Last night I joined the Order of Malta at Saint Paul's in Cambridge for a wonderful presentation by Alessandro de Franciscis, Director of the Lourdes Medical Bureau. A previous talk which Fra Alessandro gave at Harvard Divinity School is available on Youtube. Here is the prayer I offered at the end of the evening.
Heavenly Father, source if all healing and life, we give you thanks for good doctors: For Dr. Jackson, whose witness to life will ever live in our hearts; and for Fra Dr. de Francisis, witness of the signs which lead us to the Mother of your Son. Bless their work as you bless all who approach the Grotto of the Apparition with healing of body and soul. Heal us of our selfishness and sin and make us disciples of the life and healing which we receive at the hands of Jesus your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.