أعلن عدد من أبناء رعية كنيسة القديس شربل في سيدني عن رؤيتهم لمعجزة عند صلاتهم داخل الكنيسة.
وقد صورت شابتان، تحضران القداس بشكل دائم في مدينة بانشبول، جنوبي غربي سيدني، لوحة للقديسة مريم سلطانة الشهداء تحمل الطفل يسوع وتظهر العذراء تصلّي معهما.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwU-jxVeDgg
وكانت الشابة كيرستن كيروز أول من نشر فيديو للوحة على صفحتها على Facebook في 5 تموز 2015 وقد شاهد أكثر من 41000 شخص الفيديو لتاريخ كتابة هذا المقال.
وبعد مشاهدة فيديو كيروز، تذكّر جورج عكاري أنه هو أيضاً شاهد شفتا العذراء مريم تتحركان في اللوحة أثناء صلاة أبناء الرعية وقرر تصوريها.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHkoImWxO0A
وقال عكاري انها “ليست المرة الأولى التي أشاهد فيها هذه المعجزة” ورأى ان “هذه الإشارات هي رسالة لنعرف ان الرب حقاً معنا”.
تجدر الإشارة إلى ان رعية القديس شربل تضم أكثر من 40000 أسترالي ماروني من أصل لبناني وتملك واحدة من أعلى نسب حضور الشباب في الكنيسة.
Is this the miracle of St Charbel’s? The amazing footage Sydney parishioners say shows the Virgin Mary’s lips MOVING in a painting as they say the Hail Mary
Some parishioners at Saint Charbel’s Church in Sydney believe they witness a miracle when they pray inside the church.
Two young Catholics, who regularly attend mass at the church in Punchbowl, in Sydney’s south-west, have filmed a painting of the Virgin Mary carrying Jesus where it appears Mary is praying with them.
The two videos show a close-up image of an old Middle Eastern Catholic painting that appears to show the Virgin Mary’s lips moving while the worshipers are praying.
Young Catholic, Kirsten Keirouz was the first to upload footage of the painting to her Facebook page on July 5th.
Kirsten said she was at church with two of her friends when one of them nudged her and told her to ‘to look at the painting’.
‘Once I looked up, I had no idea what they wanted me to look at and I saw her [the Virgin Mary] mouth moving. I then asked my friend; “Is it her mouth?” She replied “yes.” and then I got the shivers throughout my whole body. I couldn’t believe my eyes; I kept blinking in case I was seeing things.’
Since Kirsten uploaded the footage on to her Facebook account on July 5th, more than 41,000 people have viewed it.
But the recording has viewers divided. Believers have described the footage as a ‘miracle’, while skeptics claim on social media that it’s the camera movement and the church lighting which are making Mary’s lips appear to move.
However, Kirsten disagrees.
‘I believe it was a miracle, and not just lighting because we all saw it at the same time and because her lips would start moving and then stop and start again,’ she said.
After watching Kirsten’s recording, George Akary who is also a member of the same parish, remembered he too had seen the Virgin Mary’s lips move while parishioners were praying and he also decided to film it.
‘This is something I had seen a few times,’ said George. ‘This time I recorded it.’
George recorded the footage on Sunday July 19th during mass and uploaded it to Facebook.
‘To clarify for the viewers… I saw this during mass and at the end of mass the rosary is prayed . I went to the altar and wanted to confirm via recording it (sic). Lights are not relevant,’ he wrote in the Facebook post that accompanied the video.
George Akary told Daily Mail Australia that he usually stares at the photos on the wall when praying at church and has seen this happen before: ‘I never thought to record it until I saw a clip a few weeks ago. These signs are to bring people to know God is really with us,’ he said.
Saint Charbel’s parish consists of over 40,000 Australian Maronite Catholic members and it has one of the highest rates of youth church attendance in Australia.