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Miracle on the highway

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  • #2
    Benny_Cake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭Benny_Cake


    indy_man wrote: »
    http://www.connecttristates.com/news/story.aspx?id=930741#.UgIiwZLUnSg

    Indy_man, you're very welcome to post here, but this is a discussion forum. Do you have any thoughts on this story?


  • #3
    indy_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 377 ✭✭indy_man


    Sorry, sorry, I guess I should have added a comment. I think this is good example of a modern day good Samaratin, or maybe even a miracle.

    Its kind of strange he just appeared to help out then there was no trace if him afterwards.


  • #4
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,409 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Everybody calmed down. How was that miraculous?

    The bit about Merc steel dulling cutting equipment is tripe, btw.


  • #5
    Benny_Cake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭Benny_Cake


    indy_man wrote: »
    Sorry, sorry, I guess I should have added a comment. I think this is good example of a modern day good Samaratin, or maybe even a miracle.

    Its kind of strange he just appeared to help out then there was no trace if him afterwards.

    I'm something of a skeptic when it comes to miracles. Not to say that they can't happen, it's just that if they happen at all it seems incredibly rare.

    They story reminded me a little of an interview with a priest I heard a couple of years back. He was based in Borris-on-Ossory (I think) and before the M7 was finished he was called out all too often to give the last rites to those who were dying/dead on the old N7 (a dangerous stretch of road). Not an easy life being a priest, my hat goes off to them (same goes for the emergency services of course).


  • #6
    indy_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 377 ✭✭indy_man


    endacl wrote: »
    Everybody calmed down. How was that miraculous?

    The bit about Merc steel dulling cutting equipment is tripe, btw.


    So this is a secular site right, not a Catholic news site. So are you saying the Fire chief Raymond Reed is lying and is a plant to make a nice Catholic miracle story. Or do you think he is telling the truth but was deluded?

    I'm not saying i'm 100 % convinced either, it does all seem a bit dramatic. But maybe there is an element of the divine involved.


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  • #7
    cypressg
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    Whole story is tripe.
    Fire crew does it's job and cuts person out of wreck-it's a miracle!!


  • #8
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,409 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    indy_man wrote: »
    So this is a secular site right, not a Catholic news site. So are you saying the Fire chief Raymond Reed is lying and is a plant to make a nice Catholic miracle story. Or do you think he is telling the truth but was deluded?
    I'm saying neither. I'm saying that one of the few facts related in the article was that the crew didn't have the correct equipment, and that when the correct equipment arrived, the victim was freed from the wreckage. Everything else in the article appears to be reporter spin.

    Secular site? The site is neutral. This forum, however is 'christianity'. Not that that should matter...


  • #9
    georgieporgy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,927 ✭✭✭georgieporgy


    indy_man wrote: »
    Sorry, sorry, I guess I should have added a comment. I think this is good example of a modern day good Samaratin, or maybe even a miracle.

    Its kind of strange he just appeared to help out then there was no trace if him afterwards.
    thanks for posting this 'good news' story and bringing it to our attention. i've read the article a few times and have to admit it comes accross as most news stories do, - it's a fair representation of the facts as related by the (many) people on the scene at the time.
    The witnesses were professionals doing their job and they were pretty impressed by what happened to such an extent that they talked about it and it got on the six o clock news.


  • #10
    ashleyhere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28 ✭ashleyhere


    A member of my family was killed instantly in a head-on car crash some years ago. They were on their way to Sunday Mass. A Nun turned up at the accident scene and stayed with the family for some hours afterward. The family kept in contact with her for years after until her death. Have never forgotten her. This story brought it all back.


  • #11
    indy_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 377 ✭✭indy_man


    ashleyhere wrote: »
    A member of my family was killed instantly in a head-on car crash some years ago. They were on their way to Sunday Mass. A Nun turned up at the accident scene and stayed with the family for some hours afterward. The family kept in contact with her for years after until her death. Have never forgotten her. This story brought it all back.


    ashleyhere i'm really sorry if this story broght back sad memories for you.


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  • #12
    ashleyhere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28 ✭ashleyhere


    indy_man wrote: »
    ashleyhere i'm really sorry if this story broght back sad memories for you.
    That Nun brought great comfort to my family on that awful morning. It was as if she was meant to be there if that makes sense as the person who died was very religious.
    You never forget a person like that.


  • #13
    indy_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 377 ✭✭indy_man


    ashleyhere, thanks for posting.

    Here is some more info about the recent crash.

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/07/angel-crash-missouri/2630227/


  • #14
    indy_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 377 ✭✭indy_man


    More interviews, reports and views on this incident. I have even heard someone say it may have been the Cure de Ars let out of heaven for a day as it was his feast day.


  • #15
    m4smith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41 ✭m4smith


    Probably the Priest had bi-located. Padre Pio during his lifetime was famed for it, Also Don Bosco. After all it was the Girl who had asked for someone to pray with her, and then the priest approached.


  • #16
    gctest50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭gctest50


    endacl wrote: »

    The bit about Merc steel dulling cutting equipment is tripe, btw.

    french concrete > german steel


  • #17
    smcgiff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,943 ✭✭✭smcgiff


    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/12/mystery-priest-who-showed-up-at-crash-scene-then-vanished-is-identified/

    I'll just leave this here.


  • #18
    fatmammycat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,208 ✭✭✭fatmammycat


    smcgiff wrote: »
    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/12/mystery-priest-who-showed-up-at-crash-scene-then-vanished-is-identified/

    I'll just leave this here.

    I'll add this- particularly important is his denial of saying a word about machinery or otherwise- http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Miracle-priest-at-Missouri-crash-site-Kilkenny-born-Fr-Patrick-Dowling-VIDEO-219384751.html


  • #19
    smcgiff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,943 ✭✭✭smcgiff


    fatmammycat wrote: »
    I'll add this- particularly important is his denial of saying a word about machinery or otherwise- http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Miracle-priest-at-Missouri-crash-site-Kilkenny-born-Fr-Patrick-Dowling-VIDEO-219384751.html


    “That did not come from my lips, though two people heard it.”

    Quote from the priest, this speaks volumes (pardon the pun).


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