I was just looking at a web-page advertising a “pilgrimage” to Medjugorje. I guess a selling point were two of the above photos; which appeared on the site. I find them completely bizarre. These are cheap side-show tricks that the Blessed Virgin would never stoop to (this is not merely my opinion, but Tradition.) When Mary does something, such as the Tilma at Guadalupe, the instantaneous miraculous cures at Lourdes, and the Dancing of the Sun at Fatima, she does it BIG. She does not make little clouds look passingly like an angel, or a woman, or a...what is that supposed to be anyway? She is very clear and precise. And she certainly doesn’t Photo-shop (or rely on badly exposed photographic film) as in the picture of the “seer.” Sadly, this all reminds me of pop-entertainment: flashy, boastful, but lacking in any substance.
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