Opening prayer – to be prayed before each day ... saying to the child, St. Bernadette: "I am the Immaculate Conception." A thousand times we congratulate you upon your Immaculate Conception.

Marlene Watkins, author of ‘Everyday Miracles of Lourdes’ (EWTN Publishing), recounts the life of St. Bernadette Soubirous, whose sanctity lay not in grand gestures but in prayer, suffering and ...