In response to the following query :
"Yo you guys i need u to clearify my doubt.? i just checked out a few
videos in youtube of mother mary and jesus appearing in some church
and some statue crying out tears of blood and even from a picture? how
can it be true? are those incident for real or either is there some
thing going behind it i wish to get your comments?"
It's very difficult to say, and often the Catholic church takes great pains to verify the authencity of church miracles or apparitions. It may even take years before the church will acknowledge it is genuine as the investigation is apparently very thorough . There have been many that has been declared genuine as well as many declared as fake.
However being a human being, and a struggling catholic myself, it is no surprise that we often need physical evidence to convince us of our faith. And often we seek it in things such a apparitions and crying madonna's. And on the flip side, a lot of con artist are well aware of the need, and many have manage to recreate the crying Madonna or such apparitions, or even the stigmata to profit from the faithful. This is the very reason, why the catholic church insist on thorough investigations before declaring any such miracles as genuine
I guess it really boils down to how our personal faith has grown. It is always best to look internally for the evidence of our faith. There are many miracles happening on a daily basis, if we open our eyes. Simple things as the stars, and the sun, the flowers, the miracle of child birth, the smile that brightens someone's day, a kind word, and not forgetting our CHOICE weekend, are the many miracles that tells us God is really present in our lives and that he is very involved in our lives. Only just if we make time to look for it, then we would never really need such apparitions or crying madonnas to convince us God really exist.
