Countdown to the Kingdom

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I will respond to your kind but untrue compliment with 2 quotes from Pope John Paul I...

"When I am paid a compliment, I must compare myself with the little donkey that carried Christ on Palm Sunday. And I say to myself: If that little creature, hearing the applause of the crowd, had become proud and had begun -- jackass that he was -- to bow his thanks left and right like a prima donna, how much hilarity he would have aroused! Don't act the same!"

"Loving ourselves so much, we are naturally led to enlarge our own merits, to play down our transgressions, to judge others by different standards from those used to judge ourselves. Enlarged merits? They are described by your fellow-writer Trilussa:

The little snail of Vainglory
Who had crawled up an obelisk
Looked at its slimy trail and said:
I see I'll leave my mark on History.

This is the way we are, dear Twain; even a bit of slime, if it is our own, and because it is our own, makes us boast, gives us a swelled head!"

 

He was gone too soon. Thank you.

 

The latest excellent offering by Daniel O'Connor who is always humble, succinct, respectful of others, and, of course, a great scholar in this area. In this writing he gives a sense, generally but giving specifics held within, of things to come as I have also knitted together w/ a very similar outlook:

Proclaim the Kingdom!

https://dsdoconnor.com/2020/08/28/proclaim-the-kingdom/

 

there is no command to proclaim private revelations, much less an almost millennial kingdom, which in itself is a doubtful doctrine and not accepted by the official magisterium, much less is there a command to preach the end of the world for your family to prepare refuges or food stocking. none of this comes from God.

if a person has not been converted to God, it is useless to preach the end times because his heart still belongs to the world or the devil. you do not gain a soul for Christ with this end-time preaching or almost millennial kingdom.


Repent and preach the gospel to the world

 

There is a command in scripture that say's DO NOT DESPISE PROPHECY For those with ears to hear and for those who have eye's to see, they know we are in the unprecedented times that scripture has indicated and the prophets have been foretelling at least since Fatima. Just look at the condition of our poor Church that Jesus/God himself instituted. Is this His will. The church has already become much smaller, first through heresy, then scandals, then apathy now a virus. All foretold by the prophets. One can continue to bury ones head in the sand and most will till everything around them is gone. All structures, buildings and most importantly all indication of the true faith Jesus Christ handed on through his church. All will be in hiding and it will be to late to speak to anyone, accept those God sends to refuges of the small groups of believers. We won't have long now to see the anarchy/lawlessness widely spread in our countries. Jobs will be gone. War will come. Astronomical events unprecedented will be seen and felt. Fear will be rampant. God will seem absent to most. Our Lord's prophecy will come truth: As it was in the day's of Noah, as it was in the day's of Sodom, so shall it be when the Son of Man returns. God will seem absent to all but those few believers God's protection will be upon. There will be no more naysayers, but it won't matter then as there will be no web forum for the naysayers to promote their blindness to anymore.

 

there is a miracle happening in churches around the world everyday, The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. If you are not running to the Eucharist to receive this miracle daily.....that is the problem. Everything else is fluff......

 

Yet, fewer and fewer Catholic churches are having daily mass or are even open for a visit to our Eucharistic Lord. And of those fewer places having daily mass at all, they cannot receive on the tongue. They have to sit 3 pews apart and wear masks. They are sitting in a church 1/8th full. These are unprecedented times. That is the problem. But these times have all been foretold by God's prophets of the last times. Now it is time to keep ones eyes and heart of the Kingdom of the Divine Will, the era of peace. It is not time to look back at what we had, because it is not coming back. We cannot be like the Israelites and look back at having it better under the slavery of the Pharaoh (or our sinful world today) or we will not enter the era of peace. Remember only 2 of the over 600,000 who left Egypt for the promised land entered in, Joshua and Caleb. It will be no different this time. Those who enter the era of peace will be few as well. They do not see the Lord's Prayer being fulfilled in our time. They do not see that the era of peace our lady of Fatima promised is the era of peace promised in Revelations 20. They do not see the Kingdom of the Divine Will, where His will shall be done on earth as it is in heaven, is just around the corner now.

 

Have you considered that perhaps your interpretations are incorrect? I certainly don't consider mine to be inerrant.

Perhaps some of the modern day prophets you follow are wrong? I do not even see complete consistency between the ones on the CTTK site.

That being said, I will follow the advice of the doctor of the Church St John of the Cross... Don't despise prophesy but there is no need for us to seek it out, no need to assign it undue significance, no need to us as individuals to come to a conclusion as to the source or authenticity of such prophesies.

I'll leave that to the Bishops who are the ones to judge such things.

If what you mean is that the "thousand years" of satan being bound = the era peace promised at Fatima...

There are many good Catholics, including canonized saints who would say that the "thousand years" of satan being bound is precisely the time we have been living in since the Resurrection of Christ. He bound satan by His sacrifice.

As to the Lord's prayer being fulfilled in our time...I think there is a danger in waiting for some future time where God's kingdom will be done, and not realizing that His will is being done each and every moment that we cooperate with His will. Certainly Christ himself proclaimed the coming of the kingdom 2000+ years ago. Who could argue that His kingdom has not come, and His will is not done each time we receive the Eucharist?

 

The third luminous mystery of the rosary is The Proclamation of the Kingdom.

 

NSD:

And to think, while living in a time "worse than the time of Sodom and Gomorrah" and like the time of Noah, the devil hasn't even been around to have a hand in it! Well, knock me down with a feather! We must be on "auto control"!

 

Amen.

 

Part 2 of a response to Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi's article on Fr. Michel Rodrigue on refuges by British theologian Peter Bannister

https://www.countdowntothekingdom.c...zis-article-on-fr-michel-rodrigue-on-refuges/

 

I will pray daily and live the way I believe the Good Lord God wants me to in this unprecedented time. That may mean I can still go to Daily Mass for now. In time, in may mean that all I will have to offer to God are the Rosary and meditation from the heart. It’s up to Him, really. While the internet remains, I will make use of it presently to further His Kingdom.

Prophesy has its place and that is why we are not to despise it, this is true. But, Jesus warns us in Mark, Chapter 13, that there will be many false prophets and that we are not to believe them. In order for those to be called out, He left His Bride, the Church, the power and authority over things of this nature. We are treading on thin ice when we “do our own thing” because it somehow appears the right thing to do, based on the novelty of a man-made construct of some so-called “ prophetic consensus”, apparent urgency, etc. What I have been witnessing is a great deal of anxiety and fear causing some to panic because their “itching ears” (St. Paul’s words) have been tickled by the latest, alleged voice from Heaven. This is NOT of God.

Our Lord Jesus Christ always sends His prophets and, most especially, His Holy Mother, to warn us to come to our senses, repent and live holy lives. THIS should be our daily goal. Let us pray that more people begin to know, love, and serve Him in this world so that they can be happy with Him forever in the next.

God gave Noah 120 years(!) to build the Ark. With the coming judgment, God provided plenty of time for repentance to those who would look to Him in obedient faith, but none did except for Noah’s family. God didn’t just offer several months to prepare “refuges”.

Only true prophecy can guide us to do the proper thing in a spirit of fortitude, not fear. Anything else is rubbish and I resist it to its face. ~AN

 

CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
541 "Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying: 'The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent, and believe in the gospel.'" "To carry out the will of the Father Christ inaugurated the kingdom of heaven on earth." Now the Father's will is "to raise up men to share in his own divine life". He does this by gathering men around his Son Jesus Christ. This gathering is the Church, "on earth the seed and beginning of that kingdom".


668 "Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living."549 Christ's Ascension into heaven signifies his participation, in his humanity, in God's power and authority. Jesus Christ is Lord: he possesses all power in heaven and on earth. He is "far above all rule and authority and power and dominion", for the Father "has put all things under his feet."550 Christ is Lord of the cosmos and of history. In him human history and indeed all creation are "set forth" and transcendently fulfilled.551

669 As Lord, Christ is also head of the Church, which is his Body.552 Taken up to heaven and glorified after he had thus fully accomplished his mission, Christ dwells on earth in his Church. The redemption is the source of the authority that Christ, by virtue of the Holy Spirit, exercises over the Church. "The kingdom of Christ [is] already present in mystery", "on earth, the seed and the beginning of the kingdom".553

670 Since the Ascension God's plan has entered into its fulfillment. We are already at "the last hour".554 "Already the final age of the world is with us, and the renewal of the world is irrevocably under way; it is even now anticipated in a certain real way, for the Church on earth is endowed already with a sanctity that is real but imperfect."555 Christ's kingdom already manifests its presence through the miraculous signs that attend its proclamation by the Church.556

. . .until all things are subjected to him

671 Though already present in his Church, Christ's reign is nevertheless yet to be fulfilled "with power and great glory" by the King's return to earth.557 This reign is still under attack by the evil powers, even though they have been defeated definitively by Christ's Passover.557 Until everything is subject to him, "until there be realized new heavens and a new earth in which justice dwells, the pilgrim Church, in her sacraments and institutions, which belong to this present age, carries the mark of this world which will pass, and she herself takes her place among the creatures which groan and travail yet and await the revelation of the sons of God."559 That is why Christians pray, above all in the Eucharist, to hasten Christ's return by saying to him:560 Marana tha! "Our Lord, come!"561

672 Before his Ascension Christ affirmed that the hour had not yet come for the glorious establishment of the messianic kingdom awaited by Israel562 which, according to the prophets, was to bring all men the definitive order of justice, love and peace.563 According to the Lord, the present time is the time of the Spirit and of witness, but also a time still marked by "distress" and the trial of evil which does not spare the Church564 and ushers in the struggles of the last days. It is a time of waiting and watching.565

The glorious advent of Christ, the hope of Israel

673 Since the Ascension Christ's coming in glory has been imminent,566 even though "it is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has fixed by his own authority."567. This eschatological coming could be accomplished at any moment, even if both it and the final trial that will precede it are "delayed".568

