Man Dies and Returns to Life on the Operating Table (video)

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After a massive heart attack took this man's life, the cardiologist felt an overwhelming urge to pray over his body. Miraculously, he returned to life with no medical explanation. Amazing.

Miracle of the Holy Fire, Jerusalem 2011 (video)

Holy Saturday in Jerusalem, 2011. The Holy Fire is a thousand year old tradition where a fire miraculously appears in the tomb of Jesus on the Saturday before Easter and then is spread by candles throughout the city.


Reuters report on the 2011 occurrence of the miracle of the Holy Fire which occurs only on Eastern Orthodox Paskha (it just so happens that Western Easter happens the same Sunday as Orthodox Pascha this year)


If videos fail click here or go to http://divine-ripples.blogspot.com/2011/04/miracle-of-holy-fire-jerusalem-2011.html

From http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=217670

Christians celebrate Holy Fire ceremony
By JONAH MANDEL
04/24/2011 02:02

10,000 worshipers crowd into Jerusalem's Church of Holy Sepulchre to mark ceremony in lead-up to Easter holiday
Hours of tense waiting, fatigue and rivalry turned instantaneously to joy and relief when the densely packed Church of the Holy Sepulchre was lit up on Saturday afternoon with fire, swiftly spreading between the Christians attending the Holy Fire ceremony.

Police estimated that at least 10,000 worshipers crowded the ancient church in Jerusalem’s Old City, which is, according to Christian tradition, the site of Jesus’s burial and resurrection.

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The ceremony is the holiest event for the Orthodox Christian sects, as evident in the heavy presence of Greek, Russian, Armenian, Coptic and Syrian Christians, with some Catholics also visible in the crowd.

As the anticipant believers – many of whom had been in the complex since the early morning – waited behind police barriers keeping the groups apart and the pathways free for the clergymen, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, Theofilos III, accompanied by a senior Armenian priest, exited the Edicule, a small structure within the church marking Jesus’s grave, with burning candles.

These were used to light three more candles borne by young men – one who sprinted to light the candle of a senior clergyman, and the other two, who touched the candles outstretched by the believers, whistling and yelling their enthusiasm as bells began to toll and the air became thick with smoke.

Burning candles will also be flown out to Orthodox communities throughout the world.

The faithful believe that it is through divine intervention that the first flame comes to life – much like Jesus did at the same spot a day after his crucifixion, marked by Saturday’s midnight Easter Mass.

“This was fantastic,” beamed Sambart, a physician from Armenia, who was one of the young men ensuring ahead of the ceremony that the Armenians received the meters of church space that were their due. It is his fourth time in Jerusalem for the ceremony.

“Everyone must see it,” he said. “I feel stronger.”

Other people swiftly passed a hand through the fire burning on their multi-wicked candles, then wiped their faces and heads. “I feel clean, pure, like I was just born,” another man from Russia said.

To Andrew, a member of a group of Russian Orthodox Christians from Belarus who was attending the Holy Fire for the first time, “the fire represents that life prevails over death,” and “the ceremony shows the unity of the Orthodox Church.”

Tensions between different Greek and Armenian Orthodox Christians have in the past climaxed in fights within the church, which is run by a status- quo committee composed of members of those churches as well as Roman Catholics.

Copts, Assyrians and Ethiopians Orthodox also bear certain rights to the building, which contains various chambers built, destroyed and rebuilt since the fourth century, when the site was destined a church.

But on Sunday, the peace was well kept between the laymen of these groups, although there was the inevitable vying for a better view of the ceremonial action. Policemen heavily deployed throughout the church, carrying small fireextinguishers on their backs, ensured that none of the enthused pilgrims went beyond their destined limits, and the entire ceremony was broadcast live throughout the world.

Sami, a Maronite Catholic from Jaffa who came to be part of the ceremony but didn’t carry a candle, noted that Easter fell on the same day for Catholics and Orthodox Christians, an event that happens on average once every three years due to the different calendars used by the groups.

“To me,” he said, “the most important part of the event is the unity between the different parts of the church.”

