CV NEWS FEED // So often it happens that we emphasize only the negatives in life.
So-called “pride” month is here, a significant election in the fall, and a rise in crime across the nation all threaten to steal our joy. And yet the world is not devoid of hope, nor has God abandoned his people. Miracles are still occurring every day – here are just a few.
World Youth Day 2023
Thousands upon thousands of young people gathered in Fatima, Portugal, just last year to celebrate World Youth Day with the Holy Father. People from Ireland, Belize, Italy, America, Canada, and many other countries united to pray for each other and the world.
16-year-old Jimena, however, had a very specific intention in mind. For two and a half years, she had been struggling with a debilitating eye disease, reducing her sight by around 95%.
In the days leading up to World Youth Day, Jimena began a novena. This particular novena was to our Lady of Snows. On the ninth day after Holy Communion she opened her tearful eyes and realized that her sight had been restored to her.
Lourdes 2024
A group of pilgrims from Madrid set out to visit Lourdes earlier this year. The apparition site of Our Lady is popular and rests in the misty Pyrenees mountains in the south of France.
Among the group was a woman with severe visual impairment, who had come to Lourdes in the hope of healing, like so many before her. When visiting Lourdes, it is customary to wash one’s face and hands and drink from the miraculous stream that the Blessed Mother revealed to St. Bernadette.
The woman, whose name has not been disclosed, waited patiently.
After washing her face and allowing the water to drip from her eyes, the pilgrim found her sight miraculously restored to her. Doctors have examined her, and confirmed that she who was once blind can now see!
The Church is always cautious with the matter of miracles. Often it takes years for a mysterious event to be labeled officially miraculous by the Church. However, this event could become official soon.
Tammy Peterson 2024
Most people have heard that Jordan Peterson’s wife, Tammy Peterson, has converted to Catholicism in the past year. Many have not heard that a miracle may have been involved.
Tammy Peterson was diagnosed in 2019 with a Bellini tumor, a rare form of kidney cancer. The doctors gave her 10 months to live.
A Catholic friend of Tammy’s came to visit her at the hospital with two rosaries that had been blessed by the Holy Father and taught her to pray the rosary, which they then prayed daily together.
Most people are only diagnosed with the Bellini tumor postmortem, because of how quickly it kills. Tammy is now cancer-free. While we cannot declare this an official miracle, it is very easy to see that God, especially the Blessed Mother, had a part in it.
Carlo Acutis
Valeria, a college student in Florence, Italy, had a bicycle accident. She suffered severe trauma to her head, which consequently required surgery to remove the right occipital bone in her skull, an operation that is rarely survived. She was unable to speak or breathe on her own.
Valeria’s distraught mother immediately began to pray for her healing through the intercession of Bl. Carlo Acutis. The mother even made a pilgrimage to Assisi to ask for the young blessed’s aid.
The same day her mother made the pilgrimage, Valeria began to recover mysteriously and rapidly. Later that year, Valeria herself would trek up into the mountains to the small town of Assisi to thank Carlo Acutis for his prayers and the miracle that would push forward his cause for canonization.
