What to do if you can’t make it to France for Pope John Paul’s pilgrimage to Lourdes this weekend? Thanks to a new French website, Croire.com, you can now say a prayer and light candles there — without ever stepping out of your house!
The Croire website is offering to add prayers it receives by e-mail to the intentions to be prayed for during the annual Lourdes pilgrimage the pope will attend on Saturday and Sunday. For a five euro ($6.13) fee, it will light a candle at the grotto where Saint Bernadette Soubirous saw visions of Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, in 1858.
This innovative prayer service had already brought in over 2,000 messages in several languages, some from as far away as India and Venezuela.
Read: Catholics E-Mail Prayers and Candles to Lourdes [Yahoo! News]
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