i need to believe

The young girl, Bernadette Soubirous, would go on to join the Sisters of Charity, and years later when she was asked about her vision, she said modestly, The Virgin used me as a broom to remove the dust. The angel's hands rest above those children's heads, and we can only guess that she is...

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Published in:Southwest review 2020-09, Vol.105 (3), p.171-139
Main Author: Pelayo, Cynthia "Cina"
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anxiety
Armed forces
Belief and doubt
Catholicism
Cemeteries
Children
Human condition
Parapsychology
Spirituality
Supernatural
Unexplained phenomena
Worldview (Philosophy)
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Summary:The young girl, Bernadette Soubirous, would go on to join the Sisters of Charity, and years later when she was asked about her vision, she said modestly, The Virgin used me as a broom to remove the dust. The angel's hands rest above those children's heads, and we can only guess that she is sharing her light of protection with them, guiding them, keeping them safe from harm. Rosehill is the final resting place of Civil War soldiers, people who died in the Great Chicago Fire, politicians, athletes, former mayors, victims of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, and more. Yes, I have experienced events that I can claim as strange, but those things or feelings can be brushed away as the effects of anxiety or sleeplessness: a tingling sensation in my forearms in a dark hall in the Edinburgh Vaults; a star, or what appeared to be a star, above Badlands National Park in South Dakota one night, lazily following a linear and then a jagged motion; and even one day walking into my church and seeing a woman in a traditional black nun's habit seated front and center, but once I stood at the lectern and faced the congregation, she was gone.
ISSN:0038-4712
2168-5487