Alleged apparition of Pope Benedict to Colombian nun

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To add my two cents, and to confirm what we are saying, Sr Lucia told us that there was no problem that the rosary could not solve.

 

It is Christ's Church, His Bride, He will take care of it.

I read one Saint who said that what we are undergoing at the moment is the worst chastisement the world and the Church could endure. Apostasy from the top down.

But Our Lady has already promised it would get fixed. So it will.

Hopefully sooner rather than later. It is the result of our many sins so we will have to endure it humbly. Basically it is our own fault.

 

I love your posts, maryrose! They are succinct, but clear and true.

O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee!

 

I am rereading Julian of Norwich Showings. It fills my heart with joy and hope. She lived during the plague and also great societal upheavals. It's a testimony from beginning to end on how God loves us. We are his joy and bliss. When he considers his crucifixion he is filled with joy as this action allowed us to join him in heaven. We are his glory. She says the Holy church will be shaken with anguish, sorrow and tribulations in this world but the Lord revealed to her 'I will turn this into a great thing of endless honour and everlasting joy'
He said 'I shall utterly shatter you. I will empty you of your vain inclations and bitter pride. After that I will gather you up and infuse you with gentleness and humility. I will make you pure and holy'

 

This is what a lot of people want to hear? Not me. I'd much rather hear that our Pope is, deep down, a holy and very Catholic man who, at worst, has listened to some wrong voices but will eventually realize his error and will correct the direction he has taken the Church in.



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The Church has been undergoing tribulations in this world since the time of the Apostles, just to put this in perspective.

 

To be fair though this one feels different. Many of the past crises of the Church were crises of morals. This one feels like a crisis of faith.



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BTW I used the word 'many' advisedly - the early heresies could definitely be considered crises of faith.



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Look at Saul of Tarsus, and how he persecuted the early Christians. Look at how God gave him a miraculous conversion, and he became St. Paul. We lament our condition, and we don't know exactly how God will handle it, but He WILL take care of it. I don't like to waste time lamenting over something I have no control over. That's where the fervent rosaries come in.
Just watch. Someone else will start a thread soon, lamenting the condition of the Church, as if we don't already know it is suffering grievously. What is/was our part in it?
Where is our gratitude? We are Catholics! What a gift.

 

I meant more as an explanation for all the craziness going on in the Church, people want answers.

 

Yes, people want answers. But that is where the undue curiosity comes in. I think it is very detrimental to envision evils and not know what actually happened. I think that is sinful. And with detraction, even if we know that something is true about someone, we don't really have the right to blast it out.

 

Detraction is the unjust damaging of another's good name by the revelation of some fault or crime of which that other is really guilty or at any rate is seriously believed to be guilty by the defamer.

An important difference between detraction and calumny is at once apparent. The calumniator says what he knows to be false, whilst the detractor narrates what he at least honestly thinks is true. Detraction in a general sense is a mortal sin, as being a violation of the virtue not only of charity but also of justice. It is obvious, however, that the subject-matter of the accusation may be so inconspicuous or, everything considered, so little capable of doing serious hurt that the guilt is not assumed to be more than venial. The same judgment is to be given when, as not unfrequently happens, there has been little or no advertence to the harm that is being done.

From the CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA

 

This is so comforting!

 

Wonderful reminder maryrose. A quote that sticks in my mind from reading Julian of Norwich is Jesus telling her "I am theground of your beseeching" ......lovely.
And of course the wonderful " Sin is behovely (inevitable) but all will be well and all will be well and all manner of thing shall be well."

 

Thank you!

 

I think Adoremus means a lot of people are already convinced of what this so called apparition reveals. And they like to see it "confirmed." It is dangerous to speculate on these things I personally believe. Way above my pay grade. I would rather simply keep the Pope in my Rosary and let God sort it out. ( I wasn't always like this but Our Lady showed me you focus on prayer)

 

I agree with you
And I have changed as well.