Christ told Peter before the cock crows, you shall deny me three times. The famous words from the gospel. Don't we all deny Christ, at some time in our lives, even the most devout believers, when we read something that challenges our belief, or when something happens that makes us wonder if there is a God? Even Mother Theresa, in her recently released letters stated that there was just emptiness ( in so many words) when seeking answers from God.
The Shroud of Turin has become an object ot doubt, to many who believed it to be the burial cloth of Christ.. It was reported that the examined cloth, could only be from the middle ages, until it was found that there was a layer of contamination on the cloth, from the middle ages and one had to get below the layer of contamination.
The subsequent discovery of the cloth being of the time of Jesus, was then cast in doubt because of the fact that spices were not found on the cloth, but rather plant remains. I would like to add here the information on the image that has been discovered, if you wish to review the latest finds
The miracle of this happening at any time in the distant past, is almost preposterous. Did you know there was a second face, on the back of the shroud, that matches the face on the front of the shroud?
Pictures of Jesus - The Second Face Picture - The Shroud of ...
Is the Shroud of Turin a picture of Jesus? In 2006, knowing that the carbon 14 dating was botched and knowing the sugar chemistry of the image, you decide.
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I was promted to go to the shroud site while reading Desire of the Everlasting Hills, by Thomas Cahill, where I learned the name of the man who made the picture of the negative on the shroud, that came out positive to everyone's surprise.
THE FIRST SHROUD PHOTO
The proposal of Secundo Pia, to use a Shroud photo in the promotional ... Secundo Pia, planned his first trials on May 25, 1898, AFTER the closing of the ...
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About 7 years ago, the shroud was being displayed in Turin, Italy. It seems that every 50 years, people get the chance of a life time to see the shroud. We were in Italy and drove for hours from the Mediterranean area, with our friends, because I wanted to see the shroud. It was thrilling to have the opportunity.
We got to the Cathedral and it was closed, to open later in the afternoon. So, we gave up our parking space out front, and went to a very late lunch. Exhausted, from driving miles and miles,we lingered over lunch and then drove back to the Cathedral.
To our surprise, where there were no people earlier, there were now police, and lines of cars and people, no parking spaces, and outlying bus lots, where we had to go to park and now stand in line to see the shroud. Needless to say, I never got to see the shroud. The once in my lifetime occasion was missed. Oh, how I wish I had stayed at the Cathedral that day, and had been the first in.
But,somewhere I did see in one of the churches, the first picture of the man on the shroud, that I had ever seen in my life. I even saw a picture of the veil of Veronica. Yet doubt, has come to me on and off in my life, as I continue the journey to the answers.
I think the positive answers outweigh the negative answers. What have we to lose, to choose to follow the words of the gentle rabbi, who preached and demonstrated love in all its many facets, as the way to heaven.
