Signs

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

  1. Muzhik

    Muzhik Powers

    RE: the employment: will pray for you, and I also recommend going to www.fullofgraceusa.com and checking out "The Surrender Novena". This is a novena that was given by Jesus to a stigmatic priest in Italy, a contemporary of Padre Pio. I'm on day 7 and I can tell my attitude is improving. I'll let you read about it on that web site rather than take up space here. I will say that after a friend recommended that to me, when I looked at the site, I felt called to buy not only the large trifold I use for my own prayers, but a packet of 10 of the smaller "wallet-sized" cards to leave at the Perpetual Adoration Chapel. Within a week they were all gone, which is unusual. I just placed an order for 50; we'll see how quickly they go.

    RE: the healing: My mom had MS. It had gone into remission before I was born, but came back when I was about 12. During high school and into college, I would kneel before the Sacred Heart and beg for my mom to be healed. She was not healed, and died of complications of MS about a decade ago. When she died, the local newspaper carried her obit on the front page above the fold. While living with MS, she rallied people to do things like build a swimming pool for the community, improve the park system, served on the library board, recorded reading textbooks for the dyslexic students in the school, and more.

    About two months before I graduated from high school and go to college, I was driving mom around town to do errands. (She still had some mobility at the time.) Thinking about how I was going to be gone, and my younger brother (the youngest in the family) would be leaving the next year, I asked her what she thought she'd be doing now if she didn't have the MS. She thought for a moment, then replied that she'd probably be helping her brother run the car dealership that my grandfather had started back in the 1920's.

    Now, maybe Mom would have still done a lot of those things while working at the dealership -- you didn't know her -- but looking back I can see that she was able to do all those things and more because the MS limited her movement around town, but she never let it define her. She let God use her to make the community better.
     
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  2. AED

    AED Powers

    Joan this
    This Is a big change among many changes. I'm so sorry about the job but if it was a den of lions maybe it's a good change. I am praying God leads you to a better job with good insurance. (Ask your mom to pray!!! ) also hope your kitchen is all set and you can be home.
     
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  3. Carol55

    Carol55 Ave Maria

    Joan, You are in my prayers. As far as Catholic healers, I only know of a man in Ireland by the name of Danny Gallagher. He is the seventh son of a seventh son. There was another Irishman who was a very well known healer named Finnbar Nolan but he has stopped healing people. He is also a seventh son of a seventh son but I don't know if they are/were approved by the Church. Sorry, that I can't help you more.

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    Here is another story about strange(?) weather.

    Powerful hailstorm hits capital Madrid, turning roads into raging rivers, Spain
    Posted by Teo Blašković on August 27, 2019 at 11:43 UTC (23 hours ago)
    Categories: Featured articles, Severe storms | https://watchers.news/2019/08/27/madrid-hailstorm-august-27-2019/
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    A powerful hailstorm hit Spain's capital Madrid (population 3.2 million) late Monday, August 26, 2019, sweeping away cars, bringing traffic to a standstill and causing flight diversions.


    The worst-hit municipality was Arganda del Rey, southeast of the capital, where flash floods turned roads into raging rivers, sweeping away cars. Other areas most affected by the storm include Valdemoro, Pinto, Rivas, Getafe, Fuenlabrada and Madrid city.

    "Trying to stabilize the situation and give an account of urgent requirements. The flash flood has been terrible. All services are working at full capacity to normalize [the situation]. Be alert to instructions," Arganda del Rey mayor said.

    Firefighters said they responded to more than 1 000 calls, most of them for minor issues such as fallen tree branches or flooding in garages and basements, El Pais reports.

    AEMET said they recorded more than 9 300 lightning strikes in 6 hours.

    The extreme weather event lasted approximately 20 minutes.

    Meteorologist Benito Fuentes said strong storms such as these are common in August. "At the end of summer, the atmosphere is unstable, which causes air to rise for dynamic reasons, not thermal ones."


    "Published on Aug 27, 2019 Courtesy: Europa Press
    Madrid is under a torrential downpour of rain and hail as floods sweep over the city’s streets, washing away cars and anything else in their path. READ MORE: https://on.rt.com/a0ln"

    Tags: hailstorm, madrid, spain, spain weather, thunderstorm

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    And another newly discovered asteroid passes close to the Earth.

