Leo Volont
Registered Senior Member
Modern Miracles
It is the constant din of the Materialist’s argument that the theist has not been able to prove the existence of God. Well, untrue. It is simply that the Materialist will not accept the proofs which are offered. Remember how the Scholastic Church used to dismiss the Heliocentric Models of the Solar System in favor of the Aristotelian Ptolemaic Models of Geocentricity – that they would deny that the Sun was the center of the solar system; and why? Well, they already had their answer. Their model even presented with mathematics, and actual mechanical clock-like devices could be made that could reproduce and predict all the actual movements in the sky, at least well enough to satisfy themselves. And Earth was always in the center of the mix. As far as they cared, they already had the Truth, thank you very much Galileo, Kepler and Copernicus. Well, today the shoe is well on the other foot and it is Religion which demands Empirical Attention to Actual Events, Phenomena and Occurrences which would demonstrate Divine Supernaturalism. But Science dodges the issue by exerting an ‘a priori’ reasoning which goes something like this – since Miracles are impossible, then it is impossible for a Miracle to ever happen, and so therefore Miracles do not happen – they do not exist because they cannot exist, and any God that is predicated upon Miracles likewise would not exist. No need to even look up from out of their logic book. They can refute the Providentiality of the Divine without ever going beyond a formulation of words – it is as though they are attempting to protect themselves by casting a Spell or chanting a magic formula.
You do see what is happening there, don’t you? Logic is being used to dismiss Empirical Evidence, just as formerly a Scholastic Logic was used to dismiss Science. That was when Science, still vibrant in its youth, was still Empirical, before Science corrupted into the very thing it once stood against – a Bulwark of Dogma, in this case using a construct of words, a sophistry of logic, in order to dodge the evidence of eyes, ears, testimony, witnesses, documentation, reports, sworn affidavits, libraries replete with what cannot be honestly referred to as anything but considerable Data confirming the Miraculous, the Calling Card of God.
I would suggest anybody who wishes to be convinced of the Miraculous to do a study of two particular Apparitional Complexes – first, Our Lady of Guadalupe, and then Our Lady of Fatima. Our Lady of Guadalupe is unique in that Miraculous ‘residue’ has been left behind for our scientific examination. Our Lady had created an Image of Herself on a canvass of very coarse burlap that should have rotted away in less than 20 years, but still remains after almost 500 years. The colors that form the Image shift and change, like those of an oil slick, and study shows that no paints or pigments were used to form the Miraculous Image, but that the Image seems to have grown out of the very molecules of the cloth fibers, more like the chemical and molecular processes of a photograph than anything we know of in painting or drawing. And Science has had it close by in Mexico City for the last 4 or 5 Centuries, clear Proof of the Miraculous while they simply pretend it never happened and doesn’t exist.
There is also the remarkable story of what had occurred during one of many of the Revolutions in Mexico, fomented by those tirelessly evil Free Masons. A time bomb consisting of a large flower vase, filled to the brim with nitroglycerin was set off on the very altar of the Basilica just beneath the glass casing of the apparently fragile Image. Well, miraculously enough, especially to our modern sensibility of just how much damage bombs are capable of, nobody was hurt, though windows blew out and chunks of marble wall flew asunder. Mass was being celebrated at the time and so Priest and altar boys and such who were only inches away from the center of the explosion, who would have been expected to be blown to shreds – even vaporized – but when smoke and dust cleared, there they stood, as well as those startled parishioners in the front pews. The large brass crucifix set beside the altar was bent up into an indiscernible twisted piece of junk. But the glass case that held the image, a few feet away, was not even cracked… didn’t even show a smudge. The smoke cleared and everybody present knew of the extent of the Miracle they had just experienced. But Science wouldn’t acknowledge the Miracle… heck, they would not even acknowledge that it was they who had set the bomb.
The second complex of Miracles I would like to point out surround the Apparition of Our Lady of Fatima Portugal, particularly the last Miracle of a series of Miracles that occurred over a period of six months. The Miracle of the Sun of October 13th, 1917 was witnessed, on the spot, by a crowd of 75,000 witnesses, many of whom were skeptics, partisans of an Anti-Catholic Revolution then besetting Portugal… they had come to hoot and holler, but instead they became reluctant witnesses to what they would have preferred not to believe had they not seen it with their own eyes. Then, over a dimension of approximately 500 square miles, people who had chosen rather to stay at home then be involved with the Apparition that had become the constant talk of the entire Country, they were startled when they also were able to look up and witness the Miracle of the Sun up in the sky – a Dancing of the Sun in a splendor of unexpected colors, which included prospects of the Sun diving at the earth as though it were the end of the World. Perhaps part of the Miracle involves the demarcation of the line between those who witnessed a Spectacular Miracle and those a county line away who had an ordinary day and saw nothing. For instance, those in Spain, a few miles away, had not the slightest clue of why those across the invisible line to the West were looking up into the sky.
Little is spoken concerning a strange auxiliary miracle that also happened. You see, it had been raining all the night before and all morning up until minutes before the scheduled Apparition. All of Europe had seen this storm, and the soldiers of the First World War were drenched and cold in their trenches. The people gathered at Fatima were likewise sopping wet, and standing to their ankles in mud stirred up by a milling crowd of 75,000. The Apparition and the Miracle of the Sun lasted only 20 minutes, which means that the constant rain had only suspended itself by no more than a half an hour. But EVERYBODY took note that at the close of the Miracle, they and the ground beneath them were entirely warm and dry. Cars that had been in mud up to their axles a moment before were now raising dust in their drive away. Every coat, shirt and even sock and boot were bone dry. It was not a spectacular Miracle, but just something of a nice gift that Our Lady could leave this vast crowd, that they should reflect upon the Miracle they had just witnessed in reasonable creature comfort.
Then we have the Results. The imminent Socialist Anti-Clerical Revolution in Portugal fizzled out. The World Media, packed with Free Masons, was able to isolate the Miracle’s influence to the borders of Portugal, but in Portugal itself the Media and the Masons a great deal of their atheistic influence and would never entirely gain it back. As a reward for their return to Religion, Portugal would be saved from any of the turmoil of World War Two… indeed, one can note that every Loyal Catholic Country was able to avoid World War Two. All of Central and South America, under the Protection of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and Portugal, Ireland, and to a limited extent Spain – these nations would retain in Peace. All those previously Catholic Nations then ruled by Free Masonic controlled Parliaments were sucked into the War.
There are other Miracles which could be discussed, but any sincere search for such wonderful phenomena can progress well enough without any further comment from my keyboard, though if anybody would appreciate my opinions on this or that which they may uncover… don’t hesitate to ask.
Also, I should point out that Catholic Prophecy foretells of a coming Great Miracle that the World Media will not have the tenacity to ignore. This coming Great Miracle will also leave a Miraculous Residue which will attest to the certitude of its Supernatural Origins. Part of the Prophecy is that a core group of Atheists, though slapped in the face by more than ample Proof, will choose to adhere to their Atheism simply because they have too great an emotional investment in their Doctrine of Hate to give it up simply because it is not true. That had never worried them before.
References:
http://www.fatima.org/essentials/facts/default.asp
http://www.catholicism.org/brmichael-guadalupe.html
http://www.apparitions.org/#codes
It is the constant din of the Materialist’s argument that the theist has not been able to prove the existence of God. Well, untrue. It is simply that the Materialist will not accept the proofs which are offered. Remember how the Scholastic Church used to dismiss the Heliocentric Models of the Solar System in favor of the Aristotelian Ptolemaic Models of Geocentricity – that they would deny that the Sun was the center of the solar system; and why? Well, they already had their answer. Their model even presented with mathematics, and actual mechanical clock-like devices could be made that could reproduce and predict all the actual movements in the sky, at least well enough to satisfy themselves. And Earth was always in the center of the mix. As far as they cared, they already had the Truth, thank you very much Galileo, Kepler and Copernicus. Well, today the shoe is well on the other foot and it is Religion which demands Empirical Attention to Actual Events, Phenomena and Occurrences which would demonstrate Divine Supernaturalism. But Science dodges the issue by exerting an ‘a priori’ reasoning which goes something like this – since Miracles are impossible, then it is impossible for a Miracle to ever happen, and so therefore Miracles do not happen – they do not exist because they cannot exist, and any God that is predicated upon Miracles likewise would not exist. No need to even look up from out of their logic book. They can refute the Providentiality of the Divine without ever going beyond a formulation of words – it is as though they are attempting to protect themselves by casting a Spell or chanting a magic formula.
You do see what is happening there, don’t you? Logic is being used to dismiss Empirical Evidence, just as formerly a Scholastic Logic was used to dismiss Science. That was when Science, still vibrant in its youth, was still Empirical, before Science corrupted into the very thing it once stood against – a Bulwark of Dogma, in this case using a construct of words, a sophistry of logic, in order to dodge the evidence of eyes, ears, testimony, witnesses, documentation, reports, sworn affidavits, libraries replete with what cannot be honestly referred to as anything but considerable Data confirming the Miraculous, the Calling Card of God.
I would suggest anybody who wishes to be convinced of the Miraculous to do a study of two particular Apparitional Complexes – first, Our Lady of Guadalupe, and then Our Lady of Fatima. Our Lady of Guadalupe is unique in that Miraculous ‘residue’ has been left behind for our scientific examination. Our Lady had created an Image of Herself on a canvass of very coarse burlap that should have rotted away in less than 20 years, but still remains after almost 500 years. The colors that form the Image shift and change, like those of an oil slick, and study shows that no paints or pigments were used to form the Miraculous Image, but that the Image seems to have grown out of the very molecules of the cloth fibers, more like the chemical and molecular processes of a photograph than anything we know of in painting or drawing. And Science has had it close by in Mexico City for the last 4 or 5 Centuries, clear Proof of the Miraculous while they simply pretend it never happened and doesn’t exist.
