Question about Saints

[Gordon_Sims]

I want to pose this theoretically. Let’s say you’re in a a very difficult to impossible situation, and as a last-ditch effort you say a prayer asking a saint to intercede, only to have the impossible situation clear up immediately, defying all logic.

For the sake of argument, let’s say you absolutely need to get somewhere and the only car available to you has a dead battery and hasn’t been started in months. You know the batteries dead, and you also know that the alternator is shot. However, you’re desperate so you hop in the car, put the key in and try several times to start it, each time without even the slightest hint of life. With time running out and nothing to lose, you remember that you’d read that St. Elijah was the patron saint of motorists, so you offer up a heartfelt plea to St. Elijah to pray for you. You then take a deep breath, turn the key again and the car starts right up and runs like a dream.

Following this, would you look on what happened as a miracle? If so, who would you tell? Would you mention it to your family & friends, or would you feel compelled to tell someone affiliated with the Church? If so, to whose attention should you bring something like this? Just curious.

 

[marica_mandic]

I want to pose this theoretically. Let’s say you’re in a a very difficult to impossible situation, and as a last-ditch effort you say a prayer asking a saint to intercede, only to have the impossible situation clear up immediately, defying all logic.

For the sake of argument, let’s say you absolutely need to get somewhere and the only car available to you has a dead battery and hasn’t been started in months. You know the batteries dead, and you also know that the alternator is shot. However, you’re desperate so you hop in the car, put the key in and try several times to start it, each time without even the slightest hint of life. With time running out and nothing to lose, you remember that you’d read that St. Elijah was the patron saint of motorists, so you offer up a heartfelt plea to St. Elijah to pray for you. You then take a deep breath, turn the key again and the car starts right up and runs like a dream.

Following this, would you look on what happened as a miracle? If so, who would you tell? Would you mention it to your family & friends, or would you feel compelled to tell someone affiliated with the Church? If so, to whose attention should you bring something like this? Just curious.

I will tell to person who can understand this. To person who are in this question very close to me, like me.I had in my life impossible situation but Saint helped me,when my relatives could not help me.

 

[valentino]

I want to pose this theoretically. Let’s say you’re in a a very difficult to impossible situation, and as a last-ditch effort you say a prayer asking a saint to intercede, only to have the impossible situation clear up immediately, defying all logic.

For the sake of argument, let’s say you absolutely need to get somewhere and the only car available to you has a dead battery and hasn’t been started in months. You know the batteries dead, and you also know that the alternator is shot. However, you’re desperate so you hop in the car, put the key in and try several times to start it, each time without even the slightest hint of life. With time running out and nothing to lose, you remember that you’d read that St. Elijah was the patron saint of motorists, so you offer up a heartfelt plea to St. Elijah to pray for you. You then take a deep breath, turn the key again and the car starts right up and runs like a dream.

Following this, would you look on what happened as a miracle? If so, who would you tell? Would you mention it to your family & friends, or would you feel compelled to tell someone affiliated with the Church? If so, to whose attention should you bring something like this? Just curious.

It could be but it might not be.I’d keep it to myself and chalk it down as a rare coincidence.But if you do want to mention it I don’t see it being wrong.I believe most people can pick out incidences in their lives that something miraculous happened when they prayed.I’m a believer in miracles and God does help at times when we ask Him.But to be sure that such a miracle actually took place I would wait for some opportune time and ask for another miracle when you’re in a desperate situation.I agree that your experience seems miraculous but there are other explainations some of which you are unaware of .

 

[Gordon_Sims]

The example I gave was just an analogy. It would have been a more accurate analogy if I’d have said that I tested the battery & proved that it was dead, and that the alternator belt was missing, yet the car still started up and ran fine for several weeks until I was finally in a position to get it repaired.