Here's George Weigel giving a talk at the Acton Institute about Pope Francis. He knew Pope Francis when Francis was Archbishop of Buenos Aires and had conversations with him before and after he became Pope. It's an interesting talk, as are some of his responses to questions at the end, especially with the benefit of hindsight. The video is dated May 2015 before the papal visit to the US. I wonder what effect 4 years' hindsight has had on Mr. Weigel's impression of Pope Francis.
Well??????? Latest News ‘It was truly amazing’: New England bishops describe ad limina meeting with Pope Cindy Wooden 8 November, 2019 Pope Francis poses with US bishops from New England during their ad limina visit (CNS) Francis tells bishops: 'You must be close to God in your prayer and your personal life' Bishops from New England have shared with Pope Francis some of the joys, challenges and sufferings of the church in the Northeast and, really, throughout the United States, three of the bishops said. Nearing the end of their “ad limina” visits to the Vatican to pray at the tombs of the apostles and report on the status of their dioceses, the bishops spent two hours on November 7 sitting in a circle in the papal library conversing with Pope Francis. Auxiliary Bishop Robert Reed of Boston told Catholic News Service later that the conversation included “the role of women in the Church” and how to give them “a real seat at the table” when decisions are being made; immigration; priestly formation and the need for men preparing for priesthood in the United States to learn Spanish; the growth of secularism; and the importance of God’s mercy and encouraging Catholics to avail themselves of the Sacrament of Reconciliation. The Pope allowed the bishops to set the agenda, he said, told them they should all feel free to speak “with no pecking order” and responded to their questions and concerns with reflections based on his own experience as a priest and bishop. The overriding theme was “vicinanza” or closeness, Bishop Reed said: “You must be close to God in your prayer and your personal life; you must be close to your priests as a father and walk with them; and you must be close to your people.” “I believe he offered that in a general way as the beginnings of a new way, a solution to the terrible difficulties we face in our society and in the Church,” he said. At the end, Bishop Reed said, the pope told the bishops they must be courageous in their ministry. “At one point, he looked me right in the eye and my eyes filled up; this is the successor of Peter telling me as one of his bishops to be courageous.” Bishop Reed, who has been a bishop only three years, said he was a bit nervous going into the meeting with the pope. “It was amazing. It truly was amazing,” he told CNS. He was still carrying Pope Francis’ white zucchetto, which the bishop had asked for as a sign of papal closeness and prayer for his two parishes: St Mary’s and Blessed Sacrament in Walpole. Of course, he gave the pope a shiny new zucchetto in exchange. “To be ushered into a room, given a chair in a circle for a true conversation with the successor of St. Peter after you’ve celebrated Mass just an hour before at the tomb of St Peter himself is an experience I’ll never forget,” the bishop said. The bishops of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont — unlike almost all the other groups of US bishops who will visit through February — stayed in “the pope’s house,” the Domus Sanctae Marthae. “The Pope, generally speaking, is there at breakfast, lunch and dinner, in line in front of you,” Bishop Reed said. “It’s quite a unique experience.” Bishop Frank Caggiano of Bridgeport, Connecticut, tweeted a thread of reflections about the meeting, noting how the pope “spoke from the heart” and “took great pains to make each of us feel both welcomed and comfortable. He even pointed out where the restroom was located, since he told us ‘we’re all human after all.'” “It was a truly remarkable moment of grace that gave me great encouragement, challenged me to see some issues in a greater light and to be reassured in my own ministry as a bishop,” he tweeted. Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence, Rhode Island, is a veteran of five “ad limina” visits, experiencing them previously under St John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. “Overall, both with the Holy Father and with the Vatican offices, the dicasteries, there is certainly a little bit less formality” that in previous years, Bishop Tobin told CNS. Although “it was still very well organised.” In the meetings with the offices of the Roman Curia, he said, “I think I and all the bishops sensed a very strong feeling of welcome and of hospitality and a true commitment, true willingness to be of service.” “Every dicastery has said that ‘We’re here to serve you. How can we help you?’ And I think that was pretty true previously as well, but it’s a little bit more intentional now,” he said. “We get documents, we get statements, we get letters and correspondence, and it can be somewhat bureaucratic,” said Bishop Tobin, but the visits allow the bishops to meet the people behind the documents. “The fact of meeting someone in person certainly softens the image we might have of the Vatican bureaucracy or of Rome or whatever.” One thing that has not changed in his years as a bishop visiting Rome, he said, “is the city of Rome itself. Maybe that’s why they call it the Eternal City. There is a holy chaos that takes place here” with traffic and graffiti and noise. “On the other hand, it’s a place where clearly you feel the presence of the divine, the presence of the Spirit in the beautiful churches and the shrines and the history and the devotion to the saints and the people who are involved in the life of the universal church,” Bishop Tobin said. “Clearly it’s a spiritual experience and you feel, I think, spiritually uplifted and renewed, reinvigorated on a spiritual level.” https://catholicherald.co.uk/news/2...bishops-describe-ad-limina-meeting-with-pope/
Does anyone know the etymology of Bergoglio? I looked online a bit (even in a Piedmontese dictionary) and couldn't really find anything.
