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The Incredible Story Of Maria Esperanza [Foresaw tragedy of the World Trade Center on 9-11]
SpiritDaily.org ^ | 2002 | Michael Brown

Posted on 09/15/2009 9:53:34 PM PDT by Salvation

The Incredible Story Of Maria Esperanza 

By Michael H. Brown

She is widely regarded as the greatest living mystic. The miracles that surround her are vast -- among the best documented in Church history. Not since Padre Pio, the famous Italian priest now set for canonization, has there been a thaumaturge,  a "wonderworker," of her scale. She's a seer. She's a healer. She's a stigmatist. She often exudes an inexplicably beautiful fragrance. Some even claim to have seen her in levitation.

I speak here of Maria Esperanza from Venezuela. We have had a number of stories about her, but never her background. It is a life that many predict will lead to her canonization. Rarely has a single personage embodied so many mystical gifts, and rarely has a personage stood as a beacon of hope and love (the very name "Esperanza" means hope) to people of all denominations.

She is not only a mystic with whom the world needs to acquaint itself - and will find it fascinating to become acquainted with -- but also one whose apparition site, known as Betania, which means "Bethany," has rare Church recognition.

Thousands flock to conferences or churches where she appears (I was with her at the University of Arizona before a standing-room-only crowd of 4,000); she has been filmed by the likes of ABC and NBC; and she has been featured by major television outlets in South America. When a religious cruise recently asked her to greet it at a port in Venezuela, 16,000 accompanied her to meet the ship.

Her story?
Maria Esperanza was born on November 22, 1928. Her mother had desperately wanted a daughter (she already had three boys) and asked the Blessed Virgin Mary to grant her a girl. True of the prophecy of a local woman, who in an omen foresaw the birth of an extraordinary child, Maria was born in Barrancas on the feast day of Saint Cecilia, who is associated with music. The birth occurred while Maria's mother was taking a trip by boat and in fact arriving at a port in search of better medical facilities. It was a very painful delivery, and during her pregnancy Maria's mother had often prayed before a picture of the Blessed Mother - offering her child to Mary and promising to name the child Maria (Spanish for Mary) and Esperanza if it was a girl.

So came into the world "Mary Hope," destined to shine like a star, destined to be an instrument of heaven. She was a sick, suffering youngster who often recovered from disorders in momentous ways. Prodigious too was her yen for the spiritual. As a child she often played with dolls dressed as priests or nuns and at the age of five (while bidding her mother, who was taking a trip, farewell at the port of Bolivar City), the girl saw a smiling woman rise from the Orinoco River with a rose in her hand.

It was an apparition of St. Therese of Lisieux, the "Little Flower," and henceforth roses or their fragrance would hover about Maria. The rose St. Therese held was extraordinarily beautiful, a brilliant red flower that was "thrown" to young Maria. Her mother immediately proclaimed the rose a sign from God.

Such claimed phenomena - and soon much more - are difficult for even the season believer to comprehend. They invoke legitimate use of words like "incredible." In later years many around Esperanza were to witness other phenomena related to roses, including the inexplicable falling of rose petals.

Such occurrences are regular happenings around Maria. So are "coincidences."  Feast days of the saints, especially those commemorating Mary, figure prominently into her diary. Esperanza received first Communion on July 16, 1937, the feast of Our Lady of Carmel, and soon after the young Maria encountered tremendous physiological tribulation. By the age of 12 she had developed such an acute case of pneumonia that her doctor didn't think she would live more than three days, but after prayer she opened her eyes and saw the Blessed Virgin. It was not a vision; it was a corporeal apparition. According to Maria the Virgin appeared as Our Lady of the Valley of Margarita (an apparition site off the coast of Venezuela) and told the girl what medication to take. During an especially severe illness in 1947 Maria was paralyzed for several months but miraculously healed upon a vision of the Lord. "At that moment something happened, which I know for the world is impossible to believe," comments Maria -- who recalls that the instantaneous healing was accompanied by a startling tremor that shook the hospital.

There were other trials in Maria's sickly early years, and during  another episode Christ manifested to her and again she was healed.  The Virgin Mary told her that she had a mission to "help me to save  this lost world," and so began Maria's journey. So began her life of  mysticism.

Her marriage was typically providential. At first she wanted to become a nun and entered a convent in 1954. That same year, on October 3, at the end of a Mass, she had another implausible  experience. Once again, Saint Therese the Little Flower appeared and once more a rose was "thrown" to her. But this time when Maria went  to catch it -- as she had done as a girl of five -- it wasn't a rose  that landed in her hand. Instead there was blood.   It was the onset of Maria's stigmata.   "Work out your salvation as a wife and mother," the Little Flower  instructed Maria, who indeed sensed that her vocation would be that  of a family woman but went to Rome to live at the Ravasco Institute,  which was operated by the Daughters of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary  at the Vatican.  

