The Healing of Palladia by Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian

1438-40 - Fra Angelico

(Also known as Fra Giovanni da Fiesole, originally Guido di Piero)

Tempera on wood at the National Gallery of Art, Washington

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(by Dr. T. Janossy)

“For this is the great error of our day, that physicians separate the soul from the body.” Plato

Many families and individuals feel hopeless from time to time. It's my intention to collect stories here that could give us hope when there is "no hope".

Over the centuries people often turned to God in search for support and healing. Even today when science and ateism dethroned religion, those who have faith know that with God's help every disease could be turned around. And there is simply no such thing as an incurable disease.

There are many well documented, dramatic and life-saving healings reported. There is now no doubt that cancer and other serious diseases can be defeated. It takes faith and prayer - besides persuing other therapies. But if it is the will of God, prayer will have an effect that is remarkable.

We have friends who experienced the power of prayers resulting in the healing of broken bones, cancer, deformed baby in the womb, eyesight, and witnessed other healings. Experience tells us that for some reasons petitions for a baby in the case of infertile couples respond strongly to intercessory prayers. And prayers for people along love-relationships, such as children praying for their parents or parents for their children, can expect a more powerful response from God.

A recent scientific study at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City concluded that intercessory prayer for cardiac patients makes a scientifically noticeable difference (Archives of Internal Medicine, October 25, 1999 issue).

A study carried out at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina found that patients who received alternative therapy following angioplasty were 25% to 30% less likely to suffer complications. And those who received "intercessory prayer" had the greatest success rate.

Healing through prayers never happens automatically, it's always a gift from God. Often we have to persevere and increase our prayers and faith. The more we pray, especially from the heart and with love, the more powerful those prayers -- and our faith -- become. There is nothing that God will not and has not cured.

We're missing our root these days, acting without a center. Prayer gives us a center, that reminds us of the big picture, and that's especially important as war rages on the fringes of our world, body and souls.

While praying is crucial, sometimes a simple forgiveness can heal. Those who are sensitive to mind-body-spirit interactions claim, that at the base of many serious ailments, including cancer, is unforgiveness. When we don't forgive, we carry a tension, a cancer of the soul, that can then cause a physical manifestation. Once we forgive, often we experience healing. Something positive happens when we forgive.

Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, found that just thinking about past emotional stress -- a fight with your spouse, the tantrum your toddler threw in the middle of the store, or your boss chewing you out -- can cause dramatic rises in blood pressure.

"The effects of an emotional stressor do not end with the removal of that stressor," says study author Laura Glynn, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the university. "Simply thinking about a stressful experience can produce significant and sustained blood pressure responses."

The good news is, if you can forget the emotional stress, your blood pressure will quickly return to near normal levels, according to the study, which appeared in the September/2002 issue of Psychosomatic Medicine.

When we harbor a grudge, when we live a life of anger, it is like a curse that boomerangs. When we won't forgive or forget, we hurt ourselves much more than the person with whom we're angry. Anger leads to self-destruction. (There's that old saying: Don't stand too close to self-destructive people because they will take you down with them.)

"Pent up anger is probably the leading cause of death" says Drs. Frank Minirth and Paul Meier, two psychiatrists with many years of experience in treating thousands of patients with depression and mental illness. It is virtually impossible to get well from either physical or mental illness if we continue to harbor anger.

To achieve healing, we have to forget the hurts we received. And we have to ask for forgiveness from all those we hurt, including God.

Forgive your own failures as well that ruined your life. Recognizing our mistakes is a first step in getting well. Most of our problems are inside ourself. Stop looking for the cause of your illness outside yourself and start the process inside.

Just as an alcoholic must admit in front of all the others in Alcoholic's Anonymous that he is an alcoholic, we must also admit our own responsibility for our illness in order to be successful in recovery. As long as we deny our responsibility for our disease, we will never be able to make the dramatic and permanent changes necessary to get well.

Don't carry a burden you don't have to carry, unless you offer it up for a greater good. A case in point is a mother, who suffers while giving life to her baby. Or a spiritual person who fasts or offers up some discomfort for increased spiritual strength.

