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“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.                “You shall have no other gods before me.                “You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me, and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.                “You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.                “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. You shall labor six days, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.                “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.                “You shall not murder.                “You shall not commit adultery.                “You shall not steal.                “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.                “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”
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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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