A veil of softness

My wife and I led the life of happy retirees: three well-established children, six grandchildren, everyone in good health. A little over two years ago, the sky fell on our heads: our eldest, Sophie*, told us that she had been diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor.

Upset and disconcerted, we immediately turn to prayer. But we feel the need to confide in ourselves, and to be accompanied. Who should we contact? We feel called to the Little Sisters of the Lamb, whose luminous testimony we have heard in our parish on the outskirts of Toulouse. A community of young, joyful women who live evangelical poverty. We plan to meet them.

After several unsuccessful visits to their closed chapel, in the center of the Pink City, one day we came across two of them, in animated conversation in the street, at their door, radiant and cheerful. Shyly, we approach them and tell them of our wish to go and pray in the chapel, and briefly explain the reason to them.

Immediately, they invite us in, and invite us to pray together, full of compassion. They sing a very sweet song to the Virgin Mary. Everything in them and in this place of prayer breathes peace, trust and love. And now one of the little sisters invites us to ask the Virgin Mary to wrap our daughter in a veil of gentleness and love. We pray and sing with them, with tears in our eyes.

A few days later, we tell Sophie about our meeting. Immediately, she told us: “It’s strange, at the time when you were with the little sisters, I suddenly felt like a veil of gentleness and love over me. » But we had not pronounced the precise words of the young nun!

Our daughter, a non-practitioner, contacted the sisters who were eager to meet her, and their exchange was joyful and rich. After the operation on her tumor, Sophie received the sacrament of the sick in the chapel where we had prayed, among around fifteen other sick people. Now declared in remission, she has returned to sport and work. The Little Sisters of the Lamb are now part of our heart family.

* First names have been changed.