I had read of one family who went to law to get funds (a lot) back from the house of prayer that their parent had given. The family were furious that the money was not kept for them to inherit. To me, if a parent wants to give their money to the cats home or to the house of prayer; what right do the children have to deny their parent the freedom to decide. Again this is a case of follow the money if you want to see where the truth lies.
I think this was probably one of the biggest cause of concern with the house of prayer. The money buisness. Say St Bernadette had started collecting money for whatever, it would have been a minefield. Much better visions in one place. Money collections in another. True a lot of money went into Lourdes, but Bernadette was not involved. Visions and money don't mix. My own biggest concern was Our Lady and Jesus getting so angry in her visions when anyone dared to ask questions about Christine. They got furious and threatened all kinds of doom and gloom. This was a big switch off for me.
But I'm silly getting involved in commenting on all this. People adopt various seerers as if they were there own children and go crazy if questions are asked. Its a real mine fields. Folks get furious if you doubt.
Hadn't heard that one before; but what about that couple who dropped dead when they with held money from the sale of their belongings, when they wanted to join the Christian community in Saint Peters time. Just a thought. I wonder if when money is involved, the devil is always in the details. I think that is why Jesus said when you give, don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. I know there are loads of parishioners who go dolally about what the parish Priest spends money on, as if he required the permission of every parishioner when he spends money. I just tell them when they whinge at me, I don't care what he spends the money on as long as it is not on hookers. Sorry, but that is how I feel. Don't think it matters to me, God won't ask me to render an account of what happens to money I am able to give to whatever cause. No, I have only given small modest donations at the House of Prayer, and that was when you could ask for Mass intentions, stipends are what they are called, and only on a couple of occasions.
Well Padre Pio of course collected money for his big hospital. So I suppose that is one case. Although Padre Pio was not a visionary as such . I mean he did not have a series of messages from heaven. He was a mystic but not a seerer. I would say if you are getting messages from heaven you should not be taking in money, any money at all. It muddies the waters. It casts doubts.
I remember reading some big wig Cardinal or Bishop arrived in a big posh car at Padre Pio's monastery demanding all the money, and Saint Pio told him to sling his hook in a polite and holy way. LOL
St. Bernadette, after she was in the convent, got angry when she found out that her brother was selling religious articles to pilgrims. Maybe extremely disappointed would be a better description of how she felt. She sure didn’t like it...and it was just her brother...
Well Padre pio got a special dispension directly from p pius 12th to handle money. The reason was that Padre pio had a vow of poverty therefore he wasnt allowed to handle it. Then dispension came later.
https://www.localprayers.com/US/Hum...r-Lady-Queen-of-Peace-House-of-Prayer,-Kansas Fatima, it has been a long time, the Humboldt House may be no more but it did exist. Take care on this beautiful Mother’s Day.
Padre Pio did the right thing. Anyone personally profiting from these things is only hurting their own soul...be they a private person or clergy.... heaven knows their intentions, even if well meaning faithful do not.
I have been unable to post my other experience regarding Christina as it is too long, but I will attempt to post it in two sections - the first will be an experience I had which happened just after coming into the Church, about 25-26 years ago and I had no idea what this vision was that God gave to me (if I cannot post from my actual notes, then I will re-type it). The second will be from Chistina's book, which I read several years later which then I understood what I was shown was Purgatory. It was only after reading her book that I understood. This is for your discernment - as usual.
This is what I experienced - if you scroll down to the third paragraph or Christina's book, you will read what she saw regarding Purgatory. There are more pages in her book about this, but I cannot post all of it.
