Is this the Catholic church you speak of? Because you are throwing me off by saying is it a good public relationships group.
Fatima, the numerous incorrupt bodies or portion’s of human corpses, Brown Scapulars in tombs that have not become dust, Eucharists that is a human heart (Lanciano Italy, etc…
Very much so. The numerous miracles in the Catholic Church bear witness that She is indeed the Church of God. Many of them are verifiable right now to anyone who seeks the truth. Unfortunately, most people don’t sincerely seek the truth, and some of them even attribute these miracles to the work of the devil, which is exactly what the Pharisees did (Matthew 12:22-32).
The short and incomplete answer is that there is a large space for the term “miracle” in Catholic Christianity, a medium size space for the term “miracle” in Orthodox Christianity, and a small to non-existent space in Protestant Christianity for that term. Add to that the attitude towards private versus public revelation, and you’ve got the explanation as to why phenomenological identical data is explained and publicized in such radically different ways.
I submit that is not the reason at all. The use of the term in the Protestant churches is small, because miraculous events are smaller there. There may certainly be healings. However, can you please point me to a Eucharistic miracle in any Protestant church? They simply don’t exist. It’s not that God doesn’t love these people. It’s that the Protestant churches cannot validly consecrate, and so God’s Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity is not present at the Protestant service.
If there was no word for “eucharistic miracle” in your language, does that mean that they do not occur?
Please try to understand what was said, and what it means. For instance, many words and phrases were created by the Church to describe teachings and doctrine… Trinity, transubstantiation, consubstantiation, etc. These words were made to describe a reality. So, if these things occurred in your culture, or faith system, you would need words to describe them. The reality of what has happened in these events has a phrase Eucharistic Miracle. So the real meaning in what I wrote was that these events are simply not occurring in the Protestant churches. There is a very valid reason for that… These churches have no valid and licit authority to have the real and true Sacrament of the Eucharist.
A second yup! My wife and I were fortunate to see the relics of two Eucharistic Miracles ths past December in Italy. The miracle at Lanciano, and also at Cascia. We also saw the incorrupt body of St Rita. God is really and truly present in the Church built by Christ which is the Catholic Church.Luke65;4781056:
Yup!
God Bless
Yes, this is an appropriate question to us all to consider, not that you have not already considered this.
I must admit, I don’t use the term “phenomenological” in my everyday vocabulary and had to look that one up. While I am a simple person, I don’t know what the attitude about private versus public revelation really has anything to do with my question, but I think MDK set my mind straight. Whether big, medium or small use of the term miracle, one thing is consistent,……the unexplainable events that have a religious connotation all seem to be consistently focused on this one religion.
I do understand what was said. The problem is that you are claiming that it doesn’t occur, simply because the same term is not used.
Drawing a false conclusion, because of the use of faulty, incomplete, and inaccurate assumptions and data.
Perhaps you should read about the Eucharistic Miracles in a Catholic sense, since it only happens in our faith anyway. There is a whole section here at CAF about Eucharistic Miracles.
It cuts to the core of difference between reporting of Miracles by Protestant Christianity, and of Catholic Christianity.
Inasmuch as everything but the specific term was ignored, it isn’t surprising that an apparent consistency was observed.
I thought miracles were for the non believers to help them see, search, and find God. As far as Catholic church approved Visions or apparitions these give off a message to the world from the Catholic church from the small and humble. But the world even if God should raise a man from the dead, they still will refuse to belive in “Abba” Father.
Exactly the same applies to the Lanciano thing, which is revolting, not numinous. A miracle, if genuine, should not seem like something from a horror film.Interesting; have you viewed the miraculous vision of the blessed Virgin Mary of Guadalupe? Scientist, with today’s technology are still dumbfounded by this Catholic miracle. Make you famous if you can defy this miraculous vision and explain it away as not authentic from heaven. Other doctors have and many of them came away Catholic converts.That last one especially is disgusting, like something out of a horror flick - “Stigmata”, perhaps. Its repellent character suggests that it is not genuine, because it is not numinous - just rather nasty.
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. (Isaiah 55:8)That last one especially is disgusting, like something out of a horror flick - “Stigmata”, perhaps. Its repellent character suggests that it is not genuine, because it is not numinous - just rather nasty.
