The Man Who Was in Two Places at Once: A Modern Tale of Super-powers

Varghese, R a

Religion & Spirituality

Testament Book House

The appearances of the Virgin Mary in every culture and era since the birth of Christ is without parallel or precedent. All peoples and nations have their own tale of the Virgin's visitation. She has left her mark in the lands of Hindus, Jews and Moslems, Protestants, Catholics and Orthodox, Buddhists and Shintoists, Confucians and Communists, Aztecs and animists, hunter-gatherers and city-dwellers. Her maternal presence has been perceived and portrayed in every major racial and social "world". She is without question the mother of all humanity, of all races and nations. She is the meeting-place of the mystical and the historical. The places, images and events associated with the appearances have become an integral part of the cultural fabric of the societies that encountered the Virgin. So integral in fact that very few people have stepped back to consider the extraordinary panorama of peoples and places involved. This is the "big picture" shown in Contact! The Virgin as encountered around the globe and across history. From the introduction to Contact! by Bishop David L. Ricken (Bishop Ricken declared the apparition of Our Lady of Good Help as worthy of belief making it the only Marian apparition approved in the United States of America) I am very pleased to write this forward to Contact!, Roy Varghese's most recent book which tells the story of fifty verified encounters of the Blessed Virgin Mary throughout history. This book is an excellent resource for those who wish to hear what Mary is saying to us and to see how she always leads us closer to her divine Son Jesus. .., When you read Contact!, I urge you to ponder the fact that these apparitions actually did happen. The veil of heaven was pulled back for a brief moment and the Mother of God spoke to us. Reviews of Varghese's previous book on Marian apparitions Ralph McInerny, renowned Catholic philosopher and author of the Father Dowling mysteries: "Roy Abraham Varghese has just published ... a magnificent book, placing the apparitions in a theological setting, recalling the Church's attitude towards such happenings from the earliest times, and analyzing the interrelationship and common notes of the various apparitions. ... There may be no other single volume as informative and judicious as this one." ("To All Appearances," Crisis, May 2000) Catholic News Service (CNS is the news agency of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops) "I would definitely recommend the book to anyone who wants a lucid, comprehensive and intelligent approach to Marian apparitions. The book possesses several strengths. First, Varghese has the remarkable ability to explore 2,000 years of developed Catholic teachings on Mary and present the information in a cogent and easily understandable manner without marring critical distinctions. Second, Varghese's book stands apart from others because he searches all parts of the world to report on their experiences of Mary. Third, Varghese takes a rigorously academic approach throughout the book, avoiding the oversentimentalism to which so many Marian books fall prey." (Dimitra C. Bolger, "Intellectual Clearly Explains Mary's Apparitions," CNS, June 15, 2000)

Contact: 50 Verified Encounters with the Virgin Mary Across 2000 Years and Around the World

Varghese, Roy Abraham

Parenting & Relationships

This is a book about the greatest love story ever told. It is a story that plays out in three places: in God, in human history and in our lives. And we explore each in turn. God is Three Persons in infinite-eternal Love. For God is a beginning less, endless Act of Love of the Lover (the Father), the Beloved (the Son) and the Co-Beloved (the Spirit). The Three are One Heart. For to be Heart is to give all of one's being to the Other: to give totally, unconditionally, forever: to love. They are Three "centers" in a single Ultimate Reality of Love. One Heart. This is the first "level" of the Love Story. The Father loved us into being through his Son and his Spirit. We were created so that we too might be drawn into the infinite-eternal Love of the Three Persons, our hearts embedded in the Heart of God. But, as the hunter-gatherers and every ancient culture tells us, we chose not to respond in kind. Our hearts were hardened and we said No to the divine invitation of Love. The result was the ultimate heart attack of death and destruction. Nevertheless, our heart-broken Lover pursued us. On the human side, the religions of Africa, Mesoamerica, India, China, Persia, Israel and the Mediterranean societies recognized their Creator and sought forgiveness through the universal practice of sacrifice. But all recognized the breach could not be healed without a perfect sacrifice made by the sinless One. This understanding of God, God 1.0, culminated in the revelation received by the people of Israel. The next stage of the Love Story in human history was the incarnation of the Son in Jesus of Nazareth. It was Jesus who revealed God 2.0. He proclaimed a revolution: "The hour is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth." The whole identity and mission of Jesus of Nazareth centered on the Father. Jesus addressed God only as Father. The Father revealed by Jesus was: - prodigal in his limitless love, all Heart - more intimate than any earthly parent and therefore called Abba (the affectionate Aramaic expression for one's own father) and, above all, - "our" Father meeting all our needs, all the time, and drawing us into God Space, the protection and provision of his Providence. Henceforth, we cannot see God except as the infinitely, unconditionally loving Father who makes us his children through his Son and in his Holy Spirit. God 2.0. God as Heart. By his death and resurrection, Jesus made the perfect sacrifice and removed the barrier to our union with God. Through the waters of baptism, we are invited to be re-invented as a new race: redeemed by the Son and filled with the Spirit and thereby children of the Father in the fullest sense who will live "happily ever after". This is level two of the Love Story. The third and final level of the Love Story is our own life. We are each love letters written by the Father. If we accept his offer of eternal union, we become his Love Story.

Daddy, We Never Knew You!: The Story of God 2.0

How We Know That God is Three-in-One: And Why the Trinity Makes Sense of Everything

Christian Books & Bibles

The answer to the question "Who is Jesus?" affects everything about our lives. This is the case because what Jesus' followers through the centuries have claimed about him is that Jesus is God and man, that: Jesus is the human locus of the divine, the human face of Godthe incarnation of the "Second Person" of the Tri-personal Godthe Eternal Word made flesh.And BECAUSE Jesus is God and man, He is the Redeemer of the human race who negated a primordial cursethe Savior who delivers us from our enslavement to evil and the danger of final damnationthe transmitter of the very Life of God. If Jesus is indeed whom he and his followers say he is, then he is nothing less than the fulcrum of human history and human destiny. In this work we will try to show that Jesus is the Incarnation of Infinity. God and man and therefore our Savior. We will do this in three phases: WHAT, WHO and WHY In the first phase, the WHAT, we consider what is known, what is virtually indisputable, about Jesus. We review the top ten data-sets that point to Jesus' identity. In the second phase we move from the WHAT to the WHO. From what we know about Jesus, we turn to what is claimed about Jesus and why - and how we can make sense of it all. In phase three, we turn to the WHY question. Why did Jesus come? If he is whom he and his followers claimed him to be, why is that relevant to us? And, if it is relevant, how do we apply this truth to our lives? Ludwig Wittgenstein, the most influential philosopher of the last 100 years, speaking as a modern Jewish witness to the Resurrection, said, "What inclines even me to believe in Christ's resurrection? ... If he did not rise from the dead ... We are in a sort of hell ... cut off from heaven. But if I am to be REALLY saved, - what I need is CERTAINTY - not wisdom, dreams or speculations - and this certainty is faith. And faith is what is needed by my HEART, my SOUL, not my speculative intelligence." Likewise, Marshall McLuhan, the prophet of the Internet, said, "If I hadn't believed it, I wouldn't have seen it."

How We Know That Jesus is God and Man: The Incarnation of Infinity

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