Word: jesus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe it's like the Quaker tradition about Christmas--we should be celebrating Jesus' birth every day, not on one lone day in December. If I stopped teasing her, and if she stopped having the opportunity to look shocked and get sympathy, that would simply mean that every other day of the year I MEANT what I was saying, that I was really wiping my mouth on her napkin and really meant it when I didn't want to sit next to her at the House Grill...
...select group of 50 pilgrims, including Dickerson, is led into the farmhouse where they join Nancy Fowler, 43, a former nurse who first saw the visions of Mary and Jesus five years ago. Together they wait and watch and pray. "She is descending," Fowler whispers. Outside, an announcer informs the crowd, "Our blessed Mother is here." Instantly, the chanting drops to a hush...
...then shouts erupt. Necks crane toward a small, bright cloud that has formed in a virtually cloudless sky. Video cameras whir, and Polaroids spit out pictures. People whisper about the experience they have just shared. The announcer declares, "The Virgin Mary will now bless us." Arms extend portraits of Jesus, crucifixes and other % icons for blessing. Then Fowler steps onto the porch to relay Mary's words: "Pray and sacrifice, please...
...have been recorded for centuries, though largely confined to Europe: Lourdes, France; Fatima, Portugal; Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Today, despite attempts by the Catholic Church to discourage them, reports of visions are on the rise in the U.S. The accounts range from the woman who saw the face of Jesus in a forkful of spaghetti on a billboard in Stone Mountain, Georgia, to the pilgrim who says he was healed during a visit to Medjugorje, built a shrine in his backyard in suburban New Jersey, and now plays host to thousands of visitors hoping to encounter the Virgin...
Perhaps we should welcome the posttrend era. We no longer rush off, herdlike, to become Jesus freaks or Valley Girls at the first hint from the national media. It takes maturity to see a fetching new image -- say Madonna in gold tooth and riding crop -- without thinking, "Hey, wow, that could...