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just don't feel it's deserved, I guess.
A genuine "thank you" should be genuinely accepted.
Mary
LOL, sometime in the future? there are at least three threads I could be bickering with you on right NOW!
Toast Mary. I'm sorry, but I chuckle every time I read that.
Amen to that!
Do you think todd bentley healing revival in FLA is the same?
The Supernatural with a Purpose for Humanity!
In recent history, apparitions by the Blessed Virgin Mary have been reported in unprecedented numbers, forms, and places. Many people mock them. Others disregard them as anti-intellectual. Still others explain them through New Age ideas of spiritual intentions of huge groups of people showing up, at the same time, with the same 'created reality', all seeing the same thing.
However, there are some apparitions that are neither easy to explain, nor easy to mock. The messages come true. What does it mean?
One proven and validated series of apparitions (Rwanda) had messages that were terrifying when told, horrifying when they came to pass.
The Fatima apparitions predicted another world war, even though WWI was supposed to be the 'war to end all wars'.' In these apparitions, Mary predicted the spreading of the errors of communism, if mankind didn't turn to God and renounce sin. We did, in fact, have another world war after the first one, and more besides. While communism seemed to have fallen discredited, it was not eliminated, but has since grown in power and wealth all throughout the world.
The terrors of this century just past were unprecedented in human history, and we're rapidly heading into worse.
In places all over the globe, Our Lady is working very hard to get our attention.
We owe it to ourselves and each other to at least take an intelligent look at some very stunning phenomenon. Why on earth are these things going on?
Zeitoun, Egypt
The Virgin Mary Appears to EVERYONE!
Everyone saw this. Politicians. News Reporters. Muslims. Skeptics. Tourists. Athiests. Coptics. Orthodox. Catholics. Jews. Absolutely EVERYONE saw, and could photograph this two-years duration apparition.
Starting on the eve of the 2nd of April, 1968, and lasting for two years, these apparitions took many forms including: (paraphrased or quoted directly from the website as eyewitnesses)
1. Mary first appeared in full luminous stature,wearing a long robe extending to below Her feet. She was often surrounded by bright stars, and at other times She had a shawl about Her head, and Her hands were extended forward. She was seen blessing the people who gathered to observe the miracle by waving Her hands and nodding Her holy head. At other times, She had an olive branch in Her hand. (Zeitoun is a transliterated Arabic word meaning olives. See Genesis 8:11)
2. The Virgin would walk all over the church roof, especially over the middle dome, and bowed prayerfully in front of the cross that shone, then, with a bright light.
3. She often made Her apparition with the Baby Jesus Christ in Her arms. It is not strange to see the Child Jesus Christ in an apparition; heavenly apparitions may take forms known to us, so that we can understand them.
4. The apparitions of the Virgin were accompanied with, or preceded by, the appearance of white doves that circled the church. Sometimes a lightning-like light appeared. It shone for a while and then disappeared. At other times, a luminous mist spread everywhere and it gave off the strong pleasant scent of incense that pervaded the whole place.
Unusual phenomena taking place at the time of the apparitions:
1.Doves: They differ from the normal pigeons in that they are able to fly at night; larger in size, different in shape. They appear from nowhere, do not flap their wings as they fly and disappear as they came.
2. Stars and Glowing Balls of Light: They are bigger than the usual stars and would descend quickly on the church. They were spherical in shape or like lanterns.
3. Light: appeared over the domes. It was orange or light blue. It encircled the church like a sacred halo.
4. The Cross: Though opaque, it glowed over the big dome with a phosphorescent light. Often, a very white cross appeared over one of the domes or over the Virgin Herself as She made Her apparitions.
5. Incense: Permeated the area with a strong pleasing smell and white colour.
6. Clouds: Appeared over the domes, sometimes taking the form of the Virgin.
Joab friend ME thinks you may be toasted...
jk
