Posted on 01/27/2011 6:24:53 PM PST by Gamecock
A Starr County family is wondering if a mircale took place in their kitchen on Tuesday afternoon.
Melinda Solis told Action 4 News that she was warming up flour tortillas for her teenage sons after school around 4 p.m. Tuesday.
Solis said she was spreading out the cooked tortillas when her mother noticed something unusual.
One of the tortillas had a large brown spot that resembled the Virgin Mary holding the Baby Jesus.
Solis, a mother of four who was raised Catholic, said she and her family are saving the tortilla.
The La Grulla area woman said they are not sure if they are going to call a priest just yet.
"It's safe as long as I keep it away from my sons...as long as I keep it away from butter," Solis said.
The image appeared weeks after Día de los Reyes but just ahead of Día de la Candelaria.
In Mexican culture, Dia de los Reyes is celebrated each year with gifts on January 6th to commemorate when the three kings visited the Baby Jesus.
Dia de la Candelaria is celebrated each year with a tamale feast or a "Feast of Purification" on February 2nd to commemorate when Jesus was first presented at the Jewish temple.
It does kind of look like a close up of the right "pillar" in the Eagle Nebula.
They do make Christianity look stupid. Not the MSM’s fault, why does the Catholic Church encourage such behavior?
I’ll have to remember that retort...
“why does the Catholic Church encourage such behavior?”
Just pathetic. That stupid bagel (or whatever it was) looked like a scorched, inedible piece of pastry. So damned stupid to conjure up anything to do with our Lord.
Wow. Just wow.
Let's be fair...if someone declared they'd found the image of the Dalai Lama in a tortilla, I think it's safe to say they wouldn't be persecuted by rampaging Buddhists.
Islam seems to be in a category all its own in this regard.
But it is hardly an isolated incident!
>> They do make Christianity look stupid
Nah. Have faith, and keep it in perspective. They try mightily to “make it look stupid” (and the Mary-worshippers don’t help), but they are doomed to fail.
Said Jesus: “Upon this rock I will build My church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”
If I turn it upside down, I think I see Elvis?
≤}B^)
A lousy cook trying to make her cooking a miracle?
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