We had a very elderly visiting priest today who said that his charity receives the most prayer requests from people praying for their children and grandchildren. No surprise there. But, “those who sow in tears shall reap rejoicing.”
When my son was growing up we belonged to a parish where the priest thought Harry Potter books were okay. Ugh. They are an instruction manual. But Denise, don’t beat yourself up. You didn’t realize it. It’s just like the devil to sneak in evil stuff at the beginning and then drop the snare. Just keep praying Fr Ripperger prayers to bind the evil in the family. Thank you for your honesty. People are being helped on this forum.
Yes Anne you said it so well, we are in a battle for our families in the greatest onslaught of evil. May we not lose hope, but live in faith that God in his mercy will turn them around before its too late.
I must say I didn’t get this right.Our 3 youngest go to mass and our wonderful granddaughter who is 23 is very involved.
This is from a message to Mirjana from November 8, 2019 Medjugorje: Our Lady Reveals — “You cannot imagine what is going to happen nor what the Eternal Father will send to earth. That is why you must be converted!” A Pearl from Mary November 8, 2019
Thank you, Blizzard for posting this. Since Mirjana always received messages on the 2nd of the month and on March 18th, I looked again at the website where a person can search for keywords to read the message, but I couldn't find it. There was no November 8, 2019 message. It's not that I do not believe that the Virgin Mary said the words, I just wanted to read more about it as most of her messages were multiple sentences long when the second of the month messages were occurring.
The Mystic Post website is very confusing with dates. Mirjana has not received messages for the public except on March 18 since 2020. Before that, they were every month on the 2nd of the month and once on March 18, for several years. So this message cannot be from Nov 8, 2019. When you see "a pearl from Mary" quoted on the Mystic Post site, it's a repost from something earlier. So that date is when that message got reposted. At least, that's what I think I figured out a few years ago. Lol. It does sound like one of Mary's messages though. But not on that date.
I searched and searched too, but could only find this quote on Steve Ryan's Mystic Post site from another post of Steve's. My Heart burns with love for you. The only word I wish to say to the world is this: conversion, conversion! Let all my children know. I only ask for conversion. No pain, no suffering is too much for me to save you. I only ask you to convert! I will pray my son Jesus not to punish the world, but I beg you: repent! You cannot imagine what will happen, nor what God the Father will send to the world. For this I repeat to you: convert yourselves! Give up everything! Do penance! Here, here is everything I want to tell you: be converted ! Bring my thanks to all my children who prayed and fasted. I present everything to my divine son to get him to mitigate his justice towards sinful humanity. (April 25, 1983) Medjugorje: Suffering, fatigue, and fear: Our Lady tells us how to "heal" Just found this: Friday, June 24, 1983 "The sign will come, you must not worry about it. The only thing that I would want to tell you is to be converted. Make that known to all my children as quickly as possible. No pain, no suffering is too great to me in order to save you. I will pray to my Son not to punish the world; but I beseech you, be converted. You cannot imagine what is going to happen nor what the Eternal Father will send to earth. That is why you must be converted! Renounce everything. Do penance. Express my acknowledgement to all my children who have prayed and fasted. I carry all this to my Divine Son in order to obtain an alleviation of His justice against the sins of mankind. I thank the people who have prayed and fasted. Persevere and help me to convert the world." Messages 1981-2022
the website medjugorje.ws allows a person to search for keywords. I searched for the word 'imagine' and it gave this message: “Dear children; You are gathering around me, you are seeking your way, you are seeking, you are seeking the truth but are forgetting what is the most important, you are forgetting to pray properly. Your lips pronounce countless words, but your spirit does not feel anything. Wandering in darkness, you even imagine God Himself according to yourselves, and not such as He really is in His love. Dear children, proper prayer comes from the depth of your heart, from your suffering, from your joy, from your seeking the forgiveness of sins. This is the way to come to know the right God and by that also yourselves, because you are created according to Him. Prayer will bring you to the fulfillment of my desire, of my mission here with you, to the unity in God's family. Thank you. ” Our Lady blessed everyone present, thanked them and called us to pray for priests. I searched for the words 'Eternal Father' but interestingly the only message that contained the words together was given to Jacov December 25, 2018 “Dear children, on this day of grace, I am calling you to love. Little children, God loves you immeasurably and that is why, little children, full of trust and without looking back and without fear, completely surrender your hearts to Him so that God may fill them with His love. Do not be afraid to believe in His love and mercy, because His love is stronger than every one of your weaknesses and fears. Therefore, my children, full of love in your hearts, trust in Jesus and say your ‘yes’ to Him, because He is the only way which leads you to the Eternal Father. Most of the time the Virgin Mary spoke of the Father to Mirjana, she referred to Him as the Heavenly Father. When I searched the messages with the keyword, earth, 58 messages came up, but none of them were the message posted above. 13 messages had the phrase 'good for you on earth' which is a consistent theme of Our Lady. A typical message of this sort is: Medjugorje Message, August 25, 2019 “Dear children! Pray, work and witness with love for the Kingdom of Heaven that it may be good for you here on earth. Little children, God will bless your effort a hundred fold; you will be witnesses among peoples, souls of unbelievers will feel the grace of conversion and Heaven will be grateful for your efforts and sacrifices. Little children, witness with the Rosary in hand that you are mine and decide for holiness. Thank you for having responded to my call. ”
This must be it, Sam. Thanks for the help in solving it. Mirjana in her book, My Heart will Triumph, seemed to disdain journalists that twist Our Lady's messages for sensation. We must be aware of that. God bless.
