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The Miracle of the Sun
is a phenomenon that compels atheists and those who are closed to
Marian theology to cover their eyes, as to avoid the indubitable
evidence clearly before them. Responses to this
Miracle separate true atheists from those who simply are at odds
with God and Religion. Considering that atheist's describe
themselves as weighing the evidence of God and concluded that there
is no credible substantiation of a Supreme Creator. A true
scientific atheist would likely analyze and ask questions in a
rational way. The discussion would tend to be a dialog, not
a debate. Artificial
atheists will immediately dismiss any credible evidence with one
line witted sarcasms. In one forum debate scenario an atheist
responded; "I couldn't find any observatory records of anything
unusual occurring with the sun that day". In eight minutes?
What observatories were operating in 1917? In that hemisphere?
Another atheist asserted; "What about the billions of people that
didn't see it?" The three children said the Miracle would
take place at high noon at the Cova. The hundred thousand that
went to the Cova witnessed it. The billions that didn't see it
were asleep on the other side of the Earth.
A common response by
atheists regarding this Miracle, is "Why the sun?". The
descriptions most portrayed are pretty rainbow colors and the sun
dancing in the sky. However, the actual witnesses' accounts
describe something very different, a frightful event of the fire
from the sun falling to the Earth (1). They felt the intense heat,
people ran for cover while parents threw themselves over their
children. Some reported having nightmares for years, running
from the fire. This is why the Catholic Church originally had
such difficulty declaring the Miracle "worthy of belief", which it
eventually did 13 years later. The following descriptions of
the Miracle are from the audio by John Haffert:
One witness was about 18
kilometers away (approximately 11 miles) in the town of Alburitel.
People were streaming along the road through the town, on their way
to Fatima. The people in his town thought it was foolish to believe
the three children who were predicting that there was going to be a
Miracle that day. He described a man standing along the side of the
road laughing, ridiculing and scoffing at the drove of people
passing through the town; "Foolish people! For three children, you
are coming from where? Walking in this soaking rain!" It was a
terrible rainstorm, a drenching downpour that was causing flooding.
He said; "The sun began to move in the sky. Everyone noticed the
change in the atmosphere. There were colors, and the sun began to
move in the sky. People were so frightened that they all began to
run to the Church. And then suddenly, the sun seemed to plunge down
upon them" (7 minutes 30 seconds in).
Haffert interviewed a
Portuguese woman (who was 22 years old at the time of the Miracle)
in a church. They were next to a stained glass window depicting the
Miracle of the Sun, a picture of a whirling sun with the colors
streaming down. She pointed to the window and said; "It wasn’t like
that! The sun came down upon us, we were all about to be burned
alive!" Everyone within and area of 32 miles thought it was the end
of the world (10 minutes in).
Another witness was about 18
kilometers away (about 11 miles) in the opposite direction. He was
12 years old at the time and was herding sheep. He said; "I don’t
remember to this day what happened to the sheep. All I can remember
is that this fireball came down upon the Earth and I knew I was
about to be burned alive. And I ran, and I ran, and I ran. All I can
remember is my fear. I often woke up at night, running. Running from
the fire. We thought it was the end of the world. The fire of the
sun was on top of us" (10 minutes 50 seconds in).
The very man who was
scoffing at the people in the town of Alburitel fell to his knees
confessing his sins and crying for mercy (11 minutes and 51 seconds
in).
One of the witnesses was up to his
calves in water. Haffert asked him why he didn’t find dry ground and
he replied: "It was the only place I could find where I could see
the children". After the Miracle, the ground and his clothes were
completely dry (13 minutes 55 seconds).
Haffert makes a very compelling argument that the Miracle was a
vision of the Great Chastisement.
Through a message given on October
13th (the anniversary day of the
Miracle of the Sun and
coinciding with the year of the Roe vs. Wade decision that became
responsible for the deaths of over 55 million innocent unborn babies
in the US alone), by Our most Holy Mother to Sister Agnes Katsuko Sasagawa
in Akita, Japan (declared
worthy of belief by Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict, as well
as the Local Bishop Ito due to several supporting Miracles) we are
told: "If
men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a
terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater
than the deluge, such as one will never have seen before.
Fire will fall from the sky and will
wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad,
sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find
themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead. The only arms
which will remain for you will be the Rosary and the Sign left by My
Son. Each day recite the prayers of the Rosary. With the Rosary,
pray for the Pope, the Bishops and the Priests. The work of
the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that
one will see Cardinals opposing Cardinals, Bishops against other
Bishops. The priests who venerate Me will be scorned and opposed by
their confreres (other priests). Churches and altars will be sacked.
