“I went to Cold Spring to hear confessions that day. I heard them for nine hours. It was a wonderful experience. Many people were going to confession for the first time in years, and it was sincere and face-to-face in the grass like at Medjugorje. In the evening, I went into the church to pray for the coming of the Blessed Mother, as they said would happen at midnight. I myself did not see or hear anything inside the church.”
“After the service was over, I felt let down. I was going to get my valise and leave. My valise was in the office of the pastor. I looked out of the window which opened out to the yard between the church and the parking lot, and I saw lights flashing all over the place. I stopped, and I went back through the door, and I went back to the church and told some priests, “There are lights flashing out in the yard.” They went out with me, and we saw lights flashing all over. I thought, “There is something going on here.” This was about 11:40 pm. Then I stopped before four or five groups and heard someone in each of these groups giving an account of their seeing the Blessed Mother. One after another said they saw Her, and some children saw Her. They were describing where She was.”
“The more I walked through the parking lot, the more I knew something tremendous had happened. I ran into the locutionist from Arkansas, and she was ecstatic. She said, “It was like a million lights exploding. It was a tremendous light show.” She was telling how the Blessed Mother was at different locations.”
“Our Lady was there on August 31, 1993, as well. At midnight, there was a big scream from the crowd in the parking lot. I turned, and I saw lights flashing all over the parking lot. It was exciting. There was a shrine there, and people said that tears were flowing down Our Lady’s face. In fact, while I was hearing confessions, a lady came over to me and said, “Father, can you make these people move on? Some people are just standing there. They won’t let the rest of us see this phenomenon.” I said “I am hearing confessions. I am not running traffic.” Then I went over and I saw glistening in the eye of where they said Mary was shedding tears. Then I went into the parking lot and talked to three people – a fifteen-year-old young man and two women. They kept pointing to Mary in the tower. They kept saying, “Don’t you see Her? She is wearing white clothes and holding the Child Jesus.”
“The boy was dragging me to different viewing points so I could see Her. I said, “I am not supposed to see Her. I don’t doubt that you see Her, but I don’t see Her.” These people were convinced that She was really there. There was a great excitement running through the crowd, the kind of excitement that you get at apparition sites. I am convinced that it is for real.”
“Our Lady appeared at Fatima, and one of the titles they gave Her was Our Lady of Light. At Her last appearance at Fatima on October 13, She was brighter than the sun. The sun came out and dried everybody instantly from the continuous rainfall. People claimed they could look at the sun and at the light around Her. Almost everywhere She appears, light is there.”
“I was at Medjugorje hearing confessions, and the only thing I experienced was light flashing in the sky. I told the young lady whose confession I was hearing, “I just saw three lights flashing across the sky. What is that about?” She looked at her watch and said, “It is 6:40 pm. That is when Our Lady comes, and She announces Her arrival by these lights that flash.” Lights are a common phenomenon in Her apparitions. The Book of Revelations says in chapter 12 that “a woman clothed with the sun” would appear in the heavens.”
“My doctrinal thesis was on Mary’s spiritual maternity, and some professor who was anti-Biblical in the examination I went through asked me how I could prove Mary is the woman in the Book of Revelation. I replied that it is a matter of tradition. He asked what kind of tradition. I said there are two kinds of traditions: one you will find in the early writings of the Church, and the other is what the Church believes through the centuries. You can go to any Catholic church in the world, and you are likely to see Mary standing on the serpent’s head. That is tradition, the common belief of the faithful. Amen!”
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