To me the setting up of idols in the sanctuary with the tacit approval of the vicar of Christ is a watershed moment. A Rubicon. I believe Sr Agnes's message from the Angel Marks this. I think things move very quickly now. To what I dont know. Or how --none of this I know but the times are desperate and serious. I was at the Monastery yesterday talking to friends there and we all sense the charged atmosphere and all spoke of the abomination of desolation.
Yeah. I try to avoid conspiracy theories. But really the evidence appears overwhelming. So much to pray about. I pray to God it is not true; it is just so totally drek. I watched a video on this today, the proofs seem so strong. We must always be scared of going of the deep end. But well, the truths the truth. What terrible, terrible times we are living through. We need to take time to pray. To think. To meditate. Prayers for guidance to Our Blessed Lady, St Micheal the Arcangel, to the Holy Spirit to lead and guide. I watched Michael Matt today. If this is true and he provides very good evidence; it would make you feel like throwing yourself under a bus. Thank goodness I am off work the next ten days or so , so loads and loads of time for prayer in front of the Blessed Sacrament. All this stuff , its just totally, horrible and upsetting. But in front of the Blessed Sacrament I find peace and Joy and equilibrium. So very,very, very sad. Just awful. I so hope what Michael Matt says here is just not true. But , really I can't fault it.
It is only in front of the Blessed Sacrament that I find real peace. Two days ago I was meditating on psalm 6. It talks of grief and tears soaking his pillow every night. I said to the Lord " I don't have that level of grief" and suddenly He showed me. He said "you do" and I felt such a depth of sadness arise in me I began to cry. I had no idea how deep this grief for the Church and for souls runs. But He showed me. He said it is always with me and I must offer it. It is spiritual anguish. It was a quite an insight. I guess I'm not always in touch with what is going on in my soul. As things grow ever darker I think of the Passion. He was atoning for these heinous horrors. How much suffering! How beyond what we can know or imagine.
It's kind of funny how these leftists claim that we Christians are evil for believing that humanity is above animals and plants, and that we must believe it's okay to just rip up the planet and take whatever resources we want, and just dominate everything and have total disregard for the consequences and such. And that the pagans of old, were much better and they lived in harmony with nature and didn't believe they were superior to the environment. And yet, as Fr. Dwight Longenecker shows here, such practices like these totally debunk this belief, and as for the environmentalists, if we are merely, a part of nature and not above it, why are we trying to protect it? How do we know what's best for it if we're not above it? In the Vatican Garden, there is Grotto to Our Lady of Lourdes. Our Lady of Lourdes identified Herself is The Immaculate Conception, thus She Herself defends the fact, by Her very Being that there is a hierarchy in creation, and She Herself is at the very top; indeed She shows the true nature of humanity as God originally intended it, in contrast to these new concepts of humanity and humanism being pushed by leftists, globalist, and those involved in the Amazon Synod.
German priest: Marian devotion is crucial to remaining in the true faith November 5, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – In the midst of the many disturbances and confusions that are currently taking place in the Catholic Church, it is always good to remind ourselves of the beauty of our Catholic faith and the intimate role of the Blessed Mother in our lives. LifeSite reached out to Father Frank Unterhalt, asking him for a comment on the role of Mary and also how he sees the fruits of Marian devotion in the life of the faith of his own parishioners in Germany, in the Archdiocese of Paderborn. Father Unterhalt is the speaker of the priestly group Communio veritatis which is opposing some of the changes coming out of the Catholic Church in Rome, as well as in Germany, such as Communion for Protestant spouses of Catholics and Communion for remarried divorcees. They have asked Cardinal Reinhard Marx to resign from his office as president of the German Bishops' Conference because he is trying to adapt the Church to the Zeitgeist in our times, thus abusing his office. In his statement to LifeSite, Pastor Unterhalt says: “Many faithful are asking themselves today how one can withstand the current storm of the great test and remain in the true Faith. I would like to answer that with the famous words of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary in Fatima: 'My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way which leads you to God!'” He goes on to show, with the help of many statements from saints, the beautiful role of the Blessed Mother in the history of salvation, starting with her Fiat at the moment of the Incarnation. The German priest points to Mary's motherly heart for mankind and insists that “the Immaculata, as Queen, is thus not far from us, but, rather, as Mother very close to us.” “The saints,” he adds, “give testimony to the ineffable motherly goodness of the most holy Virgin and her 'Supplicant Omnipotence' with God.” Unterhalt also, based on his experience as a pastor, confirms the words of Pope John Paul II: “Holy Scripture and the experience of the faithful see in the Mother of