I met my Spiritual Director when I was 15. We got on like a house on fire for many reasons, but one of them was our mutual interest in Marian Apparitions and Catholic Prophesy. I recall us speaking about the long enshrined Prophecy of the Great Apostacy ; that a time was quickly coming when the vast majority of Catholics would flee the Faith and only a tiny Faithful Remnant would remain. I recall my feelings about this, I knew even back then that the Prophecy was true but in Ireland back then it seemed almost impossible, like something from the wildest Science Fiction Film ever. As if we were to say the world was about to be invaded by Aliens. Yet now as I look around me I see it happening I feel still a little unreal at all..and the Great Apostacy is only fully under way, it is just getting heated up. This was never ever just a conspiracy theory, it is enshrined and described in the Catechism of the Catholic Church as follows: 675 Before Christ's second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth 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. We can see it happening very fast all around us as described by Catherine Emmerich ; the False Church being built , exactly as described, hand in hand with the Great Apostacy: Abrahamic Family House Dubai. https://www.adjaye.com/work/the-abrahamic-family-house/
I believe a great problem has been identified here with people my age, born in the mid-60's. Some of us were lucky enough to be taught by those who truly believed what they were teaching, which was about the Truth. But it all crashed down like a great landslide. Then, as one tries to climb back up, the search begins for the people or person who actually does believe in order to justify returning to that precious faith one had as a child. For me, after that very long search, it suddenly dawned on me that I didn't require anyone else to believe the Truth so that I could believe it too. I just had to acknowledge there was Truth in the Faith, and go on from there. Only recently have I realized that I am not, nor ever have I been, alone.
I have a theory that the famine experience left Ireland very traumatised. The lust for land started and people were prepared to fight over an inch of land. Rural Ireland had constant battles with neighbours over rights of way to some small little field that they were claiming. This was I think caused by the fact that if you had some land you could feed your family. It led to bad neighbours and fighting and even murder. If you watch the film The Field, which is based on real events, you can see how the rural society worked. Christianity came a poor second to the greed for land. Hearts were hardened and ultimately religion was paid lip service. These structures of a pharisee church have to go for living faith to be rekindled. I believe it is happening and faith will be restored.
Excellent analysis IMHO. Just listened/watched Kennedy(Catholic commentator from Canada) on you tube entitled "Collapse" and he goes into this whole trajectory of the Church and the World. He reads ftom St Paul's letter to the Roman's and plays Fr Ripperger's comments about a coming paradigm shift. Its quite comforting.
I was blessed with good and faithful nuns in my early years so I had a solid foundation. By the time I arrived in high school in the 70’s the progressives had taken over. I recall returning to school in the fall of my sophomore year and it was as though a flip had switched. In hindsight I believe we were “groomed “ by progressive nuns to accept the abandonment of traditional Catholic teachings, sacred art and music. They hooked us with guitars, folk music, etc, and we bought it, hook line and sinker. We were taken off course, and for some it has been a long journey home.
I've listened to the above and Mr. Kennedy's review of Romans 1:18-27. And of course, he is following upon Fr. Ripperger's own analysis. When suppression of truth kicks in, God is denied and minds are darkened; then lust, dishonorable lifestyles, and disorder abound. Implementation is forced upon us. It will get messy (to say the least!). Thank you, AED.
I heard Father Paul Kramer, the former co-head of the Fatima Center who is now retired and living in Ireland, talk about how terrible the famine truly was. He said there was plenty of food but the English soldiers lined the roads as the food was marched out of the country and sold for profit. He also said that it was a huge percentage of the population that starved to death -- something like 40 percent. Absolutely evil and traumatic.
He also said another worldwide famine is coming soon as it was prophesied at Fatima by Jacinta (I think). Time to prepare.
do you believe that the last forerunner of the antichrist before the triumph of Our Lady will be a false messiah who will deceive several religions?
I think of myself one of the very good things I discovered under the ten years of our present Pontiff is that there are so many good, honest and courageous men amongst our Clergy. If not for Pope Francis I would never have discovered this. Many of them I believe are real present days saints. I would never have gotten to encounter these men if they had not spoken out against what Pope Francis is up to. So good from evil. I also am increasingly grateful for the Forum, Mary's home. Without out it I might feel I turning into a super crank and was maybe imagining what is going on in the Church. These people are so good at gas lighting. Pope St John Paul ii once said that being in the minority does not mean we are wrong. That the truth remains the truth no matter how few people believe in it.
I think one of the Great Signs that our Faith is dying is when it becomes a form of box ticking, of formalism, of Legalism, of worrying about being correct all the time. So I go to Mass every Sunday because Church Law says that I have to, rather than out of Spiritual Hunger and love. I get married in Church because it suits the social occasion and would look bad not to. Rather than entering into a Sacramental Vocation of love and growth. If getting the children Baptised in order to get them into a good Catholic School. There was a time when it might have been possible to fill the car of our soul with the wrong fuel of box ticking and chug along on the level from point A to point B. But no more. Now we have to drive up mountains and the wrong fuel just won't do it. Now we need the fuel of a living personal relationship with Jesus. We truly do need to be born again of the Holy Spirit. We need to have a real active spiritual life. Otherwise the cars of our souls will crash and burn when they try to go up the Alps that lie ahead.
It is so weird, looking back on it. It is as though we were , all of bewitched. My Mother and Father never were bless them both. So we had the Latin Mass at home whilst the entire neighbourhood thought us insane. Thank you Jesus for waking us sleeping beauties out of our slumber. Just in time too, I think. Even Mother Angelica was fooled a while, then red pilled.
