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You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery;'                but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.                If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.                If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.                'It was also said, 'Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,'                but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.                'Again you have heard that it was said to them of old time, 'You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,'                but I tell you, don't swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God;                nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.                Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can't make one hair white or black.                But let your 'Yes' be 'Yes' and your 'No' be 'No.' Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.                'You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.'*                But I tell you, don't resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.                If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also.                Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.                Give to him who asks you, and don't turn away him who desires to borrow from you.                'You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor,* and hate your enemy.*'                But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,                that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven.               
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Message from the Editor, Love One Another! 11/2008
   

By Father Mieczysław Piotrowski TChr,
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History is full of facts by which God alerts us the existence of the supernatural. The Miracle of Calanda and the miracles at Lourdes are instances of God’s special “language,” an appeal directed to those who are enslaved by ideological atheism...

 

History is full of facts by which God alerts us the existence of the supernatural. The Miracle of Calanda and the miracles at Lourdes are instances of God’s special “language,” an appeal directed to those who are enslaved by ideological atheism, that they once and for all cast off their unbelief and open themselves up to the mystery of His boundless love. When confronted by the facts of the miracle of Calanda and the events occurring at Lourdes, the dogmatic atheism as argued by polemicists like Richard Dawkins collapses like a house of cards.

When believers in God encounter an event or fact that bears the signs of a miracle, they do not confine themselves to the supernatural realm, but remain open to an ever-fuller disclosure of a Mystery. They remain free to explore further manifestations of the Truth. On the other hand, the atheist who rejects the very possibility of miraculous events remains a prisoner of his own doctrinaire thinking. He limits the range and latitude of his search for Truth, for he assumes a priori that the supernatural cannot exist, since it lies outside of man’s empirical experience. Thus he remains closed to the ultimate knowledge of Truth. He is a slave to his own ideology. Many atheists feel driven to mount zealous crusades against belief in God, religion, and believers in general. Enslaved by their ideology, they seek to salve their tormented consciences by radically rejecting the possibility of discovering the spiritual world by the means proposed by faith. This explains why atheists so vehemently deny the veracity of well-documented miracles or any other fact that might undermine their worldview. And yet hardened atheists who consciously reject God cannot exculpate themselves, for, as we read in the New Testament, “the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse” (Rom 1: 20).

On this sesquicentennial of Our Lady’s apparitions at the Massabielle grotto, we confide into your hands this current edition of LOA devoted in part to the wondrous signs at Lourdes that call us to conversion.

 

Fr. Mieczysław Piotrowski SChr & the editorial team

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