Because it is useful to our survival as souls in bodies here on earth.
I'm not speaking about going to church here by the way. I'm speaking about why we believe in God in the first place.
I remember being around 18 or 19 when I tried to imagine life without a purpose and without God and I felt a terror I knew I couldn't live with. It was a terror I could die with but not live with.
So, for me, God and Church have absolutely nothing to do with each other. To me, there are spiritual people but not spiritual churches (for the most part).
Of course there are always exceptions to this rule.
There is a church in Paris, France at 140 Rue du Bac where the angels came up to me and told me how to behave because I was in a very spiritual place. It was where the bodies of three Saints lay in Glass cases there, Catherine de Laboure and two others. She had had a vision of Mother Mary there in France I think in the 1830s and had a miraculous medal struck, one made of Gold I wear since about 1995 by the way. When they dug her body from her grave up some time in the 1900s I believe it had not decomposed so they put it in a glass case in her Flying Nun Habit along with two other Catholic Saints one a man, Saint Vincent De Paul and another lady saint there in that church at 140 Rue du Bac Paris. I will never forget angels running up to me and telling me I was in a very sacred place and telling me exactly how to behave in this very sacred place. This kind of thing doesn't happen very often. I went there in 2009 in October with my two biological daughters and my wife.
So, why do we believe in God? Because it keeps us alive and treating the life around us right and also treating the angels right around us right. Does believing in God make us perfect? NO. But, if angels choose to be around us then we must be doing something right.
By God's Grace
Catherine Labouré, D.C.. (May 2, 1806 – December 31, 1876) was a French nun who was a member of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul and is ...
Born: May 2, 1806; Fain-lès-Moutiers, Côte-d'Or, ...
Patronage: Miraculous Medal, infirmed people, ...
Canonized: July 27, 1947, Vatican by Pope Pius XII
Major shrine: Chapel of Our Lady of the Miracu...
Kindness and Gratitude make people Holy
Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal
 |
This article needs additional citations for verification. (December 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
|
The Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal in Paris, France, is the chapel where the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Saint Catherine Labouré in 1830 and requested the creation of the medal which came to be known as the Miraculous Medal. The Chapel was part of the mother house of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul. Catherine Labouré was a seminary sister (novice) there when she had her apparitions. [1]
The Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal is more commonly referred to by its address, "140 rue du Bac", or simply the street on which it is situated, rue du Bac.
History[edit]
In 1813 the construction of a chapel began in the Hôtel de Châtillon. On August 6, 1815 the solemn benediction of the chapel was dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Apparitions[edit]
The Chapel at rue du Bac is the site of a number of apparitions said to have been experienced by Catherine Laboure. It was here on three successive days, while at prayer, Saint Vincent de Paul showed her his heart, each time in a different color. The heart appeared white, the colour of peace; then red, the colour of fire; and then black, an indication of the misfortunes that would come upon France and Paris in particular.[2]
Shortly after, Catherine saw Christ present in the Sacred Host, and on June 6, the 1830, feast of the Holy Trinity, Christ appeared as a crucified King, stripped of all his adornments.[2]
In 1830 Saint Catherine Labouré, then 24, received three visits from the Blessed Virgin Mary. On the first visit, the night of 18 July, she received a request that a Confraternity of the Children of Mary be established.[2] Later she was to request the creation of a medal with the following invocation: "O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee." From May 1832 onwards the medal, which is extraordinarily disseminated and is said to convert, protect and perform miracles, is called miraculous by the faithful.
In 1849 the chapel is expanded and in the following years it will know many other transformations. Since 1930, the date of its complete renovation, the chapel is as we know it today.
Today[edit]
Only the tabernacle, which dates back to the seventeenth or eighteenth century, is unchanged since 1815; it comes from the building allocated in 1800 to the Daughters of Charity. It was then to be found in the chapel of the Sisters of Mercy installed there before the French Revolution. Saint Catherine Labouré said that it is in front of the tabernacle that the Blessed Virgin Mary prostrated in the night of July 18 to July 19, 1830 and above it that she was during the third apparition in December 1830. In 1850 an ivory crucifix was placed on top of it.
Pilgrimage[edit]
The chapel, as a site of Marian apparition, is a Marian shrine and hence a site of Roman Catholic pilgrimage.[3]
The body of Saint Louise de Marillac and the heart of St Vincent de Paul, founders of the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul, are kept there. The incorrupt body of St Catherine Labouré, a member of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul and a Marian visionary, also lies in a glass coffin at the side altar of the Chapel.[3]
See also[edit]
References
Note: I remember it being 160 Rue Du Bac but in this it says 140 Rue Du Bac so it has to be one of these.
No comments:
Post a Comment