The pastor in Lourdes didn't believe that St. Bernadette was receiving apparitions of Our Lady. To prove that it really was Our Lady, St. Bernadette was told to ask Our Lady one thing.Our Lady's reply to Bernadette: "I am the Immaculate Conception"Father Joe shares about this just outside the rectory where St. Bernadette's pastor lived in Lourdes.

Fr. Joe Roesch, MIC shares the impact of Fatima on his own life on the 100th anniversary of the Fatima apparitions, and how over the course of several pilgrimages Our Lady has called him to a deeper commitment to the faith and to holiness.

Initially, St. Bernadette's pastor didn't believe that she was seeing the Blessed Virgin Mary appear to her; no doubt it would be a difficult thing to believe!Father Joe talks in front of the parish church where St. Bernadette was baptized and received her First Holy Communion.