Expert: Charlie B - 3/10/2008

Question
Dear Charlie,

                  Hello, It is me again the one called to religious life. Still discerning...LOL I'll be 22 this month a day after easter. I have been a Catholic my whole life never converted into any false religion nor non catholic faith. I was curious to see what they taught but as for the most part I didnt like what they had said.

Anyhow, Isnt being a Catholic great? I cannot stand how other churches that attack the Catholic faith Charlie even how they call us a CULT? Why? I want to know why? They even claim odd things about Jesus life:They say; Because Jesus failed to get married and produce children, as well as having been mistakenly..... What is this they even say that Jesus was married and had a daughter called Sarah and married to Mary Magdelene calling Mary M. a goddess? This is a bunch of Hogwash!And now they are saying that Catholic thee faith is a big hoax? What is this all about?

Repent or perish. Three prophecies of Jesus and Mary concerning the coming judgement of God.Jesus and Mary have told me to tell you and all whom come to listen. :-D

I have been getting the revelations included locutions from Jesus, St. Therese the little flower, St. Anthony, and apparitions of the Virgin Mary as "Our Lady of America". Am I chosen to bring messages to God? "Miraculous" images of the Blessed Virgin Mary, The Holy Face and other unearthly figures have been appearing in unpretentious home across northern New Jersey of Bergen County. I am one of them? A new Saint to be discovered?

So far, seven communities, over a widespread area, have received the images and accompanying phenomena.

The images that have drawn ten thousands are prompting, what many call, a revival of the Catholic faith in northern New Jersey… or even further. The images first appeared in 7/14/07.

 Bathroom room door that were illuminated by "rainbow" colours. The third community, Passaic, not far from the second, had experienced the same. Then in January, the images occured in Marlbaro, a small town not far from Red Bank on more than one home. And The holy image appeared in NYC bayside in Flushing Meadows springs...

Near the end of the month a spectacular six-foot representation of Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared in Canoe Narrows prompting prayer and packed churches. Around the same time a similar image appeared in Wollaston Lake, but went unoticed by many for almost three weeks until the news was announced. Since then the image has drawn people from surrounding areas and the entire community of about 2,000.

In May, an image of the Virgin Mary and holy symbols appeared in Marlbaro,Cape May, and other places as well such as Bayside quickly drawing as many as 5,000 people say residents.

The images formed on the door of a home owned by my Italian landlord Tina Mastrapalo, she hasnt noticed but I hope to show her what I mean. She goes to the same church that I go to. My Priest is an ordained Priest in fact he is a reverend and Vicor. His name is Fr. Peter. He will be 50 yrs old next month my church is 105 yrs old and has an Old Italian Mass.

What makes this incidence unique is that many believe the images are connected to this woman who many call a saint? Said many in my parish they called me the healer because unlike the Apostles in Jesus days they believed and healed many from God. I am called a mystic/visionary in my parish.

I am already getting religous nicknames? Some people say they feel a power of the Holy spirit from me other say they smell fruitful scents like peaches or grapes others say they smell roses from my body and hair. They said when I pray they see an aura of a heavenly light around me. Some has even seen a halo, a nimbus in gold like St. Therese the little flower or St. Mary!

Some smelled roses and others say a cross appeared in the sky."It was amazing. I could see an image of the Sacred Heart. On my bathroom door. She appeared to me when I was a little girl. at the age of 7.We could all smell roses and the image had rainbow colours when I saw Mary. I am not sure what it all means but it was really something to see. … It was just beautiful."

I was born in Passaic NJ Charlie and this area as well as Lodi had poor family ratings. We my family and I felt that when the Blessed Mother went to all these other places. I knew it was my turn! This was in 1993... I am puerto Rican even though other Puerto Ricans that are other faiths it  is mainly Catholic!

Several other communities over a widespread area have been the recipient of these extraordinary images resembling the Virgin Mary, Jesus, various saints, and even Mother Theresa and the Holy Father.


Anyone who visits my house cannot deny the unmistakable scent of live roses.The image has returned several times and when I am home I feel healing from my pains in my stomach it is amazing. I do not feel any pain. "One time the image returned and it looked like tears were flowing down from Mary's eyes," And another she had her hands in a praying stance then it changed to a grace stance.

Of course, this is not the only time the Virgin Mary has been seen on windows trees wood toast or a pancake.

From Florida to Saskatchewan and to Massachusetts and New Jersey, it is obvious that the Blessed Mother is trying to get her children's attention. Mary's message for us is constantly one of prayer. Pray, pray, & pray," the Blessed Mother asks us from many of her apparitions around the world. Well what do you think Charlie. Last night I was praying to the little flower St. Therese. She anwsered me and said...

"Prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple book turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and love, embracing both trial and joy." --St. Therese of Lisieux

His Grace says that from what he has heard there does not seem to be an expressed message attached to the visions.

“One cannot downplay prayer, coming or returning to church, etc. — hardly a new message or challenge,” she states. “I guess all this will be judged by the lives of people who claim there is a message.”

I first exhibited stigmata during Easter of 2004 having previously received visions of Jesus.  Jesus appears frequently to me, addressing me as "My suffering soul," "My sweet petal," and "My child": I suffer stigmata every Easter
and Good Friday durning Holy week. The odd thing about it is that no one can understand why I got this and that it is invisible.

Popularly associated with saintliness, stigmata refers to the wounds of Christ's crucifixion supposedly reproduced spontaneously on the body of a Christian which happened to me.

Following the death of Jesus, about a.d. 29 or 30, the phenomenon waited nearly twelve centuries to appear (putting aside a cryptic Biblical reference to St. Paul [Galatians 6:17]). St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) is credited with being the first "true" stigmatist (after a man with the crucifixion wounds was arrested for imposture two years earlier).  Following St. Francis, a few hundred people have exhibited stigmata, including several saints-most recent Padre Pio (1887-1968). He was canonized in 2002, although not for his stigmata, the Catholic Church never having declared the alleged phenomenon miraculous (D'Emilio 2002; Tokasz 2003). Indeed, in addition to its copycat aspect, stigmata is suspect on other grounds.

It appeared in mostly Roman Catholic countries and people, notably Italy,Ireland, Spain, France, Scottland, Puerto Rico, Mexico, South America, America in some states as well as Poland, Israel, est. Also, the form and placement of the wounds has evolved.

For example, those of St. Francis (except for his side wound) "were not wounds which bled but impressions of the heads of the nails, round and black and standing clear from the flesh" (Harrison 1994, 25). Some people say. That do not believe.

Subsequently, stigmata have typically been bleeding wounds, albeit with "no consistency even remotely suggesting them as replications of one single, original pattern" (Wilson 1988, 63).

They say: "Hear about the new apparition?."..."See that bleeding statue?"..."Look at the spinning sun!"..."Did you know about the new stigmatist?" Everywhere you get this but I believe that God is trying to tell us something through these signs and people.


I am a true believer in the christian faith and creeds of the Catholic doctrine I know I was sent from God.Do you think so?  

Answer
Jacqueline,
You have so many questions here, I'm not sure which to answer first.  

Keep discerning about your call to religious life.  If you want an answer to a question, please make shorter posts.  

I do think being Catholic is great, and so is the responsibility.  I wish you well in your discernment.
Kind regards,
Charlie
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