"We do aim them, but their God changes their path in mid-air" http://www.wnd.com/2014/08/hand-of-god-sent-missile-into-sea/
Funny you say this Padraig. I have felt so compelled to be close to Mary right now these past few days. Two nights ago in prayer I found myself praying to Mary in a completely different way than normal in the sense that I wasn't going through my routine of different set prayers to honor her but was more just talking to her as a son would talk to his own mother when life was bothering them. I was so emotional and just was begging her to take me in her arms with all the love that only a mother can give a son. I just wanted to be held so close and tight in her arms that night and feel her love and be enveloped in the flame that burns so hot and bright in her Immaculate heart. I was feeling so much stress and emotion and really a lack of love in my life for some reason so I called out to Mary to relieve me of that stress and to fill me with her motherly love. I felt wonderful after talking to her in this way. Last night I was praying my evening prayers before bed and I even went so far as to say to Jesus, "I hope you don't mind but I am going to be talking to your Mom again much more than you tonight, but I am quite sure you don't mind at all! I just need her motherly embrace, comfort and love right now in my life." So as I was again talking and praying and honoring our wonderful mother I was blessed to hear her again speak to me in my mind. I was a bit shocked because naturally you don't think this is really happening and you begin to instantly question yourself and your own mind. About a month ago I shared with you all that I heard her simply say my name after I had repeatedly said, " Mary, I love you." Last night I don't even recall what I was saying to her but all of a sudden I felt her presence next to me and heard her say, "I am here with you." It was so wonderful and so peaceful and I just feel so blessed to know that she is indeed right there with us when we need her and call to her. I feel like in the times we are in and their escalation, that heaven is indeed coming closer to us and breaking through the thin veil more frequently. At least that is what seems to be happening with me and others I talk with. A very close devout friend and work colleague of mine that I share some of his amazing things that happen on here from time to time had another amazing thing happen to him at church last Friday. He and I have been talking a lot of late of how the mass is really only one mass no matter how many you go to or how many there have been. There is only one mass when you take the human concept of time out of it. Every time we are at mass, in that moment we are all witnessing, both us and heaven, Jesus's first mass at the Last Supper. That is The Mass and there is only one Mass that we take part in every day if we go. We are right there with Jesus and the apostles and all of heaven at the Last Supper every time we go to church. So my friend was pondering this again during mass and during the consecration and all of a sudden he saw through the thin veil as the priest elevated the Host up during the consecration. In that moment he saw all the apostles next to the priest and they all kissed him on the cheek and standing behind the priest he saw Mary as well. It blew him away obviously and then they were gone. He has not told anyone this but me and not even his devout wife because who knows what people would think of this obviously. I share this with you all, one because you don't know him and he is not on this board, but also because it is again an example of how the thin veil is opening more and more of late.
I think this is the best way to talk to Mary and Jesus, Andy, from the heart and off the cuff. Of course sometimes formal is best, such as at mass and during the Office/ Rosary. At times of extreme stress and need we do this naturally we just cry out. I have a feeling we will be doing a lot of crying out shortly. I must say myself I feel Christ and Mary very,very close. I think one good sign is when we worry about and are concerned about other people rather than ourselves. I was watching the bodies of the dead Ebola victims thrown out in the streets in Liberia. The poor members of that strange sect dying on a hot mountain in Iraq. The poor, poor people In Gaza. The poor, poor Christians fleeing from the main Christian city in Iraq. ..and tonight I learn the USA are about to bomb Iraq. I confess my eyes fill with tears. I pray to Mary and Jesus that they might accept the offering of my life to relieve these poor people. Such terrible , terrible suffering..and all of it so needless.
This video in a French paper shows the destruction by ISIS of the tomb of Jonas in Mosul, the prophet who spent three days in the belly of the whale before evangelizing in Nineveh.
John 16 v2 - I always thought that this verse referred to Muslim extremist persecution of Christians in the end times: They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God.
I sympathize, Padraig. When my son was yet a boy, we went to a youth Mass at our Cathedral. At the end, they used a wholly inappropriate secular song for dismissal in an attempt at humor. I was furious, started muttering and get angrier and louder by the second. The whole thing was so disrespectful and offensive. My son was panicky as he tried to get me to settle down. I didn't want to settle down...I wanted the perpetrators to know they had deeply offended. My son did take note later on that they never did such a thing again. Flash forward to a few years ago. My son is a respected man in his community, a police officer active in the Knights. I was visiting him for a few months. At one Mass, they did some banal secular offensive thing and my son had a fit...muttering, then going up and telling the priest in no uncertain terms that that had no business at Mass. My son started to apologize to me afterwards for making a scene. I reminded him of my scene at the Cathedral and, with a wry grin, told him it was good to see such powerful evidence that he is his father's son.
The celestial signs continue: The biggest and brightest full moon in 2014 occurs this weekend, right before the Perseid meteor shower: http://miami.cbslocal.com/2014/08/06/supermoon-over-miami-this-weekend-to-be-biggest-brightest/
I am reading the Book of Leviticus at the moment Charlie after Mass, chapter by chapter. I try to imagine a concert in Tent of the Holy of Holies and fail. We have something even more Holy here in the Real Presense . Sigh. I will not rant. But Moses would have thrown something heavy at us like the two stone tablets. Sigh. Words fail me. It is just wrong. Not some kind of money making enterprise.
Padraig, you voice above exactly my own response this evening. What have we become ? Some consolation, maybe, is that some aid is reported to be getting through to those trapped on the mountain. Obama was right to respond and the UK and France are also supporting him. We must pray for this Islamic Caliphate to be stopped in its tracks. "I was watching the bodies of the dead Ebola victims thrown out in the streets in Liberia. The poor members of that strange sect dying on a hot mountain in Iraq. The poor, poor people In Gaza. The poor, poor Christians fleeing from the main Christian city in Iraq. ..and tonight I learn the USA are about to bomb Iraq. I confess my eyes fill with tears. I pray to Mary and Jesus that they might accept the offering of my life to relieve these poor people. Such terrible , terrible suffering..and all of it so needless."
All we can do Bella is to follow Mary. Do all she asks. As Jesus was the Lamb of God ,so too we are asked to be a pure Lamb , an acceptable sacrifice, as those of our sisters and brothers in the Middle East. it is awful, truly awful.
Does anyone think that the USA bombing or taking out ISIS murderors who are hunting down the 100,000 defensless citizens, hungry, thirsty, homeless and fleeing in exile is a bad thing?
I have been watching the coverage of the Christian refugees....they were pushed to a mountain to starve to death and if they leave they will be killed. Two options for not converting to Islam....God bless them. I am American. I hate the fact we are back in Iraq but, I think this is warranted to prevent mass genocide.
Our Lady 's messages to Elizabeth Kindlemann, to me, seem to say that only love and love alone will cover and conquer unimaginable evil. I told my husband that tonite, that no matter what evil comes against us we can only fight it with love. This is easy to say but hard to do and has got me praying more frequently for Mother Mary to help me as perfect love casts out all fear keeps coming to my mind more and more.
Miker....I love this quote: The wood on which Christ hung was felled in Eden, by our hands. And after all this time, mankind still holds the ax at the root.
I don't know what to make of this. This photo chills me, an awful sight: http://www.veooz.com/photos/ZHOsATC.html
