ASIA/CHINA – Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, the Beijing parish of Xi Tang asks Mary for graces and healings on the World Day of the Sick

ASIA/CHINA – Feast of Our Woman of Lourdes, the Beijing parish of Xi Tang asks Mary for graces and healings on the World Day of the Sick

Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – The Beijing parish of Xi Tang celebrates the three hundredth anniversary of its basis by inviting the individuals of God to make a religious “pilgrimage” tomorrow, February 11, on the day the liturgy celebrates the feast of Our Woman of Lourdes.
On February 11, 1958, the Immaculate Virgin appeared for the primary time to Bernardette Subirous within the Massabielle grotto, within the French Pyrenees. Chinese language Catholics have nice devotion to the Marian apparitions of Lourdes, acknowledged by the Church. On the event of the feast, the Catholics of Beijing are invited to go in particular person to the Xi Tang Church, the place they are going to have the ability to retrace the historical past of the apparitions, meditate on the 18 messages entrusted by the Immaculate Virgin to Bernadette Subirous from February 11 to July 16, 1858, obtain holy water from Lourdes, contact a stone from the French Shrine, go in procession to the statue of Our Woman of Lourdes to wish the Rosary, take part in Eucharistic Adoration and acquire plenary indulgence. Throughout a two-hour religious pilgrimage, regardless of being 1000’s of kilometers away, Chinese language Catholics will have the ability to immerse themselves within the collected and religious environment that reigns in Lourdes, and can have the ability to “pray for themselves, for his or her households, for the Church, for the Nation and for the world marked by the sufferings of struggle, the pandemic, the earthquake…. invoking graces and healings via the intercession of Our Woman of Lourdes”.
On Saturday, February 11, the Church additionally celebrates the XXXI World Day of the Sick. The Catholic communities of China, which in latest months have shared the tragic evolution of the most recent outbreak of the pandemic, additionally learn within the gentle of this expertise, the issues and reminders provided by Pope Francis in his message for the Day of the Sick, titled “Deal with him”. Compassion as a synodal train of therapeutic”.
Xi Tang (“Church of the West”) Parish, which this 12 months additionally celebrates its three hundredth anniversary of basis, is one among 4 largest Catholic church buildings in central Beijing, the one one among these locations of worship not based by Jesuits. Its founder is the well-known Italian Lazarist missionary Father Teodorico Pedrini, despatched by the Congregation of Propaganda Fide. The land the place the church stands was purchased by the Lazarists, who later donated this advanced to Propaganda Fide. In 1730, the church was significantly broken by a powerful earthquake that rocked the Chinese language capital, killing greater than 100,000 individuals. Utterly destroyed in 1811 and rebuilt in 1867 after the Opium Wars, the church was additional destroyed in 1900 in the course of the Boxer Insurrection. It was rebuilt once more in 1912. After a long time of closure, the church reopened its doorways in 1994. Inside, subsequent to the doorway door, a commemorative plaque in Latin and Chinese language traces the historical past of its founding. Within the religious reminiscence of the Catholics of Beijing, the church can also be linked to the devotion to the Miraculous Medal. (NZ) (Agenzia Fides, 10/2/2023)

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