If world chaos begins just after the synod modernizes the church, this will be a great sign that reforms go against God’s will.
If the Church is good and Holy the World does well. If the Church turns poorly the World enters hell. The poor Church has never done so badly. The World is about toenter the seventh level of hell
Had a dream last night that there was a mass exodus of people from a city in very difficult times. I had a hose with water coming from it and was giving the people water to drink from it. In the dream I remember I felt very concerned about the people. I wonder is there significance in the dream.
One thing I can say, Sanctus, is that the dream reveals your caring heart! O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee!
I had a dream repeated twice of being back home years ago and being beside my mother when she was dying. I woke up with all the old feelings of that sad time rewakened and prayer for her poor old soul wherever it may be. It's so strange where our dreams can take us. One thing I am so sad about looking back on it is a deep shame and a sadness of the so many times I was not as good a son I should have been and the times I caused her pain and worry. My only excuse being that I was young and immature , may God forgive me. There is a French saying that we are never truly men until we forgive our Father. The goodness knows I have very,very little to forgive my mother for and she tons and tons to forgive me. But then again she always did forgive and right away. Love taught her this as it must teach us all.
I felt that I must post this experience I had back on Jan. 31, 1997 as I believe it pertains more to our times than it did back then. I had just come into the Church in 1993 and had no idea what the meaning of this was at that time (this is copied from my notes of that day). For your discernment: Jan. 31, 1997, St. Paul of the Cross Church, N. Palm Bch. ,FL When I awoke this morning, I felt Holy Mother's presence and felt as though she were right beside me. During Mass after receiving Holy Communion, I felt Jesus place His forehead upon mine (this happens to me often when I am looking at the picture of the Shroud of the Holy Face). He seemed so very sad and asked that I remain with Him this way all day to console Him. I have remained in His presence thus even up to when I am writing this. During the Rosary after Mass (we were praying the Sorrowful Mysteries of the scriptural rosary), He remained with me in this special way and spoke to me during each scripture verse. He said how sad He is over how many souls He suffered for in vain. Other things I remember Him saying "The church will walk to Calvary as I did. " "As the veil in the temple was rent in two, so will my church be. " My heart would have broken with sadness if I were not so happy over feeling Him so very close to me in this way! How can anyone reject Him who loves us so much? During each of the Our Fathers, Jesus looked up towards Heaven, but I did not hear His voice, I only felt Him praying with me to God our Father. There is so much I would like to explain but am totally incapable and only through the Grace of God, if it so pleases Him, can I explain any of these things at all!
Cat Steven's Dad.... "He turns away again!" Our Heavenly Father: Luke 15: 20 And he arose and came to his father. But while he was yet at a distance, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.
I had a dream last night that I was in Purgatory. I was in a car driving down a road in a small town, passing by a row of elderly people lying in hospital beds relaxing outside on their front porch. They were all happy and smiling. I knew each of them from a retirement home where I once worked, but for some reason when I awoke, I can only remember one elderly woman who stood out from all the others. I could see her so clearly. She was looking directly at me smiling. Even after all these years, I remember her full name. Dreams are funny, so it might not mean anything, but it occurred to me that perhaps she is in a higher level of Purgatory. I will pray for her soul.
I dreamed that I was attending the funeral of an elderly priest (whom I never saw) in the mother church of my city; instead of being veiled in a coffin, he was veiled in priestly garments on top of a rectangular table." I don't know how to describe it exactly; it was something akin to a funeral for a pope or a cardinal. I noticed that the church was different, since the statue of our crucified Lord, which is high in the center of the altar in my parish, had been removed, and there was something irreverent about the church, since in place of the chandeliers there were bottles hanging from the top of the church (non-alcoholic drinks). Another very bizarre detail was the "dead priest" moving from time to time during the funeral.
The altar I am referring to was the old altar where the Tridentine Mass was celebrated until the end of the 1960s.
I awoke from a nap yesterday afternoon to a short dream in which I saw a woman fall forcefully from the top of high steps infront of an altar all the way down to the floor where altar rails used to be. I do not know what this means but I am sure the forum has some thoughts on it. Thankfully, by God’s grace, I have nearly finished renewing my consecrations to Jesus thru Mary and to St Joseph. Safe under the Mantle of Mary and the Holy Cloak of Joseph. Prayer to Saint Joseph To you, O blessed Joseph, do we come in our tribulation, and having implored the help of your most holy Spouse, we confidently invoke your patronage also. Through that charity which bound you to the Immaculate Virgin Mother of God and through the paternal love with which you embraced the Child Jesus, we humbly beg you graciously to regard the inheritance which Jesus Christ has purchased by his Blood, and with your power and strength to aid us in our necessities. O most watchful guardian of the Holy Family, defend the chosen children of Jesus Christ; O most loving father, ward off from us every contagion of error and corrupting influence; O our most mighty protector, be kind to us and from heaven assist us in our struggle with the power of darkness. As once you rescued the Child Jesus from deadly peril, so now protect God's Holy Church from the snares of the enemy and from all adversity; shield, too, each one of us by your constant protection, so that, supported by your example and your aid, we may be able to live piously, to die in holiness, and to obtain eternal happiness in heaven. Amen. ( from the Enchiridion - indulgenced under usual conditions)
One of my friends relayed the following to me: A nun friend of his did great work in her parish, fasted and prayed lots, went on numerous pilgrimages etc, but had one weakness... obedience, which caused difficulties in her convent. They attended the same prayer meeting and people often gave her a word of knowledge about the importance of the vow of obedience. Anyhow, she died after suffering through a terminal illness. My friend had a dream shortly afterwards in which he was seated in a busy upstairs restaurant, lots of customers around at the other tables. A priest came in, looked around and shouted, "What are you doing here?" At that approx. two thirds of the people got up from the tables and rushed down the stairs. My friend went over to the stairway and looked down. He said a load of demons were on the landing hissing and spitting up at him, his nun friend amongst them. Up to then he used to pray for her soul but I think he stopped after that experience.
I am now sitting down to a Filipino smorgasbord after Sunday mass. The readings may have been relevant to my above dream: “I awoke from a nap yesterday afternoon to a short dream in which I saw a woman fall forcefully from the top of high steps infront of an altar all the way down to the floor where altar rails used to be. I do not know what this means but I am sure the forum has some thoughts on it.”
Apparently the Great Wave dream is a recurring dream across generations and across continents. Of course Tolkien was a devout Catholic so this is no surprise. (Mine was 20(?) years ago now and it’s still with me to this day.)