CORONAVIRUS Message to Christina Gallagher, on January 26, 2013 (see The Cross Uncovered p.343) Jesus said, “The world will endure many diseases and plagues- diseases that will be man-made.” As far back as February 22, 2005 (see The Cross Uncovered p.278) Our Lady made Christina aware that “there will be an epidemic throughout the world with a germ which is bred through AIDS. Many innocent people will catch it and die. There will be a virus-type plague which will kill many people through- out the world.” Seems another one of Christina's messages from 7 years ago has come to fruition with the latest findings of the Covid-19 virus as being man-made: EXCLUSIVE: Virus researchers uncover new evidence implying COVID-19 was created in a lab Preliminary study results suggest virus was produced in lab cultures using human cells. Sat May 16, 2020 - 10:48 am EST A clinical support technician extracts viruses from swab samples so that the genetic structure of a virus can be analysed and identified in the coronavirus testing laboratory at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, on February 19, 2020 in Glasgow, Scotland. Jane Barlow - WPA Pool/Getty Images By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman May 16, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – A team of Australian scientists has produced new evidence that the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is optimized for penetration into human cells rather than animal cells, undermining the theory that the virus randomly evolved in an animal subject before passing into human beings, and suggesting instead that it was developed in a laboratory. The study, which has not yet been peer reviewed, provides new but not yet conclusive evidence favoring the theory that the novel coronavirus originated not in a food market as has been claimed, but rather in a laboratory, presumably one operated by the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, the city in which the first outbreak of COVID-19 occurred in December of 2019. The lead researcher on the team says that the results represent either “a remarkable coincidence or a sign of human intervention” in the creation of the virus. The authors of the study, led by vaccine researcher Nikolai Petrovsky of Flinders University in Australia, used a version of the novel coronavirus collected in the earliest days of the outbreak and applied computer models to test its capacity to bind to certain cell receptor enzymes, called “ACE2,” that allow the virus to infect human and animal cells to varying degrees of efficacy. They tested the propensity of the COVID-19 virus’s spike protein, which it uses to enter cells, to bind to the human type of ACE2 as well as to many different animal versions of ACE2, and found that the novel coronavirus most powerfully binds with human ACE2, and with variously lesser degrees of effectiveness with animal versions of the receptor. According to the study’s authors, this implies that the virus that causes COVID-19 did not come from an animal intermediary, but became specialized for human cell penetration by living previously in human cells, quite possibly in a laboratory. The authors write that “this finding is particularly surprising as, typically, a virus would be expected to have highest affinity for the receptor in its original host species, e.g. bat, with a lower initial binding affinity for the receptor of any new host, e.g. humans. However, in this case, the affinity of SARS-CoV-2 is higher for humans than for the putative original host species, bats, or for any potential intermediary host species.” As a consequence, they add, a “possibility which still cannot be excluded is that SARSCoV-2 was created by a recombination event that occurred inadvertently or consciously in a laboratory handling coronaviruses, with the new virus then accidentally released into the local human population.” In a separate public statement about the research made by Prof. Petrovsky on April 17, the researcher notes that the results of his study are either "a remarkable coincidence or a sign of human intervention,” and adds that it is “entirely plausible that the virus was created in the biosecurity facility in Wuhan by selection on cells expressing human ACE2, a laboratory that was known to be cultivating exotic bat coronaviruses at the time.” “If so the cultured virus could have escaped the facility either through accidental infection of a staff member who then visited the fish market several blocks away and there infected others, or by inappropriate disposal of waste from the facility that either infected humans outside the facility directly or via a susceptible vector such as a stray cat that then frequented the market and resulted in transmission there to humans,” he added. The researchers recognize that other possibilities exist, but regard them as improbable. They found that the novel coronavirus has a strong, but lesser binding effect on the ACE2 receptor of Pangolins, which are mammals eaten in China as a delicacy which has often been proposed as the intermediary of the novel coronavirus between bats and humans. However, they note that the Pangolin doesn’t offer a reasonable candidate for an intermediate species for human transmission, because “given the higher affinity of [the novel coronavirus] SARS-CoV-2 for human ACE2 than for bat ACE2, SARS-CoV-2 would have to have circulated in pangolins for a long period of time for this evolution and selection to occur and to date there is no evidence of a SARS-CoV-2 like virus circulating in pangolins.” A preliminary form of the study, which is currently entitled, “In silico comparison of spike protein-ACE2 binding affinities across species; significance for the possible origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus,” has been published on a repository site maintained by Cornell University, which warns that studies published prior to peer review should not be considered “established information” unless multiple experts in a given field are first consulted. According to his university webpage, in addition to his work as a university professor, Professor Petrovsky is currently Director of Endocrinology at Flinders Medical Centre of Flinders University, and Vice President and Secretary-General of the International Immunomics Society. He is also the founder of Vaxine Pty Ltd., which is funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and is currently working on a COVID-19 vaccine. In addition to Professor Petrovsky, the research team that produced the study includes Prof. Sakshi Piplani, also of Flinders University, Puneet Kumar Singh, who works with Petrovsky and Piplani at Vaxine Pty Ltd., and Prof. David A. Winkler, who teaches at the University of Nottingham in the U.K and Monash University in Australia. more......
