Father Michel Rodrigue Facebook Post about the Warning.

Holy Love (as does Maria Divine Mercy) contains references to a lot of Saints, messengers, approved already or otherwise. If one is only going to judge another based on the use of their messages on particular or questionable blogs over which they have no control then you'd have to undo a lot of others as well and stop looking at them....and even question them, with that basis for discernment!

 

Here is the actual web site for Fr. Michel's fraternity. http://benoitlabre.org/ The pages translate very well instantly if using google translate in Chrome. That is his bishop pictured with him and other priests and the site also includes the approval letter from the bishop for his fraternity.

I'm posting this because some are questioning if he is a real priest or if this fraternity is real.

As for how well he and John Leary know each other, I don't think anyone really knows more than the fact that they have spoken at the same engagements. Typically these are by invitation so whomever organized these events invited both and others also. This doesn't mean they are friends necessarily. If you look at John Leary's speaking schedule he has had 75-80 events since Feb 2018 all over the US and some in Puerto Rico. Fr. Michel was likely only at a handful of them or he'd be travelling for days every week, how could you run a fraternity doing that? I don't think I've read or heard either of them mention the other. John Leary is from Rochester, New Year and Fr. Michel from Quebec, Canada. I can't imagine running a priest formation fraternity would allow for a lot of time to hang out or even get to know someone from another country. They could conceivably have a relationship on line or otherwise but nothing I read offers anything other than speculation. Clearly they know each other at least by having spoken at some of the same events.

I have never read much of John Leary and have no interest although I did check out his web site. www.johnleary.com When a supposed seer uses his own name and has what seems like hundreds of messages supposedly directly from Jesus almost on a daily basis red flags should certainly go up. Also, the second line in the "about John" section says his spiritual director and pastor confirm he is emotionally balanced. Not sure why you'd need to say that but he certainly may not be mentally balanced. There is no middle ground with his messages, he is either fully getting daily words from Jesus or he is fully making it all up and even may believe himself that they are divine. Mental illness is a real possibility and like many false seers there is an heir of narcissism believing you are chosen.

As for Fr. Michel, I wouldn't take everything he says as gospel but the general advise of having a good confession in 2019, having a blessed image or nativity of the holy family and following the guidance of the holy spirit are very good and sound. Whether he is an 'apostle of the end times' or is correct that something is going to happen in the next year or 2 OR is just taking a bunch of prophecies he has heard and putting them all together we just don't know. At least he is a real priest and his bishop clearly has enough confidence in him to allow him to start a fraternity for something so important as priestly formation. If his bishop didn't think he wasn't grounded in sound Catholic teaching or suspected him a nut job he wouldn't have approved such a thing. Besides these public speaking events he has done in the recent past, if his history is correct, it was almost always in Canada and doing direct priestly duties.

Sorry that was a bit of a ramble....

 

Though undoubtedly a sincere and devout Catholic man, the prophetic content of John Leary's alleged messages is exceedingly controversial and problematic from the perspective of Catholic doctrine: http://www.apparitionsites.com/pdf-documents/john-leary-catholic-courier-news-article.pdf

 

I still maintain that Fr. Michel uses his free will to speak together with John Leary at events. He makes that choice! No one forces him.

 

As I said before, for myself I think I'll keep it simple. Frequent confession and frequent Mass. Rosaries and Holy hours of reparation. And trust in God. Timelines are for me a futile exercise.to quote Hamlet "If it be not now then it is to come. if it is not yet to come it will be now. If it be not now yet it will come. The readiness is all." (Quoting from memory so may not be exact--sentiment is right on target though)

 

I’m with you, AED.

 

Please keep in mind a new site that will be going up shortly hosted by Christine Watkins, Mark Mallet, Daniel O'Connor and Peter Bannister. It is
www.theilluminationofconscience.com. It sounds like a comprehensive compilation of information for us to discern and share. I sometimes feel like I am living a double life with all of this knowledge that so few people know or care to know about. As for Father Michel sharing the stage with John Leary, my guess is that getting the message out is more important to him than what people will say.
He is clear about his (non)association and perhaps what some are writing is hearsay and inaccurate. This letter is his official word...
https://queenofpeacemedia.com/wp-co...gue-does-not-support-John-Learys-messages.pdf
I am no professional on any of this, just searching like many and came across this information I thought was worth sharing.

 

I believe I posted this awhile back regarding John Leary. I am not out to harm his character in anyway, but I believe Our Lord allowed me to have this happen so that I may warn others regarding his messages. Years ago my husband and I were at a Marian conference (I believe it was the one in Pittsburgh PA). During the break we went to the conference bookstore and I saw books of his messages. I knew nothing about John Leary and had come into the Catholic Church just a few years prior. I bought one of the books and upon opening it at random, came across something that I believed to be untrue. I showed it to my husband who is a cradle Catholic and he agreed. Then I opened it at random again and once again read something questionable regarding the Mass that we both agreed was untrue. When we went back to the conference, I went up to a well known EWTN Priest and asked him about what we head read and he commented that both of them were untrue. Just to be positive, we went up to another EWTN Priest who we had known to be very holy and orthodox (Fr. Shamon), and once again was told they were both untrue. Well, needless to say, I returned the book and never read his messages again. Now, for all of you who do believe his messages, please understand that I am not trying to convince you that he is not a true prophet - for that is up to your discernment. Please pray to the Holy Spirit before reading any of his messages. As a note regarding Fr. Michel - just because he attended a few conferences with John Leary does not mean he approves of him. Father is from Quebec and John is from the US. They just happened to be at the same conferences - perhaps Our Lord disposed it this way for Father to pray for John - and maybe we should all pray for them both.

