Posted on 03/14/2010 12:14:46 PM PDT by NYer
Romano Guardini wrote in his book on the Rosary, “To linger in the domain of Mary is a divinely great thing. One does not ask about the utility of truly noble things, because they have their meaning within themselves. So it is of infinite meaning to draw a deep breath of this purity, to be secure in the peace of this union with God.”
Guardini was speaking of spending time with Mary in praying the Rosary, but David Mills, in his latest book, Discovering Mary, helps us linger in the domain of Mary by opening up to us the riches of divine revelation, both from tradition and Scripture. Mills, a convert from the Episcopal Church, former editor of the Christian journal Touchstone and editor of the 1998 book of essays commemorating the centennial of C.S. Lewis’ birth The Pilgrim’s Guide: C. S. Lewis and the Art of Witness, as well as the author of Knowing the Real Jesus (2001), has written a rock-solid introduction to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and done so with intellectual rigor and an affable tone.
His book begins with an introduction in which he describes how he came to discover the riches of the Church’s teachings on Mary: “I began to see how a sacred vessel is made holy by the sacred thing it carries,” he writes. “I began to feel this in a way I had not before. I found myself developing an experiential understanding of Mary and indeed a Marian devotion. Which surprised me. It surprised me a lot.”
Unfortunately, he notes, he did not learn about Mary from contemporary Catholics, nor in homilies, “even on Marian feast days.” It seems he learned on his own by reading magisterial documents and going back to Scriptures in light of those documents.
This book shares the fruit of that study. Mills examines the life of Mary, Mary in the Bible, Mary in Catholic doctrine, Marian feast days and the names of Mary. He includes an appendix full of references to papal documents and books on Mary.
Most of the book is done in a question-and-answer format, which usually works well, although at times it feels awkward. Would someone really ask, for instance, “What is happening in the liturgy on the Marian feast days?”
But most of the questions are natural. “What is the point of Marian devotion?” Mills asks. It is “to live the Catholic life as well as we can,” he answers. “This means going ever more deeply into the mystery of Christ, to become saintlier, more conformed to his image, by following Mary’s example and by turning to her for help and comfort.”
Next question: “Does devotion to Mary detract from our devotion to Christ?”
“Christians since the beginning of serious Marian devotion have been careful to emphasize Mary’s subordination to her son,” Mills replies. “In fact, they have said it so often that the reader begins to expect it. In the fifth century St. Ambrose put it nicely: ‘Mary was the temple of God, not the god of the temple.’”
David Mills, with the same radical clarity he showed in Knowing the Real Jesus, has written what has to be one of the best, if not the very best, short introductions to Catholic teaching on Mary, the Mother of God. Discovering Mary is ideal for those wanting to know more about her, whether they be skeptics, Protestants, or Catholics who don’t know the Mother of the Church well enough.
Franklin Freeman writes from Saco, Maine.
DISCOVERING MARY
Answers to Questions About the Mother of God
By David Mills
Servant Books, 2009
148 pages, $12.99
To order: servantbooks.org
Now that you mention it, yes I think there are.
They are certainly both from the same source (Satan), but they also germinate from the same feelings. Satan simply twists those feelings into a different group of his. For some they go into Feminism and for others they go to Rome.
Interesting insight you brought up there.
As Scripture asserts . . .
A treasured Brother in The Lord is a wonderful gift of The Lord.
Thanks OuterShip for being such a Brother.
It appears that some Papists have no constructive Biblical concept of such.
Cool, like St Paul does even now. Keep it up and may the saints pray for Marysecretary too.
Putting the names in Excel . . . it appears there’s 146 such names glorifying Mary.
There should be
AT LEAST
TWICE that many glorifying Christ, right?
I mean . . .
IF
as they so stridently assert . . .
that they are NOT glorifying Mary even equal to, much less over Christ . . .
THEN there SHOULD BE AT LEAST twice as many additional embellishing names for Christ as they have come up with for Mary, right?
Please let me know if a Roman Catholic et al presents such a list of embellishing names glorifying Christ.
I’m not holding my breath.
What’s so “demonic” about these apparitions? At no point has Mary ever said anything against Her Son, on the contrary she has always pointed TO Her Son
LOL you think I am idolizing Quix?
