Aww. My own family was never demonstrative. We never kissed or hugged at all really. Tough as nuts . When I hear people talk of Our Lady as , 'Mama Mary' I kind of cringe inside. I love the vision St Teresa of Avila had of Jesus coming to visit His Mother after the Resurrection. She says Mary was frozen with sorrow, like a block of ice and could not even move. Then she says Jesus came to her and held her in His arms and hugged her tight with love and thus unfroze her and warmed her back up again with His love. I think when I get to heaven I will need a big hug like that to get me unfrozen. For instance my poor two dogs don't get enough hugs I think sometimes. They're both hard nuts too. I think with the path of prayer it has taught me how to love a lot, but I have gotten stuck on the how to show love bit.
There is a headline in Spirit Daily today saying Biden has ordered bombs be dropped on Syria under some pretext or other. It appears the area is near the border with Iraq. I believe Pope Francis is due to visit Iraq around March 6th or 7th and supposed to be attending some sort of prayer gathering in an old pagan temple with the Jews and Muslims. Maybe that could be the straw that will break the back of God's infinite patience with our Church leaders. So as Our Lady says with prayer and fasting also wars can be suppressed. I guess we have urgent work to do as Heavenly Mother asks.
Prayers. What can we do but pray? I wonder why it is that the people who talk the most about compassion are the very ones most likely to drop high explosives on others?
Miracle of the sun, 22nd February, Sanctuary of the Madonna of Frassino, Bergamo, Italy. https://www.visitbergamo.net/en/object-details/8024-sanctuary-of-madonna-del-frassino/
True e One of many problems we have with the Church is they (priests) do not speak of the apparitions; rarely and very few priests during the homily speak of them - our church has become politically correct and afraid to speak the truth, afraid to scare us or just don't believe it themselves. I never heard about Akita or Garabandal, la Salette nor most other apparitions until last year when I started researching for myself. And I'm not "new" to Catholicism. I've been going to Mass my entire life most every Sunday. Most Catholics don't have a clue what's going on. Yes they may be responsible for this for sure being away or going twice a year, but not even those who go every week know about whats about to happen or any ofnthe warnings from the Blessed Virgin Mary. How much responsibility does the Church have? Just a few weeks ago at my church the homily was about "turning off the cell phones and stop listening to all these conspiracy theories" - they are in denial or blind! Maybe we should give them the Bible? And now if we try to tell our families and friends what's really going on they're either terrified or think we are nuts! Too many are so far. How do we reach them when even our churches are denying it? We need to pray and pray and pray for humanity. Garabandal, Akita, Fatima, Medjugorje, la Salette are all here. Time has arrived and time's just about up.
I'm the only Catholic in my family, and my family already thinks I'm nuts. So I don't usually bring up anything earth shattering. Well, I mostly talk with just my mom. She's 81 and not up to that kind of stuff. I'll admit that my information is sketchy at best. I've learned lots just since I've come on here. So, speak away about these things. I'm eating it up as fast as I can.
One of those things you know but I feel I have been prompted that war is coming, I felt this when I was in some ways despairing and trying to pray deeply about the vaccine being forced on close and frail family members. I felt I was being told a war is coming that will make chronovirus seem almost irrelevant. Its a war that will bring many to prayer and on their knees, maybe that ties in with that Our Lady is saying. Prayer will end this war. I wouldn't exactly say it was a message of hope, it was more for me to cop on, stop worrying and do I not realise how well I am being looked after by the most high and almighty Lord God.
Yes when people are forced to think of God so much good happens! I remember hearing years ago that more people are released from purgatory on Christmas day! than any other day of the year even on the feast of all souls where many indulgences are added to our prayers! Why would this be so? I believe that the Christmas season turns the hearts and minds of many un-practising Catholics and Christians towards truth, to adoring and thinking of God! By enacting this love with acts of good will towards our fellow men, giving of self to others, this powerful love produces great spiritual fruits! and this would be the reason more souls are released from purgatory at Christmas than on any other day of the year. Just my thoughts.
