I am still unable to say that we are coming along in the Plan. Abortions on a huge scale, harvesting organs from live fetuses and also live people (in China) freezing fertilized embryos, cloning, biologic drugs in widespread usage, etc. misuse of God’s gifts, LBTGQ, human trafficking, Wuhan virus. I can’t even think, but there is more. It never ends. Some new abominations and new fatal conflicts daily. I do agree that keeping First Saturday is crucial. I have not been steady about that.
Supreme Court to Hear Major Abortion Case | National Review Breaking News for today, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a major abortion case, read more at link. I will pray, this evil needs to be stopped...we probably won't be able to totally do it but there is still a lot constructive that can be done, defund Planned Parenthood, give the rights on the matter to the States and so on.
I've just come across more information that was posted by Carol55 in 2017 in regards to the apparitions of "Our Lady of Revelations". Our Lady gives us dire warnings about the evil at these times . Part of what Our Lady of Revelations revealed, relates to what Sr Lucia said about Nuclear war being averted due to the Consecration by Pope JPII I believe. On 12 March 1983, Our Lady of Revelation tells Bruno Cornacchiola: “The danger is at the door, a nuclear war, if you act as I have said, it is inevitable” […] “I speak to all, the atomic is ready, men without conscience threaten to use it, and the danger is closer than you think” (op. Cit., P. 223). http://www.jesusmariasite.org/globa...asy-invasion-of-italy-destruction-in-vatican/ Below is the Article.... Global Earthquake, Nuclear War, Apostasy, Invasion of Italy, Destruction in Vatican The End Times Prophecies of the Three Fountains “Saverio Gaeta wrote an interesting book called “The seer. The secret of the three fountains “(publisher Salani, Milan, 2016). The author has been able to consult the diaries that Bruno Cornacchiola had written from 1947 to 2001, the year of his death, and kept at the association of the faithful founded by him, and reveals the contents in the above book. In April 12, 1947, Cornacchiola, at the location of the Three Fountains in Rome, where St. Paul undergo martyrdom, had an apparition of Our Lady containing some revelations. They (around sixty) continued throughout his life and Cornacchiola himself transcribed them in his Diaries. In this short article, I summarize the most current, which can help us better understand the terrible period we are going through. They are private revelations only. Cornacchiola himself submitted them to the ecclesiastical Authority for approval, and which starting with Pius XII who began to approve them. The meetings with Pius XII The first book of his Diaries containing the report of the first apparition of Our Lady, Bruno Cornacchiola gave it to Pope Pius XII on the night of July 22, 1947 being present Don Sfoggia, Father Riccardo Lombardi and Father Felice Maria Cappello, who had been able to read the April 12 message upon he Pope’s approval. At this private meeting followed a public one on December 9, 1949 (see Saverio Gaeta, “The seer. The secret of the three fountains”, p. 62) in which the Pope encouraged Cornacchiola to give lectures about the apparitions he had. Also on October 5, 1947 Pius XII blessed the statue of the Virgin depicting the Virgin appeared to Cornacchiola and in 1956 Pope Pius XII allowed the public worship, giving the Franciscans to be in charge of the custody of the cave, and of the adjacent chapel (see Saverio Gaeta, “The seer. The secret of the three fountains”, P. 106). The content of messages The content of the first apparition had not been made known and it is kept in the archives of the Holy Office, but Cornacchiola made a copy of it, being kept in the archives of his association, of which Saverio Gaeta (“The seer. The secret of the three fountains”, P. 59) reports the main passages so far unpublished. The diaries (of the seer Bruno Cornacchiola) consulted by Salvatore Gaeta are located at the association “Arditi Hosts of Christ the Immortal King” (SACRI) founded by Cornacchiola. The “Arditi (fearless) of Christ” who are primarily involved with the catechesis and had not read the diaries of Cornacchiola, which contain some surprising and unusual revelations until the writer Saverio Gaeta collected them in his book. The first revelation (April 12, 1947) is written by hand in a notebook of about thirty pages. The most important points are as follows: “The shepherds of the flock are not fulfilling their duty. Too much of the world has entered in their soul to give scandal to the flock and to divert him from the path. […]. Before Russia is converted and leave the path of atheism, a tremendous and severe persecution will be unleashed. Pray, it can be stopped. […]. Run away from the false things of the world, vain shows, and printed obscenities. […]. Satan is unchained for a period of time, and is going to start the fire of the protest among men. Children be strong, resist the assault from hell. […]. The whole Church will suffer a terrible ordeal, to clean the lust infiltrated among his ministers. […]. Priests and faithful will be put at a dangerous turning point in the world of Lost, which will hurl itself the assault with any means: false ideologies and theologies. […]. There will be days of sorrow and mourning. From the east a strong people, but far from God, will launch a terrible attack, and will break the most sacred and holy things. […]. The world will go into another war, the most ruthless of all; The more affected will be the eternal Rock (Roma). The wrath of Satan is not being any longer held; the Spirit of God is withdrawing from the earth, the Church will be left a widow; She will be left at the mercy of the world. […]. The most affected will be the Church of Christ to cleanse It from the filth It has inside. […]. The priests will be trampled and killed, that’s the (meaning of) the broken cross next to stripping of the exterior priest’s cassock “(Saverio Gaeta, op. Cit., pp. 80-88). The appearance of the February 21, 1948 reads: “This I say this to my sons the priests: you are becoming of the world, stripping yourselves of the sacred to desecrate and abandon the priesthood. […]. The world thirsts for truth, but you no longer give it water that quenches “(op. Cit., Pp. 89-91). Apparition of August 15, 1949: “Why don’t you move away from sin? Which will lead you to the most atrocious loss”. […] “This is going to happen especially to those who in these times full of sin hide my calls, in the modern time full of falsehoods” (op. cit., Pp. 91-93). […] “The sun will be darkened; the stars will fall, but do not understand this only to the material part of your thinking: there is the interpretive part of it and spiritual one, and it will be the suns of the proud and the stars of the arrogant that they will fall” […] “Outside the Apostolic and Roman Catholic Church there is no salvation” […] “To love everyone does not mean keeping a sentimental attitude” […] “Do not get undress of the priestly robe: the priest cassock calls to attention, it is a heavenly sign” (op. Cit., P. 93-95). There are others revelations. Particularly interesting is the vision seen February 24, 1968: “Satan now reigns in all the highest command posts” […] “Satan will enter in the leading places of the Church” […] “Temptations are going to be terrible, the world will live in such a confusion that the elect will have to dwell themselves in the doubt! There is no escape” […] “All will live terrible moments of war, destruction and political chaos, religious one and cultural one. How many errors and how many heresies will spread insidiously in every nation, in every convent” […] “What is needed is the individual apostolate not the monopolized apostolate” […] “It is needed to work among souls through the individual apostolate: the one who knows and knows how to do it, must work without any prior authorization” (op. Cit., P. 73). February 2, 1960, Our Lady says: “Blood and tears, Jesus bleeds, I your Mother, weep; the exact meaning of the truth is lost” (op. cit., p. 78). Edited to add the link
Continued... April 16, 1987: “You must offer yourself as a victim for the conversion and the sanctification of priests and religious, who have abandoned the path of the doctrine and of morality, losing the strength of salvation and because of them many souls go to hell” (op. Cit., P. 102) April 12, 1980 (thirty-third anniversary of the apparition) thousands of faithful gathered at Tre Fontane could watch from 17:50 to 18:20 at the miracle of the sun that began to twirl as the same as it had happened in Fatima on October 13, 1917 (op. Cit., P . 119) On February 1, 1986 Cornacchiola receives another stern message: “Prepare my children: I cannot hold my hand any longer! The wrath of justice is upon you” (op. Cit., P. 150). On page 153 of his book Saverio Gaeta brings a personal record of the seer Cornacchiola on a misunderstood ecumenism, which he defines “ecclesiastically incorrect”: “I cannot make up my mind at the idea that all religions lead to redemption. All religions, they are say now, give salvation. But then why did Jesus come, if there were already so many religions? Jesus says: ‘He who believes in Me shall be saved’; not the one who believes his religion. If Protestants are saved as well, Why did the Virgin come to call me to tell me to return to the holy Fold, when She could very well have left me where I was, among the Adventist?”