The Church will be full of those who accept compromises, and the
demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the
service of the Lord. The demon will be especially implacable
against the souls consecrated to God. The thought of the loss of so
many souls is the cause of My sadness. If sins increase in number
and gravity, there will no longer be pardon for them. Pray
very much the prayers of the Rosary. I alone am able to still save
you from the calamities which approach. Those who place their
confidence in Me will be saved." (2,
3,
4). A
former Philippine ambassador to the Vatican, Howard Dee, said in a
1998 interview with Inside the Vatican magazine, "Bishop Ito was
certain Akita was an extension of Fatima, and Cardinal Ratzinger
(now Pope Benedict) personally confirmed to me that these two
messages, (The third Secret of Fatima & the Akita message), are essentially the same (5,
6)."
These prophesies of fire from the sky are Biblically
reinforced; "For behold, the Lord
will come in fire, and His chariots like the whirlwind, To render His
anger with fury, And His rebuke with flames of fire. For the Lord
will execute judgment by fire And by His sword on all flesh, And
those slain by the Lord will be many" (Isaiah 66:15). "Neither
their silver nor their gold Will be able to deliver them On the day
of the Lord’s wrath; And all the Earth will be devoured in fire" (Zepheniah
1 - 2).
There are two books that help explain the reasoning for the Great
Chastisement; "Akita: The Tears and the Message of Mary" by Father Teiji Yasuda (1989) and "The Meaning of Akita" by John
Haffert (1989) ISBN 9781890137052. Through interviews with
Sister Agnes, one of the primary reasons for the Great Chastisement
is the "murdering of babies in their mother's wombs". This
multitude of murdered innocents are constantly appealing to God for
justice. God hears their cries of grief for being prevented
from living out their natural lives on Earth. God communicated
that these abortions are painful to the unborn. Sister Agnes
experienced these pains, and those near her said it was
heartbreaking. We learned through her, that the unborn babies are
aware they are being destroyed, and greatly desire to live. Jesus
told the Jews: "Do not think that I will condemn you before the
Father. The one who will accuse you is Moses." John 5:45. Through
other Private Revelations, we learn that the propagators of the
unholy silent massacre will be accused before Our Holy Father, "by a
sea of multitudes of slaughtered innocents". And we know this
number must be in the billions.
Seeking information concerning phenomenon that could explain "the
fire from the sun detaching itself and falling upon the Earth"
(considered to be the future Great Chastisement), we
came across an IMAX documentary on the sun entitled "Solar Max".
Approximately 22 minutes and 23 seconds into the film there
is a possible explanation. "Recently scientists have found
that suns like ours normally produce a superflare, about once every
century". This is a short burst of
energy that sometimes occurs during a magnetic pole shift, in which
a star's corona can temporarily flare out (7).
If our sun behaved similarly, the superflare could momentarily
engulf some the inner planets, "We are fortunate that our sun
appears to be more stable than most other suns".
One important clue is that the Miracle of the Sun lasted for
approximately ten minutes, the time it takes photons of light from
the sun to reach the Earth, a possible indicator that the Great
Chastisement may be a phenomena generated from a catastrophic solar
eruption. Another clue is that "stars like
our sun normally emit these superflares". Contrarily, so
far, our sun has not. Has God been
protecting our Earth from such occurrences for millions of years?
This prophesy by Zepheniah of the Earth being devoured by fire may
not be initiated by God, but God standing aside and allowing nature
to take its normal coarse. "Fire will fall from the sky
and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the
bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful". Why the good as well as
the bad? Why sparing neither priests nor faithful? Whose
fault would it be? The good who do nothing.
Incorruptible Jacinta Marto (born 1910 - died
1920) exhumation and reburial photos
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Jacinta Marto at age 7 was one of the three original
visionaries at Fatima, Portugal in 1917. She was born in 1910
and died in 1920. In both 1935 and 1951 her body was exhumed
and in each instance, her body was found to be incorrupt. The
Basilica of Our Lady of Fatima was built on the site where the
three children first saw "a lady brighter than the sun" and
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Absence Of Sunspots
Make Scientists Wonder If They're Seeing A Calm Before A Storm Of
Energy
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By Stuart Clark - New Scientist Tuesday,
June 22, 2010
Sunspots come and go, but recently they have mostly gone. For
centuries, astronomers have recorded when these dark blemishes on
the solar surface emerge, only to fade away after a few days, weeks
or months. Thanks to their efforts, we know that sunspot numbers ebb
and flow in cycles lasting about 11 years. But for the past
two years, the sunspots have mostly been missing. Their absence, the
most prolonged in nearly 100 years, has taken even seasoned sun
watchers by surprise. "This is solar behavior we haven't seen in
living memory,"
says David Hathaway, a physicist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight
Center in Huntsville, Ala. The sun is under scrutiny as never
before, thanks to an armada of space telescopes. The results they
beam back are portraying our nearest star, and its influence on
Earth, in a new light. Sunspots and other clues indicate that the
sun's magnetic activity is diminishing and that the
sun may even be shrinking.
