I’m Catholic and do believe in miracles that are thoroughly vetted by the required related persons. Some miracles never receive or received vetting at all but which are experienced by myself or others but which I accept as truth on my own. When studying miracles we must strip the occurrence of all natural physical, biological, logical, scientific...etc. facts around to reach that which is beyond natural serious explanation.

I would be very interested in you doing an episode on the Miracle of the Sun, I think it gets a whole heap of criticism and not very much in response

@ryanburgess3762

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! Please do!

I really hope people take the time to look diligently into these Eucharistic Miracles and Fatima. At the end of the day everybody will have a different threshold for evidence but there's very compelling evidence for these, that aren't easily dismissed. (P.S. Check Fr. Robert Spitzer's articles on Fatima, Shroud of Turin and Eucharistic Miracles if you can't purchase a good book on this.)

@rosiegirl2485

3 жыл бұрын

I have tremendous respect for FR. Spitzer! I agree with you that if people took the time to research these miracles, they would find them to be very credible! Its sad, but true, that people act in a disrespectful way without ever having read anything on the subject!

Hello Matt! I have known your channel a couple of days and I feel like you are my long time friend! Waw I really appreciate your way of talking and your job! God bless!! I am Catholic and from Brazil.

What are your thoughts on Garabandal?

@ZacharyCath

3 жыл бұрын

Unapproved and fraudulent. Some aspects of it seem demonic. Same with Medjugorje.

@justinreid2422

3 жыл бұрын

Uh bro they have it on film. They asked for a miracle. The BVM said it would happen and guess what?... it happened🙏PBMHJC The miracle of the host at Garabandal teaches us that even if they every priest falls to the deception of the evil one that God will still allow his Faithful to receive the Blessed Sacrament WITHOUT blemish But if you don't believe then don't bother

When you take a breath ... it's *MIRACLES* 😁😍 Jesus said; *BELIEVE* and you will *SEE* Not.... You SEE and then BELIEVE 😉

@davidm2031

Жыл бұрын

Ah, the bro trust me argument

@MoralsOfAnAlleycat24

Ай бұрын

Lauren....take your meds

Love your podcast my friend! Thanks for these segments!

You should get Bishop Scott McCaig on your show

I'm a Protestant coming over to the Ancient Churches -- probably Catholicism -- but based on my own research, I can accept some approved miracles, relics, and apparitions, but not others. I don't even have enough evidence to feel comfortable with believing in Fatima (based on when the letters were released) or Guadalupe (there's a lot of conflicting information) and I almost feel cheated and inauthentic. It's refreshing to hear a priest say that many medieval relics could have been faked. I lived in Europe for 4 years, and I'll just say that the Cross would be quite large and eclectic if I put together every "fragment". It's not that I don't believe in non-biblical miracles -- Lanciano is one I can accept. I know that the line is technically "you don't have to believe in private revelation," but given that the (supposed) man who experienced Guadalupe was just canonized, it seems relevant: I'm concerned about joining the Catholic Church because it appears that (probable) lies are accepted as long as they "advance the faith."

@SantusAnton

3 жыл бұрын

The prophecy on Fatima has now occurring. We can see it. It is clear what Fatima says is really happening now

@juice2307

3 жыл бұрын

Scripture says that prophecy’s legitimacy is bound in whether it happens or not. I was a Protestant who tackled and scrutinized many private revelations before converting. What I found is that private revelations often preceded the very events they predicted with horrifying accuracy. I’d also like to present why that helped me convert: every other denomination claims to be the original “church”, but either refuses to let science scrutinize their “miracles” or deny that miracles happen. We have no reason to believe that miracles have stopped, and that God is not actively always giving signs of his existence like he did through the apostles. The Catholic Church was the only Church that was friendly towards miracles, had substantial claims of them currently happening, while still allowing for critical analysis of them with science. As for how the whole private revelation thing works, the idea is that after something has been scrutinized and compared to scripture, doctrine and science, it is probably true or is at the very least possibly true enough to allow belief of it. The reason it does not become doctrine is because only public revelation can become doctrine, and that finished up with the Apocalypse of John (Revelation). This is to protect the faithful, as we know God sometimes gives important direction relevant to the current times to the least of us, and if that direction was a warning about certain people or ideas that might gain traction with the very people in-charge of us, it might not be heeded in any other way than through private revelation and miracle.

@PianoForte9096

3 жыл бұрын

@@SantusAnton My intellectual issue with the Fatima prophecies is that they are either unverifiable (1st and 3rd secrets) or were written down after the events had occurred (2nd secret). If, say, the children had verifiably written the 2nd secret a decade or two earlier, I would probably believe it had occurred. As it stands, I just don't know, but I won't talk down to anyone for believing in it. May you have a blessed day.

@SantusAnton

3 жыл бұрын

@@PianoForte9096 believe it or not it has happened right now. I do not know if you're a Catholic or not, however one of the children of Fatima was still alive until the time of Pope John Paul II and she did stated everything to the pope. The pope then revealed to the whole world but did not fully interpreted it. Present priests, such as Fr. Paul Kramer did the interpretation after a long time of research. If you familiar with his book called "The Mystery of Iniquity" then everything happened at Fatima is in it and some of the events prophesied has fulfilled and some has just occurred.

@PianoForte9096

3 жыл бұрын

@@juice2307 Thank you for your reply. It's definitely good to know that publicly acknowledged private revelation isn't dogma. I came from a multi-denominational Protestant background, so I definitely believe in and affirm some private revelation and miracles, but I don't accept much at face value. If it's a miracle, I usually look for early documentation from a trustworthy person or a completely undisputed object (or an enemy of the Church; by this, the Jews' claim that Jesus was taken from the tomb by His disciples backfires). If it's a prophecy, it at least has to be correct and written before the events occur; extra points if the prophecy is clear and the events aren't predictable (for example, I could easily predict that California will vote Democrat in 2024). Your story sounds intriguing. If I may ask, how did you come to terms with the Communion of Saints and the Immaculate Conception? I hope you have a blessed day.

Has DNA testing been done on the samples of Eucharist miracles?

When we receive Jesus in the Eucharist...as you well know, and when He is exposed on the altar....what we receive and what is there on the altar is the complete person of Jesus, Body,Blood, Soul and Divinity.....not a piece of flesh, or an ounce of his blood, not an organ, a kidney, a heart, or an eyeball. What next..an eyeball blinking or weeping in the monstrance, or the lung of Jesus breathing? Is not the whole Jesus Body,Blood,Soul and Divinity not enough for us in the Eucharist....now we seem to dismember Him as we did the saints bodies for relics in order to establish new shrines and reap more profits from gullible pilgrims. What next?.. we have shrines to the different parts of Jesus....this one where his heart was beating on the altar...this shrine where a blood soaked host was seen...this shrine where a piece of his flesh was bleeding...this shrine where a monstrance was filled with his blood....where does it end? John 20:29 " Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” Matthew 16:4, "An evil and adulterous generation demands a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah." Then he left them and went away."

Hoax

Are you serious??? You mention the difficulty in pulling off a eucharist hoax...while ignoring the veracity of the claims! I see no reason to believe any of these events actually happened...regardless of the level of difficulty.