Posts Tagged "miracles"


The flames grew higher wider They lashed out of the frame they were in They came for the surrounding material Anything everything they could consume They would consume The men in thick suits could not get close The fire was too hot too strong  There was nothing to do but stand back And do what could be done from a distance Time went by The pastor sat on the ground and wept The heat pressed down on him But it didn’t matter It was...

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Miracles can happen during healing prayer.  Healing is not necessarily a product of a miracle, but it can be.   A miracle is a very specific phenomenon in the realm of God.  The first thing to know are the elements of prayer. They are: God the pray-er time We will work with the mechanics of prayer in another post.  But, for now, let’s say that a person is praying in a functional way.  This means that God hears the prayer and...

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(by Joe Simmons, SJ) This past weekend witnessed the canonization of seven new saints in Rome.  For holy men or women to be recognized as capital-S Saints in the Roman Catholic Church, typically two miracles need to be attributed to their intercession.  Usually these come when someone is healed without an easy medical explanation. Call me the modern skeptic, but I always found this litmus test to be… well… troubling, I guess.  In my...

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(by Patricia Treece) Sixteen-month-old Elizabeth Fanning lies listlessly in her mother’s arms.  Anxiously, drawn-faced Mrs. Fanning coaxes her child to take even a spoonful of the liver soup recommended by doctors.  But although Elizabeth’s swollen belly and twiglike limbs make her look like a starvation victim, the lethargic baby has no interest in food of any kind.  Little Betsy, as her parents call her, has a fatal...

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John 11:1-44 Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived. (Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, “Lord, look, the one you love is sick.” When Jesus heard this, he said, “This sickness will not lead to death, but to God’s glory, so that the...

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