Signs

Discussion in 'The Signs of the Times' started by themilitantcatholic, Sep 3, 2015.

  1. AED

    AED Powers

    The ring of fire vibrating again.
     
  2. AED

    AED Powers

    Yikes. 6.9!!! Is that a populated area? I hope your family is all right.
     
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  3. AED

    AED Powers

    Wow.
     
  4. AED

    AED Powers

    This is out and out religious bigotry and suppression.
     
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  5. AED

    AED Powers

    You are blessed to have such a good and courageous daughter. She learned this from her good and courageous Mom.
     
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  6. The Asteroid Peril Isn’t Science Fiction
    Even if we managed to spot a small but dangerous asteroid heading for Earth, we currently have no means to stop it

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-asteroid-peril-isnt-science-fiction-11562339356

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    It used to be that NASA was able to track "space junk" like comets or meteors for years and pinpoint their arrival and distance from earth. But now it would appear that such scientists are themselves being surprised by sudden, unexpected arrivals....being reported AFTER the damage is done.


    Signs 39 – Is There a Breaking Point?

    Marshall Masters | July 2, 2019

    The numbers are in for June 2019, and forget about wondering if we are seeing an alarming trend taking shape with our fireball data, because there is something new and even more worrisome to ponder.

    Now we have six solid months of record-breaking monthly fireball observations in all of recorded history, is there a breaking point?

    We’ve been wondering about this since May 7, 2019, in our article Signs 35 – Those Darn Rocks we stated: “There is a new trend forming in the data that indicates that we could be passing through a dense outer ring of the Nemesis system.” Well, forget maybe kiddos, we’re there.

    All this and current world events prompted Yowusa.com researcher J.P. Jones to revisit our earthquake dataset that dates back to January 1997. In reviewing the numbers, he found that the 2018 Hawaii earthquake swarms were so statically massive that they actually skewed the overall data going all the way back to 1997.

    We’ll also take a look at the mounting numbers of disturbing harbinger signs worldwide. Like Dorothy said in the Wizard of Oz, “We’re Not in Kansas Anymore.” With this in mind, let’s get into the numbers.
     
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  7. padraig

    padraig Powers

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    padraig Powers

  9. padraig

    padraig Powers

    The Earthquakes in the USA made me think of this:

     
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  10. Tanker

    Tanker Powers

    Cali is a hot mess!
     
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    padraig Powers

  12. Tanker

    Tanker Powers

    :(:(

    Makes me sick to watch this. This is the blueprint for across the world probably. Extremist thoughts. So my rosary is likely thought of as extremist. Wow. Praying for the good of the world, praying for the health of others, are considered extremist. Sigh :(
     
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  13. padraig

    padraig Powers

    What the Chinese Communists are doing on Islam at the moment the West will be doing on Christians tomorrow. It sticks in the craw to defend Islam in light of what they are doing to us. But in defending their religious freedoms we simply defend our own.

    I am afraid Camps like these are heading right towards us.
     
  14. Good signs! We are told in certain current messages to look for the lights among us....beyond what the dark world communicates!

    The booming monasteries that are running out of cells

    Among the most startling aspects of the post-Vatican II era of the Catholic Church has been the dramatic decline of vocations to the religious life in the Western world.

    According to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA), the number of religious priests in the US declined from 22,707 to 11,326 between 1965 and 2018, and the number of religious brothers dropped from 11,326 to 3,897, all at a time when the overall Catholic population increased.

    Those communities that defy the trend and are blessed with quality younger vocations typically have three common characteristics: living and praying together in community, wearing an identifiable religious habit, and fidelity to the teaching authority of the Church. While acceptance requirements for these communities vary, they are typically looking for a younger man (under 30), a practising Catholic who is habitually in the state of grace, and a man willing and able to embrace the challenges of religious life.

    Candidates may come from any part of the US or outside of the country and be of different ethnic backgrounds, and they typically come from stable Catholic homes, where the practice of the faith was emphasised and virtuous lives encouraged.

    Such candidates will, in turn, be attracted to traditional orders, and, in speaking to specific members of individual communities, be attracted by additional factors as well.

    The Monastery of Christ in the Desert of Abiquiu (christdesert.org), New Mexico, has enjoyed remarkable growth and is today home to 60 monks with an average age of 34. They have had to delay accepting further applicants, according to Brother Benedict, the community’s prior, as they don’t have enough cells to accommodate more monks.

    The monks follow the Rule of St Benedict, engaging in manual labour to sustain their needs and praying throughout the day from 4am to 8pm. While Brother Benedict has been happy during his 42 years as a monk, he admits it’s not for everyone: “If you’re not called to this life, you’ll find it difficult. We have ‘short sleep and long prayer’. But for those called to it, it is heaven. It is unbelievably beautiful.”

    Central to the community’s success, he believes, is that “We’re a joyful community, and joy is very attractive. We’ve had the same superior for 42 years [though he has just retired from leadership], which leads to stability and continuity.”

    The Brotherhood of Hope (brotherhoodofhope.org), headquartered in Boston, is a community of religious brothers which evangelises college students at secular schools.

