Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, is on fire

This card was on the Spirit Daily website today.
My rough translation: from the top "The wish of the Sacred Heart"
Then a firing squad is killing a martyr. Blessed Mother is grieving
The quote at the bottom is "O Heart of Jesus, look not at our sins but at the blood of martyrs
who cry for mercy."
There is a church burning in the background.
This is an old holy card but it has a profound message for right now.

 

Ominously, St. Peter's seems to be burning, also.

 

An earlier post was referring to Anna Maria Taigi. I'm aware of her prophecy but I'm not aware she made any such a statement about Paris.

I try to stay away from what I consider two main mistakes in relation to prophesy:

- to dismiss prophesy altogether, even where it's proven itself like in Don Bosco's case for example; or

- to be too gullible and naive regarding prophesy, trying to make everything fit a self-defined worldview, believing in too many self-proclaimed prophets or twisting the statements of credible ones.

I think there are very few truly credible prophets of our time, perhaps Jahenny, Emmerich, Taigi, Canori Mora, Don Bosco, to name a few. Or St Francis from the Middle Ages with his vision of the "destroyer, not canonically elected"

Burning Notre Dame is deeply meaningful in any case. Both Pope Benedict and Bishop Schneider have commented remarkably. I think they have summed up the spiritual aspects of the Notre Dame attack.

God bless all here. The battle is now.

 

The Secret of La Salette

Written Statement by Maximin Giraud on July 3rd, 1851

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On September 19, 1846, we saw a beautiful Lady. We never said that this lady was the Blessed Virgin but we always said that it was a beautiful Lady.

I do not know if it is the Blessed Virgin or another person. As for me, I believe today that it is the Blessed Virgin. Here is what this Lady said to me:

"If my people continue, what I will say to you will arrive earlier, if it changes a little, it will be a little later.

France has corrupted the universe, one day it will be punished. The faith will die out in France: three quarters of France will not practice religion anymore, or almost no more, the other part will practice it without really practicing it. Then, after [that], nations will convert, the faith will be rekindled everywhere.

A great country, now Protestant, in the north of Europe, will be converted; by the support of this country all the other nations of the world will be converted.

Before all that arrives, great disorders will arrive, in the Church, and everywhere. Then, after [that], our Holy Father the Pope will be persecuted. His successor will be a pontiff that nobody expects.


Then, after [that], a great peace will come, but it will not last a long time. A monster will come to disturb it.
All that I tell you here will arrive in the other century, at the latest in the year two thousand."

 

This is meaningful indeed. Brings to mind Parais-le-Monial and the 100 year period for the French monarchy to take up the Sacred Heart devotion. When they missed the deadline guillotines came in.

Today, we seem to have another 100 year deadline, according to the vision of Pope Leo XIII who composed the St Michael prayer and made it compulsory after each low Mass (Novus Ordo got rid of that in many cases). I often wonder if this new 100 year period relates to Fatima, if so, the deadline would have been 2017. Maybe we've been given a year or two as a grace period but now this is over and the Chastisement (Akita) is on.

 

Another highly interesting document. I was aware of the secret of La Salette but not of that letter by Maximin. Is there a source online to view, perhaps in French as well? I did see the handwriting.

 

I hadn’t noticed that. Good observation. Thank you.

 

[You can use the closed captions and auto-translate if you are not fluent in French.]

Apr. 18, 2019
Notre Dame Priest: How Blessed Sacrament, Crown of Thorns Were Saved From Fire
“I asked Jesus — and I really believe he is present in these hosts — to fight the flames and preserve the building dedicated to his mother.”
Edward Pentin | http://www.ncregister.com/blog/edwa...es-rescue-of-blessed-sacrament-crown-of-thorn

Father Jean-Marc Fournier, chaplain to the Paris Fire Brigade, was on his way with a group of military chaplains to a dinner with a local bishop on Holy Monday when they noticed plumes of black smoke towering over the French capital.

He looked at his phone and saw many missed messages telling him the cathedral was on fire.

The priest, who served in Afghanistan as an army chaplain, then immediately rushed to Notre Dame cathedral where he “swiftly greeted” French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, and Archbishop Michel Aupetit of Paris.

“Quickly we focus on the priority: the relics of the Passion and the Blessed Sacrament,” he recalled in an April 17 interview with Famille Chrétienne.

But first they had to overcome the first obstacle: the Crown of Thorns was locked in a safe.

“We must find the key and above all, the code. But we don’t find anyone to communicate with.”

While he tried to find someone who knew, members of a group equipped to work in the cathedral strived to save other priceless objects according to a “predetermined plan.”

“Was there any sense of panic at this point?” the interviewer asked.

