I'd much prefer there were others than the catholic church who investigate these things....second and third opinions generally are quite revealing.
It is difficult to believe the catholic church as so many things swing from one place to another...pending the winds of change...so many happenings are generally regarded as miracles or sightings or somehow end up with religious meanings. But the same for branches of other religions....
If I were to believe any of it it might be those Christian happenings in third world countries more than here in ours. There are far too many frauds and counterfeits operating here in every branch of our country.
And frankly all those dark robed men in that photo give me zero comfort ....rather... looks pretty creepy to me.
And just for your information...satan and his hoard can mimic and do what appears to be miracles and positive feelings from their escapades. Further it is written they will do so at an amazing rate as things move forward. We are a world ripe for deception. Therefore I will continue to walk my walk with Christ by faith.....not by what might be seen.
And frankly all those dark robed men in that photo give me zero comfort ....rather... looks pretty creepy to me. And just for your information...satan and his hoard can mimic and do what appears to be miracles...Therefore I will continue to walk my walk with Christ by faith.....not by what might be seen.
You are correct regarding Satan. One must always be watchful, and not follow "what might be seen." The lives of saints, however, have been scrupulously gone over by the Catholic Church. I, myself, would not have sought out (so I hardly expect you to do so) the CC on my own. (I had too many sins they spoke strongly against and felt being a Missouri-Synod Lutheran was okay enough for me.) But the Eucharist ("the
source and summit of the Christian life") was shown to me quite literally (through the hundreds of
daily Mass attenders who partook in same), as I joined my boyfriend (for several months) on his daily journey to Mass.
The life of another great saint, Maximilian Maria Kolbe (another "dark robed" man; do you think he brought "zero comfort" to Franciszek Gajowniczek?), is celebrated today, August 14, in the Roman Catholic Church.
Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish priest who died as prisoner 16670 in Auschwitz, on August 14, 1941. When a prisoner escaped from the camp, the Nazis selected 10 others to be killed by starvation in reprisal for the escape. One of the 10 selected to die, Franciszek Gajowniczek, began to cry: "My wife! My children! I will never see them again!" At this Father Kolbe stepped forward and asked to die in his place - his request was granted. As the ten condemned men were led off to the death Block of Building 13, Father Kolbe supported a fellow prisoner who could hardly walk. No one would emerge alive - Father Kolbe was the last to die ... Link. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends --John 15:13.
The life of Fr. Maximilian Kolbe was spent wholly out of Love for the Eucharist and Our Lady. With tenderness he wrote of how Our Heavenly Mother always leads us to her Son, “Let us give ourselves to the Immaculata ... This is the manner most perfect and pleasing to the Lord Jesus and brings great fruit to us ...” --Link.
St. Maximilian Kolbe,
pray for us ...