. On January 9, 1986 Cornacchiola has another locution: “Today, men have put all religions on the same level so that all lead to God and everyone is saved” […] “Then those who do not accept Jesus get saved too?” […] “Satan cannot do anything against the Church because It is divine; but he can do a lot against the souls who live in It; on the contrary he will introduce evil under the moral robe, religious one, political and social ones.” […] “I am calling all to conversion, but for justice I have to leave to hold my Son’s hand, precisely because justice has to be fulfilled” (op. Cit., P. 165-166) Dreadful is the vision seen on April 7, 1966: “I see the Basilica of St. Peter who has its whole facade badly damaged, we watch it and weep” (op. Cit., P. 169). On August 1, 1966: “I see myself in front of the church called ‘of the Holy Stairs’, in the near square where there is the obelisk. It was like as a large room set up with bishops and cardinals. Suddenly the whole facade of the church collapses over many bishops, cardinals and others.”(ibid). In the message of January 1, 1988, a special warning is reserved to priests: “You’re trampling on my sheep and taking them toward perdition. Why are you no longer make my doctrine known? Why are you taking my sheep where there is dry grass and deadly bushes?” […]. “I have been killed just because my doctrine was not theirs (of the Pharisees). You have closed the mouth and the ears of my flock. You have locked the door to my Church not to enter It and not to let my people in”(op. Cit., P. 171). In 1982, Our Lady gave an additional warning to priests (which gave many problems to Cornacchiola): “They go miserably sure around without no external priestly signs: they do not only live in doubt of faith, but attract others to leave the faith” […] They (the priests) got drunk of the world and of the false modernism” (op. Cit., Pp. 172-173). One of the most touching visions is that of 28 April 1986. Cornacchiola found himself in St. Peter’s Square and Our Lady says to him: “Although the one who gives an order seems in error, you are bound to obey, unless that order touches faith, morality and charity. Then no! “(Op. Cit., P. 174). On 12 November 1986, Our Lady shows Cornacchiola a terrifying scene: “I see many priests with their cassocks and religious ones, men and women with their robes: all in line and the captors who push them, dragging one by one onto a wooden stage. They had them kneel down and then asking them: ‘Get rid of the robe’. At their answer: ‘No!’ They took their head and put it on a chopping block and there they were beheaded by the executioner who had an axe”(op. Cit., P. 174-175). One of the most current vision applying to our time seems that of July 18, 1996: “Especially many of my sons the priests, and even those of higher rank, fall easily into the arms of satan like dry leaves falling from a tree at the blowing of the wind” (op. Cit., Pp. 181-182). On June 4, 1964, Our Lady had dictated a request to Cornacchiola “Save mankind from the deluge of fire” (op. Cit., P. 183). On 1 January 1988 the seer receives a revelation that opens the doors of the future that awaits mankind: “You have some examples, Sodom and Gomorrah did not repent, they did not do penance and you know what justice made of them” […] “Unless you do not convert, iron and fire will fall down upon you” […] “What you call peace is nothing but deception because it lacks of conversion* and everything is getting ready for a satanic war” *(repentance and rejection of sin) (op. Cit., P. 187). Another apparition very close to our times, is that of August 14, 1999: “The Virgin shows me the religious, the priests, the bishops, the cardinals and tells me: ” They are deaf and foolish! They see the signs that are a call, but do not reason upon this reality” […] “They deny the Triune God and proudly make themselves god ‘ “(op. Cit., P. 195). March 13, 2000, Our Lady says: “Salvation is not to gather all religions to make a pile of heresies and errors, but convert yourselves for the unity of love and faith” (op. Cit., P. 204). On the night of December 31, 1984: “I feel being transported into the center of Rome, exactly in Piazza Venezia (Venice square). There is a crowd gathered there shouting: ‘Revenge!’. Lots of blood was spilling all over the world, all the world smeared with blood. Suddenly all those people starts shouting: ‘All in Saint Peter (square)!’ And they kept shouting: ‘Revenge!’