The Vatican Prophecies Quotes

“pareidolia, the psychological inclination to detect something significant in random or vague images”
― John Thavis, The Vatican Prophecies: Investigating Supernatural Signs, Apparitions, and Miracles in the Modern Age

“the Maillard reaction, a chemical browning effect well known in cooking. (It gives bread and beer their golden color, for example.)”
― John Thavis, The Vatican Prophecies: Investigating Supernatural Signs, Apparitions, and Miracles in the Modern Age

“And there was no way this could have been radiation. He said if this had been a radiation event, there’d still be a crater in Jerusalem a couple of kilometers wide.”
― John Thavis, The Vatican Prophecies: Investigating Supernatural Signs, Apparitions, and Miracles in the Modern Age

“he had found an unusually high amount of bilirubin in the blood scrapings from the Shroud. At those levels, he said, bilirubin can cause blood to maintain its red color forever, despite exposure to air.”
― John Thavis, The Vatican Prophecies: Investigating Supernatural Signs, Apparitions, and Miracles in the Modern Age

“the corporal, the small linen cloth on which the Eucharist is placed during Mass, has been seen as symbolic of both the tablecloth at the Last Supper and the burial shroud of Christ.”
― John Thavis, The Vatican Prophecies: Investigating Supernatural Signs, Apparitions, and Miracles in the Modern Age

“In 1532 a fire broke out in the chapel’s sacristy, and the intense heat melted part of the silver reliquary that held the Shroud. Two Franciscan friars saved the cloth by rushing inside and pouring water on the reliquary, but it was permanently damaged with a series of parallel scorch marks.”
― John Thavis, The Vatican Prophecies: Investigating Supernatural Signs, Apparitions, and Miracles in the Modern Age

“sent it to be placed in one of those archives that are like a well where the paper sinks deeply into the dark, black depths, and where no one can distinguish anything at all.”
― John Thavis, The Vatican Prophecies: Investigating Supernatural Signs, Apparitions, and Miracles in the Modern Age

“A vision is generally understood as a private experience that results from a process of intense spiritual effort, reflecting, in a sense, a desire to see the supernatural. An apparition typically arrives unexpectedly, without warning, to people who are often spiritually unprepared to deal with it.”
― John Thavis, The Vatican Prophecies: Investigating Supernatural Signs, Apparitions, and Miracles in the Modern Age

“What established this apparition on the Catholic devotional map was, above all, its simplicity: a vision, a message, and a life of holiness.”
― John Thavis, The Vatican Prophecies: Investigating Supernatural Signs, Apparitions, and Miracles in the Modern Age

“private apparitions or revelations could possibly add anything essential to the faith.”
― John Thavis, The Vatican Prophecies: Investigating Supernatural Signs, Apparitions, and Miracles in the Modern Age

“The woman immediately saw her own suffering in a new light. She vowed to accept the “cross” of her son’s illnesses and help him carry it. She would no longer pray for healing, she told herself, and headed down the mountain.”
― John Thavis, The Vatican Prophecies: Investigating Supernatural Signs, Apparitions, and Miracles in the Modern Age

“The guide continued, addressing the “absurd” notion that Medjugorje might be the devil’s work. “The devil doesn’t operate that way. The devil doesn’t ask people to come here and pray and confess! Millions of people! What kind of strategy would that be—the devil, leading people back to God?”
― John Thavis, The Vatican Prophecies: Investigating Supernatural Signs, Apparitions, and Miracles in the Modern Age

“All that remained were a few tassels from the cardinal’s red hat.”
― John Thavis, The Vatican Prophecies: Investigating Supernatural Signs, Apparitions, and Miracles in the Modern Age

“Saint Ubaldo has his own Facebook page and has become the patron saint of those suffering with obsessive-compulsive disorder”
― John Thavis, The Vatican Prophecies: Investigating Supernatural Signs, Apparitions, and Miracles in the Modern Age

“the repair and renovation of the corpses of saints.”
― John Thavis, The Vatican Prophecies: Investigating Supernatural Signs, Apparitions, and Miracles in the Modern Age

“stating simply that Catholics are free to venerate relics or not. As one Vatican official remarked, “This is one area where we don’t tell people what they can and can’t believe.”
― John Thavis, The Vatican Prophecies: Investigating Supernatural Signs, Apparitions, and Miracles in the Modern Age

“She teaches me to love myself before I can love others.”
― John Thavis, The Vatican Prophecies: Investigating Supernatural Signs, Apparitions, and Miracles in the Modern Age

“The message I get from her is to be happy and cheerful and contented in life, as life is short.”
― John Thavis, The Vatican Prophecies: Investigating Supernatural Signs, Apparitions, and Miracles in the Modern Age

“Pope Francis, who has cautioned against searching for supernatural signs, has said he sometimes prays to Saint Thérèse and “almost always” receives a rose in response.”
― John Thavis, The Vatican Prophecies: Investigating Supernatural Signs, Apparitions, and Miracles in the Modern Age

“She knew her human limitations, and from this awareness created a spiritual path—the “little way” of reflecting God’s goodness in ordinary and everyday ways. Spiritual heroism was not required for salvation, she said. Small acts of charity were enough.”
― John Thavis, The Vatican Prophecies: Investigating Supernatural Signs, Apparitions, and Miracles in the Modern Age

“sudden sense that Jesus had come into her heart and filled her with purpose”
― John Thavis, The Vatican Prophecies: Investigating Supernatural Signs, Apparitions, and Miracles in the Modern Age

“the material world, which can be charged with sanctity.”
― John Thavis, The Vatican Prophecies: Investigating Supernatural Signs, Apparitions, and Miracles in the Modern Age

“The Word was made flesh, and flesh and the material world were made “holy.”
― John Thavis, The Vatican Prophecies: Investigating Supernatural Signs, Apparitions, and Miracles in the Modern Age

“a visible link between heaven and earth.”
― John Thavis, The Vatican Prophecies: Investigating Supernatural Signs, Apparitions, and Miracles in the Modern Age