On August 22, 1954, on a visit to Caracas, Maria had a dream about a  place where miracles would take place and where there would be an  unusual blue butterfly. In 1956 she returned to Rome where she met  her future husband, Geo Bianchini Gianni, as had also been foretold  to her. The following October 13 - anniversary of the "great miracle"  of Fatima - the Blessed Mother told Maria she would be married on  December 8, 1956 - yet another feast day, this time the feast of the  Immaculate Conception (and Geo's birthday). They were married that day in the choir chapel of the Immaculate Conception at St. Peter's  Basilica.  No one had ever been married there during the holy season of Advent,  and it was only after a cleric, Monsignor Julio Rossi, parish priest  at St. Peter's, noticed the incredible aura around Maria, as well as  the scent of roses. That caused him to go to Pope Pius XII, who knew  of Maria and secured final approval for a ceremony in the historical  chapel.  Their first child, a daughter, was named Mary Inmaculada. 

During these younger years Esperanza made the acquaintance of Padre  Pio, the most famous mystic since Francis of Assisi, who had told  people he expected to be visited by an extraordinary woman. "There is  a young woman who is going to come from South America," Pio  said. "When I leave, she will be your consolation." When finally they  met, Maria would hear his "call" even though she was far away near  Rome and she would head for his monastery at San Giovanni Rotundo on  the barren east side of Italy - where despite throngs waiting to see  him the aged priest called out, "Esperanza!"  On September 23, 1968, Maria had a vision of Padre Pio. "Esperanza,"  he said in the vision, "I have come to say good-bye. My time has  come. It is your turn." As this was happening Geo watched with  amazement as his wife's face transfigured into that of the Italian  priest. The next day they saw in the newspaper that Pio (whose  funeral would be attended by more than a million) had died.  

One thing she had discussed with Pio when he was alive was her vision  of a special plot of land where the Virgin Mary would appear. In the  vision Maria had seen an old house, a waterfall, and a grotto.   "From 1957 until 1974, we searched for this land in all of  Venezuela," says Geo, who had oil concerns and a construction  business in Caracas.  Then came a visit from a friend who came to ask for help during a  drought. The cattle on his land were stricken with hunger and Maria  told Geo they should go see it. When they did, in March of 1974, they  immediately fell in love with the picturesque hillside about an hour  and a half from Caracas.   "It corresponded exactly with the vision my wife had been given,"  says Geo of the land known as Betania. There was an old sugar mill on the land, and although it wasn't  apparent at first, a stream and waterfall were also located on the  property. Geo and his partners purchased the land and cleared the  hillside. They saw it as a place for all faiths - not just Catholics.  And Betania quickly became a sanctuary.   

In February of 1976, while Maria was in Italy tending to Geo's ailing  mother, the Virgin told Esperanza to head back for Venezuela and  prepare herself for something that was to happen at Betania. Maria  did as she was told and at this spot on a hillside encountered an  apparition of the Virgin, who called herself "Reconciler of Peoples  and Nations.  It was the onset of apparitions and miracles - in many cases  extraordinary, well-witnessed manifestations - that continue to this  day. The sun pulsed here as at Fatima, there were strange white  forms, there was a blue butterfly that seemed to flit out from the  grotto at the moment Maria went into apparition. The most momentous  occurrence came on March 25, 1984, when seven successive apparitions  were witnessed not only by Maria but a total of 108 people.

In the  days and months that followed, hundreds and then thousands saw  manifestations at Betania or around Maria. It was this series of  events that started a formal inquiry by Bishop Pio Bello Ricardo of  Los Teques. Trained as a psychologist and with a tendency toward  skepticism, Bishop Ricardo personally interviewed several hundred  eyewitnesses, including an army general, a lawyer, an atheist, and a  doctor who all claimed to have experienced the supernatural. In all  the bishop took 550 formal written statements and concluded that  extraordinary paranormal events were indeed taking place around Maria.  

That wasn't all. The bishop himself had witnessed phenomena. He had  miraculously recovered from an illness after a visit from Esperanza,  and had smelled the rose fragrance.  "I have also been able to see the transfiguration which happens to  her when some gold spray seems to cover her hands and face and her  body," says Pio Bello. "It is a little film of gold spray. Also the  phenomenon of levitation has been taking place. I have testimony from  many people about the transfiguration which takes place in her, the  phenomenon of stigmata which takes place on Good Friday."  After an extensive evaluation the bishop flew to Rome and confided  the happenings to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Sacred  Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and to the Pope himself.  Heeding protocol, the bishop discerned the matter for three years and  then issued an extraordinary pastoral letter that declared  Betania "sacred ground" and stated that the incidents "are authentic,  they are supernatural, and they are of a divine source." It was the  strongest such ruling since Fatima. Thirty-five of Venezuela's 37  bishops and auxiliary bishops supported him.  

