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Bleeding Hands, Weeping Stone: True Stories of Divine Wonders, Miracles, and Messages
Miracles are real! Popular Catholic author and speaker, Elizabeth Ficocelli, reveals signs of God's loving hand in history's most magnificent miracles. In brisk, easy to read accounts, Ficocelli relates these amazing (and true!) stories. Bleeding Hands, Weeping Stone explains why God performs miracles and what our disposition should be toward them. Some miracles are quiet and simple, some are dramatic - bordering on outrageous- but all of them astound and continually inflame our hearts to greater faith and more ardent love.
136 pages, Paperback
First published January 5, 2009
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August 13, 2017
Trite, cheesy, over simplified, sometimes inaccurate. There are far better books out there on the subjects covered in this book than this one. Don't waste your money.
A couple of issues of note:
She made it sound as if the Ida Peerdeman apparitions have now been approved, because a later Bishop liked them and tried to approve them after the original Bishop ruled against them. In reality the CDF ruled against them before the second Bishop made his proclamation, and when he did he was reprimanded by the CDF. Once Rome rules a Bishop cannot rule in the opposite direction. This should have been noted in the book. It was extremely irresponsible reporting.
The juvenile jokes spread throughout were extremely obnoxious, and degraded the subject matter.
Lastly, supernatural and mystical are not synonyms. If you're going to write a book like this and use the word mystical every other paragraph you should have a very thorough understanding of the Church's understanding of and perennial teaching on mysticism.
This book was a huge disappointment.
A couple of issues of note:
She made it sound as if the Ida Peerdeman apparitions have now been approved, because a later Bishop liked them and tried to approve them after the original Bishop ruled against them. In reality the CDF ruled against them before the second Bishop made his proclamation, and when he did he was reprimanded by the CDF. Once Rome rules a Bishop cannot rule in the opposite direction. This should have been noted in the book. It was extremely irresponsible reporting.
The juvenile jokes spread throughout were extremely obnoxious, and degraded the subject matter.
Lastly, supernatural and mystical are not synonyms. If you're going to write a book like this and use the word mystical every other paragraph you should have a very thorough understanding of the Church's understanding of and perennial teaching on mysticism.
This book was a huge disappointment.
June 24, 2017
I read this book with my teenager, and couldn't put it down! Our God is amazing and very much alive. Let Him prove it to you through this easy to read summary of His power.
April 21, 2021
It was an ok book. Some of the miracles were interesting, but the author didn’t go into that much depth. It was rather dry and superficial at times.
December 29, 2012
A nice review of many miraculous events.
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