674 The glorious Messiah's coming is suspended at every moment of history until his recognition by "all Israel", for "a hardening has come upon part of Israel" in their "unbelief" toward Jesus.569 St. Peter says to the Jews of Jerusalem after Pentecost: "Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus, whom heaven must receive until the time for establishing all that God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old."570 St. Paul echoes him: "For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?"571 The "full inclusion" of the Jews in the Messiah's salvation, in the wake of "the full number of the Gentiles",572 will enable the People of God to achieve "the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ", in which "God may be all in all".573

The Church's ultimate trial

675 Before Christ's second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers.574 The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth575 will unveil the "mystery of iniquity" in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh.576

676 The Antichrist's deception already begins to take shape in the world every time the claim is made to realize within history that messianic hope which can only be realized beyond history through the eschatological judgment. The Church has rejected even modified forms of this falsification of the kingdom to come under the name of millenarianism,577 especially the "intrinsically perverse" political form of a secular messianism.578

677 The Church will enter the glory of the kingdom only through this final Passover, when she will follow her Lord in his death and Resurrection.579 The kingdom will be fulfilled, then, not by a historic triumph of the Church through a progressive ascendancy, but only by God's victory over the final unleashing of evil, which will cause his Bride to come down from heaven.580 God's triumph over the revolt of evil will take the form of the Last Judgment after the final cosmic upheaval of this passing world.581

* II. TO JUDGE THE LIVING AND THE DEAD

678 Following in the steps of the prophets and John the Baptist, Jesus announced the judgment of the Last Day in his preaching.582 Then will the conduct of each one and the secrets of hearts be brought to light.583 Then will the culpable unbelief that counted the offer of God's grace as nothing be condemned.584 Our attitude to our neighbor will disclose acceptance or refusal of grace and divine love.585 On the Last Day Jesus will say: "Truly I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me."586

679 Christ is Lord of eternal life. Full right to pass definitive judgment on the works and hearts of men belongs to him as redeemer of the world. He "acquired" this right by his cross. The Father has given "all judgment to the Son".587 Yet the Son did not come to judge, but to save and to give the life he has in himself.588 By rejecting grace in this life, one already judges oneself, receives according to one's works, and can even condemn oneself for all eternity by rejecting the Spirit of love.589

IN BRIEF

680 Christ the Lord already reigns through the Church, but all the things of this world are not yet subjected to him. The triumph of Christ's kingdom will not come about without one last assault by the powers of evil.

 

I am one of those who keep an open mind on present day seers/prophetic voices. In my experience, with some, red flags pop up immediately; with a few others, over time, uneasiness sets in. In both situations, I leave immediately because I take it as a sign that their words may not be for me, even if other believers remain open to them.

But there's one thing which I hold firmly to and that is:
If I find myself foaming and frothing at the mouth in having to defend some prophesy/prophet, if I find I am rebutting condescendingly, for me it is the clearest sign that my time of wandering must end because rage and pride point to only one entity.

Authentic prophesy is the sweetness of heaven conveyed to us, whether to encourage, to warn or to admonish. This sweetness makes us humble, helps us to love better. It returns us to our crosses with strength renewed to carry them.

This is what shapes and forms my discernment.

 

Yes.

 

Praise be to God for this inspired word, Seagrace! You have said so much in such a short space here. I hope readers apply this wisdom to their own situations.

Question: Is there a way to save a post as a favorite? Yours has my vote for that category!

 

Gisella Cardia – The Kingdom of God is Very Close

Our Lady to Gisella Cardia September 1, 2020:

Beloved children, thank you for having responded to my call in your hearts and for being gathered here in prayer. My children, today in the midst of all this pain I come to give hope, the hope of a better world full of love, because the kingdom of God is very close. Soon you will feel so much love, wisdom and sweetness in your hearts, because soon this time of fear, of injustice and of pride will no longer exist. God is shaking the world, the earth and your consciences so that you would be capable of kneeling in recognition of your one and only God. So it is that Jesus will open his arms, giving the sweetness of the new world to those who have believed. Leave the things of this world and make your day a continuous prayer. Dear children, do not be afraid, because I will always be with you, above all to comfort you in these sad times. Now I leave you with my maternal Blessing, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen.

 

Cross-posting from new thread...

From Spirit Daily today,

In an "Open Letter to the Faithful," Bishop Lemay of the Diocese of Amos speaks out, withdraws all support for Fr. Michel Rodrigue. Fr. Rodrigue no longer holds any position in diocese. The bishop quotes St. Luke, "Take heed that you not be deceived."

Criticizes Christine Watkins for "false statements," discusses "Countdown to the Kingdom" site.

Link is here,

http://www.diocese-amos.org/sn_uplo...Gilles-Lemay-about-Father-Michel-Rodrigue.pdf

 

Thank you, Christy. VERY valuable information. I suspected as much.