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Something positive to think about.
1 posted on 09/03/2002 12:16:14 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: NYer
ping. You might want to ping the others. Old news but I hadn't heard about it.
2 posted on 09/03/2002 12:17:27 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: Aliska
He and his parishioners call what happened a miracle.

I'd second that opinion! Here's some additional information.

You could say that Reverend Ronald P. Pytel spent the first half of 1995 in congestive heart failure. By June of that year, a Doppler echocardiogram revealed a calcium dome over his aorta was only allowing 20% of blood to flow. Following emergency surgery, his prognosis was still grim--too much damage was sustained to his heart. He was uninsurable, and his active duties as a parish priest would have to be severely curtailed

In October, Pytel joined a group in a healing service that called upon Faustina Kowalska, a Polish nun and mystic, to intervene on his behalf. After venerating a first-class relic of the Blessed Faustina, Pytel dropped to the floor, conscious, but unable to move a muscle for fifteen minutes. When he did arise, the pastor felt so good he laughed. Pytel’s next Doppler echocardiogram showed a normal heart.

What happened during that service? According to Pytel, it was the intercession of the Blessed Faustina that brought forth the healing power of Christ. In fact, this miracle ultimately led to Kowalska’s canonization.

3 posted on 09/03/2002 12:37:31 PM PDT by NYer
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To: Aliska; Matchett-PI; OrthodoxPresbyterian; RnMomof7
At a healing service in October 1995, he and a dozen church members were praying to her [Faustina]
Something positive to think about.

Let me get this straight; you think it is a positive thing when people idolize other people?!!?
5 posted on 09/03/2002 12:57:42 PM PDT by CCWoody
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To: Aliska
This is so beautiful!! Thank you Aliska for posting it.
63 posted on 09/03/2002 6:42:46 PM PDT by Lady In Blue
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