Yes I agree. People keep asking why? Why are these Priests Cardinals ignoring solid prophecy? Because they are who we were warned about.
Revelation 17:8 The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and yet will come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. The inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the creation of the world will be astonished when they see the beast, because it once was, now is not, and yet will come. I can't help but wonder if what you said relates to this line in Revelation.
St.Therese loved Joan. She was Joan in a play she organized for the sisters. QUOTE="Mario, post: 454192, member: 5"]It is fascinating that one of the most thoroughly researched biographies of Joan was written by Mark Twain. He added some interesting fictional characters for humor's sake but everything directly related to Joan was authentic. https://www.theyoungcatholicwoman.com/archivescollection/joan-of-arc-by-mark-twain-a-book-review[/QUOTE]
I love Mark Twain, he reminds me so much of the homey wisdom of G .K Chesterton. He started out extremely Anti Catholic in his younger days but his travels round the World broadened his mind a lot . He gives this account of a visit to Ireland: file:///C:/Users/BCR/Downloads/admin,+amstud.v1.n2.32-43.pdf 'We turn our attention first to the early years before Innocents Abroad. Alexander E. Jones, in his study, "Mark Twain and Religion, " 4 states that Mark Twain changed his attitude toward the Catholic Church from hostility in his early life to something more nearly approaching understanding and tolerance in his later y e a r s . Now, it is impossible to state definitely how hostile Mark Twain was toward the Church before 1867, as Innocents Abroad was being written. Two r e m a r k s , however, show that he may have held certain unfriendly attitudes about the Church in his early life. During the course of some comments with regard to the Convent Fathers in Palestine, he said that "I have been educated to enmity toward everything that is Catho- lic, and sometimes in consequence of this, I find it much easier to discover Catholic faults than Catholic merits. "^ Six years after Innocents Abroad, he again observed, while on a visit to Ireland: fTA week ago a vast concourse of Catholics assembled at Armagh to dedicate a newr cathedral; and when they started home again the roadways were lined with groups of meek and lowly Protestants who stoned them till all the region round about was marked with blood. I thought that only Catholics argued in that way, but it seems to be a mistake. "'
Saint Joan of Arc reminds me a lot of St Bernadette Soubirous in her sharp peasant remarks. Lovely one liners. For instance in the Church Inquiry into the Lourdes apparitions she was asked by a Bishop about eating herbs in the grotto to which St Bernadette replied, 'What, Monsignor, do you not eat salads?' ...and at the trial of Joan she was asked if the voices she heard might not be her imagination. To which Joan replied, 'Of course God worked through my imagination, how else might He talk to us?'.
There is one part of the Church, mostly ignored these days (because we all go to heaven & there's no hell ), that may be of the greatest help against the manifestation of evil in the world. The Church of Hope, ie the suffering souls in Purgatory. They have the fullness of Faith, and they live in the fullness of Hope, waiting and suffering in gratitude for the day they are taken to Heaven itself, and the fullness of Charity. They pray for us, but can do no more for themselves; they rely upon us, for our prayers and suffrages offered for them. And they are more than willing to help us!!! And they do. The Church Militant is greatly lacking in hope these days, imo. The Holy Souls are crying out because they need help!! Perhaps it's because we've learned/been taught to forget our history, individually as well as collectively, as Christians, as Roman Catholics. The book mentioned in another thread is eye opening in this regard. The Holy Souls, imho, are the 1,000,000 voices mentioned by St. Catherine of Siena. She knew what she was speaking about, as did Don Dolindo. While I've always prayed for the deceased, after reading the good Father's thoughts and insights, I believe it may be beneficial to do more for them, than for "others" previously mentioned above......
