Posted on 08/26/2015 10:59:10 PM PDT by OrthodoxIndianCatholic
Introduction :
In the first centuries of the Church it was the custom to give to little children who had not yet lost the innocence of their baptism the "Consecrated Species" which remained after the Communion of the Faithful.
One day, a child the son of a Jewish Glass Founder of Constantinople while going to school with other "Christian Children" had followed them to the Church and innocently presented himself like the others and received the fragments of the "Holy Eucharist".
A Frightful Ordeal :
Having returned home, he narrated simply to his Father what he had done. The Father, then a most brutal man and one of the most passionate Jews against everything christian became at once infuriated. He seized the unfortunate child and threw him alive in one of his burning furnaces.
Sometime after that, the mother who had been away during the tragedy came home and not knowing what had taken place asked everywhere for her son.
As nobody could tell her where he could be, she went all about the town searching and asking for him but all was in vain.
Three days had already elapsed, and unconsolable the poor mother still wept bitterly over her lost child and in the excess of her sorrow she happened to call him aloud by his name as if he were present.
A Miracle :
Suddenly, A Wonder !! A Voice answered her and called to her by the tender name of Mother !!
Much moved, she ran to the furnace from where the voice seemed to come. She opened the lid and A Miracle !! Her son, was there in the middle of the flames but quite alive and uninjured.
She called her neighbours to her help and they too witnessed the miracle.
Our Lady's Presence :
The Child was drawn out and questioned how he had fallen into that burning furnace and how his life had been preserved in the middle of such a fire.
He answered that his Father had thrown him there, for having assisted at a Catholic Christian function but that a beautiful Lady radiant with light had preserved him from the flames by covering him with her cloak; she had even given him to eat to satisfy his hunger; and she looked exactly like the pious image he had seen in the Church of the Catholic Christians.
All understood then that it was the "Divine Mother of Jesus Christ" namely Mary who had saved his life and preserved him from the flames of the furnace.
Conclusion :
The Roman Emperor hearing of the cruel act of this unnatural father had him arrested and punished.
The wretched man instead of converting himself persisted the more in his error; but the mother and the child sought instruction in the "Catholic Religion" received baptism and became fervent Catholic Christians.
Credits and References :
"A Child saved by Mary" Page 26 November 1986 Don Bosco's Madonna Mumbai
Greetings again from Mumbai. This article is all about the all encompassing love of the Blessed Mother particularly with regard to "innocent children".
Our Lady does not hesitate at all in miraculously saving the life of this little boy who was thrown into a "fiery furnace" by his father.
Our Lady is full of pity for this little boy and protects him in the furnace with her mantle and also gives him to eat.
This article truly shows us how much Our Lady loves us inspite of our indifference and insults to her.
Caucus, I beg of you. Caucuuuuuuuuuus!
Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness and our hope! To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve. To thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears! Turn, then, O most gracious Advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us, and after this, our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.
Pray for us, O holy Mother of God. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
O God, whose only-begotten Son, by His life, death and resurrection, has purchased for us the rewards of eternal life, grant, we beseech Thee, that meditating on these mysteries of the most holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we may imitate what they contain, and obtain what they promise, through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
An archangel was sent from Heaven to say to the Theotokos: Rejoice! And beholding Thee, O Lord, taking bodily form, he was amazed and with his bodiless voice he stood crying to Her such things as these:
Rejoice, Thou through whom joy will shine forth:
Rejoice, Thou through whom the curse will cease!
Rejoice, recall of fallen Adam:
Rejoice, redemption of the tears of Eve!
Rejoice, height inaccessible to human thoughts:
Rejoice, depth undiscernible even for the eyes of angels!
Rejoice, for Thou art the throne of the King:
Rejoice, for Thou bearest Him Who beareth all!
Rejoice, star that causest the Sun to appear:
Rejoice, womb of the Divine Incarnation!
Rejoice, Thou through whom creation is renewed:
Rejoice, Thou through whom we worship the Creator!
Rejoice, O Bride Unwedded!
Please caucus this thread.
Amen.
Protestant fairy tales: half the truth and twice the goblins.
I had a lymph node removed in June, and the pathology report came back as poorly differentiated sarcoma. Before the tests and procedures I’ve had in an attempt to find the primary and potential metastasis I’ve chanted this in my head: Mary, Mother of Jesus, heal me now, make me better. So far my tests have been clean. I have one more to go, which is an MRI tomorrow evening. Thanks mlizzy for the intercession request!
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