Pope John Paul II‘s coffin will be exhumed to allow faithfuls to pray before his coffin during his beatification, Reuters reports.
The Vatican said Pope John Paul II’s coffin will be exhumed from its current resting place, under Saint Peter’s Basilica. The closed coffin will be moved upstairs before the main altar for viewing and veneration.
Pope Benedict XVI set May 1, 2011 as the date of Pope John Paul II’s beatification— a key step for the late pope’s sainthood.
After death, one miracle is needed for a person to be beatified. Pope John Paul II was credited for healing a French nun, Sister Simon-Pierre, who was suffering from Parkinson’s disease. The nun was cured when she prayed to him after he died in 2005.
Millions of people are expected to attend the beatification mass for Pope John Paul II. The Vatican warned the public to avoid scammers selling tickets. The outdoor service is free, no tickets are required.
Pope John Paul II will be given the title “Blessed” after he is beatified.
A second miracle is needed to declare Pope John Paul II a saint.
The body of John Paul II was exhumed on April 29, 2011 Video
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I’m sure the Pope was a great man and all and I’m not saying otherwise.But why exhume his coffin and pray before it? And why does he get credit for a miracle? I thought God was the only one in the miracle business.
exhuming the pope…? ghoulish, creepy; weird
glad i am not catholic so i dont have to believe in this junk
How SAD!! And people wonder why we say Catholics are NOT CHRISTIAN. How sad, that people even believe this nonsense.
Dear GOD help them. It truly is so sad that people don’t understand the teaching of the Word of GOD, if they did they would see how
wrong all of this is. I know that we’re not put down other people’s faith but someone needs to speak up. Lord have mercy on those who don’t know better and are being told that this kind of stuff is done
under the banner of Christian faith, again, how SAD!!!
I agree with you, Susan.
The greatest man ,real father,dont need to be exhumed, dont need enyone to prove his saitness.
you should learn to respect other people’s faith
Surely the dead do not know anything. They are dead. And so is Pope John Paul II. Besides how on earth can one pray to another human being. That’s blasphemy of the blasphemies. There is only one God and that is the God who created the Heavens and the Earth. Only He is worthy to be worshipped and to be praised. Is the Catholic Church really trying to take the place of God(anti-Christ?). That’s spooky, very spooky indeed.
I am Jewish but this Pope, unlike others of the papacy touched my heart as a true man of the people. He always reached out to mankind regardless of their race or religion and having experienced what he did in wartime Poland he had true compassion for victims of the Holocaust. Where the present Pope seems cold and somewhat isolated, this wonderful man related to the entire world of faith. I think it is gruesome to exhume his remains to honor him. This can be done in a beautiful ceremony without this terrible act. What is the matter with the Catholic Church? That is why so many of my friends have deserted it lately and joined other denominations. Let him lie in peace while still giving him the honor he deserves.
Besides our material reality there is another one, more powerful and complex that just under a very accurate state of spirituality is possible to understand…
In this realm that is fading away from earth ( like was predicted by most of traditions) there is magic and spiritual knowledge that came’s from higher and not just human moral and human concepts.
I’m not Catholic but I’m very sure that the forces that are playing here are not from this world.
Keep on this true path catholic brothers and do not listen to those that are unable to understand what “Sacred” means.
Vî-Daêvô-Dāta!
I am catholic but I cant understand what they want to do with his body ,we should be focused of what Poul second have tryed to learn us,that we re one family ,should never hate anyone,help each other
If you want to know why Catholics do this, ask a Catholic. I won’t say that you would agree with the answer you hear, but if I want to know why you believe your faith I’ll ask you before condemning it.
That said, Catholics are taught to *NOT* pray that saints fix our problems but rather that they pray to God on our behalf in heaven.
You might disagree, but you might as well know that it is based on the notion that the relationships between Christians transcend death (the Communion of Saints) and it’s just like asking your devout auntie who lives three hours away to pray for you.
Like I said, disagree if you want. But in the interest of full disclosure I’m not a cradle Catholic– I’m a Protestant who converted, and I was taught a lot of inaccurate things about Catholicism until I went looking for a more satisfying relationship with God.
