SHORT COMMUNICATION 191
Definitive Proof Exists
By
Roger Behra
On June 13, 2010, a Sunday radio program gave their listeners a challenging questions-“Does God Exist?” The callers were supposed to convince the program host that, yes, God does exist. The caller’s answers were varied and interesting during that fast moving hour.
Most callers missed the point completely. Two callers definitely denied that God exists. Many had the agnostic belief. One caller definitely said God does exist and the Universe is proof, which was very good thinking. The Universe is so complex, so orderly, and has stayed in place for centuries. No caller gave any other definite proof, and there certainly is some.
The Bible tells us about the seven days of creation, and it all began with the Universe and ended with the seventh day being one of rest. Later, God had a Divine Son, Jesus, who lived on this earth, and later was crucified. At the time of the crucifixion Jesus suffered the five wounds. The five wounds are called the Holy Stigmata. And there are several people down through the history of the world who has suffered the five wounds of Jesus in the very same places as He did. The stigmata are a blessing from God and baffles scientists. Several saints suffered it. In modern times we had Padre Pio and Sister Agnes Sasagawa. The stigmata of Padre Pio are the most famous. The Universe proves that God exists and the stigma proves that Jesus, His Divine Son, once existed. And both could not be existing without God.
While praying before a cross on September 20, 1918, Padre Pio of Italy received the stigmata spontaneously. He was the first Catholic priest ever to be blessed with the five wounds of Jesus. He bore the wounds for fifty years.
Padre Pio (now Saint Pio) was blessed with other gifts, also. Among them were the gifts of prophecy, the conversion of souls, and the many, many miraculous cures that baffle medicine or science. Thousands of cures have taken place already through his intersession. That is more proof that God exists, because the cures would not happen if God did not let them. God is behind all good things.
Sister Agnes Sasagawa was blessed with the stigmata. She suffered a great deal. But she was cured of her deafness by the Blessed Virgin Mary. The special statue of the Virgin Mary in her convent shed genuine tears on 101 occasions.
Only Catholic people have been blessed with the stigmata. They are now Saints and venerated. The stigmata are real. It develops unplanned. Doctors cannot cure it and are baffled by it. God is trying to tell the word the Catholicism is the true religion. He also is telling us through the stigmata, the orderly centuries old Universe, and His burial cloth (The Shroud of Turin) that He really exists. The miraculous waters of Lourdes are also definitive proof. To the challenging radio host, all his listeners, and everyone else, yes, God exists-completely and without any limits.
R. B.
2-22-20