Let’s go right to the mail, first with Jocelyn Fitzpatrick of Overland Park Kansas.
“I’m reading your latest ‘Special Reports,” she says, “and when I got to the line: ‘At Medjugorje Mary once said, “Where I am, Satan comes also,” I was immediately reminded of a very weird, and possibly satanic thing I saw there in 1989.
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“I went with my Aunt for a week and it was amazing. Every day we would go to Mass (and I’m thinking that this particular Mass was around noon that day, but it’s been a few years and I’m not as good in the memory dept).
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“Anyway, Aunt Mag and I show up, and no one is there: So strange because even in 1989, the church was packed like sardines for the Masses.
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“But we’re clueless, and just think we are too early and lucky to get our choice of the pews.
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“So we sat up front. Still, no priests, no people…starting to think this is strange. And then finally, I see a Franciscan monk, in his brown robe enter from the far right side (stage left) and head straight for the altar carrying a little leather pouch. I thought, ok, Mass must be delayed and he’s setting up the altar.
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“But what was strange about him was he had shocking white hair — I mean, bleach bleach blond and it stood out against the dark brown robe.
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“And he was not smiling. He was unsettling looking. But worse, when he got to the altar, he bent down to spit on it, and he slammed the leather pouch on top of the altar.
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“All I could think of was a Judas purse. Maybe this was a Judas demon?
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“Aunt Mag and I looked at each other in shock, as if we were both in some sort of other dimension or nightmare. I was like, ‘Did you see that?'” She was shaken. And then someone came into the church to ask why we were sitting there when Mass was going on behind the Church that day.
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“We scrambled out and never really spoke about it again. I don’t know why, but it just seemed like we witnessed a demon and didn’t want to go over that again. My aunt is dead now, but I would like to ask her if she remembered that day.
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“Will now settle back with my tea to finish your report. Thanks for all the work you do.”
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Thank you, Jocelyn.
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On a lighter brighter note, this from Diane Verploegh.
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“After 10 a.m. Mass, I took this picture of Our Lady of the Mountains, and the view from the parking lot. The sun’s rays are so well defined, a first for me in my picture-taking history. It was the 38th anniversary of my mother’s passing and my first Palm Sunday without my loved husband, and soulmate (of 48 years on the earth).”
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