The Mind Blowing Miracles of Lourdes (w/ Marlene Watkins)

In this episode, I'm joined by the Marlene Watkins, founder of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospitality North American Volunteers, to talk about Lourdes: the apparitions of the Virgin Mary to a poor French peasant girl, the miracles that followed, and, incredibly, the mind-blowing miracles that science and medicine cannot prove which are still happening today!
This episode is truly one of my favourites. Marlene shares her experience with leading over 200 pilgrimages, bringing thousands of pilgrims to this incredible holy site, and some of the amazing miracles experienced there.
On my own personal journey into Catholicism, miracles surrounding the Virgin Mary left me confused. After all, if Mary was just a simple girl, just a means for Jesus to be born on Earth, then how could she possibly "perform miracles"? It never made sense to me as an Evangelical. Stories like these, of incredible miracles as a result of the prayers of Mary, shook my faith!
If that's you, on the journey, maybe they'll shake yours too!
For more from Marlene Watkins check out her book Everyday Miracles of Lourdes and visit Lourdes Volunteers to find out more about how you can get involved: www.sophiainstitute.com/produ...
Lourdes Volunteers: lourdesvolunteers.org
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[@nmatthew7469]

I was healed of ulcerative colitis at Lourdes in 2011. I had it for 23 years and did not expect or even ask specifically to be healed, nor did I merit this healing. Deo Gratias.

[@TheCordialCatholic]

That’s incredible!

[@JesusFlores-818bambino]

Did you visit The holy Grotto? And drink it’s waters? Very nice that you were healed. I want to visit soon. I recite the Rosary 📿 on You tube in English, Spanish and Italian. I have always loved Mary immaculate

[@nmatthew7469]

@@JesusFlores-818bambino yes, I went to Lourdes France in May 2011 and drank the water there from the public fountain's they have there. I loved that place immediately, it's calm and peaceful and cool even though it's in hot southern France. I loved all the Catholic shops, it's commercialization I know but loved the place.

[@nmatthew7469]

@@TheCordialCatholic Ulcerative colitis flares up, then gets better, then flares up again, then goes away, it's a cycle and after having the disease for so many years it was part of my life, with a limited diet etc. The stress of the travel to France caused it to flare up during my pilgrimage. After that visit to Lourdes we went up to Breton, then to see St. Therese and everything was normal. I returned home and days and weeks went by, it never came back. It dawned on me "was I healed at Lourdes?". Months, then years went by, no more colitis and related anemia and vitiligo also disappeared, Deo Gratias.

[@tedsimon5885]

​@@nmatthew7469 wow that's incredible! I also suffer from ulcerative colitis and it can he quite debilitating and would like this disease taken away from me, I'm only 31 but hace suffered with this for the past 11/years. May i ask how you're doing now and have you had colonoscopy to confirm no disease activity etc. Would he grateful to hear from you. God bless

[@lakelewis8968]

I went to a catholic book store for the first time recently (I'm a new catechumen)and when I was there they had Lourdes water. As I was looking at it the guy working in the store told me one of their regulars was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer (can't remember where he said it was on his body) and his local parish gather up money and sent him to Lordes. He returned and is now cancer free!

[@maryanndalton3690]

Thank you for this video. I will be in Lourdes on Feb 18th. My daughter planned the trip and really didn’t want to go that far from Paris, so we will only be there for 5 hrs. I am grateful to the intercession of Our Lady for being able to be there for any length of time.

[@Ritamichaels1]

Father John Hollowell just put out a video saying he was healed at Lourdes in June 2022. He had a brain tumor and had a negative MRI two months before he went to Lourdes. Praise God for this holy priest!

[@TheCordialCatholic]

I heard that, too. Amazing!

[@shayneswenson]

Healing Fire of Christ is a phenomenal book that I encourage everyone to read, including my Orthodox coreligionists.

[@romanromulomanrique8193]

Healing and deliverance. Consecration to Immaculate Conception and Sacred Heart of Jesus!

[@PaxMundi118]

Holy Theotokos, Masterpiece of Our Lord's Creation, pray for the sick and suffering, especially the mentally ill and suicidal, in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[@rosiegirl2485]

Totally loved this interview! I didn't want it to end! Thank both of you very much. St. Bernadette, pray for us! ⚘️

[@TheCordialCatholic]

Thanks for watching!

[@bernicekristine]

Excellent episode, Keith and Ms. Marlene! Very uplifting!

[@Christiancatholic7]

It’s fine to dedicate a shrine to Mary, and also Mary can do miracles in the same sense that on earth Elijah or St Paul did miracles. The power ultimately comes from God, but He has gifted it to the saint. We can speak of Mary performing miracles without needing to qualify, as it goes without saying that of course ultimately all miracles are of God

[@romanromulomanrique8193]

Please pray for me deliverance from obscession and oppression.

