I was surprised that so many people in our time have the Stigmata.  Without mucking the waters, I understand that the Church has to be careful, but the Jews had to be careful when Jesus was born...

 

My opinion about the psychosomatic or multiple personalities, WELL, I think a lot can be said of the power of the mind.  I also thought Ted Harrison didn't give enough credit to the spiritual...

This is a tess message in Pam's Login

I believe the life of Christ continues in the members of His body, the Church, even to this day. One gift God gives is the stigmata to certain special people. The is gift of suffering as Christ suffered is very painful. Not surprisingly, the hierarchy of the Church uses extreme caution in judging such phenomena as of divine origin. The human mind is so complex; caution is used to determine if...

Chapter 2 also talks about multiple personalities. In some areas of thought, multilpe personalities could also mean demonic possession. One must be very careful.

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Glad to see you are online Janet! Anxiously awaiting your thoughts on the book!
Anne

In response to guiding question #1... I was surprised to discover that the 20th century has seen stigmatics from churches other than the Roman Catholic Church. Isn't it interesting that women stigmatics outnumber men by a ratio of 7 to 1?

 

Sandi

There are just some guiding questions that Shannon and I came up with for the first 2 chapters. Feel free to respond on anything that particularly struck you. If you have any trouble logging on to respond to this, PLEASE email me at lyonsvle@gwtc.net and I will forward your email to the tech person at the Mount.
Here are the questions:
*What surprised you the most in reading some of the general...

Chapter 1 & 2
Stigmata Book
Shannon Schaben
September 3, 2007
1. What surprised you the most in reading the general history about the Stigmata?
Many things surprised me since this is my first reading about the Stigmata! Some things that stick out, though are: that most are women and that it’s generally accepted from medical profession that wounds have appeared without any deliberate conscious...

*What surprised you the most in reading some of the general history about the Stigmata
--The fact that most who have received the Stigmata are Women-European-Catholics.
--also that the Stigmata can throw communities into a state of religious enthusiasm…a group experience of the Divine.

*Have you had any direct experience with someone who has the stigmata that you'd like to share?
No. It would...

In response to guiding question #1...I was surprised to discover that the 20th century has seen stigmatics from churches other than the Roman Catholic Church. Isn't it interesting that women stigmatics outnumber men by a ratio of 7 to 1?

Ok. Here are the answers to the guide questions, which are very good, by the way.

 

The thing that surprised me the most was there are so many people with it today.  I must be watching the wrong television...

 

I haven't had any direct contact.  I don't know what I would do if I came into contact with one in light of the way Ted Harrison talks about them.

 

My opion of...

I haven't really heard about people with the Stigmata either on the "news." Padre Pio is probably the major living person I was aware of.

Hi Janet! Great responses! And you've read the entire book! Wow! I see your point when you say most who study the Stigmata are non-Catholic because they are not raised learning about the Saints, etc. and so the Stigmata is not possible in their eyes. I started wondering if non-Catholics would believe in the Stigmata more if they were receiving it?? And why has God chose mostly Catholics to receive...

*What surprised you the most in reading some of the general history about the Stigmata?

There are so many stigmatics & they are all so different !!

*Have you had any direct experience with someone who has the stigmata that you'd like to share?

No, but I would be afraid of them.

*What is your opinion of the theories of the stigmata being psychosomatic or as a result of multiple personalities?...

Hi all! I thought I would try & see if I still remember how to sign in so I'll be ready to discuss chapter 1 & 2 next week!
Have a great Labor Day weekend!
Shannon

Hi Anne! I thought I would send you a note! I downloaded firefox.......and guess what? It works now! THANK YOU so much! Such an easily solvable problem once we figured out what the problem was!
I'm looking forward to the E-retreat!
Shannon

This is a good idea to remember for others who Internet Explorer won't let them use the discussion board.....to download Firefox for their web browser!

Sr. Michelle also has on hand several copies of our new book, and you can purchase one from her!