Posted on 08/13/2015 9:10:51 AM PDT by marshmallow
Proving once again that there is always a faithful remnant!
It was miraculous. Unfortunately, they attribute the miracle to Mary and not God.
**But in the midst of this terrible carnage, something quite remarkable happened: there was a small community of Jesuit Fathers living in a presbytery near the parish church, which was situated less than a mile away from detonation point, well within the radius of total devastation. And all eight members of this community escaped virtually unscathed from the effects of the bomb. Their presbytery remained standing, while the buildings all around, virtually as far as the eye could see, were flattened.
Fr Hubert Schiffer, a German Jesuit, was one of these survivors, aged 30 at the time of the explosion, and who lived to the age of 63 in good health. In later years he travelled to speak of his experience, and this is his testimony as recorded in 1976, when all eight of the Jesuits were still alive. On August 6 1945, after saying Mass, he had just sat down to breakfast when there was a bright flash of light.**
Do you really know what the Rosary is?
It is a series of prayers while meditating on the life of Christ.
Joyful — childhood of Christ
Luminouse — ministry of Christ
Sorrowful — passion of Christ
Glorious — triumph and Resurrection of Christ
Only two mysteries out of these twenty do not pertain directly to Christ.
Don’t bother explaining, they won’t listen.
Fantastic book.
Yep. Read the article. They specifically say it was the hand of Mary that protected them, as in the case at Fatima.
Oops
Luminous — ministry of Christ
The article does not tell what the Rosary is.
So what? The Rosary has nothing to do with my statement, nor of the priests attributing them being saved by Mary’s protection.
Thank God for the A-bomb. My father was bombing Iwo Jima and Okinowa and waiting to bomb Japan. He was certainly going to die in the first few days.
Instead, he lived to see six children, nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren
When, oh, when, will you believe the truth?
You may want to read this book
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3324283/posts?page=8#8
The first part is about all those attacks.
The A-bombings saved many thousands of lives, both American and Japanese, as well as having put the world on notice as to what these weapons could actually do, wherein it would have otherwise remained theoretical, possibly leading to an even larger nuclear conflagration later.
Thanks to your dad for his service, and by your screen name, thanks too for yours.
What are you talking about?
The priests attribute their being unharmed to Mary.
Back in the late 1970’s I was the NBC (Nuclear, Biological & Chemical Warfare) officer for my USMC squadron. My instructor at NBC Officer’s School told us that his instructor was married to a Japanese woman who was a 1 year old infant hiding with her mother in a bomb shelter within one mile of Ground Zero at Hiroshima, He may have said “At Ground Zero”, but my memory is not certain.
He said that she suffered no ill effects and that their children were all healthy and normal.
The atom bomb was one of those things that have been argued about since it dropped.
The fact is that the Emperor was looking for a way to sue for peace, but the army was keeping him secluded. After the bombings, he demanded to address the people of Japan and tell them to surrender. He knew the only other choice was a protracted war that would have turned much of Japan into what Okinawa became. The Generals (The black dragons) were quite willing to die to a man rather than surrender.
The war ended after the bombings (and the traditional bombing run that hit the military coup that was going to stop the emperor). Millions of people on both sides were spared the horrors of invasion, starvation, and communism. Could that have been stopped without the bomb? I honestly don’t think so. the US army was planning on taking massive causalities in the first wave. The USSR would have held most of northern Japan.
My dad too. He was in the Philippines in the army. He went to Japan anyway, after they surrendered. While in Japan, he was a guard at a prison for Japanese soldiers. They called him “Honorable Pusher”. He brought home 2 Japanese rifles, a helmet, a rubber chemical suit and some percussion caps. These were given to him as souvenirs when the army was cleaning out the Japanese armories.
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