. On the square inside the colonnade, there were the pope, the cardinals, the bishops and the priests. Everybody was crying. To my wonder: they were barefoot and Our Lady was shouting: ‘Do penance!'”(Op. Cit., P. 207). On July 21, 1998: “I dreamed that Muslims were surrounding churches and were closing the doors and from the roofs they were throwing gasoline and setting up fire, with the faithful in them praying and everything was burning” (op. Cit., P. 210). At the dawn, on February 10, 2000, another dreadful dream: “I am in St. Peter’s […] a crowd of barbarians ran inside the basilica killing everyone he met” […] “All the priests present there in with cassock robe, at the sides of the churchyard the bishops were at the left and the Cardinals at the right and praying on their knees with their face to the ground” (op. Cit., P. 210). March 11, 1970 “What a bad night I had. A dream kept me apprehensive all night. The Pope surrounded by cardinals and bishops who were shouting at him revolutionary words” […] “The Pope is being taken and thrown into a well”(op. Cit., P. 217). That of 21 September 1988 is the most interesting: “What I dreamed I wish never come true, it is too painful and I hope that the Lord will not allow the Pope to deny any truth of faith and put himself in place of God. How much pain I felt during the night, my legs were getting paralyzed and I could not move, for the pain I felt in looking at the Church reduced to a pile of ruins “(op. cit., p. 218). On January 4, 1992: “Christians are fighting one another because they no longer have a leader to guide them” (op. Cit., P. 219). On January 26, 1996: “Last night I saw the basilica of St. Peter set on fire” (op. Cit., P. 220). On 31 December 1990 Our Lady tells the seer Cornacchiola: “False prophets, who seek by all means to poison the souls changing the doctrine of Jesus in satanic doctrines; They will take away the Sacrifice of the cross that is repeated on the altars all over the world” (op. cit., p. 221). On 12 March 1983, Our Lady of Revelation tells Cornacchiola: “The danger is at the door, a nuclear war, if you act as I have said, it is inevitable” […] “I speak to all, the atomic is ready, men without conscience threaten to use it, and the danger is closer than you think” (op. Cit., P. 223). On 13 July 1998: “Last night I suffered greatly in a dream. There was the war and foreigners invaded Italy “(op. Cit., P. 226). Conclusion The writer Saverio Gaeta concludes: “I know that these pages will trigger protests and controversy, accusations of sensationalism and suggestions of ‘pre-Vatican II’. But if the inspiration to Cornacchiola really came from Heaven, as I personally believe, it is certainly appropriate to make them known to the general public, taking them away from the darkness of some dusty archive of the Holy See”(op. Cit., P. 229). Source Don Curzio Nitoglia
I believe the world is in much worse shape than it has ever been in, even despite the consecration of Russia to our Lady by Pope St JPII in 1984. The late consecration bought us time, for what? to save souls? or because Gods Love is unfathomable! Our Lord tells us in both Matthew and Luke's Gospels what we are to expect in these times. Additionally the catholic catechism states this in no uncertain terms! I will add this tomorrow as I am really tired tonight and must go to bed. Luke - Chapter 21:9-34 9 And when you hear of wars and revolutions, do not be terrified, for this is something that must happen first, but the end will not come at once.' 10 Then he said to them, 'Nation will fight against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. 11 There will be great earthquakes and plagues and famines in various places; there will be terrifying events and great signs from heaven. 12 'But before all this happens, you will be seized and persecuted; you will be handed over to the synagogues and to imprisonment, and brought before kings and governors for the sake of my name 13 -and that will be your opportunity to bear witness. 14 Make up your minds not to prepare your defence, 15 because I myself shall give you an eloquence and a wisdom that none of your opponents will be able to resist or contradict. 16 You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers, relations and friends; and some of you will be put to death. 17 You will be hated universally on account of my name, 18 but not a hair of your head will be lost. 19 Your perseverance will win you your lives. 20 'When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then you must realise that it will soon be laid desolate. 