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I Knew a Priest Who Could See the Dead
ChurchPOP ^ | 2014 | Fr. Dwight Longenecker

Posted on 10/25/2014 9:19:13 AM PDT by millegan

I’ll call him Fr. John. He was a charismatic Anglo Catholic priest.

A friend of my brother Daryl’s we’ll call Henry died suddenly in a plane crash and he was upset because although Henry was a believer he was away from God when he died.

So Fr. John said, “We have to have a requiem Mass for Henry.”

They went into church and locked the door for privacy’s sake. Another priest we’ll call Fr. George celebrated the Mass.

Henry was about twenty years old. He was just over five foot tall with a shock of blonde hair and a wide face with freckles.

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TOPICS: Ecumenism; General Discusssion; Theology
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To: millegan
It's called a cold reading.

You figure out what someone wants to hear then say it to them and they believe it, because it's what they want to hear.

61 posted on 10/25/2014 10:01:46 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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To: ClearCase_guy
The sad fact of the matter is Fr. John eventually left the priesthood and left his wife to live in sin with a boyfriend. I stopped right there. This pervert cannot be a credible witness in my opinion, he exhibits too many loose screws in his head.
62 posted on 10/25/2014 10:02:04 AM PDT by rdl6989
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To: mountainlion

“I had a girl ask me if I saw people that were not there. I asked her what she saw and she said people dressed in old cloths. I asked her if they looked at her. and she said no. There are man people with “gifts” that have not developed them.”

I worked with a guy who was a stereotypical solidly blue-coller-both feet on the ground guy who said the same thing.

He’d be, say, driving along and he’d see someone standing at the side of the road whose cloths looked somehow odd. It happened a good number of times but it was only when he commented on it to someone who SHOULD have seen the person as well that he discovered that he was seeing things. IFIRC it was a guy in a “1920’s suit” standing alone on a road flanked only by woods. “See the dude in the gangster suit”? he says to a guy in the truck with him...


63 posted on 10/25/2014 10:02:58 AM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: humblegunner

BP ping


64 posted on 10/25/2014 10:03:54 AM PDT by lonevoice (Life is short. Make fun of it.)
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To: married21
Ouija board home and used it

Those things are dangerous.

65 posted on 10/25/2014 10:05:33 AM PDT by painter ( Isaiah: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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To: spacejunkie2001

Moses and Elijah appeared with Jesus .... Demonic?


66 posted on 10/25/2014 10:05:42 AM PDT by bike800
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To: DIRTYSECRET
I saw Santa Claus.

No big deal. I see him every Christmas.

67 posted on 10/25/2014 10:06:01 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: GreyFriar

Excellent comments. Very good insights in your comments.


68 posted on 10/25/2014 10:06:38 AM PDT by tired&retired
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To: miss marmelstein

When I was young I would see halos or light radiating out from ministers while they were preaching. Not all preaching ministers but some of them. I told a friend of mine and she told me what it was called (I can’t think of the name now). After she told me I never saw another one.


69 posted on 10/25/2014 10:09:32 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: tired&retired

thank you. Please note the insights in the quotations are Fr. Longenecker’s. And I agree with them.


70 posted on 10/25/2014 10:10:41 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: tiki

“Peter, James and John saw Moses and Elijah.”

Yes, they did. Now, I suppose someone could say that Elijah was not dead, but Moses clearly was because we are told he was dead. Apparently, some here want to pretend their appearance on Mount Tabor never happened.


71 posted on 10/25/2014 10:13:13 AM PDT by vladimir998
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To: Dr. Thorne
Christians are instantly with Christ. Everyone else is in the place of the dead and held until the Great White Throne of Judgment. Any apparitions on earth are demonic in nature with the exception of a Heaven sent angel who are also always with us and the Holy Spirit.
72 posted on 10/25/2014 10:14:01 AM PDT by ExSoldier (Stand up and be counted... OR LINE UP AND BE NUMBERED...)
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To: GreyFriar

Thank you for your post # 59. I also agree with the ‘why’ as written by Fr. Longenecker.


73 posted on 10/25/2014 10:15:21 AM PDT by zot
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To: mountainlion

At Gettysburg, just down the road, I took some family tourists. I distinctly heard drums playing in a military manner at a small distance. I asked “Where are are those drums coming from?” All five people with me asked “What drums?”


74 posted on 10/25/2014 10:16:31 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Ditter

Thank you for your post. Your husband definitely confirmed who/what you saw. Perhaps it was the old gentleman’s way of saying hello to you and your husband.


75 posted on 10/25/2014 10:18:08 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: metmom

“People don’t see the dead. They see demons masquerading as the dead relative or friend.”

This is often true but not always.


76 posted on 10/25/2014 10:18:11 AM PDT by tired&retired
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To: millegan

Where is the Biblical basis for this type of mass in Catholic or Anglican church theology?


77 posted on 10/25/2014 10:18:39 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: tiki
Peter, James and John saw Moses and Elijah.

I know.

The Apostles were selected by Jesus, so they WOULD be special, wouldn't they?

78 posted on 10/25/2014 10:21:03 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: ExSoldier; zot

And what about those Christians who were taught that they would lay in their grave until Christ’s Second Coming? would their souls have gone instantly to God, or would they be waiting?


79 posted on 10/25/2014 10:22:26 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Blue Devil Reaganite

If you are serious, and if it happens again (and if you are a Christian) tell it in the name of Jesus Christ to leave and then when you pray, thank God for working with you and having a plan for you. Ask Him to remove anything from your abode and presence that He did not send. Ask for help to avoid distractions that obscure His purpose in what you do.

When we moved in here there was all sorts of walking around sounds from upstairs, but you’d go look and no one was there. There were shadows flitting around our rooms too but that’s all gone now.

It’s not about the impressiveness of the qualifications of the person who says “go away”.


80 posted on 10/25/2014 10:22:37 AM PDT by BlackAdderess
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