By 1993, Dr. Vinicio Paz, a local specialist, was estimating that  there were 1,000 physical healings at Betania and that at least  10,000 had witnessed phenomena around Maria.   One cure occurred to a doctor himself.   This was the incredible case of Dr. Vinicio Arrieta, a Harvard- educated physician who was healed of cancer and whom we have written  of previously [see article].  Others have been cured of paralysis, liver disorders, and leukemia.  According to biologist Samir Gebran, a doctor of immunology and  Maria's son-in-law, strange relics are found around Maria. In one  case she felt compelled to go to a creek, pulled a rock from the  ground, and on it was a white image of the Virgin. Another time, upon  her first visit to Massachusetts - where she had mystically advised a  Boston-area nun on where to build a retreat center -- Maria once more  felt compelled to head into a forest and told those with her to dig  up a rock. When they did, they encountered an image that bore  similarities to the face of Jesus.  

There is no living mystic who has been affirmed by such competent  witnesses. Are there detractors? Yes, as there are always detractors.  But the litany, especially from those who have lived with her, seems  endless. I have spoken to another son-in-law who described how he  would pad downstairs in the middle of the night when he and his wife  were staying with Maria and see Esperanza deep in prayer and  surrounded by a large halo. Still others have encountered unearthly  luminous fogs or during Mass have seen her feet rise several inches.  On December 8, 1991, a Host used at Betania began to bleed as the  priest held it, and in another Church-authorized miracle it has been  exhibited in a special reliquary in Los Teques -- where those who  visit have seen images form in it and have even videotaped it turning  into what looks like flames (there is a short video of this).  "I had  a scientific investigation conducted, and this was done by a  laboratory that is totally trustworthy," says the bishop. "They  proved definitively that the substance that leaked from the Host was  human blood."  

Most incredible are claims, again made by competent observers -  doctors, a TV journalist - that on 15 occasions a stemmed rose has  pushed out from the skin near Maria's bosom. The rose witnessed was  an actual flower, red and touched with dew.  This, of course, is impossible to believe. But many are those who  claim to have seen it -- first a dot of red, then the bud, which  unfolds as the stem with thorns breaks through the skin and causes  Maria an agony they have compared to a woman giving birth. Carolina  Fuenmayor, a journalist from Venevision, the major station in  Caracas, has filmed it but at Maria's request will not release it  until after Maria's death.

What are we to make of such accounts? Is Maria indeed a modern,  female version of Padre Pio? Or is it all too much to believe?  I can only say that aside from the tremendous array of phenomena (I am only here scratching the surface), there is the fruit of love.  Those around Maria - her husband, her seven children, her in-laws -  are filled with joy and zeal I have never seen before. They don't  want to be away from Maria and often the entire family - up to sixty -  have traveled with her to the U. S. "I have seen how petals of roses  appear, how there is a materialization of roses, and one smells the roses in the environment," says Dr. Gebran. "I have seen how the  Eucharist materializes on her lips. I cannot give any explanation,  because in her many supernatural phenomena take place. This is outside of science."  

As for the stigmata, Maria's doctor, Alfonso Gutierrez Burgos, has no  doubt about it. He was an eyewitness. "When I observed the stigmata,  the army general was there and other people as well, so I am sure  that these things are happening to her and are of a supernatural  character," says Dr. Burgos. "As a doctor I examined her hands and I  tried to see what kind of a wound it was. They were very fine wounds  in her hands and they were swollen in the middle. They separated her  skin and they hurt her very much. That was accompanied by a loss of  blood, a tremendous loss of blood."  "Maria Esperanza is a very, very special person," adds Carolina  Fuenmayor, the TV reporter who has witnessed both the stigmata and  the rose. "She's not from this place. She's like in-between [earth  and heaven]."  Only the most powerful of historic mystics have had events like  Maria's, and few are those whose phenomena have been verified while  they are still alive.

Such claimed phenomena indeed are hard for even  the faithful to accept. It is only after reading the full details or  spending time with Esperanza and at Betania that one begins to  integrate the realism of her experiences. Everyone who has spent time  around Esperanza is as amazed at the love and unity in her family as  the phenomena. Most impressive is the feeling of unconditional love  and joy that pours from her. There is a remarkable cognizance - as  well as an unforgettable twinkle - in her scrutinizing brown eyes.  But she also carries a message of warning.

