Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Orthodox Parables and Stories: Christmas mracles



On the eve of Christmas and at Christmas time 4 miracles happened before my eyes.
Miracle of Life!

One of my mother’s friend's 8-month-old baby was born prematurely with pneumonia and practically without breathing. They urgently placed him in intensive care under artificial ventilation of the lungs.
The outcome was disappointing.
Mom asked me to baptize her baby.

On New Year's Eve, I came to the hospital and another mother who was heartbroken met me, who also had her baby in an incubator and asked me to baptize her baby.

I baptized two babies. After the baptism the next morning, one baby was breathing, the other baby was recovering.
A week later at Christmas, another friend phoned me, heartbroken and asked to have his son baptized, who is in intensive care and wasn't breathing on his own. Doctors gave disappointing predictions.
After baptism, the next day the child breathed. Now all three children are going to be discharged.

Well, the fourth miracle happened at Christmas time, a couple of days ago, the child spent two weeks in intensive care, with very poor indicators. After the baptism the next day the child came to life and is now preparing for discharge.

Miracles happen. In the hospital, within a couple of weeks I became a family and the doctors who watched such miracles made conclusions. Later they themselves began to offer mothers with children in critical conditions to baptize their babies.

PS
The Providence of God, as it seems to me was this: these miracles were performed for the sake of one person who was in charge of children's intensive care unit, who was an unbeliever, and he himself proposed to perform the last baptism over a child in critical condition.

Priest Andrei Barabash

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