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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Tuesday, February 11th, 2020. It is also the feast day of our lady of lords.

Now, you might know that our lady of lords is a title that we've given to Mary to commemorate the time when she decided to appear

to a poor girl named Bernadette in Lord's France. She appeared to her down by the river where

Bernadette and her cousins and siblings were collecting wood. And eventually Mary revealed to

Bernadette that she is the

immaculate conception, meaning that she was conceived without sin. And as a sign to the world

and assigned to us still of Mary's great love for us and intercession for us, she told Bernadette to dig in the ground.

And after she dug, a miraculous spring of water appeared.

And that spring of water has been credited with so many miraculous healings.

In fact, to this day, thousands of people journey to Lord's France to bathe in the water.

And in Lords, the streets are literally covered in abandoned wheelchairs and crutches from those

that have been healed in the waters. It is such a fitting feast day for us to talk about this week as we are talking

about the sacrament of the anointing of the sick, because God decides to send lots of his grace

and lots of his answers to prayers through Mary. And she gave us the great gift of lords,

where many people are physically healed,

but many, many, many more people are healed spiritually and prepared to face death in a better

place so that they can go to heaven with Jesus Christ. Yesterday on the podcast, we talked about how Jesus instituted the sacrament of anointing

of the sick by all of the people that he healed while he was on earth.

And today we are going to talk about what actually happens during the sacrament of anointing

of the sick.

Now, of all of the sacraments, the anointing of the sick is probably

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