She took several pictures with a real camera, not digital. That was the only one that looked like that. I wasn't sure how that would happen, and was just wondering if anyone would know. Lorraine is the name of the lady that took it. It was taken a few years ago. I could speculate, but I would like to think since those candles, being as they are blessed, maybe the camera captured prayers going through Our Lady's hands up to Heaven? But, I didn't take the photo, so Im not sure if shaking would cause that. I was just going to ask someone with more knowledge about film.
Also, Remember when Sondra Abraham said satan always shows himself? My sister pointed out the ugly face to me yesterday. On the right.
Just realized this probably isn't the appropriate thread. I apologize Padraig. You can move it. Delete it. Then I'll try to delete mine? I don't know how it works. I do so apologize.
If the camera had shaken, the statue of Our Lady would be blurred or out of focus as well, but it's not. Very bizarre. If you look at Our Lady's hands, it looks like she is swaying back and forth or dancing or something.
The thing that made me say wait a minute, is on the right side of the picture, the flame light goes out of frame and comes back into veiw, as if it was physically there.
I think the blue and purple thing is a flower. She has a rose bush beside her, and flowers planted around Her. Her hands are in prayer, with rosaries hanging on her hands.
Interesting picture, thanks. I think maybe the message is about the power of prayer going up towards God. That's my two cents worth anyway
Just got back this afternoon. Thought this thread is as good a place as any to let you all know. I have remembered Padraig and Mother of God Forum members and their families at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Shrine in Aylesford, Kent UK. You will all be remembered in Holy Mass each day for a year from July 16th 2016 to July 15th 2017. I also prayed while there that Blessed Mother look with pity on those who come to ask for prayers in their personal crisis and concerns. God willing, we will feel His help and protection under the loving prayers of our Heavenly Mother. God bless all here.
Julia, what a very generous, thoughtful, caring and blessed thing to do. I am very grateful for it, too. Thank you.
Even through the feast of Our Lady of Mt Carmel has passed, this story of the a brown scapular being touched by a priest, which brought a dead man back to life, is worth telling. Fr. Higgins: The Man I Saw Brought Back to Life by SPL Contributor on 2012-03-25 • 8:54 am • http://spl.link/5s8pe 50 Comments March 25, 2012 Who doesn’t enjoy a good BBQ with friends? When I was asked to a young couple’s home for a Young Adult Ministry Home Mass and BBQ I packed my Mass kit and off I went. I arrived about 6:00 pm with a hearty appetite and was greeted by about 15 young people. Then the phone rang and everything changed. I had to drive about 10 miles to a hospital where there was an emergency call. I drove quickly, thinking that the nurse in charge of the ER, Anne, would be waiting for me. I knew her and her husband and children from the parish. When I walked in I could see paramedics at the foot of the only occupied gurney there, so I hurried and walked in. “Sorry, Fr. John, you’re too late. He’s gone.” Anne said, smiling. She had a lot of compassion, but also understood that I’d come as fast as I could. They were removing wires from an older man. I noticed that he was wearing a Brown Scapular, one of the old cloth ones. I reached and said “He’s wearing an old fashioned Scapular”. When I touched it there was a beep from a monitor, then another. The nurse, Anne, said “What did you do?” I said “Nothing!” She and another nurse jumped to work, reconnecting wires and calling for help. The Paramedics stood with their jaws dropped. The patient opened his eyes and said (in an Irish accent) “Oh, good, Father. I’ve been waiting for you. I want to go to Confession.” I nearly fell over. I’d done nothing but seen and touched his Scapular. The next thing I knew they were working on him. He didn’t get to go to Confession, but I gave him an emergency absolution as they worked. One of the Paramedics asked if I was OK and sat me in a chair. A couple of weeks later the man came to me for Confession and told me that the doctor couldn’t figure out what happened and had to tear up the Death Certificate he’d already started to fill out. The Paramedics had come to see him in the hospital and shown him their notes. At the bottom of the page they’d written the time and place of his death and then in big bold letters had added “BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE BY GOD”. Miracles still happen. And no, I didn’t do it. It just happened according to God’s will. Why does He intervene in some cases and not in others? I really don’t know. I haven’t figured that out yet. But I do know that God has worked miracles in my life, the most important for me not being what He did for someone else, but what He has done over and over to bring me back from sin and death, through the Sacraments into His Covenant Relationship. That man still had to die a natural death to be raised from the dead into eternal life. The resurrection Jesus offers all of us is eternal too. And that’s what we look forward to at Easter. Father Higgins
