Spirit Daily: Usually, miracles are right on the edge of perception. In most cases, they leave room for doubt, for questioning (which also means that they leave room for faith). A miracle is often predicated on how we approach it. … Continue reading
Category: Miracles and Apparitions
Saint Joseph to the Rescue
I had the honor thirty years ago of visiting the chapel that the Sisters of Loretto had built for their mission and school in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1878. The stunning Gothic-style chapel, rising out of the desert-like wilderness … Continue reading
Saint Patrick Raised 33 People from the Dead: Here Are a Few Examples
Excerpt from Saints Who Raised the Dead, True Stories of 400 Resurrection Miracles, by Fr. Albert J. Hebert, S. M. It has been said that St. Patrick (c. 389-c. 461) performed a thousand miracles. And why not? Many more (40,000) … Continue reading
Lourdes: ‘If Miracles Can Happen, Let Them’ Recounted by a Jewish Author
Today is the glorious feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes. It is also the occasion for the Mother of God revealing in 1858 to Bernadette Soubirous, a very poor fourteen-year-old peasant from Lourdes, France, her unique grace as “The … Continue reading
Elderly Woman’s Prayers to Our Lady Save Her From Freezing to Death
And a ten-year-old boy was Mary’s instrument in reaching the eighty-year-old freezing to death on the floor of her garage after a fall. ABC 7 Action News: “She said she kept praying to the Blessed Mother and she just kept … Continue reading
Veil of Manoppello Sparking New Interest in America
CNA: The Shrine to the Holy Face of Christ tucked into Italy’s Appennine mountains is starting to catch the attention of the world, particularly that of American Catholics. “We have a lot of Italians, of course, and many Germans but now … Continue reading
Statue of Our Lady of the Pillar, a Miracle Standing 20 Centuries
America Needs Fatima: Scientists, attempting to match the granite of which the pillar is made, have been able to find similar, but not identical, granite and only in other parts of the world. The statue of the Virgin is made of … Continue reading
With Prayer Woman’s Cancer Disappears, Big News in Israel
Israel Today: When Therese Daoud arrived at Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital with a huge cancerous tumor, doctors said her only chance of survival would be to amputate the leg. What happened during the following months has left the medical staff … Continue reading
Angelic Hosts
There is no aspect of Catholic theology more compelling to non-Catholics than the existence of Angels. Oh, where does one begin? Movies? It’s A Wonderful Life, Here Comes Mr. Jordan! (and its sequels and remakes), Gabriel Over the White House, … Continue reading
Illuminating Faith: The Eucharist in Medieval Life and Art
The Morgan Library & Museum, on Madison Avenue in New York, is hosting an exhibition called “Illuminating Faith: The Eucharist in Medieval Life and Art.” Here is the first paragraph of the Morgan Library’s description: When Christ changed bread and … Continue reading
I Think We Have a Miracle Here
Connect TriStates.com: Rescue workers want to thank a higher power for coming to the rescue early Sunday morning. Emergency crews spent an hour and a half trying to extricate a 19-year-old Quincy woman trapped in her in crushed car on Missouri … Continue reading
Another Wonderful Miracle of Padre Pio, the Blind Girl With No Pupils
Over thirty years ago, I have forgotten the exact year, I was in a very fine seafood restaurant on the Gloucester, Massachussetts harbor. Behind the host’s reception desk, among many photos of fishing boats, was a boat named “The Padre … Continue reading
The Greatest Padre Pio Miracle I Have Ever Read About
Patti Maguire Armstrong of Catholic News and Inspiration: Paul Walsh was 17 years old when the car he was driving hit a tree on Chester Pike in suburban Piladelphia on an icy December night in 1983. One doctor described his head … Continue reading
Dead 2 lb Baby Comes to Life After Nurse Places Her on Altar
LifeSiteNews: Family members and medical personnel at a hospital in Lindrina, Brazil, say they are stunned after a baby declared dead apparently came back to life after being placed on the altar in the hospital’s chapel. According to local news sources, … Continue reading
The Politics of the Sacred Heart
Veneration of the Sacred Heart of Jesus has gotten a bum rap. For many people, Catholics and otherwise, the seemingly effeminate images of Our Lord pointing to His — literally — bleeding heart were dismissed as purely private devotional images … Continue reading
