According to Michael Brown's interview with Maria Esperanza in December 2003 in his book Bridge to Heaven, Maria speculated that Jesus would start appearing to people in the next 10-20 years. Although, i regularly feel Jesus presence next to me, He has not appeared to me as of yet. At least not while I was fully awake during the day. No one I know either has Jesus appeared to. Seems like her speculated time frame for His manifestation might be a bit off in timing. "10 to 20 years" 20 years was up in Dec. 2023. It has been about 22.5 years.
Todays gospel struck me And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.
The thing about apparitions is that, with prayer, even wars can be averted! So maybe heaven's timeline changed since. I know that it might be enough to make some sceptical but for those of us who don't hold so much to dates, we trust in Jesus' timing
He came to me in a dream last fall. And multitudes of people are having dreams of him. QUOTE="Marc Gentile, post: 498171, member: 9890"]According to Michael Brown's interview with Maria Esperanza in December 2003 in his book Bridge to Heaven, Maria speculated that Jesus would start appearing to people in the next 10-20 years. Although, i regularly feel Jesus presence next to me, He has not appeared to me as of yet. At least not while I was fully awake during the day. No one I know either has Jesus appeared to. Seems like her speculated time frame for His manifestation might be a bit off in timing. "10 to 20 years" 20 years was up in Dec. 2023. It has been about 22.5 years.[/QUOTE]
Thank you for the warm welcomes. Ive been a spectator of Mother of God forum for years - just reading the posts. I decided to join officially.
Welcome, Marc! It could be that many have had Jesus appear to them but keep it to themselves out of humility?
I love the way Maria Esperanza was such a Modern Family saint. It was startling to see her with her husband and her many, many children and grandchildren. Not only saintly but a great mystic who actually met our Blessed Lady at a great apparition site , Betania. So a kind of modern day Bernadette/. On top of all this a mystic and a busy lady with her own Apostolate. She kind of broke the mould. A stigmatic too! Remarkable.
Yes, I've heard that Muslim's are being converted to Christianity like never before. And with them possibly being put to death for conversion to another faith, they would face possible martyrdom to do this!
Speaking of conversions, just happened upon this paragraph and thought I'd share: "Pope Leo XIV may have just fulfilled a 100-year-old prophecy. And almost nobody is connecting the dots. To understand why this matters, you have to go back to October 13, 1884. After celebrating Mass that morning, Pope Leo XIII suddenly collapsed at the foot of the altar. His face turned ashen white. For about ten minutes, he stood frozen in what witnesses described as a trance. When he finally came to, he revealed what he had seen. A vision of Satan, boasting before the throne of God: “I can destroy your Church.” And the Lord replied: “You have the time. You have the power. Do with them what you will.” Most accounts say Satan was granted somewhere between 75 and 100 years. Leo XIII walked straight from the chapel to his office and composed the Prayer to St. Michael — and ordered it prayed at the end of every Low Mass throughout the world. He knew what was coming. Now look at the last hundred years. Two world wars. Mass apostasy. The collapse of the family. Catholic divorce rates matching the secular world. Liturgical abuse. Scandal at every level of the hierarchy. Atheistic communism sweeping nations. Exactly what Satan had threatened. But here’s where it gets interesting. Exactly 33 years to the day after Leo XIII’s vision — October 13, 1917 — roughly 70,000 people gathered in a field in Fatima, Portugal, and witnessed the Miracle of the Sun. Our Lady had appeared to three shepherd children months earlier. She warned that Russia would spread her errors throughout the world. She told them the final battle between Christ and Satan would be over marriage and the family. Russia became the first nation to legalize ab*rtion. The first to legalize no-fault divorce. The birthplace of modern atheism and communism. She was right about everything. But she also made a promise: “In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.” Now watch the dates closer: → October 13, 1884 — Leo XIII’s vision → May 13, 1917 — Our Lady appears at Fatima → October 13, 1917 — the Miracle of the Sun → May 13, 1981 — an assassin shoots John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square. He survives, the bullets narrowly missing his vital organs, and credits Our Lady of Fatima with saving his life. → March 25, 1984 — John Paul II consecrates the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. And now, in our own time: On May 8, 2025, a new Pope steps onto the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica. He chooses the name Leo XIV — explicitly stating he chose it in part to honor Leo XIII. The same Pope who started this whole story. Five days later, on May 13, 2025 — the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima — the world reflects on his election as the bookend to a century-long battle. The bookend has arrived. And the data is staggering. In 2025, nearly 160,000 adults entered the Catholic Church in the United States — the highest level in twenty years. By 2026, the average U.S. diocese reported a 38% increase in converts over the previous year. Los Angeles received 8,598 people into the Church. The Archdiocese of Paris welcomed its largest group of converts ever. France’s adult baptisms have tripled in a decade. England. Norway. Australia. Belgium. Ireland. Everywhere, the same story. The 100 years are closing. The triumph is beginning. And you are alive to see it. Our Lady didn’t perform the greatest public miracle since the parting of the Red Sea for nothing. She came with two requests: 1. Pray the Rosary daily. 2. Make the First Saturdays devotion. That’s it. That’s how you join the winning side of the greatest spiritual victory in centuries. 50 to 100 years from now, I believe most of the first world will be Catholic again. The question isn’t whether the triumph is coming. The question is whether you’ll be one of the souls who helped bring it about — or one who watched from the sidelines. Pick up the Rosary today. Don’t wait. Heaven is moving. Are you? A note on sources: The dates and details of Pope Leo XIII’s 1884 vision come from secondhand accounts that have circulated in Catholic tradition, and I’m relying on a popular retelling of the story here. The exact wording of the dialogue between Christ and Satan varies between sources, and the “100 years” figure is described in some accounts as “75 to 100 years.” Readers are strongly encouraged to investigate the historical record for themselves."
Even in Sweden of all places. It used to be 100% Lutheran which was the State Religion. But the Swedes have abandoned Luther like crazy.
