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Originally posted by UnBreakable
So let me get this straight. God decides to send an angel for divine intervention for someone driving an expensive Mercedes but doesn't get involved in the plight for millions of starving kids and those who are poor or have terminal illnesses. Ok.
Originally posted by UnBreakable
So let me get this straight. God decides to send an angel for divine intervention for someone driving an expensive Mercedes but doesn't get involved in the plight for millions of starving kids and those who are poor or have terminal illnesses. Ok.
Originally posted by Dr1Akula
Ohhh what a blessing, an angel takes the form of a pedophile, to help some rich people in a glamourous Mercedes, While millions of people suffer every day and 250.000 children die from hunger each year.
It is god's love, enjoy it...
Originally posted by Nicks87
Originally posted by Dr1Akula
Ohhh what a blessing, an angel takes the form of a pedophile, to help some rich people in a glamourous Mercedes, While millions of people suffer every day and 250.000 children die from hunger each year.
It is god's love, enjoy it...
Only 250 children each year? Wow thats pretty good for a planet that has 7 billion people.
...and it was an older model Mercedes so enough with the liberal spin.
Originally posted by Octave
Originally posted by UnBreakable
So let me get this straight. God decides to send an angel for divine intervention for someone driving an expensive Mercedes but doesn't get involved in the plight for millions of starving kids and those who are poor or have terminal illnesses. Ok.
Perhaps the young woman in the car will be having a child in the future that will grow up to help solve world hunger, or do great work with the poor, or maybe even help find a cure for cancer? Maybe it wasn't so much about the young woman in the car but about a possible future child who will do great things for people.
Originally posted by VegHead
Just saw this story... it gave me chills. I wanted to share it.
source: news.yahoo.com...
Some believe in angels and others don't. But a story coming out of Center, Missouri, might lead skeptics to conclude that a higher-power sometimes intervenes in the midst of tragedy. Of course, there's also the potential that a real-life priest is responsible for the life-saving act that's gaining widespread attention -- and that he has simply yet to be found.
Allow us to explain.
KHQA-TV is reporting a story that seems virtually unbelievable. After Aaron Smith, 26, struck Katie Lentz, 19, in a head-on car crash on Sunday morning, authorities claim they began a long rescue process. After 60 minutes of trying to get Lentz out of the vehicle (she was pinned between the steering wheel and the seat), rescue crews, at Lentz's request, prayed out loud for the trapped woman.
And that's when a mystery priest allegedly appeared. According to accounts, he came out of nowhere and brought intense calm upon the situation.
"He came up and approached the patient, and offered a prayer," New London Fire Chief Raymond Reed told KHQA-TV. "It was a Catholic priest who had anointing oil with him. A sense of calmness came over her, and it did us as well."
Considering how many people were at the scene and interacting with the mystery faith leader, the story is a fascinating one.
"I can't be for certain how it was said, but myself and another firefighter, we very plainly heard that we should remain calm, that our tools would now work and that we would get her out of that vehicle," the firefighter added.
Now here's where things get weird. After another fire department showed up, the rescue proceeded easily and the tools worked, as promised. But when nearly a dozen firefighters turned around to thank the priest, he was gone; the road was empty. Considering that the road was blocked off for a quarter of a mile during the rescue and that no cars were around, the scenario, on the surface, seems a bit bizarre.
Lentz's friends and family want to thank the priest, but, so far, he's nowhere to be found.
"Where did this guy come from?" Travis Wiseman said, speaking rhetorically about the faith leader . "We're looking for the priest and so far, no one has seen him. Whether it was a priest as an angel or an actual angel, he was an angel to all those and to Katie."
Smith has been charged with a DWI, second degree assault and failure to drive on the right side of the road. And the search for the priest forges on.
The multiple witnesses make this especially interesting.
And, honestly, even this was "just" a living priest, the calm that his presence brought in a time of crisis was (I think) supernatural. I love hearing stories like this... and when they make news without seeming (to me) like a cheesy hoax, it just warms my heart.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on this story. Think it was an angel? divine intervention? just good timing and good luck? a hoax? Please share your take on this!
Thanks!
ETA: Here is a link to another story on it: www.connecttristates.com... This is "breaking" news as of today.
Also, here is a YouTube of the story:
edit on 7-8-2013 by VegHead because: adding another article and youtube link
Originally posted by fiftyfifty
It is a nice story but looking for a rational explanation, the following is credible;
Police block the road off 1/4 mile up the road (in reality, it may be less) a priest arrives at the road block after delivering his sermon at a nearby church (or before, depending on the time as it is Sunday morning) and asks if he can help. Knowing the severity of the situation, the officer lets him through the cordon. If he walks quickly, he will reach the scene in under 4 minutes on foot. However, with all the action at the scene and adrenaline, which of the emergency service workers are going to take notice of a police car pulling up a couple of hundred yards away and dropping the priest off?