Now here's one to try on....if you accept it: Not Italian name. combination of 3, 3 letter words in Hebrew. Ber=bear, gog= against God, lio= lion but then someone replied to that: "Ber" is Yiddish; "Gog" is a whole 'nother discussion, and "ari" is "lion". If you want ANY credibility, try a name like this: Dovuarimegog. ("דובוארימגוג") another offering...benign: From the name of a village located in the Piedmont province in Italy.
Then there's this rather strange calculation!!!!!: BERGOGLIO = 666 THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST by Salvatore Canto, Blog "MI-CHA-EL", May 18, 2014 mi-chael.blogspot.com/…/il-numero-della… I have always been intrigued by Revelation chapter 13, in which Saint John speaks of the two beasts, one of the sea, the Antichrist and the other of the Earth, the False Prophet. Especially those that are remarkable to me are the verses that go from 16 to 18, those that say: "She made all, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, receive a mark on the right hand or on the forehead, and that no one could buy or sell, without having this mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number (number) of his name. Here is WISDOM! Let him who has INTELLIGENCE CALCULATE the number OF THE BEAST; he represents a man's name and that number is six hundred and sixty-six". For some time now, I have been wondering how to interpret these words, especially those I have underlined (in capital letters). Clearly, we should know ancient Greek, which is why I hope that some expert will have the desire and patience to check to see if the hypotheses I make can somehow come close or not be totally incompatible with the meaning that emerges from the original text[which can be found in Annex I, or here]. The number of the beast? Yes, but to which of the two beasts is it referred? ---- I will start with the words "the number of the beast". What is he referring to? The Beast of the sea, who is the Antichrist or the Beast of the Earth, who is the false prophet? People have always thought that the "666" referred to the Antichrist, but in the text we speak of two Beasts and it is not clear to me whether this number can be attributed to the first or the second Beast. What if he was referring to the second Beast, that is, the false prophet? The text should be well analyzed and in Greek... And the "Let him that has understanding calculate"? ---- First of all, if the "calculates" is a real verb, there is no doubt that the book of Revelation invites the reader, if he has "intelligence", to calculate it. And that should silence those who frown as soon as someone really tries to calculate that number, obviously from the name of some "suspect". The attempts made have always referred to the transformation of the letters of the name into numbers which were then added together. One of the easiest ways to do this is to match each letter to its place in the alphabetical list. But several problems have arisen, two of the main ones being the following: 1. which language should be used? To Greek, the language in which the book of Revelation was written? to the language spoken by the'candidate'? to Latin, the official language of the Catholic Church? or to English, now the most widely spoken language in the world? 2. moreover, given that the average value of the position in an alphabet of 26 letters is about 13 [(1+26)/2=13.5], it obviously takes a lot of letters to reach the figure 666 ... so the surname is not enough, ... or else we have to invent more complicated calculations. These two problems can be solved all at once... ----- Whether we are in the era of "artificial intelligence" or "computer", no one can deny it. And I wonder: could it not be that subtly, the words "intelligence" and "calculates" of the verse of Revelation, also called the Book of Revelation, could refer to our present "artificial intelligence" and our "computer" (which means "calculating machine")? Perhaps the prophetic book wants to tell us, (not without a touch of subtle but tragic and resigned irony?), that our time would be the one in which the number would be calculated and in which the False Prophet and the Antichrist would manifest themselves? And wouldn't this also suggest which "alphabet" to use for the calculation, i.e. an alphabet close to or born with the "computer"? The ASCII code ------ On the Internet, some have already had the idea of using the ASCII code of computers for calculation. The ASCII code consists of a table in which have been classified the symbols, numbers and letters to each of which corresponds a number in hexadecimal (number system in base 16, and not in base 10 as the decimal system - the one used in everyday life) so as to make the computer understand by providing this number the letter, number or symbol it designates. In practice, it is the translation into numbers, that the computer can understand, of our symbols, those used to communicate and form human language. Among other things, since it only considers letters, this code is independent of the language used. When this table was created, more or less at the beginning of the computer age (1961), each letter, number or symbol was placed in a list with an order established once and for all, so that each symbol corresponds to the (ordinal) number of its position in the list, forming a number written in decimal or hexadecimal. The table contains 128 symbols. The letters of the alphabet start from position 65, for the A, to which then corresponds the identification number, 65 in decimal (and'41' in hexadecimal). For example, the letter G is equivalent to the decimal number 71, just because it is on the table in position 71 Simple no? [See Annex II] I reproduce here for convenience the numerical decimal correspondences of the capital letters of the alphabet: A = 65, B = 66, C = 67, D = 68, E = 69, F = 70, G = 71, H = 72, I = 73, J = 74, K = 75, L = 76, M = 77, N = 78, O = 79, P = 80, Q = 81, R = 82, S = 83, T = 84, U = 85 V = 86, P = 87 X = 88, Y = 89, Z = 90 CONT'D BELOW
