Today, we did attend a healing mass in Basel, Switzerland officiated by Fr. Fernando Suarez together with Fr. Luis Collantes, a family friend. He is a Filipino-Canadian priest who attracted thousand of followers worldwide with his healing power.
My Healing Experience
For me, it was indeed a wonderful spiritual experience. Fr. Suarez starts with a mass, with a general healing after the homily and after the mass comes the individual healing. He touches each and everyone of us presents for the healing. He is so blessed with the gift of healing that almost everyone he touches including me "rests in the spirit". It was an overwhelming feeling when the holy spirits enter my body, just a calming force as i lay there on the floor and felt so peaceful.
All priests are healers, but some others are given by the holy spirit charism of healing for the purpose of building up church communities and strengthening the faith of the people.
Unlike in Bonn,Germany where there are at least 2000 attendees, the Basel crowd was smaller in number. The advantage is that Fr. Suarez was able to attend to all of us and even have time for photo session.
Me in front of the Church
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You hit the nail on the head by placing "miraculous" in quotes. There is yet no evidence whatsoever from medical experts to show that any of the people purportedly cured by Suarez have in fact been made well and those made well in fact cured by Suarez. Even Suarez's group admits there is no evidence and thus in the fine print (http://www.fatherfernando.com/article/StatementofClarificationSuarez.pdf) on their website they say they make no claim of healings; rather they leave this matter to the bishop and medical experts. Given they're most aware there is no evidence of healing, their continuing peddling of healing is unethical and duplicitous. Suarez and his team are conning people into believing something they themselves know isn't yet known to be true. This almost reeks of scam.
As with any touted treatment modality, anecdotes and testimonials by those who've tried the remedy and who believe in the efficacy of the same are never taken as evidence (no medical researcher or govt agency worth its salt would be caught doing so), not least because we'd first have to rule out the all-pervasive placebo effect and other factors including the self-limiting nature of many conditions as well as the temporal variability of symptoms, spontaneous remissions, misdiagnoses, etc. As if that weren't enough to preclude making a hasty conclusion, the logical fallacy of post hoc ergo propter hoc (http://skepdic.com/posthoc.html)--the root of many superstitions--should make us very wary of attributing causality to any event or procedure that we recently undertook.
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