The priest reaches the scene and does his thing and then leaves as the new fire department arrives. They cut the girl out of the car and turn around to thank the priest who has long since left as it will take more than 4 minutes to free the girl from the car. The officer who let the priest through the cordon keeps quiet either because he went against protocol by letting the priest through and doesn't want to get into trouble or he doesn't want to be the one responsible for revealing that there was no divine intervention.
Maybe there is a church on the other side of one of these fields and the priest walked across after seeing the flashing lights. Again, logical explanations are abundant but trying to prove a faith is much more appealing to some.
Originally posted by Dr1Akula
Ohhh what a blessing, an angel takes the form of a pedophile, to help some rich people in a glamourous Mercedes, While millions of people suffer every day and 250.000 children die from hunger each year.
It is god's love, enjoy it...
Originally posted by UnBreakable
your faith
Originally posted by Char-Lee
Originally posted by UnBreakable
So let me get this straight. God decides to send an angel for divine intervention for someone driving an expensive Mercedes but doesn't get involved in the plight for millions of starving kids and those who are poor or have terminal illnesses. Ok.
Maybe there is a reason..........
Maybe the reason is there are no angels............... or God for that matter.
TheBlaze contacted numerous Catholic churches in the Center, Mo. area to learn more about the incident. One, Rev. Louis Dorn of nearby St. Joseph’s Church, is as perplexed as everyone else.
Dorn said that there are three churches in the area (St. Joseph, St. Clement and St. Williams), but that none of the priests nearby match the description of the mystery man that first responders and other witnesses gave.
“What I heard on the news was he was dark-complected, about 5’7″, just under 200 pounds, with black rimmed glasses,” Dorn said, adding that firefighters and others reported he was “speaking with an accent of some kind.”
Indeed, KHQA-TV reported that one woman who helped at the scene, Wanda Burr-White, described the priest this way, adding that he had dark hair and that she was unsure of his nationality. Her husband, who also saw the man, added that he had black-rimmed glasses and he resembled Matthau, best known for his roles in “The Odd Couple” and “Grumpy Old Men.”
As for whether a priest (or an individual posing as one) is responsible for the rescue or whether it was an “angel” as some have claimed, Dorn is uncertain, but did point out some strange elements.
“If it was a real priest, there’s several things that make you really wonder,” he said. “If the road was blocked a quarter mile in either direction, that would have been a long walk. How do he get that far away without anyone seeing him? It’s a fairly flat area.”
Father Bill Peckman of the St. Clement parish added that all of the local priests would have been in mass at 9 a.m. and that the person was likely a faith leader who was on vacation. As for whether the appearance was an angel or an actual priest, he said “regardless God intervened.” He added that this is a “wonderful story” and a nice break from some of the other things going on in the world right now.
Deacon Dan Joyce, head of communications for the Catholic Diocese of Jefferson County, the presiding church body in the area, told TheBlaze no priests have yet come forward to say they were the one who helped crash victim Katie Lentz.
“We have international priests that are assigned from our diocese that are from places like Nigeria, the Philippines and India — and a few of them are within a 150 mile radius,” Joyce said. “We’ve looked at the area and the churches to see where that path is in relationship to some of the parishes and we really don’t come up with a priest from our dioceses who would be traveling on a Sunday morning on that particular path.”
That doesn’t mean that there’s something supernatural at play — it’s entirely possible there was another priest who just happened to be passing through. The diocese remains unsure of what really happened.
“Our feeling is clearly something occurred. There were many witnesses that were involved,” Joyce said. “There was an anointing involved.”
Catholic leaders aren’t spending too much time on the case. While they there open to the idea that this was a potential miracle, as their faith compels them to remain open to the prospect, Joyce isn’t going out of his way to find answers.
“We’re not going to be conducting any sort of investigation, certainly out of respect to our priests who might have been involved — in respect for their privacy if they don’t want to come forward,” he said.
Originally posted by Dr1Akula
Originally posted by Octave
Originally posted by UnBreakable
So let me get this straight. God decides to send an angel for divine intervention for someone driving an expensive Mercedes but doesn't get involved in the plight for millions of starving kids and those who are poor or have terminal illnesses. Ok.
Perhaps the young woman in the car will be having a child in the future that will grow up to help solve world hunger, or do great work with the poor, or maybe even help find a cure for cancer? Maybe it wasn't so much about the young woman in the car but about a possible future child who will do great things for people.
I thought that child was Jesus, but none of these problems solved back then... and now it is a little late acting for the ultimate power that knows all and created the universe, time and space, to take action on this subject, after all the suffering His ''children'' have had the last few thousand years