Why bother going to Lourdes?

The Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, coincides with the day we mark the World Day of the Sick .
As Pope Benedict remarked on February 6 it's an opportunity to exhort: " all health care workers to look at the sick person and see not only a fragile body, but above all a person, who deserves solidarity and adequate and competent treatment"....
To highlight this loving care for the sick and suffering I’d like you to join someone who reflects on a very personal story involving the loving care his nearest and dearest received on a visit to Lourdes . He's Monsignor Peter Fleetwood and he recounts witnessing amazement at the kindness shown to the sick by health care workers in this special place : "..I can honestly say that the miracles of the 1850's become distant memories when one sees the recurring miracles at Lourdes today..many times in the course of my work I am tempted to say , 'why bother staying here?'...My own frustrations paled into insignificance on that special pilgrimage."
A programme produced by Veronica Scarisbrick .
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