NO MATTER THE MAYHEM, PRAYER AND THE GOSPEL AND FAITH CAN DRAW DOWN A BUFFER OF PROTECTION AROUND US
When God wants to intervene, He can put a "buffer" around us. He can
shield us from anything. It doesn't matter what that "anything" is.
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During the bombing of Hiroshima, a small group of Jesuits somehow
survived in the no-survival zone near that ground zero, within four
miles, without even radiation sickness.
• Many don't know that
terrorists linked to al Qaeda tried to kill John Paul II during a trip
to the Philippines in 1995. Their plot was foiled when explosives
mysteriously caught fire in an apartment, exposing the plot (and killing
one would-be assassin).
• Look at how Our Lady protected the
Pope during that other attempt on his life. The bullet entered and moved
through his body missing vital vessels and organs in a medically
inexplicable way.
• During 9/11, there was a man who fell more
than twenty stories during the collapse of the north tower; as he prayed
it was as if he were surfing down the debris on the back of what he
said felt like the cushioning of an angel.
• In Wisconsin, the
worst wildfire in U.S. history (incinerating an area of 1.2 million
acres) left a small plot of land set aside to honor an apparition of the
Blessed Mother totally unscathed. It was an oasis of green in an ocean
of ash! (Another item that survived: a wooden tabernacle down near a
river where all else was blackened.)
• In Florida, a female
student survived a rampage by notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, who
murdered other girls in her sorority house but stopped in his tracks
upon entering her room. He later said a mysterious forcestopped him. She
was saying the Rosary.
• During Hurricane Charley, a
tabernacle somehow made it through fully intact in a Punta Gorda,
Florida,church that otherwise was totally destroyed (by both wind and
water; the tabernacle candle remained lit!).
• In the Soviet
Union, an imprisoned Catholic activist was saved by an appearance of the
Blessed Mother, who warmed him in a freezing death cell. This too went
beyond physical explanation (it was so cold the guards wore fur coats;
he was turning stiff, stripped to his underwear).
• How many
times -- after a storm or fire -- is there a story about statues or a
Bible surviving, amid the wreckage, poking from the debris?
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And speaking of wreckage, many are those who have felt the presence of
God and angels during what should have been fatal car accidents. There
is even a case where a photograph showed what seemed like an angel in
the twisted metal!
• As the Blessed Mother once said: "If you
want to be stronger against evil, have an active conscience. For that,
pray very much in the morning and read a passage from the Gospel. Plant
the Divine Word in your heart and live it during the day, in this
special way, in trials and in the evening, you will be very strong."
And so we can have faith: God knows no physical restrictions. He moves as He wills.
When we're on the other side, we'll appreciate why He does what He
does, and we'll realize that this life is the wisp of a dream.
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