Does anyone ever wish

[coolduude]

… That they would get a visit from Mary, Jesus, or a Saint?

I know that I would like to have a nice conversation with the Blessed Mother a conversation where she talks back, mind you I woud love to have a conversation like we were just two people talking

Does anyone else here share my dreams? Or has this happened to anyone?

Note: do not talk about private revelation; it’s against forum rules and this thread will be closed.

Coolduude

 

[Lost_Wanderer]

Only if they want me to go on some crazy quest or something… that and if they wouldn’t mind finding me burying my head in the ground when I knew they were coming. (Yes, people, I’m being serious here.)

 

[mike52ad]

VIsit the Eucharist and just sit and do not say anything to the Lord, let Him come to you, feel his presence. The hardest prayer to pray is no prayer at all, just sitting and letting the beauty of the Lord infuse you. Try it and your dream will come true.

 

[Whitacre_Girl]

I have never had a physical encounter with anyone other than those living now. (with the exception of Eucharist, of course!) But I also long for them. This is why I long for heaven so much!

I actually have a rather emotional relationship with Christ. It’s been an adjustment for me in the RCC with this though, since I seem to be a minority in the way I express that. It’s not uncommon for me (when I am alone!) to turn on some christian music of almost any variety and start cleaning, all the while talking (sometimes aloud!) to Jesus as if he were on my couch. Or singing with the music and imagining Christ holding me in his arms. Just now I was coming back from grocery shopping and I was feeling overwhelmed, so I turned up my favourite rendition of “I Need Thee Every Hour” and just cried.

When I pray I tend to close my eyes and imagine christ in front of me, or use pictures. I’m admittedly not very good with recited prayers. I mean, I say the Rosary on occasion, or the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, but it’s more meditiation than prayer for me. I, probably due to my protestant roots, just have a hard time seeing God as a cold distant figure that I need a recited prayer for, and I see him as a closest friend/father figure. He’s kept me going through so much in my life, and I’ve had many nights in my past (usually as a child) where I’ve had to pull the covers over my head, imagine Jesus laying there with me, with me in his arms, and relying on that protection to get me through the night unharmed. It’s also the only thing I’ve found that works for driving away nightmares! LOL

The cool thing is, sometimes I have dreams about being face to face with christ, or something similar. They all have specific meanings to me in my personal life (one of which when I first became christian I believe was meant to ultimately make me catholic!) but I won’t disclose them in the interest of no personal revelation!

 

[CatholicZ09]

I have dreams like those. Sometimes I pray to God “give me a vision” or something, but then I remember “Blessed are those who have not seen, but still believe.”

dangit.

 

[Monica4316]

… That they would get a visit from Mary, Jesus, or a Saint?

I know that I would like to have a nice conversation with the Blessed Mother a conversation where she talks back, mind you I woud love to have a conversation like we were just two people talking

Does anyone else here share my dreams? Or has this happened to anyone?

Note: do not talk about private revelation; it’s against forum rules and this thread will be closed.

Coolduude

I think that would be really cool but it’s never happened to me. I’ve read about people who had these experiences though.

 

[Monica4316]

VIsit the Eucharist and just sit and do not say anything to the Lord, let Him come to you, feel his presence. The hardest prayer to pray is no prayer at all, just sitting and letting the beauty of the Lord infuse you. Try it and your dream will come true.

very true!! We meet Jesus every time we visit the Eucharist even though we don’t see Him. And when we receive Communion, we are receiving Him into ourselves!

Or singing with the music and imagining Christ holding me in his arms.

Actually sometimes I do this too!

When I pray I tend to close my eyes and imagine christ in front of me, or use pictures. I’m admittedly not very good with recited prayers. I mean, I say the Rosary on occasion, or the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, but it’s more meditiation than prayer for me. I, probably due to my protestant roots, just have a hard time seeing God as a cold distant figure that I need a recited prayer for, and I see him as a closest friend/father figure.

I think I have a sort of different view of recited prayers… I don’t see them as making God more distant (I think that Catholicism in fact encourages a closer relationship with Christ than Protestantism does… I mean think of the Sacred Heart devotion or the Eucharist) - but they just give us words to say if we have no words. Sometimes I don’t have words. I then use recited prayers but mean them in my heart. I also talk to God in my own words too, throughout the day especially when I’m going through a difficult time.

