"Mary’s smile is a live spring of water", noticed the Pope, and "the spring pointed out by Mary to Bernadette, here in Lourdes, is the humble sign of this spiritual reality". Then one more reference to suffering, that for anyone "is always alien. Its presence can never be tamed. That’s why it is difficult to bear it, and even more difficult, as some great witnesses of Christ’s holiness have done, to welcome it as an integral part of their calling or accept, as Bernadette’s said, to ‘suffer everything in silence to please Jesus’", but, "to be able to say that, one should already have covered a long walk in communion with Jesus". But there’s something that could help: "One can immediately submit to God’s mercy, as it is manifests itself, through the grace of the Sacrament of the sick".
