{"id":35967,"date":"2012-06-20T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T07:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=35967"},"modified":"2014-12-30T16:25:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T23:25:05","slug":"a-question-about-miracles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2012\/06\/a-question-about-miracles.html","title":{"rendered":"A Question About Miracles"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><blockquote><p>I\u2019m curious about miracles.<\/p>\n<p>My youngest daughter has been married about eight years.  They have been childless and really wanted children.  They even went to fertility, or some other type of clinics, 200 miles from home to get help.  Last I heard was that nothing could be done.<\/p>\n<p>When our priest was on vacation this winter, we had a retired priest.  In his homily he mentioned Pope John XXIII being Venerable.  I took this to mean he\u2019s awaiting miracles to confirm his sainthood.  I began praying one Rosary a week, to Pope John XXIII, with the intention that my daughter have a child.<\/p>\n<p>On Memorial Day Weekend, my Daughter and Son-in-Law visited.  They announced that she is expecting in January!<\/p>\n<p>My question is:  Can I somehow report this and further Pope John XXIII\u2019s cause?  I\u2019m ecstatic about the results of my prayer and that he had something to do with it.  I remember him very fondly and will do whatever I can to further his cause.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sure.  I presume somebody (I don\u2019t know who) is in charge of promoting his cause.  Probably easy enough to Google.  I\u2019d let them know.<\/p>\n<p>And, by the way, congratulations and thanks be to God through our Lord Jesus Christ!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m curious about miracles. My youngest daughter has been married about eight years. They have been childless and really wanted children. They even went to fertility, or some other type of clinics, 200 miles from home to get help. Last I heard was that nothing could be done. 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