I have delteed the supposed used, 'Bill Simpson' but have discovered he was coming from multiple IP addresses. So I cannot ban him. Difficult times. He will be back. Sigh. Spooky 162.244.80.234 Today at 1:06 PM More Users Discourage IP Ban IP 38.95.109.70 Today at 10:33 AM More Users Discourage IP Ban IP 199.115.115.209 Yesterday at 5:19 PM More Users Discourage IP Ban IP 23.247.155.5 Monday at 6:13 PM More Users Discourage IP Ban IP 198.7.59.92 Monday at 12:33 PM More Users Discourage IP Ban IP 23.247.155.4 Sunday at 11:56 PM More Users Discourage IP Ban IP 23.232.158.5 Sunday at 10:43 PM More Users Discourage IP Ban IP 38.95.108.230 Sunday at 12:13 AM More Users Discourage IP Ban IP 107.169.246.5 Today at 10:15 AM More Users Discourage IP Ban IP 198.7.59.107 Today at 3:42 PM More Users Discourage IP Ban IP 23.247.147.3 May 26, 2016 More Users Discourage IP Ban IP 198.7.59.110 May 23, 2016 More Users Discourage IP Ban IP 192.186.133.99 May 23, 2016 More Users Discourage IP Ban IP 23.232.158.4 May 26, 2016 More Users Discourage IP Ban IP 23.232.158.6 May 23, 2016 More Users Discourage IP Ban IP 198.7.59.108 Today at 10:06 AM More Users Discourage IP Ban IP 172.102.215.12 May 23, 2016 More Users Discourage IP Ban IP 107.169.246.6 May 23, 2016 More Users Discourage IP Ban IP
Rather than respond to this statement, it seems to me that Mark Mallett's latest article speaks to your thinking within his blog and it is short enough to post here. The Last Trumpet I have been shaken today, literally, by the voice of the Lord speaking in the depths of my soul; shaken by His inexpressible grief; shaken by the deep concern He has for those in the Church who have utterly fallen asleep. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they did not know until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of man. (Matt 24:38-39) I am stunned at the shocking truth of those words. For truly, we are living as in the days of Noah. We have lost our capacity to hear His voice, to listen to the Good Shepherd, to understand the “signs of the times.” I have no doubt that many people scrolled to the bottom of my recent writing, Is Jesus Really Coming?, to see how long it was, and then said, “Too long”, “I don’t have time”, “Not interested.” How could any Christian not be interested in this question? Moreover, we are given an authoritative answer from the Church and Our Lady as to the nearness of the coming of the Lord.And yet many of these same souls easily spend hours cruising their Facebook wall or wandering the mindless debris of the world-wide web. We are a Church that has been dulled by comfort and pleasure, numbed by the constant drone of the spirit of the world, so much so, that we cannot hear the rumble of heavenly hooves. For we have lost our way. Many Catholics have been discomfited by Pope Francis’ blunt and bold assertion that we have lost the joy of the Gospel; that clergy are acting like CEO’s running a corporation; and that many have lost the spirit of the Gospel, which is to reach the wounded with the mercy of Christ, not “obsess” with doctrine. The words of Ezekiel read like an indictment over this generation’s hardened hearts: The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the crippled you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them. So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food for all the wild beasts. (Ezekiel 34:4-5) Sure, some clergy have begun to stir and write letters to the government protesting transgender bathrooms or same-sex marriage.But it’s too late. We needed to preach the Gospel of Life back in 1968 when Humanae Vitae rejected the culture of death. We needed “to commit all of the Church’s energies to a new evangelization” back in 1990, as John Paul II begged us to, [1] not waiting until the barbarians have already broken down the door. We needed to become “prophets of a new age” back in 2008 when Benedict spoke at World Youth Day, not wait until we are overrun by false prophets. And so, it is too late to turn back the tide of evil, in the sense that it must now run its course. Man himself has flung open wide the gates to the Horsemen of the Apocalypse by institutionalizing a culture of death. Simply put: we shall reap what we sow. But what is not too late is to listen to Jesus who continues to guide His Church through this dark period in the voice of prophecy. Yet sadly, many have lost their capacity to hear the prophetic voice of Christ precisely because they no longer have childlike hearts. In the early Church, St. Paul invited prophecy to be spoken “in the assembly.” Today, prophecy is outright scorned if not banned in some dioceses. What has happened to us? What spirit has possessed the Church that we no longer welcome the voice of the Good Shepherd, who said we would know it? My sheep hear my voice; I know them, and they follow me. (John 10:27) Yes, many say they won’t listen to prophecy unless it is “approved.” But this is tantamount to quenching the Spirit! How can the Church discern prophecy if we won’t even listen to it? Many of my children do not see and do not hear because they do not want to. They do not accept my words and my works, yet through me, my Son calls everyone. —Our Lady of Medjugorje (allegedly) to Mirjana, June 2, 2016 What are people going to do if an angel appears to them in the middle of the night saying, “It’s time to take your family to a refuge.”Will they reply, “That’s very nice. But until my bishop approves this message, I’ll stay here, thank you.” My Lord, if St. Joseph had waited for his dream to be approved by religious authorities, he might still be in Egypt! We have every tool we need to discern prophecy—the Bible and the Catechism for starters, and hopefully, the willing discernment of the bishop. But we are also naive if we think that prophecy is going to be received everywhere in the Church with flowers and applause. No, they stoned the prophets then, and we stone them now. How many of God’s prophets were “unapproved” over the centuries? In our times, Sts. Pio and Faustina come to mind. We have become so tepid, fearful and even cynical regarding anything mystical that the new atheists don’t need to silence our pulpits. We are doing it ourselves! There are those who go so far as to say “That’s private revelation, therefore I don’t have to believe in it.” If a bishop declares this or that apparition or prophecy to be authentic, meaning that God is speaking to us through this vessel, what are we saying when we tell Heaven, “I don’t have to listen to it”! Can anything God says be unimportant? Have we forgotten that the bulk of St. Paul’s teachings in the New Testament came by way of “private revelations” to him personally? I sense Jesus moaning once again: For this people’s heart has grown dull, and their ears are heavy of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should perceive with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn for me to heal them. (Matt 13:15) After Mass today, as the Lord’s voice shook me to the core, He gave me the title of today’s writing as He usually does: The Last Trumpet.Few realize that we are in the last minutes of the last hours of Mercy before the door of Justice begins to open. There comes a point when Mercy is no longer merciful,when Justice is the more merciful. continued...........