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    Asteroid 2019 QH2 flew past Earth at 0.13 LD - fourth closest of the year
    A newly discovered asteroid designated 2019 QH2 flew past Earth at 0.13 LD / 0.00033 AU (49 367 km / 30 675 miles) on August 20, 2019. This is the 37th known asteroid to flyby Earth within 1 lunar distance since the start of the year and the fourth closest after...​
     
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  4. Sorry to hear about your employment dilemma and the other concerns that it brings with it. Will pray and ask St. Joseph to intercede. Teresa of Avila always said to go to Joseph due to his closeness to Jesus.

    Re: others who also apparently were granted certain miracles while being outside the fold, Jesus offered this advice to His own in Mark 9:


    38John said to Him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” 39But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him, for there is no one who will perform a miracle in My name, and be able soon afterward to speak evil of Me. 40“For he who is not against us is for us.
     
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  5. Joan J

    Joan J HolySpiritCome!

    Frankly I'm more concerned we don't see it in the Catholic Church as much. Maybe I can only speak for my diocese.
     
  6. Yes, it would appear that the mystical realm is pretty foreign to the ministers of the Church these days. They seem to exclude a few rooms from the home of the Holy Spirit. Of course the healing gifts are not limited to the clergy but the laity also are chosen and in fact seem to be more numerous while it is a part of the fullness of gifts given to the ordained and should be seen by them as part of their entire calling.
     
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  7. Joan J

    Joan J HolySpiritCome!

    And yet harshly downplayed among the laity, rarely approved in the healer's lifetime.

    With Emma de Guzman so close on a regular basis. I would love to think she legitimately has that gift.
     
  8. HeavenlyHosts

    HeavenlyHosts Powers

    Not everyone is perfect
    Not even the best Popes
     
  9. HeavenlyHosts

    HeavenlyHosts Powers

    A priest close by here has two
    Healing Masses each month. After Mass, in front of the monstrance with the Blessed Sacrament exposed, he and the deacons go to each person in each pew and lay hands on them. He also says that sometimes Jesus doesn’t heal
    because He has a plan for our greater good. (My words about the greater good)
    Imho, God uses doctors to provide medical attention and healing through them. I suffered for years from chronic sinus infections, since 1984, and the awful side effects of the drugs. Finally, my primary referred me to an ENT in another county. He performed a surgery two years ago and I have not had a sinus infection since, Praise the Lord! I can’t tell you how much prayer preceded that healing at the hands of this awesome doctor!
    Persevere, and remind God to hand you a loaf of bread, not a scorpion.
    Prayers for your job intentions.
    Just a postscript: this is a special priest
    He and a fellow priest went to Guadeloupe about 15 years ago, and he received the gift of healing from Our Lady.
    I heard this recently: God answers prayers
    1.Yes, or
    2. “I have a better plan.”

    Good thread
    Many good thoughts here
     
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  10. Don_D

    Don_D ¡Viva Cristo Rey!

    In the rotunda Washington is depicted as taking his place among the "gods". Someone certainly thinks he is perfect.

    apotheosis-Washington.jpg
     
  11. HeavenlyHosts

    HeavenlyHosts Powers

    I fail to see the connection between an alleged apparition from Heaven and a painting with a pagan theme.
    It’s not fair to generalize, and take things out of context. I do agree that DC is laid out with Freemason design, but that does not in my mind negate the fact that Heaven was also active during that time period. Archbishop John Carroll was active in establishing the first Catholic diocese in America during these early days of the US, the Baltimore Diocese, which encompassed DC at that time.
    We have to pray for discernment always.
    Remember how Saul was converted and became St Paul.
     
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  12. I didn't know about this painting. In the vision George Washington had, he described the angel as a dark shadowy angel more than once. Just speaking for myself, I do not regard that as a true prophecy. This pdf is very good to look through and study https://archive.org/details/FreemasonryAndTheVatican_201904/page/n43
    Firstly, the author goes through every time the Papacy had condemned Freemasonry. Then he goes through the encyclical Humanum Genus to state the reasons why the Catholic Church condemns Freemasonry
    First reason "Their ultimate aim is to uproot completely the whole religious and political order of the world, which has been brought into existence by Christianity, and to replace it by another in harmony with their way of thinking. This will mean that the foundation and the laws of the new structure of society will be drawn from pure Naturalism.

