CASES OF STIGMATA - Fact or Fiction?

Sometimes the answers to our questions, are simple, and we don't need to look so hard. Why wouldnt Jesus appear to someone of "colour" not as "white" but as one of colour? Or maybe to someone who is Oriental, as Oriental etc.. Wouldn't it make more sense that God or his Angels etc.. appear as someone that would be of our culture or way to make us feel more comfortable? He may even speak to each of us in our own language? I had a miracle where Marie Rose Ferron, the stigmatist of Woonsocket, RI. came & spoke to me, I didn't even know who she was, but long story short, when I finally told someone, they asked me with much criticism & disbelief in their tone of voice, "did she speak to me in french or English?" I spoke the truth that she spoke in English and this person chalked me off as "lying" because Rose was french from Canada! That made sense to this person. Odd thing tho, how this person based believing my story on something as simple as whether Rose spoke to me in English or French as my thought later became, why would she speak to me in French, as I would have never ever understood her, I dont know French! She would have never got my attention that way! The same goes, I think, for stigmatists and their wounds.. Someone once told me God won't give you more than you can handle.. And noone ever can see God for his light is too powerful for anyone normal human being to bear. Well so arent his precious wounds! He was beaten far worst than any "criminal" had been in those days as an example. Remember, Pilate originally just wanted him beaten badly hoping that would appease the people to avoid putting him on the cross, because he didnt want to make a decision. His wife had haunting dreams & warned him not to put this man on the cross! So, He was beaten nearly to death with skin & tissue torn to bone! He was mocked so horribly and tortured so cruelly that no normal man would have been able to bear such treatment! You would have died of shock, horror and pain! I believe the reason why God allows stigmatism to happen on the people he did in the areas he did (as many have it just slightly different) is because of how God wants to "touch" the people that do view or experience it. We most certainly couldnt bear the full weight of his cross or his beatings for we can never be Jesus! You could also ask why some stigmatists, only get little "red, Puffy" spots where his wounds were and they only bleed slightly and why others like Therese Neumann suffered it so badly, profusely, and profound! She even bled through her eyes, yet I dont remember hearing a story of our Lord bleeding through his eyes and her pictures look so unbelievable. But just because I didnt hear or read of such a story, doesn't make it not true. Jesus was punched in the face, they shoved cruelly the thorns on his head so did it puncture his eyes, did his blood vessels break from the beatings etc.? I think our father has his stigmatics with different styled wounds for his own good reasons. Maybe his faithful servent has a weak left lung or right lung so he has the wound slightly different, it doesnt change Gods message or calling does it? Maybe God puts the wounds in the hands because so many pictures potrayed Jesus as having it in his hands, so to reach many of his children whom dont know him, he puts it where they can relate to it.. God knows his reasons, but his message & calling will always be the same! It's trully sad there are fakes out there who'd go at lengths for attention even betraying our trust when it comes to religion & God, but we must keep in mind what God said, "You will know me by my works" and you will also know I "false" prophet or person by this... God reveals the fakes in time.. It's the whole picture you must view of the person you are asking about, not just a small part. Padre Pio never waivered from his goodness & holiness or from the messages of God, that's how you know he was a real stigmatic & Saint! He always pointed to God and not himself! Those wounds, were as God intended, for his greater purpose to reach as many as he could. Some people wouldn't be able to handle viewing Therese Neuman as it may be too scary! Those people needed Padre Pios type of wounds to bring them closer to Jesus. God knows what we can handle, and what attracts whom, and I just believe he does accordingly. May God Bless you and all who read this.

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