/lit/ - Literature

>>15586860
Is it really so hard to believe that God would allow the blessed saints in Heaven to wield His power on His behalf, to do His will? If you believe that the angels exist, and that they do God's will when they act, why don't you believe that the saints can do the same thing? It's not like their power belongs to them, it doesn't. It belongs to God. They're servants. Everyone in Heaven is God's servant, and they work on His behalf to help us.

>>15296214
My favorite story about him is that he had a vision from the Virgin Mary in which she instructed him to build a monastery in her name in Nagasaki, the most Catholic city in Japan. The Virgin told him to build the monastery on the far side of one of the big mountains surrounding the city. This great distance made the construction of the monastery difficult and laborious. Additionally, all the local Shinto priests advised against building the monastery on the far side, because it was bad fortune and ill luck.

But guess what? When the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, the mountain shielded the monastery from the blast. The monastery still exists, and is still in operation to this day. You can go visit it right now.