21 Then those in Judaea must escape to the mountains, those inside the city must leave it, and those in country districts must not take refuge in it. 22 For this is the time of retribution when all that scripture says must be fulfilled. 23 Alas for those with child, or with babies at the breast, when those days come! 24 'For great misery will descend on the land and retribution on this people. They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive to every gentile country; and Jerusalem will be trampled down by the gentiles until their time is complete. 25 'There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars; on earth nations in agony, bewildered by the turmoil of the ocean and its waves; 26 men fainting away with terror and fear at what menaces the world, for the powers of heaven will be shaken. 27 And then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 When these things begin to take place, stand erect, hold your heads high, because your liberation is near at hand.' 29 And he told them a parable, 'Look at the fig tree and indeed every tree. 30 As soon as you see them bud, you can see for yourselves that summer is now near. 31 So with you when you see these things happening: know that the kingdom of God is near. 32 In truth I tell you, before this generation has passed away all will have taken place. 33 Sky and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. 34 'Watch yourselves, or your hearts will be coarsened by debauchery and drunkenness and the cares of life, and that day will come upon you unexpectedly, And in the next post Matthew 24: 6- 47 on the end times
Matthew 24: 6- 47 6 You will hear of wars and rumours of wars; see that you are not alarmed, for this is something that must happen, but the end will not be yet. 7 For nation will fight against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8 All this is only the beginning of the birthpangs. 9 'Then you will be handed over to be tortured and put to death; and you will be hated by all nations on account of my name. 10 And then many will fall away; people will betray one another and hate one another. 11 Many false prophets will arise; they will deceive many, 12 and with the increase of lawlessness, love in most people will grow cold; 13 but anyone who stands firm to the end will be saved. 14 'This good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed to the whole world as evidence to the nations. And then the end will come. 15 'So when you see the appalling abomination, of which the prophet Daniel spoke, set up in the holy place (let the reader understand), 16 then those in Judaea must escape to the mountains; 17 if anyone is on the housetop, he must not come down to collect his belongings from the house; 18 if anyone is in the fields, he must not turn back to fetch his cloak. 19 Alas for those with child, or with babies at the breast, when those days come! 20 Pray that you will not have to make your escape in winter or on a Sabbath. 21 For then there will be great distress, unparalleled since the world began, and such as will never be again. 22 And if that time had not been shortened, no human being would have survived; but shortened that time shall be, for the sake of those who are chosen. 23 'If anyone says to you then, "Look, here is the Christ," or "Over here," do not believe it; 24 for false Christs and false prophets will arise and provide great signs and portents, enough to deceive even the elect, if that were possible. 25 Look! I have given you warning. 26 'If, then, they say to you, "Look, he is in the desert," do not go there; "Look, he is in some hiding place," do not believe it; 27 because the coming of the Son of man will be like lightning striking in the east and flashing far into the west. 28 Wherever the corpse is, that is where the vultures will gather. 29 'Immediately after the distress of those days the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30 And then the sign of the Son of man will appear in heaven; then, too, all the peoples of the earth will beat their breasts; and they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet to gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. 32 'Take the fig tree as a parable: as soon as its twigs grow supple and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. 33 So with you when you see all these things: know that he is near, right at the gates. 34 In truth I tell you, before this generation has passed away, all these things will have taken place. 35 Sky and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. 36 But as for that day and hour, nobody knows it, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, no one but the Father alone. 37 'As it was in Noah's day, so will it be when the Son of man comes. 