to Lourdes itself can bring great spiritual benefit to the entire pilgrim people of God.
Friends of Lourdes USA in collaboration with others would suggest events and offer resources through this website. .

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(St. Bernadette Personal Notebook p. 28)

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