continued .... Study contradicts scientists who claim “zero evidence” for lab origin of virus The results of the study tend to contradict virologists who have claimed that the novel coronavirus shows no signs of having been produced in a laboratory, some of whom have gone so far as to dismiss such theories as “conspiracy theories.” The “conspiracy theory” claim has been uncritically echoed in much, but not all, of the international media. The staff of the Wuhan Institute of Virology have repeatedly denied the virus came from their lab. Their position has been supported by a widely-referenced letter from several scientists published in Nature Medicine on March 17, which argues against the likelihood of a laboratory generating the virus in a human cell lab culture. The argument made by the researchers in the letter is mostly based on the claim that no genetically-close progenitor to the novel coronavirus that could be a candidate for such a process has been described in any scientific study. They also assert that “repeated passage” of coronaviruses in cell cultures have not been mentioned in scientific literature. However, the letter’s authors do not address the possibility that the Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers simply did not report all of their research to the public, a possibility that seems to have been reinforced in recent months by secrecy and cover-ups regarding COVID-19 research in China, and the repeated refusal of the Chinese government to participate in an international probe of the origins of the novel coronavirus. Unless an animal version of virus is found, evidence points to “human intervention” Professor Petrovsky told LifeSite in an email interview that his study indicates that “there are some highly unusual features, including optimal human adaptation, that in the absence of identification of a close to identical virus in an animal population from which COVID19 could have arisen, would point in the direction of human intervention at some point in the evolution of COVID19.” He noted that, so far, researchers in China and elsewhere have not produced evidence of the presence in animals of a virus closely similar to the one that causes COVID-19 in humans, which would give credence to their theory of natural development in an intermediary between bats, which presumably originated the virus, and humans. “If an animal vector and virus could be found then of course this would resolve the matter completely,” Petrovksy told LifeSite. “One would have thought that the Chinese would be intensively sampling all conceivable animals trying to find such a virus to exonerate their labs. If no such intense search is going on (which I don’t know one way or the other) then the inference could be that they are not looking because they already know what they might find.” Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University who has been critical of laboratory studies that might produce new pathogens dangerous to humans, told LifeSite that Petrovsky’s results “are plausible,” but cautioned that the results of the pre-print of the study “are from computational modelling, not from experiments, and therefore must be considered as provisional at best.” Ebright noted that an earlier study on ACE2 receptor binding found that a bat coronavirus similar to the COVID-19 virus had strong binding power with the ACE2 of tree shrews and ferrets, making them possible animal intermediary candidates. However, the study did not compare the binding power of the virus’ animal species’ ACE2 receptors with the binding power with humans, as does Petrovsky’s study. Moreover, it did not use a gene sequence from an early version of the novel coronavirus itself, as does Petrovsky’s study, but rather used the gene sequence of a similar bat coronavirus reported by the Wuhan Institute of Virology, called RaTG13. Ebright told LifeSite that he believes that multiple physical experiments that will ultimately determine if the novel coronavirus is optimized for binding with human cells are “probably underway in multiple locations,” although he did not cite any specific studies. What is needed, according to Prof. Petrovsky, is a thorough international investigation into the true cause of the COVID-19 outbreak, something the Chinese government has repeatedly refused. “Whilst the facts cannot be known at this time, the nature of this event and its proximity to a high-risk biosecurity facility at the epicentre of the outbreak demands a full and independent international enquiry to ascertain whether a virus of this kind of COVID-19 was being cultured in the facility and might have been accidentally released,” wrote Petrovsky on April 17.