My dear Protestant brothers and sisters, you must see the forest through the trees. Where in Scripture does it tell us that those in Heaven can’t hear our prayers? There are various versus in the OT which speak of the wrongs of communing with the dead, but what those versus are really referring to are practices such as witchcraft, magic, etc. This is not the same thing. Praying to a soul in Heaven, be it Pope John Paul 2 or anyone, is no different from me asking you to pray for me. Though the physical body be dead, the soul is very much alive — I’m sure we all believe that. And where in Scripture does it say that the soul can’t hear us and that, out of love, would be unwilling to bring our petition before God? Similarly, why would I ask you here on earth to pray for me, if I could just go to God, were there not merit in the strength of communal prayers? And if there is empirical evidence that a nun’s prayers to Pope John Paul 2 resulted in the healing of her Parkinson’s, then who, my friends in Christ, are you to dispute it? The exhuming of his body (which simply means uncasing a marble vault and pulling his casket out for viewing) is merely a tradition. Catholics do not believe that saints, through their own power, perform miracles, but rather act as vessels through which God Himself performs miracles. Support of this can be found all over Scripture, such as in the NIV translation of Acts 5:15 “As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by.” More can be said of course; this is a huge discussion. But my suggestion is that you learn something of the man. Get on the internet and read some of his encycicals, or some of his other writings (I recommend anything on the Theology of the Body). Look at the legacy of his life, how, for instance, he played the most definitive, instrumental role in breaking up the Soviet Union and eliminating the evil, atheistic doctrines of Communisim from Eastern Europe. Consider how 850,000 young people showed up for World Youth Day 2002 in Toronto, on fire for Christ, to hear their spiritual leader speak. See the forest through the trees, my dear brothers and sisters. Pray and read. Investigate, and then analyze. God bless.
Ask for his intercession,see what happens…
and then you will know why he is on his way to Saint hood.
so loving,so holy,our brother in Christ
the Late Great Pope John Paul II
He showed us by his love for all and the truth of the gospel how much we our loved by Jesus and His Mother the ever Virgin Mary:)
i feel he was a great man,but he is was only a man, leave the miracles to the son of man, jesus christ and god.
The problem is she was praying to a person. We are to only pray to God! she is a person of faith, she should know better. if she prayed to a dead person why would anyone think he had the power to heal from the grave. I grew up Catholic and went to Catholic school and believe that God the father and Jesus the son with the Holy spirit make one and all things can be done through them. But Sad to say the Catholics have made Catholicism about them. Which is wrong.
THANK YOU Yashtsfor your support !!!
I AM Catholic. Came into the Catholic Church fully at the age of 12. I know my protestant brothers and sisters do NOT understand any of this. Let me TRY to explain. First of all….. of course no human being deserves to be worshipped, except HIM who was FULLY HUMAN and FULLY DIVINE….JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD. We are not “worshipping” Pope John Paul II. And HE did not cure the nun with parkinson’s. He INTERCEDED for her before the Throne of God and obtained THROUGH that intercession … a healing of her illness. We ask (pray to) certain people who have passed into eternity to intercede for us…whom we believe to have lived a holy life . DON’T YOU ASK YOUR FRIENDS TO PRAY FOR YOU HERE ON EARTH ??!!!!! When we obtain an answer to prayer while asking that person to pray FOR us we believe that to be PROOF that they are in Heaven in the presence of God. Thus the beginning of the Beatification process, culminating in Canonization after another First Class miracle is obtained. WE ARE ACTUALLY GLORIFYING GOD first and foremost for what He did in this person’s life. But the person who achieves Heaven and who has “fought the good fight and won the race” also deserves to be applauded. DON’T WE APPLAUD PEOPLE ON EARTH FOR THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENTS ???? Hmmmm ?? You see how it works ? Why is it so wrong to you after people die to honor them ?????
EXHUMATION — It is not gruesome IF you see it through the eyes of faith. The body of a holy person is sacred. Not to be confused with God’s sacredness. You protestants believe that the body is a temple of the Holy Spirit if you live in grace ? So do we. So the body of a person proven to be with God now in Heaven is should be honored. That same body will rise on the last day, correct ??
It is only venerating God in the person and what He has done through that person. Ir’s not spooky, God doesn’t think it’s spooky. LOOK WITH YOUR EYES OF FAITH PEOPLE AND SEE THAT GOD’S WAY ARE ABOVE YOUR WAYS !!!!!!!! If I honored your son or daughter wouldn’t you appreciate it ??? That’s all we’re doing.
Honoring God THROUGH his creature.
The Catholic Church is NOT the Anti-Christ. We are NOT blasphemers. STOP BEING SUCH PHARISEES !!!!! And see that the Catholic Church is the church that Jesus Himself founded. He said to Peter, the first Pope, “you are Cephas (rock) and upon this rock I will build MY church”. Listen to His words. Research early church history…you will see, IF you open your heart. From the time of Jesus’ words, His Church has grown to become so beautifully rich in tradition and truth. I challenge any of you to visit a Catholic church and just sit there for a period of time. Ask God if He is there. You WILL get an answer. God bless you all.
Also wanted to reply to the comment made by HARRIET that so many of her friends have left the Catholic Church.
There are also MANY Protestant ministers who have JOINED AND COME into the Catholic Church. Many in the last 20 years especially. Also Jewish brethren. Because they studied the scriptures and early church history and could not deny the truth any longer. They’re eyes were opened.