Together, the results hint that
something profound is happening inside the sun. The big question is:
What? Groups of sunspots forewarn of
gigantic solar storms
that can unleash a billion times more energy than an atomic bomb.
Fears that these giant eruptions could create havoc on Earth and
disputes over the sun's role in climate change are adding urgency to
these studies. When NASA and the European Space Agency launched the
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory almost 15 years ago,
"understanding the solar cycle was not one of its scientific
objectives," says Bernhard Fleck, the mission's project scientist.
"Now it is one of the key questions."
Sunspots are windows into the sun's magnetic soul. They form where
giant loops of magnetism, generated deep inside the sun, well up and
burst through the surface, leading to a localized drop in
temperature that we see as a dark patch. Any changes in sunspot
numbers reflect changes inside the sun. "During this transition, the
sun is giving us a real glimpse into its interior," says Hathaway.
When sunspot numbers drop at the end of each 11-year cycle, solar
storms die down and all becomes much calmer. This "solar minimum"
doesn't last long. Within a year, the spots and storms begin to
build toward a new crescendo, the next solar maximum. What's
special about this latest dip is that
the sun is having trouble
starting the next solar cycle. The sun began to calm down in late
2007, so no one expected many sunspots in 2008. But computer models
predicted that when the spots did return, they would do so in force.
Hathaway was reported as thinking the next solar cycle would be a doozy:
more sunspots, more solar storms and
more energy blasted into space.
Others predicted that it would be
the most active solar cycle on record.
The trouble was, no one told the sun. The first sign that the
prediction was wrong came when 2008 turned out to be even calmer
than expected. That year, the sun was spot-free 73% of the time, an
extreme dip even for a solar minimum. Only the minimum of 1913 was
more pronounced, with 85% of that year clear.
As 2009 arrived, solar physicists looked for some action. They
didn't get it. The sun continued to languish until mid-December,
when the largest group of sunspots to emerge in several years
appeared. Even with the solar cycle finally underway again, the
number of sunspots has so far been well below expectations.
Something appears to have changed inside the sun,
something the models did not predict. But what? The flood of
observations from space and ground-based telescopes suggests that
the answer lies in the behavior of two vast conveyor belts of gas
that endlessly cycle material and magnetism through the sun's
interior and out across its surface. On average it takes 40 years
for the conveyor belts to complete a circuit. When Hathaway's
NASA team looked over the observations to find out where their
models had gone wrong, they noticed that the conveyor-belt flows of
gas across the sun's surface have been speeding up since 2004.
Sun's Strange Behavior Baffles
Astronomers
Space.com/ScienceAstronomy/Solar-Cycle-Results-aas216-100614.html
By Denise Chow - SPACE.com
Staff Writer June 14, 2010
The sun's temper ebbs and flows on what scientists had thought was a
pretty predictable cycle, but lately our closest star has been
acting up. Typically, a few stormy years would knock out a
satellite or two and maybe trip a power grid on Earth. Then a few
years of quiet, and then back to the bad behavior. But an extremely
long stretch of low activity in recent years has scientists baffled
and scrambling for better forecasting models. An expected
minimum of solar activity, between 2008 and 2009, was unusually
deep. And while the sun would normally ramp up activity by now,
heading into its next cycle, the sun may be on the verge of a weak
solar cycle instead, astronomers said at the 216th meeting of the
American Astronomical Society in Miami last month.
"We're witnessing
something unlike anything we've seen in 100 years," said David
Hathaway of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
The sun's constant interaction with Earth makes it important for
solar physicists to keep track of solar activity. Stormy periods can
force special safety precautions by satellite operators and power
grid managers, and astronauts can be put at risk from bursts of
radiation spat out by solar storm. Scientists need to more reliably
predict what's in store. At the conference, four solar
physicists presented four very different methods of measuring and
tracking solar cycles.
The Sun Has Spots:
Sunspots are areas of
concentrated magnetic activity that appear as dark dots on the solar
surface. The ebb and flow of the sun's magnetic activity, manifested
in the appearance of sunspots, make up the solar cycle.