I have never prayed to Quix or lit a candle in front of a statue of him or kneeled in front of a statue of him. I don’t even *have* a statue of him, or a medallion, or a bookmark, or an icon, not even something to hang from the mirror of my car. I have never bestowed on him a title of any sort, let alone a divine one. And I have never made constant repetitions of rote prayers to him while holding a beaded necklace or any other kind of necklace for that matter. I have never named a house of worship after him either. I don’t even hold feast days in his honor. I have certainly never, ever, neverever ever, counted on him to add anything to the free Gift of Grace Christ gave to me though His Blood and His Work on the cross when I confessed with my mouth, “Yah’shua is Lord,” and believed in my heart that God raised Him from the dead. I haven’t done this with Mary either, can you say the same?
If you are saying that I have relational idolatry, as in I idolize relationships or intimacy or anything like that, well it isn’t true. There is no relationship in my life that is, was, or ever will be greater than the one I have with Christ and His Father who sent Him. I also hold no kind of relationship in idolatry, whether it be the marriage relationship, the friend relationship, the family relationship, the political relationship, the religious institution relationship, or the parental relationship. Can you say the same (especially about that last one)?
I have to point out here that I am quite flattered that you actually did a search on my handle and read through who knows how many of my old posts and then even went and compiled a list of them. In this act you have probably paid more attention to me than anyone else on FR or even all of the internet has ever done. I really don’t know what to say. Thank you.
While you were reading all of those old posts of mine did you find anything you liked about the things I’ve said? Were you edified or inspired or did you learn anything? I’m not trying to sound unhumble here I am just curious and delighted that you took the time to do this.
Heeheeheehaha
All of your statements are based on the assumption that there ARE ETs and that they do not wish to normally communicate with us (TAke me to your leader) but play games.
INDEED.
Besides . . . contrary to their assumptions, I’m no fool either. I’d not tolerate anything from me that would hurt you spiritually, unwittingly or not.
They must have an enormous dirth of great brother and sister relationships in The Lord to cast such aspersions.
Pitiful, that.
Pg. 77 It was common for the State or private interest groups to push their nominees into key Church posts, irrespective of their status. St. Ambrose was baptized, went through the various clerical ranks and was consecrated bishop of Milan all within eight days.
I am so honored and humbled that you feel that way about me. Haha you always make me want to say Praise Yahweh! for you, in my life.
Rain... I like that. That works for me. You’re a real wordsmith. If even one, just one, somewhere, somehow, repents and confesses and learns and grows, praise Yahweh. And if no one does, or if they even turn further away, at least it will be as Yahweh said it would be, like it was with Jeremiah when Yahweh gave him a message to say and even told him that the people will not listen to it.
And totally many thanks for yours! I am greatly gladdened that you will be returning to that other task soon. It will be great, I can’t wait. And praise Yahweh that your teeth will be staying where they are for now! Unless the pain of having them is worse than the pain of losing them, of course. May the distractions you’re granted be a fruitful shield.
Here’s a fuller commentary with some links on the Fatima/UFO evidence stuff from my blog:
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UFO ASPECTS OF FATIMA–A Pentecostal Prof’s Views
UFO ASPECTS OF FATIMA—A PENTECOSTAL PROF’s PERSPECTIVE
I have read many pages related to Fatima over the decades. The last months, I’ve been reading many more pages discussing the clear UFO aspects of the Fatima apparitions of 1917.
I’m firmly convinced, now, that in typical UFO/ET/’controllers’ fashion, the whole of the Fatima events were engineered, designed, structured and carried out as a religious/social manipulation by the ‘powers of the air’ . . . later supported, refined, manipulated by the Jesuits. I’ll first offer this brief commentary and post the links and significant excerpts below in succeeding posts.
Key points that speak conclusively and convincingly of a UFO/ET staged event:
1. The craft
A) typical UFO shape
B) typical UFO light effects
C) typical UFO behaviors
D) typical UFO colors
2. The message Typical UFO RELIGION related messages of
A) Peace—do what we say and have peace
B) resist what we say; fail to do what we say and have utter destruction.
3. Dramatic aerial demonstrations quite dazzling, impressive, “supernatural.” I’m reminded of the Biblical mention of “angels of light preaching a different ‘gospel.’ ”
4. The being–It is difficult to ferret out authentic descriptions of the “Lady” given the Jesuits control of the experiencers and the phenomena. However, evidently the short being had black eyes and other features quite typical for “ET’s” of later years.
