picture by hendra boeniardi
Adoration is a prayer of praise and thanksgiving, that is, acknowledging and thanking God for his goodness to everyone. Forget your burdens and your pride, your successes and your failures, remain calm and confident, seated or on your knees, knowing that God is there listening and speaking to us.
At the time of Bernadette, the Grotto was a dirty, hidden, damp and cold place. The Grotto was called the "pigs' shelter" because that was where the pigs feeding in the area usually took shelter. It was there that the Virgin Mary, dressed in white, a sign of total purity, the sign of the Love of God, in other words, the sign of what God wishes to accomplish in each of us, deigned to appear. There is a contrast between this damp and obscure Grotto and the presence of the Virgin Mary, "the Immaculate Conception". It reminds us of the Gospel: the meeting of the wealth of the goodness of God and the poverty of the human person. "Jesus goes to sit at the table of sinners", "because he came to search out that which was lost"
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