My Faith Sharing Group gifted me with a beautiful and meaningful blessing of my new home.

At that blessing, among other special things, I was given a small bottle of holy water. This holy water was very special and meaningful to me, as it was obtained from my beloved Saint Columban Parish Church on the day of its closing [that was in May, 2013 -- Editor].

On the night of the blessing of my home, I put the bottle of holy water in my night stand and every night from that time on I would make the sign of the cross with the holy water as I started my evening prayers before going to…

Just a quick note to say that I wrote an email to Wayne Weible, the man who wrote the book Medjugorje, The Message. I wanted to tell him I would like to tell a few more people about the amazing spiritual events happening there in the former Yugoslavia. He wrote back ...

Thank you so much. I feel the same today as when it started
My best wishes and God bless.
Wayne

This does not surprise me, given that Wayne, a casual Lutheran in the newspaper business who after hearing about the apparitions of the Virgin Mary in 1985 and having several personal encounters with the supernatural, decided…

This posting is about Padre Pio, the 20th century Italian monk who by all accounts had a very close-knit and active relationship with Jesus. His life was marked by willing personal sacrifice and hundreds of miracles. Some of the things that happened are so unusual that his biography reads like fiction. But according to hundreds of witnesses and recorded statements from people whose lives were converted by interaction with Padre Pio, these things really happened (I’ll mention some later in this article).

If you believe what was reported about Padre Pio, there are a couple of ways to…

"I’ll never forget his eyes, wide with excitement as he straightened his back for the first time in many months, and tested both legs gingerly as he started walking."

Two years ago, in the middle of the EACH initiative (editor’s note: see www.EACHtoday.com for explanation), I attended an evangelism training session at a local congregation. It was a rather small crowd, and included 2 college kids that I had never met before. Turns out that one of them had not been to church before, and had been invited by his friend. The message that evening was about Jesus healing the blind…