The moment has arrived in  which mankind must awaken, says Esperanza, in which it must awaken to the love of God. In the coming years a new light from heaven will  illuminate hearts, she says, but before it does there will be  hardship. She foresaw AIDS and now sees other problems, including another disease and a foreign threat to the U.S. (by two nations, one  large, one smaller, who will conspire to provoke America). A "very  serious moment" will arrive but humankind will survive and will be  better for it and will live in the truth of God. She claims that this  is "the hour of decision for humanity." She sees war, societal  problems, and natural disasters. But she also sees a cleansing that will restore humankind. "A great moment is approaching," she  Esperanza. "A great day of light!"



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To: Dominick

Can you substantiate this, please?


21 posted on 09/16/2009 5:31:00 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified DeCartes))
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To: Salvation

Update: Irish bishop reviews Gallagher case
By
RC
on March 3, 2008 10:37 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Zenit reports a statement from the Archbishop of Tuam on the phony mystic Christina Gallagher:

Irish Prelate: “House of Prayer” Not OK’d by Church
Achill Center Founded by Woman Who Claims to Hear Virgin Mary
http://catholiclight.stblogs.org/archives/2008/03/update-irish-bi.html


22 posted on 09/16/2009 5:38:30 AM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: Salvation

You don’t validate charlatans with how often they are right, you validate them by how often they are wrong. Seeing 2 towers surrounded in smoke 9 years before 9/11 is not a prophecy. How many times has she predicted things that have not happened. I would venture to say it vastly outnumbers the few times she has been even vaguely correct. Fortunately for people like Esperanza true believers always forget the prophecies that never come true.


23 posted on 09/16/2009 5:41:24 AM PDT by yazoo (Conservatives believe what they see. Liberals see what they believe.)
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To: Salvation

Maria Esperanza’s husband was one of the keynote speakers at the Conference, CALL TO HOLINESS, in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houson.

http://www.diogh.org/cth/program/program.html


24 posted on 09/16/2009 5:50:33 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified DeCartes))
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To: Salvation
Mystic Maria Esperanza Dies
25 posted on 09/16/2009 6:00:34 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Salvation

THE MAN WHO PREDICTED 9/11
http://www.rickrescorla.com/


26 posted on 09/16/2009 6:00:54 AM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: Salvation

I have also found this:

“Father Timothy Byerley, pastor of St. John Vianney Parish, Deptford, has been appointed vice postulator for the beatification cause of Maria Esperanza Medrano de Bianchini.

Maria Esperanza was a visionary and the central figure in the Marian apparitions at Betania, Venezuela, which were approved by the Church in 1987.

She fell sick during a visit to Long Beach Island, N.J., and died there on Aug. 7, 2004. Consequently, her cause is being initiated from Trenton, the diocese within which Long Beach Island is located.

Father Byerley has known Maria Esperanza and her family since 1994. As Vice Postulator, he will work with the Roman Postulator, Dr. Andrea Ambrosi in attending to the legal, procedural and monetary matters related to the cause.

He will also have the duty to work with the local groups in the United States and Latin America to promote devotion to Maria Esperanza and to study and make known her life and spirituality for the edification of the faithful and the strengthening of the church in the Americas.

The Catholic church’s process leading to canonization involves three major steps. First is the declaration of a person’s heroic virtues, after which the church gives him or her the title Venerable. Second is beatification, after which he or she is called Blessed. The third step is canonization, or declaration of sainthood.”

http://catholicstarherald.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2390:the-risen-lord-is-gods-answer-to-the-ironic&catid=102:latest-news


27 posted on 09/16/2009 6:07:08 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified DeCartes))
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To: Salvation

Status: Her cause was put forward in August, 2009. It is in the preliminary stages of the diocesan investigation but has not received the decree “nihil obstat” from the CCS.

MARÍA ESPERANZA MEDRANO PARRA de BIANCHINI
layperson of the dioceses of Los Teques and Trenton; married
born: 22 November 1928 in San Rafael de Barrancas, Monagas (Venezuela)

competent diocese: Trenton
CCS protocol number:
type of cause: heroic virtues

nihil obstat:
opening of diocesan inquiry:
closing of diocesan inquiry:

postulator: Dr. Andrea Ambrosi
petitioner: Asociación Civil Fundación Betania, Santuario de Finca Betania, Edo. Miranda, VENEZUELA


28 posted on 09/16/2009 6:17:06 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified DeCartes))
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To: citizencon

Russia and NKorea.


