A major step to my deep believing came from talking to someone who experienced a supernatural event and reading
The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel (educated at Yale Law and award winning former Chicago Times legal editor and former atheist) with logical and throughly researched reasons for believing in the Resurrection and Christianity.
amazon.com/Case-Christ-Journalists-Personal-Investigation/dp/0310209307
The life of Blaise Pascal (helped write a defense of the scientific method, Pascal’s triangle, calculator, and many other contributions of this child prodigy in physics and mathematics)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal and Pascal’s Wager, uses Decision Theory to argue for belief in God,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal’s_Wager may help!
Obtaining a copy of the article or reading summaries of Histological, immunological, and biochemiccal studies on the flesh and blood of the eucharistic miracle of Lanciano (8th century) by Dr. Odoardo Linoli, with an archived citation in the U.S. National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health may help.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=4950729&log$=activity Summary:
therealpresence.org/eucharst/mir/lanciano.html
Newpaper articles on Marian apparitions and reading about the apparitions themselves and their consequences may help!
Kibeho, Rwanda prior to the genocide: the Mother of the Word appeared. She said a “river of blood” would happen if people did not convert, repent,pray the Rosary, the Chaplet of Seven Sorrows, and stop committing various moral sins, such as the girls sleeping with certain men. Did a river of blood happen? This New York Times Article on the Rwandan genocide documents the apparitions of Mary
prior to the genocide.
query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9400E4D81738F93BA35757C0A96F958260
Fatima, Portugal: See some of the messages from Mary to the three little children:
The war [World War I was still raging] is going to end. But if people do not stop offending God, another and worse one will begin in the reign of Pius XI… When you shall see a night illuminated by an unknown light [on January 25-26, 1938 from 9PM to 2AM there appeared over the Northern Hemisphere a very unusual light that scared many people. The New York Times devoted almost an entire page to the event. Scientists attributed it to an exceptional aurora borealis] “know that this is the great sign that God gives you that He is going to punish the world for its many crimes by means of war, hunger and persecution of the Church and the Holy Father” [Within two months of the sign, in March of 1938, Hitler invaded his first country, Austria.] loveandmercy.org/loveandmercy/fatima.htm
New York Times article: January 26, 1938
Aurura Borealis Startles Europe; People Flee in Fear, Call Firemen; Britons Thought Windsor Castle Ablaze–Scots See Ill Omen-Snow-Clad Swiss Alps Glow–Short-Wave Radio Halts The most brilliant display of an aurora borealis in fifty years held Britons spellbound over a wide area of this country tonight. From 6:30 to 8:30 P.M. the people of London watched two magnificent arcs rising in the east and west, from which radiated pulsating beams like searchlights in dark red, greenish blue and purple. [End of First Paragraph]
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Los Angeles Times, Jan 26, 1938
Aurora Borealis Upsets Europeans pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/743927742.html?dids=743927742:743927742&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&date=Jan+26%2C+1938&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Aurora+Borealis+Upsets+Europeans&pqatl=google
Chicago Daily Tribune, Jan 26, 1938
Aurora Borealis Glows in Widest Area Since 1709Abstract (Document Summary) Radio and telegraphic communication was disrupted and persons in many parts of the world were awed tonight as the aurora borealis [northern lights] flamed brilliantly farther south than the phenomenon ever has been seen by this generation.
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May the Holy Spirit through the Mary grace us with the gifts that we most desperately need! May the LOVE and MERCY of Jesus be known, loved, believed, glorified, adored, understood, and respected by all, in all time, in all places! May the WONDERS of Mary be venerated, loved, known, understood, and respected by all, for all time, in all creation! AMEN!! AMEN!! AMEN!!
*Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with Thee. Blessed art Thou among women and blessed is the fruit of Thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. *
Come Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your well beloved spouse. Come Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your well beloved spouse. Come Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your well beloved spouse.
For the sake of his sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world! For the sake of his sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world! For the sake of his sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world!
O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee!
Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us!
*Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with Thee. Blessed art Thou among women and blessed is the fruit of Thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. *
