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I was recently visiting an RC shrine, with a Catholic friend, when I found out that the woman who worked there claimed to have been healed there. She said she saw a vision of Jesus, and claimed to have been cured of thyroid problem. She had the letter from her doctor and some other letter laminated. Very interesting. I didn’t automatically believe her, but I think something did happen to her. Power to her! Someone gets healed and believes it was a miracle? I’m fine with that. Healed is healed. Healthy is better than unhealthy. I couldn’t prove it one way or another, so I don’t really see the need to spoil someone’s good time. The power of belief is amazing. Recently in priesthood we talked about healing and that we do not have a monopoly on spiritual healings. I believe that many Roman Catholics as well as other groups have a tremendous amount of faith that does in fact precede being healed. From a book on religious pilgrimages, I quote: “The Catholic church considers itself a living boy, perpetuated from biblical times on, through postsciptural and postapostolic history; because the generative bilblical era was full of revelations and miracles, the possibility remains that similar phenomena may occur today. . . . Miracles did not cease at the death of the last apostle.” (Turner & Turner, 1978)
I know someone who regularly goes/takes people to Lourdes as well. RCism has no appeal to me really, for various reasons. Its brutality dwarves anything the LDS has done, but I also recognize it benefits some people.
I suppose in this particular case, it was interesting she saw Jesus, rather than the Marian thing.
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