Our pride is often the #1 obstacle... By keeping our pride we often expose ourself to cancer and similar medical problems later in life. Pride, like anger, eats away the peace and joy of our soul and exposes us to harm. By seeking reconciliation, prayer and by living a humble life, we build our defenses for spiritual, mental and bodily health.

Even if you are not religious, but have a great desire to be cured, you should consider contacting a pastor/minister/priest/spiritual leader to help you in your search to ask forgiveness from God. You can loose only your pride, but gain a lot in restoring your love-relationship with God, resulting in healing and happiness.

Humble yourself, forgive and forget. Let anger go. Soak in the love of God. Enjoy peace, harmony and health in life. We are all on a journey to discover the serenity and joy that comes from praying for others, after repeated reconciliations.

Yes, the greatest experiences in life are free, such as praying for others out of joy (and sometimes seeing the results). Those who experienced it know exactly what I try to point out. Some of us are staying around after this discovery and able to radiate it to others. For others it comes late -- if it comes at all.

On your journey, always try to improve your human relationships by sharing your feelings; by volunteering to serve others (praying for others is a great service); by verbally expressing your love; by hugging and physically touching people; and by requesting expressions of love and friendship from others.

Communicate, communicate, communicate. This sounds easy I know but it is crucial. Tell each other how you feel and listen without judgement. All of us are vulnerable and fear "performance." Once the silence is broken, it's amazing how open people become and how ready they are to listen and be tender their family member's or friend's needs and concerns.

I wish you a journey of discovery that leads you to the serenity and joy that often keeps slipping out of our life. I wish you, my brothers and sisters, reconciliation that would heal you and keep you healed. All of you and your families who visit this web-site are added to my prayer list. As a Christian who is moved by the pain of all those who are suffering from lack of health in body, mind or spirit, I pray for you every day. And I ask all of you (those who pray...) to add to your prayer list all of those who in any way are associated with this web site. Please pray for healing and protection. Sometimes this is the least and the most that we can do for each others. Thank you! 

"Almighty God, I ask you to bless, heal and protect all of those who visit the pages of this web-site (oradix.com) and all of the family members of these people in their journey. You know their desires, their crosses, their fears and joys. You know where they need Your healing power, touching their body, mind and soul. Bless them, heal them, protect them, -- gently lead them to reconciliation and forgiveness. Give them the serenity, peace and joy, only You can give them. Teach them to love better because love, coming from the heart, heals. Help them to carry a bright light, the light of Your blessings, into the darkness and dispair we all experience. I ask all of you, who are in Heaven, to intercede and join this prayer, in the name of the Lord. Amen"

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He who angers you, controls you!

Forgiveness is life-changing. When Jesus was asked how often we should forgive someone, He said not seven times, but seventy times seven. We tend to think that forgiveness is not so important. However, forgiveness IS the initiation of healing. It sets you emotionally free and it's also an act of charity.

"When a person is unforgiving," writes Father Robert DeGrandis. "There are spiritual chains around him, and they are also around the person who is not forgiven. Both people involved are in bondage."

When we hold on to unforgiveness -- we're in an unhealthy bond with the person who has hurt us. We're actually tied to the person. "You must forgive, otherwise your heavenly Father cannot forgive you because you are holding back the Spirit," says Father DeGrandis. "You are blocking the flow of the Spirit, closing the door. You are willingly staying in the dark and not entering into the Light. That blocks healing."

According to Father DeGrandis, we all should go deeply into prayer and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal all the people we need to forgive. One good way of doing this is through what Father DeGrandis calls "The Forgiveness Prayer" [see below].  Through life, we gather a long list of friends, relatives, and acquaintances we need to forgive. When you pray, you'll be amazed how many will come to mind.

Start with your earliest memories and take a prayerful walk through your lives. Once a person you need to forgive pops into your consciousness, forgive that person; resolve not to think again of the offense; and love that person; pray for that person. This is what Jesus did right from the Cross -- and there is nothing that sets us free quicker.

There's the need to forgive friends. There is the need to forgive enemies. There is the need to forgive our closest relatives. "When we harbor bitterness, resentment, and unforgiveness, we are in effect inviting the devil to become involved in our lives," notes Father DeGrandis (a world-traveling evangelist). "Families and countries have been split apart by unforgiveness, bitterness, resentment, and hatred. I firmly believe this can open people up to demonic activity. If we have been wounded and will not forgive, we deepen our wounds. When we forgive another we who have been wounded become the channel for healing," adds this priest. 