CONT'D FROM ABOVE Indeed, given that the letter numbers range from 65 to 90, the average is about 78 [(65+90)/2=77.5], and therefore 666 is easily accessible by adding the letters of a single name; in fact to "travel" around this result, since 666: 78 = 8,6[ndt: or if you want, 78 x 8,6=666, so the number of the eight or nine letter word formed with the "average letter" M or N is close to 666], so you need between 8 and 10 letters. You can have fun calculating the number corresponding to names of possible candidates, chosen among public figures... for example OBAMA is too short, the total is 352 (O = 79, B = 66, A = 65, M = 77, A = 65), POUTINE idem, because it gives 400 (and HOLLAND... 583, SARZOZY 563)... What about Bergoglio? ----- The idea comes spontaneously to calculate the number also for ecclesiastical public figures in the present or the past. What is the number that corresponds to Bergoglio? The name contains 9 letters and the calculation has already been done on the Network. It is the discovery of this result that inspired me this article, because it is surprising. The total amount, you can get it yourself, by taking your calculator: (B) 66 + (E) 6 9 + (R) 82 + (G) 71 + (O) 79 + (G) + 71 (L) 76 + (I) + 73 (O) 79 How much is that? You're surprised too, aren't you? At this stage, however, I would like to make a few necessary clarifications: 1. The result itself has no meaning, you have to take it with a twist, it could simply be a coincidence, because there are many words, combinations of 8, 9, 10 letters, that can give this total, so it can be just a singular (but surprising) coincidence; No one can be sure that the method of calculation is the one described, it is only an algorithm hypothesis and nothing says that this is precisely what the Prophetic Book refers to: it would be reckless and presumptuous to say the opposite; 3. a person must be judged by the measures taken and the things he says, certainly not by the "translation" in number of his name; 4. for other characters too - (including Ratzinger, it is enough to make a small turn on the Network to notice it) - calculations were carried out and interpreted according to the taste of each one, claiming that they were the Antichrist or false prophets. So we have to be very careful. But it is useless to deny it, those who claim that Bergoglio is, how to say... a problematic pope, after this discovery will have one more arrow to their bow... How much is that? You're surprised too, aren't you? At this stage, however, I would like to make a few necessary clarifications: 1. The result itself has no meaning, you have to take it with a twist, it could simply be a coincidence, because there are many words, combinations of 8, 9, 10 letters, that can give this total, so it can be just a singular (but surprising) coincidence; No one can be sure that the method of calculation is the one described, it is only an algorithm hypothesis and nothing says that this is precisely what the Prophetic Book refers to: it would be reckless and presumptuous to say the opposite; 3. a person must be judged by the measures taken and the things he says, certainly not by the "translation" in number of his name; 4. for other characters too - (including Ratzinger, it is enough to make a small turn on the Network to notice it) - calculations were carried out and interpreted according to the taste of each one, claiming that they were the Antichrist or false prophets. So we have to be very careful. But it is useless to deny it, those who claim that Bergoglio is, how to say... a problematic pope, after this discovery will have one more arrow to their bow... (*) Additional details from Mi-cha-el The calculation tells us that we must exclude both names of less than 8 letters, because they are too short to give 666, and those of more than 10 letters, because they are too long, giving a total greater than 666. Words with 8 letters give a result between 520 (= 65 x 8) and 720 (= 90 x 8), words with 9 letters a result between 585 (= 65 x 9) and 810 (= 90 x 9), and words with 10 between 650 and 900 (...). I tried to use an Excel spreadsheet to calculate the "number" of the 199 cardinals (voters or not). Family names, I took them from the official Vatican website (names are written in capital letters for calculation). There were only 48 names of 8, 9, 10 letters and among them only BERGOGLIO and TURCOTTE gave as result 666 (thus, 2 cardinals out of 200, that is 1%). Extrapolating (albeit with some caution, since I only considered a sample of 200 people), considering the random distribution of names, covering, among other things, all continents, we could say that, statistically, the probability that a name gives a result of 666 is about 1%... - - - ... and my conclusion [of "Benoît-et-moi"] .: This is undeniably disturbing, and those who shrug their shoulders lack curiosity, which is a redhibitory obstacle to the search for the truth. Of an event that has a probability of 1%, one can say that it is "rare", or very unlikely..... but not impossible! After all, in the list of cardinals, they were two to realize it. And then all the members of the Bergoglio family, and even all those who bear this name also have "666" as their number. It becomes more interesting (and even more disturbing) if you "cross" the events. The total 666 alone may have no particular meaning (Revelation does not say that the number 666 characterizes only the Beast, but that it is that of the Beast). Crossed at the event that he belongs to the reigning pope he becomes much more extraordinary. In reality, it's the crossing between a rather banal event (one arrives at a total of 666 by adding on the codes associated with the letters of a word: my readers only have to try to invent some with the ASCII table, it's very easy) and another clearly more exceptional one (the fact of being Pope: let's imagine that there were 265 popes in 2000 years!!) which makes the thing really very troubling.... An interesting exercise would be to take the list of Popes, under their patronymic ( fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_d%C3%A9ta… ) and calculate their "number" (rather complicated exercise concerning the oldest Popes, whose names are not clear). If I ever had the time, I would. - - - Annex I: Greek text 17. καὶ ἢ ἵνα μή τις δύνηται ἀγοράσαι εἰ ἢ πωλῆσαι εἰ μὴ ὁ ἔχων τὸ χάραγμα, τὸ τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ αὐτοῦ τὸν ἀριθμὸν τοῦ ὀνόματος αὐτοῦ αὐτοῦ. 18. ὧδε ἡ σοφία ἐστίν- ὁ ἔχων νοῦν ψηφισάτω τοῦ τὸν ἀριθμὸν τοῦ θηρίου, ἀριθμὸς γὰρ ἀνθρώπου ἐστίν- καὶ ὁ ἀριθμὸς αὐτοῦ ἑξακόσιοι ἑξήκοντα ἕξ ἕξ Appendix II: The ASCII Table Here: benoit-et-moi.fr/2014-II-1/images/ascii.jpg Source : benoit-et-moi.fr/2014-II-1/actualites/666_2.html Share https://gloria.tv/post/ohq7hMRwFiNN3YV8c69LNLwJt
lol ETA, yeah I think I stumbled across that too. It's definitely Italian and I think it is from that village in the Piedmont. I can't figure out what the word actually means, though.
