Saint Bernadette Speaks - Book 1

By Marie-Josee Thibault

What if Saint Bernadette never truly left Lourdes?
What if, among the thousands of pilgrims who walk toward the Grotto each year, she is still there-walking beside them, listening to their prayers, carrying their petitions, and quietly accompanying souls who may never even know that she is near?

Saint Bernadette Speaks: Book 1 opens the door to a luminous world where the visible and invisible meet, where the Lourdes of 1858 touches the Lourdes of today, and where Saint Bernadette Soubirous speaks directly to the reader with extraordinary tenderness, simplicity, and joy.

These are not the pages of a conventional biography.

Bernadette speaks from Paradise while remaining intimately connected to Lourdes and to the people who come there. She takes the reader through the Grotto, the miraculous water, the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary, prayer, healing, Divine Mercy, miracles, faith, the Will of God, her earthly suffering, and the eternal reality she says surrounds human life.

Again and again, one message rises above all others:
You are not alone. Heaven is nearer than you think.

Through 35 beautifully illustrated chapters, historical photographs merge with contemporary Lourdes, earthly landscapes open toward Paradise, and Bernadette appears within the world of pilgrims as though time itself has disappeared. The unusual visual journey mirrors the spiritual one: past and present, Earth and Heaven, memory and living presence begin to overlap.

At the heart of the book is Lourdes itself-the Grotto, the pilgrims, the candles, the prayers, and above all the miraculous water that Bernadette presents not merely as something found at a sacred place in France, but as a profound symbol of Divine Mercy and God's nearness to the human soul.

Bernadette also speaks personally. She remembers her childhood, the apparitions, her religious life and suffering, yet continually returns to the reader-to your prayers, your sorrows, your hopes, your faith, and your relationship with God.
Whether you have stood before the Grotto of Massabielle, dream of making a pilgrimage to Lourdes one day, or simply carry Lourdes quietly within your heart, Saint Bernadette Speaks invites you into an intimate encounter with one of the most beloved saints of the Catholic Church.

Come to Lourdes.

Walk beside Bernadette.

Listen.

Pray.

And discover a world in which Heaven may be much closer than it appears.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0C9SG23XY
• ISBN13: 9798987598481
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Abba Books LLC
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"