38 For in those days before the Flood people were eating, drinking, taking wives, taking husbands, right up to the day Noah went into the ark, 39 and they suspected nothing till the Flood came and swept them all away. This is what it will be like when the Son of man comes. 40 Then of two men in the fields, one is taken, one left; 41 of two women grinding at the mill, one is taken, one left. 42 'So stay awake, because you do not know the day when your master is coming. 43 You may be quite sure of this, that if the householder had known at what time of the night the burglar would come, he would have stayed awake and would not have allowed anyone to break through the wall of his house. 44 Therefore, you too must stand ready because the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect. 45 'Who, then, is the wise and trustworthy servant whom the master placed over his household to give them their food at the proper time? 46 Blessed that servant if his master's arrival finds him doing exactly that. 47 In truth I tell you, he will put him in charge of everything he owns. What the Catholic Catechism says about the end times is extraordinarily informative and answers many questions. I will hopefully be able to comment on this tomorrow. Good night all! May God Bless us all. Amen
There is also the talk that the 20th century was "Satan's Century". Not now. Pope Leo discussed it, the 100 years are well known. Even if the century was from the date of Fatima... that would have ended in 1917. Monsignor Charles Pope: There was something about the 20th Century, something awful. Did Pope Leo have the answer? - Community in Mission (adw.org) In Leo’s vision, God gave Satan the choice of one century in which to do his worst work against the Church…the devil chose the Twentieth Century. —Fr. William Saunders, The Prayer to St. Michael https://catholicstand.com/gods-chat-devil-popeleo/ On October 13, 1884, Pope Leo XIII heard Satan ask God for 75-100 years to have dominion over mankind. According to Pope Leo XIII, Satan was granted the time to test mankind in unknown ways. Pope Leo fainted after he heard the conversation between God and Satan, and he personally composed the Saint Michael Prayer, which was said after every low Mass up to Vatican II in the mid 1960’s. When Did the 100-Year Reign of Satan Begin? | Catholicism Pure & Simple (wordpress.com) So, I guess this is "Eschatology", just quoting the Gospel seems to be more of Protestant Eschatology than Catholic. Also, per abortion rates, as evil as abortion is, in the US, rates are down quite a bit. https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/202...-continues-to-decline-lowest-since-roe-v-wade https://www.lifeandfamily.com.au/abortion-and-fatima/ Abortion and Fatima – Life and Family Institute "Communist Russia was the first country to legalise abortion. It was in 1917, two years after Our Lady appeared at Fatima. The communist regime had birth control high on its agenda and with socialist misery the lot of every Russian, abortion became a widespread method of preventing births." Communist countries and former Communist countries, Russia, Vietnam, Cuba, Romania still have quite an abortion problem. There are stats kept that show this.
TinMH, Thank you for those wonderful links. In certain countries like the USA, there have been downturns in the number of abortions. However, the claim by Worldometer that last year there were over 42 million abortions simply leaves me speechless. That translates into at least 1 abortion every second. Can this be true? Fortunately, CBN reports that: Dr. Michael New with the Charlotte Lozier Institute tweeted there was a 2.5 percent decrease in the US abortion rate and that it's fallen by 24.2 percent since 2009. So my heart is torn in two, but let us never grow slack in our prayers! Let God arise, and his enemies be scattered!
I just came upon such an interesting discussion on all this the other night. From, I would say very, holy and orthodox , loyal and devout Catholics. They made me so proud to be Catholic, so well read and informed. They made me so proud to be a Catholic. But anyway the question came up, which many Catholics ask at the moment, given that the world is so Satanically bad why has God not already let fall the sword of Justice? The answer given was that it is a stupendous act of God's Mercy. Well I would beg to disagree. It is not an act of Mercy but an act of Justice. God is so angry with the world that he is letting us go on our own way, so we merit the big zap to come. God, is very,very,very, angry indeed. He has never, ever since the beginning of the world ever, ever been so angry...