    Second reason is the political action which flows from displacing Christianity. Freemasonry strives to introduce its principles into the laws and institutions that govern man.

    Third reason is the secret methods used by Freemasons in the political sphere

    Fourth reason is the breakdown in moral standards which accompanies the influence of Freemasonry in politics and which indeed it sometimes uses deliberately as a weapon "Since in general no one obeys cunning and crafty schemers so readily as those whose courage and self-control have been sapped and broken by subjection to the yoke of their passions, there have been found in Freemasonry men who have proclaimed their determination to strive skillfully and cunningly to saturate the masses with every form of vice. They hope that the masses thus debased will be like putty in their hands to carry out their future projects, no matter what be their nature (Humanum Genus pg 12)

    Fifth reason is the danger which Freemasonry represents from the social point of view, for it prepares the way for Communism.
    The encyclical tells people to look to the Church as the central focus of resistance to Masonic subversion.
    It reads in part : "Whatever our Predecessors have decreed in view of opposing the designs and machinations of Freemasonry...all and each of these measures we ratify and confirm. Full of confidence in the goodwill of Christians we beg and beseech each one of them, for the sake of his eternal salvation to consider it a sacred obligation never in the least to deviate from what the Apostolic See has enjoined in this matter...and since it is becoming that we ourselves should indicate to you the most suitable line of conduct in the circumstances, we enjoin the following: First of all, tear away the mask from Freemasonry and let it be seen as it really is."
    Papal condemnations of Freemasonry
    Pope Clement XII 1738
    Pope Benedict XIV May 18, 1751
    Pope Pius VI
    Pope Pius VII 1821
    Pope Leo XII 1825 referred to Freemasonry as the Church's capital enemy.
    Pope Pius VIII 1829
    Pope Gregory XVI 1832 and 1839
    Pope Pius IX condemned Freemasonry in 1846, 1865, 1865, 1873, and 1876
    Pope Leo XIII Wrote an entire encyclical condemning Freemasonry called Humanun Genus April 20, 1884 and continued to condemn it in 1890, 1892, 1894 and 1902 "Let us remember that Christianity and Freemasonry are fundamentally irreconcilable, so much so that to adhere to one is to cut oneself off from the other."
    Pope Pius X 1906
    Pope Pius XI 1937 Pope Pius XI showed how Communism and Freemasonry had formed an alliance in the encyclical called Divini Redemptoris
    In 1946 and 1949 the Holy See declared, "Scottish rite masonry falls under the condemnation decreed by the Church against Masonry in general, and there is no reason to grant any discrimination in favor of this category of Masons."
     
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  13. HeavenlyHosts

    HeavenlyHosts Powers

    I am in no way condoning freemasonry. You know me better than that.
     
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  14. Agnes rose

    Agnes rose Archangels

    Im so sorry for your loss
     
  15. I am sorry that you had that impression from my post. I was not conveying that. It is shocking to me that this undercurrent has been operating since the foundation of this country. I am creeped out by it. I am going to educate myself more and warn when I can.
     
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  16. HeavenlyHosts

    HeavenlyHosts Powers

    Also we must concentrate on the way God established His Catholic Church in this country. He wins.
    Remember that Lucifer is the lord of this world. Yes, it surely is creepy. But while all this creepy stuff is going on , Heaven is not idle.
    Good to hear from you.
     
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  17. Fatima

    Fatima Powers

    Given by a past high 32nd degree Mason who taught its evil ways

     
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  18. I've never read any history where the man considered himself a god. Certainly Martha didn't!

    A couple of comments on the subject:

    Was George Washington seen as a "God" by his men?

    George Washington was certainly not deified by his men. He was a stern, serious, powerful man. He did not suffer fools, and any attempt to defer to him as a god would have insulted every sensibility in him and the offender would be shunned. He was more Christian than some of his contemporaries and that alone should suggest his demeanor and attitude at such an absurd proposal.

    He would reject deification as a foolish error in any serious man’s judgment. He would caution that this is the sort of nonsense the Romans postulated on the 12 Caesars - he then might suggest the fool educate himself by reading Suetonius and learn something about the insanity of any man being placed on a pedestal with the Almighty. I suspect, at best, he would laugh at this question and hope no thinking person held such a position. He thought of himself as a planter. He felt he was a great man, in a serious human sense. He knew what he had accomplished and it was through human effort, not some personally held divine power.

