Well, I always think about that parable of the workers. Workers who work all day get paid X amount. Workers who work half a day get paid the same amount. Workers who only work a little bit at the end of the day get the SAME amount. Kinda makes me grit my teeth, but that is the Word of the Lord. We can't get jerked out of shape about outcomes. They are in the Lord's hands.
Great point HH. This and the 54 day novena are so timely for me. I have been in another spiritual funk and drought. When these times come for me, I find routine prayer like the rosary hard. I also notice that when I move away from the rosary, temptation and potential for sin pick up greatly. The rosary start a few days ago has already changed so much within for me and the timing couldn't be better in my mind. Praise the Lord and for the gift of the rosary. I find it very hard to succumb to temptation and sin whenever I am praying the rosary.
The devil will do ANYTHING he can to keep one from praying the Rosary because it is so effective. It is the one thing we should do even if we find it very difficult to concentrate or make the time to pray. I often have the same experience you are mentioning and when I can just immediate move myself to just start praying the Rosary (and I often thank my guardian angel for prompting me to do it) and keep going even when I don't want to, everything always gets better or at least I, very quickly, get the strength and see the benefit to praying it.
I believe it was St Louis deMontfort who wrote that distractions during the Rosary are like flies around a cake. They happen to be there but still say the Rosary. If we fall asleep saying the Rosary, I have heard that our Guardian Angel will finish it. Yes, I think your GA prompts you. I find it helpful to watch the recitation of the Rosary on EWTN or online at a site called Come, Pray the Rosary. You are correct that the devil will do anything to stop us from saying the Rosary.
Boy are you in for a surprise!! Russia will soon enough unleash the greatest assault on Europe as never seen before. Communism has never left its founder, Russia, it has been, like a sly fox, silently building its greatest arsenal of weaponry the world has ever known and prophecy after prophecy (starting with Our Lady of Fatima) has them soon to unleash it upon the world with a few of its allies. Any when "communism returns" and things are "at their worst" the world we know will be gone. It all begins when the pope returns from Moscow. This is what we need to keep our ears and eye on for a timeline.
Andy From my conversion experience I knew it was the benefit of someone's prayers that purchased the graces I needed to turn my face to the Lord. We MOG members, must be forever be thankful to our unknown benefactors and return this immeasurable gift to others. Praying for the dying, is so important and is deep in my heart these past few years. Our prayers can claw them back from the abyss. In relation to today's Mass readings, (regarding shepherds feeding themselves) reminded me of a dream (after my conversion experience) of people going to Mass on Sunday, but when they opened the car door, they looked so emaciated (like corpses). I tried to carry one woman into the church, but she was fighting me all the way. Anyway I truly believe that Jesus wants our prayers and sacrifices to bring souls (already purchased at Awesome price) back to Him. God Bless
Pure nonsense. Let me tell you people believing in Garabandal, what is your problem. You have the same problem with predicted events like ancient Jews. You are completely material and your spiritual vision is cloudy. I am also the Garabandalist, many years. If our Lady wished to reveal the whole truth, Conchita would not talk about events so mysterious. But the events should remain shrouded in mystery. Your curiosity caused this great confusion. You, like ancient Jews believing in their kingdom, believe in your own fairytales. Your Pre-Warning Conditions are no more than fairytales. People, I must defend Garabandal, because it was authentic. However the predictions published in many books about Garabandal from curiosity, are No MORE THAN FAIRYTALES. Those of you, who are objectiv and do not live in false dream, you understand it.
So what do you think will be the the events spoken of at Garabandal consist of? What do you see as the truth?
Yeah LittleVoice. If you can tell us what is true and false with Garabandal please. Might as well jump straight in the deep end and deal with Joey dying and this major prophesy failing.
The events which happen now, are the truth. This was predicted in Garabandal and the same was predicted to don Gobbi. Comunism= Marxistic ideology, no less no more. Others are fairytales. I explained yesterday in other thread, as they were fabricated. Garabandal is authentic, but your predictions bring confusion and degrade authenticity of Garabandal. If somebody plays on apostle of Garabandal, he must not be materialist and he must contemplate Words of God. Other he is apostle of himself.
I think Joey the most honest man in the whole Garabandal affair. Watching his videos , there can be little doubt to his sincerity. Yet you Little Voice promote Fr Gobbi. He has problems... Is Jesus going to return in glory by the year 2000? According to Fr. Gobbi’s locutions, the Blessed Mother says he is. Message 532 says in part: "I [Mary] confirm to you that, by the great jubilee of the year two thousand, there will take place the triumph of my Immaculate Heart, of which I foretold you at Fatima, and this will come to pass with the return of Jesus in glory, to establish his Reign in the world. Thus you will at last be able to see with your own eyes the new heavens and the new earth" (To The Priests, Our Lady’s Beloved Sons, U.S. National Headquarters of the MMP [1995], 893).
Joey? What I say... If is somebody immersed in materialism, he can not understand the Voice of Spiritual Person. Joey is more alive as we. We only survive, as prophet Ezekiel has written. Who thinks, he lives, he is really dead. But who is dead for this world, he is alive in God's glory. Garabandalists, why Joey sees now? Does see without eyes? Because he sees truth, what Our Lady really said in Garabandal, while you want not see it. You expect the fulfillment of your human conspirations created by curiosity, the poor fairytales. I am not native speaker in english, you see it But I understand that "by" is different as "in". By 2000 the events began leading us to the Second Coming. The date of Second Coming was revealed by Father and when the abomination of desolation will come, we will also know the date. The same events began, predicted by Garabandal, which are degrading by dreamers, sorry for expression.
Ahh, I see. Silly me and my curiosity.Thinking Joey would get new eyes actually meant Joey would get new eyes. Silly fairytale. Also silly Joey and his curiosity, and most Garabandalists. Glad you turned up to put all that is crooked straight.
Very well I love irony. Better critic than mindless follower . Take care, however, so also you would get new eyes
Thanks , I will take care. I take great care not to put much faith in failed prophecy. Especially prophecy that has multiple fails. Like Fr Gobbi and Garabandal.
Unfortunately, just the opposite with the Jews....they refused to believe in what their own scriptures/teachings predicted about the Messiah. They chose to accept only what they personally desired, felt comfortable with and conveniently left out what they didn't like. The same with Garabandal's entirety....you choose only what fits into your personal framework. Those who truly understand both the spiritual side of Garabandal and its working through nature/creation/cosmos itself accept the whole thing as it was meant to be accepted. It would appear that you negate those material portions of the prophecies thus resurrecting the old heresy of dualism that looked down upon the plan of God that, from the beginning, included both the material and the spiritual....why He became Man.....why he used materials such as mud in His miracles while the spiritual gifts were the end purpose, He knew human nature and made His own will in service to man's limitations.
Comunism= Marxistic ideology, no less no more. No, one is the idea and the other is the idea systematized. Many, within a free society can live with many ideas as objects of study. But those under the iron hand of such a diabolical system that works the idea suffer its real consequences. Russia took that idea of their own and systematized it and spread it under force, beginning with the Bolshevik revolution. In the end though is the promise for conversion and then Russia finally becoming an example of what real conversion means to the rest of the world. That time though, as stipulated by Fatima, has not as yet arrived.
Unfortunately materialistic than Jews, no the opposite but the same. You Garabandalists believe in your dream. I believe that if was Garabandal true, it described current situation of Church. You (Garabandalists) want from your "disciples" to believe in your fairytales, in your interpretations. I believe in Facts said in Garabandal, not in interpretations of reporters. The time has changed... Old interpretations are nonsense.