THE WORD IS NOW .... THE TIME IS NOW A long-time Irish journalist, someone who has accumulated more direct and extensive knowledge than any other writer or media person, in Ireland or elsewhere, of Christina Gallagher's mission for souls over the past 32 years, speaks out on why the Irish visionary's messages can no longer be ignored, or treated with scepticism, or as something to be condemned. He explains why he is convinced that the messages which Christina has received since January 1988, urgently need to be taken to heart by as many people as possible, and urges that open-minded people do so, in whatever little time still remains.... Dick Hogan is a professional journalist and long-time editor, well known in the Irish midlands having edited a local weekly newspaper for almost five decades, since he and a few others set up a new printing business in 1991 and launched the paper that November. He is co-founder also of a national monthly family magazine, titled Ireland's Eye, launched by the the same firm, Topic Newspapers Ltd. Mullingar, in late 1979. He also launched the "Irish Family" - a Catholic weekly newspaper in 1992, and edited it for more than a dozen years, until it could no longer be sustained financially. While researching material for Ireland's Eye in 1990, he first heard about alleged apparitions of Our Lady in Ireland, involving a young married housewife from Co. Mayo. In early 1991, because of the contents of a trashy Sunday newspaper article shown to him, one which he disbelieved, he made up his mind to try to get in touch with the woman being ridiculed in the newspaper - Christine Gallagher, (as she was then being described) and discover her side of the story. He hoped to interview the alleged visionary and weight up the facts, and if possible, print her story about the claimed experiences, visions and apparitions she was having. (This was at a time before Mrs. Gallagher knew anything about setting up a House of Prayer, a time when she was single-handedly trying to disseminate the messages she had been receiving and had them printed on a small four page leaflet for distribution.. After managing to locate Mrs. Gallagher's phone number, and speaking to her to explain what he'd like to do, she at first declined, but then agreed to be give whatever interview was needed. The two-hours discussion with Christina Gallagher at her home in Co. Mayo in 1991 was the basis for the first two articles to appear in "Ireland's Eye" about the apparitions and messages she had received, and a synopsis of her life story. What was then intended to be a few articles had to be continued, such was the sudden public interest. By January, 1992, the demand for back monthly issues of the magazine, and ongoing interest, led to the production by the writer of the first book, "Please Come Back to Me and My Son - Our Lady's Appeal through Christina Gallagher to the people of Ireland and all humanity" published in Ireland in March, 1992. It has since gone through many editions, and turned up on every continent on earth. INFLUENCED BY LEGION OF MARY The Mullingar-based journalist had been writing periodically about Marian matters for a decade or so before this, and since the 1960s, had collected material related to some of the best known places of apparition of Our Lady, like Guadalupe, Rue de Bac, La Salette, Lourdes, Fatima, Knock, Akita, Garabandal, Medjugorje, in Italy, Venezuela, Egypt, etc. He was also very much aware of Our Lady's ongoing key role in the salvation history of mankind. He was strongly influenced in a Marian direction through his family and also from being an active member of the Legion of Mary for years prior to his marriage in 1967. (He met his future wife while involved in overseas summer Legion work in the mid 1960s in Scotland, where she was also an active Legion member). With this strong Marian interest, he had never hidden his personal belief in the reality of apparitions of Our Lady and her ongoing interventions in human history. Nor in the concerns Our Lady had been expressing about the rejection by many people of how Jesus' love and His death on the cross, had re-opened Heaven to humankind, and her warnings about the deteriorating situation even within the Church which her Son had founded, and of a world chastisement, if people did not turn back to God. Also at this time, the writer was already heavily involved in efforts by Catholic and Christian activists in Ireland to stem the rapidly rising tide of secularism and disbelief, as many influential Irish people cast aside Christian values and embraced secular humanism as their new social standard. IN CLOSE TOUCH Over the past three decades then, the writer and his wife found themselves, year after year, in close touch with Christina Gallagher and her spiritual director Fr Gerard McGinnity. As a journalist, he needed to keep in touch with the visionary and her spiritual director, in order to bring "Ireland's Eye" readers the most up to date information in the monthly magazine articles. Someone who has always tried to print what he considered to be the truth, whether on matters secular or religious, he (and his wife) made no