Posted on 09/03/2002 12:16:14 PM PDT by 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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You had an attitude right from the start,and that set the tone for the rest of the thread.
All regenerate Christians are saints and as such are members of the catholic (universal) church. Do you realize you are calling yourself a hatemongering anti-catholic when you bash us?
So, you were wrong.
I must apologize to the Catholics on this thread. What I meanr when I wrote that was allowed by the critics of the RC church, which includes myself in many previous threads.
29Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent."
30So they asked him, "What miraculous sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?
31Our forefathers ate the manna in the desert; as it is written: 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'[3] "
32Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.
33For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."
34"Sir," they said, "from now on give us this bread."
35Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.
36But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe.
37All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.
38For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. 39And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. 40
<For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day."
41At this the Jews began to grumble about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven."
42They said, "Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I came down from heaven'?"
43"Stop grumbling among yourselves," Jesus answered.
44"No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
What do you think the Jewish people understood when Jesus said this?
The things God does are irrelevant?
You can not answer the question huh? What do you see the saints doing all day? Are they omnipresent?
Sure I can answer the question. You can dish it out but can't take it. I see neither God nor the Saints manifested in a visible manner. The Saints are alive in heaven with God just as Scripture tells us they are. They are not omnipresent.
Now you answer the question I have repeatedly asked you and that you continue to dodge: Where does Scripture tell us that the Saints in heaven are dead?
I know you don't have the bible so here is what it says:
We have the original unabridged edition, unlike you and your comrades.
You'd be well served to heed the words of St. Peter: 2 Peter 3:16 "As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction."
Yep God will do as God will do...He does not need to punch my time clock:>)
God is the God of creation not a man ...He the God of this world and is omnipresent to ALL situations and places
Sure I can answer the question. You can dish it out but can't take it. I see neither God nor the Saints manifested in a visible manner. The Saints are alive in heaven with God just as Scripture tells us they are. They are not omnipresent.
If the Saints are not omnipresent How can they be worshiping God (as scripture tells us )AND hear the prayers of men all over the world?
The church has made mini gods of them ...messengers and servers of man not those worshiping God
They are not God..they are not omnipresent ...they are not hearing your prayers
Your prayers to them are an abomination to God! You steal the Glory of God ...and deny Jesius His role as mediator
Please answer his question.
I cannot understand your ideas about Scripture and Christ, nor can I learn anything from you, when you are so contentious in your presentation and responses.
Can you try just replying and letting me know what the errors are in my post, without all the hyper-text and boldfacing, and just trust that I really might be interested in what you have to say, in plain old type?
I can't recall who said this....
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