When I went to Medjugorje in 2014, Mercedes-Benz seemed to be the favorite brand of the town, including some family members of "seers" and associated priests. The scheduled "apparition" of supposedly Mother Mary, which our group was meant to experience, had to be cancelled as the "seer" had business to do out of town. After all, business is important, so the Queen of Heaven and Earth who is supposed to appear in Medjugorje can appear somewhere else, wherever the "seer" had to go on that day. I remain skeptical about whether Medjugorje is from heaven and will stick with my believe in approved apparitions such as Fatima, Akita, La Salette and Lourdes. Over the last six years, I had the fortune of being able to visit those places, a great blessing. God bless!
Mercedes is a very popular car in Albania as well as a lot of the former communist countries. Tirana is a city that has probably more Mercedes per head of any city in the world.
Mercedes and BMWs are no big deal in Europe. Most Mercedes in Medjugorje are used imports from Germany.
Surprised by some of the comments in here. Let's remember some facts about what is going on in Israel right now Hamas did not attach Israel military, they attacked families and civilians. They attacked a music festival that was full of "Palestine sympathizers" They have over 100 women captured right now, what exactly do you think they are doing with them. Have you seen he videos of them taking civilians out of their car and just slitting their throats? These are evil pawns of satan. Israel has given citizens warnings and said evacuate because we are going to level you. The Hamas leaders have told their citizens do not leave. So who is the evil one there? The military who likes to hide among their citizens. If Hamas laid down all their weapons, there would be peace in the region. If Israel laid down all their weapons there would be bloodshed. Sure Israel is not 100% innocent, who amongst us is? But there is definite lines of good vs evil here. Good people do not attack unarmed citizens taking young girls for their pleasure and then hide among their own citizens hoping Israel will be merciful. Lord be with your people in Israel and be with us as navigate these rough seas.
Hamas is it would appear all the things you say. This is a frightening conflict if it expands to include Iran and other nations.
Hamas represent Islam and will be the excuse to launch attacks on Israel and Europe. There are many militant islamists in Europe particularly Italy, Spain and France. We are definitely standing at the edge of a cliff.
I agree Hamas are evil and wicked. But the people of the present Israel are not God's chosen people. The Catholic church is the New Israel.
Irrelevant to the fact of this evil act. And to jews and Muslims Israel is extremely significant prophetically, which is why there has always been this war.
Not everything is a conspiracy. Sometimes things are exactly as they appear (which i guess seems hard to believe for many in today's confused world.) But Hatred of the state of Israel by Islam is very prophetic and will play major role in end times events.
It is not irrelevant - he said in his statement 'Lord be with your people in Israel'. God is not with Israel. He is with the New Israel.
Two wrongs dont make a right. Israel's defence minister orders a "complete siege" of the Gaza Strip and the cutting off of food, fuel, electricity and water supplies. Indiscriminate bombing by Israel kills 500 in the Gaza strip.
The Middle East reminds me of the Balkans pre 1914 a tinder box that could set off a chain reaction escalating to a major regional war. There does seem to be as the title of this thread suggests an October Convergence amazingly at the same time as the Sin Nod.
https://www.ochaopt.org/data/casualties The OCHA figures show that from 2008 until the present outbreak 6407 Palestinians have died. In the same period there were 308 Israeli fatalities. There were 152,560 Palestinians injured and 6307 from Israel. Of the Palestinian Casualties 1162 were boys , 275 were girls and 6262 were women. On the Israeli side 19 were boys, 6 were girls and 36 were women.
Its very unusual to hear a priest preach on the Great Chastisement so when one does it is worth listening to.
Yes, the Church teaches that God has a plan for the Jews (not the state of Israel) in that they will convert and be grafted into the new Israel, which is the Catholic Church. Protestants and Zionists are in error because they do not believe the Catholic church is the spiritual Israel of the new covenant. CCC 877 Likewise, it belongs to the sacramental nature of ecclesial ministry that it have a collegial character. In fact, from the beginning of his ministry, the Lord Jesus instituted the Twelve as "the seeds of the new Israel and the beginning of the sacred hierarchy."
Exactly. My science professor in college who had traveled all over Europe once laughed to us about how Mercedes are considered so fancy here but in Europe it's just an ordinary car. I've been to Medjugorje twice. The Mercedes are often owned by those in the village to use as taxis to transport pilgrims back and forth, as it is a reliable car. But they are generally quite old and worn. I rode in them a few times and it was the opposite of luxury lol.
