Experiencing Miracles

[stagefairy]

This isn't quite the same kind of miracle, but last year our little old car was having problems with the carborator. We took it in and he cleaned it and said if it had more problems (it was dying everytime it idled at a stop sign) we might have to get the carborator replaced, because it was on it's way out. It did fine for a couple weeks and then one day on my way to work it started dying everytime I stopped again and I was feeling so frustrated. I restarted it each time and managed to get to work only a little bit late. I prayed and told God that I didn't have any other way home and we couldn't afford a new carborator, so I would leave it up to Him. When I came out in the afternoon it started fine and never gave any trouble. That night at a girl's bible study, one girl casually mentioned that it was too bad I miss daily mass that morning, because it had been said for my intentions! Mass was going on half an hour after the time I got to work and prayed. We haven't had any problems with it since then and that was over a year ago.

[reelguy227]

[quote name='Ash Wednesday' date='Aug 9 2004, 01:12 AM'] ...something that happened to me which I'm about to explain? I was in the adoration chapel this evening after Mass and I remembered it for the first time in a long time, even though it happened some time ago.

I was over at a close friend's house sometime in 1995, and we were saying the rosary. She is a very devout Catholic, attends daily Mass and has a small altar set up in her living room with a picture of Mary and Jesus.

So here we were praying the rosary one night, and I could've sworn I saw the picture of Mary come to life. Her lips looked like they were moving in prayer as we were praying. Sometimes, though subtle, I saw the expressions on her face change from joy, or at times to sorrow and I recall at one point seeing a tear on her cheek. Her image faces the image of Jesus (pointing to his sacred heart) and during this it was like you could see her praying to Jesus. At times the image seemed more three-dimensional than two.

I figured my eyes were playing tricks on me and assumed it was because we were under dimmed light and a candle, until my friend brought it up and asked if I noticed anything about the picture. Apparently she's had this happen before with another rosary group that came to her house one night. She was very much in awe and she has mentioned this to a couple of mutual friends at church that "we experienced a miracle" but she has always been somewhat hush-hush about it, too -- i.e. "let's not make so much fanfare about it and don't tell very many people-- it's not what the faith is about" -- like I said, she's a genuinely true Catholic. (And maybe she didn't want pilgrims flocking to her house... :haha:)

I've been back to her house many times and I don't recall this happening since as far as I've been there, though I haven't been there as often as I used to be.

Anyway, I had not remembered this incident in a long time until this evening. It's like those people who experience the miracle of the sun. You want to rub your eyes and you wonder.... did I just see what I think I did?

Has anyone had any experience similar to this one? It was really something, to this day, I still don't know what to make of. [/quote]
thats awesome ash

[WCC_Catholic]

i have had an expeienced something like that but i was praying to the Sacred Heart image (the one that looks at you) well i had been praying for an anwser and i was praying the rosary and i get into a kind of a rock motion when i pray and i was rocking and befor my eyes flashed the face of a guy and it was like i was watching a movie it was so clear and so sharp. i know that i was asking about a guy or anything like that i was asking with help in a choice that i had to make. and since then i have seen many guys who look lke the image that i saw but i do not know who this guy is. he looks like and actor but he doesnt at the same time it is very strange. well back to the story right after the image flashed before my eyes the image of the Sacred Heart was smiling it was like i saw teeth and all the kind of thing he was like laughing at my shocked face.

since then when ever i pray i pray to the image and there are times that i see the same smile them there are other times when i see him frown. i brought the image with me to school (WCC) and i think that he protected me from my roommate who i think had become possessed!!! i now wear a color medal of the Scared Heart so the he can continue to protect me.

[Ash Wednesday]

Maybe God has yet to show me the miracle of the sun, as an act of kindness and mercy, because I'd probably start flapping my arms and screaming that the apocalypse was at hand and the world was coming to an end.

And then I'd go hide from the people that want to take me away to the funny farm. :toilet:

[M.SIGGA]

In Lisieux this summer I was praying for lot of tough things that I've been dealing with lately and tragedy in my close circle of family and friends, and I was also feeling sort of hopeless and I asked for some sort of sign that St. Therese and Jesus were listening. The whole time it was like right about to rain and it was cold and cloudy and the wind was really really strong. It was on a Sunday at the end of my pilgrimage before I had to catch my train back to Paris, and I was making my way from the Carmel back up the hill to the basilica for Mass. When I stepped out the chapel of the Carmel, the wind literally stopped whipping and there was an aroma of flowers or perfume in the air, and all of the sudden I became really peaceful and at ease. It's true it could have been the scent from a nearby garden or from the flowers on some of the nearby balconies, but I like to think it was a miracle. The rain held up right until I made it back to the basilica for Mass, and then it poured down like no other

[Ash Wednesday]

The scent of roses has often been associated with spiritual experiences like that -- especially with the Blessed Virgin, and I can imagine, St. Therese. So why not a miracle?

Pilgrimmages are always such extraordinary experiences. I have a couple of cool stories like that related to my pilgrimmage to Knock, Ireland where the Blessed Virgin appeared to many people and I think I discussed them in another thread.

[MorphRC]

*Backround Kick to the top*

[Ellenita]

I'm not sure if this counts as a miracle but it certainly felt like one to me!

Sometime before I became Catholic, I started to pray the rosary but then went through a time of doubt where I was really questioning if it was an OK prayer....

One evening I was praying it and suddenly found myself praising God in a way that I hadn't ever before, and then had the most amazing sensation that angels were all around me praising Him too - it was so tangible that I felt I could reach out and touch them.....I really can't describe it.....
It was a very fleeting glimpse, but I've never doubted that the rosary is a powerful prayer, or the existance of angels, ever since!

[marielapin]

[quote name='marchjen6' date='Aug 9 2004, 02:32 AM'] so anyway, last night, they did a procession of the Blessed Sacrament throught the Church. it stopped almost right in front of me and i suddenly just felt this amazing sense of peace, more intence and calming that anything i've ever felt before. it was just so...perfect, i guess is the only way to describe it.
[/quote]
Hey Jenny.

I know what you experienced...its such an awesome feeling. It is by far THE happiest and most contented feeling I have ever felt in my life.

Before I became Catholic (but was attending Mass) I walked into the Church one Friday afternoon to find Adoration going on. I fell on my knees there in the middle of the church, because that overwhelming feeling landblasted me. I've been able to "know" Jesus is there ever since. Holy Thursday is especially sad for me because after the Mass is over they take the Eucharist out of the church, and I feel very sad and abandoned when this happens. Coming in on Good Friday and finding the Tabernacle opened and empty also aggravates this sadness.

I cannot describe how much the Eucharist means to me. It is truly the only form of heaven on earth I have ever experienced. The only thing that comes close is the absolution you get after making a good Confession.

I am very happy for you and good luck in RCIA!

[marielapin]

oh and Ash your story was truly awesome.

[little_angel202]

well kinda ..... one of my mums friends had this little boy and all the doctors said he would die within 24 hrs coz he was so ill so everyone was prayong madly and yes he survived and hes 5 years old now !

[hopeful1]

well, this weekend i went to a charity concert my friend's band was playing in and i had to sit in the back of the car with his girlfriend (who i REALLY don't like!) and there wasn't a cat fight. does that count?