I absolutely agree. The church is not sharing the apparitions of Our Lady. Even the greatest apparition of Our Lady of Fatima is ignored. I’m not sure if some priest are even told about this in seminary. Too many of those responsible for their formation either don’t subscribe to it, or care about it. Many seminaries did not even encourage the rosary, let alone teach about the approved and beautiful apparitions! It’s no wonder that it’s not preached and most Catholics are either vaguely or completely unaware of these. I asked a priest last March if he though that the virus could be related to the recent message of the sister from Akita apparition...the sack cloth and ashes she referred to. His response was surprise....he had never heard of this church approved apparition! I then filled him in on it and asked him to research it. He has been a priest for at least 25 years. Our Catholic school children are not taught about these either. The teachers in catholic schools are additionally unaware of these apparitions. A few years back, I purchased copies of the Miracle at Fatima and the Song of Bernadette and gave every Catholic school in my area a copy and rosaries for each student. I know that some schools showed the films to their students. It was probably the first time either the students or the teachers had ever heard of what we here take for granted. Do not take it for granted that your priest even know about these. Please buy them a DVD available online and gift them with a copy. You may change their life and they may actually preach it. Buy and gift your local catholic school and priest with a copy and provide research materials that prove they are church approved. If the church isn’t doing it, then you can....at least try!
I worry sometimes about the hope that people are putting in things that I suspect are just not going to happen. Things like. 'Everything will be back to normal soon'. 'The economy will soon bounce back'. 'House prices will be back on track'. 'It'll be great to great abroad in the summer'. 'The vaccine will fix things'. 'We'll son be back to work' 'Things will be great now we have a New President' ..and on and on and on. But what happens if and when these false hopes fail. If you have placed all your hopes and dreams on an Earthly, material ship that sinks right before your eyes? The hopeless the despair will be a total killer. I think that moment of kind of waking up to find a decaying corpse in the bad lying beside you is not far away. The dead corpse of false hope. We draw nearer to the moment that Our Lady spoke of, 'The living will envy the dead!!' I'm cheerful aren't I? I do have hope and peace and deep, deep inner joy. But these are not really built on things that are passing. At the moment everything around us is so fragile and passing, like some kind of dream. I have been thinking of something Jesus said a lot lately. Luke 12:13-21 The Parable of the Rich Fool 13 Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” 14 Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?” 15 Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.” 16 And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. 17 He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’ 18 “Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. 19 And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’ 20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’ 21 “This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”
Christy, your post gives me hope that those not raised in the Catholic faith can be awakened to its truths and through us! We are admonished to share these truths to the world. I personally do not care how the world perceives me personally for my beliefs, I care deeply how my Lord perceives me for my responsibility for sharing the faith. Knowing that you have embraced these truths encourages me. When we meet Jesus at our judgment, nothing, absolutely nothing will matter more.
Well, it took God 9 years to get me in the Church. I first started hearing the truth about the church in early 1988. I can't remember exactly what I read, but I was surprised about the truth of it. Anyway, it really wasn't until 1995 when I was in the hospital for my depression that I got to seriously looking at it and decided to become a Catholic. There was a Catholic priest who did Mass, and had office hours, at the hospital. Anyway, he had to be the most patient person ever. I asked him a lot of questions over the years, and at times was in such a bad mood that I tried to piss him off. But he was always kind and let the bad run off like water off a ducks back. So, in August 1996, I found a Church just in time to sign up for the RCIA classes and went on from there.
It was astonishing. It makes you wonder though, why Italy, who now? What is going to happen next? There are so many Prophesies regarding Italy. Perhaps the most striking were those of Blessed Elena Aiello, who spoke of Italy being invaded.
Hello, I have been reading this forum for a while now and I finally decided to sign up. Just to clarify that the place is not in Bergamo (Italy) but in Peschiera del Garda (Italy). I live not far from it. https://www.santuariodelfrassino.it/