Ah, found it. Looks like it probably means “mountain dweller”. https://www.ancestrositalianos.com/apellidos/viendo.php?apellido=BERGOGLIO&busca=si
It seems weird because Berg is mountain in German...must be related through proto Indoeuropean but that’s honestly just pretty strange (that an Italian place name would share a word with German through an ancient Celtic root)
At least it wasn't "olive oil" (oglio) or we'd get into the whole extension of the "glory of the olive" thing!
I stumbled upon the following in my research on the papal coat of arms. https://fromrome.wordpress.com/2019...arned-the-world-about-bergoglio-the-imposter/ As far as I can tell, Our Lady of the Pine hasn't been mentioned on this forum before. http://www.madonnadelpino.altervista.org Our Lady of the Pine gave many messages to Giuseppe Auricchia, a farmer, in Avola, Sicily from 1990 until he died in 2012. I have skimmed through some of the messages using Google translate, and they are stunning in the accuracy of what has been happening in the Catholic Church. It is as yet, not an approved apparition, so please read with discernment. The following messages showed up when I clicked on the link at the side of the webpage for "Pope Benedict XVI" Pope Benedict XVI Here we read some parts of messages received from Giuseppe Auricchia even during the years of Pope Benedict XVI's pontificate. All messages have already been published either Mammanelli or on this site. Other messages with some of these keywords can be read on the page dedicated to Pope John Paul II. These messages have been chosen and inserted on this page, because they contain at least one of these keywords: Pope, Benedict XVI, Vicar, Peter, Church. Avola, April 29, 2001, 12 noon Madonna: "Now My children, go to your homes, carry this prayer in your hearts, recite it every day, but mainly I ask you to pray for My poor Pope , the afflicted son, that all days suffers for this humanity! " Avola, April 4, 2002, 11:30 pm Lord Jesus: "My children, My brothers, you must prepare yourselves , events are approaching, Satan and his followers will move with the antichrist to the Vatican and the Pope will go into exile. The new Pope impostor with the antichrist will rule the world! " Friday, March 31, 2006 Our Lady: "Make no mistake, if you see the crowd that crowds the squares, the halls, over the roofs to acclaim the Pope or a high prelate of the Church" Friday, September 15, 2006 Lord Jesus: "Look at the world as it catches fire, look at Jerusalem as it drips, how much blood flows between Palestine, Israel, Syria, the Asian world, Iran, Turkey, all moving to destroy the Church. Now look at Rome , My Pope, look at Muslims, Muslims. On the Pope's next trip (in Turkey, in 2006. ed), he will trample that land at great risk to his life. Now you for seven days will have seven pains that will torture you " Monday, September 18, 2006, 5:30 am Lord Jesus: "My Vicar follows the path left by John Paul II. (...) With your folly you want to shake the throne of My Vicar and the foundations of the Vatican. (...) Children My, My people, pray for the Pope and his pontificate, the hour is grave, pray for him " September 24, 2006 Lord Jesus: "O men, my Vicar has invited you all to a constructive dialogue between science and faith. I have said and I repeat, I wish the unity of all the Churches, of all peoples without difference of race and "I chose the cross for the salvation of humanity. You were frightened at the words of the Vicar, because modern science wants to exclude God totally from the life of man. With your folly, you want to shake the throne of the Pope and foundations of the Vatican. Remember, with violence you will find bad and inhuman things. I look at you and My justice will be horrible. Pray, do acts of adoration for the Pope and My Church " Sunday 1 October 2006, 03:30 am Lord Jesus: "I look at you all, say many rosaries, acts of prayer for the Pope. More violent attacks against him, taken for charlatan, for failure, accused of being incompatible with the responsibility of Christianity, which called Muslims together. Son listen to me, the prophecy of the three Popes is over for now; while the future is terrible, this My Vicar will not be a long pontificate. (...) Here, knock, knock again, there is very little time at nightfall. I am the one who heals your wounds, come! Join the discussion as My Vicar said on science and faith " Tuesday, October 24, 2006, 7:50 pm Madonna: "I ask you to pray and make pray for the Vicar of Christ on Earth. I, Mary, by order of God the Father will no longer appear on earth, so that the Holy Scriptures may be fulfilled. I will select you children, and you will communicate it to everyone. Love one another, pray for the Church, the Priests, the Pope " Sunday October 29, 2006 Madonna: "Rome, you will pay your sins. Italy, seat of the Vicar of Christ, will be humiliated because the materialism you want will always be more aggressive" Avola, January 27, 2008 Madonna: "Be respectful, obedient to the decisions of the holy father, the Pope, as the Son was respectful and obedient to His Father" (cont'd)