That's because resentment and unforgiveness cause the heart to become scaled, blocking the flow of the Lord's love into our hearts and our lives. When we forgive -- which is to love -- we see remarkable changes in our lives, sometimes gradually, sometimes in a way that's miraculous. Father DeGrandis cites the case of a woman who prayed the "Forgiveness Prayer" for seven days and saw a lump in her neck disappear. Another recovered from facial paralysis. "Following the guidance that the Lord had revealed to us, we began to enter into a prayer for forgiveness at the beginning of each prayerful healing session, and we saw tremendous breakthroughs," says Father DeGrandis. "During these sessions we have seen cases where, although the pain did not leave when the person was prayed for, the pain disappeared completely when the 'Forgiveness Prayer' was said."

Is there a problem in your life that won't go away? Is there blockage? Is there something emotionally troubling you -- even a serious physical ailment?

Try forgiveness. It may be the answer you've been looking for. It may be what finally removes obstacles that have haunted you for longer than you knew and that have stopped you from being who God wants you to be.

Find a quiet time and place and consciously and slowly say the following prayer from your heart for seven times (or for seventy times seven times...). Feel free to send us your testimony if you experience a healing. We could consider adding a few testimonies after the prayer below.

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The Forgiveness Prayer

    Lord Jesus Christ, I ask today to forgive everyone in my life. I know that You will give me strength to forgive and I thank You that you love me more than I love myself and want my happiness more than I desire it for myself.

    Lord Jesus, I want to be free from the feelings of resentment, bitterness and unforgiveness toward You for the times I thought You sent death, hardships, financial difficulties, punishments and sickness into our family.

    Lord, I forgive myself for my sins, faults and failings. For all that is truly bad in myself or all that I think is bad, I do forgive myself. For any delvings in the occult, Ouija boards, horoscopes, seances, fortune telling, lucky charms; for taking Your name in vain; for not worshiping You; for hurting my parents, for getting drunk; for taking dope; for sins against my purity; for adultery; for abortion; for stealing, for lying - I am truly forgiving myself today. Thank You Lord for Your grace at this moment.

    I truly forgive my mother. I forgive her for all the times she hurt me, resented me, was angry with me and for all the times she punished me. I forgive her for the times she preferred my brothers and sisters to me. I forgive her for the times she told me I was dumb, ugly, stupid, the worst of the children or that I cost the family a lot of money. For the times she told me I was unwanted, an accident, a mistake or not what she expected. I forgive her.

    I forgive my father. I forgive him for any nonsupport, any lack of love, affection or attention. I forgive him for any lack of time, for not giving me his companionship, for his drinking of arguing and fighting with my mother or the other children. For his severe punishments, for desertion, for being away from home, for divorcing my mother or for any running around, I do forgive him.

    Lord, I extend forgiveness to my sisters and brothers. I forgive those who rejected me, lied about me, hated me, resented me, competed for my parents' love, those who hurt me, who physically harmed me. For those who were too severe on me, punished me or made my life unpleasant in any way, I do forgive them.

    Lord, I forgive my spouse for lack of love, affection, consideration, support, attention, communication, for faults, failings, weaknesses and those other acts or words that hurt or disturb me.

    Jesus, I forgive my children for their lack of respect, obedience, love, attention, support, warmth, understanding; their bad habits, falling away from the church, any bad actions which disturb me.

    My God, I forgive my in-laws - mother, father, son or daughter-in-law, sister and brother-in-law and other relatives by marriage. For their lack of love, words of criticism, thoughts, actions or omissions which injure and cause pain, I do forgive them.

    Please help me to forgive my relatives, my grandmother and grandfather who may have interfered in our family, been possessive of my parents, who may have caused confusion or turned one parent against the other.

    Jesus, help me to forgive my co-workers who are disagreeable or make life miserable for me. For those who push their work off on me, gossip about me, won't cooperate with me, try to take my job, who didn't give me credit for the work I did. I do forgive them.

    My neighbors need to be forgiven, Lord. For all their noise and disturbance, for their strange friends, for letting their property run down, for not tying up their dogs who run through my yard, not taking in their trash cans, not being attentive to my needs, for being prejudiced and for running down the neighborhood, I do forgive them.

