Drzewko oliwne zasadzone przez JP II/Olive Tree planted by John Paul II
I found this photo taken in 2007, on the web. Not sure if this is the same tree.
Posted on 07/22/2008 6:07:00 AM PDT by NYer
Tel Aviv- A tree blessed eight years ago by Pope John Paul II during his visit to the Holy Land was the only one in its plot of land to produce olives this year, a Jewish National Fund official said. "It is a miracle," Yossi Karni from the JNF, which maintains the plot, told local media.
During a visit to northern Israel, near the Sea of Galilee, John Paul blessed a tree that was planted on the Mount of Beatitudes, where according to Christian beliefs Jesus gave his Sermon on the Mount.
Karni noted that all the trees on the plot were treated equally, but the ones that did not receive the blessing have not given fruit this year.
"They get treated the same, watered the same," he said, adding that some trees had even started to wither, which he could not explain.
When asked what he would do with the olives, Karni, with a wry smile, told Israel's Channel 10 he might market their "holy oil."
A better title would have been: Pope’s tree bears fruit: ‘a miracle’
That about covers it.
I’m assuming you forgot the >sarc.
Interesting.
Not a believer in the so-called prophecies of St. Malachi, but its interesting to note pope in the prophecies the pope said to equate with Pope Benedict is called “The Glory of the Olives”, I believe.
Hmm kind of interesting that the only one to bear fruit is the one the pope touched. Even more interesting is that he plans on selling these olives as holy oil. Hmm I think this guy saw a marketing opportunity the moment the pope touched the plant and made sure the others did not receive the same attention.
“he might market their ‘holy oil.’”
I’ll bet.
What garbage.
Wasn’t John Paul II suffering from dementia eight years ago?
No, he had Parkinson’s disease and his mind was fine.
Believers will see them as signs from God while the cynics, skeptics and naysayers will always find some excuse to dismiss them.
I found this photo taken in 2007, on the web. Not sure if this is the same tree.
Interesting note, but the first 11 words of the article read, "A tree blessed eight years ago by Pope John Paul II..."
I think he is throwing them in this picture:
Filii tui sicut germina olivarum in circuitu mensae tuae.
Your children shall be like olive shoots around your table.
There's somewhat of a similar market of supposedly Biblical olive tree wood novelties, there.
Why its another miracle. As soon as I read this I looked at my computer monitor and saw the virgin Mary too. You people are spooked.
Why is your pope wasting his time on olive trees when he could be healing people??? He's the biggest sinner of all...
Jas 4:17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
I believe you meant to write "Why is there sickness in the world? Why is there AIDS?
Why is your pope wasting his time on olive trees when he could be healing people??? He's the biggest sinner of all...
Why do you waste your time on these threads bashing the Holy Father and the Catholic Church? What are you trying to prove to yourself?
Because you guys insist on calling your pope 'Holy Father'...There is only one Holy Father and He doesn't sit on a throne in Italy...
Another is you guys try to lure people with your religion claiming it's the religion Jesus founded by posting stories like this one about your pope performing perceived miracles...That apparently makes your pope more holy than the average guy...
If your pope was really performing a miracle, the olive trees would have blossomed right there and produced fruit...
Jesus never performed a miracle that took 10 months to develop...Your pope is not performing miracles...
I don't care what you people do as a religion...You can pray over a car battery and turn it into cranberry sauce and have a Thanksgiving dinner ever day...Doesn't matter to me...
But how many posts have you made that claim your religion is the only true, real, relevant, Christian church that Jesus founded??? Too many to count...So why would you expect everyone to sit back, sit still and keep quiet while you spew this nonsense???
Every time you make that claim, you spit in the face of every born-again, bible believing Christian out there...Why would you expect people to sit still for that???
And the worse part of it is; there may be lurkers out there who may fall for a ridiculous story about your pope being a Holy Father, or your pope performing a miracle that took months to take place and all it was, was a tree that grew some leaves...Those people need to see the 'other side'...
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