Florence, February 13, 2008 Lord Jesus: "Feel how they scream, howl, howl. With these screams the world will collapse. Italy, Italy you will be the last to fall. How much blood will flow on the streets of Rome. Or Rome, Rome, I have them bring My roots, and you scream. The leaders are divided against My Church,against My Vicar, My poor child My priests, many will sacrifice themselves with their lives for the defense of the Pope, but many will betray me for fear" Florence, February 15, 2008 Lord Jesus: "This is what they call the fire of Saint Anthony, it is not! It is the fire of My Cross, it is the fire of My Spirit which is poured out in these last serious times, especially for Italy where the real fire against My Church began, against My Vicar " Florence, February 24, 2008 Madonna: "I Maria, I am between two roads, on one side I see obstinate and indifferent humanity that remains cruel, attracted by the pleasures of the flesh and materialistic towards our calls. Never like this! As in recent times the whole world lives in the greatest sin, despising, disputing the Vicar of Christ on Earth, still despising My Divine Son! Politicians, many say they are Catholics when in life they have never been, in truth I tell you that without faith, without doing the will of God, and with lies you will not be able to govern over Rome " Avola, April 15, 2008 Lord Jesus: " In Rome there is a conspiracy of wicked people trying to remove My Vicar from the place of Peter. Rome, the eternal city of the hills, the (adverse) forces came together to see Peter's place capitulated, communism and atheism, but still this time did not arrive " Avola, May 11, 2008 Lord Jesus: "I love the faithful and fervent priest. I love the priest who does not know or does not want to give in the same way. One is a cause of glory, of reparation, of consolation to My Priestly Heart, the other is cause of suffering for the other priests, of glory not raised to God for Me, for My half. But I continue to love, to offer opportunities to return to My wounded heart. My infinite love extends to every My priest with ineffable tenderness. I am the Good Shepherd who with My faithful sheep suffers to contain in my fold the sheep that plot abandonment and flight. The Apostolic Catholic Church is My sheepfold. In this humanity, Pastor is My Vicar. Whoever listens and puts his word into practice, he is with Me. Whoever does not follow the Church in the word of the Pontiff is outside of Me and therefore against Me. You priests who want to abandon My way in the name of a presumed justice, mind you in your steps, when they take false directions you will have determined the schism. Then humanity will be subjected to the scourges and to ruin and God will gather the just to form them with the Pope, the priestly heart of the new Church . Come to Me, to Jesus. Come to your Shepherd, draw near to My Love and for this draw from the infallible sources of My Gospel message: it is the Way, it contains the Truth, it brings you My life " Avola, September 28, 2008 Madonna: "Stay close to Pope Benedict XVI, he is a holy man and is very close to My heart of Mother. Sons and daughters, you have to be careful as the end times come closer. He will suffer a lot for My Son Jesus, he is always ready to reserve the teachings of the Church but he will be persecuted.Don't you see what is happening around you? I intercede with My Son to protect him from evil. Do not be surprised if one day he will be isolated, and this it may happen in the near future. There will be a political revolt of the godless in the world, in that time in Italy you will see the hatred of the godless, in its place will establish a false prophet of evil people. This event and other events will occur before the triumph of My Son is introduced, that in His glory will come among you, then all the evil will disappear. Pray, pray, pray for My son Benedict XVI " Avola, 10 May 2009 Lord Jesus: "You are all witnessing that My beloved son Benedict XVI calls for peace but many hearts are full of hatred, in all nations, even in your country" Avola, September 15, 2009 Madonna: "The Holy Spirit asks the Pope to do all that Our Lady asked Fatima and in all the places of His Apparitions, to His chosen ones of recent times. Our Lady blesses everyone. Soon every house , every family will experience the joy of having seen the Woman dressed in the Sun and her beloved Son " Avola, March 25, 2010 Madonna: " My beloved children, you must not change the scriptures and the sacred institutions to meet those who want to destroy My Vicar.The true path of you priests is to lead them back to the narrow road ". Saint Michael the Archangel: "Your Vicar is surrounded by traitors, who have chosen his successor. Great sufferings for the Pope. Pray much so that Pope Benedict XVI will not be taken away. Woe to the world! The Body will be re-crucified mystical of Christ " (cont'd)