Yes, this is good info. Satan's extra power is coming to an end, and you can see it reflected in the Church. The new young priests are traditional and holy and it's mainly the oldest members on their way out that were the ones that caused so much harm. For all that we dont like about what this pope and many cardinals are doing, it's nothing compared to what occurred all over the world during the 1960s and 70s. They erected ugly buildings with distorted figures and called them churches, took Jesus out of the sanctuary and stuffed Him in little side rooms like He was an afterthought, introduced all the weird new liturgical abuses and purposely watered down our faith to nearly nothing. The cloistered religious opened their doors and "threw off their shackles" and the priests and religious stopped wearing their habits in public. Such an ugly scorning of the religious in favor of the secular. This has mostly been reversed. New churches being built are most often beautiful and traditional now. The tabernacles are being returned to Jesus' rightful place. The most liberal churches and convents are dying and the faithful ones are growing. People are flocking to Latin Masses, there's an explosion in the production and demand for faithful religious books for both adults and children, a rise in demand for sacramentals. Many old devotions are returning and ones that have lain silently in wait for centuries are now coming to light. Something has taken a turn. There were decades of decline, so it won't be overnight, but change in a good direction HAS begun. And think about this: The decline happened when the world KNEW better. They had been given so much and threw it away to embrace the world. The evil committed in the 60s and 70s will perhaps be judged more harshly than the evil committed now, for much of the young people today know almost nothing about faith. All they know is this corrupt world that assaults them everywhere they turn. It was easy to be faithful back when every one went to church, but now? To follow God you must swim against the tide, and that is much harder and worth far more. So we can't just compare the evil of the world at face value to the evil of the world several decades ago. There is a spiritual difference.
A rat is never more dangerous than when it's cornered, that's when it comes right out into the open.## Don't write the rat off.
This rat will only ever have as much power as God will allow it. I don't know God's plans, but I trust Him with my whole heart and am encouraged by the positive things happening in the Church. More drastic purification may be on the horizon, but it's not all doom and gloom!
You've registered in this site after I did, and you post more than I do. But I want to let you know, that because of your Love and Trust for Jesus and Mary you've slowly become my favorite poster on this forum. Sometimes one gets the impresion that Satan has infiltrated these forums(even this thread has a false apparition posted), and some other times it's people like you that proves me that this demonic trash and his insidious adherents did a poor job at it. God had us live during these times, only He knows why. But I think that one of the meanings behind it is that we are needed in the events that are happening and the important events that are to come. Keep your Faith and Love for Jesus and His Mother this big, my purple flower, and you can remain nightly in my prayers.
I agree that possibly the numbers of abortions have gone down but: how many babies have been aborted by abortifacients? How many embryos have been fertilized outside the womb and frozen or destroyed? It’s impossible to count. I don’t think we can ignore that in the overall assessment.
Thank you for your very kind words, Petrus. My hope is that we will all keep the faith and be Christ's light to others, while keeping our eyes on God. We know what He's asked of us: to grow in love and virtue, to help Christ save souls, to pray and make reparation in order to AVERT or mitigate chastisement... My hope is that we don't get too bogged down with discouragement and fear, or even a zeal for the world to be punished. Our God is a just God indeed, but He has chosen to send His beloved daughter to plead with us to help stay His hand. She doesn't come of her own accord, she comes in His name, perfectly united to His Will. So yes, we deserve His punishment, but He is still extending us His mercy, He loves us so much. We owe it to Him to do everything we can to reach others with His mercy, and I think sometimes that is hindered by all the false prophecies that say nothing but "Woe! Punishment is coming! Prepare yourselves!" Mary did not say in Fatima to prepare ourselves. She begged us to pray, make sacrifices, and help save sinners from Hell. If we focus on those things, we'll console Christ and Mary's hearts, atone for our own sins, do God's Will, and have more joy and peace in our lives, no matter what is happening in the world. I'm always trying to remind myself of this! I appreciate your prayers very much and will keep you in mine as well.
I have to disagree with part of your assessments. I’m old enough to remember the years of which you speak. I think the evil in the Church is much worse today, especially when the sodomite priests and the awful goings on in Germany and the Vatican are considered. Perhaps it is because you are learning about this now and you weren’t going through those years. It’s a matter of degree. I don’t feel all gloom and doom , though, just because I call a spade a spade. I do have to say that I’m not happy about the changes made in the Church during the 60’s and 70’s. I don’t feel comfortable with your characterization that people “threw it away to embrace the world.” It was actually a slow death, the frog in the water with the temperature slowly rising. But we stayed in the Barque. Blessed be God.
