Läste om Kyrkans godkännande av ytterligare en uppenbarelse - eller rättare sagt 12 av 295 uppenbarelser av Jungfru Maria i Laus, Frankrike - landet där flera herdinnor/bondflickor har fått möta henne (Lourdes är ett av de mest kända exemplen).
Undrar varför just dessa 12 uppenbarelser men inte de övriga godkändes?
"After explaining the Church's process for verifying Marian apparitions was discussed at the Lateran Council and the Council of Trent, Perrella explained that currently "discernment about the veracity" of alleged apparitions "falls to the diocesan bishop or archbishop—and in recent times to the episcopal conference in question—and to the Pope."
He also pointed out that the "Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith drafted an internal and secret document on February 25, 1978, after four years of study, signed by the prefect Cardinal Franjo Seper to be used by the competent authorities" in evaluating supernatural occurrences.
Perrella went on to point out that the CDF instructed that for an investigation to proceed, "precise information" should be gathered about the various aspects of the alleged apparitions such as testimonies of conversions, theological analysis of the message of the apparitions, a medical and psychological review of the seer or visionary, including his or her educational level, an examination of their spiritual life, their level of communion with the Church, miraculous healings and occurrences, and other factors.
After a detailed examination of the numerous events related to apparitions, Perrella said, the Church "has approved a total of 11 apparitions out of 295 that have been studied—including now the 12th, which are those of Our Lady of Laus, approved on May 4, 2008."
Läs hela uttalandet här.
Om flickan och händelserna går det också att läsa en hel del. Det verkar vara ganska oekumeniska uppenbarelser - här berättas det om en sådan:
"… At Laus, France, when Benoîte Rencurel [1647-1718] a modest shepherdess and a Dominican tertiary enjoyed apparitions of the Most Holy Virgin Mary for some 50 years. These apparitions have been recognized by the Church and Laus has become a fairly important place of pilgrimage up to our time. The Holy Virgin granted many graces of conversion there.5
In Abbé Roger de Labriolle’s book, Benoîte, La bergère de Notre Dame de Laus6, on page 7, we may read the following account of an event which occurred in 1668.
One of the punishments suffered by Benoîte merits being underlined in our ecumenical era. She was taking a child to be baptized at Remollon, where some Huguenots (i.e. Protestants) asked her if she believed that they were able to save themselves in their religion. ‘I leave that to the judgment of God’, she replied.
The Virgin - Gaillard affirms - corrected her saying that she had too much human respect and that she had not told the truth, because, if she had said no, some of them would have been converted. This they have not done.
As a penance she did not appear to Benoîte for a month. It was no doubt a matter of pastoral tact which did not involve a truth of the faith." Källa
Här berättas det mer om flickan och uppenbarelserna (som pågick under rekordlång tid):
"Phenomenally, the seer was born on September 29, 1647 -- the feast day of the Archangel Michael -- amid tremendous gyrations in the Church and society at large.
Just years before, a strange light was seen near the Vatican of a flaming dragon at a time when Luther's revolution was rocking the Church, witch hunts were plaguing Europe, and ecclesiastics were battling scientists for predominance in forming human thought.
"The girl's name, Benoîte, was in itself a predestination, being the old form of bénite, or blessed," wrote Walsh.
"Once, when she was only five years old, a mysterious and beautiful Lady drew her aside as she was at play with other children, and sprinkled her with water; whilst later on, the same Lady appeared to her and her younger sister when they had missed their way on the mountain, and set the frightened children in the right path."
One day in the spring of 1664, said Walsh, Benoîte was wending her way toward a grotto hollowed out of rock when she saw a strange light and a beautiful Lady smiling at her.
It wasn't until the following August that the apparition -- which continued almost daily -- spoke to the 17-year-old shepherd woman. Asked if she was the Madonna, the apparition had responded that "yes, I am Mary, the Mother of Jesus. My Son wishes to be specially honored in this valley."
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"Strange as it may seem," noted Walsh, "her most bitter enemies were priests. Some of these went so far as to cast her in prison; but, after fourteen days spent in fervent prayer and without tasting food, Benoîte was released, her persecutors then declaring their doubts unfounded."
One reason they may have released her: her cell filled with the odor of a heavenly perfume."
Läs hela - den ganska spektakulära men intressanta - artikeln här.
Jag undrar - är det bristen på herdinnor som har gjort att Mariauppenbarelserna minskat? I så fall är det väl ytterligare ett skäl till att införa sådana - i Kyrkans mitt...;-)Etiketter: jungfru Maria, Laus, mystik, uppenbarelse |