Avola, March 28, 2010 Madonna: "Those who have moved away will follow the impostor. Be careful! Do not follow him! Do not obey his words, follow in these times My son, Pope Benedict XVI, surrounded by enemies and traitors, pray you close to him with your prayer that he will not be replaced, he will guide you to the salvation of your souls and of the whole Church " Avola, 9 April 2010 Giuseppe Auricchia: "At these words the Holy Virgin shows me the square and the basilica of St. Peter and then a room where the holy Father Benedict XVI slumped, he was sitting in an armchair. He seems very sick and worried , while two prelates, dressed in red purple with round hats on their heads, after entering, carry a document and try to get it signed by the Pope. The Pope does not sign that document. The Holy Virgin explains to me: " Madonna: "There are many traitors in the holy city who predominate greatly over the holy Father, who surrounded by enemies is subjected to a great trial. Those whom he can trust can be counted on the tips of one hand. It is strange to see your house has fallen into the hands of satan, the house is the Church " Avola, April 11, 2010 Madonna: " If you destroy the Vicar of Christ, Benedict XVI , you will destroy yourself, because you will force Me to send the Sphere of Redemption more Soon " Avola, May 30, 2010 Madonna: "My faithful remnant follows the current Pope , Benedict XVI, who want to eliminate. Continue to follow him and remain faithful to him and to the teaching of My Church, established by the Apostles. Do not be misled by apostasy and from the heresies. I tell you that the next Pope will be the impostor and the evil forces behind this schism My children, be prepared, so you can follow those priests faithful to the Pope and to the teaching of the Church. books of the old Holy Mass, because apostates will change dramatic words " Avola, 6 June 2010 Lord Jesus: "My faithful priests will remain united to Pope Benedict XVI and it will also be difficult to find them" Avola, August 5, 2010 Madonna: "The scales hang heavily to the left in the holy city of Rome. A plan is already being drawn up to destroy our beloved Vicar and the man of the black secrets, he waits for the moment to go up to the chair of Peter. Many legions of demons are unleashed on the world and try to destroy the capital. Since for mankind the kingdom of man is sin, faith falters and candles are extinguished. My Son will still find a small glimmer of faith when he returns to the earth? There are many problems today, which concern the House of My Son. There is only one true foundation and it is the House of My Son, with Peteras the first head and is today represented by your Pope Benedict XVI " Avola, December 8, 2010 Lord Jesus : "Dear child, they want to unify all critics and non-critics, converting them to the true faith of My doctrine, which resides only in the Church founded by Me, under the pastoral care of My Vicar. It must be realized in fact , by the end of time only one sheepfold and one shepherd " Avola, 11 February 2012 Our Lady: "My Son, My call is urgent for all the peoples of the world, but above all for My priests, bishops and cardinals. Please remain faithful to your consecration. Stay close to My Vicar because the men of this world want to eliminate him. Pray, My people, do acts of adoration, reparation, so that his death does not happen. People say it will be soon. I, the Blessed Virgin Mary, will protect him from all evil because nobody knows what will happen after his death. All the powerful prophecies that have not yet been revealed will not be " Avola, February 26, 2012 Madonna: "Dear children, My messenger is allowed to say these words after receiving a secret message that he will publish on March 25. Men who govern feel wise, do not recognize that they are led by Satan. of them there is a group of planners who want to build a universal republic.Their plan is to eliminate the true Church of God. They would get it quickly if Peter's seat was abandoned, which is why they announce the death of the Pope, but know. that they no longer know how to study within themselves how to save themselves. Humanity stands with its feet on the dock and waits for its sentence before the Court of God " Avola, March 25, 2012 Lord Jesus : " My son, it is time for the political upheaval that you experience and the internal struggle of men to be revealed in Rome, but more important was a conspiracy of error and deception, which satan and the princes of darkness they will order one day to destroy My House, to establish a union under a single world government, a single church of God that will be without God. They will want to remove My Vicar from being ordered by those who hate the Son of God " . +
Wow! Very interesting. So these messages discontinued due to the death of the seer in 2012? Well, that did lead right to the threshold of these warning messaged coming events. It would take a courageous local Bishop to begin a commission of study of such messages now for sure!
This is right here under our noses. This last message was less than a year before Pope Benedict left us.