Nevertheless, it is also possible—even quite probable that the “powers of the air” were very technologically if not demonically capable of presenting a being in such a context which would predictably feed the Roman Catholic sensibilities and expectations regarding “Mary.” My own sense is that the greatest probability is that the figure present in the phenomena was made to appear female, beautiful, of unassuming size, of slight build etc.
Certainly we know that ET critters can appear as almost anything in the minds of the viewers. It’s not clear whether this is technologically achieved or achieved through some dark spiritual forces and dynamics. Perhaps it is both.
What might the objective of ET forces be for staging such a hoax?
1. Enhancing the Mary iconography and mythology of the vast and powerful RC edifice. That could garner over a billion people to their cause fairly easily.
2. Essentially further turning that mythology to globalist, satanic goals.
3. Taking more overt control of that mythology in behalf of globalist goals.
4. Setting the stage for using Mary and the whole mythology carefully built up around her toward influencing vast numbers of people to compliantly, submissively join the ONE WORLD RELIGION of the END TIMES and support the ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT—in behalf of saving the planet from utter destruction, for example.
As I’ve read more of this sort of documentation, I’ve also read many other Mary types of apparitions of the last 100 years. In virtually EVERY CASE, the message of the apparition has been virtually identical to standard ET messages to abductees but with a slight to significant tweaking in a RELIGIOUS DIRECTION—particularly an RC edifice standard mythology RELIGIOUS direction.
I don’t consider that coincidental in the least.
Many ET exhortations are about the environment.
However, when religion is a significant part of the presentation, then the content is essentially the same as that of the Marian apparitions.
1. Believe us and do what we say and you may live long and prosper. In the classic sentence: BELIEVE US AND LIVE LONG AND PROSPER.
2. Don’t, and you won’t. Disobey us, fail to do what we say; ignore what we say—and suffer—perhaps have the whole planet destroyed. Of course, with the Marian variety—things are worded quite in keeping with the Marian mythology, terminology, standard behaviors and standard expectations of the Marian group etc.
But the “angels of light” involved are essentially THE SAME. The lofty ‘aura’ and demonstrations—light shows—are essentially the same—the same as those involved in many ‘ET visitations’ had by many New Age Eastern Mysticism folks.
In short, I believe that God has brought the historical documents and their publication to light at this time because we are very close to the breaking out into the open of the whole UFO END TIMES DECEPTION—evidently the GREAT DECEPTION that the Bible speaks of for the END TIMES.
It is Jesus Christ and HIS TRUTH and PERSON who sets us Free—not deception, myth, ritual, idolatry.
The “ET’s,” fallen angels/ watchers/ nephilium et al would have us believe that THEY as “enlightened space brothers” from some far off star system created mankind as well as ALL the great religious figures of the past—for social control and social engineering purposes.
They have also evidently convinced the globalist puppet masters that ALMIGHTY GOD [Whom they construe as merely a heavy-weight one of them] will be defeated by satan and his ET forces at Armageddon.
The battle lines are increasingly being drawn more and more clearly. CHOOSE THIS DAY WHOM YOU WILL SERVE. Choose this day—Eternal Life—or death.
I don’t write this with any particular animosity towards any authentic Christians in the RC camp at all. I write it concerned for all Believers everywhere and for all humans everywhere—so easily deceived in this era of mass communications—massively deceptive communications.
TRULY we MUST know God intimately; KNOW HIS WORD INTIMATELY and know His Still small Voice well and obediently.
May God confirm to all who truly seek THE TRUTH—GOD’S TRUTH on this and all other matters. Prayerfully yours, DaAiXin
INITIAL REFS:
FATIMA WAS A STANDARD UFO TYPE OP
FATIMA UFO CONNECTION
Excerpt just below is from the book:
Heavenly Lights: The Apparitions of Fatima and the UFO Phenomenon (Paperback)
BOOK LINK AT AMAZON:
http://www.amazon.com/Heavenly-Lights-Apparitions-Fatima-Phenomenon/dp/0973534133
Added commentary/excerpts from the book from:
http://le-cercle-ufologues.xooit.fr/t620-Fatima-events.htm
A meticulous synthesis of history, science, and anthropology, Heavenly Lights establishes that the Fátima Incident of 1917 involved not “Marian apparitions” – as is conventionally believed – but rather, a series of close encounters with alien beings.
