{"id":219311,"date":"2020-02-06T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T06:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lourdes-france.org\/ils-nous-evangelisent-limpressionnant-documentaire-sur-lourdes-qui-montre-la-foi-edifiante-des-pelerins-malades\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T15:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:04:12","slug":"they-evangelise-us-the-moving-documentary-on-lourdes-which-shows-the-uplifting-faith-of-sick-pilgrims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lourdes-france.org\/en\/they-evangelise-us-the-moving-documentary-on-lourdes-which-shows-the-uplifting-faith-of-sick-pilgrims\/","title":{"rendered":"“They evangelise us”: the moving documentary on Lourdes which shows the uplifting faith of sick pilgrims."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Carried on radiant faces that strive to veil the ordeal of suffering, and carried on voices that are both gentle and energetic, the new film by Laurent Jarneau aptly illustrates the words of the president of the Pontifical Council for the promotion of the New Evangelisation, Archbishop Rino Fisichella (1): \u201cSick pilgrims, through their particular circumstances, are called to take on the awareness and responsibility of bringing the good news of the Gospel, which saves us. We can therefore affirm that the sick are truly the primary evangelisers of the Sanctuary of Lourdes.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The sick (or disabled) are indeed the primary evangelisers. You just have to see them and listen to them.
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Lydie: \u201cBetween body and soul, I would choose my soul. We want to go to Heaven much more than we want to walk!”
Andrew: \u201cFor me it’s close and almost perfect contact with the Lord, that’s healing.\u201d
Evelyne: \u201cI deeply believe that there is something after death and for me this something is this infinite love in which we will be immersed but this love for me is here already!\u201d
Sophie: \u201cPrayer if we let go of it is concrete and pragmatic: disability takes up all the space …\u201d
C\u00e9dric: \u201cAs low as we have fallen, with God we always get up again!\u201d
Sister Catarina: \u201cIt is said that in the shadow of the cross there is the resurrection.\u201d
Martine: \u201cMy life would have been so sad and dreary without Christ and without Mary.\u201d
Jean-No\u00ebl: \u201cThere is a lot of suffering among the living: in their soul it is hell, too.\u201d
Raymonde: \u201cFaith is our daily companion: we get up with faith, we go to bed with faith. Faith is still 90% hope and 10% doubt.\u201d
Brother Matthieu: \u201cIllness is a sickness that speaks in us, but good also speaks in us.\u201d
Alexiane: \u201cI pray, I pray a lot! Ah yeah, I love prayer!\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u201cThis perspective allows us to look at each sick person with the eyes of faith. The sick then become pilgrims, recognising the presence of Christ who asks for help and who in return offers his saving love,\u201d said Bishop Fisichella. The documentary ends with Jeanne, suffering from myopathy, whose words perfectly illustrate those of Archbishop Fisichella: \u201cWhen Jesus says \u201cEverything that you do for the least \u00a0of my brothers, you do for me\u201d it’s a phrase that resonates with me a lot especially because he identified with the most vulnerable among us but also, because he was giving a message not to the sick this time but to the caregivers by reminding them that it\u2019s like an honour to serve the sick, it’s wonderful to have the opportunity to care for Christ, to have Christ close at hand. Anyone of us can have this. It is quite miraculous. So, I find these words very powerful and I think if we took them more seriously, I think we could call hospitals \u201csanctuaries\u201d at last.<\/p>

The film ends with a tribute to Andrew and Lydie who died from their illnesses. Their testimony of hope will never fade in the hearts of all who heard it.<\/p>

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