    It will mark its 40th anniversary in 2020. It has more than 20 professed members, and, according to General Superior Brother Ken Apuzzo, God is using the community “to bring about a renewal of brotherhood”.

    The brothers’ habit is a light-coloured shirt, modelled on Filipino formal wear, with an anchor on the pocket, symbolising hope. With it, they wear black trousers and a crucifix around their necks. They begin their day with morning prayer, Mass and Adoration, and then head out to college campuses to evangelise young students.

    Brother Parker Jordan, who made his perpetual vows in 2014, believes that young people are attracted to the community because of its common life, fraternal bond and mutual charity. They also marvel at the brothers’ vow of consecrated chastity. He said: “They see we are not in sexual relationships, but are happy. It baffles them. They come to see that for us Jesus is enough.”

    The Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Dallas in Irving, Texas (cistercian.org/abbey) was founded by Hungarian Cistercians in the 1950s and today operates a prep school for boys. Somes of its 27 members teach at the University of Dallas and help out at local parishes. They keep a full monastic schedule, and wear the traditional Cistercian habit, a white tunic with a black scapular.

    Vocations to the community were once sparse, says Abbot Peter Verhalen, but that changed in 2003. “We had three guys come each of five years in a row,” he explained. “They were excellent young men, happy and healthy, and of the 15, 11 persevered to ordination.

    “When young men discerning a vocation come to us, they see other young men in the community who are talented, athletic and pious, and they want to join. It’s been a snowball effect.”

    Jim Graves is a Catholic writer living in Newport Beach, California

    https://catholicherald.co.uk/magazine/the-booming-monasteries-that-are-running-out-of-cells/

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    The orders growing so fast that they are running out of room

    Those doing well typically wear the habit, live and pray in community, and remain faithful to Church teaching

    Much has been written over the past few decades about the dramatic decline of religious life in the United States since the close of the Second Vatican Council in 1965, but nowhere is it more noticeable than its impact on women religious. According to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA), there were 45,605 women in religious life in 2017, compared with 179,954 in 1965 – a decline of about 75 per cent in a period when the US population has risen from 194 million to 326 million.

    The average age of most communities has dramatically increased, and many once well-established communities are facing extinction. The Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, for example, were founded by St Katharine Drexel (1858-1955). Their 44-acre motherhouse outside of Philadelphia once trained Sisters to serve at missions across the country. The community at one time numbered 600, but vocations have since dried up and there are fewer than 100 today (mostly retired). The motherhouse property was sold to a developer in 2017, with proceeds going towards the Sisters’ retirement needs.

    While such stories of decline are common among women’s orders in the West, there are a handful of communities bucking the trend. While each community is unique, those doing well typically share some common characteristics, such as wearing the habit, living and praying together in community, and fidelity to the teaching authority of the Church.

    One such community is the Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia, or Nashville Dominicans, who number about 300. They have many younger Sisters who teach in Catholic schools in around 40 US states, as well as in Australia, Scotland and Canada. While they strive to give their students an excellent education, more fundamental is their desire to raise up a future generation of devout Catholics. As their Vicaress General, Sister Anne Catherine Burleigh, explained: “In the end, we all know that our schools exist to evangelise. We want our students to see that their call is to holiness, and that they respond affirmatively to that call.”

    Other bright lights include the Michigan-based Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist. Founded in 1997, they’re also teachers. They number about 140 with an average age in the upper 20s. Last year, they sang for President Donald Trump at the White House Christmas tree lighting.

    Founding Sister Joseph Andrew Bogdanowicz noted that the community is having difficulty building the housing required for new Sisters: “We cannot build fast enough to accommodate all our vocations. We’ve filled our motherhouse and we’re looking for more space to build.”

    The Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma, also based in Michigan, have gone from seven Sisters when they were founded in 1973 to about 100 today. They are involved in healthcare and education, and serve in 11 US states, Scotland, Germany, Italy and Australia.

    Sister Mary Hanah Doak teaches at a Colorado school served by the Sisters. She noted: “Our Sisters share a common consecration to Our Lord lived out in prayer, and live community life in common. They love one another and love their vocations. They are honest with one another, and are comfortable in addressing and working out problems which can arise.”

    While there may be no quick or easy solutions to revitalising religious life in the West, these three communities, and a handful of others like them, seem to be heading in the right direction.

    Jim Graves is a Catholic writer living in Newport Beach, California

    https://catholicherald.co.uk/magazine/the-orders-growing-so-fast-that-they-are-running-out-of-room/







     
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  15. padraig

    padraig Powers

    If someone was running a business and saw something working so well they would go to this place, find out what they are doing right and attempt to replicate it. But this never seems to happen in the Church, it's like we are all sleeping.

    But I suspect the reason why we do not replicate places like these is that very often they are coming from a very Traditional, Orthodox place and the very last thing the Bishops want to do is follow their example, no matter how successful.

    How interesting that Modernist enterprises invariably collapse and fail while more Traditional approaches seem to invariably thrive.

    The inescapable conclusion being that God blesses the one and shuns the other.

     
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  16. Don_D

    Don_D ¡Viva Cristo Rey!