I got this translation also from the page about this seer, Giuseppe Auricchia (I don't know the date of this though): We inform you that Mr. Giuseppe Auricchia he was born in the sky at 05:30 of 2 May 2012, at the age of 96 years. The funeral was celebrated at 4.30pm of May 3, 2012, at the church of S. Giovanni Battista di Avola (SR) ========================================================== It is announced that the statue of the Madonna that exuded the holy oil, together with other objects and documents already in the possession of Mr. Auricchia and by the will of the same with the agreement of the parish priest, were left in the same church of S. John the Baptist. The parish priest, Don Maurizio, who already keeps them in the parish offices, informs that in the coming months, all the numerous documents will be carefully examined in the content by two priests. We invite all the devotees of the Madonna del Pino to join in prayer for the work of these priests and for the glory of the Lord Jesus. Peace and love! ________________________________________________________
A little more about this seer, Mr. Auricchia: The stigmata Mr. Giuseppe Auricchia, briefly describes the gift of stigmata: "On the first of August 1993, I was in Mammanelli, I was there praying while I waited for the prayer group, suddenly I fell to the ground and I didn't understand anything anymore. Then came Mrs. A. from Avola who was calling me but I did not answer, it was she who found me with blood on her hands and feet and who then helped me recover. " Later, Ms. A. thus publicly testified the incident: "On 1 August 1993, to Mammanelli, I found the seer lying on the ground and bleeding in his hands. Giuseppe Auricchia, completely revived, thanked me for my solicitude, but said nothing of all that had happened to him. his hands wound with the Polaroid I carried with me " __________________________________________________________________________________- The chaplet of the Rosary In his own home, Mr. Giuseppe Auricchia has a painting (picture?) containing a rosary and explains: "On December 31, 2000, the chaplet was found on my chest, on that occasion Our Lady told me": "You will keep it forever, you will put it on display so everyone will see it, but you must celebrate on Tuesday with the crown of the Rosary the sorrowful mysteries, and the chaplet of Divine Mercy, on Thursday you must recite the glorious mysteries, the crown of tears and the chaplet of Our Lady of Sorrows. On the Sabbath you must recite the glorious mysteries, the crown of tears and the Rosary of the Father ". This chaplet was given to me by Maria, they found it on my chest, then I made the picture that I often took with me when I went to the north ”. ============================================================ Avola, October 28, 2008. This morning Mr. Auricchia while praying in his house, before the statue of the Madonna, was able to observe a brief exudation of a few drops of Holy Oil. Transudation of Holy Oil A statue of the Madonna depicting the Immaculate, donated to Signor Auricchia, began to exude Olio Santo, from the head and hands, on 26 August 2001, around 13.00. That day, the event was noticed by some present in the house of the same seer who had not noticed anything. Following this, in 2003 the statue was subjected to a CT scan in the Department of Clinical Radiology, at the Conegliano Hospital (Treviso), which confirmed no irregularities with a certificate dated May 12, 2003. This uninterrupted exudation with alternating quantities of oil lasted until May 2006, in other words, a continuous exudation of four years and nine months, in practice over 1700 days. The statue of the Madonna has resumed the oozing of the Holy Oil the night of March 25th 2007, that is after about 10 months, and is still in progress in this end of 2007. It should be noted that in the current month of March 2008, the Transudation of Holy Oil of the statue of the Madonna, held by Mr. Giuseppe Auricchia, ceased. We recall that this last Transudation resumed the night of March 25, 2007, which lasted one year. We recall that on March 25th 2007, in addition to the resumption of the Holy Oil from the statue, there was a coincidence in the private message of the Madonna to Mr. Auricchia, the following announcement: "God the Father will send me to you, on Earth, once again to speak to you, children. Last calls from Heaven to this perverse and incredulous humanity. By the will of God the Father, I will pour tears of Blood, Human tears, Tears of Oil for all the sick of soul and body ". More about the symbol of the holy oil: http://www.madonnadelpino.altervista.org/m/trasudazione.oliosanto.html
That oil: In some dictations that Mr. Auricchia received from Jesus and from the Virgin Mary, the Holy Mother of the Pine, we are told the nature and purpose of the oil exuded by the statue, we read: "Oil is a sign of love". 26 August 2001 "Oil is the miracle that I (Maria) promised". 01 September 2001 "Oil is like a treasure. Oil has come out of My Hands, but above all from My veins, and must be kept as a treasure, it will serve on the day of your tribulation ". 02 September 2001 "Oil can turn into blood". 06 September 2001 "Oil is the cry of Mary not with natural tears but with this Holy and Blessed Oil". 05 September 2001 "Oil is a manifestation of God, so that you can see it and witness My presence among you". 08 September 2001 "Oil is for your salvation". 13 September 2001 "Oil is Holy and blessed with confirmation. It must be multiplied so that it can enter impossible places ”. 07 October 2001 "Oil is a sign that God sends for the last times. Five drops must be multiplied, plus five, plus five because fifteen are the mysteries of the Holy Rosary, (to remember that the five Mysteries of Light, were added and enunciated by Pope John Paul II, on 16 October 2002, with the apostolic letter ' Rosarium Virginis Mariae '), then seven drops, plus seven, plus seven because so many are the sorrows of Mary, the gifts of the Holy Spirit and the Sacraments ". 06 November 2001 "With this Oil, I demonstrate My maternal solicitude for My suffering people. My Oil is My blood and that of Jesus for you all ”. 27 February 2002 "I continue to give you the Oil, the Holy Oil, the Oil blessed by My confirmation and My love. May this Oil be prolonged and distributed to all the faithful, so that it may be recognized as the Holy Oil of the Madonna del Pino! ”21 March 2002 "The Oil that comes out of My image, Holy and Blessed Oil that will not stop until My Church sees it". 04 April 2002 "I asked to bring My image in all parts because everyone has to see Oil. Everyone must see the Oil, which must enter the most impossible places! Watch out for Oil, let no one touch My hands, My face, no one must touch My image, nobody, nobody, nobody! "April 27, 2002 =================================================================== Going back to the Santo Oil, anyone can request it only from Signor Auricchia, who must offer it without any payment, to everyone, no one else is authorized to give the Oil, or above all to ask for money. ================================================= "I inform you that, by permission of the parish priest, it is possible to see the statue of the Madonna every last Sunday of the month to Mammanelli, on the occasion of the Via Crucis and the Holy Rosary which is recited as usual on the Place of the apparitions. Thank you"