    I doubt that there is any soldier who voluntarily views his military commander as God, but in 1865, the artist Constantino Brumidi painted a fresco in the U.S. Capitol dome called The Apotheosis of Washington. In Ancient Greece and Rome, apotheosis referred to the process by which a mortal person became a god. I'm not sure Brumidi viewed Washington as a literal god, but his fresco certainly views Washington as metaphorically godlike.

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    George Washington served eight years as the first President of the United States. He was the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, and chairman of the Constitutional Convention that composed the Constitution. He is often called the "Father of our country." Surely of all men he would have understood the views of the founding fathers about the relationship between government and the Bible and faith in God.

    https://www.gospelway.com/government/washington.php

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    One view of Washington:

    GEORGE WASHINGTON: THE CHRISTIAN

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    He knew that it was taboo in his day for any person holding elected political office in the British colonies, especially in Virginia, to attend any church other than the official Church of England. Even Patrick Henry, who was probably the most out-spoken Christian of the founding fathers, favored Presbyterianism but still attended an Anglican Church. [2]

    Washington focused his education on preparing to be soldier, a farmer, and a statesman. Not a parson. With what he knew about the Bible, he knew that he could apply the Scriptures in normal, everyday life as a soldier, farmer, and statesman.

    Freemasonry appears to have been new on the scene in the American colonies during the life of Washington. The lodges of Freemasonry provided a new place for many politicians and farmers of that time to socialize, but little is known about how Freemasonry was practiced in the colonies.

    Washington became involved for a while with Freemasonry. But during a correspondence with a concerned pastor, Washington stated that he did not believe the lodges of America had adopted the false doctrines of the Illuminati that English lodges followed. Furthermore, he wrote that he had not personally visited a lodge more than once or twice in a period of thirty years. [3]

    While a man of his times, Washington demonstrated his Christian faith in three ways: (1) His confession of Christ; (2) His confession of other foundational Christian doctrines; (3) The fruits of the Spirit in his life.

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    Throughout his lifetime, Washington wrote and said many things that were recorded by historians. Several of those quotes either explicitly or implicitly confess the Lord Jesus Christ, and they are an evidence of his genuine faith. Below are a few examples.

    Washington’s Commendation to the Delaware Indian Chiefs

    While encamped on the banks of a river, Washington was approached by the Delaware Indian chiefs who desired that their youth be trained in American schools. Washington commended the chiefs for their decision, saying:

    “You do well to wish to learn our arts and our ways of life and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you a greater and happier people than you are. Congress will do everything they can to assist you in this wise intention.” [4]

    This is an example of Washington making an explicit confession of Christ. He could not be accused of playing to the crowd because his audience was a group of pagan Indians who had no reason to be impressed by his recommendations of Christianity.

    Washington’s Supplications in His Prayers

    On April 21-–23, 1891, several descendant relatives of George Washington sold a remarkable collection of Washington’s personal belongings in a Philadelphia auction. Among them was a manuscript book written in Washington’s handwriting entitled “Daily Sacrifice.” One of the prayers Washington had recorded in that book read:

    O most glorious God, in Jesus Christ my merciful and loving Father, . . . remember that I am but dust, and remit my transgressions, negligences, & ignorances, and cover them all with the absolute obedience of thy dear Son, that those sacrifices which I have offered may be accepted by thee, in and for the sacrifice of Jesus Christ offered upon the cross for me; for his sake, ease the burden of my sins, and give me grace that by the call of the Gospel I may rise from the slumber of sin into the newness of life. . . . These weak petitions I humbly implore thee to hear accept and ans. [sic] for the sake of thy Dear Son Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. (emphasis added) [5]



    MORE:

    https://americanvision.org/5835/george-washington-the-christian/






     
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  19. gracia

    gracia Archangels

    That's kind of creepy.
     
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  20. HeavenlyHosts

    HeavenlyHosts Powers

    https://cogforlife.org/vaccine-overview/

    If you click on this link, the approved and not approved vaccines and cosmetics and foodstuffs will be listed, current to today, I think.
    Children of God for Life
     
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