The Power of Miracles.The Power of Miracles "Of Miracles" is the title of Section X of David Hume's An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (1748). The text In the 19th-century edition of Hume's Enquiry WRITTEN BY Joan Wester Anderson PUBLISHED BY Chicago Loyola Press, 2005, ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m : 0829422137, Softcover soft·cov·er adj. Not bound between hard covers: softcover books; a softcover edition. , pp. 252, $17.50 CAN The author of this book has written fifteen books and more than a thousand articles and stories, and has often appeared on TV programs. Some of the books have been best sellers. Her frequent topics are angels or miracles. This book has thirty chapters dealing with these topics. They contain true accounts of Christians, frequently Catholics, who have experienced remarkable events, what most people would call miracles, happenings which seemingly cannot be explained without divine power being exercised in more than natural ways, and frequently cannot be explained without admitting the presence and action of supernatural agents whom we call angels. The stories have not been examined or recorded as "officially verified miracles," but the human beings involved in them are convinced that they were miraculous interventions in their lives. I might mention one account which made a deep impression on me. A single mother who was raising her children only with great financial difficulty found herself one Thanksgiving Day with no food in her apartment and no money either. She was at the lowest point in her struggle. A nice lady in the same apartment complex, whom she had never met, invited her by name, and her children, to come to a Thanksgiving Dinner The centerpiece of contemporary Thanksgiving in the United States is a large meal, starring a large roasted turkey. All of the dishes in the traditional American version of Thanksgiving Dinner are made from foods native to North America, according to tradition the Pilgrims received these in her apartment, Apartment Three. They went, and enjoyed the best meal they had ever eaten, and were given wonderful left-overs to take back to their apartment. The next day the lady went back to Apartment Three to return the plastic containers which had held the left-overs and which she had cleaned, in order to return them and to thank the nice lady for what she had done, only to find out that the apartment was empty. On enquiry she discovered from the apartment manager that Apartment Three had not had an occupant occupant n. 1) someone living in a residence or using premises, as a tenant or owner. 2) a person who takes possession of real property or a thing which has no known owner, intending to gain ownership. (See: occupancy) for months. Years later, this lady was to found and direct the Angel Network in her parish, a self-help group self-help group, nonprofessional organization formed by people with a common problem or situation, for the purpose of pooling resources, gathering information, and offering mutual support, services, or care. for families in financial need. These true stories will cheer the heart and open it to thanksgiving to God and his messengers, and no doubt increase our recourse to our Guardian Angel guardian angel believed to protect a particular person. [Folklore: Misc.] See : Angel guardian angel term for Christian namesake who watches over a young child. [Christianity: Misc.] See : Guardianship when troubles arise. |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion