If you have any interest in astronomy, keep an eye on the skies tonight. There may be a display of the northern lights at latitudes not usually accustomed to seeing them. There was a couple of explosions on the sun a few days ago and the first shock wave has hit already. The second, probably more powerful jolt will hit tonight. Hard to know what it will look like but it could be spectacular. When the eruption occurred on the sun a few days ago the energy flash killed shortwave radio on earth for a short time. I've seen spectacular aurora at 53 degrees north (south East Ireland) that were so strong the ground turned blood red (April 6th 2000 - google it). So, fingers crossed and camera batteries charged! Hopeful the light of the full moon won't interfere too much.
I too feel very peace filled. Despite a busy life in the 'world' I feel something has switched. Must be internal. I think the Lord is preparing us for things to come. He is also helping me set relationships right. I have been surrounding myself with peace filled loving people and getting rid of drama queens and kings in my life....not getting rid exactly....just not going out of my way to be in their presence. This is God doing for me what I could not do for myself. Thank you Jesus and Mary!
What would you rather be, prepared or scared? This is a question I ask my family, friends or faith formation students. This internal peace that we have in the beginning of the storm is a gift from God for preparing our soul and physical needs. For our Lord has said, Amos 3:7 'Surely the Lord God does nothing, unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets'. Being warned by our Blessed Mother for 200 years, as well as the saints, mystics and modern day prophets is truely a gift from God. Thank you merciful Lord for your peace in the midst of the storm.
Feeling the same, Padraig. Sometimes I say in prayer, "You know how I am," and I hear, "I know how you were." Time to be, with firmness and constancy, our very best selves!
I too feel the Lord is taking charge of my life and things are not as usual. I'm still working but my other activities have definitely been curbed and I feel like I am just to go home and pray after work. My top show dog, who was well on the way to his Grand Champ title, required emergency surgery a few weeks ago on the eve to a dog show, AND the same night, my brand new van started making noise and smoking so not safe to take on the highway. Its under warranty and they have had it in 3 times since and cannot find anything wrong! but I don't trust it at all. Also my cousin has been coming by every night to pray the divine office with me (part of my Carmelite rule but usually I have to do it alone) so of course we then spend a few hours praying for our families and the Church and the world. It's quite wonderful actually! But I guess my other activities like showing my dogs are definitely on hold for a while! I personally think something very big is coming at the end of October.
I would get a priest in to bless the house Carmel ..and the car. If not bless it yourself with holy water. It seems like you may be under attack. My spiritual director used to always insist I got my car blessed.
I am hoping tonight to get up at midnight to see the Northern Lights. I have never seen them before. I believe the Northern Lights are the forerunner of the Illumination of Conscience they are quite similiar in that before the Illumination the stars dance.
It seems I have been "in training" the past 7 months to only do needful things outside of my house. I feel it is very important to be at all times where we are meant to be. Which Saint or Blessed was it who described the enemy as a chained dog? It's very important to stay on God's side of the street. Of course He can protect us wherever we are, but it takes a lot of spiritual resources and we can suffer collateral damage if we run ahead of His will. Also, civil unrest can spark up without notice, and an EMP would leave us stranded with a dead motor if it hit. I'm not fearful at all - just feel a peaceful, restraining force over my movements.
Sounds like a good idea! The last year has been bad with 3 ankle surgeries, my cat died, my horse died, my Golden Retriever died, my SUV died (hence the new Van), and boy I am starting to feel like Job!
I agree with Padraig, you seem to be a threat to some lower guys.....get some holy water, holy salt, holy oil.....have a priest say mass in your home and bless it and bless your animals and your car.....have a nice dinner for them and make it a day!
I think today's Gospel tells us very succinctly how to prepare for the storms coming upon us: Jesus said to his disciples: “A good tree does not bear rotten fruit, nor does a rotten tree bear good fruit. For every tree is known by its own fruit. For people do not pick figs from thornbushes, nor do they gather grapes from brambles. A good person out of the store of goodness in his heart produces good, but an evil person out of a store of evil produces evil; for from the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks. “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ but not do what I command? I will show you what someone is like who comes to me, listens to my words, and acts on them. That one is like a man building a house, who dug deeply and laid the foundation on rock; when the flood came, the river burst against that house but could not shake it because it had been well built. But the one who listens and does not act is like a person who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the river burst against it, it collapsed at once and was completely destroyed.” I'm sure there are many interpretations, but to me, this reading mainly says, if you want to build a solid and sturdy foundation for your life you can't just listen to Jesus, you need to act upon it and put it into action. And while Jesus said and dud so much, I think it comes down to what He Himself said were the greatest commandments - love God with all your heart, soul, and mind and the second , love your neighbor as yourself. If we truly follow these and out them into action, we will be following all the commandments. I also note that Jesus said a house that will stand against the storm must be built upon rock. Again, for me, I think Jesus used that word very deliberately. He said build it on the rock - HIS Church - and on Peter (and his successors, including now Pope Francis) for no storm, not even the gates of hell will prevail. So how do I and my family make it through the storms ahead - on the foundation that I thank God was initially given to me by my parents and grandparents and generations before them- reliance on the Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. And as I've heard many, many times lately on this forum and others - practice and live love. Not easy (at least for me).
