Spiritual Healing in Lourdes, France

[Music] my brothers and sisters in Christ to be able to come to Lourdes is a tremendous blessing not as tourists but truly as pilgrims we are pilgrims here to pray and to receive all the graces that are going to come from this trip [Music] [Music] the wounded warriors to Lourdes is so important to the Knights of Columbus our principle of fraternity is something which transcends borders and calls as always to take an additional step in Brotherhood this in fact this is the 100th anniversary of the Knights of Columbus being in Lourdes we really are supporting a unique element of the military population and that is the wounded ill and injured their caregivers and then those active duty who need that spiritual underpinning to their life and to their service this morning we marched over to the grotto site and attended Mass really powerful experience there with all the different nations the atmosphere the environment here is very very peaceful non Catholics and Catholics alike are here just to experience I'm sort of healing in either body mind or spirit the pts and other mental health issues that I suffer from from my deployments was juxtaposed here at words engaging speaking with some of the other service members from the US and other nations sharing those experiences you do feel understood that does contribute to the healing process I love lawyers because there's a piece that I cannot find anyone else even though it's a little busy and there's a lot going on you still find peace and joy seeing everybody participating and you know the troops the families the spouses it's just wonderful in the army there's always you know there's moves pcs is there's missions that you have to go on and I kind of take you away from family so I think a lot of these stressors have kind of built up and then coming here it feels like a lot of that's kind of lifted off my shoulders pretty awesome brought me a little bit closer to my faith yesterday afternoon we'll have an anointing service and what a beautiful opportunity to be able to invite our warriors to come forward to receive that special gift Jesus still deals today as he did throughout the Gospels he heals us sometimes physically sometimes emotionally sometimes he heals us with a gift of peace for me it's been a great reminder that you know we can look at x-rays we can talk about surgical plans but you really need to treat the entire patient that's really taking everything into account and their support system their spiritual beliefs you know where they are at emotionally in their recovery [Music] we need to care for those have been wounded we need to pray for those who have gone in the service of their country we need to continue the mission and the mission is a mission of service to our country and to those who serve our country the most important thing for me personally is when I get an opportunity to sit down with the individual soldiers that to me is what it's all about warriors the Lord's it's not a job to me it's a mission maybe we might say my final mission as a warrior and to know that I'm still serving as a Marine I can ask for nobody those of you who are retired thank you for your service family members thank you for supporting your warriors my brother Knights of Columbus thank you for your continuous amazing generosity all of you who have served on active duty continue to be strong warriors god bless you you

Channel: Knights of Columbus Supreme Council

Views: 15,853

Keywords: Knights of Columbus, Charity, Fraternity, Non-Profit, Catholic, KoC, K of C, KofC

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Length: 4min 50sec (290 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 04 2019