The Most Witnessed Miracle in History

A bus mechanic named Farouk Mohammed Atwa was working at a Public Transport garage across the street from the Virgin Mary Orthodox Coptic Church in Zeitoun, Egypt (a suburb of Cairo) after sunset on the evening of April 2, 1968 when the figure of a woman standing on top of one of the church’s domes caught his attention. Alarmed because he saw the woman moving and thought she was preparing to commit suicide by jumping off the church’s roof, Farouk alerted two of his coworkers, and they all shouted at the woman to be careful so she wouldn’t fall. Their shouting attracted the attention of many people passing by on Tumanbay Street, who also saw the glowing white female figure when they looked up. 

One of the photos my wife Kathy and I saw at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona during our visit.
The Virgin Mary above the Church of Virgin Mary in Zeitoun, Cairo - Egypt, April 2nd, 1968. According to Coptic tradition this is one of the sites where the Holy family stayed during their flight to Egypt.

In Love with The Divine Outcast - end of Chapter 1o

05/09/19

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We all know that sanctification is a work both divine and human. It is divine through its immediate Principle, the Holy Spirit; through its meritorious cause, the Incarnation and the Death of the Son of God; through its end, the happiness of the Holy Trinity, in which holy souls are to participate for all eternity; finally through its chief means, the teachings and the graces of Jesus Christ transmitted to men through the Church.  

But this work is human also, since the graces of the Holy Spirit, and merits of the Son of God, the designs of the Holy Trinity, and all the efforts of Providence can bear fruit in a soul only as far as she freely co-operates with them.  

"And if Thou shouldest leave me,

O Treasure dear, divine,

Yet will I smile in gladness,

Though no caress be mine . . .

And Thy return, sweet Jesus,

I will await in peace,

Nor shall my Canticles of Love

E'en for a moment cease."

(St. Little Thérèse)

The Holy Spirit never speaks in vain. The silent soul listens and always hears His Voice.