wow, I am surprised to see the forum open early. But what a pleasant surprise as I have missed everyone. I really felt called to spend the time off in prayer...kind of a last month of spiritual preparation. I finally got clicking on all cylanders in terms of prayer, fasting, adoration, daily readings, etc. It was a peaceful time where I did not read 1 visionary (except Mark Mallett) or even any syonad stuff...and like Mike, I probably will not participate in discussions on it since I don't want to lose my focus on spiritual prep right now. Oh, the good Lord has also shown me an area of my life I am not trusting God's plan for me. Please pray for me that I surrender this last bit to Him. This is the only thing that still gives me anxiety and fear....and it is big time anxiety and fear...the paralyzing kind. He gives me the grace to deal with this and I drop the ball out of fear. Lord help me I am so weak and wimpy. I am doing a surrender novena now hoping that puts me over the edge and trust, trust, trust. I need lots of prayer and can't believe I still don't trust God after all He has done for me. I am disappointed and frustrated with myself over this. Andy - you put your setback in the rearview mirror. I've fallen so many times and I will fall a ton more...you watch, I won't disappoint in the falling department! I'm praying for you!
oh, I forgot, Oct. 26th, a U.S. event? No idea what it could be. Maybe we discover ebola is transmitted through the air? terrorist attack? I don't know. I do know I will be working all day and should be a crazy busy day to top it off. There is no chance of getting the day off either as it will be too busy. Must pray on what it could be.
Thanks all for staying faithful. I suppose the forum will be quieter now for a while. I suppose a little quiet will do no harm. It is the world that is so unquiet. The pace of events are not so much quickening as hurtling along. I feel sometimes I am living in a permanent Science Fiction film. It is hard at times to feel like I have kind of lost the plot and am dreaming all this. But it was all of it: all of forecast in Catholic Prophesy and even in the Book of Revelation. Still reading about it years ago and actually seeing them happening...wow!
Andy, It is precisely because Jesus knew you would sin, that He was willing to die, and to die for you alone. Despair comes from you know who. Please do not despair. If you were never going to sin, Jesus wouldn't have given himself up. Go with your bucket of trust to the ocean of mercy, and take plenty. I like this general audience by my close personal friend (i wish!) BXVI. http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/b...006/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20061018_en.html
When I begin to think how bad it is now, I like to think of what it must have been like to be a faithful commoner in Henry the 8th's England - with heads literally rolling on a whim. I guess we were made for these times because I am glad I live now and not then!
Great times great saints! But I think we must always bear in mind that we may be called at any moment to shed our blood and our freedom for the Faith. May God grant us the Faith, the graces, for the trials ahead. Dear Saints Isaac Jogues, John Brebeuf, Noel Chabanel, Gabriel Lalemant, Anthony Daniel, Charles Garnier, Rene Goupil and John Lalande, we beg of you, pray for the people of this vast country ours. You are the first canonized saints of the United States and Canada. We are glad to have you. We are happy to honor you. You know our country and its needs, and we know you are in heaven praying for us. There is one very special favor we wish to ask of you. Dear Saints of North America, pray God to send us another saint, or better still, a number of them. Ask Him to have soon--a man or a woman, a boy or a girl from this country of ours raised to the honors of the altar. Let it be a farmer or a laborer, a housewife or a schoolboy, born and bred in these United States. Let it be some one who lived his whole life here--a Saint Joseph of Carville County, or a Saint Mary of Middletown, or a Saint William of New York. We do not wish to displace you in our affections, but to add to your glorious number. You understand our desires in this, and we feel sure that we will obtain this great blessing for the salvation of the people of this land. Remember us now, and obtain this great blessing for us from God. Help us always to cooperate with the graces that God so richly and generously gives us, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Hi Padraig, in my last post, I asked a question and nobody answered... not even you.... So I will ask it again: do you know whether Conchita of Garabandal said that the Warning would come after a Synod ? I know this will not be the last synod but it is an important one. I am certain that Glenn already gave his comments to this but I can not find them back in the forum. Do you know if Glenn confirmed this or not at all ? If Glenn is reading this message, I would also appreciate his answer. Thank you Padraig and/or anyone else who could reply to my question. I am waiting... .
Hi Elisa, I hope you are feeling better. Prayers to Mary going up. I obviously cannot speak for Glenn, but I do believe the Warning is connected to this Synod and may be imminent. Why the Synod? I suspect it is connected with Dogma of papal infallibility. God gives us the promise in this Dogma that: "He who hears you hears me" (Luke 10:16) , and "Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven" (Matt. 18:18). I believe a group of wicked prelates intend to change Church Doctrine and God's Hand is about to be forced with direct divine intervention, 'Lest even the just should perish'. Matthew 18:14 In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish.
No Padraig I do not feel better, that sinusitis continues to give me fever, but I just can't stay in my bed all the time... and then knowing that your forum is open again, makes me difficult not look at it from time to time... But thank you so very much for your prayers, because I have to return to my new work on next Monday (where I started only working since May this year), but if I do not feel well... Perhaps I should take antibiotics. Thanks a lot also for your reply. I thought about the facebook page of Glenn (https://www.facebook.com/groups/163674987784/?fref=ts) and I posted my question also there.I see that someone else asked there the same question. Well if Conchita said it was an "important synod" then I consider the actual synod as very important, as you said it so very well. Those "modernists" are really trying to destroy the Church, trying to impose their human ideas to the Pope, like our Mgr Bonny of Belgium... . Disobedience to the "Dogma of papal infallibility" is indeed disobedience towards God's laws. I cannot see another synod that could be more important than this one. But, apparently, there will be another part of this synod next year ? Now I am going to watch your video's and then into bed again...