After more study, I have found the actual sources of the text in the letter attributed to Albert Pike. In that text, there are two parts. Each part is separated by an elipsis [...]. Here is the full text again, but separated clearly: [FIRST PART] The First World War must be brought about in order to permit the Illuminati to overthrow the power of the Czars in Russia and of making that country a fortress of atheistic Communism. The divergences caused by the “agentur” (agents) of the Illuminati between the British and Germanic Empires will be used to foment this war. At the end of the war, Communism will be built and used in order to destroy the other governments and in order to weaken the religions. The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war must be brought about so that Nazism is destroyed and that the political Zionism be strong enough to institute a sovereign state of Israel in Palestine. During the Second World War, International Communism must become strong enough in order to balance Christendom, which would be then restrained and held in check until the time when we would need it for the final social cataclysm. The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the “agentur” of the “Illuminati” between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion … [SECOND PART] We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time. The first part is from the introduction to this book by William Guy Carr: https://archive.org/details/pawnsinthegame_201708/page/n9/mode/2up?view=theater The second part, quoted by William Guy Carr in Pawns in the Game, is apparently from Albert Pike, and was originally published in a French book in the 1890s: https://archive.org/details/1894-no...iecle-volume-2/page/603/mode/2up?view=theater So, the use of the words "Nazism" and "Zionism" are from the part written by William Guy Carr in the 1950s, not the part attributed to Albert Pike. I hope this helps correct and clarify anything in my earlier comments that were not accurate. None of the above is relevant to the point I was trying to make by bringing up the Pike-Mazzini letter in the first place. My point that the world wars of the 20th Century and beyond have been orchestrated by Freemasonic/Illuminati agents. Those wars are not accidental. They were planned. And the purpose of those wars is tied into the destruction of the Roman Catholic Church and the elevation of a new civil religion of the Cult of Man, or Cult of Lucifer. Albert Pike's comments (part 2) were stating a general plan regarding a "social cataclysm" that William Guy Carr (part 1) ties to specific events and wars that actually happened in the Twentieth Century. The more interesting thing that I found in all of this was that the full Pike-Mazzini letter is not primarily concerned with geo-political wars at all. Rather, it is concerned almost exclusively with the plan to destroy Roman Catholicism and replace it with a new Cult. If anyone is interested in that, you can read a translation from the French to English here: https://ussr.win/link/7261271 Note that the Pike-Mazzini letter was said by the French translator to have been originally written in Latin. So it is possible that certain concepts could reflect the mind of the French translator rather than the Pike original.
PNF, I'm confused. What needs to be clarified in my mind is: when did Pike articulate his theories? And then, look at those in a historical context. After all he died in 1891. Yes, he was a freemason. But you paint him as presenting a theory of historical development which includes Nazism, which did not rear its head until post-WWI. Was there bigotry against Jews when Pike lived? Of course! But to correlate his destain with a political system born 30 years later is virtually impossible.
Mario, please read my last post carefully. I said in that post that what has been called "the Pike-Mazzini letter" actually contains two parts, each part written by a different person: The first part, which includes the word "Nazism," was written by William Guy Carr in the 1950s. The second part, which speaks of a need to "unleash the Nihilists and atheists," was written by Albert Pike in 1871. In my last post, I was correcting what I had previously said in other posts. In those other posts I had said that the entire text could have been written by Albert Pike. I now know with certainty that Albert Pike did not write the entire text called "the Pike-Mazzini Letter" because I found that William Guy Carr is the person who wrote the part that contains the word "Nazism." And just a few lines after his mention of "Nazism," William Guy Carr quotes Albert Pike. You can see this if you will click this link and read the text: https://archive.org/details/pawnsinthegame_201708/page/n9/mode/2up?view=theater I will leave it at that, unless you have other questions.
This may be really stretching things but.....supposedly this past Saturday, somewhere in PA in 90 degree heat....it snowed. One of the X "weather watchers" posted about it and it struck a chord.....Our Lady of the Snows perhaps was nearby? Idk......but possible? Then thinking of the Holy Souls and how we think of Purgatory as being kind of a "hot" place, but not THE hot place, and taking into account how some of our "higher ups" like to think there is no h*ll, maybe a petition asking that some souls are allowed to visit a certain prelate might be a good idea. Spirit Daily had an article about what happened to Cardinal Hickey while visiting Auschwitz. Maybe if someone else had such an experience, he would wake up. https://spiritdaily.org/blog/afterl...ul-ii-discerned-deceased-spirits-at-auschwitz
Cardinal James Hickey was the Archbishop of the Diocese of Washington, DC. He was a holy man. Our local Catholic school is named after him.
No doubt!! And he had the humility to run to someone else (a saint, no less) for help. Who would certain others run to for help were they swarmed by Holy Souls? Think of the catacombs underneath Vatican City..... lotsa "rocks" there to cry out. Of course, the main "rock" buried beneath the altar is already in heaven, but what a sound it would be if they all cried out!
I think that, 'Vision', of Cardinal Hickey is problematic for a variety of reasons If it ever in fact actually happened . The first question might be since they were Jews and did not believe in Christ how they made it to Purgatory? If they did not come from Purgatory were did they come from? Did anything actually happen at all? I find it hard to fit into Catholic theology Also I have never read of this kind of event on this site before Extra exclessium nulla satis. Outside the Church there is no Salvation
I have never heard of the Holy Souls returning to make what is basically a political statement They always ask for prayers
Also Cardinal Hickey never claimed that he had seen such a thing publicly. It is a third party saying he did privately. I have grave doubts about the whole thing