    I now forgive my clergyman, my congregation and my church for all their lack of support, pettiness, failures, sins, scandals, bad sermons, lack of friendliness, not affirming me as they should, not providing me with inspiration, for not using me in a key position, for not inviting me to serve in a major capacity and for any other hurt they have inflicted - I do forgive them today.

    Lord, I forgive all professional people who have hurt me in any way - doctors, nurses, hospital workers, lawyers, policemen and others who misused their authority and took advantage of my trust. I forgive the government and all those who work for the government(s) for taking away from me those I thought belongs to me and for treating me badly. I forgive all those who hurt the cultural group, nationality and/or country I belong. For anything that they did to me and to those I belong, I truly forgive them today.

    Lord, I forgive my employer for not paying me enough money, for not appreciating my work, for being unkind and unreasonable with me, for being angry or unfriendly, for not promoting me and for not complimenting me on my work.

    Lord, I forgive my schoolteachers and instructors of the past, as well as the present. For those who punished me, humiliated me, insulted me, treated me unjustly, made fun of me, called me dumb or stupid, made me stay after school.

    Lord, I forgive my friends who have let me down, lost contact with me, do not support me, were not available when I needed help, borrowed money and did not return it, gossiped about me.

    Lord Jesus, I especially pray for the grace of forgiveness for that one person in life who has hurt me the most. I ask to forgive  anyone who I consider my greatest enemy, the one who is the hardest to forgive or the one who I said I would never forgive.

    Thank You, Jesus, that I am free of the evil of unforgiveness. Let Your Holy Spirit fill me with light and let every dark area of my mind be enlightened. Amen.
 

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A Healing Prayer (by Father John A. Lubey)

We come to You, Lord, in prayer, and ask that You minister to our brother/sister, (name), in all his/her needs. Place Your hands upon him/her, Lord, and let that sign be Your desire to give him/her all the blessings You have in store for him/her. Let him/her feel the warmth of Your presence and the warmth of Your love, as it enters his/her whole being.

Give him/her the gift of Your peace, Lord. Give him/her the gift of trusting more and more in Your goodness and mercy.

Pour forth upon him/her now, that gift of Your Divine Healing in every area of his/her life. Wherever there is sickness, illness, weakness, or distress, wherever there is any hurt, anxiety, fear, or worry, we ask You to pour forth the special power of Your Divine Healing into his/her mind, his/her heart, his/her soul, and his/her whole being.

Fill him/her with the fullness of Your vibrant, joyful, loving life that is given, without reservation, in the Sacraments and in prayer.

We thank you, Lord, for this prayer. We thank You for answering this prayer. We thank You for all Your blessings, graces, and strength.

In the name of Jesus, be healed. In the name of Jesus, be at peace. Amen.

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For Your Discernment (the Lord reveals Himself)

Click on the links below if you are searching for a deeper encounter with the Lord or if you never had the chance to learn more about the 'mindset' of the Lord. God, the Father loves you more than anybody else. He created you, He gave you life and He blesses you every day. You are His beloved child! Have no fear. He is watching you and caring for you.
God, the Father gave the following words some seventy years ago in Italy:
"Now My hour has come. I Myself am coming to make men, My children, know what, until today, they have not understood completely. I Myself am coming to bring the flame of the law of love so that, by this means, the enormous layer of ice that surrounds mankind can be melted and destroyed.

Oh, beloved humanity, oh, men who are My children, set yourselfes free from the bonds in which the devil has chained you until now, inspiring in your fear of a Father Who is pure love! Come, come closer to Me, you have every right to approach your Father; open up your hearts, pray to My Son that He may help you to know even better My goodness towards you.

You who are prisoners of superstition and the laws of the devil, leave this tyrannical slavery and come to the truth of truths. Recognize the One Who made you and is your Father. Do not try to claim your rights, praying woeship and homage to those who have led you to spend your life uselessly until now, but come to Me, I am waiting for all because you are all My children."

The FATHER's message in full:

www.theworkofgod.org/Library/Trinity/Father/Message1.htm

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Are you courious how the Lord responds to our desires, our successes and failures today in 2003? A prayer group in Trinidad gets words from the Lord every Wednesday night.

