I wonder if these seemingly superficial messages (with their "lack of spiritual depth") are designed as such due to the times we're living in. So many people have not only turned from God and are immersed in sin, but also lack the spiritual and intellectual foundations to be drawn (at least initially) to deeper spiritual truths. Under these circumstances, it would seem that a more gentle approach might have the capacity to draw a larger number of souls to investigate further.
At this point, there's no way of knowing whether it's real or not, so I'm keeping an open mind.
“I wonder if these seemingly superficial messages (with their “lack of spiritual depth”) are designed as such due to the TIMES we’re living in. So many people have not only turned from God and are immersed in sin, but also LACK THE SPIRITUAL AND INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATIONS to be drawn (at least initially) to deeper spiritual truths. Under these circumstances, it would seem that a more gentle approach might have the capacity to draw a larger number of souls to investigate further.
At this point, there’s no way of knowing whether it’s real or not, so I’m keeping an open mind.”
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Makes perfect sense and maybe the reason why there are so many pilgrims going to Medjugorje.
And nothing against Father Mitch, he is very holy and a
walking history book. If you listen to him for two minutes,
you learn something new about the faith.
I am keeping an open mind also. And, don’t you all wonder, if Medjugorje is false, why do miracles like this happen?
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A striking miracle occurred in Medjugorje involving a forty-three- year-old Italian secretary and mother of three, Diana Basile. Multiple sclerosis had been diagnosed in 1972, along with total urinary incontinence, perineal dermatitis, blindness in one eye, difficulty in walking and, to compound matters, a severe clinical depression. In May of 1984, a friend persuaded Diana to join a pilgrimage group going from Milan to Medjugorje.
On the evening of May 23, she was in the church and a friend helped her to climb the steps to the side chapel where the apparitions were then occurring. From the records kept at the parish in Medjugorje, here are her own words:
At that point I no longer wanted to enter the chapel...but the door was opened and I went in. I knelt just behind the door. When the children came in and knelt down...I heard a loud noise. After that I remember nothing, except an indescribable joy and certain episodes of my life passing before my eyes as though on film.
When it was all over, I followed the children, who went straight to the main altar in the church. I was walking just like everybody else, and I knelt down just as they did. It didn’t actually occur to me that anything extraordinary had happened, until my friend came up to me in tears.
Diana’s cure had been INSTANTANEOUS. Later that night she found that she was no longer incontinent, and the dermatitis had completely disappeared. Her right eye, useless for twelve years, had regained perfect vision. The following day she walked the six miles from her hotel in Ljubuski to the church in Medjugorje, and later climbed Mt. Podbrdo.