Visions and Miracles Out of the Land of Egypt

If video fails, click here or go to http://divine-ripples.blogspot.com/2011/02/visions-and-miracles-out-of-land-of.html

Inspired by the miracles that began at the Church of Zeitoun in Egypt in the 1960’s, where a visage of Mary holding baby Jesus persisted on a ceiling despite cleaning, painting and construction, as well as other persistent events of visions, including church rooftop illumination outlining the mother Mary; a statue of Mary crying an oily substance that seems to have healing powers… Visions of Miracles examines how unexplained events in the most unlikely places prompt revitalization of faith, for the faithful and skeptics alike, demonstrating the presence of unexplained mysteries we call miracles in ways that defy both reason and explanation. Best selling author and filmmaker Paul Perry takes us on a journey of discovery deep inside the mystery and wonder of faith, providing visual and material examination/"God Reminds us of His presence through Visions and Miracles"
— Pope Shenouda III
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Eucharistic Miracle Captured on Tape

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Video description: Miracle captured on video by Daniel Sanford of New Jersey. On 11/13/98, as part of the pilgrimage, he went to see the Bleeding Host of Betania at the Chapel of the Augustinian Nuns in Los Teques. The Spiritual Director, Father Mazzarella, said Daily Mass. When they finished, he opened the Tabernacle door, which contained the Bleeding Host. The Host was in flames, bleeding, and there was a pulsating heart bleeding in the center of the Host. Daniel watched this for about 30 seconds or so, then the Host returned to normal. HOWEVER, He did manage to film this miracle with his camcorder!
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Scientific tests make Guadalupe image even more mysterious

Our Lady left this image on the tilma of St. Juan Diego.  Centuries later, it has been subjected under scientific tests and investigations.  The video shows the results of these efforts i.e. even more facts that make the source and nature of the image more mysterious.  I truly believe in its divine origin.  If video fails, go to http://divine-ripples.blogspot.com/2010/12/scientific-tests-make-guadalupe-image.html

The ayate fibers used by the Aztecs at that time deteriorated after 20 years. Richard Kuhn (1900--1967), a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, stated in his report of the tilma that it had not been painted with natural, animal, or mineral colorings.

THE MYSTERY OF HER EYES.
In January 2001, Dr. Jose Aste Tonsmann, now with the Mexican Center of Guadalupan Studies, revealed at a conference at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome that advances in digital photography now revealed that the images in the Virgin's eyes were those assembled with Bishop Juan de Zumarraga, when Juan Diego first unfurled his tilma and displayed the miraculous image.

By magnifying the iris of the Virgin's eyes 2,500 times and, through mathematical and optical procedures, Aste Tonsmann feels that he is able to identify all the people imprinted in the eyes. In other words, the Virgin's eyes bear a kind of instant photograph of what occurred the moment the image was unveiled before the bishop.

On March 27, 1956, Dr. Javier Torroella Bueno, a prestigious ophthalmologist, certified the presence of the triple reflection (Samson-Purkinje effect) characteristic of all live human eyes and stated that the resulting images of the bearded man were located precisely where they should be according to such an effect.

Bueno also pointed out that the distortion of the images agreed with the normal curvature of the cornea.

In that same year, another experienced ophthalmologist, Dr. Rafael Torrija Lavoignet, using an ophthalmoscope, studied the apparent human figure in the corneas of both eyes, with the location and distortion of a normal human eye, and found that the Virgin's eyes appeared "strangely alive" when he examined them.

While working at IBM in 1979, Dr. Jose Aste Tonsmann, a graduate of environmental systems engineering of Cornell University, scanned a photograph of the Virgin's face on the tilma and was astonished to discover what he believed to be other human figures reflected in the eyes.

Aste Tonsmann has since theorized that Our Lady of Guadalupe not only left a miraculous image as proof of her apparition to Juan Diego, but may also have left some important messages hidden in her eyes that could not be revealed until new technologies would permit them to be discovered.

In 1979 Philip Serna Callahan studied the icon with infrared light and stated that portions of the face, hands, robe, and mantle had been painted in one step, with no sketches or corrections and no paintbrush strokes.

