"New London Fire Chief Raymond Reed said rescue crews had struggled to get Lentz out of her car for nearly an hour, but the metal of her old-model Mercedes dulled the equipment.
Lentz was failing fast and, as she asked rescue workers to pray out loud with her, the priest suddenly appeared.
"My first thought was that it would possibly send the wrong message to Katie that maybe we had called a priest and thought she wasn't going to make it," said Ralls County Sheriff's Deputy Richard Adair. "He said, 'I just want to anoint her' and so we just let him come up to the scene."
The priest prayed with Lentz, anointing her and her rescuers with oil and offering reassurances.
"A sense of calmness came over her, and it did us as well," Fire Chief Reed said. "I can’t be for certain how it was said, but myself and another firefighter, we very plainly heard that we should remain calm, that our tools would now work and that we would get her out of that vehicle.”
Moments later, the Hannibal Fire Department arrived with fresh equipment, and rescuers were able to free Lentz in time to get her onto an Air Evac helicopter to get a hospital.
"No one saw how the priest got to the crash scene -- the road was blocked for several miles on either side, and no one was allowed through the road blocks -- and he was not in any of the 80 photos taken at the scene by the fire department.
Even the Diocese of Jefferson City said it didn't know who he was."...
The God of The Jews, Christians and Muslims is the same deity.....Allah will work. We kill millions over trivial issues.........whatever the deity is cannot be pleased.
LadyJazzer wrote: "Pazuzu".... It doesn't make any difference...
Yes... someone made a difference...
The Diocese of Jefferson City has identified the priest who assisted at the site of the Sunday morning, August 4, 2013 auto accident near Center, Mo. He is Rev. Patrick Dowling, a priest of the Jefferson City Diocese. Fr. Dowling was travelling Hwy 19 between Mass assignments that morning in northern and central Missouri.
Fr. Dowling said that he is pleased that he was able to help by performing his ministry and noted that that he was just one of many who responded to assist the victim at the accident. He and the Diocese wish to acknowledge and thank the first responders, medical team and law enforcement personnel for their efforts that morning in aid of the young woman injured in the accident.
Fr. Dowling, a native of Kilkenny, Ireland, was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Jefferson City, Mo., in 1982. He has served at parishes in Moberly, Monroe City, Indian Creek, Milan, Unionville and Eldon, Mo., and in the diocese’s mission parishes in Marcona and Nasca, Peru.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
LadyJazzer wrote: She didn't get "answered" by ANYTHING... "Tinker Bell", "Jiminey Cricket" or anything else...
Hmmmm... do you feel like a fool right now? There was an actual priest... a real live "anything else." I don't care if you believe in his "powers" as a counselor or not (I'm an atheist, I don't attribute anything supernatural to this incident)... but he was there... and you were wrong.
Don't swing your bat to quickly... it may come back and hit you.