Bear in mind, however, that this synod is only part one, a preliminary to the more important one to take place next year, when the big decisions will be made. So perhaps the Warning, if it is indeed connected with this synod, is still a year or so off yet.
I received two answers regarding my question synod/Warning from Glenn via his facebook page: 1. We can not say with 100% certainty it is this Synod or next years. Remember also that it was predicted that the Pope would be returning from Moscow, along with a synod, that would mark the time just before the Warning. 2. SYNOD before Warning ? INTERVIEWER: Mother... Mother Nieves García, you have a prophecy about Garabandal that you want to tell us, in relation with a synod or big synod before the Garabandal´s Warning. Could you speak to us about it? MOTHER NIEVES: Yes. During the apparitions, in one of the apparitions, the Virgin told Conchita that before the future events there will be a synod, ... an important synod. Then (so?), Conchita´s aunt heard it, and when Conchita told it she (her aunt) said to Conchita: "you mean the Council" (because we were then in the Second Council). Then, Conchita replied to her aunt: "No. The Virgin has not said to me council. The Virgin has said to me synod." "And, it seems to me that a synod is a little council". It is impossible that a twelve years old girl, without knowledge, without culture (education) speak about a synod that did not exist or if it existed we did not know about it; and (it is impossible that...) moreover that she defines, as she did, a sinod as a little council. This was told me by Father Lafiner. He had told it Father Pesquera (who wrote one of the first books about Garabandal). He told it to Jacqu Leserre (scholar in La Sorbona, Paris). This one told me, and he considered it as a pre-warning. And many letters written by this man, in French,... speak me about the pre-warning. INTERVIEWER: Thank you, Mother Nieves. MOTHER NIEVES: Every thing to the greater glory of God and love to the Virgin. INTERVIEWER: Thank you.
MS7 this board is my close friends of like mind. I had a a co worker who I shared everything with but he left the company 2 months ago so it has been a bit distant. I am good though and I thank all of you for your prayers and contact info. Sadly I am the only devout catholic from friends and family. I go to church alone most times but bring my daughter on Sunday. I am fine with that really but I just felt the stress of the distance really in the past week and that is when I fell into old habits from the many years away. I don't blame the board being down for that but this place has been my new habit so to speak and has been a huge part of my reversion back and now my everyday life. After a few weeks the distance got to me I guess. Again I am great today and can't wait to be one with to The Lord again tomorrow. I think that is probably the greatest problem I had in all of this. The Eurcharist is so important and needed for us and having been away for that for few weeks has been very very hard. I realize that now more than ever and maybe in a way it was some hard training for the time to come when the church goes underground.
Andy- you are a brave man for providing your testimony to all of us and you are not alone. I fall so often and I think every single one of us falls into sin. As Pope Francis said, we are in battle now and the Church is the field hospital and we are all called to tend to the wounded. I think those on the MOG forum are in tune to the Storm that has started and per Charlie's and Mark's most recent posts is about to roar. I don't know where it takes us individually. I just sense more than ever that arguing and positioning ourselves as conservative, liberal, moderate Catholics or aligning with one cardinal over son the is not where we should be going. I think you have provided a great gift and example - recognize your failings and go to God asking for His mercy which I believe is flowing abundantly RIGHT NOW is where to go. And I think Charlie is spot on - T-D-L..Trust-Do-Love and be signs of hope to everyone. Peace brother..you are on the road to sainthood.
Thanks Miker. Maybe it is courage but to me I just don't want to hide anymore or wallow in my failures so when it is out or when I talk openly I feel like it helps me move forward and not backward. Sin for me is so tough because I don't want to sin any more at all even though I know I will again because that is what we do and yet I still want to strive to be sinless. Sure it is a big, lofty goal but we have a very big God who can handle big lofty human goals. Whenever Jesus pardoned anyone He always said go and sin no more. This is what I want to do always so the habitual sins of the past are the ones I want to be rid of knowing that there will be other sins to come but I tire and get down on myself when I fall to the same ones I am working to be rid of. The priest in the confessional was great yesterday. I was so down to him telling about my life long struggle with this certain sin and telling him that I feel so defeated when I always come back to confess the same sin. He laughed and said everyone comes back to confess the same sin. God is pleased in my progress and my diligent working on this problem and the strides I am making to overcome it. It is the devil that is making me feel the shame and guilt of this and I must not let him win the battle inside. Know that The Lord is pleased that I am there talking to Him right now and basically tell the devil to bugger off. It was a wonderful confession and definitely reinforced the true grace and power of confession.
Hi Andy, my first post. When i am tempted to feelings of lonliness (as i often am) i deliberately recall that the Holy Spirit lives in me. He is with me and will happily listen to my joys and fears. My good Lord opens my inward eye and shows me my soul in the depth of my heart. My soul is as big as an endless world and like a blessed kingdom. In the middle of my soul sits my Lord, God and man. He sits in my soul in silence and peace, and he shall never leave that place where he takes in my soul, forever, as I see it. Why? Because I am his homliest home and his dwelling place forever. (Julian of Norwich) He loves us Andy, and wants to be our friend and confidant, as well as our God.
Here I am! There's always somebody that doesn't get the memo - that would be me! I've missed you all very much. Let's all do our best to keep each other safe in Peter's boat...