continued.......... I have been called, by some, a prophet of doom and gloom. But I’ll tell you what is doom and gloom: a culture that is legalizing the murder of the sick, suffering, and elderly; a society that is closing businesses, malls, and churches because we’ve aborted and contracepted the future out of existence; a culture that promotes pornography leaving a wake of destruction in men’s and women’s lives; a culture that is teaching young children to question their sexuality and experiment with it, thereby destroying their innocence and deadening their souls; a society that opens its bathrooms and lockerooms to sexual perverts in the name of “rights”; a world that stands on the brink of a Third World War with the most incomprehensible weapons of mass destruction. Who is the purveyor of doom and gloom here? You say, “The Lord ’s way is not fair!” Hear now, house of Israel: Is it my way that is unfair? Are not your ways unfair? (Ezekiel 18:25) What lies upon the horizon is a future full of hope. Anyone who readsIs Jesus Really Coming? should be filled with awe at what God is planning for that last phase of this world. But before the birth there comes the labour pains. And now they are suddenly upon us. At least, those with eyes can see this, can feel this. But those who have opted for an epidural of comfort, pleasure and worldly riches hardly realize that which has already come upon them like a thief in the night. The ink hasn’t even dried on the national and international agreements that are going to tear communities apart as the Gospel becomes illegal, replaced by diabolical “laws” that will turn father against son, mother against daughter, neighbour against neighbour. Therefore… This is the hour of heroic witness. It is the hour for bishops and priests to become true shepherds, to lay down their lives for their flocks. It is the hour for fathers to lay down their lives for their children. It is the hour for men to rise from the slumber of sin and rebuke the Spirit of the World. Women will be healed when men become men again, and thus will the family be restored. God is not going to put up with a lame Church any longer. We must choose whom we will follow now: Christ or the spirit of antichrist. If we have died with him we shall also live with him; if we persevere we shall also reign with him. But if we deny him he will deny us. If we are unfaithful he remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself. (2 Tim 2:11-13) We are going to pass through some very painful moments in the very near future, but also moments of great glory. Love always surprises. We are going to be awakened… the whole world has to be shaken. The Church must be purified. She has lost her way, and when her lamp no longer burns brightly, the entire world is plunged into darkness. The Last Trumpet of warning and preparation is being blown, and we would do well to reflect, repent and re-prioritize. These are the days of Noah and everyone has to ask themselves whether they are in the Ark yet. The days are at hand, and the fulfilment of every vision. For there shall be no more any false vision or flattering divination within the house of Israel. But I the Lord will speak the word which I will speak, and it will be performed. It will no longer be delayed, but in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak the word and perform it, says the Lord God… (Ezek 12:23-25)
No he is using something called a revolving IP address. It is a sophisticated computer programme that routes his internet connection through verious computers across the world . So that it one moment he appears to be using a comptuer in Chicago , another time one in Paris, France and so on. If only it were so simple. He knows what he is doing. But he can't disguise his own essential voice , his literary mannereisms and agenda. People recognised him before , they will recognise him when he reappears. My own prayerful thought is that he is evil in the very truest sense of the word. He is not Catholic but the very opposite of Catholic. I let him post for a while to see if others were working with him. Spooksville. Weird.
I think this might shed light on the vigourous suppression of Lipa. Go to minute 46:00 and watch on, but the whole video is worth watching:
If you do come back Bill, your above post is a load of ........and you probably mean well. The road to hell is paved with well meaning intentions. You fail to realise that the world will end for you the day you die. You will see Jesus before the end of the world on the day you die. So get your soul in order, it might be sooner than you think. None of us know the day or the hour when the world ends for us, and we see Jesus for our individual judgement. Then Heaven, Purgatory or hell, depending on how much you piss people off while you are on the earth. You can find yourself blowing bubbles when you are trying to preach to the converted.