“None at all,” said Father Fournier. “Nobody panics. There is simply a little more stress because we know that time is against us.” Stress is “good,” he added, “because it helps to make decisions instantly.”

Eventually, they managed to obtain a set of keys from the sacristan, and firefighters were able to find a steward who had the code.

“He was able to open the safe and took out the Crown of Thorns,” said Father Fournier. “The first objective was met.”

Attention then turned to the Blessed Sacrament.

By that time, the spire had collapsed and at any moment, the “ship may collapse,” the priest recounted. He said two fires were burning on the ground: one at the front main altar, and another in front of the high altar, in front of the choir of the canons.

“Rains of fire keep falling from the roof,” he said. “In the cathedral is a very particular atmosphere: no smoke, and no excessive heat.”

They decide to rationalize on which treasures in the cathedral should be rescued and act “systematically,” passing through each of the chapels in turn. As they recover the priceless works, they place some of them in a yard and protect them with waterproof covering.

After retrieving “altar fittings, Our Lady of Czestochowa,” and several “great icons, “we cannot go further,” Father Fournier recalled. “The officer tells us it’s too dangerous to continue.”

“Did you feel you were risking your life?” asked the interviewer.

“Every time we enter a burning building!” said Father Fournier. “And it’s not an impression. It’s a reality!”

After retrieving the priceless relics and art it was “effectively time to get Jesus out of the cathedral in flames,” Father Fournier continued.

He asked the sacristan where the consecrated hosts were located.

“The Real Presence lies in two places,” came the reply. “First on the altar of the Canons, where there are many thousands of hosts to carry.”

But the hosts were located under a “tangle of brining girders” and “molten lead” that continually fell from the roof. “It’s absolutely impossible to reach!” Father Fournier told Famille Chrétienne.

A second location was at the altar of St. George. “We find the key. I recover Jesus,” the priest said, and having retrieved Him, he then blessed the cathedral with the Blessed Sacrament.

“It is an act of faith,” said Father Fournier who once served as a priest with the traditional Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP).

“I asked Jesus — and I really believe he is present in these hosts — to fight the flames and preserve the building dedicated to his mother.”

His blessing, he added, coincided with the beginning of a fire in the North Tower but “at the same time its extinction!” Without doubt, the priest said, it was due to “Providence” and also that the two belfries were saved.

He repeated that he asked Jesus, whom “I really believe to be in these hosts,” to “fight the flames.”

The hosts and some of the cathedral treasures were left in the sacristy, which “was not threatened by the fire.” The Crown of Thorns was taken to the workers’ living quarters.

He and a fire sergeant then climbed the still-accessible South Tower and saw the roof had been completely destroyed.

Asked about his thoughts at that moment, Father Fournier remembered it was the beginning of Holy Week, and also the words at the beginning of Lent — “Remember you are dust and to dust you will return.” But he also thought of the Resurrection.

“I had both the great sadness of the loss,” he said, but at the same time, “this unspeakable joy related to the hope of the Resurrection. I knew that the cathedral would be rebuilt more beautiful, stronger and more alive!” he said.

Asked what he meant by “more alive,” he replied: “Because many buildings are rather dead shells” and there’s a risk of religious monuments “turning into whited sepulchers.”

When such buildings collapsed, burned or were attacked in the past, “everyone rolled up their sleeves and rebuilt,” he said. “These buildings should be a reflection of our lives,” he said, “with joys and sorrows, death and life.”

Father Fournier said it was because he is a member of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher that his focus turned to the Crown of Thorns. “I have a special bond with her!” he said. “It’s a huge relief to know she is saved. Humanity hasn’t been deprived of one its most precious treasures.”

The priest showed a similar act of bravery in 2015 when soon after the terrorist attack on the Bataclan concert in Paris, he entered the theater to pray over the dead, and comfort those who were injured or had lost loved ones.

Asked if he took pride in such acts, Father Fournier said he felt “legitimate pride” in doing good, but “without forgetting that this good is not of us who are only useless servants of the Lord’s grace.”

Edited to add:

 

This interview first bummed me out; then secondly makes me very mad!

Lord have Mercy! Maranatha!

 

Thank you Carol!

 

Here is the French Version.

http://www.miraclehunter.com/marian_apparitions/approved_apparitions/lasalette/index.html

The Secret of La Salette

Written Statement by Maximin Giraud on July 3rd, 1851

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Le 19 septembre 1846, nous avons vu une belle Dame. Nous n'avons jamais dit que cette dame fut la Sainte Vierge mais nous avons toujours dit que c'était une belle Dame.

