Miracle Cure Brings Sainthood to Polish Nun (Divine Mercy)

Detroit News via the Washington Post ^ | April 26, 2000 | Carlyle Murphy

[Aliska]

Miracle Cure: Priest's recovery brings sainthood to Polish nun

By Caryle Murphy/The Washington Post In 1995, the Rev. Ronald P. Pytel, just 48, had resigned himself to an idle life and early death. His heart was so damaged that simply walking made him winded. His complexion was pallid, his weight a gaunt 140 pounds. His quality of life, he recalls one doctor saying, "wasn't worth a plug nickel." But the pastor of Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Baltimore, like many of his parishioners, had long been devoted to Faustina Kowalska, a Polish nun and mystic who died in 1938. At a healing service in October 1995, he and a dozen church members were praying to her for his health when Pytel fell to the floor and, although conscious, couldn't get up for 15 minutes. "I could talk, but I couldn't move a muscle," he recalled. "It was as though I was paralyzed." When he finally stood up, he felt so fit he began laughing. Nowadays, the blond Pytel has the rosy cheeks of a choirboy, weighs a hearty 170 pounds and swims with abandon. His pumping machine is so robust he jokes of having "the heart of a 19-year-old." He and his parishioners call what happened a miracle. And so does the Catholic Church.

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[RnMomof7]

I'll be happy to provide you with many passages from Scripture, but first I need to know if you ever recite the Apostles' Creed and utter the words "communion of saints"?

Does "communion mean Prayer or

com·mun·ion   Pronunciation Key  (k-mynyn) n.

1. The act or an instance of sharing, as of thoughts or feelings.
2. Religious or spiritual fellowship.
3. A body of Christians with a common religious faith who practice the same rites; a denomination.
4. Communion Ecclesiastical.
a. The sacrament of the Eucharist received by a congregation. b. The consecrated elements of the Eucharist. c. The part of the Mass or a liturgy in which the Eucharist is received.

The Saints in heaven that died IN Christ are dead..but all living believers are Saints.Show us please where scripture teaches this is correct or godly?

BTW The communion of saints means the living church

[RnMomof7]

If any and all communication with dead people was forbidden, then one of the prodigies that God caused upon the death of our Lord was an occasion of sin. "And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.

It does not say that they spoke to people , it does not say people prayed to them..They were a sign of the future resurrection codie..

[Codie]

Well,if such a thing were evil, then these "saints" (as the Bible calls them) were not really "saints."

[RnMomof7]

Explain that codie..it makes no sense ...I do not understand how you get that

[MarMema]

"The child," Christ said, "is not dead; she is only sleeping."

The Church as the body of Christ is not divided by death to this world, because the church is indivisible. Christ has trampled the gates of hades and overcome death. There is no death. There is only life in this world and life in the next.

[RnMomof7]

Excuse me if I do not se that to have anything to do with prayers to the dead

[Codie]

These dead folks were communicating with the living. Even their mute appearance would communicate the fact of their resurrection. If such a thing were evil, then these "saints" (as the Bible calls them) were not really "saints."

[RnMomof7]

The Church as the body of Christ is not divided by death to this world, because the church is indivisible. Christ has trampled the gates of hades and overcome death. There is no death. There is only life in this world and life in the next.

The church is the bride of Christ ..and some day it will be united ..that does not address the practice of praying to the dead when the bible clearly teaches against it

[JMJ333]

No, she got it straight from the behavior of people like you. You've contributed nothing to this thread. You're just like your buddies who have no authority to interpret scripture but have the audacity to come riducule us for adhering to the people who put the scripture together in the first place. But don't stop spewing hatred...its beneficial to the lurkers to see exactly what kind of person you are.

[RnMomof7]

LOL LOL LOL

[Codie]

Are the saints really ever dead?

[RnMomof7]

You used it as a proof text for praying to the saints right? That still does a) not address that practice or B) Address where in scripture that is found..either for the creed or the practice

[RnMomof7]

They die physically codie..

Codie what do you think the saints do all day in heaven ? This is a serious question