“My wife Veronika had a dream the other night which I thought was beautiful and inspiring,” writes Matt Berg of Ave Maria, Florida. “My wife does not normally dream and if she does, she cannot remember it clearly. This dream was different.
“In the dream, my wife was looking off into the distance and could see a massive all-consuming fire tornado coming across the fields towards the house.
“The tornado was destroying everything in its path, indeed the entire world. My wife said, this is it. It is the end. We will never survive this. The tornado was so close to the home that she could feel the heat and pieces of the home began flying off into the air.
“Suddenly, she looked up into the cloud of debris and smoke and saw a shadow of the Blessed Virgin Mary. There was a group of people with her and one of the young girls who was pious, holy and becoming a nun reached up into the cloud. Her arm became longer and longer and pulled the shadow of the Blessed Virgin holding her Child Jesus from the cloud.
“The shadow then became a statue and she ran around the house, tying the statue to the house with cables. She then told everyone, ‘Do not worry. The Blessed Virgin will protect us.’ Suddenly and miraculously, the fire tornado went by the house and didn’t harm anyone. My wife was in shock that everyone had survived. She found a smaller statue that was the same as the one which saved everyone.
“They made a small house with wooden doors in which to house the Virgin and child Jesus. The group brought purple flowers to the statue to honor the Virgin. When she returned, she opened the doors of the little house to look at the Blessed Virgin and to her surprise, a living Mary was walking, watering the flowers that they had placed there. My wife was in awe and thought. ‘Wow, the Blessed Virgin is a real living human being!’ Mary looked at her and smiled. My wife opened her eyes and it was 5:59am. One minute before her alarm was set to go off.
In the mail a viewer quotes Fr. Mateo Crawley-Boevey, author of Jesus, King of Love:
“I was celebrating Holy Mass in a private chapel in Europe. I don’t know why, but a man who was scandalizing the people was present. It was really shocking the way he acted… It was truly satanic. But the people were struck, you may be sure, when at the consecration this man fell on his knees, trembling and staring at the altar, wide-eyed, apparently seeing something astounding…
“When the Mass was over, this person rushed into the sacristy… ‘Please, tell me, what have you been doing at the altar?’ ‘Why, I have been celebrating Holy Mass.’ He demanded to know what Mass is. I explained to him how the same Jesus, who was nailed to the Cross on Calvary, and who shed the last drop of His Blood for us sinners, does the same thing now on the altar but in an unbloodied way. ‘That is what we call the Mass.’
“Imagine my surprise when this man claimed to have seen what I had just described. When I asked him to tell me just what he had seen, he told me he saw me come from the sacristy to the altar and reading from a big book and going back and forth. ‘Then you bowed; you said something; and then you lifted up a round white object, when suddenly you disappeared and in your place, I saw a wonderful personage with arms outstretched; what beauty, what majesty! I can still see that face, those features, those eyes, the blood gushing from those wounds. His lips were moving as though he were talking to someone. And His body was shining like the sun. Then, after some time, this wonderful personage disappeared and you returned.'”
“Place everything in the hands of God, and He will take care of your destiny. Do not get discouraged; be good. Never leave prayer; it is our refuge, the gate to Heaven, the path and the key which opens the doors of all graces for us.”
Amen!
