Don't know if somehow, somewhere this has already been posted but here is a summation of the coming attractions of 2017: STRIKING PHENOMENA DURING THIS CENTENNIAL YEAR OF FATIMA Fr Richard Heilman https://www.romancatholicman.com/striking-phenomena-centennial-year-fatima/
earthtoangels, Great article! This is the first time that I have seen it on MOG, I think it has today's date on it. I did read a little bit about St, Michael's Lent on Emmett O'Regan's blog just this week and it is another interesting coincidence with the timing of the eclipse and the Revelation 12 sign. I like that Father Heilman has also reminded us of the date of Padre Pio's death being 9/23/68. It's pretty amazing. Father Heilman also mentions another 54 day novena beginning on August 15th, very good!
One way of looking at the situation including the historical claims of everybody: Jordan, the Saudi Family, and the Return of Israel to the Temple Mount https://www.israelrising.com/jordan-saudi-family-return-israel-temple-mount/
I have been trying to do Fr Heilman's novena for Pres. Trump but with my son and his family staying here this summer and taking care of little ones(not complaining. They are pure joy!!)I am barely getting my Rosary said. There is no doubt this summer and fall are full of signs and wonders.
Jesuit Website Refers to Fr. Sosa as the First Superior General to “Baptize Himself a Buddhist” https://onepeterfive.com/jesuit-web...perior-general-to-baptize-himself-a-buddhist/
Getting closer to the Garabandal Prophecy of the Pope going to Moscow? You decide. Catholic World News Vatican’s Secretary of State to meet with Putin July 21, 2017 Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow in August. The visit to Russia will be the first by a Vatican Secretary of State since 1988. “I go to Russia as collaborator of the Pope, who wants to build bridges,” said Cardinal Parolin. “In the case of Russia, to build bridges consists in sharing the bilateral relations that already exist and that touch the activity of the Catholic Church and dialogue with the Orthodox Churches,” he continued. “However, it will be impossible not to address the context of international activities where Russia has an active presence, such as the subject of the Middle East and Syria, or Ukraine.”
Would be fitting or at least interesting if there was a follow-up visit by the Pope in Nov. paralleling the culmination of the 100 years for the vehicle of Satan's granted 100 years tempting the Church.....100 year anniversary of Bolshevik revolution. But for what purpose??
Did you read the comments beneath that article? There's one that only a year or so ago would have seemed so ridiculous that I would have dismissed it as crazy. Now it seems more likely than not to be true. Here's what the person said: "A friend of mine joined the Jesuits. He's a brilliant and orthodox man, unfortunately from San Francisco. He had to endure living in a Jesuit house in San Francisco where most of the priests were gay and went around calling themselves by female names. They called themselves the lavender mafia. Days typically ended in drinking copious amounts of wine after dinner and you know the rest. My friend wouldn't spend much time with them and when it came time for his ordination, after 12 years of training as a seminarian, he was denied his ordination because, according to his superiors, he "was not intimate enough with them." They were a bunch of sodomites; he was orthodox. And they didn't want him in their ranks. He appealed to the Superior General and was denied, no surprise. Cardinal Dolan and Pope Benedict were of no help to him either. So, he took the mandatory three years off (shortened to two by Cardinal Dolan) and then entered the diocesan seminary all over again, in the greatest fidelity to his vocation one could imagine. He's a saintly and heroic man and will be a great soul in the Church. But the Jesuits....May God have mercy on them all. It's heartbreaking what they have become." There have been rumours of similar stories in Ireland (not specifically about the Jesuits). Considering that the seminarian who had an ad on the homosexual dating website wasn't expelled from the seminary but instead transferred to a seminary in Rome, it's hard to discount the rumours. If young men are treating the priesthood as a sex club and being an active homosexual is what it takes to become a priest, I don't see how their ordination can be valid. The way things are going, there will be no way of knowing which priest can or cannot validly consecrate the Eucharist. It will be hit and miss whether the Communion we are receiving is actually the Blessed Eucharist or just a wafer of bread. It's very worrying to think that this could have been going on for years.