A few messages re: Russia.....from these alleged Mammanelli messages: (interesting coincidence w/ Garabandal) Avola, 6 April 2006 - 2nd message Madonna: "O rulers of Italy, know that with arrogance, with slander Russia will soon invade Europe and bring the ruin of our (your) homeland. Russia with its weapons secret will challenge America, and will overwhelm Europe and the Vatican's own governed ones and the flock disperse due to the rapacious wolves entering the fold under the guise of lamb, never in the world like these tragic hours that await you there is so much I need prayers for this I always invite you to prayer, O son, write not being afraid, everything must be accomplished, dark and frightening days are approaching, the rulers of peoples have made themselves incarnate demons, because while they speak of peace, well-being, they prepare with Russia the most deadly weapons to destroy peoples and nations, the world will fall into sadness " Mammanelli ,, 31 August 2007 Pope John Paul II: "Read again the most important writings because God will say:" Every sin will be washed, every sin will be purified, soon, the Red Army will arrive very soon but you will not judge them, welcome them as brothers, children of the One God " Avola, August 31, 2008, 6 am Madonna: "Pray for Italy, pray for Italy, pray for Italy. The first regions that will be hit: Sicily will be invaded by foreign armed forces, will be hit first. Lazio region that there will be terrible massacres, the perverse fruit of the mentality led by Satan, so other regions will gradually be affected: the Marches, the Veneto etc ... by the communist hordes of Russia All these foreign children will be the first to take sides that day against you and will be led by the Italians themselves " October 8, 2009 Madonna: "All this will happen when you don't imagine it and it will be because of Russia that wants world power" October 13, 2009 Lord Jesus: "Humanity will be partly destroyed, the world is in ruins, Russia will be burned, desolation and death will come, fire never seen on Earth. Here are the most terrible hours. The world will be all in war, Russia will be burned, deadly weapons will not only exterminate armies but the holiest, most sacred houses, Russia will be burned " Avola, September 25th 2011 - 2nd message Madonna: "A great catastrophe is looming over the whole world. The great powers run to arms. The great atheist super power of world communism will invade the countries that are still free. Italy will be the first. No guarantor it is opposed, not even those who still live under the Crusader shield " Avola, November 11, 2011 Lord Jesus: "You have made choices in the elections and many have speculated on how to make your country change direction. But indirectly it changes due to the continuous struggles, when the red wave of communism took possession of the single government world and gives orders to all evil men " Avola, November 4, 2011, 11:30 am Lord Jesus: "Materialism advances. I will find the red wave of communism, always ready with the old and the new attack, to win power all over the world, to form the only world government. Russia will cast its forces in all the powers (in all its power? ed. The world will be in ruins. Here is the second secret that is coming true, entrusted in different places in the apparitions of 1985 ".
And isn't this message also contained elsewhere? Avola, December 24th 2002, at 11am Madonna: "Look at these visions. You are seeing the coming of the antichrist. The antichrist was born in Egypt in 1970, son of a nun and a bishop, his action is in progress" .... Avola, December 25, 2011 Saint Michael the Archangel: "I tell you, in Egypt the false prophet called the antichrist was born in the world. He was born of a religious woman of Jehovah's Witnesses and his father is a bishop" ======================================================== (sounds as though they operate like the illuminati or masons) Yes, the Jehovah’s Witnesses do have a clergy class of men. They are called elders and they have the power to poke and prod into your life and even disfellowship you (excommunication or severe shunning). The regular elders don’t receive a salary but the higher up ones do, such as Circuit Overseers (Bishops), District Overseers (discontinued now but like arch Bishops) and the Governing Body. The Governing Body live in special complexes called Bethels where all of their expenses are taken care of. They have housekeepers, cooks, waiters, mechanics, tailors and clothes cleaners all at their beck & call. They travel the world on Business Class flights and stay in expensive hotels. Many of the regular Jehovah’s Witnesses will give special gifts of money and expensive items to the Circuit Overseers and above, hoping to win favour with Jehovah God (the Governing Body claim that they are Jesus’ brothers and the only ones going to heaven to rule with him) and they also hope to get prestigious ‘privileges’ for their generosity. The elders quite often expect and ask for ‘favours’ from the regular Jehovah’s Witnesses. If you want to advance in the JW world, you’d better know who to give gifts to! Circuit Overseers are given an apartment, car, gasoline and all meals are provided to them (they give out a list of things that they like to eat when visiting congregations) and they also have an “allowance of money”. On top of that, they give a bill to each congregation that they visit. I was always shocked at the bill they would leave behind for us for the ‘privilege’ of having them visit.
