The Third Miracle

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Term Paper Title	The Third Miracle
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the Third Miracle

[Category]:

Religion

[Paper Title]:

the Third Miracle

[Text]:

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing

is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

Albert Einstein

Director Agnieszka Holland has produced a thoughtful and thought-provoking
film in The Third Miracle. It centers on the complicated character, Father Frank
Moore. This troubled priest recently found by Bishop Cahill’s secretary hiding
in a downtown soup kitchen is also the diocesan postulator for any alleged
supernatural activity in the region. He is most known for earlier exposing what
many considered a saint, as a sexually tortured man who eventually committed
suicide. This incident branded him the “miracle killer”. In the beginning,
even he had begun to believe in the intercession of this legendary Fr. Falcone.
Discovering the truth left him with a scarred psyche filled with regret from
years of shooting holes in people's beliefs.

While in a crisis of faith he is asked by his prelate to investigate a new
case -- Helen O’Regan and a miracle at St. Stanislaus parish in a dilapidated
urban area. The miracle was a girl named Maria, cured of terminal Lupus after
praying for the intercession of the recently deceased O’Regan. Included with
the physical healing was a yearly manifestation where a favorite statue of Helen’s
would shed tears of blood. The blood matched Helen’s type. Maria went on to
become a prostitute and drug addict leading her mother to claim “God wasted a
miracle”. Additionally, Helen’s daughter Roxane struggled with the
investigation since she had bitterness toward her mother for leaving her at age
16 by moving into the parish rectory. For her religion was “pathetic” and
her bitterness prevented her from seeing how God could work miracles through a
flawed human being like her mother. The added dimension of a rom...

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