Lourdes. Do you believe in miracle's?

Question

I went to Lourdes as a volunteer nurse 3 years in a row. On my final visit, I did go into the healing bath (holy water). Having tried for a baby for 10 years with no success with my ex-husband, my prayer was for my own family. Afterwards I did not give it much thought. I was due to return again the next year, Good Friday 1999.

I came home, met my current partner, fell pregnant and my little boy was born, one month early, on Good Friday 1999!!

He is my miracle. What do you think.

Missingora..a message for you. For someone who obviously beleives, why are you so angry? In Scotland the term we use is Falling Pregnant!

His name is Robert (Robbie)

Answer 1

I believe in miracles, I believe that was a miracle. Congratulations! I have been told that in Mexico people will go on pilgrimages to far away cities (far from where they live) to visit a church or something of holy significance and they will promise ask for something and many say that they do receive. The Lord works in mysterious ways!

Answer 2

i do not believe in miracles a very good friend of my also went to Lourdes and met the late pope john Paul,she is very sick with multiple sclerosis and it didn't help her,you may have been more relaxed on your return and had some kind of piece of mind and as you are a nurse you should know that ones mental well-being plays a huge part in physical well -being.

Answer 3

Okay, I'm usually against pasting a huge wad of text into Answers, but here is an excert from JREF that answers your question so well I think it is worth posting in full;

CHANGING DEFINITIONS
At www.randi.org/jr/062802.html – and elsewhere – I examined the miserable record of the famous Catholic shrine at Lourdes, France. Not because of my comments, I’m sure, the Church has now reorganized their standards of how miracles at that profitable site should be viewed. In my opinion, a sour apple is sour no matter how it’s viewed.

Lourdes seems to have found a cure for its apparent lack of miracles – but not of paying visitors – simply by defining a less-strict set of rules. This religious theme park offers racks of chintzy souvenirs, medallions, prayer cards, vials of blessed water, and other trinkets, along with package tours, to the six millions of vulnerable pilgrims who arrive each year, many of them sick and desperate to experience – or at to least witness – a miracle. But miracles, especially after this re-definition, aren't what they used to be.

And, Lourdes isn’t even what it’s advertised to be, and never was; it’s a trumped-up myth. In 1858, a 14-year-old local girl named Bernadette Soubirous claimed she’d seen "a lady" at a grotto there. Word of this spread quickly, everyone immediately assigned an identity to the “lady” – she was of course the Virgin Mary – and soon there was an organized and thriving business set up. Hordes of pilgrims from across the world showed up to pray, buy the chachkas, fill the hotels, and generally put Lourdes on the commercial map. The Church got together a few committees of properly religious academics to endorse the site, the sick came to bathe in the rather dubious spring water, and the area quickly gained a reputation for producing miracles. To date, some 7,000 pilgrims have claimed to have been cured since the medical bureau began keeping records in 1883 – but only 66 of those have been officially accepted as miracles. Only 66? That’s such a miniscule fraction of those who went there asking for a cure, that it’s well within the margin of error exhibited by any data set – but the Vatican doesn’t pay any attention to such fripperies. What most observers don’t bother to learn, however, is that Bernadette herself was never cured of the tuberculosis and asthma that led to her dying at age 35 in a local convent. Her body was so distorted and decayed that the officials who preserved her as a saint created a wax mask with implanted hair – a Madame Tussaud-style job – to display her body. That awkward fact was – and still is – ignored or rationalized away by those who want and need the woo-woo to be real.

Well, real medicine has raised the bar on what they’ll accept as a sudden miraculous recovery from an ailment. A “miracle,” according to Webster’s, is "an extraordinary occurrence that surpasses all known human powers or natural forces," and real medical procedures are sufficiently advanced that it can no longer be held that any disease is “incurable.” That is, any disease can usually be treated and increasingly often cured by medical procedures, but it cannot be said that a disease is – by its nature and definition – incurable. Admittedly, decapitation may be an exception.

As a result, the Church is considering a new category of religious experience that could be called, "miracle lite." By a proposed edict, a new category of wonders called “authentic healings” can now be “recognized” at Lourdes, so that those who recover – for whatever reasons, through medicines, therapy, surgery, or dietary changes – can choose to share the story of their physical and spiritual experiences with others. Even if a pilgrim has recovered through the delayed results of earlier treatment, such rather back-door endorsements can be accepted.

Said Bishop Perrier at Lourdes, "Most healings may fail to meet this or that criterion for a miracle. We want to get recognition for a category of authentic healings linked to Lourdes." Okay, “linked to Lourdes” could also mean that someone who was given a vial of questionable water from the site, might claim that their winning a lottery was attributable to that influence. It’s no sillier nor farther fetched…

Answer 4

Of course I believe in miracles. From God's hand, not Lourdes.
And by the way, how do you FALL pregnant???

Answer 5

Miracles come in many forms. Of course he is a miracle. A blessing from God. Good for you.

Answer 6

bless you for sharing your beautiful experience! May God further bless you with Love, Peace and Mercy!

Answer 7

yes i do, am pleased for you, yes hes a miracle,x

Answer 8

coincidence...but he;s still your miracle because all kid are!! I'm so happy for you

Answer 9

Nice coincidence, if nothing else!

Answer 10

If you believe they work