29 posted on 09/16/2009 6:21:59 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama, the first ever 3 in a half year, lame duck TOTUS)
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To: Salvation; SamAdams76

Here is freeper’s SamAdams76 dream posted on
05/10/2001.For some reason the original thread link is dead.It was reposted here on a Dream Thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1800992/posts?q=1&;page=401

To: semaj

I’ve had the following dream at least twice involving an airliner:

I dreamed I was in downtown Boston and a Boeing 747 flew into the John Hancock tower. For those unfamiliar with Boston, the John Hancock tower is a 60 story glass building - the tallest skyscraper in Boston at 790 feet.

Anyway, in the dream, I’m walking past the Boston Public Library towards Copley Place and I look up in the sky and see this 747 coming in low to the ground. It crashes into the building up near the top so that the nose section is sticking out one end and the tail section is jutting out of the other. The wings shear off and fall to the ground.

Strangely enough, nobody around me seems to react to this seemingly catastrophic event. People just go on walking as usual. However, several fire trucks and police cars nonchalantly approach the building and begin to commence rescue operations. None of the rescue personnel appear to be in much of a hurry. It’s almost like they are carrying out a tired, routine drill.

However, I can hear distant screams from the airplane above as I approach the building. Sort of like the screams you hear from a distant roller coaster. People up there are screaming but nobody down below seems to be paying very much attention.

After waking from this dream (I’ve had it at least twice), I can’t seem to get myself together right away. The eerie feeling persists for an hour or two and I can’t get the sound of the distant screams out of my head nor the vision of the airliner pierced like an arrow through the John Hancock building in Boston.

16 Posted on 05/10/2001 17:25:30 PDT by SamAdams76


30 posted on 09/16/2009 6:23:50 AM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: Salvation

I’m in awe.


31 posted on 09/16/2009 6:39:50 AM PDT by Infidel Heather (In God I trust, not the Government.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Iran and Russia.


32 posted on 09/16/2009 6:50:46 AM PDT by Barb4Bush (God bless Glenn Beck!)
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To: howlinhound

So, you’re saying that God no longer sends us prophets. And wasn’t the Bible (The word of God) revealed to us through prophets?


33 posted on 09/16/2009 7:04:09 AM PDT by Barb4Bush (God bless Glenn Beck!)
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To: Salvation
The visions of Maria Esperanza have been approved by the Church. I don’t know about the Irish person.

1. Christine Gallagher has been exposed as a fraud.

2. The visions of Maria Esperanza have been approved, but the subsequent prophetic messages are not included in that approval. Yes, Betania is a sacred PLACE, and miracles occurred there, and YES, she received visions of the Blessed Mother, but her pronouncements are not, in fact, approved.

That said, if her prophecy is true, I would venture to guess that it refers to Russia and Venezuela, or Russia and Iran.

34 posted on 09/16/2009 8:53:08 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever (Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia, et ubi ecclesia vita eterna!)
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To: howlinhound

Spiritism is communication initiated by mortals. These visions are initiated by the saints. That’s distinctly different from Spiritism. There is no summoning that occurs.


35 posted on 09/16/2009 8:55:45 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever (Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia, et ubi ecclesia vita eterna!)
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To: oprahstheantichrist

I’m thinking that was in 2004.


36 posted on 09/16/2009 9:02:08 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: TotusTuus
If I recall correctly, the local Bishop DID have positive findings about aspects of Betania, but also CONDEMNED much of the "locutional" activity of Maria Esperanza as an individual, especially in later years. I think she died within the past couple of years. I don't remember specifics since I probably didn't think (and still don't) it all that important.

I think you're substantially correct, though, I don't think there was an outright condemnation, but a lack of approval. I could be wrong, but I do recall having to remind myself that her locutions are not approved by the Church, though the visions and the happenings at the site (e.g. the Eucharistic miracle) of Betania are authenticated.

In any event, just a word of advice to, perhaps, dig a little deeper on the specifics of Betania and what the Church has approved of it vis-a-vis this woman and where and when the association between the two runs afoul of the Church's decision concerning the Betania event.

Sage words.

37 posted on 09/16/2009 9:02:52 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever (Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia, et ubi ecclesia vita eterna!)
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To: chichipow

They are supposed to be open to all who come. My priest did not say “Catholic” churches. Just two churches were to be built on that site.


38 posted on 09/16/2009 9:03:22 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Errant

Could be Iran too. For some reason I am leaning toward Venezuela. Can’t explain it. Just my instincts.


39 posted on 09/16/2009 9:05:59 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Barb4Bush

Iran and Syria


40 posted on 09/16/2009 9:07:06 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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