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Dear Hobbles,
You posted all that in less than one hour? :confused1:
Welcome to the 96th anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima.
........After a prolonged rainfall over the previous two
days, with saturated soil underfoot and no sanitation
facilities, the pilgrims of estimated 70 thousand
(70,000) souls in number, stood ankle-deep in the
mud, and watched the sun in the sky, without anyone
suffering any vision impairment from the spectacle.
In fact, many people who had arrived blind went away
with their vision restored completely. Many deaf could
hear, many lame could walk again, many sick were
cured. The miracles of healing were so numerous that
no one was able to count them all. But the miracle
that went unnoticed was this: All those people whose
feet and shoes had been buried in mud, after the sun
returned to its normal place in the sky, were no longer
standing in mud, but rather on solid ground, with
grass growing, as if the crowd had not trampled it all
morning and the day before. If the soil had been
merely dried by the terrifying descent of the sun
overhead, their feet should have been stuck in dried
soil, and everyone would have lost their shoes pulling
out their feet. But no one lost any shoes. Estimates
of the heat energy required to dry all that soil have
assured us that if it were only heat, the people would
have been killed, incinerated, as if a nuclear
detonation overhead had occurred. But no one was
hurt. Rather, the soil was restored to its pristine state,
and everyone's clothes were not only dry, but
fresh and
clean, AS IF
LAUNDERED.
What has escaped commentary for 96 years is this:
Our Lady's grace restored everything, as if the rain
had not fallen, as if the lack of sanitation had not
occurred, as if it were, that all things were made new
again, as her Son had once said, "Behold, I make all
things new." The Immaculate Conception had touched
our poor world for a moment in time, and RAISED UP
THE PEOPLE out of the mud, and it had been nearly
forgotten -- Because there was simply too much to
think about.
The quiet miracle passed into history without a sound.