The Narrow Gate

Matt 17:13
"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it."

Today I watched a movie based on the life of St Bernadette, and how much she suffered persecution and faced many adversities and trials and tribulations. Bernadette lived in the beautiful humble city of Lourdes, where she was brought up in humble beginnings. God chose her to become his precious servant, to allow the mother to grace herself in her presence. She was deemed stupid and didn't know anything, not even about the name in which our Blessed Mother named herself to her as the Immaculate Conception. Our mother would send messages of love and peace and warned her of the dangers the humanity may be facing. There was one message that stuck to me the whole time watching the movie. " She cannot promise me happiness in this world, but the next". I knew that this was the message that was especially for me.This is the only way.
My actual mother shared with me that her wedding day is actually on the feast of the Immaculate Conception. She has been just a thread throughout everything we've done, and I know she has little children around the place just doing little things to help change the world.

Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, pray for us