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By Father Mieczysław Piotrowski TChr,
History is full of facts by which God alerts us the existence of the supernatural. The Miracle of Calanda and the miracles at Lourdes are instances of God’s special “language,” an appeal directed to those who are enslaved by ideological atheism...
History is full of facts by which God alerts us the existence of the supernatural. The Miracle of Calanda and the miracles at Lourdes are instances of God’s special “language,” an appeal directed to those who are enslaved by ideological atheism, that they once and for all cast off their unbelief and open themselves up to the mystery of His boundless love. When confronted by the facts of the miracle of Calanda and the events occurring at Lourdes, the dogmatic atheism as argued by polemicists like Richard Dawkins collapses like a house of cards. When believers in God encounter an event or fact that bears the signs of a miracle, they do not confine themselves to the supernatural realm, but remain open to an ever-fuller disclosure of a Mystery. They remain free to explore further manifestations of the Truth. On the other hand, the atheist who rejects the very possibility of miraculous events remains a prisoner of his own doctrinaire thinking. He limits the range and latitude of his search for Truth, for he assumes a priori that the supernatural cannot exist, since it lies outside of man’s empirical experience. Thus he remains closed to the ultimate knowledge of Truth. He is a slave to his own ideology. Many atheists feel driven to mount zealous crusades against belief in God, religion, and believers in general. Enslaved by their ideology, they seek to salve their tormented consciences by radically rejecting the possibility of discovering the spiritual world by the means proposed by faith. This explains why atheists so vehemently deny the veracity of well-documented miracles or any other fact that might undermine their worldview. And yet hardened atheists who consciously reject God cannot exculpate themselves, for, as we read in the New Testament, “the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse” (Rom 1: 20). On this sesquicentennial of Our Lady’s apparitions at the Massabielle grotto, we confide into your hands this current edition of LOA devoted in part to the wondrous signs at Lourdes that call us to conversion. Fr. Mieczysław Piotrowski SChr & the editorial team The above article was published with permission from Miłujcie się! in November 2010
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