"My child, I am he who called you, formed and fashioned you, and called you out of your mother’s womb, but you have allowed the delights of the world to bind and entomb you.  I call you out of the tomb, my child, and I unbind you from the hate, and the envy, and the jealousy, and the greed, and I set you free for I love you with an everlasting love."

"My people, I love you.   My love for you is one that you cannot fully understand.   My love for you is total and pure and I say to you that unless you stay close to me you cannot love the way I want you to love.   Even as the vine is there and the branches spread out from the vine and they shade others, I call you to be the branches of my vine and as you stay close to me, like that branch you will draw from me all that you need to love because I am pure love and this is what I ask of you.  And as you stay close to me I will open your heart.   Yes my people, I see the difficulty you experience to love the way I call you to love but I will open your heart as long as you desire me to do this and I will fill you with all that I have so that you can love the way I want you to love.  My people, do not be afraid to love, for love is gentle and kind, and love is forgiving, and love excuses. My people, yes, love does not gloat over the other in their downfall.   I call you to lift your head high and be my child, and as my child I will nurture you and teach you how to love as my child."

"I call you to trust me, I call you to have faith in me, I call you to have hope in me.  My people, the world needs to know that I am victorious and I call you to be messengers that I am victorious.   Yes, peace will reign because when my people know that there needs to be no fear, there needs to be no worry, because I have won the victory, peace will enter into homes, peace will enter into hearts, and peace will enter into this land.   Be not afraid, I am with you."

"Beloved, I know you would rather not be holy, for holy is hard, but I have been careful to call you, careful to show you the way to holiness.   Do you doubt that I will hold your hand along that road?  And yes, I know you look at it, and you see how hard it is, how thirsty the road, how stony, and every time you fall you wish to turn back, you wish to go another way, certain that you will never get to the end.  Foolish, do not be discouraged for it is when you fall that I am closest to you; do not be concerned if you have hurt me, for when I fall with you the hurt is not from you but from the road.   So up, beloved, fall and fall again, but up, for I will carry you and I will bring you to that door and I will bring you through and holy in my heart you will be."

"Tonight I say to you, my little ones, that the waters of purification in which you have been immersed and cleansed are waters of renewal, for when you are cleansed in that water you are made into a new creation, not simply has all the dirt been washed away from you but you have been reborn and I delight in the new you that I see before me.   I delight that you have taken off the mask that was cracked and grimy, I delight that you have set aside the dirty rags that you have worn, for that has covered the beauty that I have seen deep within, and it is in the waters of life that all that is superfluous, all that is a cover-up is washed away and that new creation emerges out of which my light and my glory can shine and my face can be seen."

More words from the Lord:

www.livingwatercommunity.com/prophetic.htm

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If you find a credible 'miracle healing' story on the internet, please send me an e-mail and the story's link. I would consider adding the story to the list below. Thank you!

HOW A THREE YEAR OLD BOY DIED AND CAME BACK TO LIFE
(by Brian's father)

Throughout our lives we are blessed with spiritual experiences, some of which are very sacred and confidential, and others, although sacred, are meant to be shared. Last summer my family had a spiritual experience that had a lasting and profound impact on us, one we feel must be shared. Its a message of love. It's a message of regaining perspective, and restoring proper balance and renewing priorities. In humility, I pray that I might, in relating this story, give you a gift my little son, Brian, gave our family one summer day last year.

On July 22nd I was in-route to Washington DC for a business trip. It was all so very ordinary, until we landed in Denver for a plane change. As I collected my belongings from the overhead bin, an announcement was made for Mr. Lloyd Glenn to see the Customer Service Representative immediately. I thought nothing of it until I reached the door to leave the plane and I heard a gentleman asking every male if they were Mr. Glenn. At this point I knew something was wrong and my heart sunk. When I got off the plane a solemn-faced young man came toward me and said, "Mr. Glenn, there is an emergency at your home. I do not know what the emergency is, or who is involved, but I will take you to the phone so you can call the hospital." My heart was now pounding, but the will to be calm took over. Woodenly, I followed this stranger to the distant telephone where I called the number they gave me for the Mission Hospital. My call was put through to the trauma center where I learned that my three-year-old son had been trapped underneath the automatic garage door for several minutes, and  when my wife had found him, he was dead. CPR had been performed by a neighbor, who is a doctor, and the paramedics continued the treatment as Brian was transported to the hospital. By the time of my call, Brian was revived and they believed he would live, but they did not know how much damage was done to his brain, nor to his heart. They explained that the door had completely closed to his little sternum right over his heart. He had been severely crushed. After speaking with the medical staff, my wife sounded worried but not hysterical, and I took comfort in her calmness.

