The Miracle of the Images. Welby Thomas Cox, Jr.

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СКАЧАТЬ the historical evidence is implicit that Jews reclined while celebrating a meal. There was no table...they were on the floor on pillows and low floor hugging sofas." The Monsignor said.

      "Well, perhaps the design was inappropriate and, as you say Leonardo took certain license but it seems to me that that does not change the original premise of Brown's research that Christ was not a homosexual but was in fact married to Mary Magdelyn and fathered her child." Aldo said.

      "We are certain that Christ was A-sexual and hence his call to priest to be celibate...to not be 'in the body' but 'of the body' of Christ. Certainly Christ loved Mary Magdelyn but it was in the same way that he loved James or Peter or Thomas the doubter." He said.

      "The second premise of Brown falls equally hard in the face of hard evidence to the contrary. It is true that the Knights Templar was the foundation of the Priory of Scion since the Crusades, but it is widely known and accepted that the historical record of the Priory of Scion was systematically defrauded by a Frenchman in the mid-twentieth century seeking to include his own family in the heritage of the Priory, and it was this man who began this entire treatise over the church's effort to exclude women from rightful places in the history of the Catholic Church, including the false story that Christ was married to Mary Magdelyn and fathered a female child who was in the line of succession to the Priory of Scion, the true and rightful heirs to the leadership of the church. The very idea that women were systematically ostracized from the church is categorically challenged by the faithful in the form of the good Sisters who have faithfully served the church and the Holy Father.

      "But Monsignor...where are the Sisters now...in the age of Aquarius they slipped away, they tired of the promise that they would have a more defined role in the leadership of the church and more importantly as participants in the parish...as priest. They tired at the lack of oversight toward the homosexuals and abusers among the priest...and they tired at the cover up and cost caused by these recalcitrant and immoral priest.

      "Again Aldo...your premise is that the good Sisters were turned away by the church...the fact is the young women of the late sixties were turned off by religion in general...they were as promiscuous and godless as was those young men who infiltrated the seminaries as a place for homosexual contact among fellow seminarians. Agreed that the church was lax in the selectivity process, but let us not forget that many of the young men who might have aspired to the priesthood were being drafted and sent to Vietnam. Therefore the pickings were slim and the church did not do enough to create a climate for religious callings among other nationalities for missionaries from the Africans, the Brazilians, from Venezuela to come and serve the needs of the flock in the United States. That was the failure of the Catholic Church...some of us recognized it, but most were young seminarians like myself and we had no pulpit from which to speak out.

      "Finally Aldo...the most egregious part of the Brown book...I could forgive the rest as the Artistic License, but it was, and is, the basic premise of the book that the Catholic Church set out in a premeditated, calculated methodology to murder and destroy the last remnants of the Priory of the Scion. That the Holy Father could and would be a party to a criminal act and act of murder, a felony is, at its heart, so sacrilegious that I believe that it borders on malicious intent to defame and should be defended in every court in the land. Adjudicated to the point that twelve good men and women...the chosen twelve should be given the opportunity to hear the side of the Church vs. Brown and it is my belief that those twelve good folks would return a verdict in favor of the Catholic Church to preclude Brown from ever spending a dime of the millions that he will make from this malicious piece of trash." The Monsignor concluded taking one last drink of the home made wine.

      "It seems to me that the Church definitely has an action, but they won't do anything about it...the potential for loss is so great that it may in fact doom the church forever." Aldo said.

      "Of course this is a perfect segway to the greater question which has brought us here Aldo...thank you for the meal, the desert and the sterling conversation but shall we get down to business?" Father Tim asked.

      The priest were kind enough not to have begun the inquisition of Aldo until they all had settled in the living room with coffee and pound cake frozen with raspberries and whipped cream.

      "Is this where the sighting took place Aldo?" Monsignor Voght asked.

      "Well the actual event took place up stairs in my bedroom, which I will show you if you like...shall I call you Monsignor or Father?" Aldo asked.

      "What ever makes you most comfortable Aldo...we do not stand on formalities during these proceedings." He said.

      They walked up the solid stair well with coffee mugs in hand. Aldo assumed that this meant they intended to spend some time up there.

      "This was my room at the time of the visitation." Aldo said.

      "Show us if you can Aldo exactly what happened." Father Tim asked.

      Aldo went to the bed, sat his mug on the stand beside the vase of fresh cut flowers and lay down as he had been on that evening.

      "I was in bed and fast asleep by eleven o'clock...that was when the first visit took place. I was awaken by a slight movement of the bed, the wind picked up and blew through the drapes... and then the brilliant lights shown through the frame and holes in the door. They were very bright but not blinding. I opened the door...a woman was elevated... standing at the door and her body filled the space around it." Aldo continued.

      "I said nothing but was so frightened that I immediately slammed the door in her face."

      "What was she wearing?" asked the Monsignor.

      "She had on a long dress...a gown of several layers and veils...it was of a color which I refer to as Blue Heaven." Aldo said.

      "And she said nothing?" the Monsignor asked.

      "I am afraid that I did not give her time to speak." Aldo said.

      "Now this was on August 15, 1955."

      "That is correct." Aldo said.

      "When did she next appear to you?"

      "She returned on the seventeenth of August."

      "What happened Aldo?"

      "I had said the rosary with my family down in the living room. We all went to bed and it was about nine o'clock when I went to sleep. The same thing happened with the bed moving, the wind picked up and the lights came through the door. I got up from the bed and knelt at the door as I opened it. I held up the cross and began to pray the Our Father in Latin."

      Pater Noster, qui es in caelis: ( the priest joined the prayer as Aldo lead) sanctificetur nomen tuum: adveniat regnum tuum: fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo, et in terra. Panem nostrum quatidianum da nobis hodie: et dimitte nobis debita nostra, sicuit et nos demittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem. Sid libera nos a malo. Amen."

      The priest stood in silence.

      "She stood there elevated, filling the doorway. She said that she wanted me to paint a portrait of the Holy Family. A simple scene with Mary holding the infant Jesus and Joseph leading the burro."

      "I told her that I was just a rudimentary painter and that I would not know how to begin to paint the likeness of the Blessed Mother, Joseph or the Christ Child. She said that I was not to be concerned about the features that they would appear on Mary and Joseph in 2005 on the feast day of the Assumption and that the Christ Child would be disclosed in 2055 on the Feast of the Nativity."

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