Posted on 08/08/2013 10:14:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Pinned inside her mangled Mercedes, seriously injured and fading fast, Katie Lentz turned to her rescuers on the lonely open stretch of Missouri highway and asked them to pray.
Struck head-on by a drunk driver on Sunday morning, emergency workers had been battling for an hour and a half to free Lentz, but to no avail.
But as they joined hands a Catholic priest appeared, even though there were no bystanders and the road was blocked, who offered a prayer and an instruction to the rescuers that they would now be able to free her.
Suddenly, heavy equipment needed to cut through the metal arrived from a nearby town and Lentz was pulled from the wreck in time to be saved - but when they turned to thank the priest, he was gone.
'He came up and approached the patient, and offered a prayer,' Chief Raymond Reed told KHQA-TV.
'It was a Catholic priest who had anointing oil with him. A sense of calmness came over her, and it did us as well.
'I can’t be for certain how it was said, but myself and another firefighter, we very plainly heard that we should remain calm, that our tools would now work and that we would get her out of that vehicle.'(continued)
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It’s interesting that no one saw him leave and that he didn’t appear in any of the photos. But he probably just got in his car and drove off.
I think the word you’re looking for is chariot.
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For believers, god works in the coincidences.
So a priest just happened to be in the area to pray with them.
reminds me of a story my cousin told. His Catholic high school debating team were driving home on a minor highway, in the good old days when there were few Catholics in the deep south. They saw an accident and stopped; it happened that one of the men in the accident was a Catholic, and the priest gave him the last rights before he died. What are the chances of any pastor just happening on such a car wreck late at night to comfort a dying man?
And when I worked in Africa, I got sick from overwork and the nuns ordered me to take a weekend off each month to keep up my health. But what if someone dies? I objected. The hardheaded nuns said: well, if they come in and there is no physician, then it’s god’s fault...and you know, sometimes there would be an emergency two minutes before I left, or five minutes after I returned, but we only lost one patient in three years: and I probably wouldn’t have saved her.
Nope. There are no coincidences.
whoops. I should rephrase that: we only lost one emergency patient in three years because there were no physician. I should note that a few were transferred successfully to the next hospital for care....and of course We lost a lot of patients, alas.
“I think the word you’re looking for is chariot.”
Ford makes chariot’s?
;)
Notice the victim’s brand of vehicle and the fact that the steel was so good they had a hard time cutting through it. Hint: It wasn’t a GM.
Slightly off subject but I went on safari in Tanzania and when I got to Arusha (I think) I realized I had packed an empty blood pressure med bottle. After a rather harrowing time at a “charity hospital” and then trips down rutted roads I was finally directed to a clinic and was so surprised that the man running it was a Dr from John Hopkins. He got me the meds and I tried to pay him and his response was “no, just pray for us”.
How amazing he was to me and your story as well. I’m sure that to those people you were an angel.
Das auto!
The reason the equipment started working was because a fire truck arrived with a diamond bladed saw. And a commenter on one of the many articles about this said the description resembled a priest from a nearby town.
Take it FWIW.
Ping!
Right country, wrong brand.
And perhaps the priest was near the fire house as they were loading up the newest gear, and the Captain claiming “this is the good stuff - no problem once we get there”. And the priest, thinking he might be of assistance, raced out to the scene while they were still loading up the truck.
I believe in miracles. It also could have “just” been a priest that arrived in time to give everyone some encouragement and some hope. And often that hope is the difference between holding on for one more minute (or hour, or day or year) and just giving up.
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If he is true to his faith he does not need recognition.
Think about it.
That's good enough for me, if it was an actual angel, so much the better.
Still German.
;)
Thanks very much for the ping.
I first saw this on Face Book.
Beautiful story.
The power of prayer and perhaps an angel!
One of the EMT’s being interviewed said the police had the road blocked going both ways.
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