Je ne sais pas si c'est la Sainte Vierge ou une autre personne. Moi, je crois aujourd'hui que c'est la sainte Vierge.
Voila ce que cette Dame m'a dit:

"Si mon peuple continue, ce que je vais vous dire arrivera plus tôt , s'il change un peu, ce sera un peu plus tard.

La France a corrompu l'univers, un jour elle sera punie. La foi s'éteindra dans la France: trois parties de la France ne pratiqueront plus de religion, ou presque plus, 1'autre la pratiquera sans bien la pratiquer. Puis, après [cela], les nations se convertiront, la foi se rallumera partout.

Une grande contrée dans le nord de l'Europe, aujourd 'hui protestante, se convertira: par l'appui de cette contrée toutes les autres contrées du monde se convertiront.

Avant que tout cela arrive, de grands troubles arriveront, dans l'Eglise, et partout. Puis, après [cela], notre Saint-Père le pape sera persecuté. Son successeur sera un pontife que personne [n'] attend.

Puis après [cela], une grande paix arrivera, mais elle ne durera pas longtemps. Un monstre viendra la troubler.
Tout ce que je vous dis là arrivera dans l'autre siècle, [au] plus tard aux deux millle ans."

Maximin Giraud

(Elle [m'] a dit de le dire quelque temps avant).

Mon très Saint Père, votre sainte bénédiction à une de vos brebis,

Grenoble, le 3 juillet 1851.

 

This is an important point: there were TWO “accidental” fires which started the Notre Dame fire.

What are the odds that Notre Dame stood for 850 years then inexplicably suffered TWO “accidental” fires in TWO locations, remote from each other?!?



https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/notre-dame-cathedral-was-vulnerable-fire-expert-says-n994791

 

Within the Google Translation to English there is this.....for the Pope coming after the Pope who is to be persecuted:

His successor will be a pontiff that no one [waits]. (an unexpected one?...a surprise one?....unexpected good or unexpected bad?)

 

Map of Attacks in France on Christian Churches in Last Four Years

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Unfortunately, it doesn't say if the pontiff will be good or bad, but it sounds like he could be talking about Pope Benedict and Pope Francis.
I posted Maximin's secret above in English too. Below you will find his sister Melanie's secret.

The Secret of La Salette

Written Statement by Melanie Mathieu on July 6th, 1851

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J.M.J.

secret which the Blessed Virgin gave me on the Mountain of La Salette on September 19, 1846
Secr[e]t.

Mélanie, I will say something to you which you will not say to anybody:
The time of the God's wrath has arrived!

If, when you say to the people what I have said to you so far, and what I will still ask you to say, if, after that, they do not convert, (if they do not do penance, and they do not cease working on Sunday, and if they continue to blaspheme the Holy Name of God), in a word, if the face of the earth does not change, God will be avenged against the people ungrateful and slave of the demon.

My Son will make his power manifest! Paris, this city soiled by all kinds of crimes, will perish infallibly. Marseilles will be destroyed in a little time. When these things arrive, the disorder will be complete on the earth, the world will be given up to its impious passions.

The pope will be persecuted from all sides, they will shoot at him, they will want to put him to death, but no one will not be able to do it, the Vicar of God will triumph again this time.

The priests and the Sisters, and the true servants of my Son will be persecuted, and several will die for the faith of Jesus-Christ.
A famine will reign at the same time.

After all these will have arrived, many will recognize the hand of God on them, they will convert, and do penance for their sins.
A great king will go up on the throne, and will reign a few years. Religion will re-flourish and spread all over the world, and there will be a great abundance, the world, glad not to be lacking nothing, will fall again in its disorders, will give up God, and will be prone to its criminal passions.

[Among] God's ministers, and the Spouses of Jesus-Christ, there will be some who will go astray, and that will be the most terrible.

Lastly, hell will reign on earth. It will be then that the Antichrist will be born of a Sister, but woe to her! Many will believe in him, because he will claim to have come from heaven, woe to those who will believe in him!

That time is not far away, twice 50 years will not go by.

My child, you will not say what I have just said to you. (You will not say it to anybody, you will not say if you must say it one day, you will not say what that it concerns), finally you will say nothing anymore until I tell you to say it!

I pray to Our Holy Father the Pope to give me his holy blessing.

Mélanie Mathieu, Shepherdess of La Salette, Grenoble, July 6, 1851.

 

Unbelievable! Sooooo many! Oh dear Lord.

 

(but I think things have gone too far to see anything even this serious as a wake up call)

Notre Dame Fire: A Tremendous Gift to the French People

 

I am not sure that the true origins of this fire have been discovered, and if they have, I don't think that they have been released. Maybe they never will be released. You are looking at an MSM report here. Sometimes there are rash judgments in the media, understatement of the year.