    So in the interview they mention taking people "on the edge" and returning them to society after transforming them in these camps. Are they not merely conditioning them via song and dance to offer their pinch of incense to their new idol the state. I wonder, how are they determining who these people are? Via their social media credit score perhaps? The one that punishes and rewards citizens for their behaviors online? There is no anonymity online in China. I wonder also, what happens to those who are reprogrammed and returned to society who then become even more "extreme" speaking out against their governments attempts to stomp out their beliefs.
    I think what we are seeing in China is encouraged by westerners both private and corporations who have invested billions of dollars there and love nothing more than to see communism rule the entire earth. The perfect society of workers at their beck and call.
    The support of the Vatican of a nation undertaking such draconian measures towards its own citizens ought to be a wake up. What justifies this cooperation with a government who is destroying unauthorized churches and locking up millions of people for thought crimes and worship deemed against the states interests.
    The dichotomy of east and west is interesting in part because in the west under the banner of Liberty both religious and state we have seen the tearing apart of Christian societies norms but in the east where there is no concept of personal liberty only materialism and worship of the state that great monster is rising up with its tentacles stretching out into dozens of countries throughout the world influencing them.
    This investigative expose was merely a movie preview.
     
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  17. padraig

    padraig Powers

    It is certainly very troubling. The immediate question arise, if the Vatican knew these Mind Control Camps existed (and how could they not) then how on Earth could they have made the deal with these devils? ..and it really is a deal with the devil; these Camps are totally Satanic.

    It's very, very troubling indeed. What could they be thinking?
     
  18. Don_D

    Don_D ¡Viva Cristo Rey!

    No matter how hard they try, they can not suppress the truth.

     
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  19. Don_D

    Don_D ¡Viva Cristo Rey!

    Well, IMO given what we know about the man who was a keystone in brokering the deal with China and the Vatican (Mr McCarrick AKA Uncle Ted, keeping in mind that a man like McCarrick is enslaved to his passions) I don't think it would be out of bounds or much of a stretch to consider that there are those in the prelacy of the VII church as we see it today who see what is happening in China as some sort of fruit of liberation theology. After all, it's all about feeding the poor right and under the communists their bellies are full.

    Enter Francis, a man who spent a great deal of time in the midst of those harboring liberation theology and the men he has surrounded himself with in the halls of the Vatican and here we are.
    I think that this deal with China was being harbored for a great deal of time before he came along.
     
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  20. The idea of Russia and China joining in Cyber Security warfare is one way of fulfilling the thinking that they are joining forces with the main goal for each being the U.S. (included in recent messages to Luz de Maria) But if that is ever accomplished they will then focus on eating each other for supreme power. Nature will more than likely intervene w/ more disasters to focus upon. Signals guiding direction of military manuevers could be effected. While Satan is attempting with such means to cause chaos against the protectors of civilization we pray the Flame of Love to "blind Satan" in order to send the minions into disarray.


    What Is Russia Up to in the Icy Waters of the Arctic?

    A tragic fire aboard a secret Russian nuclear "mini-sub" in the Barents Sea that killed 14 senior sailors has refocused media attention on a little-noticed flash-point of the world: the Arctic. That an important Russian system was being tested or demonstrated was suggested by reports "that among the 14 dead were 7 senior navy captains and 2 'Heroes of Russia.'" The presence of so many Russian navy worthies raises questions because brass do not typically twiddle dials on mini-submarines, but watch them being twiddled until something goes horribly wrong.


    ........The most widespread speculation surrounding the tragedy in the Barents Sea is that "the sub may have been on a secret Russian Mission looking to tap into or cut underwater fiber optic or internet cables that span the Atlantic and Arctic sea Lanes." Florida Congressman Michael Waltz of the House Armed Services Committee made the case on Fox:

    I think most people think the internet's in the cloud. It's really under the ocean.
    There are almost 400 of these cables are about the size of a really large garden hose that run several hundred thousand miles and in our entire modern economy is dependent on these fiber optic cables from banking to insurance to financial markets and it's not just communicating with each other it is how they actually access their data and data centers all over the world.

    So both the Russians and the Chinese have made it clear in their National Security strategy that they are not going to take the United States on tank to tank or aircraft carrier aircraft carrier. They are going to attack us asymmetrically that's attacking us in space cyber undermining our confidence our elections or in this case and what this sub was doing very likely was tapping into these cables to collect the data to gather intel.

    While the Russian secret submarine might have been part of a future digital Pearl Harbor, it might be part of a physical threat as well. Russian nuclear-powered undersea drones are the ideal new U-boats. As Defense News points out, they are manifestly part of the Kremlin's expanding toolbox of horrors. "Russia is also developing at least two new intercontinental range systems, a hypersonic glide vehicle and a new intercontinental, nuclear-armed undersea autonomous torpedo.”

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    Whatever's going on in the Arctic darkness is important to the Kremlin. The Barents Observer, a Norwegian based online newspaper portrayed it as the Grand Central Station -- if that term can be used -- of Russia's undersea nuke community.

    https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/arctic-mystery/
     
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