secret of their belief that Christina Gallagher was an authentic visionary, and their view was that what she was receiving came from God, and that the proof lay in the many 'signs already given, even by the early 1990s. Nothing they've heard, seen or experienced since then has changed that opinion, and everything they has transpired since then has only strengthened their conviction and belief that Christina Gallagher is a modern-day prophet and victim soul, who has endured all sorts of sufferings and rejection in always trying to do God's bidding, and at the same time, doing nothing contrary to Catholic teaching. They believe in the authenticity of the messages she has received from heaven, and all that Christina Gallagher has sought to do. And they believe that anyone with an open mind will be able to see the evidence to prove the reality of it all, if they have an open mind. As he wrote on the back cover of the first book about the Irish visionary: "The honesty, sincerity, openness, general demeanour and spirituality of the Co.Mayo housewife, add considerably to credibility of the messages she seeks to propagate." "The visionary had little inkling back then, in 1991, of the enormity of what she was taking on, or what her decisions to act as a 'messenger' for Our Lady to the people of Ireland and the world, but she did within half a dozen years,"" the writer said this week. A great deal has been achieved, but setbacks and problems at every turn with the House of Prayer project, along with constant personal attacks and denigration, and serious health setbacks - that was her lot. Yet her work for God continued despite what often seemed impossible odds. "I've never met anyone else who endured so much for God, despite so many obstacles, and 'knocking' by people who didn't want to believe. Yet she kept on, and the honesty, sincerity, directness and spirituality, with such marvellous backing from a spiritual director like none other, left her, as far as I was concerned, a shining beacon of light and truth in rapidly gathering darkness."" "Please Come Back to Me and My Son" was only a modest effort to make better known to a wider audience the facts, up till then, about Christina Gallagher, and I sought to allow her to use, as far as possible, her own words and to express her personal convictions on all she had experienced. "The letters reprinted in the book - the early correspondence with her spiritual director before she ever met him personally - I found particularly revealing and a clear indication in themselves of her full belief in all she was experiencing at the time,"" the writer explains. FIRST HAND KNOWLEDGE Over the twenty eight years since then, Dick Hogan has written upwards of three hundred and fifty monthly "Ireland's Eye" articles detailing current happenings involving the visionary and the many subsequent messages and experiences. He is the only journalist afforded the opportunity to gain so much first-hand knowledge of all that has occurred since 1988 and to place this material on public record, year after year. More................. http://www.christinagallagher.org/en/
Continued.............. The monthly articles have included accounts of healings of all kinds, not just in Ireland, but much further afield, involving all kinds of serious human ailments including some people suffering from incurable cancers and expected to die; individuals and families returning to Catholic belief and practice after decades away from God and the sacraments; people who miraculously escaped death or serious injury; accounts of what Our Lady intended Mrs. Gallagher's role to be, in helping the Catholic priesthood to recover from the crisis of faith affecting so many of them and how she was at all times - as one renowned priest put it - a "beacon of light and orthodoxy." Basing his views on all he has witnessed, heard and seen at first hand, the writer views Christina Gallagher as a particularly important prophetic figure in these apocalyptic times, not just for Irish people, but for the entire world, and for the Church. He also considers her the most maligned and misrepresented person he has ever known in more than six decades of journalism - a straightforward, sincere woman under major personal attack, almost entirely because of her beliefs, and from the first time she experienced a Marian apparition, in early 1988. ORCHESTRATED MEDIA ONSLAUGHT From the year 2006 onwards, Dick Hogan and his wife Margaret were caught up personally in the huge media onslaught against the visionary and her spiritual director. As a journalist, he has never seen, even in the secular world, such a highly orchestrated and organised effort as that aimed at totally destroying Christina Gallagher, her spiritual director, and the mission for souls she was involved in. The newspaper onslaughts often spread over three or more of the Sunday tabloid pages. "Unbelievable and unprecedented by any standard in the world of journalism" is how he describes the constant repetition, more than a dozen times, of one totally biassed television programme misrepresenting her and her spiritual adviser, with the timing mostly arranged to coincide