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[Sarah147]

lol Give me a few days. I've been forgetful, so you'll have to forgive me.

[ExCorde]

[quote name='Mark of the Cross' timestamp='1297634313' post='2212021']
Just to add a snippet. Cynics often ask why the Church is full of old people. Answer- people are always older at the end of a journey than they are at the beginning.
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I relate to that Mark, but you could go say this on that thread and perhaps add a few things from your own experience! And we could talk more about that then.

[Sarah147]

[quote name='Didacus' timestamp='1297648130' post='2212102']
OK then.

I'll just hang out around here awhile 'till you get back.









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Well, I asked and got quite a lecture for me, you and everyone. All I can say is that people shouldn't get wrapped up in these sort of happenings (non-Church approved events). The book "Fire Within" by Fr. Dubay was recommended, as it answers things of this sort. The big concern is over people falling into [b]"error,"[/b] which can be worse than sin, and it isn't easily discernable. I'm still fairly new to Catholicism, and clearly I'm guilty of discussing Doctrine matters/events that haven't been yet Church-approved, even Saint stories; even Saints have been known to be wrong. So not everything coming from a Saint in their entire life is error-proof; just what they wrote or said that has been Church-approved thus far. Lord, help me!

[Didacus]

Lets move on then...

[Sarah147]

Ah, wadda ya gunna do? Fuggedaboutit. [img]http://www.freesmileyfacecentral.com/dan/gangster%20(4).gif[/img]

Edited February 16, 2011 by JoyfulLife

[ExCorde]

I heard about this book. Being a kid, there's less of a chance he's trying to trick anyone or seeing things he already knew about, but the problem is the father writing in (one could say he's also trying to chash in on the story). Some of the descriptions are too detailed for him to know, as happens in other places. In this case, he speaks not only about events taking place at the hospital but also getting to know facts about relatives he was never told. He also speaks of the Blessed Trinity, but that could have been just a dream (he speaks of God sitting in a "chair"):

[font="Arial"][i]«Heaven Is for Real [/i]is the true story of the four-year old son of a small town Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven. He survives and begins talking about being able to look down and see the doctor operating and his dad praying in the waiting room. The family didn't know what to believe but soon the evidence was clear.

Colton said he met his miscarried sister, whom no one had told him about, and his great grandfather who died 30 years before Colton was born, then shared impossible-to-know details about each. He describes the horse that only Jesus could ride, about how "reaaally big" God and his chair are, and how the Holy Spirit "shoots down power" from heaven to help us.

Told by the father, but often in Colton's own words, the disarmingly simple message is heaven is a real place, Jesus really loves children, and be ready, there is a coming last battle.»[/font]

[url="http://www.allbookstores.com/Heaven-Real-Little-Boys-Astounding/9780849946158"]http://www.allbookst...g/9780849946158[/url]

Edited April 14, 2011 by ExCorde