Sometimes when I pray I imagine Christ too, or use pictures as well

He’s kept me going through so much in my life, and I’ve had many nights in my past (usually as a child) where I’ve had to pull the covers over my head, imagine Jesus laying there with me, with me in his arms, and relying on that protection to get me through the night unharmed. It’s also the only thing I’ve found that works for driving away nightmares! LOL

me tooo!!! (actually… I’ve never heard anyone speaking about this before… but I could have written this paragraph!).

The cool thing is, sometimes I have dreams about being face to face with christ, or something similar. They all have specific meanings to me in my personal life (one of which when I first became christian I believe was meant to ultimately make me catholic!) but I won’t disclose them in the interest of no personal revelation!

that’s so cool I don’t have dreams about God which is a little puzzling for me. But I remember one time when I was a child I had a dream about Jesus, and it had a profound effect on me, because at the time I didn’t yet know who He was. (I didn’t know He’s God).

I have dreams like those. Sometimes I pray to God “give me a vision” or something, but then I remember “Blessed are those who have not seen, but still believe.”

dangit.

remember it builds humility to believe in this way I think if I were to see a vision, I’d probably be even more proud lol!

 

[Peacefulwishes]

Just curious… if someone were to have a very vivid and life-like dream of meeting Jesus, would this be the same thing as what you are asking?

 

[Whitacre_Girl]

very true!! We meet Jesus every time we visit the Eucharist even though we don’t see Him. And when we receive Communion, we are receiving Him into ourselves!

Actually sometimes I do this too!

I think I have a sort of different view of recited prayers… I don’t see them as making God more distant (I think that Catholicism in fact encourages a closer relationship with Christ than Protestantism does… I mean think of the Sacred Heart devotion or the Eucharist) - but they just give us words to say if we have no words. Sometimes I don’t have words. I then use recited prayers but mean them in my heart. I also talk to God in my own words too, throughout the day especially when I’m going through a difficult time.

Sometimes when I pray I imagine Christ too, or use pictures as well

me tooo!!! (actually… I’ve never heard anyone speaking about this before… but I could have written this paragraph!).

that’s so cool I don’t have dreams about God which is a little puzzling for me. But I remember one time when I was a child I had a dream about Jesus, and it had a profound effect on me, because at the time I didn’t yet know who He was. (I didn’t know He’s God).

remember it builds humility to believe in this way I think if I were to see a vision, I’d probably be even more proud lol!

Thank you for saying this!! I have always worried that these things were anticatholic. I have never encountered another Cathoic who feels the same way I do about these things. And I suppose I had the wrong words about recited prayer. What I meant to say was that the prayers are great for when I have nothing to say, but I have a hard time addressing him as an authority figure (which some recitided prayers do) and only that, rather than an extremely personal and loving God at all times. Catholicism has helped me with that, and has enhanced my relationship with God (he seems more powerful now) but I am still not quite there, so there are many prayers I don’t use that I probably should. it’s not a fault of the prayers themselves! it’s just me and my frail human condition!

 

[CB_Catholic]

I really don’t wish for that because I am too afraid that it would not really be Our Lord or Our Lady appearing to me, but a false apparition instead, brought out of my desire to see them, and I am not sure I could properly discern that. There is already too much of that going on among Catholics. But that is just me.

 

[Eliza10]

I think when you have an apparition of Mary usually there is a heavy load of responsibility with it. Grace to carry the load but your life does change forever. You become all consuming all for Mary and Jesus., which is a good thing.

I had a vision of Jesus in a dream once. It was about 7 years into my marriage and my husband didn’t want children and he didn’t want to relate in anyway. Efforts to commuunicate that I wanted a better marriage or to beg him to go to counseling made him angry and abusive and I reallized I had to give up on that effort to connect in order to keep peace. I felt so incredibly lonely as my whole long life in a disconected, unloving marriage stretched before me. I fell asleep feeling so alone and completely hopeless. And I dreamed that Jesus was holding me, Jesus, a person, a man, in a white robe, enveloped me in his arms and held me. I felt an overwhelming sensation which scared me for a split moment (this was Jesus!) then I realized it was not at all sexual but intense and all-consuming and overwhelmingly deeply comforting. I awoke and it was morning with the sun coming in and I was in awe over this visitation, and so comforted. And I never forgot it. My road wasn’t easy and took turns but I always know He will be there in whatever way I need Him when I need Him the most.