Friday, June 24, 1983 "The sign will come, you must not worry about it. The only thing that I would want to tell you is to be converted. Make that known to all my children as quickly as possible. No pain, no suffering is too great to me in order to save you. I will pray to my Son not to punish the world; but I beseech you, be converted. You cannot imagine what is going to happen nor what the Eternal Father will send to earth. That is why you must be converted! Renounce everything. Do penance. Express my acknowledgement to all my children who have prayed and fasted. I carry all this to my Divine Son in order to obtain an alleviation of His justice against the sins of mankind. I thank the people who have prayed and fasted. Persevere and help me to convert the world." https://www.medjugorje.org/messagesall.htm https://marytv.tv/1983/06/24/ Two links ~
Well Denise, I have to say I am very impressed. You have certainly gone more than the extra mile for your children, you have gone the extra hundred miles. I only wish all parents did as well. As to the Harry Potter books it used to be I saw no harm in them myself. I thought people were overreacting. It was only in the last couple of weeks I discovered that the then Cardinal Ratzinger had strongly condemned them and advised people to have nothing to do with them. I had no idea. Also Fr Rippinger and other exorcists have said that some of the folks named in the Potter books are the names of actual demons that occur in exorcisms. So of course I have had a change of heart. As far as I can see from Prophecy and current events the Good Lord has arranged a series of Last Chance Saloons for those who have wandered from the Faith. A for instance the Illumination of Conscience, the Great Sign and the slow but gradual increase of the Tribulation. He desires all men to be saved. He wants them to be saved a million, million times than we do. We can count on that. I believe God will make allowances for you over the Potter books as I hope he will make allowances for myself. These are times of the greatest fog and confusion. God knows that better than anyone.
I am having a series of dreams myself at the moment. The same dream over and over again time and time again, so much so that I know what is about to occur before it even starts. This has been going on for several months now and ties in with various dreams I have in the past. I am walking outside my city and there are many people walking about. But I am the only one staring up at the sky. It is as though the sky were in motion, as though heaven had come closer and gone into motion. I know at once in my heart that a Great War has started. I see war planes very close urgently flying overhead and at sea battle ships. Some of the planes fall down, there is fighting in the sky. All at once buildings start to crumble all around and I see great flashed of explosions in the distance. I hear people shouting and screaming all around and seek cover. But the thing that really impacts me is what I saw and felt in the sky, the sense of heaven coming closer, so close you could feel it.
Humanity's deafness and unresponsiveness to heaven's call to repentance suggests the event(s) will be a punishment. On December 8, 2022 BVM gave a message to Lourdes Pinto at Love Crucified essentially saying that "fire will fall from the sky next year' meaning 2023. On January 20, 2023 Jesus to Irish mystic Christina Gallagher that fire would fall from the sky in 7 and a half moons. The next night January 21 2023 was a new moon. The week of 27 August - 2 September is the period Jesus specified. The information might allude to nuclear weapons use by North Korea. Despite Western press rants, Russia is too intelligent to use nuclear weapons because it can calculate the approximate negative results. North Korea, however, has few restrictions on Kim Jong Un. Currently North Korea is boosting nuclear warhead production and is in the midst of the worst famine in 40 years. Historically, famines have caused the downfall of governments when key constituents are not fed. In Mid-january rations were cut for the North Korean army. Also North Korean rhetoric has become more belligerent and confrontational while the Biden administration has implemented an aggressive foreign policy. North Korea recently changed its laws to permit first use of nuclear weapons. These trends put USA and North Korea on a collision course. Therefore, it's reasonable to conclude that heaven is warning of a limited nuclear war involving USA and North Korea. Time will tell...
What is coming and is going to happen is going to be severe. And honestly, we deserve it. The world, the church, the nations, and every family. All of us. There is no prayer anymore, no gratitude, no thanksgiving before meals. Jesus's holy name is mocked, taken in vain, and blasphemed at every opportunity. It is like the world is thumbing its nose at the creator. I truly wonder how many people have a demon inside them. In the west I believe it to be a great number. (My uncles says once a person has broken all ten commandments, they have given themselves over to the Devil). And if Heaven is going to come closer, God by His very nature and presence could up end the world. It might be like some of the videos on YouTube from Medjugorje, when the Blessed Mother appears and you hear the demon is the background screaming, moaning. The demons cannot abide by her presence. They cannot take it. It is her humility, but most of all, it is her holiness that tortures the demons. And if it is like that with Holy Mary, how much more will it be if heaven comes closer, and the King of Glory/Holiness appears? It will be bad, because for the most part, holiness has disappeared from this world. "And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: O Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, I adore thee profoundly, I offer thee the most precious Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges, and indifference by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary I beg the conversation of poor sinners.
Yes it is true that the Church and the World is in a very,very bad state. It is also true that the World can only ever be as good or bad as the Church is since we are the salt of the World. But on the other hand I came across a Scripture from St Paul a few months back which encourages us to concentrate on whatever is good and Holy. I see holy people at Mass everyday and also on the forum. This has been a huge source of encouragement to me in these dark days. There are very,very many Holy priests and clergy all around us. I needed so much to be reminded of this and it has certainly cheered me up. It occurred to me at Mass this morning that bad Catholics and bad clergy tend to sieze the headlines but the ordinary good Catholics who are holding the Faith and doing their very best, the Light never shines on them. But there are so very,very many of them. This has been a source of huge consolation. Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue and if there be any praise, think on these things.