This is so cool! If this happens annually, why don't we hear about it more often? Fish Fall From The Sky in Annual Miracle That Feeds the Poor By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz July 19, 2017 , 1:30 pm Hosea 4:3 (The Israel Bible™) Fish on the street In Honduras, the annual rain of fish has fallen. At least once a year, sometimes twice, usually around May or June, fish rain down from the heavens onto Yoro, Honduras. The locals call it Lluvia de Peces (downpour of fish) and claim it has been happening every year or about one hundred years. One rabbi claims this strange occurrence is a wakeup call warning of things to come. No one has actually seen the fish falling from the sky. Simply put, after a heavy rain, the ground will suddenly be covered with fish. The residents collect the fish for their kitchen tables, but selling it is prohibited. Despite several attempts to discover the source of the strange phenomenon, scientists remain baffled. The locals, however, have a simpler explanation: it’s a miracle. Fish that fell from the sky A story is told of a Spanish priest, Father José Manuel de Jesus Subirana, who arrived in Honduras in 1855 and worked there until his death in 1864. According to the legend, Father Subirana saw the suffering of the poor people in Honduras and prayed for three days and three nights that God should help the poor people and to provide them food. In answer to his prayer, a dark cloud appeared and fish rained from the sky, feeding all the people. Since then this wonder is repeated every year. There have actually been several reports of fish raining down from heaven, but Honduras appears to be the only place blessed with this deluge of seafood on a regular basis. The prophet Zephaniah begins his prophecy with a scenario of dying wildlife, specifically mentioning fish. I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the sky And the fish of the sea. I will make the wicked stumble, And I will destroy mankind From the face of the earth —declares Hashem. Zephaniah 1:3 Rabbi Yosef Dayan, a former member of the nascent Sanhedrin, said that such occurrences are signs of nature being directed by God. “More and more, we are seeing natural occurrences that aren’t natural as we know it,” Rabbi Dayan told Breaking Israel News. “When I was younger, we heard of tsunamis and earthquakes, but now they are commonplace. Instead of one or two, there are some places in the world that are experiencing hundreds of earthquakes at a time.” “Of course, everything is directed by God,” Rabbi Dayan continued. “But all these strange natural events are coming faster and faster to tell us that something exceptional is on the way. A person would have to be totally asleep to see fish falling from the sky and not wonder what is happening.”
Here's another report about it giving a couple of possible scientific explanations although neither has been proven to be the cause of the fish rain in Honduras: http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lluvia-de-peces-the-rain-of-fish
My understanding is that the Eucharist is consecrated in spite of the priest, no matter how wicked he might be. Still, I presume this all depends on the proper words being used.
Yes, that's my understanding too. Are the ordinations valid despite the intentions behind the ordination?
Wow! Didn't know this....in the land of my upbringing! Prayers for the turning of the tide.....more exposure of the rotten "systems" is there in the midst of the struggle, good vs evil, otherwise looking not so good. Kentucky could become first state without an abortion clinic http://religionnews.com/2017/07/22/kentucky-could-become-first-state-without-an-abortion-clinic/
I don't know. I'd be inclined to venture that the ordination would be valid if the proper rubrics are observed. Bad intentions could be 'sorted out' later.
An interesting question, Dolours. I remember that if a ordained priest is in the state of mortal sin, but offers Holy Mass according to the rubrics of the Church, the Holy Mass is valid and the Real Presence brought about. Your question, I think, is slightly different. Can a seminarian knowingly living a objectively evil homosexual lifestyle, be validly ordained? Right? Safe in the Barque of Peter!
This is shocking to think anyone would enter a seminary and be confused or ignorant about breaking the sixth Commandment as a lifestyle. Have these homosexuals got their brains in their nuts. Or are they nuts in their brains. Or do they believe there is a hell.
Really, Mario, it's two questions in one. The comment I referred to described a situation where the seminarian was failed because he wasn't intimate enough with his fellow seminarians. We don't know whether that comment was an honest account of what happened in the seminary so must be careful not to present it as unvarnished truth. Nevertheless, I don't think anyone would deny that there is a problem with homosexuality at all levels in the Church not just in seminaries. What if one or more bishops have bought into the homosexual agenda in opposition to Church teaching? I'm not talking here about men, either homosexual or heterosexual, who accept Church teaching on sexuality. What if there were bishops who, in order to advance the anti-Catholic agenda within the clergy, were to ordain practising homosexuals to the priesthood? Would such an ordination be valid? I'm editing this post to say that I believe that if the Bishop acted in good faith and was unaware of the intent of the candidate for the priesthood, then the ordination would be valid. I would appreciate it if someone could say whether that's correct or not. My question, therefore, boils down to this: what if there were bad intentions on the part of both the seminarian and the bishop? Would the ordination be valid then?
I suppose you'd have to examine the rules on what makes an ordination valid (or not). I don't know whether there is a requirement, similar to the case of marriage, that, for the sacrament to be valid, one must enter into it without any impediment. Surely the lack of intention to live in chastity, or worse, to use the priesthood as a way to facilitate a homosexual lifestyle, would count as an impediment to the validity of the sacrament. But I don't know. You'd have to look at what canon law etc. says about the sacrament of holy orders and its requirements for validity.