Typically, a cycle lasts about 11 years, taking roughly 5.5 years to
move from a solar minimum, a period of time when there are few
sunspots, to peak at the solar maximum, during which sunspot
activity is amplified. The previous cycle 23's extraordinary
minimum recorded the highest number of days without sunspots that
researchers had seen since 1913, said Hathaway. Hathaway and
his team of researchers measured what is called the meridional flow,
which is the circulation of stellar material from the sun's equator
toward the poles and back again. This flow can often influence a
cycle's strength. The scientists examined the changes in the
structure of the flow, and the levels of geomagnetic activity, as
they corresponded to the minimums and maximums of the previous solar
cycles. "We found that there were variations in the strength
of that flow," Hathaway said. "The last minimum in 1996, that
velocity was about 11 meters per second (about 22 miles an hour),
which is pretty slow for an object as big as the sun. That flow
slowed down as we went to maximum in 2001." The meridional
flow then quickly increased again, and by 2004, it was faster than
it was at the last maximum, said Hathaway. This flow continued to
stay fast on the approach to this most recent minimum. "My
suspicion is that this sunspot cycle 23 was a weaker cycle than the
last two, with fewer sunspots and weaker magnetic fields. These may
feed into what happens with the meridional flow that is going to
lead to another weak cycle." Hathaway predicts that cycle 24
should reach its peak in mid-2013 at about half the size of the last
three cycles.
The Sun Is Out Of Synchronization:
In a different approach,
Sushanta Tripathy of the National Solar Observatory used the
frequencies of acoustic oscillations to look for signatures of
changes in the solar activity cycle. Tripathy found that
changes in acoustic frequencies were, for the most part, in phase
with solar activity. But, during the extended minimum, he noticed
that the frequencies of waves that cover a large portion of the
solar interior became out of sync with solar activity. "We
find that the frequencies of sound waves that travel to the deep
interior show an early minimum during late 2007, while the waves
that are confined to near the surface show the signature of minimum
in late 2008, nearly coinciding with solar activity minimum."
The two seismic lulls detected using acoustic oscillation have not
been seen before in previous cycles, said Tripathy, leading
researchers to conclude that the extended minimum between cycles 23
and 24 is quite unusual.
Jet Streams On The Sun:
Frank Hill, also of the
National Solar Observatory, took a separate approach, attempting to
predict the sunspot cycle based on a phenomena on the sun that can
be likened to solar jet streams. This east-west flow on the
surface of the sun was first discovered in 1980, and is known as "torsional
oscillation." The jet stream exists at a depth of at least
65,000 miles (about 105,000 kilometers) below the solar surface, and
Hill and his team of researchers were able to examine its behavior
at a depth of 600 miles (966 km). "The position of the
magnetic field is very highly correlated with the position of this
flow," Hill said. "From helioseismology, we see the flows for two
prominent cycles – Cycle 23, the cycle that we're coming out of, and
Cycle 24, the cycle that we're in now." It turns out that the
flow appears well before the level that solar activity spikes. This
led the researchers to conclude that there is some sort of
triggering mechanism that appears before the onset of activity.
While observations of the solar jet could one day be useful for
predicting the timing of the solar cycles, a larger data set is
still required to ensure the method's accuracy. "We're
definitely going to need several cycles to improve the predictions,"
Hill said. Further investigation will also be needed to
determine whether the jet stream is a cause or effect of the solar
cycle.
Our Magnetic Star:
In yet another approach,
Julia Saba of SP Systems and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in
Greenbelt, Md., used X-ray and magnetic field strength indicators in
order to predict the precise time mark for the onset of solar
cycles. Saba used magnetic maps of the sun, called synoptic
charts, to observe solar cycles 21 through 23 and into 24. By
evaluating trends in X-ray activity, Saba was able to predict the
onset approximately 18 months ahead of time, and was accurate to
within two months. "By May of 2010, we see that cycle 24 is
clearly underway, though things are still pretty quiet in the
southern hemisphere in general," Saba said. This method of
determining a solar cycle's onset could be a valuable way to compare
the different phases in solar activity because it can be observed in
near real-time, Saba explained. "It's a little easier to tell
in real time than by solar maximum or solar minimum," she said.
While the four ways of monitoring solar activity take different
approaches, the researchers are all in agreement that we are
witnessing an interesting minimum. And while these methods could be
useful for future studies of solar cycles, they all require further
research. "One problem we have with all solar cycle studies is
the statistics of small numbers," Hathaway said. "Even with 23
sunspot cycles, it's not enough. What we've seen today are some
newer measurements that weren't available even two cycles ago that
are shedding new light. We need to be careful with using what we've
seen from one or two cycles to make inferences for all of them."
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