I came upon this article in EWTN regarding stigmatist Luz de Maria de Bonilla. I thought it was interesting since many sound Catholics, including Mark Mallett, appear to legitimatize her messages. https://ewtn.co.uk/article-beware-of-so-called-church-approved-coronavirus-prevention/
Luz de maria believes the antichrist is in the world today, and claimed mystic that says the antichrist is in the world today, might be false, We still have the reign of the imaculate heart of mary, the great monarch of france prophecy, i dont think antichrist wont come til like a couple hundred years possibly.
There’s simply no way for us individually to adequately or properly discern whether any modern supposed “apparitionist” or “visionary” or “mystic” is truly of God, unless the Church tells us a particular messenger and/ or their message is worthy of belief. There are so many conflicting so called modern messengers that one must be extremely careful, even skeptical, as to not be lead astray. Please folks, be careful. Even with any modern “mystic” who is widely accepted as such, if they have not yet received Church support as “worthy of belief,” be very careful. Even among mystics proven to have lived lives of heroic virtue, this does not guarantee the accuracy or reality of anything they present as “prophecy.” The hour is late. Be on watch, lest you be deceived. Even by folks you otherwise might have trusted in the past. Our current age is marked by nothing if not universal diabolical disorientation.
Well said. Diabolical disorientation moves like an inky cloud across the earth and we can get caught up in it too. The enemy would like nothing better than sending us off on a wild goose chase. Everything is ratcheted up to increase fear. That includes many "mystics". "Perfect love casts out fear." It is getting scarier I agree but God is permitting us to go through this. We have to trust and stay very little and pray Rosaries. And make hours of Adoration and Communions of reparation and be spiritually READY. None of us knows what is coming at us in these next months and years (even days)but as Hamlet says "the readiness is all." I do not mean to sound preachy. I am telling myself this too. But this spirit of fear coming at us from everywhere is dangerous.
But it would be nice, if the interpretation of Antichrist would be explained by someone in the Vatican who we can trust. There are two phases in Revelation of an Antichrist. A seer like Maria Esperanza and Fr Gobbi gave us the interpretation of a third coming. One that is invisible. An intermediate coming of Christ in between the first coming and the last. So, what’s accurate? Fr Gobbi mentions the Antichrist of the end times being more in scripture, than the Antichrist of the end of the world. Supposedly we are living the Apocalypse today, which can be interpreted as the unveiling, before the end of an era. Armageddon isn’t until the end of the world. Who really knows?
I just wanted to clarify that it's not Mark who legitimatizes her, but that she is worthy of consideration for many reasons including that she has an imprimatur from a Bishop for some of the messages. But the state of things being what they are, the faithful have Church support for many seers (though not all because of the battle within the Church) and the faithful need to discern for themselves and seek the Kingdom of God in all things. To follow this or that seer because of visions, remedies, predictions etc. is not the right motivation and sounds like the type of curiosity that can kill the cat. If someone thinks she is the real deal, then they should read all the writings and this should elevate the soul and help to get closer to God & holiness. Otherwise, what is the point? Even with approved messages, if there is no progress spiritually, it's time to ask ourselves: what is going on? Anyway, I think a number of false prophets are actually behind the pulpit today and are totally blind to the signs of the times. Like at the time of the Christ: they didn't see the star and it they did, didn't understand anything, they didn't come adore Jesus in Bethlehem, didn't recognize Him during the presentation in the Temple, but mocked Simeon and Anne for their comments, were called vipers by St John..and on and on til they managed to frame Jesus on false accusations and have God tortured, mocked and killed! And even that didn't stop the persecution and hatred. So I would worry about those people too because a heck of a lot of materialism is in our midst now being preached in full legitimacy by approved people.
I have a question about people who have true stigmata: they do they generally not move very far from their habitations and are they always tied to some physical suffering such as illness or the stigmas themselves that make them almost as confined as members of monastic life?
Stigmata sometimes comes just for a few days. Padre Pio did travel and celebrated mass with his stigmata. And St Francis began having them the last 10 years of his life.
See the last message from Luz Maria contradicts other prophetic words that state a globe of light will lead to refuges: https://www.countdowntothekingdom.com/humanity-is-going-to-suffer/ There we’re varios other sources stating about the globe of light. I think it was Father Michel, but there were others too.
Hmm yes that's suspicious. It would make sense that the devil wouldn't want people to reach the refuges... but is the message really referring to it? It would be nice if someone could help you remember about messages from other seers that mention this leading to the refuges, because honestly I still don't know what to make of Fr. Michel.
I'm under the impression that the website Countdown to the Kingdom is run and hosted by Mark. Since her messages are promoted there, I believe that is a form of legitimatizing her since he is a fairly known Catholic author and evangelist.
Mark is one of the people who created CTTK but it's the team who discerned about several mystics that they would present, some living and dead. Luz is one of them but for reasons that they give for each mystic - one of the important reasons is that she has support and some of the messages that were published received an imprimatur from a Bishop in Nicaragua. Things are late in the game now and arguing over this or that supposed seer doesn't seem like a good idea for anyone unless the Spirit is leading the charge. If those writings are spiritually fulfilling according to the Church's guidance, then read them. If not, then why not leave the fight to those possessed by a zeal of the Spirit (or spirit). I have read some messages of this person in the past because she was promoted by many people who have good judgment in my eyes, but never really followed her and don't read them anymore because they don't grab me and I cannot justify going to her or anyone else just to get instructions about herbs or refuges or whatever other points come out in particular messages. But that is just me and not necessarily the case for others. It seems more important to meditate on the latest message from Our Lady in Medjugorje who says that the devil has never been so strong - wow! Are we all going backwards now, not getting holier after 40 years? Now that is scary because we should remember that practically the entire generation of those in the desert with Moses died before coming into the promised land and not even Moses, Aaron and Myriam got in. We are that generation and should be holy by now after all the help Heaven has given us. God have Mercy on us. Editing to add: see posts 607 and 608 here for a talk by Marija about the latest message in Medjugorje. https://motheofgod.com/threads/medjugorje.11418/page-31#post-389756