The return flight seemed to last forever, but finally I arrived at the hospital six hours after the garage door had come down. When I walked into the intensive care unit, nothing could have prepared me to see my little son laying so still on a great big bed with tubes and monitors everywhere. He was on a respirator. I glanced at my wife who stood and tried to give me a reassuring smile. It all seemed like a terrible dream. I was filled-in with the details and given a guarded prognosis. Brian was going to live, and the preliminary tests indicated that his heart was ok, two miracles in and of themselves. But only time would tell if his brain received any damage. Throughout the seemingly endless hours, my wife was calm. She felt that Brian would eventually be all right. I hung on to her words and faith like a lifeline.

All that night and the next day Brian remained unconscious. It seemed like forever since I had left for my business trip the day before. Finally at two o'clock that afternoon, our son regained consciousness and sat up uttering the most beautiful words I have ever heard spoken. He said, "Daddy hold me" and he reached for me with his little arms By the next day he was pronounced as having no neurological or physical deficits, and the story of his miraculous survival spread throughout the hospital. You cannot imagine our gratitude and joy. As we took Brian we felt a unique reverence for the life and love of our Heavenly Father that comes to those who brush death so closely. In the days that followed there was a special spirit about our home. The two older children were much closer to their little brother. My wife and I were much closer to each other, and all of us were very close as a whole family. Life took on a less stressful pace.  Perspective seemed to be more focused, and balance much easier to gain and maintain. We felt deeply blessed. Our gratitude was truly profound. The story is not over (smile)!

Almost a month later to the day of the incident, Brian awoke from his afternoon nap and said, "Sit down mommy. I have something to tell you." At this time in his life, Brian usually spoke in small phrases, so to say a large sentence surprised my wife. She sat down with him on his bed and he began his sacred and remarkable story. "Do you remember when I got stuck under the garage door? Well it was so heavy and it hurt really bad. I called to you, but you wouldn't hear me. I started to cry, but then it hurt too bad. And then the birdies came." "The birdies?" my wife asked puzzled. "Yes," he replied. "The birdies made a whooshing sound and flew into the garage. They took care of me." "They did?" "Yes" he said. "One of the birdies came and got you. She came to tell you I got stuck under the door." A sweet reverent feeling filled the room. The spirit was so strong and yet lighter than air. My wife realized that a three-year-old had no concept of death and spirits, so he was referring to the beings who came to him from beyond as "birdies" because they were up in the air like birds that fly. "What did the birdies look like?" she asked. Brian answered, They were so beautiful. They were dressed in white, all white. Some of them had green and white. But some of them had on just white." "Did they say anything?" "Yes" he answered. "They told me the baby would be alright." "The baby?" my wife asked confused. Brian answered. "The baby laying on the garage floor." He went on, "You came out and opened the garage door and ran to the baby. You told the baby to stay and not leave." My wife nearly collapsed upon hearing this, for she had indeed gone and knelt beside Brian’s body and seeing his crushed chest and recognizable features, knowing he was already dead, she looked up round her and whispered, "Don't leave us Brian, please stay if you can." As she listened to Brian telling her the words she had spoken, she realized that the spirit had left his body and was looking down from above on this little lifeless form. "Then what happened?" she asked. "We went on a trip." He said, "far, far away." He grew agitated trying to say the things he didn't seem to have the words for. My wife tried to calm and comfort him, and let him know it would be okay. He struggled with wanting to tell something that obviously was very important to him, but finding the words was difficult. "We flew so fast up in the air. They're so pretty Mommy." he added. "And there is lots and lots of birdies." My wife was stunned. Into her mind the sweet comforting spirit enveloped her more soundly, but with an urgency she had never before known. Brian went on to tell her that the "birdies" had told him that he had to come back and tell everyone about the "birdies". He said they brought him back to the house and that a big fire truck, and an ambulance were there. A man was bringing the baby out on a white bed and he tried to tell the man that the baby would be okay, but the man couldn't hear him. He said the birdies told him he had to go with the ambulance, but they would be near him. He said, they were so pretty and so peaceful, and he didn't want to come back. Then the bright light came. He said that the light was so bright and so warm, and he loved the bright light so much. Someone was in the bright light and put their arms around him, and told him, "I love you but you have to go back. You have to play baseball, and tell everyone about the birdies." Then the person in the bright light kissed him and waved bye-bye. Then whoosh, the big sound came and they went into the clouds. The story went on for an hour.