with each further Sunday newspaper attack on Mrs. Gallagher. These involved the total demolition of her good name and reputation, and that of Fr. McGinnity, her spiritual director - and anyone else associated with her. But the attacks went even further, amounting to incitement to hatred of a kind capable of endangering her very life. And caused some to attempt to act upon the incitement. The writer and his wife, who have led the choir at Achill House of Prayer since it began, are still very much involved. And their fully supportive opinions about Christina Gallagher's role as a key visionary of this era, and of her spiritual director, Fr McGinnity are unchanged. They describe Fr McGinnity as the finest and most talented, dedicated and holy priests they've ever been fortunate enough to meet. A man highly informed on every aspect of private revelation, and a priest able to teach the basic Catholic tenets in a clear and most effective manner, despite having been scandalously mistreated for more than three and a half decades. This happened initially because in Maynooth, he attempted to stand up for Catholic standards in priestly formation and for truth and was "punished" for doing so. And later, it continued because he was acting as spiritual adviser to an Irish woman who heavenly messages were not considered acceptable; a woman with a simple but very strong faith, whom he believed from the evidence he had, to be receiving authentic 'messages from heaven, aimed at leading people back to God while there was still time to do so, before mankind was forced to undergo a severe chastisement. It wasn't a new message, it was similar in ways to similar interventions elsewhere on earth, but in Ireland, it was unwelcome, it seemed. In the weeks and months ahead, Dick Hogan wants to explain why he and his wife believe in the urgency of all that Christina Gallagher has received, and why people need to look closely at the messages , in the light of present day realities, and realise exactly what her years of suffering over many years imply. Having heard the ongoing heavenly warnings for three decades, and seen the “signs” they believe the proof is self-evident and that everything Mrs. Gallagher has been given in prophetic messages over so many years is proof in itself. They wonder also, why so many of those who have also seen the same 'proof' over the that period, and backed away when the serious media attacks began, have not by now found their way back. The writer believes the times of God's Justice have already commenced, and the "labour pains" have begun, and that those with an open mind, if they read the messages given to Christina Gallagher, will realise this. The current world pandemic [ crisis is but the latest example, one predicted in key detail years ago by Our Lady. "The people of Ireland and of the world are going to discover, more quickly than most realise, that what Mrs. Gallagher has received and tried to make known, is being verified almost on a weekly basis, and all the happenings even in the past twelve months, should not be ignored even if some continue to reject them," Dick Hogan said this week. He concluded: "If we still live in a democracy, how can we pretend that black is white and white is black? And when you're a Catholic believer, and have closely watched a situation for thirty years and seen and witnessed events and heard personal testimonies that you can't explain in any way other than to describe them as inexplicable and miraculous, what else can we do? How can someone deny facts, or stay silent, simply to suit the general disbelief in God and all He stands for, even if we live in very strange times, when telling the truth is seen as unwise and likely to cause you problems and condemnation?" He explained further: "Christina Gallagher was told by Jesus in a message in October, 2013 in a message for the world, that He desired "My people in....the world to listen and hear the truth." And added: "I, the Lord who loves you and gave My life for you, desire that you receive My love and mercy before it is too late. The word 'late' means 'now' The Lord your God says to you the word is 'NOW'. Listen and hear. Respond." "Those clear words, and similar ones from Our Lady and Jesus in more recent times, have prompted the title of this article. "As far as we're concerned, the Christina Gallagher story is one that needs to be told". "There's overwhelming evidence from many sources, to indicate that events on our very doorsteps now will radically alter - in ways presently unimaginable to us - the history of mankind. Laugh if you wish, and dismiss such claims, but that's for you to decide. "This writer's responsibility ends when he has conveyed what he believes, on the basis of all he has seen and heard since first meeting Christina Gallagher, and all that's been happening since then, in Ireland and across the globe, even up to recent months" "I believe Christina Gallagher's work is and has always been directed towards helping souls to gain eternal salvation, and the saving of as many as possible in times of unprecedented confusion and apostasy. What do you believe? Is it make up your mind time?"