There is also the remarkable story of what had occurred during one of many of the Revolutions in Mexico, fomented by those tirelessly evil Free Masons. A time bomb consisting of a large flower vase, filled to the brim with nitroglycerin was set off on the very altar of the Basilica just beneath the glass casing of the apparently fragile Image. Well, miraculously enough, especially to our modern sensibility of just how much damage bombs are capable of, nobody was hurt, though windows blew out and chunks of marble wall flew asunder. Mass was being celebrated at the time and so Priest and altar boys and such who were only inches away from the center of the explosion, who would have been expected to be blown to shreds – even vaporized – but when smoke and dust cleared, there they stood, as well as those startled parishioners in the front pews. The large brass crucifix set beside the altar was bent up into an indiscernible twisted piece of junk. But the glass case that held the image, a few feet away, was not even cracked… didn’t even show a smudge. The smoke cleared and everybody present knew of the extent of the Miracle they had just experienced. But Science wouldn’t acknowledge the Miracle… heck, they would not even acknowledge that it was they who had set the bomb.
The second complex of Miracles I would like to point out surround the Apparition of Our Lady of Fatima Portugal, particularly the last Miracle of a series of Miracles that occurred over a period of six months. The Miracle of the Sun of October 13th, 1917 was witnessed, on the spot, by a crowd of 75,000 witnesses, many of whom were skeptics, partisans of an Anti-Catholic Revolution then besetting Portugal… they had come to hoot and holler, but instead they became reluctant witnesses to what they would have preferred not to believe had they not seen it with their own eyes. Then, over a dimension of approximately 500 square miles, people who had chosen rather to stay at home then be involved with the Apparition that had become the constant talk of the entire Country, they were startled when they also were able to look up and witness the Miracle of the Sun up in the sky – a Dancing of the Sun in a splendor of unexpected colors, which included prospects of the Sun diving at the earth as though it were the end of the World. Perhaps part of the Miracle involves the demarcation of the line between those who witnessed a Spectacular Miracle and those a county line away who had an ordinary day and saw nothing. For instance, those in Spain, a few miles away, had not the slightest clue of why those across the invisible line to the West were looking up into the sky.
Little is spoken concerning a strange auxiliary miracle that also happened. You see, it had been raining all the night before and all morning up until minutes before the scheduled Apparition. All of Europe had seen this storm, and the soldiers of the First World War were drenched and cold in their trenches. The people gathered at Fatima were likewise sopping wet, and standing to their ankles in mud stirred up by a milling crowd of 75,000. The Apparition and the Miracle of the Sun lasted only 20 minutes, which means that the constant rain had only suspended itself by no more than a half an hour. But EVERYBODY took note that at the close of the Miracle, they and the ground beneath them were entirely warm and dry. Cars that had been in mud up to their axles a moment before were now raising dust in their drive away. Every coat, shirt and even sock and boot were bone dry. It was not a spectacular Miracle, but just something of a nice gift that Our Lady could leave this vast crowd, that they should reflect upon the Miracle they had just witnessed in reasonable creature comfort.
Then we have the Results. The imminent Socialist Anti-Clerical Revolution in Portugal fizzled out. The World Media, packed with Free Masons, was able to isolate the Miracle’s influence to the borders of Portugal, but in Portugal itself the Media and the Masons a great deal of their atheistic influence and would never entirely gain it back. As a reward for their return to Religion, Portugal would be saved from any of the turmoil of World War Two… indeed, one can note that every Loyal Catholic Country was able to avoid World War Two. All of Central and South America, under the Protection of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and Portugal, Ireland, and to a limited extent Spain – these nations would retain in Peace. All those previously Catholic Nations then ruled by Free Masonic controlled Parliaments were sucked into the War.
There are other Miracles which could be discussed, but any sincere search for such wonderful phenomena can progress well enough without any further comment from my keyboard, though if anybody would appreciate my opinions on this or that which they may uncover… don’t hesitate to ask.
Also, I should point out that Catholic Prophecy foretells of a coming Great Miracle that the World Media will not have the tenacity to ignore. This coming Great Miracle will also leave a Miraculous Residue which will attest to the certitude of its Supernatural Origins. Part of the Prophecy is that a core group of Atheists, though slapped in the face by more than ample Proof, will choose to adhere to their Atheism simply because they have too great an emotional investment in their Doctrine of Hate to give it up simply because it is not true. That had never worried them before.
References:
http://www.fatima.org/essentials/facts/default.asp
http://www.catholicism.org/brmichael-guadalupe.html
http://www.apparitions.org/#codes
