September 2021 +

The following was on Marytv.tv, an English homily in Medjugorje last week. (Allegedly a TRUE STORY): +

Fr. Richard Walder from Los Angeles California, was ordained in 1979. Shortly after his ordination, he was assigned as a hospital chaplain. One morning he received a call to come to the emergency room to see an 11-year-old boy named Johnny, who was dying. He found him on a breathing machine, his head swollen and very large: Johnny’s parents told the priest that he had been riding his bicycle on a gravel road near their home when a truck came flying over the hill and hit him head-on. The collision caused him to be thrown into a nearby field.+

When the ambulance arrived the medics found his head cut wide open with half his brains scattered around the field. So they literally picked up the pieces of his brain and shoved them back into his head and took him to the hospital.+

Fr. Richard goes on to say he asked Johnny’s parents if he had been baptized, and they said no. They informed Fr. Richard that they did not attend any church, but that they pray at home as a family. Then Fr. Richard asked the parents if they would like him to baptize Johnny, and the parents said to go ahead.+

That night with the parents and two nurses as witnesses, the priest baptized Johnny. The next morning father was making Communion rounds when his beeper went off and Johnny’s doctor wanted to see him in the intensive care unit.+

Asked the doctor, “What did you do last night?” Fr. Richard explained to the doctor, who was Buddhist, that he had baptized Johnny with his parents’ approval so that he could go to Heaven. When Fr. Richard asked him why he was so concerned, the doctor informed him that the boy’s swelling had disappeared.  But, the doctor was still convinced that he would still die.+

That night Johnny’s parents thanked Fr. Richard for baptizing the boy and the priest explained to them the anointing of the sick and asked them if they would like Johnny to receive that sacrament. So with their permission and in the presence of the parents, Fr. Richard anointed Johnny.+

Again the next morning during Communion rounds, the doctor paged Fr. Richard, meeting him at the door of the intensive care unit. He said, “I heard from the nurses that you prayed again for Johnny, what did you do? His eyes are moving.”+

Father said it is just the Power of Jesus through prayers for the sick. It was now the third night and Fr. Richard suggested to the parents that he give Johnny the sacrament of Confirmation. The parents agreed and the following morning Johnny’s arms and legs were moving. The doctor then said, “I am no longer in control.”+

That evening father explained the Eucharist to the parents and gave Johnny some Precious Blood in an eyedropper. Father then went away for a few days.+

When the priest returned to check on Johnny, it was only to learn that the boy had been transferred to the third floor.+

When father went upstairs to see him, Johnny was sitting on his bed, talking to his mother.+

After his recovery, they took another x-ray of his head and found that the part of the brain that had spilled out into the field had grown back.+

The doctor in this case became Christian and the three nurses converted to Catholicism. 

[resources: Michael Brown retreat videotape and The God of Healing]