No need to apologise at all Mike, I completely understand where you are coming from. Your family is fortunate to have you as head. They will see The Father in you. And you are a most valued member of the forum so keep the faith and God will do the rest.
It's true, Bernadette. It will come suddenly, all of it. And here in the U.S., the government is too busy preparing for martial law to pay attention to any foreign threats. How else to explain homeland security buying up such a ridiculous supply of ammunition, and local police departments buying up military vehicles left over from the war? The other night, I was out to see a patient around 2 a.m. in a very rural part of Texas. I saw 3 military grade vehicles, complete with gun turrets, unmarked, traveling down a dark farm-to-market road. They were driving a few miles parallel to a huge interstate highway. Anecdotal evidence, but interesting... Those of us who belong to the Blessed Mother will be safe in the ark of her immaculate heart. My prayer is for my deaf, dumb and blind brothers and sisters to wake up and get on board!
picadillo, I want to make one important point about the wars the US has undertaken. All US wars have been done to liberate people, not to usurp land or to occupy countries like Russia has done, is doing and will continue to do. Now, I am not saying that the US did not have on their agenda to especially liberate countries where there was an oil interest as well, but nonetheless they have liberated many people who's government were run by brutal dictators. The US is not occupiers of the lands they have liberated. Never! Secondly, there is no argument from me that there are many power players in the Masonic kingdom that are from the US (George Soros the biggest) who are working with other power mongers around the world to collapse the worlds economies and seek a godless monarchy of control. But do not kid yourself, the US does not have a monopoly on this evil scheme.
We are all so fortunate and blessed to have each other on this very wonderful site. This truly is a place of refuge for me. I appreciate each and everyone here!
what part of tx is not rural ha, ha...just kidding, I've been to Houston and San Antonio, so I know TX is not all rural. I especially liked San Antonio.interesting site you saw though there at 2am. it's still hard to believe though...my own country. breaks my heart. but that's what happens when peope are too busy to care about who they are really voting for and a mass media that does not tell us the truth. that combines for the worst possible outcome. I still find it hard to believe that I was born and meant to live in these crazy times...such important times...and I'm called to be an apostle of some sort...my mind is boggled right now
I get to see LOTS of rural Texas! A few weeks ago, a family warned me to watch out for wild hogs. They lived near a huge ranch, and said that recently a 500 pound wild hog was creating havoc. 500 pounds!!! They said, "Just don't take the back roads and you'll be fine." I was so busy looking for wild hogs in the dark that I missed my turn, which meant I drove 17 miles of back road, hog infested territory! Since I give my joys, sorrows, inconveniences, irritations, aches and pains to my mother every morning, she got 4 out of 6 in that little joy ride. (She would have gotten 5 if I'd hit a 500 pound hog!!!) I had an old cowboy patient who told me, "I believe in God because of you." Before I could whip out any spiritual pride, he continued, "Watching the way you bumble through life, Someone's got to be looking after you!"
We were absolutely born for these times. I've heard in prayer that the faithful in this day were carefully chosen, through blood lines. That our natural abilities were carefully bred into us for what will be needed from us in the service of the Lord. And that Jesus has saved the best wine for last. (My grape juice is still fermenting, though!) We may look like insignificant hobbits to the world, but God has big plans for us. Isn't it exciting to be in the company of so many future Saints??? And I've met so many on this forum!
Whoa...Check out the latest Medjugorje message of 3/2/14 posted by Mario... Potato Sack, it seems she's calling us all to be apostles!!!
This is an inteteresting perspective Kathy about the blood lines. I want to thank you because it has opened an area of healing for me. I know that conspiracy theorists say there is an interconnected, 'Illuminati,' bloodline. http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/bloodlines/ I have noticed as well that the saints often, not always come from holy families. The Bible does say certain sin is in the 'blood' and it is by the blood of the lamb we are washed, redeemed and saved. As I type I have just had a most wonderful insight into my own personal bloodline and how this has affected my spiritual path. If I can explain that I have always had a desire to be holy and have instinctively understood many Catholic truths without study but at the same time I have an addictive nature and certain habitual sins were rooted in my life. So the interior struggle was like an interior civil war so I suffered much because I could not please the Lord leaving me depressed for I had holy desires yet fell so short (hence my love of the Divine Mercy). The two biggest influences in my bloodline are my paternal and maternal grandfathers. Paternal grandfather was born out of wedlock in an Irish workhouse, raised by 2 ladies his grandmother and his aunt, went into WW1 as a teenager, came home and they had died in the Spanish flu outbreak of 1918 leaving him homeless. He was an alcoholic and had several children with my grandmother before marriage, (a scandal in Ireland in the 1930s). They went on to have a large family - many of my aunts and uncles I dont know too well since they moved away from the madness of an alcoholic home (and indeed a few are alcoholics and one is a schizophrenic). God Bless them all. I feel my prayers for them will not be in vain. One day out of the blue, my grandfather when he was about sixty years old came to his senses and just stopped drinking (a miracle). He was remorseful. I remember him as a boy as warm and friendly with a great smile. He cried every day about the pain he put his family through - he was a deeply sensitive person which often alcoholics are. Faith was weak on this side of the family. My maternal grandfather. I was his blue eyed boy the first grandson. Lived out of town so I would stay in the summer in the countryside which I enjoyed as I became an explorer for a week following every brook and stream. He walked with me, said little, a man of few words. But I knew there was something different about Grandad from anyone else I had ever met. He used to 'disappear' to his room everday at 6pm, I always thought for a rest. But one day I forgot myself and barged into the room quite accidently. And there he was on his knees in an upright position, beads wrapped around his hands, saying the Rosary, and he hardly noticed me so deep in prayer. I apologised and left immediately with Granny shouting in my ear to get out. This image will always remain with me, and I know realised why he was different, he was holy. And on our walks I held his hand proudly and felt I was walking with Jesus. He died of a heart attack in his early sixties. I was sixteen and devastated. I wailed at his coffin and was inconsolable with grief my first experience of the finality of death. All said he was a saint, a man who had been sick all if his life but renowned for kindness. They say I walk like him that I have his gait but I know know he has been my guardian interceding on my behalf. I have felt him close in times if need. But he is my role model and I am a Rosary man as a result. As I get older I realise the Bible has it right about the blood. It is the blood of Jesus that sets us free from the chains of sin. We need to pray for generational healing and healing of the family tree. All things are possible with all powerful God. Old sins that once trapped me are gone. All is grace, pure grace, and I praise God for my personal intercessor saint. I believe on my death he will be allowed to come and escourt me on my final journey.