God the one who is especially then close to the Church in the most difficult moments in her history when the attacks on the Church are the most threatening.” Father Unterhalt encourages the consecration of the faithful to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and states that, in his experience, those faithful who have a strong Marian devotion seem to have an especially strong piety and closeness to the Sacraments. He writes: “Indeed, it shows itself always that those faithful who have consecrated themselves to the Mother of God receive the light and the strength to remain loyal to the Lord. They are the ones who, with ties to the Mother of the Church, live the true faith in the parishes. Those faithful who have a Marian devotion find – led by her – the mercy of God in the confessional, and they adore Him in the Most Holy Eucharist on their knees, receiving Communion on the tongue.” *** Father Pastor Unterhalt’s full statement The Significance of the Immaculata as the Mediatrix of all Graces For the full statement which really impressed me, click here: https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/...ion-is-crucial-to-remaining-in-the-true-faith
This reminds me so much of a dream I had not so long ago, maybe a couple of months ago. I was driving along a deserted country road in the middle of the night and next thing a warning signal started flashing on the dashboard of my car. It said FASTEN SEAT BELT! and started flashing faster, incessantly, and I started to panic and tried to brake but nothing happened and I knew that the car was going to crash and that there was nothing I could do about it. So I pulled on the hand brake and the car spun around backwards and I thought, this is it, this is the end. There was smoke coming out from under the bonnet and the car came to a screeching halt, about a foot from the wall of a building. I realised I was safe and no harm had been done, so I got out of the car. Next thing there was a woman coming towards me with an anxious look on her face and she was motioning towards my car, but I just kept looking at her. As she got closer, she pointed at the car and shouted "Is that your car?!" I looked, and a man had got into my car and was now driving off in it at high speed. Panicked and helpless, I realised that I had been moving house and that everything I owned in this world was in that car, and now it was all gone. Such a vivid dream and a clear warning not to hold on too tightly to anything in this world as it could all be taken away in an instant. When you're not looking, like a thief in the night.
I have also experienced several times this grief that comes from the heart of Jesus for the loss of souls. It was a wake up call for me to have experienced this while in front of Jesus during Adoration and also at Mass. I won’t go into details, but I do understand what you felt. It is a grief that is beyond words.
Padraig, the link to the unfolding of the Akita prophecy was excellent. I want to share that on November 16, 2019, Archbishop Cordileone of San Francisco will offer a Pontifical Solemn Mass of the Americas at the Basilica of the National Shrine in DC. It is a TLM. It will be televised on Ewtn. It will last over 2 hours, and I hope and pray that I can be there. I got my reservation (free). My feeling about this Mass is that it is a tremendous portent for begging God’s graces. It is uncommon to have these Masses of this magnitude of holiness these days.
I often, often think of the Grotto in the Vatican Gardens. It is supposed to be a prefect replica of Masabielle in Lourdes. Just imagine. I saw a video of Pope Benedict with a couple of young priests down there saying the rosary. A dream. Benedict loved it down there. I hope he still makes it. I would be careful of saying , 'Left' or , 'Right' . These are political terms. The huge error of this Pontificate is that it identifies with the Liberal Left. That's their problem, it need not be ours. But it's funny about the Lourdes Grotto in the Vatican Garden I often think about it .
I often feel a little guilty, well to be honest more than a little guilty I am not doing enough penance to help the Church out. For instance ; did you know Pope St John Paul 2 , never slept in his bed? He slept on the floor all the time. He used to mix his bed duvet to make it look like he was on the bed when he was on the floor.. Butt my Guardian Angel tries to cheer me up by saying things are going to be so terrible in the future I will more than make up for this. But by saying this he really scares me to death. I'm such a coward! But if it comes to it I'll do it. Like some old mule; because I have to . Plodding along. But only because I have to. St Jose Maria Escriva the founder of Opus Dei always slept on the floor and told his followers to do so, so did the Cure of Ars. (It's really weird but Opus Dei is a million times backing Pope Francis , no matter what at the moment..go figure) A billion saints said this, sleep on the floor. sigh. Maybe I'll get round to it...
I saw the Archbishop at a recent interview on EWTN. He is beyond being a Huge Star. But I often look at peoples eyes These days. Not at what they say. But at their eyes ; the Gateways to the heart. The poor , poor Archbishop so much sadness and grief. Getting stabbed in the back by Judas is not easy. But we all getting stabbed in the back so repeatedly...and by a thousand Judas's !! We are like pin cushions!! But..such a joy to walk the Via Dolorosa with Jesus. Anyway God Bless the brave Archbishop , he must feel like General Custer at the Big Horn. Poor Man.
