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As Joanne and I drove to the Center, we prayed a Rosary, first stating our intentions. When I asked Blessed Solanus to pray for my dad’s aneurysm leak to close, I did not consider that if it did, how would anyone know? It was not faith that propelled me through that technicality; I simply had not thought it through.
Three nights later, something else was clearly wrong. My father threw up blood and was taken by ambulance to the hospital. While trying to discover the problem, a CT scan revealed he had a bleeding ulcer (caused by medication). The scan also revealed something else. The hole had clotted and closed up. Surgery was no longer needed!
Was it a miracle? It depends on how you define miracle. By technical standards, it has to be something that defies nature. Clotting and closing off a leak does occur at times, so it is not a technical miracle. But was it the hand of God that granted a prayer request through the intercession of Blessed Father Solanus? You won’t convince me otherwise.
Two years later, at 94 years old, my dad exercises daily and is in good spirits and relatively good health considering his age. He uses a walker and can actually walk without it
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