 

Hi MMM,

If you read above, you'll notice that I last edited my former post (#43) on Sunday at 2:42 PM (i.e., a few minutes after my initial posting).

My reason for editing was that I myself had misgivings about the appropriateness of these unsubstantiated comments.

Your own response to my posting was uploaded on Sunday at 2:48 PM - a full 6 minutes after I removed the comments which you've since quoted.

Undoubtedly, you were typing at the same time I was editing and deleting.

To avoid the possibility of detraction, calumny, or slander... please delete the comments (above-quoted in post #44) which I myself did not intend to post.

Thank you.

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Update: Thank you for modifying your previous post MMM.

 

So is Father Michel okay - I just stumbled on his talk?

 

He is a priest in good standing.

 

Good summary , AED

 

God bless Rev. Father Michel, I have no doubt he is a true Prophet of the Lord for today. It's always a Great Grace for the Catholic Church when God sends to Her Priests who are also Prophets and Pastors after His own Heart. God has said, Amos 3:7 "For the Lord God doth nothing without revealing his secret to His Servants the Prophets." (Amos 3:7). And when Aaron, who was ministering as High Priest with the Prophet Moses in Israel, wanted to prevent others from prophesying, Prophet Moses answered "But Moses replied, "Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the LORD's people were prophets and that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!" (Num 11:29).

After the new Pentecost experience in the Catholic Church following the Warning, those words in Acts 2:18, quoting the Prophet Joel, "Even on My menservants and maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy." will surely have a more dramatic fulfilment. St. Thomas says in Summa Theologiae:

"we read in the Acts of the Apostles that Agabus and the four maidens, daughters of Philip, prophesied." John, too, wrote a prophetic book about the end of the Church; and at all times there have not been lacking persons having the spirit of prophecy, not indeed for the declaration of any new doctrine of faith, but for the direction of human acts. Thus Augustine says (De Civ. Dei v, 26) that "the emperor Theodosius sent to John who dwelt in the Egyptian desert, and whom he knew by his ever-increasing fame to be endowed with the prophetic spirit: and from him he received a message assuring him of victory." http://www.newadvent.org/summa/3174.htm

Now, Cardinal Manning, as we saw in the OP, rightly says that the thought that apostasy can reach the city of Rome, is something almost unheard of to most Catholics. Yet, Catholic theologians and Church writers have mentioned that, as a sign the time of AntiChrist is near, it must and will indeed take place near the end. Some others,

"'But Rome itself in the last times of the world will return to its ancient idolatry, power, and imperial greatness. It will cast out its Pontiff, altogether apostatize from the Christian faith, terribly persecute the Church, shed the blood of martyrs more cruelly than ever, and will recover its former state of abundant wealth, or even greater than it had under its first rulers.'

Lessius says: 'In the time of Antichrist, Rome shall be destroyed, as we see openly from the thirteenth chapter of the Apocalypse;' and again: 'The woman whom thou sawest is the great city, which hath kingdom over the kings of the earth, in which is signified Rome in its impiety, such as it was in the time of St. John, and shall be again at the end of the world.'

And Bellarmine: 'In the time of Antichrist, Rome shall be desolated and burnt, as we learn from the sixteenth verse of the seventeenth chapter of the Apocalypse.' On which words the Jesuit Erbermann comments as follows: 'We all confess with Bellarmine that the Roman people, a little before the end of the world, will return to paganism, and drive out the Roman Pontiff.' From: http://lasalettejourney.blogspot.com/2015/05/when-time-of-antichrist-is-near.html

 

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Update on Fr. Michael Rodrigue: Video Message on Apr 8, 2020.



See also the apostolate's website: https://www.countdowntothekingdom.com/

 

Father Michel Rodrigue founded the Fraternity of Saint Benedict Joseph Labré whose feast day is 16th April, next Thursday.

This is also the feast day of St Bernadette, the birthday of a close family member and the birthday of Pope Benedict XVI.

I by chance came across the tomb of St BJ Labré in Rome and he answered my very desperate prayers. Since then, I very much feel he is a Saint for our times.

So, please remember him this week as I am sure he is standing by, ready to help us.

 

I got round to watching Fr Michael for the first time today and was so impressed. All of the things he says I have thought about myself, so I was nodding and nodding.

He has an unusual child like way of presentation which tales a little getting used to.

One thing he mentioned which surprised me because I think its true but I thought I was maybe the only one to think this and that concerns Portals or Gateways to Hell.

He mentioned an Ancient Church in the French City of Lyon which he said a built over a Portal to hell. I think he mentioned a saint who said Holy Water should always be kept at hand in the Church because of it.

Anyway I think the ancients often built Churches over these Portals to keep the doorways sealed.

I was in Rome one very hot summers day (it was the hottest summer in 200 years) walking alongside the River Tiber when I saw a very ancient Church on an island in the middle of the river. I was curious and walked out to see it. I could see that it had been built over such a Portal to seal it and I felt there was a large basement below involved in this. I looked for locked doors and ture enough I found large out of position doors some distance from the Church. By out of position I mean these doors were flat on the ground and did not seem to be going anywhere. Very old doors.

Anyway Listening to the Father reminded me of this. I must see if I can find a picture..

 

Now this one is very educational for many I would think. It explains how Satan attempted in the past and continues to corrupt human creation.....Books of Ezekiel and Apocalypse.....I think too, Genesis; the intermingling of the bad angel's spirit, via abominating means, w/ humans.....the reasons for former and now current necessities for purification of human beings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=862&v=qcqk53XsZeU&feature=emb_title

 

1hr long; --last 30 minutes contains the meat and potatoes

 

so I am watching this and at 53:55 Fr Michel Rodrigue is using the F* word in casual conversation, not a slip, or in anger.
This raises the antennae on my head.