HER FOOT RESTED ON THE CRESCENT MOON
She had clearly crushed Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent god.

THE STARS STREWN ACROSS THE MANTLE.
She was greater than the stars of heaven which they worshipped. She was a virgin and the Queen of the heavens for Virgo rests over her womb and the northern crown upon her head. She appeared on December 12, 1531 and the stars that she wears on her mantle are the constellations of the stars that appeared in the sky that day.

THE BLACK CROSS ON THE BROOCH AT HER NECK
Her God was that of the Spanish Missionaries, Jesus Christ her son who died on the cross.

THE BLACK LACE
she wears the Aztec black Maternity lace around her belly.

THE FOUR PETAL FLOWER OVER THE WOMB
She was the Mother of God because the flower was a special symbol of life, movement and deity. The center of the universe.

HER HANDS ARE JOINED IN PRAYER
She is not God, but clearly there is one greater than Her.
She points her finger to the cross on her brooch.

Video: 4 yr. old physically saved by Jesus from car accident

Watch the parents' account on how their 4 year-old daughter was saved by Jesus himself from a car accident.  Praise God. 

Description:  A horrific car accident leads to a miraculous encounter after the driver of an SUV ran into a music store where 4-year-old Elise was sitting playing the drums. Jesus Himself picked her up and moved her to safety.

Video: Miraculous Image of Guadalupe (church approved)

Description by Brigadier Cristero:

The ayate fibers used by the Aztecs at that time deteriorated after 20 years. Richard Kuhn (1900--1967), a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, stated in his report of the tilma that it had not been painted with natural, animal, or mineral colorings.

THE MYSTERY OF HER EYES.
In January 2001, Dr. Jose Aste Tonsmann, now with the Mexican Center of Guadalupan Studies, revealed at a conference at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome that advances in digital photography now revealed that the images in the Virgin's eyes were those assembled with Bishop Juan de Zumarraga, when Juan Diego first unfurled his tilma and displayed the miraculous image.

By magnifying the iris of the Virgin's eyes 2,500 times and, through mathematical and optical procedures, Aste Tonsmann feels that he is able to identify all the people imprinted in the eyes. In other words, the Virgin's eyes bear a kind of instant photograph of what occurred the moment the image was unveiled before the bishop.

On March 27, 1956, Dr. Javier Torroella Bueno, a prestigious ophthalmologist, certified the presence of the triple reflection (Samson-Purkinje effect) characteristic of all live human eyes and stated that the resulting images of the bearded man were located precisely where they should be according to such an effect.

Bueno also pointed out that the distortion of the images agreed with the normal curvature of the cornea.

In that same year, another experienced ophthalmologist, Dr. Rafael Torrija Lavoignet, using an ophthalmoscope, studied the apparent human figure in the corneas of both eyes, with the location and distortion of a normal human eye, and found that the Virgin's eyes appeared "strangely alive" when he examined them.

While working at IBM in 1979, Dr. Jose Aste Tonsmann, a graduate of environmental systems engineering of Cornell University, scanned a photograph of the Virgin's face on the tilma and was astonished to discover what he believed to be other human figures reflected in the eyes.

Aste Tonsmann has since theorized that Our Lady of Guadalupe not only left a miraculous image as proof of her apparition to Juan Diego, but may also have left some important messages hidden in her eyes that could not be revealed until new technologies would permit them to be discovered.

In 1979 Philip Serna Callahan studied the icon with infrared light and stated that portions of the face, hands, robe, and mantle had been painted in one step, with no sketches or corrections and no paintbrush strokes.

HER FOOT RESTED ON THE CRESCENT MOON
She had clearly crushed Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent god.

THE STARS STREWN ACROSS THE MANTLE.
She was greater than the stars of heaven which they worshipped. She was a virgin and the Queen of the heavens for Virgo rests over her womb and the northern crown upon her head. She appeared on December 12, 1531 and the stars that she wears on her mantle are the constellations of the stars that appeared in the sky that day.

THE BLACK CROSS ON THE BROOCH AT HER NECK
Her God was that of the Spanish Missionaries, Jesus Christ her son who died on the cross.

