Posted on 10/25/2014 9:19:13 AM PDT by millegan
I’ll call him Fr. John. He was a charismatic Anglo Catholic priest.
A friend of my brother Daryl’s we’ll call Henry died suddenly in a plane crash and he was upset because although Henry was a believer he was away from God when he died.
So Fr. John said, “We have to have a requiem Mass for Henry.”
They went into church and locked the door for privacy’s sake. Another priest we’ll call Fr. George celebrated the Mass.
Henry was about twenty years old. He was just over five foot tall with a shock of blonde hair and a wide face with freckles.
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[ I had a girl ask me if I saw people that were not there. I asked her what she saw and she said people dressed in old cloths. I asked her if they looked at her. and she said no. There are man people with “gifts” that have not developed them. ]
There is a theory that “Ghosts” are Extra Dimensional “Leakage” and that in cases like this they are seeing people from an alternate timeline that has society in a less technologically developed state...
But it does not follow that God actually sends the dead back to visit the living. I am not aware of this happening in scripture or any verified instance in history. The Devil seems to have an interest in it, but as far as I know God does not choose to do this.
But, yeah, He could. He just doesn't.
“I saw Santa Claus.”
Was Mommy kissing him?
What an interesting thought; “God can use the dead to accomplish His will if He so chooses.” That’s probably true. The simplest way would be by our studying history and learning the patterns of causation and effect.
An abomination to God. Considered Witchcraft....not acceptable in Scripture.
You’re psychic. My mother was like that when she was young - it passed off as she got older.
Jesus told the disciples, how can I tell you of the things of heaven when you do not understand things on Earth? There is so much that we do not understand. I won’t criticize someone else because I do not know everything myself.
Maybe in a vision or dream as a message, but not in human form or by a medium...that’s an abomination.
There could be something to this. In the Bible wasn’t is Saul who got the fortuneteller to dredge up a dead prophet who became incensed and pronounced a curse on him for disturbing his rest? It may well be that there is a transition period, sort of like a bedtime ritual.
Happy Halloween, all :)
May you be visited by many happy little goblins, and may your mailboxes still be standing by morning!
No, it doesn’t but we just need to look at
Peter and see that he was gifted several times with the Holy Spirit and then he relied on his own understanding and messed up, then he relied on his own fear and then realized what Jesus said and got back on track.
“God can do anything.”
No, He can’t. God cannot do any inherent logical contradiction. God cannot, for instance, make a rock so big that He cannot lift it.
“But it does not follow that God actually sends the dead back to visit the living.”
“follow” has nothing to do with it.
“I am not aware of this happening in scripture or any verified instance in history.”
Your level of awareness is not an arbitrator of God’s actions or abilities. Scroll down to the hand print photos: http://www.traditioninaction.org/religious/e048-Museum_1.htm
“The Devil seems to have an interest in it, but as far as I know God does not choose to do this.”
Again, your level of awareness is not an arbitrator of God’s actions or abilities.
“But, yeah, He could. He just doesn’t.”
Your level of awareness is not an arbitrator of God’s actions or abilities.
I am not very religeous, but not an athiest or agnostic either, but I have always viewed the Ouija as something evil I’m 62 and have never allowed one in my home. Never will.
“testy. guess you got busted supporting something completely unBiblical.”
testy. guess you got busted posting something about someone that wasn’t true.
Those things are creepy.
Peter, James and John saw Moses and Elijah.
We have visited several battlefields and I always get a creepy feelings but I have never seen anything. Custers Last Stand Battlefield was the worst. We lived in Yorktown VA for 2 years and I drove across the battle field every day and never saw anything.
Seeing our friend on the ranch was not creepy because he was our good friend and a good Christian man. My husband was doubtful when I told him what I had seen......... until I told him what Eugene was wearing. He was wearing a green cotton workshirt that my mother in law had given to him, and all the others who worked on the ranch including my husband. That was before we were married so I would never have known.
I think that it was not a demonic apparition, but the person as described. Saint Paul wrote in First Corinthians, Chapter 12 about the 9 gifts of the Spirit that we are given gifts by His and our Father. We must use them wisely. I am in complete agreement with the ‘why’ as written by Fr. Longenecker:
“A person might have a psychic gift and yield it to Satan and let it be used in spiritualism, fortune telling or some other occult activity.”
“On the other hand, it can be yielded to God and used for healing, discernment, reading of souls and spiritual direction.”
“Padre Pio clearly had astounding gifts which he yielded to God.”
“The problem with such people is that very often the very gifts they have set them apart and they have a very difficult spiritual path to follow.”
“We should never seek such gifts, but if we have them we must yield them to God and allow the Spirit to develop them through a serious life of prayer and holiness so that these gifts might be transformed by the Holy Spirit.”
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