The first history of Fátima to be written by Portuguese historians based on the original documents, Heavenly Lights subjects all of the pertinent facts of the Fátima case to a sweeping evidentiary analysis that is at once thorough and fascinating.
In periodic passages describing “Parallels in Ufology,” the authors identify many relevant connections between the enigmatic events that took place at Fátima and numerous other episodes in the strange and storied annals of UFO history.
When it was first published in Portugal in 1995, entitled As Aparições de Fátima e o Fenómeno OVNI, the Jornal de Notícias heralded this work as “a literary success without precedent in the field of Portuguese ufological studies.”
This new translation offers a powerful and convincing argument for mainstream ufologists and religious researchers alike to re-examine the actual evidence that at last explains the enduring mystery of the Fátima Incident.
Topics discussed in Heavenly Lights include how…
- the Fátima Incident of 1917 was a close encounter of the third kind
- the Fátima apparitions involved a series of contacts with alien beings
- Our Lady of Fátima was not the Virgin Mary but an extraterrestrial
- Sister Lucia revealed information relevant to the UFO phenomenon
- the three children of Fátima became pawns of the UFO cover-up
- the Miracle of the Sun was caused by an unidentified flying object
- Ufology must address religious and visionary experiences like Fátima
- The Fátima case involved altered states of consciousness, holograms, microwave radiation, out-of-body experiences, and telepathic communication
- Marian apparitions relate to unexplained aerial phenomena, including alien abduction, ‘angel hair’, foo-fighters, flying saucers, and UFO secrecy
- popular clamor about the Fátima secrets, inspired by Pope John Paul II, obscures the fact that Fátima was the first major UFO case of the 20th century
Editorial review from the last link just above:
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
Did the Jesuits conceal evidence of alien contact at Fátima? The Fátima incident was the most exceptional religious event of the 20th century. In 1917, three Portuguese children encountered a radiant woman, who told them three secrets about the fate of the Earth. During “The Miracle of the Sun,” the solar orb was seen to dance in the sky by thousands of awestruck onlookers who flocked to Fátima.
The apparitions were presumed [PRESUMED] to be a case of divine intervention in human affairs, a sign from Heaven that the world war then raging in Europe would soon come to an end. A shrine sprang up at Fátima that drew millions of believers, and a myth grew that the Fátima prophecies would one day be fulfilled as a testament of faith in a secular age.
In 1978, Portuguese historians Joaquim Fernandes and Fina d’Armada were given unprecedented access to the original records of the Fátima incident, which had been held secretly by the Church in archives located at the Sanctuary of Fátima since 1917.
In Heavenly Lights – a work hailed by the Fortean Times (UK) as “priceless” – Fernandes and d’Armada explored the many intriguing linkages they discovered in the secret archives between the apparitions of Fátima and the worldwide UFO phenomenon. Here, for the first time, they tell the esoteric history of the “cover story” concocted by the Church in 1941, which has both shaped our modern view of the Fátima incident and obscured its true significance as the first major close encounter case of the 20th century.
At the heart of the matter, they reveal, lies a conspiracy by the Jesuits to suppress the fact that the entities encountered by the children at Fátima were not deities descending from Heaven but rather alien beings visiting our planet from “elsewhere” in the vast Cosmos. Illustrated (64 b/w photos, drawings, etc.)
Description of the third book:
FATIMA REVISITED: THE APPARITION PHENOMENON IN MYTH, RELIGION AND SCIENCE
From the last link above: The Fátima incident was an important event in the literature of extraordinary human experience. Believers and skeptics have long pondered the identity of Our Lady of Fátima, the brilliant lady who appeared above Cova da Iria in 1917.
Was she the Virgin Mary, sharing divine secrets to those who would believe? Was she an angel, bringing a message of peace to a world made weary by war? Or was she an alien, inspiring humanity to look up and contemplate the heavens?
Now, in Fátima Revisited, an international panel of distinguished academicians and Ufologists subjects the legendary apparitions of Fátima – so long regarded as a sacred religious event – to the scrutiny of modern scientific analysis.
Fátima Revisited explores the relationship between encounters with Marian apparitions, angels, and aliens, and proposes a new paradigm for such phenomena that goes beyond the traditional confines of religion, anthropology, and sociology.
