{"id":6228,"date":"2009-07-13T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T12:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/07\/virgin-mary-spotted-in-irish-tree\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T14:53:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T21:53:55","slug":"virgin-mary-spotted-in-irish-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/07\/virgin-mary-spotted-in-irish-tree.html","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Mary spotted in Irish tree!"},"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><p>If you want to know what to do about things like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/howaboutthat\/5790527\/Virgin-Mary-spotted-in-Irish-tree.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Virgin Mary turning up your back yard tree <\/a>or on your grilled cheese sandwich (or at Lourdes and Fatima), I would suggest you read chapter 3 of <em>Volume III: Miracles, Devotion, and Motherhood <\/em>in the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mark-shea.com\/books.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mary, Mother of the Son <\/a><\/em>trilogy.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, a reader writes me just this morning to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHey Mark! Wolfed down vol.1 and loved all the new fun facts.  Reading 2 on the beach in FL. It\u2019s fallen in the sand a couple times but it\u2019s holding up\u2026LOL. Congrats on a great job!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don\u2019t you envy that?  Sitting on a beach with a little frou-frou drink (the kind with the umbrellas in them) reading the uber-coolest Catholic book in print this summer while children play in the surf, Harry dons some bad hat, Chief Brody tries to relax and that young Kitner boy gets devoured by a shark a few yards away? I can\u2019t give you the beach, the drink, the little umbrella, Harry\u2019s bad hat, Chief Brody, the great white shark or the screaming Kitner boy, but I can sure as heck <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mark-shea.com\/books.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">give you the book<\/a>! (And by \u201cgive\u201d I mean, of course, \u201csell\u201d.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to know what to do about things like the Virgin Mary turning up your back yard tree or on your grilled cheese sandwich (or at Lourdes and Fatima), I would suggest you read chapter 3 of Volume III: Miracles, Devotion, and Motherhood in the Mary, Mother of the Son trilogy. 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