Tuesday, March 27, 2007






Somebody came up to me once during a conference and asked, "What about 'Our Lady of Fatima'? What do you think of her?”



When I am asked questions like that, I am reminded of the story of the time they were taking the statue of Our Lady of Fatima on an airplane to a pilgrimage for worship, and as they were flying over the South of France the plane began to wobble and to shake and it looked like it was going to come apart.
And the miraculous statue cried out, "Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us!"
And all was well.
Wasn't it wonderful, one "Our Lady" helping another "Our Lady"?


[THE FIRST PICTURE IS OUR LADY OF FATIMA, THE SECOND IS OUR LADY OF LOURDES, ABD THE THIRD OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE]



There was also a group of a thousand people who went on a pilgrimage to Mexico City to venerate the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe and sat down before the statue in protest because the Bishop of the Diocese had declared "Our Lady of Lourdes" patroness of the diocese! They were sure that Our Lady of Guadalupe felt this very much, so they were doing the protest in REPARATION for the offence.

That's the trouble with religion, if you don't watch out.
[NOTE for non-Catholics: The three representations are the three different times in Church history where Our lady, that is Mary, the Mother of Christ appeared to devout children, urging them to pray for the well being of the world.... Now if all three are representations of the same person ....]

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