The third volume in The Fátima Trilogy that includes the acclaimed Heavenly Lights and Celestial Secrets, this anthology is the result of a multidisciplinary study by the MARIAN Project — the Multicultural Apparitions Research International Academic Network — which is coordinated by Dr. Joaquim Fernandes at University Fernando Pessoa, in Porto, Portugal[/b].
Additional excerpts from Vallee via:
http://www.ufoseek.org/fatimajv.htm
“…Fatima was a modern event, yet it is already clouded with the distortions of ‘belief’. The Photographs of the object had ‘disappeared.’ The key prophecy has been suppressed. Lucia shut herself away from the world. As the years passed, the object was turned into a ‘dancing sun,’ the angel hair became ‘rose petals,’ and the entire phenomena was removed from the field of science and entrusted to the religionists…
“There have been many modern miracles of the Fatima type, but they rarely gain much attention outside of religious circles. The flying saucers get much more publicity than the miracles.
“Between the years 1937 and 1945, an entity who identified herself as the Queen of the Universe appeared more than 100 times to four young girls in the tiny hamlet of Heede, Germany. The girls, aged twelve through fourteen, were Anna Schulte, Greta and Maria Ganseforth, and Susan Bruns. These visions began in November, 1937 and continued throughout the war, with the Lady urging the world to ‘pray, pray much, especially for the conversion of sinners.’ Hitler was probably none too happy about all of this, especially since he openly considered himself to be Antichrist.
“…On Sunday, June 18, 1961, four young girls were playing marbles outside of the little village of Garabandal, Spain, when they suddenly saw an ‘angel.’ The girls, Mary Cruz Gonzales, eleven, Conchita Gonzales, twelve, Jacinta Gonzales, twelve, and Mary Loly Mazon, twelve (none of the Gonzales girls were directly related), said that he appeared to be about nine years old, was dressed in a long, seamless blue robe, had a small face with BLACK EYES, and ‘fine hands and short fingernails.’ For some reason, he gave the impression of being very strong. This figure was surrounded by a dazzling glow and faded into thin air without saying a word…
“Soon after these initial experiences, the girls began to go into trances (termed a state of ecstasy by religionists) during which they would see the Lady. Sometimes these trances would last for hours, and the girls would remain fixed in an awkward kneeling position and their heads thrown back and their eyes staring at the vision, totally oblivious to the hundreds of people swarming around them.
“The Lady was accompanied by two angels on this occasion. The ‘angels’ were dressed alike, ‘as if they were twins.’ The Lady had long, thin hands, a long angular face ‘with a fine nose.’ and lips which were ‘a bit thin.’ She seemed to be ‘rather tall’
Note:
Elsewhere in his book Keel states that many of the “Men In Black” or “People” in black reported in other incidents were beings of the above description – Branton). Her hair was a deep nut brown, parted in the center. This is, of course, an almost classic description of the ‘long finger’ UFO entities described by many contactees.
Even more startling, on the Lady’s right the girls could see ‘A SQUARE OF RED FIRE FRAMING A TRIANGLE WITH AN EYE AND SOME WRITING. THE LETTER WAS IN AN OLD ORIENTAL SCRIPT!’”
(Note: this also seems to correspond with the ancient “Eye of Horus” of Egypt, which according to Illuminists represented Sirius and was a major emblem within the Babylonian Mystery Religion. There have been alleged photographs of obelisks on the Moon of the exact shape and description as those found in St. Peter’s Square in Rome, in Egypt, and originally in Babylon. These four-sided, pyramidal-capped obelisks traditionally were the “alters” around which the ancient worshippers of Baal practiced their occult arts and were a combination of phallic and Sun symbols. Could such obelisks be a connecting factor between the ancient Babylonian-Egyptian “Mystery” society and exterran societies of a similar nature, such as perhaps the one alleged to exist in the Sirius system? – Branton).
“The angels in all these cases sound suspiciously like our celebrated ‘little men’ .
“…The many messages conveyed by the Lady have conformed precisely to Catholic dogma, using phrases and references which are significant to trained theologists but would be meaningless to children. The message of October 18, 1961, as dictated by the children, read: ‘We must make many sacrifices, do much penance. We must visit the Blessed Sacrament frequently… unless we do this, a punishment will befall us.’
