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Delightful indeed! Wonderful testimonies of his help and intercession and not just about selling houses either biggrin We really need to hear the testimony of the saints, not just those in heaven, but the miracles that occur in our daily lives.
http://www.holysouls.com/stjosephstories.htm

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Indeed, very delightful.

Being a story teller at heart, here is one of my favorites. I was in cardiac ICU most of the summer of 1999, and became friends with one nurse who was assigned to me on a regular basis. She asked about the pamphlet I was reading one afternoon (a short novena to St. Therese, the Little Flower), and I replied that I was asking for a rose from the Heavenly Gardens so I could be discharged from the hospital.

She said most people would call her an agnostic, but she had seen some unusual things occur in CICU. There was a patient who was clinically brain dead - the EEG had a flat line. His heart and lungs were working due to artificial means, but he was definitely dead. Just before the nurses' shift change, the patient's family asked if they could say a novena to the Little Flower before the doctor disconnected the life support system. He agreed.

The next day the nurse was making rounds on the patients to whom she was assigned that day. As she approached the room where the deceased patient had been, she smelled an overwhelming aroma of freshly cut roses emanating from the room.

Thinking that a new patient had been moved into the room and probably received fresh flowers from his family, she entered the room, but was startled to see the prior patient sitting upright reading the newspaper! She was speechless.

The nurse told me she was still an agnostic, but she had no rational explanation for what had happened. I tried to explain to her that the patient had probably received a rose from the Heavenly Gardens, but she was not ready to accept the notion of divine intervention or miracles.

I try to remember the nurse in my daily prayers and ask that Jesus gives her the gift of conversion.

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Dear John,

What a lovely story. Thank you for sharing it with us. smile

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I have one of my own:

We signed the contract to purchase our home on the Feast of St. Joseph (Latin Calendar), March 19th, 2005.

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When my son Joseph was young, we had a van that chronically gave us problems. Now, mind you, at the time I had 6 small children and lived way out in the country. Every time I had the children in the van to go into town and it wouldn't start, my Joseph would pray to St. Joseph to come with his tool box and fix our van. Every time he prayed, the van would start!
So now my Joseph is getting married in less than 2 weeks, and I just put an icon of St. Joseph in the little apartment where the newlyweds will live...I'm trusting St. Joseph to look after the little boy grown to manhood who trusted him so much!
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Alice,
That brought tears to my eyes. St. Jospeh is so faithful to help us in all things. Thanks for sharing.

Memeo that is totally cool!

John,
And you continue the work you began in the hospital this very day. Glory to God! Thanks for sharing tha awesome experience. Some day you will meet her face to face and she will say thank you for all your prayers that brought her into God's kingdom.


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