Like GPS. It took us once to a dead end road in the mountain wilderness of New Hampshire. Give me an old fashioned map any time.
What a great idea! I keep eying trips to Ireland but like Katfalls we have heth issues to sort out. but as you say we should while we still can.
I have long wondered if the sorting out of sheep and goats will follow the path of faithful believers from all denominations vs. Apostates of all denominations. We know eventually those staunch Protestants will come back to the ancient faith. But for now division continues.....sad.
Woke up twice last night began to say the Rosary and was back fast asleep in the space of two or three Hail Mary's. I may have invented the most efficient sleeping aid in history and may well patent it. Such a beautiful morning here. Thank God. I was thinking and praying about the Rosary last night and had a sudden idea from the Lord to try themed rosaries. So today, saying the Joyful mysteries I am going to be relating each mystery to Faith. So the Faith of Mary at the Annunciation, the Faith of Mary and St Elizabeth the Visitation. Then if this works move onto Hope, Charity and so on.
Thank God for this beautiful new day. We aren't guaranteed anything, not even that we should wake up each morning. Life is such a gift. Checked up on the promises attached to saying the Stations of the Cross. They are superb. Superb.
A A deep sleep is a great gift. I remember when I was young being able to sleep for 12 hours. What a Gift. You could take on the World if you're not tired all the time.
I will. I don't think any of us go away from a Marian Site empty handed. I see the head of the new Marian Vatican Observatory has said that they will automatically refect any apparitions were Mary talks of punishments or chastisements. He says a mother would never punish her children that it is all about mercy. So sites like Fatima, La Salette and Medugorje would be totally of the map. He also says any sites that raise questions about what is happening in the Church or the goings on of Pope Francis would be ruled out too. So sad. ..and these are the World's, 'experts'.
But of course Our Lady has never ever talked about she herself chastising anyone, she has spoken about God doing so. This is perfectly Scriptural and the Church has shown it's approval by approving sites like La Salette , Akita, Fatima, Kibeho and so on. But now it seems to no more. The Old Church got it all wrong in this as in much else. The new modern up to date Church is going to change all this. Mercy, mercy, mercy, what crimes are committed in your sweet name!
I can think of many instances were sin brings Chastisements right away. If we eat too much we grow fat. If we grow lazy we go broke. If we drink too much we have accidents. If we murder people we are more likely to be murdered ourselves. If we tell lies no one trusts us. If we are sexually immoral we catch diseases. ...and on and on and on...
Actions have consequences. It's written into the DNA of life. Bad actions have bad consequences. A child could tell you that. But apparently, according to the Vatican; no more.
Its the same old same old that Bishop Sheen warned of--Christ without the Cross. " Come down off that Cross and we will believe."
Of course not. The Church of Nice can't have bad consequences. Sigh. Its just like Anne Catharine Emmerich's vision of the Church. They are trying to dismantle it brick by brick and moving very fast now.
That's just insane. We are under attack from all sides. Even from within. Then again, if our lady really wants a message to get out there; no one will stop it.
I think, from what Our Blessed Mother has been saying, we have pretty well reached the end of a very long road anyway. Even in sites which have been accepted by the Church for a long time sunrises can keep cropping up. For instance St Catherine Labours of the Rue Du Bac / Miraculous Medal fame. I was just reading yesterday that she had daily visions of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament for an entire year before Our Lady appeared. Our Lord appeared dressed as a King warning of the Paris Commune, an Anarchist uprising which killed many Catholics. The young Lazarist priest who was her Spiritual Director decided she was making it all up. Also Our Lady wanted the Rue Du Bac to be the original Lourdes, it was only after High Parisian clergy nixed it that Our Lady was forced to appear in Lourdes, up the mountains in the middle of nowhere instead. The biggest enemies of Apparitions, saints and such like always arise for the most part from within the Church rather than from without.