Won't it be fascinating when we get to the other side and meet our holy, and not so holy, ancestors? I'm sure we all have Saints in our blood. And those who fell short donated to us important traits that serve as well. I've been praying for the latter in the Divine Will, making reparation for their sins of omission and commission. (What an unfathomable gift this is!!!) I was conceived in the back of a car on prom night of a Catholic high school. My parents went on to marry other people and have families. Even though my beginning came from sin, I got an Irish sense of humor and bullet-proof resiliency and an English stoicism that keeps me from falling apart in a crisis. I'm sure plenty of rascals contributed to my pathological optimism. But it's the Saints I can't wait to meet, and I'm calling on them these days to intercede powerfully that I will not disappoint the Lord when it matters the most. I don't know their names, but they know mine. And when I use well what they gave me, I'm sure they cry out, "That's our girl!"
I read a long time ago that the saints and departed people in heaven are jealous not in a sinful way of the people who get to be alive in the end times. As horrific of a time it may be it is the greatest time to be alive to live out the book of revelation and hopefully witness the second coming and fulfillment of the bible. We could possibly be alive for the time when the bible will be closed and a new book will start. How exciting!
Does anyone think that not only God chose the people for this time but we as souls also had to chose to come and be alive now?
Such a deep questions Andy. Its makes me think of the scripture: Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee, and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee; I have appointed thee a prophet unto the nations. I personally believe our souls were infused only at the moment of conception and so could not have made choices. I always get dizzy when I think of how we should approach predestination , how far we should go with it. God certainly knew us from the start of things and knows how things will work out. Again this makes me dizzy to think on. In the life of the Blessed Virgin by Blessed Catherine Emmerich there is considerable talk of blood lines. I never gave this so much thought before until I read a little of Devotion to the Divine Will. But yes, I believe in special times and special folks have been chosen for these times. I always wondered myself about some graces I have been given in my life, it is only now I realise they were given for a reason. That God is not running a lottery
I was just praying about that very thing. Even though God didn't will the sin that started my life, he absolutely willed my soul. I wonder if the pre-born souls are hanging out with God and begging, "Put me in, coach!" Then God matches what he needs from the soul with the genetic make-up and the family situation to give us the best chance of fulfilling our mission. When I met my birth mother, she told me that if she and my birth father had married, they would have been a disaster, and my life would have been miserable. Instead, I was planted with parents who had been barren and longing for children. So I had a cherished childhood. And now I have an adopted family and a birth family to pray for. And if I hadn't been planted in this particular family, they probably would not have had an intercessor in these times. Amazing to think of!
Kathy, thanks for sharing your story. This thread on blood lines is fascinating and for me a great unknown as I'm an adopted child and know nothing of my birth parents. I'm pretty sure I'm of Irish ancestors as I recently found a record with my original last name- very Irish! But for me it's ok as I never had a desire to learn more about my birth parents. I was absolutely blessed with my adoptive parents and my entire extended family. As I grew up a real sense of admiration, thanksgiving, and love for my birth mother has been instilled. I pray for her often as clearly the situation of her pregnancy was I guess not the right tine or circumstances. But she made a choice to go forward and here I am. I am a man blessed with three mothers- tge one who birthed me, the one who raised me and loved me and the One who bring me everyday to Her son, my Savior. How awesome is that! So I have faith my blood lines are strong, but my "non-blood" lines have formed me as well.
Interesting thought. I can say that my sister upon learning about Medjugorje and these other apparitions told me she ALWAYS wanted to live during Revelations. My response was not the same. I would have preferred to been born in the 1800's then my sentence here would already be over! So I can say I would have said no if given the chance : ) God Bless!
Padraig, You are correct. Let us deal with what is within reach- our own hearts. As you say, repentance along with our Lenten fast is key. The situation in the Ukraine becomes more confusing by the day. One thing we can agree on, it is center stage in the struggle between Russia and the West. A fuse has been lit and instead of honest attempts to put it out, all I see are growing tensions that could lead to war. Pray, pray, pray! Safe in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary!
what fascinating stuff on the bloodlines. I will ponder this over the next few days and I hope to be enlightened like gabendal was. I pretty much believe already that my grndmothr on my dad's side is a saint and primary prayer for me. I suppose it helps I look and act like my dad. lots of drinkers and priests on that side of the family of Scottish descent. butmy mom is French so probably had some religious ancestors on that side o the family too. I do love this stuff!!
yes I've always known the call at medjis one of being an apostle. I didn't accept in my heart that I had been called though until my life turned upside down and I had to cling to God or go into despair. it was those on this forum that explained what was happening (prep and purging for my mission for these times). yyou may be fermenting...but i am just a grape on a vine right now!
