Sister Emmanuel: The New Time Is At Hand

I have only known a few priests who feel comfortable relating to events in the Old Testament. But you are right.

 

Yes, maryrose, authentic hope is one of the three theological virtues implanted in our souls at each of our baptisms. Let us trust in the Lord with all of our heart. Darkness cannot prevail because the Light of Christ indwells each of us!

Romans 5:2 Through him we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God. 3 More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us.

 

Geralyn and I were blessed to celebrate Thanksgiving the last four days with my younger daughter's family including the extended family of her husband, Johnny. This also included our grandson, Jack, and his yet to be born sibling. Therese is a marvelous hostess and I now feel fat! Today, obviously, is the first day of Advent; it had slipped my mind how beautiful the prayers of the breviary are during this season, so my heart is wonderfully re-encouraged.

I will be keeping you all in my prayers! Do not neglect confession or Holy Mass this wonderful season!

 

Good to hear from you about your family joys,

 

Mark has just posted this piece, completely in line with Sister Emmanuels message in the video above.

Significantly he quotes extensively from Daniel.

Scripture – Our Times, the End Times?

by
Mark Mallett

Someone mentioned my writings to her husband not long ago. And he replied, “Oh, isn’t that the guy who writes about the end times?” I had to laugh. On the contrary, what I have been writing about for sixteen years is our times. The fact that they appear to resemble the “end times” was not my idea but that of the last century’s popes:Divinum Illud Munus, n. 10

…there may be already in the world the “Son of Perdition” of whom the Apostle speaks. —POPE ST. PIUS X, E Supremi, Encyclical On the Restoration of All Things in Christ, n. 3, 5; October 4th, 1903

Of course, the very reason my apostolate morphed from a singer/songwriter into an apostolate of “watching and praying” was because St. John Paul II himself called the youth to what he called a “stupendous task”:Dear Holy Father… He is Coming!

But to announce the coming of Christ is to also announce all that precedes it, including, according to Sacred Tradition, the appearance of the Antichrist,heard the wordsexactly as follows:

We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through… We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel versus the anti-Gospel, of Christ versus the anti-Christ… It is a trial… of 2,000 years of culture and Christian civilization, with all of its consequences for human dignity, individual rights, human rights and the rights of nations. —Cardinal Karol Wojtyla (JOHN PAUL II ), at the Eucharistic Congress, Philadelphia, PA; August 13, 1976; cf. Catholic Online

Pope Francis even recommended twice that the faithful read a book on the Antichrist, Lord of the World, as a parallel to our times.astonishing speed, cordination, and force as the conditions for freedom for the entire planet now hinge upon their “vaccine status.”Today’s first Mass reading

Today, we see how it is foremost the natural law that is being changed before our eyes: the definition of personhood, of marriage, of gender, etc.. Today’s first Mass reading

…and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months; it opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling, that is, those who dwell in heaven. Also it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them. (Rev 13:5-6)

It will be like a Storm.

It will come like a whirlwind, to shake everything; it will reign as long as a whirlwind does, and it will end just as a whirlwind ends. —Jesus to Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta, December 18, 1920, Volume 12

And then what? As we read in Daniel, “the time came when the holy ones possessed the kingdom.” Of course, this is what we have been praying for the past 2000 years: “Thy kingdom come, they will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.” Simply put:

The generations will not end until My Will reigns upon earth. —Jesus to Luisa Piccarreta, Volume 12, February 22nd, 1991

Hence, the Passion of the Church under the Antichrist is not the end but rather leading to The Resurrection of the Church, a “new dawn.” It is a purification of the Bride of Christ, preparing her so that Christ can reign in her as a true King — a King in the Kingdom of His Divine Will. This is the foremost task of the Blessed Mother, that “woman clothed with the sun”:

My Heavenly Mother will be a mother and a Queen to you; she knows the great good that the Kingdom of My Will shall bring about in you. In order to satisfy My ardent sighs and put an end to my weeping, she will love you as her true children by traveling to people throughout the world to dispose and prepare them to receive the dominion of the Kingdom of My Will. She was the one who prepared mankind for Me so that I could descend from heaven to earth. And now I am entrusting to her – to her maternal love – the task of disposing souls to receive such a great gift.—Jesus to Luisa Piccarreta, Divine Will Prayer Book, p. 4; see also The Gift

Hence, Jesus says in the Gospel this week, “when you see these things happening, know that the Kingdom of God is near.”today’s Gospel not to become drowsy and to “be vigilant at all times.”www.vatican.va; cf. The Coming New and Divine Holiness

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