Read SCOTT HAHN or TIM STAPLES’ books. They were protestant ministers who railed against the Church for years…..now within it’s fold…finally seeing the truth and beauty.
It is sad to see sincere people pray to John Paul, because if they knew what truth was, what the Bible says about it, maybe they would see the wisdom in stopping this futile practice. The Bible says that when a person dies, it is as though they are unconscious, and cannot do anything. Jesus likened death to sleep,(John 11:11-14, and Ecclestiastes 9:5 & 10) The Bible shows that we are to approach God in Jesus’ name.(John 14: 6, 14 and 1Timothy 2:5.) Praying to a dead person is not a Bible teaching at all, but has another source which opposes the truth. That same source is the one who may “answer the prayer” to make it look like John Paul is still functioning, however, if what the Bible says is true, he is still asleep. If God views John Paul’s life as having been lived according to Bible principles, He will see to it that he be resurrected to life in paradise on earth.(Proverbs 2:20-22, John, 5:28-29, Revelation 21:3-4, 2Peter 3:13)John Paul does not know that sincere people are gathered to pray over his corpse, John Paul doesn’t know, but God and Jesus do.
Pope John Paul’s exhumed: Background – Although sometimes it is better to let alone things such as these because the Catholic church does not need arguments that cause seperations. The Catholic Church is the oldest institution in the Western world. It can trace its history back almost two thousand years. But we are not to be afriad to speak up for Christ and defend His holy Church. Breifly, First let me explain; Our knowledge is limited… by what we have done and experience, or seen with our own eyes. Only the reach of our thoughts, the extent of our knowledge limit it. It is easy to say things about something that we know nothing about or know very little of or have a vague idea what the truth is..yes, than ignorance is lacking in knowledge of what we are talking about. In the Catholic Church, Christ shares His love with us by joining Himself to us in the Eucahrist. Before Christ ascended into heaven He promised to be with us until the end of time. “Where Jesus is there is the Catholic Church.”
The Catholic Church comes to us from The incarnate Son of God. Christ Jesus, founded by His blood, and He established His Church to map out the way for everyone. And He left His spirit to guarantee that the Church will not fail in that role. We are to be aware that it is part of God’s plan. It is our duty to God to discover what role we are expectted to play in God’s plan of salvation.
Jesus calls to live a life of holiness (that is the perfection of charity) and He has supplied us with all the means to accomplish this. In the time that we are given and in the journey of the adventure of the soul the task of doing God’s will is before everyone. In a sense it is like this you will serve someone no matter if your are a king, or you are Bill Gates, a President, hold the highest position in a company or you are the homeless, the poorest of the poor you will serve somebody, it might be the devil or the blessed Lord Christ Jesus. For the acts of sin are invited interiorly in our hearts, before its actions are completed by each one of us. It is a question of “who will you serve?”
On the question of Christians:
The Church spread with help of the Holy Spirit as recorded in the “Acts of the Apostles”. And on to us through the generations from the early “Christian family community Church.” The Apostles wrote what Jesus entrusted to them, they in turn handed on by their preaching and writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. The deposit of the “Single Sacred Word of God” was passed on by the four evangelist and the apostles after the death of Christ, (As in the New Testament), St. Paul and the “early Christians” that were renamed at the end of the first century in the letters by St. Ignatius the Bishop of Antioch around 107. He wrote the word “Catholic” for the first time, which means universal people. That named has stood in place of “Christian” yet they are the same Christian Church of the apostles, Popes, Bishops and the family Christian communities “formed by Jesus Christ” unto the present and the generations to come. The Church in oneness with Jesus Christ. The Church is Catholic in the sense that it…possesses the fullness of salvation and…has been sent by Christ to the whole human race. “It is the CHURCH for all humanity.”
As for the process for Sainhood – it is a complicated process and the mustery of it is revealed in our Catholic faith and the Holy Church. It envolves various steps that may take a long time. I invite you to learn more about it when the next time a canidate for sainthood is elevated to become a saint by Pope Benidict XVI. Check the website for sainthood – the vatican site.
Roberto
I think JPII should be removed from his coffin for display just like John XXIII was for his Beatification ceremony. Being able to lay eyes on his physical remains is important.
How sad that there are some Protestants and Catholic “haters” using such a beautiful time in our church’s history to peddle their rediculous propaganda. I have many wonderful Protestant friends and they frequently ask me to pray for them as well as offering to pray on my behalf. Asking Pope John Paul II to intercede on our behalf is no different than asking a dear friend to pray for you. I was brought up in the Catholic faith, and grew up believing that heaven is many wonderful things…not a long unconscious nap.
Keep
pope is god on earth, lucifer is the god of the heavens. that’s vatican for you.