He taught us that "birdies" were always with us, but we don't see them because we look with our eyes and we don't hear them because we listen with our ears. But they are always there, you can only see them in here (he put his hand over his heart). They whisper the things to help us to do what is right because they love us so much. Brian continued, stating, "I have a plan, Mommy. You have a plan. Daddy has a plan. Everyone has a plan. We must all live our plan and keep our promises. The birdies help us to do that cause they love us so much." In the weeks that followed, he often came to us and told all, or part of it again and again. Always the story remained the same. The details were never changed or out of order. A few times he added further bits of information and clarified the message he had already delivered. It never ceased to amaze us how he could tell such detail and speak beyond his ability when he talked about his birdies. Everywhere he went, he told strangers about the "birdies". Surprisingly, no one ever looked at him strangely when he did this. Rather, they always got a softened look on their face and smiled. Needless to say, we have not been the same ever since that day, and I pray we never will be.

THE MISTERY OF GOD'S HEALING POWER EXPLANED...  www.cbn.org/700club/askpat/BIO_divinehealing.asp

HOW A MEDICAL BUREAU (with Protestant, Jewis, Muslim and even agnostic doctors) CONFIRMS A MIRACLE AT LOURDES, FRANCE www.upi.com/print.cfm?StoryID=09042002-034144-9156r

THE LATEST (66TH) CURE AT LOURDES www.lourdes-france.org/gb/gbsa0021.htm

BRAIN CANCER CURED  www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=3397463&BRD=2130&PAG=461&dept_id=344657&rfi=6

DEFORMED BABY IS CURED www.ourlady.ca/stories/olenka.htm

A DOCTOR IS MIRACULOUSLY CURED AFTER AFTER A CAR ACCIDENT (I personally know Mike and confirm that he is telling the truth)   www.ourlady.ca/stories/mikestory.htm

DOCTOR CURED FROM CANCER THROUGH THE INTERCESSION OF PADRE PIO  www.cuf.org/oct99b.htm

BABY CURED THROUGH THE INTERCESSION OF "SAINT PADRE PIO" This is the recent miracle that was necessary for Padre Pio to become a Saint www.members.aol.com/fmrega4/Matteo.htm

A WOMEN SUFFERING FROM ABUSE AND ILLNESS WAS CURED THROUGH THE INTERCESSION OF 'GOSPA' IN MEDJUGORJE www.childrenofmedjugorje.com/medj/reports/02_15_02.html

PRAYERS HELPED FRACTURED ARTERIES CURED, LASSIE, HER DOG GREETS HER AT GATE OF HEAVEN www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/features/religion/j21dominick.htm

CANCER CURE MIRACLE (reported by CNN) THAT HELPS MOTHER THERESA TO BECOME A SAINT www.europe.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/south/10/01/mother.teresa.saint/index.html

HEART MIRACLES...  www.cantonrep.com/index.php?Category=26&ID=78919&r=0

RECENT MASS HEALINGS (BY JESUS) IN DENMARK  www.jesus.org.uk/dawn/latest.html#Denmark 

HEALING - AFTER AN ATTACK WITH A MACHETE CUTS OFF AN ARM ON THE ISLAND OF ST. LUCIA  www.committed.to/Abba

A PARALYSED 60-YEAR-OLD ITALIAN WOMAN HAS BEEN CURED IN LOURDES IN 2003  http://www.totalcatholic.com/News.asp?Action=View&ID=288B8F3DB13744BE906C7FF4E1BFA801&GroupID=FB5C0F4DAE0C41EF9A7AD5C0B69108C8