THE BLACK LACE
she wears the Aztec black Maternity lace around her belly.

THE FOUR PETAL FLOWER OVER THE WOMB
She was the Mother of God because the flower was a special symbol of life, movement and deity. The center of the universe.

HER HANDS ARE JOINED IN PRAYER
She is not God, but clearly there is one greater than Her.
She points her finger to the cross on her brooch.

Click here for the source or type http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cha-cE8lBI

Video: The Miracle of Damascus (church approved)

Video links: for part one click  here or type http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOx_xBSn1Rk

Video links: for part two click here or type http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpUpgf8Ui1E

Video links: for part 3 click here or type http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOyNVfPjo7E



From video description by Mary Ann Button
May we all be one on Earth as Christ is One with the Father in Heaven. This begins with forgiving and loving one another.

Catholic Digital Studio has been given permission from Rick Salbato of Unity Publishing to re-produce and re-cut this 5 1/2 hour documentary series, The Miracle of Damascus, about a church-approved Marian apparition and a Syrian mystic named Myrna Nazzour. She has stigmata, experiences visions of both the Blessed Mother and Jesus, and exudes Olive Oil with healing properties, from her face, hands and eyes.

The Icon of Soufanieh also exudes the same oil, which has healed and blessed a vast multitude.

Myrna is from the Byzantine Rite of the Catholic Church, specifically Melkite. A Rite represents a church tradition about how the sacraments are to be celebrated. The Catholic Church has four major Rites: Roman, Antiochean, Alexandrian and Byzantine.

Byzantine.net defines the Byzantine Catholic Church and its history, "... As the disciples brought the Gospel to different parts of the world, they adapted ceremonies of the Liturgy to the customs and music of that people. In the end, four great centers of Christianity emerged with distinctive Christian customs, but the same faith. These centers were located in the great cities of Jerusalem, Antioch, Rome and Alexandria. A couple of centuries later when the capital of the Roman empire was moved to the Eastern city of Byzantium and renamed Constantinople, an adaptation of the Antioch way of celebrating Liturgy was made. Thus a new center of Christianity arose in Constantinople and her ritual became known as the Byzantine Rite. From Constantinople the Slavic peoples of Eastern Europe were converted by Sts. Cyril and Methodius and naturally followed the Byzantine Rite. Today the Byzantine Rite is subdivided into ecclesiastical jurisdictions based on ethnic groupings, such as Greek, Ukrainian, Ruthenian, Russian, etc."

The film has an Imprimatur and the messages have a Nihil Obstat (no error).

This story is very touching and is pertinent to the unity of all Christians. God wants Christians united under one flock, one visible shepherd, most especially Catholicism and Orthodoxy. The video teaches about love, prayer and forgiveness, living out the Gospel Message through a love-willed and love-centered life.

To learn more about Myrna Nazzour see
http://www.soufanieh.com/
http://www.unitypublishing.com
http://www.catholicdigitalstudio.com

The last site, Catholic Digital Studio, has a free Online Catholic Library, Myrna's videos and other Catholic Videos, apologetics resources, catechisms and Online Bible Catholic studies. Come and check us out.

Reported Eucharistic Miracle at Mumbai, India

A Eucharistic Miracle was reported at Tabor Ashram (Mumbai, India): Drops of Water and Blood during the Holy Eucharist
(Monday, 27th August, 2007)

On 27th August 2007 in the presence of around 60 retreatants (of a special English Growth Retreat) when Fr. Joby was con-celebrating Mass along with Fr. Anto (who himself was a retreatant), during the Epiclesis [that part of the prayer of consecration of the Eucharistic elements (bread and wine) by which the priest invokes the Holy Spirit] when Fr Joby invoked the the Holy Spirit, he noticed many drops of water and blood on the altar cloth. He immediately announced to the congregation that Jesus was pouring out His Blood and Water and continued with the Holy Mass.

