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Two items, from the mailbag.
You may have seen, firstly, the little video clip we ran of an SUV sailing over a car driven by an elderly priest, on his way to celebrate Mass. Talk about a “brush” with death!
As a service called Catholic News Agency reported, “Eighty-seven-year-old Father John Bok, OFM, escaped a major collision on Oct. 2, 2022, in Milford, Ohio, when an SUV went airborne and flew over his car. Now retired — although he considers himself ‘semi’ retired — Bok still helps to serve Mass at St. Andrew Catholic Church. On Oct. 2, he was on his way to celebrate 9 a.m. Mass on the Feast of the Guardian Angels. It was about 8:40 a.m. when Bok was nearing the church. That’s when something went wrong with another driver.”
How possibly could the SUV have gone airborne, on a relatively flat surface after mowing down a flimsy street sign?
“I slowed the video down and went frame by frame,” writes viewer Bruce McKay, “and sure enough, the angel is there under the front of the car until the priest is beyond danger. Why else would a car jump into the air like that after hitting just a small obstruction, I thought?”
Is that just dust — or an angel (or Christ) holding the SUV up?
You decide. (The priest hadn’t even realized that a vehicle took flight over him!)
And then there’s the sweet Virgin Mary.
This month (November 27) we recall her incredible apparitions in a chapel in Paris to Saint Catherine Labouré in 1830. The apparitions were approved by the Church just six years later.
Continued below.
Is This What Mary Looked Like?
You may have seen, firstly, the little video clip we ran of an SUV sailing over a car driven by an elderly priest, on his way to celebrate Mass. Talk about a “brush” with death!
As a service called Catholic News Agency reported, “Eighty-seven-year-old Father John Bok, OFM, escaped a major collision on Oct. 2, 2022, in Milford, Ohio, when an SUV went airborne and flew over his car. Now retired — although he considers himself ‘semi’ retired — Bok still helps to serve Mass at St. Andrew Catholic Church. On Oct. 2, he was on his way to celebrate 9 a.m. Mass on the Feast of the Guardian Angels. It was about 8:40 a.m. when Bok was nearing the church. That’s when something went wrong with another driver.”
How possibly could the SUV have gone airborne, on a relatively flat surface after mowing down a flimsy street sign?
“I slowed the video down and went frame by frame,” writes viewer Bruce McKay, “and sure enough, the angel is there under the front of the car until the priest is beyond danger. Why else would a car jump into the air like that after hitting just a small obstruction, I thought?”
Is that just dust — or an angel (or Christ) holding the SUV up?
You decide. (The priest hadn’t even realized that a vehicle took flight over him!)
And then there’s the sweet Virgin Mary.
This month (November 27) we recall her incredible apparitions in a chapel in Paris to Saint Catherine Labouré in 1830. The apparitions were approved by the Church just six years later.
Continued below.
Is This What Mary Looked Like?