[@aldrinazamora1351]

Ave María, grátia plena, Dóminus tecum. Benedícta tu in muliéribus, et benedíctus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. Sancta María, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatóribus nunc et in hora mortis nostræ. Amen.

[@TheCordialCatholic]

Praying!

[@annamccurry6873]

As a cradle Catholic I have been aware of The Blessed Mother but after I went to Medjugorje, I really listened to the Annunciation, and how The Angel Gabriel came to her and said Hail Mary, I think I'm right, but no one calls anyone with Hail in a greeting except Royalty. So when I say the rosary, we can be there each Hail Mary at the time Mary says YES and love her for being so humble to Gods invitation for our Salvation...to be Our Lords Mother. And she is a Virgin and stays that way BECAUSE she had GOD in her womb, it would have been sacrilegious to have any more children. We love Mary because she said YES .. Being a Catholic has many, many miracles surrounding us giving us beauty from God, as it also is in the power of the rosary. God bless you all and say the rosary everyday.❤❤❤

[@benmlee]

The word hail may be old English greeting. Other translations say greeting.

[@David-os2fb]

I saw this video pop up on feed and watched it. I remembered my mom was given a bunch of bottles of Lourdes water a year ago when she had a stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis in Syracuse, NY. I called her and sure enough she had Marlene’s book and knew all about the organization and the water came from the volunteers. She gave me the book in March and a bottle of the Lourdes water. I started reading it last week. I’m trying to drag myself back more fully to my Catholic roots. Maybe this will help. My mom has been being treated with an oral immunotherapy drug that is holding great promise for long term management of her illness.

[@TheCordialCatholic]

Wow. What an incredible story. Thank you for sharing that. Praying for your Mom!

[@evelynkerubo7398]

Beautiful!

[@bernadethpeeters551]

...Glad to hear actual stories from Lourdes, with fire... In a real vision at night, I saw Great Blue Hands in a blue sky, who are praying...This happens a few week ago... Lovely greatings, bernadette

[@PaxMundi118]

Btw, great show, Cordial Catholic, my fellow Canadian! It's improved my day and planted the seed (yet again) to go to Lourdes!

[@TheCordialCatholic]

Thanks for your kind words, eh?

[@williamMaezawa]

​@@TheCordialCatholicin another 30 to 40 years there will be mo kore Catholic priests and nuns

[@carolinafine8050]

Interesting talk. I’m reading “The Song of Bernadette” by Werfel.

[@TheCordialCatholic]

Thanks for watching!

[@nicoleyoshihara4011]

❤💕

[@Adrian-mj8is]

I made a mistake. My comment should be Nobel Prize-winning Jewish scientist Alexis Carrel and Father Pedro Arrupe, superior general of the Jesuits, personally witnessed miracles at Lourdes.

[@Adrian-mj8is]

Nobel Prize-winning Jewish scientist and Father Pedro Arrupe, superior general of the Jesuits, personally witnessed miracles at Lourdes.

[@cloverfield911]

The question that has always bothered me, is with all the Ctholic "Testemonies" how come there is NOT ONE testemony of the 70 official cures in Lourdes!!!???

[@TheCordialCatholic]

Not sure what you mean. There are 70 verified miraculous healings at Lourdes. You can Google this and find lots of sources for this information.

[@PaxMundi118]

May Our Lady pray for the gullible and ignorant seduced by the occult, so that families will be protected by the blood of Jesus.

[@mikestrong5808]

The devotion should not be to Mary but to Jesus the Christ for the miracles at Lourdes.

[@elizabethpatterson1776]

No Mary no Jesus, God in human flesh. No Mary, no Jesus, no baptism. No Mary, no Jesus, no sacrifice, no means of salvation, no Eucharist, no hope of Heaven, all mankind destined for hell. Thank God for the Virgin Mary! She was the first in human flesh to be completely obedient to God. BTY, I came to this conclusion as an Episcopalian. No longer an Episcopalian. Traditional Catholicism is the Church Jesus Christ created, whether you believe it or not. I fought it tooth and nail, but couldn’t resist it, and there is no Traditional church where I live. On this Christmas Day, I am praying for you Mike. If you were watching this, I suspect you have a need. May the Holy Spirit intervene for you and answer your prayers.❤

[@antoniov64]

Mary is not well understood by evangelicals. Listen to Scott Hahn among others to understand what scriptires reveal about the mother of Jesus.

[@TheCordialCatholic]

Yes! Scott Hahn had a great book on Mary. So does Tim Staples.