The lectionary readings for Mass the last couple of days have featured the account of the healing of the crippled beggar at the the Jerusalem temple by Peter and John in Acts 3.Peter says to the man, "Silver and gold I do not have, but what I have, I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, stand up and walk!" You know the rest...if you don't, read Acts 3!
Well, Peter is at it again...healing, that is. Not Rocky himself, of course, but his successor, John Paul II, who is more alive than ever with God (and Peter) in heaven.
A few nights ago, on the evening of April 2, Pope Benedict celebrated a memorial Mass, marking the day JPII went home to the Father's house. Sitting in the front row was a 46-year-old nun named Sr. Marie-Simon-Pierre, who believes she was healed of Parkinson's disease, the same ailment that frustrated The Great Communicator himself, through the merits and prayers of John Paul.
Of course, as the cause for his canonization moves along, this healing will be stringently examined as evidence that John Paul is actually interceding from heaven on our behalf, before the Sapphire Throne.
But with a successor of Simon Peter obtaining a healing for Sister Simon-Pierre, who can possibly doubt it?
Trained actor as he was, John Paul always did have a flair for the dramatic.
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