Read more here

http://glorify-god.com/specials/miracle-at-tabor-divine-retreat-ashram/

Another account with more pictures here

http://taborashram.org/sections/view/0/21

The extraordinary became ordinary & vice-versa; the big & little ways

My novice master mentioned that the one pushing for the canonization of St. John Bosco resented the fact that St. John Bosco performed too many miracles. I forgot why. Was it supposed to be done for special occasions only - for big stuff like cancer? I know that if I have a gift to heal, I would quit my job and just heal all day long. I think everyone I know will do the same. So, I don’t get it. If you want to read about St. John Bosco, you can go to Salesiana Publishers on the web. He died at 1888, so there are actual photos of him. He was also ordered by the pope to write his memoirs. The accounts about his encounters with the devil is not far from what is shown in the movies – except that they’re real.
(Picture: St. John Bosco (1888) hearing confessions.)

I don’t have any miracles to report, only “coincidences” that I’ve blogged about earlier. My model, Bo, has a lot more and he has published them at http://bosanchez.ph/category/blogs/ It appears that miracles happened because he followed God’s leadings - no matter how impractical e.g. he felt that God wanted him to buy this woman a ticket. He was ready to do it at the cost of being stranded in Israel. And the stories go on.

In the video, Bo talks about just that – inviting everyone to stop being indifferent and to dedicate oneself to service.

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFpHfhjGs2A )

(Video: Bo Sanchez on a talk about overcoming indifference.)

I have friends like Ed Tiong who organizes a Filipino Ministry in VA and Ed Deausen leads a prayer group of couples and calls every one once a week to encourage them in the faith. Then there are my former companions in the Salesian Congregation who dedicated themselves with vows to educate and evangelize the young. I think they’re making miracles too – not just as awe-inspiring. For me, I am down to driving my kids to Catechism and bringing them to Mass on Sundays and confessions every now and then. I lead the prayers and teach them the ways of God. But between that and putting bread on the table, I have a few hours keeping in touch with friends over the internet. Somehow, I feel that to be acceptable too.

I remember on the last day of my Novitiate, my novice master suggested that we make 3 resolutions. I made 2 and asked him to suggest a third. He said, “Be extra-ordinarily ordinary.” It does not mean to be mediocre or so-so; rather, it means to do ordinary things with extraordinary love. I guess that’s the “little way” of St. Therese of the Child Jesus; it’s not as awesome and earth shaking as St. Francis or St. Peter.

So if the extra-ordinary became ordinary for St. John Bosco, we can make the ordinary extra-ordinary.

Being Jesus the husband & daddy

This morning, I read about 6 young women & their quest to serve God  in

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/01/21/DI2009012102496.html

Back in 1993, Albert Herbert  lists more than 20 visionaries & stigmatists in the book “The Visionaries –USA- Today”.  And you have probably seen the video “Marian Apparitions of the 20th Century” that documents our Lady’s “recent” apparitions in Zeitun, Medugorje, Kibeho, Garabandal & Akita.  Then there’s the 200+ who were canonized by the late John Paul II.  If you check out:  http://www.usccb.org/pope/canon.htm  , you’ll see quite a diverse population. 

I ‘ve heard of a family whose teenage daughter would go into a prayerful trance neither eating, sleeping nor doing anything else for hours, even days.  The family is keeping it quiet & understandably so.  And I’ve met people whom I or others consider saintly:  a pastor - Fr. McGreedy, a novice master - Fr. Cogliandro, a CEO of Fiat & a Carmelite nun.  There’s an aura, a refreshing joy, a deep & constant serenity about them.  It must be the transforming union with God referred to in spiritual theology.

What’s cool about it is that everyone is meant to be filled with God – maybe in that way or another.  When I sought how, Fr. Cogliandro, shared with me what the Lord told a perturbed Salesian sister in a vision.  “Live the present moment with love” was the Lord’s counsel to her.  And since I tend to pick up on the weird stuff (like St. Francis stripping), he suggested that I be “extraordinarily ordinary.”   It does not mean to be mediocre but rather, to be holy in an unnoticeable way by fulfilling my duties with great diligence.

I think this still holds true even now.  If I can be so united with Jesus, then that will be the best thing that I can be & do for my wife & kids as is written in John 17:19 “And for them I make myself holy, so that they may be made truly holy. “

May the Queen of all saints pray for the graces that we need to be saints today.