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The minister who survived a lightning bolt
Newark Star Ledger ^ | 6/18/2008 | Bill Swayze

Posted on 06/18/2008 8:28:19 AM PDT by Incorrigible

The minister who survived a lightning bolt

[Rockaway, NJ] -- A fall into Purgatory Chasm couldn't take down the Rev. Matthew McNamara many years ago, and a bolt of lightning that ripped through him from head to toe this week was no match either.

"I feel blessed," McNamara said yesterday from his hospital bed at Morristown Memorial Hospital, where he is in good condition and being treated for burns to his head and foot.

The Pequannock resident was hit by lightning Monday night as he was readying Camp Marcella, a state-run summer camp for blind and visually impaired children, for the campers' arrival next week. The 47-year-old maintenance coordinator was on the grounds of the Rockaway Township camp in Morris County around 6:30 p.m. when the storm kicked up.

Lightning hit his head, burning a hole in his hat and passing through his body. The bolt blasted McNamara's left sneaker off his foot and knocked him out, and to the ground, authorities said.

"I'm hurting all over," McNamara said yesterday. But the first thing he thought when he regained consciousness a day earlier was that God loved him.

...Nicknamed "Fix-It Matt," McNamara has been working for the state Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired since January 2001, said Suzanne Esterman, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Health and Human Services. He works at Camp Marcella during the summer.

..."I told him he has nine lives and he's used 12 of them," McNamara's mother, Eleanor said. "He comes through these things. Somebody's watching over him."

(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: campmarcella; lightning; lightningbolt; matthewmcnamara; minister; nj; rockawaytownship; zot
 

Set ZOT to STUNE

 

1 posted on 06/18/2008 8:28:19 AM PDT by Incorrigible
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To: Incorrigible

I don’t think the heavy stuff is coming in for quite a while.


2 posted on 06/18/2008 8:29:35 AM PDT by nhoward14
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To: Incorrigible

Stune?

Lol!


3 posted on 06/18/2008 8:30:52 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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To: nhoward14

4 posted on 06/18/2008 8:34:17 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Incorrigible

You’ve got to admire his spirit. Most people would see getting struck by lightening as a sign of Divine displeasure, and a descent into Purgatory as not a very good thing.


5 posted on 06/18/2008 8:40:28 AM PDT by jmcenanly
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

YESSSSS!!!!! GMTA!


6 posted on 06/18/2008 8:40:54 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder ()OK. We're still working on your ones.)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

It took four posts for that pic, we’re slipping.


7 posted on 06/18/2008 8:41:31 AM PDT by dfwgator ( This tag blank until football season.)
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To: Incorrigible

8 posted on 06/18/2008 8:43:00 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

“You’re not a man! You’re a Bishop!”


9 posted on 06/18/2008 8:43:57 AM PDT by 4yearlurker ("Give them Watts boys!!")
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To: Incorrigible

I bet he would feel even more blessed, if it hadn’t of happened at all...


10 posted on 06/18/2008 9:06:00 AM PDT by stuartcr (Election year.....Who we gonna hate, in '08?)
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To: 4yearlurker

“My name is Fred and I’m just a man, same as you are.”


11 posted on 06/18/2008 9:11:41 AM PDT by GOPyouth (I'm damned proud to be in the oil business.)
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To: stuartcr

Was it something he said ? ?


12 posted on 06/18/2008 9:54:04 AM PDT by 70th Division (If we lose the Republic we have lost it all.)
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To: 70th Division

Or thought.


13 posted on 06/18/2008 10:24:27 AM PDT by stuartcr (Election year.....Who we gonna hate, in '08?)
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To: Incorrigible
1010Wins: Audio interview with minister

14 posted on 06/23/2008 11:34:26 AM PDT by Coleus (Abortion and Physician-assisted Murder (aka-Euthanasia), Don't Democrats just kill ya?)
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