Pretty amazing to read something like this in of all places the NY Times. He calls it the Great Unraveling. Yes, a real sense of quickening and change about to come http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/opinion/roger-cohen-the-great-unraveling.html?_r=0
You beat me to it miker! It was almost like reading one of mark mallets blog posts. I couldn't believe my eyes! Is a if the author of the article had just read Lk 21:25: "AND THEY SHALL BE SIGNS IN THE SUN, AND IN THE MOON, AND IN THE STARS, AND UPON THE EARTH DISTRESS OF NATIONS WITH PERPLEXITY; THE SEA AND THE WAVES ROARING"
I was amazed reading those words, in the NY Times of all places (I wouldn't have known about it if it weren't for Drudge posting it, I do NOT read the NY times). His opening paragraph: "It was the time of unraveling. Long afterward, in the ruins, people asked: How could it happen?" That struck me with a picture of the folks not called to the Refuge wandering around lost, I'm praying for a lot of those folks right now including some family members who I'm praying hard for to be awaken to what's coming. and then his last paragraph: "Until it was too late and people could see the Great Unraveling for what it was and what it had wrought." anyone else thinks he's onto something like we are as he writes "for what it was and what it had wrought"?
Yes. I think it's one thing for "religious" ( not in feeing any superiority here) folks to pay attention to signs of the times, it's absolutely astounding that a writer for such a secular MSM news outlet to make similar observations.
Hmmm..love and humility as the answer to the a Great Unraveling. Sounds familiar to much of what I've seen written by so many here over many months. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/theanc...great-unraveling-a-necessary-look-at-reality/
When the Virgin Mary calls, not even age can keep you back: FRENCH MEDJUGORJE CHRONICLER VISITS AGAIN AT AGE 96 These days the French priest and writer Fr. René Laurentin visits Medjugorje again, a good month before his 97th birthday. In the morning of October 15 Fr. Laurentin heard visionary Vicka Ivankovic-Mijatovic give her testimony to pilgrims. In the evening, he was present when visionary Ivan Dragicevic had his daily apparition in his private chapel, local resident Laura Marcazzan Budimir reports from Medjugorje. Fr. Laurentin was the foremost Catholic mariologist of the 20th century. In the 1980s and the 1990s he published some of the most influential books on Medjugorje, among them the first scientific studies of the visionaries and the apparitions (co-authored with Dr. Henri Joyeux as medical expert) and a total of 17 yearbooks that chronicled the apparitions and life in Medjugorje in general. Photo by medj.fr: Fr. Laurentin with visionary Mirjana Dragicevic-Soldo, Medjugorje 2013
Great to see this photo. Fr Laurentin is a real 'toughie'. He is blind now but less than ten years ago he was still able to ski in Switzerland! And great to see Mirjana with him. She has an amazing love and reverence for priests.
As I mentioned on another thread, this morning I finished Fr Laurentin's latest and maybe final book, Science, Philosophie, Révélation - trois voies convergentes ('Science, Philosophy, Revelation - three convergent paths') in preparation for a meeting this afternoon with the man who prefaced it. Fr Laurentin's published work isn't sufficiently known outside the Francophone world, but we are talking about an absolute giant of Christian thought and spirituality here. The sheer scope of his output is phenomenal and his continued vitality despite his blindness and advanced age quite remarkable - both physical and intellectual. Reading Science, Philosophie, Révélation, what struck me a hugely impressive but also uncommon was the way in which, unlike so many authors who basically just repeat the conclusions which reached during the prime of life, Fr Laurentin has kept abreast of contemporary developments and allowed them to interact with his own thought-structure. This is a man who already reached adulthood prior to World War II (conversing with the great philosopher Henri Bergson), yet can write intelligently about the implications of recent developments in quantum theory, the work of astrophysicist Trinh Xuan Thuan or Anne Dambricourt's scientific critique of gradualist Darwinian models of evolution. While at the same time reconciling all of this with a mystical piety often sneered at as being a sentimental relic of the nineteenth century and having the courage to stand up for - and take abuse on behalf of - prophets/visionaries whom he feels have received a raw deal from the Church (Maria Valtorta, Yvonne-Aimée de Malestroit, Vassula Ryden, Gianna Sullivan, Julia Kim...). Whatever you may think of individual cases, there can surely be no doubting the courage of Fr Laurentin's commitment: he is a truly rare figure who will be sorely missed.
