Editor’s Note: While we Catholics believe that this miracle took place, and while unbelievers and atheists also saw it, the attempts to explain it should be considered so that the true miraculous nature of the event can be understood and defended. The above video was not produced by a believer. — As I grew up in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, where a Portuguese-american girl, in my parish, Saint Anthony of Padua, had a great aunt who had seen the Miracle of the Sun, when she visited one summer, I had the opportunity to meet and speak with her and hear her testimony to this miracle. So this event has always been of the greatest interest to me. This eye-witness told me she had seen the sun dance and fall to the earth. — You will find this video fascinating. — If you know of other such video-investigations, please share them in the comment section. — The maker of the video ends by not finding any particular known phenomena which could explain all the characteristics of the event. — But he omits other facts, such as the fact that after the Miracle, though it had been raining for days, everyone’s clothing was perfectly dry and the 3″ deep mud had turned to dry ground; bushes, grass and trees were also dry.
There is one statement made in this video, which contains a very great error: when the speaker says that the one thing we can be certain of is that the Sun did not dance nor did it fall to earth; because, as he says, that would throw off all the gravitational forces in the solar system and cause all the planets to change course.
The speaker does not understand the power of God, Who can do either of such things, without the other consequences taking place, simply because He is omnipotent. If even unbelievers saw the Sun dance in the Sky and fall to the earth, we must remember that at such a distance of time, we have no scientific way of discounting their testimony, because we were not there to see the event take place.
The question whether the miracle consisted in the alteration of the natural properties of the Sun or the atmosphere, or just of the apparent properties of the Sun or atmosphere, is one of those questions which seeks a natural explanation for something which God could have done directly without relying on natural causes or indirectly relying on natural causes, but in a way that natural causes never act.
It’s the same kind of Question as those who propose to explain scientifically how Christ rose from the dead, presupposing only that He did in fact rise from the dead.
Miracles are such because only God can do them. If any natural cause could do them, then they are not miracles but rare prodigies of nature. But when God does something, He does not have to obey or follow any of the laws of nature that He established. And thus, in the case of the Resurrection or the Miracle of the Sun, there will never be a natural explanation, other than that which, in humility and awe, confesses them to be a direct intervention by the Omnipotent Creator Himself.
And this should be obvious to anyone with the Catholic Faith. Indeed, I have never met a Catholic who has a problem with Fatima, who does not also have a problem with Jesus Christ and the Faith He taught.
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In the1st grade in 1947 Our Benedictine Sister told us about the Fatima story . I believed it immediately. I still do.
Hello Br.Bugnolo,
Yes indeed I believed it Immediately as I had spoken to people who experienced a very similar thing in međugorije. It happens every now and again. I first witnessed a pair of elderly women standing starring at the sun when I first in međugorije in 2007 as a kid. I’ve spoken to people who saw it when I was last there in April last year. There’s a German guy who documents everything there and documents miracles ad nauseum and sightings, healings etc …but also dancing of the sun as in the link shown below.
Glory to God.
Spiros,
Deus Vult.
https://youtu.be/0ZTpBabkTFA?si=eZz3E_zApXVMZDba
Conor, what is shown in that video is a normal sun in a normal cloudy sky. We know that for certain, because no one has ever said 100K people saw a miracle of the son, dance, in the former Yugoslave republic. However, you are correct that some people want that they see miracles when there are no miracles, and Medugorije is notorious for such persons. Indeed, I have never met anyone who went there who claimed something to be a miracle which was a miracle, from cheap rosaries changing color to things like what is seen in such a video. If they read anyone about Fatima, they would be ashamed of what they are claiming for Yugoslavia.
However, to claim something which is not a miracle is equal to a miracle such as what happened at Fatima is actually a satanic lie, and one will end up in Hell for it.
Pope Benedict set up a commission in 2010 to investigate Medjugorje and they did not recommend the approval of the alleged apparitions (with the exception of the first eight).
As the Editor notes, “The speaker does not understand the power of God…”
The mindset of scientific materialism examining the things of God is ludicrous, not to mention cast in cognitive concrete. God is put on trial. It’s as if God has to prove to them that all their precious theories are wrong.
As an example of cognitive concrete, there is one part of the video where bias rears its ugly head, though the narrator does a good job hiding it. He talks about Coronal Mass Ejections that can change the shape of the sun and perhaps give the appearance of movement. He explains from photos that CMEs are much dimmer than the sun, so the naked eye can’t see them.
Then he reveals his bias. Perhaps with all the clouds there was filtering, he says, such that sunlight was much dimmed, he posits, then we might see the CME.
I GO: Wait a minute, a filter that filters sunlight but not the CME light mixed with sunlight? Such a magical filter! Truly a miracle if such a thing existed.
Obviously, if cloud filtering were going on, that filtering would make CMEs harder to see, and they are already invisible from being much less bright than the sun.
Claude, that is why this video is so precious, because when you see the contortions of rhetoric, logic and the use of “maybe”, you realize that you are confronting a person who cannot explain the Miracle of the Sun rationally, simply because the only rational explanation is that it is something only the Creator can do. I was somewhat surprised however that he did not resort to make believe hypothetical theories for time dilation, space dilation etc..
As for his assertion that “maybe it was a Coronal Mass ejection”, the suggestion is absurd, since, if the Sun directly ejected such a huge mass of its plasma toward the Earth, it would have been seen all over the daytime side of the globe, and would have fried most of the telegraph wires of that day. Also, it would not be focused only in the area of Fatima, Portugal. Nor is there any known scientific theory which would even dare to say that in such an event the Sun would visibly appear to change or move in the sky, a prodigy which would at least require some sort of gravitational lensing of space between the Sun and the Earth, without any intervening body. This is science fiction, and would be another way of saying, without saying it, that it was a Miracle only God can do.