Thursday, November 04, 2010

A most remarkable miracle

Got this from one of our resident faculty priests today, who writes: "There are lots of other links (including secular news outlets) to verify this if you do a Google search of the names involved."

Check it out. Pretty interesting.

http://www.cbn.com/media/player/index.aspx?s=/vod/SAF13v5_WS

More interesting still will be what the viewer's reaction tells him (and us, if he's willing to share it in a comment) about himself. Believers will forever appear to be a credulous bunch of fools to the unbelieving: "What won't these idiots believe!!!" On the other hand, the unbelieving will forever appear to be incorrigible knuckleheads to believers: "What will it take??? Does God have to smack you over the head with a two-by-four???" As Francis A. Schaeffer used to say at L'Abri in Switzerland, even if all the stars of the heaven arranged themselves so as to spell "Jesus saves!" there would still be those who responded by scratching their heads and remarking: "Wow! What a coincidence!"

[Hat tip to Fr. D.J.]

4 comments:

Roger said...

Thanks be to God. I love testament of miracles shared. I too can testify of miracles as a hospital Chaplain. One time I was called to pray with the family over their deceased father and after that prayer the elderly man woke up and asked where he was. The nurses and doctors came over in disbelief at what had happened. Thanks be to God.

Mike Walsh, MM said...

I have always maintained --and I imagine someone, somewhere, has put it better-- that since they cannot see with eyes informed by faith, materialists are inherently impervious to the miraculous. That is their damnation: trapped by their proud autonomous authority, they are unable to hear the call of God, even when He calls them home.

Anonymous said...

CBN Christian Broadcasting Network. Founded by Pat Robertson. He has been into so-called miracles for several decades. He and his “ministry” preach a false gospel and uses anecdotal “testaments” to further that false gospel. I was personally duped by his “ministry” for a while. While I can't say weather it was an answer to prayer from the Lord that caused this man's recovery, I can say that I'm sorry that it is being used by CBN to further their message.

Donna

Ralph Roister-Doister said...

The Church used to be far more skeptical regarding "miraculous" events than its priests are today, apparently. There used to be a recognition that the "miraculous" can be prompted by diabolical sources as well as by God, and that for that reason alone, emotional outpourings about "miracles" ought to be avoided.

But now we have a Church that is in profound dialogue with a culture supposedly of science and reason, and there is more yammering about miracles than ever, more pseudo protestant conniptions over "miracles" at amusement parks like Medjugorje, more credulity, more feverish desires to act out, than ever.

How ironic.

Perhaps it is because this is an age hypnotized by movies, television and computer images. Movies can show the most amazing and "miraculous" things these days, thanks to a palette of digital effects. They really know how to dazzle the suckers.

Perhaps, little by little, we are coming to regard our faith the way our children regard Harry Potter today, or that country bumpkins used to regard carnival side shows. Surely that would go far to explain the appeal of protestant hucksters like Ernest Angsley and Pat Robertson. But might it also explain some of the things happening in our own Church?