**No, it’s not “socialist” but “socialis” which means “socialize” in Latin. Just trying to keep with the theme. Sorry for the scare!
This is a new event we are doing each weekend to get to know each other better and to share ideas. Please tell your friends, and join in! Feel free to drop links to your writing or the writing of others that you would like to recommend on the subject too. Here’s this week’s topic as we enter the last week of Advent.
Along with the Sheen Foundation, one of our contributors, Bonnie Engstrom, has just sent a package to Rome for consideration by the Congregation for Saints’ Causes that contains evidence of the alleged miraculous healing of her son, James Fulton.
Read more of this awesome story here: “Evidence of alleged miracle credited to Archbishop Sheen heads to Rome.”
Please join us in offering prayers for Bonnie’s family and praise for this miracle under investigation. What affirmations have you experienced in life?
6 thoughts on “SOCIALIS SATURDAY Bonnie Engstrom and Evidence”
Honestly, that I became Catholic with an orthodox RCIA program is always pretty amazing to me. 🙂
Bonnie, this is so awesome! I’ve been following James’ story from your blog for a while and sharing it with everyone I can.
Thanks, Kayla! It is very exciting!
I would say that some of the greatest a affirmations I’ve had in my life have been related to discerning my vocation. When my now-husband and I first started dating I prayed for the peace that surpasses all understanding if we were supposed to be together. That peace came and in a month and a half we were engaged. Additionally, as we’ve prayed about another pregnancy there have been many ways that God has shown us His plan and His great care for us.
This sounds great! Pretty cool 🙂
My wife and I very prayerfully, carefully, and deliberately chose prospective names for our child in utero, with the top three set for both genders. Our families knew that we had a top 3 in either case, but we weren’t telling them what they were. My wife and I have a great Aunt Rita in each wing of the family tree, so we knew that name would be on the list. One of my Aunts Rita is a twin with Cecilia, so we knew to pick one meant choosing the other. And my wife wanted to honor her grandmother, so we came up with Rita-Marie Cecelia if we had a girl.
A week before the baby came, I had a dream in which Christ told me that I should name the child Christina Marie, because I should honor Christ first. I started awake very upset, because I don’t like the name Christina and we put a lot of thought into selecting the girl name. My wife, who startled awake when I did, said maybe this means we’re having a boy because our boy name was easily settled with no contention.
When our daughter was born, the nurse asked if we wanted her to make the announcement to our family in the waiting room. We told her to say it was a girl, but that we needed a minute to decide on a name. My family was flummoxed: we had been telling them for nine months that they weren’t allowed to know the names that we had chosen in our top 3– how could we not have decided yet? So they started guessing what the name might be.
Meanwhile, we tried out each name with our daughter. She responded apathetically to Christina and very contentedly to Rita-Marie, so we introduced ourselves to Rita-Marie Cecelia. Then I stepped out and invited my family to come in and meet the newest addition. When I said the name, they shrieked because they had all settled on the name Rita Marie, and were even going to tell the nurse to tell us that they had come up with the perfect name.
My wife and I took at is a solid affirmation from God that we had made the right move. Further confirmation came when we found out that one of my wife’s great-aunts had died the morning our daughter was born. Her name? Rita Marie.
And last but not least… what was the first name of three of our nurses in delivery?
Christina.
Sorry for being late–I just went through a hectic academic ordeal. I will be praying for this and I will spread the word among my colleagues.
P.S.
Please pray for the victims of the typhoon in Iligan, Negros Oriental and Cagayan de Oro here in the Philippines. God bless.