“…On Friday, June 18, 1965, Conchita entered a trance and was purportedly given the following statements by the Lady:
“’As my message of the eighteenth of October has not been complied with, and as it has not been made known to the world, I am telling you that this is the last one. Previously, the cup was filling; now it is brimming over… You are now given the last warnings.’ (Take note of the remarkable different between the humble, patient and longsuffering Christ of the New Testament, and this boasting, impatient and wrathful “Whore” of Babylon that has appeared to so many children the world over. This is certainly not like the “Mary” of the New Testament and, in fact, it is not! – Branton).
“There is a wealth of evidence and testimony which leaves little doubt that these children of Garabandal were being possessed by some outside influence and were undergoing a supernormal experience…
“THE NATION OF THE THIRD EYE – There is no reason to think that the four children of Garabandal,” Keel continues, “had ever seen, or even knew about, the eye symbol on the Great Seal of the United States (ie. the seal of the Illuminati -Branton). Nor is it remotely possible that the children, or any of the elders of Garabandal, could have known of the importance that this symbol plays in the silent contactee situation. In fact, very few ufologists are aware of it.
“THOSE MYSTERIOUS ‘MEN IN BLACK’ WHO TRAVEL AROUND THE WORLD IN UNLICENSED CADILLACS HAVE REPORTEDLY BEEN SEEN WEARING LAPEL PINS BEARING THE SYMBOL. THEY HAVE ALSO IDENTIFIED THEMSELVES DIRECTLY AS BEING FROM ‘THE NATION OF THE THIRD EYE.’ SO WE CALL THE SYMBOL THE THIRD EYE.
It would be interesting to find out why some cultures regarded it as evil, while others used it to symbolize Deity.
“Why did the Third Eye appear beside the vision of Garabandal? Was it a symbol of identification? Or was it a warning?
“…Eight young girls on the island of Cabra in the Philippines began to suffer visions in the early part of the year (March, 1968), and the feminine voice of ‘the Virgin’ promised a miracle. During the last week of March about 3,000 persons poured onto the island and waited. Some, including a university professor, a prominent obstetrician, and an army major, reported seeing A CIRCULAR OBJECT over the island. It whirled and changed through all the colors of the spectrum, they said.
“Among the many correlations, you will note that the month of March and April have often played an important part in these events, just as March and April have always produced many of our principal UFO sightings. These religious manifestations are clearly a variation on the UFO manifestations (or vice versa). The same methods of communication are being employed in both phenomena, and the UFO entities bear a marked resemblance to the religious entities…”
A purported 1917 pic of the Fatima sun doesn’t show a lot but here’s the link:
http://www.tarxienparish.org/FatimaSun_13Oct1917.jpg
(Other pics can be linked to from that location):
http://www.tarxienparish.org/FatimaSun_13Oct1917.jpg
What is crucial here was going back to the original testimonies and stories. Lucia, the primary “seer” (”experiencer”?), later entered a convent, and her story became progressively more and more attuned to the Catholic paradigm, her writings made subject to approval by Church authorities. The authors have put less emphasis on these later “official” versions, and relied more on the first reports. Lucia originally never said it was the Virgin Mary she saw, it was the adults around her that jumped to that conclusion. Based on the time and culture they lived in, how else could they have interpreted it?
Original drawing:
http://s255.photobucket.com/albums/hh128/easynow32778/?action=view¤t=halo-grey-alien.jpg
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THANKS FOR YOUR KIND WORDS.
If I can help strengthen your hand in The Lord as you have mine, then PRAISE GOD FOR SUCH A BLESSED RESULT of our relating.
God be with you, Bro.
Falling asleep at the switch.
Have a good night and rest.
Good night.
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Thank you too. And praise Yahweh.
I think you are right about the Papists. And no one can miss how Scripture is filled with such assertions. Maybe it is another sign of the superficial piety of the RCO.
Haha exactly!
I am also interested in maybe seeing how this is rationalized away, being as how it is an argument of hard mathematical evidence. I mean, how can you rationalize away numbers?
Maybe they will use the New Math system that was out in the government schools a while back. You know, the one where you could just make up any answer and it was right as long as you were trying (or your word problem answer had an eco-friendly message!).
No, not always. Really pray about these apparitions. See what God says, not the Church.
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