Thread: The Father Nacho Story... Miracles

Father Nacho Story

A few years back I contracted the Flu and so I asked around at the Parish and found out that this one old and obnoxious Priest, Father Nacho (Enuncio) was the Priest scheduled to be responsible for performing the Healing Sacraments. Incidentally, this would also require them to do all the Last Rites.

I found Father ‘Nacho’ in the parking lot and asked for a Healing. He looked at me with something of a dubious expression, but I insisted that it was his job to do such things and so he said 'okay, okay' and went through the motions of healing me. Well, sure enough, I got better immediately. Everyone else in town were all as sick as dogs for two weeks, while I was the only guy showing up for work. I felt fine.

Months later everyone was standing around the Parish Office badmouthing Father Nacho for being so obnoxious, WITH HIM STANDING RIGHT THERE. So I took it upon myself to defend him, saying that although his personal manners and hygiene may have been wanting, as far as simply being a Priest goes, he was the REAL DEAL, and I told them about the healing.

When the conversation turned, Father Nacho motioned me to follow him outside, and he told me a story. The reason he had hesitated when I asked for a healing was he thought he had accidentally renounced the Gift of Healing and he honestly did not know how to deal with anybody’s direct request to be healed. You see, when he was made the Healing Priest, he was often called to the Catholic Hospitals in the middle of the night to do Last Rites, but he would often show up too late – the dying becoming the dead. But that does not typically stop the Priests in the field and they will generally give Last Rites to a dead body, figuring that God will understand how busy traffic can be sometimes, and God must know that not all of the lights were Green. But with Father Nacho, the dead bodies were coming back to life for the Last Rites. He was not deliberately bringing them back to life, but when he would ask them if they repented for their sins, or whatever, they would come alive and comply all through the Sacrament. You can imagine how disturbing this could be for Hospital Staff and even for family members! The Staff had no choice but to call for the Crash Carts and wake up the on-call Doctors and the “dead” bodies would have to be moved to Intensive Care. But, after their Last Rites were administered, they would just die again.

It happened again and again and again. Finally the Doctors and the Nurses were fed up with the aggravation and asked Father Nacho if he could administer the Last Rites to the dead bodies while just keeping them dead. Father Nacho, who was conscious of how much trouble this was all causing, acquiesced and said "I guess so". That was when he thought he may have renounced the Power of Healing. And the dead bodies then after stayed dead.

So he told me that he was confused and worried when I asked to be healed, and that was the source of the strange hesitancy he had in offering me the Healing Prayer. He honestly doubted whether he still had the Gift.

He said that he was relieved to hear that I got well, both for my sake and for his own. He felt restored knowing he was still whole in the Vine of Christ.