Continuation: Regardless of what anyone may think (privately given the CDF ruling) did or did not happen in Lipa in 1948, this is well worth watching on an educational level as an important historical document. This final part of June Keithley-Castro's series on Lipa also gives considerable background information concerning the context for changes in the Catholic Church's approach to private revelation in the decades after World War II. Chosen as best documentary of 1992 by the Cultural Centre of the Philippines, it contains some rare footage of René Laurentin speaking in English (I had the privilege of seeing Mgr Laurentin - if only at a distance - last Saturday, 98, blind and in a wheelchair, at an event in Paris).
The President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines has just made the following comment: “Her being the mother of Jesus is our first and constant reason for honoring her,” CBCP president Lingayen Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas said in a text message. “We do not need apparitions to honor the Blessed Virgin,” he added. Villegas said since Rome has already spoken, they must obey. “Rome has spoken. The case is closed. We all obey,” he said. http://www.mb.com.ph/vatican-rejects-authenticity-of-lipa-apparitions/#6hOiqfGY22daXED4.99
‘May blind spirits… be illumined by the light of truth and justice… so that those who have gone astray into error may be brought back to the straight path, that a just liberty may be granted the Church everywhere, and that an era of peace and true prosperity may come upon all the nations.’ —POPE PIUS XI, Letter of January 10, 1935: AAS 27, p. 7; cited by PIUS XII in Le Pelerinage de Lourdes, vatican.va What more needs to be said? Let the blind remain blind, and those who see, continue to see.
VATICAN TRUMPS FILIPINO BISHOP, SAYS LIPA APPARITION NOT SUPERNATURAL The decision is based on an investigation and declaration released in 1951 signed by Pope Pius XII. It asserts the "the phenomena of Lipa were declared to lack supernatural origin. The Authority on which this declaration was made not that of the Bishop members of the Special Commission, but rather of the Supreme Pontiff [Pius XII].http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/...-bishop-says-lipa-apparition-not-supernatural
I don't desire to promote this blog or this priest, but the priest insists the pope did NOT rule on this in the 1950s: http://tradcatknight.blogspot.ie/2016/06/fr-kramer-vatican-fraud-pius-xii-never.html
The same thing could well be said of the Life of Jesus Himself and it did not end well with Him either. But after the Cross, the Ressurection. I fully expect a Ressurection here too. You can bury the Truth for a while, but only for a while. They say that there was huge oppostion in the Vatican to the Canonisation of Padre Pio. No wonder for this would put those in High postiions in the Church who had buried the poor saint for most of his life were put in a very,very bad light when he waas declared to be a saint. It took the personal intervention and strong support of Pope St John Paul2nd himself to push PAdre Pio's sainthood all the way through. There are those who spend their entire lives burying the Truth and then again there are those who spend their lives exalting it.
So if a private revelation does not enjoy full approval[or any approval] , how should those promoting it, use language? If an alleged apparition is quoted or promoted by an individual , how would they do this prudently? What would qualify as imprudent?
Julia I enjoy your posts, I enjoy Padraigs, Dolours, Brian K, Macs , Joes, Border Collies, Kathy Ks, Fatimas, Rory Rorys torrentum, Garabandals, Glenns, Sams, etc, etc, etc, well everyones posts, and as I can't keep naming people, lets just cut to the chase and say everyone on this MoG site as I respect and appreciate all veiws! yet I know that so many named and unnamed have differing veiws on many different aspects of private relelations etc. even though we are all Catholic we do differ in some aspects regarding what we deem as reliable sourses etc I want to ask a question and I feel safe in asking you this question, so please be gentle! What is it that you and others are finding so offensive in Bill Simpson's posts? If it is because he is bringing up stuff thats off topic, I can understand that. However, from what I've read of what Bill has posted [unless I've missed something, which I probably have] I don't understand why he is being criticised. At the risk of being ridiculed can I just say cautiously/warily and with circumspect that I find [so far] what Bill has to offer as edifying for my faith!
I will just say this. Bill is using some of the logic I used to spill. I know where he is coming from, as much of his views is where I was at when my information, study and prayer life was restricted by my own limited understanding. When I paused long enough to enter deeper into prayer, study and opened my ears to hear what the Holy Spirit wanted me to hear, a light came on in my head of hardness and I could see what before I could not see. For me, much of Bill's information is a broken record from the past. He refuses to wake up to what the Holy Spirit is doing in our midst today, speaking through his messengers, his prophets. God is revealing his plan to those who have child like hearts and ears to hear. I will pray for Bill and those, who like him, have not been hearing what the Spirit has been revealing. Bill is not alone. Few have truly prayed for on open heart, mind and soul to the promptings of what the Spirit is saying and has been saying in regards to what He is doing. For this people’s heart has grown dull, and their ears are heavy of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should perceive with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn for me to heal them. (Matt 13:15)
