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 Methuen woman says she found image of Jesus on iron

By J.J. Huggins
jhuggins@eagletribune.com

Nov. 27, 2009 

METHUEN:  Mary Jo Coady walked into her daughter's bedroom Sunday afternoon and noticed a familiar image on the bottom of an iron sitting on the floor.

"I see his eyes, his nose, his whole face and I was like, 'That's Jesus looking at us,'" Coady said.

The rust-colored residue on the bottom of the iron strikes a remarkable resemblance to Jesus Christ. For the 44-year-old secretary who was raised Catholic, the image reaffirmed her faith at a time when she has separated from her husband, had her hours cut at work, and moved out of a house she owned and started renting a home where she now lives with her two college-age daughters.

"It just gave me a sign that life is going to be good," Coady said. "I think he's listening."

Coady said she hopes her story will lift other people's spirits in time for the holidays. Her daughters � Melody, a 21-year-old student at Northern Essex Community College, and Alison, a 20-year-old student at Merrimack College � aren't ones to overreact to an iron.

"They wouldn't believe this if it hit them in the head, and they were like, 'Mom, that's Jesus looking at us,'" Coady said.

Coady found the iron on the floor next to the bureau in Alison's room. Alison said she last used the iron weeks ago.

This is not the first time someone has believed they found Christ on an everyday object.

In April, a South Carolina woman made headlines by finding an image that looked like Jesus in a piece of cheese toast. A couple in Ohio claimed to have found Jesus on a pancake in 2006, and a Milwaukee woman claimed to have found him on a tree in her yard in 2002.

Dr. Joseph Kelley, associate professor of religious and theological studies at Merrimack College, called upon the thinking of Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung to explain the phenomenon. Jung believed external religious images such as statues, icons, and sacraments receive their power from the deeper spiritual realities in the souls of people who revere the images, Kelley said.

"A person sees the image of Jesus somewhere because the inner presence of Christ is active in their spiritual life and is projected out into the external world. So a person's conviction about the outer image is rooted in her or his inner spiritual life," said Kelley. "Jung thought this was true, both of accepted religious images and artifacts, such as a painting of Jesus or Moses or a saint, as well as of more idiosyncratic or accidental phenomena. The external image has meaning because of the inner conviction of the one who believes."

As for what she'll do next, Coady's plans are simple.

"Buy a new iron and keep this one in my closet."

Nov. 23, 2009

This? Is the greatest story in the history of the series of tubez.

First of all, it's a story about a Jesus sighting, which of course I love. Secondly, there's a picture, which I can't resist:

Third, everything about it is just perfect. The headline: "'Jesus face' spotted on the toilet door in Ikea Glasgow." The picture caption: "Jesus, or possibly Gandalf, as spotted on the door of the gents' toilets in a Glasgow branch of Ikea." The lede: "A bearded face, with long flowing hair, is plainly visible on the wooden door of the men's toilet in the Braehead outlet of the Swedish furniture and meatballs giant." The quote from a shopper: "It's certainly not what you expect to find in an Ikea store. Mind you, you need a lit! tle divine intervention to get out of here sometimes." The store take on the visage: "In a further twist, Ikea bosses claim that the image is really Benny Anderson, of the Eurovision Song Contest-winning Swedish 1970s Europop outfit ABBA. A spokeswoman said: 'Swedishness is engrained in every part of our stores'."

And then there's the related article call-out:

["Related Articles: Jesus found in jar of Marmite"]
OMG! Stop, stop! I can't take anymore! LOLOLOLOLOL!!!

*dies*

[Holy folks Gone Wild: Weeping and bleeding and appearing in Cheetos, more Cheetos, pretzels, fire and on pancakes, baking sheets, pizza pans, doggy doors, ice, peanuts, x-rays, turtles, ultrasounds, chocolate, dying plants, sheet metal, trees, more trees, more trees, more trees, more trees, more trees, wardrobes, water stains, plates of pasta, drywall, fish, grilled cheese sandwiches, and potato chips.]

Dallas, TX (MMD Newswire) November 23, 2009 -- In a Dallas home, the owner noticed what appeared to be an image in the likeness of the Virgin Mary holding a baby. The image formed naturally due to a vapor seal failure in the double pane thermal window.

When pointed out to the window installer who extracted the window he claimed "Wow, it really appears to be the image of the Virgin Mary". Coincidentally, the window installer is also a volunteer pastor at a start up church in Denton.

The window has been successfully extracted from the structure and preserved in tact. A painting has been done to represent what is thought to be seen within the window. Other recent phenomenons of similar images of the Virgin Mary forming naturally have garnered national attention and have created a buzz among the viewing audiences. I believe this to be one of the best naturally occuring representations of it's type and will cause a ground swell of attention in much the same way previous sitings have.

I am interested in both local Dallas coverage as well as nationally syndicated news programs and publications. My goal is to find churches interested in displaying the window along side the painting at their churches where the interested public can view the image.

The window along with the painting will be made available for filming and photographing on an appointment only basis. Please contact to schedule.

Website: http://thevirginmarywindow.yolasite.com/

via mmdnewswire.com

The King of Pop, in his infinite grace and wisdom, has returned to mortal realm by making his face appear in an ultrasound of fetus inside a British lady's uterus.

Dawn Kelley is pregnant with a girl, who at 20 weeks bears striking resemblance to Jacko. Said father William Hickman:

None of us are really Michael Jackson fans. I mean I like him, but we're not crazy about him or anything.

Dawn notes, "It is my seventh child, and they say seven is a mythical number."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/how
aboutthat/6605262/Michael-Jacksons-face-on-baby-scan.html

Sylvia Hecker says sees the face of Jesus, with a halo surrounding his head, on a wall outside of Target in Everett.

Published: Monday, November 16, 2009

On the wall is someone she knows

By Kristi O'Harran, Herald Columnist

There he was outside of Target in Everett.

You could see a beard, eyes, a nose and a shiny halo above his head.

Sylvia Hecker told me where to park. I pulled in and immediately saw the face in a tile wall. She said it looked like Jesus.

I had to agree.

This was not my first come-to-Jesus meeting with Hecker.

As I wrote nearly five years ago, she showed me what she believed was the holy face on one of her Everett kitchen cabinet doors. For several years the family hadn't noticed the image near the microwave. One day Hecker was rocked.

I screamed, she said. The face of Jesus is looking at me.

Her friend, Perla Magiba of Snohomish, said Hecker, 58, is a strong woman of faith.

We talk about the word of God, Magiba said. We connect in the spirit.

Hecker's faith was fortified when God intervened in her life when she was 27.

I was awed, Hecker said. God loved me.

Years before she met her husband, Steve, Hecker had a dream.

The Lord woke me up, she said. I sat up straight, like a board. She said the Lord told her she would meet his servant named Steven. She said OK, if you think that's best, and went back to sleep.

The nurse married Steve in 1981. Work took them to many states. He retired from a job at the Boeing Co. in Everett. Sylvia Hecker's faith gave her comfort, she said, when her husband died a year and a half ago at the family home.

The day before he died, she said she strongly felt the presence of God. Hecker worships at Christian Faith Center in Everett, she said, to hear the word.

She said she doesn't know why God reveals things to her eyes. When she saw the image of a face in the tile at Target, she had an inner conversation.

What does this mean? Hecker said she asked. Lord, what is going on?

I'm not sure, but the face in the tile goes on the list of wonderful images readers have shown me.

There was the chicken egg that looked like a swaddled baby Jesus; Elvis in a glass display case filled with sand; an Arlington rock that showed Jesus' face in profile; and a quarter, found near Lake Goodwin, that had a big sausage stamped in the place President George Washington should have a nose.

We aren't all believers, or see the same things, but we can appreciate one another's vision.

Kristi O'Harran: 425-339-3451, oharran@heraldnet.com.

By Manoj Kar

Kendrapara, Nov. 12: In the latest confrontation of religion over law, the state forest department today registered a case against the head of a Hindu mutt under animal welfare legal provisions.

A soft-shell-Gangetic fresh water turtle, the parts of which bears resemblance with Lord Jagannath, is held in confinement in the mutt and people have begun offering puja to the caged animal.

The case was registered under Section 9 of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 against Mouni Baba, the head of mutt in Khadipala village, said wildlife officials.

Forest officials here were in a spot of bother as religion-bound locals in nondescript Khadipala village under Pattamundai police station area of this coastal Odisha district continue to hold captive and offer puja to the juvenile fresh water turtle.

For them, the delicate species with markings on its carapace and bearing resemblance with state's presiding deity - Lord Jagannath - is the reincarnation of God.

We were forced to register a case as the animal is in a state of distress. It's a case of mistaken identity. The juvenile soft shell turtles do have the markings on the carapace that has the look of God's eyes.

As these species grow, the shell markings vanish, said Prasanna Kumar Behera, Divisional Forest Officer, Rajnagar wildlife forest division.

The animal, an endangered fresh water species, is accorded Schedule-1 category under Wildlife Protection Act. That's why we tried to rescue the turtle from captivity. We tried our label best to convince the priests and locals to hand it over to forest department's custody. They were enlightened that it's a fresh water turtle not God incarnated. But the villagers are adamant and unrelenting, Behera said.

Meanwhile, hundreds of villagers from nearby areas continue to make a beeline to the mutt to catch glimpse of the deified turtle.

The locals, firm in their belief that caged turtle is harbinger of prosperity and peace, chased away the wildlife officials and revenue officials. The officials were at the spot to set free the turtle, said sources.

Incidentally, in Hindu mythologies and legends, turtles are described as an incarnation of god.

 

11th November 2009

By Will Carson

IT started out as a normal night out with friends – a curry and a few beers.

But one student got a shock when he sat down to tuck into his lamb rogan josh – and discovered the face of Jesus staring back at him.

Solent University student Darren Farrant was about to take a bite out of a naan bread when he noticed the image on the underside of the classic side dish.

The 19-year-old criminology student had been enjoying a curry with friends at Poppadom Express in Oxford Street when he spotted what he claims is an image of the son of God.

Darren said: “A few mates and I decided to go for a curry on Oxford Street.

“We sat down, ordered our curries and some naan breads to go with them.

“When it all arrived at the table, one of my mates picked up one of the naan breads and spotted something.

“There it was staring back at me – Jesus’ face in the naan.”

Darren, originally from East Sussex, added: “I once spotted Jesus’ face in the crinkles of my mum’s bed cover.

“It’s really weird, I can’t explain it.”

Darren saved the Jesus naan and put it in his freezer as soon as he got back to his home in Royal Crescent Road.

He said he and his friends might now put the naan bread up for auction online.

A Poppadom Express Spokesman said sightings of Jesus’ face in naan bread had been reported to them before.

He said: “Once there was a customer who phoned us to say he had seen Jesus in a naan but he couldn’t prove it.

“Now we have the proof.”

ZHENG Dexun shows off a humanshaped heshouwu, or Chinese knotweed, yesterday in Langzhong in southwest China's Sichuan Province. The herb, weighing 5.8 kilograms and standing 62 centimeters high, resembles a naked child. Zheng, 63, a farmer in Datianba Village, discovered the oddity five days ago while digging for the herb, which is used as a tonic for the kidneys and to treat weak bones and hair loss.