Meetings with Mary - Visions of the Blessed Mother

Informationen zum Autor Janice T. Connell  acts as a consultant to clearinghouses for Marian information throughout the world. She is the host of a nationally syndicated radio program called The Power of Love and the founder of the Pittsburgh Center for Peace (a Marian organization) and the international  Queen of Peace  newsletter. Connell is also a practicing attorney in ethics and international law. She lives in Florida. Klappentext Through the centuries and across the world! the Virgin Mary has appeared to ordinary people of every race and culture! from scholars to illiterates! from the devout to the unbelieving! from young children to the dying. In this exquisite and inspiring volume! Janice T. Connell chronicles authenticated Marian apparitions and messages Mary has brought from God--as mother! comforter! Queen of Angels! and Prophet of the Apocalypse.Drawn from scripture! legend! and never-before-published eyewitness accounts! these are personal stories--the author's own! and her interviews with other visionaries--filled with beauty! wonder! and joy. Meetings with Mary ranges from Elijah's vision of Mary eight hundred years before her birth to the world-famous children of Medjugorje in Bosnia! whose encounters with her began in 1981 and continue daily. Here also are lesser-known! deeply touching encounters with the Mother! from an office worker in Holland to a Japanese nun! from a Jewish banker in Rome to an awestruck crowd of visionaries! few of them Christians or of any other faith! in Egypt.Meetings with Mary asks also: as the millennium draws near! shadowed by disasters! disease! and brutal civil warfare! are Mary's frequent appearances a signal to the faithful? Perhaps she is calling us all to join her now on a voyage toward the eternal shores of peace! joy! and abiding love. . . . "[Connell is] passionate about prayer and sharing her love of Jesus'mother. . . . She has a way of simplifying complex theology."--Rocky Mountain News CHAPTER ONE     Queen of Heaven and Earth   Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled. LUKE 1:45   Rescued Air Force pilot Scott O’Grady looked calm and healthy on Dateline NBC as he reflected on his edge-of-death experiences behind enemy lines after his F-16 was shot down over Bosnia on June 2, 1995, by a Serb SAM-6 missile. Captain O’Grady parachuted safely after his F-16 was shot down, evaded capture by the Serbs for six days, and was rescued by a special team of U.S. Marines in helicopters on June 8. He was honored in ceremonies at the White House and the Pentagon on June 12.   “When they say your whole life flashes before your eyes, it doesn’t just flash before your eyes, but there’s photos that click through your mind throughout the entire time that you just can’t—you thought you’d never remember,” he told Dateline NBC.   “It’s just unbelievable that I didn’t die,” he said emphatically, “whether it would have been from the missile impact, whether it would have been from the seat being able to leave the airplane, to the point where I was on the ground and survived six days.” He attributes his survival to all the prayers that were offered for him, and maybe even a miracle.   Captain O’Grady knew of the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Medjugorje, a tiny hamlet hidden in the hills of Bosnia, before his plane was shot down over Bosnia. The Blessed Mother of Jesus has told six visionaries in Medjugorje, four of whom have been seeing her daily since June 24, 1981, that her apparitions in Bosnia are her final apparitions on earth: she is calling from the mountains of Bosnia to all people on earth, of every religion, to turn back to God now. The visionaries announce messages she brings from God for everyone.   During his NBC interview, O’Grady acknowledged that he experienced the presence, or spirit, of the Blessed Virgin Mary w...

Product details

• Authors: Janice T Connell, Janice T. Connell
• Publisher: Ballantine
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.10.1996
• EAN: 9780345397058
• ISBN: 978-0-345-39705-8
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 203 mm x 23 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity