[Alex Murphy]

Cathedral City resident Blanca Villa, second from left, says she believes the reflection of light off her steam iron is a vision of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Family members join her at the makeshift shrine she has created in her bedroom.

A picture of the Virgin of Guadalupe sits next to a steam iron that casts a similar image on a wall in a Cathedral City home.

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This would be funny if it weren’t so sad.

[Between the Lines]

Since then, nearly 100 friends and family members have visited the altar that the Villa family created in the iron's honor.

Surely the author is mistaken.

"I believe that miracles exist, and that that is what is happening,"

What ever happened to a "sign from God"? Why must everything be a miracle today?

The couple concluded that one of the Virgin's wishes was that they attend Mass more frequently. They used to go to church about once a month. Now they attend Mass every week.

Though they go to church more wrinkled, they go more often. Good news.

Meanwhile, Blanca Villa keeps her closet light on 24 hours a day ... I'm afraid that if I turn the light off the whole night, the image won't be there anymore."

Oh ye of little faith. I think that their faith will fade as this image fades.

[sneakers]

oh good grief

[Kolokotronis]

Alex, these are simple people with a simple faith. They believe in miracles in a country where people don’t anymore. These sorts of articles are written to make the Roman Church look foolish, but it only looks foolish in the eyes of secularized sophisticates. In Orthodoxy, being a fool for Christ is regarded as being a holy state.

This is an example of a gentle, loving sort of faith that this country could use more of as it could use more people who are in church every week if for no other reason. Sadly, our government encourages Mohammedanism instead.