?? I've always interpreted "wood is green" to refer to when Jesus walked among us. What us your interpretation of the "wood is dry"? Seems long since dry to me.
Yes, that's how I interpret it. Jesus is with us now under the appearance of bread and wine. We have freedom to offer Holy Mass in nearly every country. Governments, with a few exceptions, are not persecuting the Church or banning the Mass. So, for the Church in our time, the wood is green.
A friend I met many years ago in Medjugorje sent me this link today: This is Elizabeth Yore. She has been interviewed and spoken multiple times on the subject of Human Sex Trafficking, the New World Order and it's agenda, etc. This, as well as other youtube speeches she's presented will give the viewer a chilling look at what powerful elites have in store for you and me. Liz Yore: The New World Order Pope and Building the Resistance Movement
Thank you Josephite, you have made an excellent point. I learned a little bit about this through the movie Silence which was pretty good.
I do understand your point. Depending where you are. Pretty dry there in China!! Maybe by dry He referred to the prophesy of His Mother, when the Blessed Sacrament can no longer be found or would that refer to now, when it is in a side chapel?
It's not dry in South America which was supposed to be the focus of the Amazonian Synod. Neither is it dry in Germany where the wishes of the Bishops seem to have been the real reason there was an Amazonian Synod - that and the UN's Agenda 2030. I'm scratching my head wondering how a priest (now Bishop) in Argentina had time to do a pub/club crawl researching his book about the Art of the Kiss when priests in that part of the world are so scarce that the Church needs to ordain married men to the priesthood. Given what we hard about Baptism being akin to cultural colonisation for the indigenous people, Catholics in that region might be well advised to look for proof of baptism before seeking the Sacraments from any priest, married or not. The wood has never been green in China other than a few small shoots. The Vatican/China deal is the canary in the coal mine for the rest of us. Maybe when open borders arrive, we can all move to Kampala. I like the sound of this Bishop: https://www.pmldaily.com/news/2020/...3C7w2cCFibfxl-lOrm-5m8LFLc1OL0kAIRM3L7cV-u9Ik
I am in the 'wood is dry' camp. I do identify with the daughters of Jerusalem. I am crying right along with them, not daily, but close to daily. I pointed out the heinous pentagram on the back of a young man's hoodie as I dropped my son off to school this morning. 'He's playing with fire,' I told my son. satan worshippers are out in the open.
I tried to post a link, and I think it was faulty, in a not-good way. The Washington Post reported today, 2/3/2020, that Rev. James Martin recently met in DC at the Ritz-Carlton, with Catholic university presidents to teach them about the LGTBQ agenda. He's not going away.
Bishop Schneider: ‘The Pope cannot be silent as he watches the wolves devour the flock’ Bishop Athanasius Schneider speaks out against the German bishops’ ‘synodal path.’ By Diane Montagna ROME, February 3, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has the duty to prevent bishops in Germany from leading clergy and faithful down the “synodal path” over the precipice of heresy, Bishop Athanasius Schneider has said. In a new statement published today on the German-language outlet Kath.net (see official English text below), the auxiliary of Astana, Kazakhstan, argued that the “synodal path” is “an attempt” to officially sanction the “heretical doctrine and practices” that have been corrupting the Church in Germany for decades. “The decisive problem in this tragic event,” he said, “is the fact that Pope Francis, by his silence, seems to tolerate those German bishops — first and foremost Cardinal Reinhard Marx [president of the German bishops’ conference] — who openly profess heretical doctrines and practices.” Bishop Schneider, himself of German ethnicity, acknowledged that Pope Francis’ June 2019 “Letter to the Pilgrim People of God in Germany” was a “good” first step. But he argued that “it was not concrete enough” and “failed to set limits” to ensure that the “synodal path” is truly Catholic. He also insisted that, as “supreme teacher” and “protector” of the Catholic Faith, Pope Francis “has the grave duty to protect the ‘little ones,’ i.e. the simple faithful and those priests and bishops in Germany who have been put on the periphery and whose voice has been stifled” by worldly prelates who are charged instead with protecting Christ’s flock. “The Pope cannot passively stand by or be silent as he watches the ‘wolves’ devour the flock or the ‘arsonists’ set fire to the house,” he said. Bishop Schneider, who last year obtained a clarification (albeit a private one) from Pope Francis about the controversial Abu Dhabi document, said he believes the Pope ought to “intervene and demand that participants in the ‘synodal path’ formally profess those truths and universal sacramental practices of the Church” that are currently being called into question. The German “synodal path” officially opened with a January 30 to February 1 assembly in Frankfurt, Germany. The goal of the two-year synodal process is to tackle “key issues” arising from the clerical sex abuse crisis. The “synodal path” aims at passing resolutions in four areas pertaining to universal Church teaching and governance: “Power and the Separation of Powers in the Church”; “Priestly Life Today”; “Women in Ministries and Offices of the Church”; and “Living in Successful Relationships — Living Love in Sexuality and Partnership.” In a February 2 interview with Katolische.de, German Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki said his worst concerns about the “synodal path” have already come true. The Archbishop of Cologne told German media that “many arguments put forward at the first synodal assembly are incompatible with the faith and teaching of the universal Church.” Recalling the fourth-century Arian controversy as a historical precedent to the current crisis, Bishop Schneider concluded his statement by encouraging clergy and faithful to persevere in remembering the divine origin and strength of the Church. “The Church,” he said, “cannot be overcome even by a heretical and schismatic ‘synodal path’ — not even if this ‘path’ were to have the tacit approval of the Pope.” Read the rest at: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/b...ent-as-he-watches-the-wolves-devour-the-flock +
Who knows. My thoughts are no more authoritative than your own and are probably less well informed. We all need to guard against spiritual pride. From what Jesus said, dry means an absence of Jesus' real presence. He was crucified at the behest of the Jewish hierarchy and the people they riled up against him. We Catholics have Jesus' real presence in every tabernale, brought to us at every Mass. By receiving the Eucharist we can have a closer union with him than was available to anyone while he walked the earth other than the Apostles at the Last Supper. And how are we treating Jesus? Look around you at Mass. Is what you see indicative of a people who believe they are in the presence of God? Look at how the Eucharist is approached, distributed and received. Are you seeing people preparing to receive their Lord and Saviour or does what you see suggest that receiving Communion is merely a habit for people who think they are doing the Church a favour by showing up at Mass? When have you ever heard a priest caution people in advance of distributing Holy Communion about the danger of eating and drinking damnation upon themselves? And it's not just diocesan priests or pew sitters. Irreverence towards the Blessed Sacrament is widespread in the Church and it goes all the way to the top. When the "not a prize for the perfect" is passed out as a freebie to whichever politician, celebrity or non-Catholic guest is being schmoozed in the Vatican, the message is sent out loud and clear to the world that a little bread and wine is no big deal. We might as well be screaming "Crucify him". To my mind, every bishop or priest who knowingly gives Communion to manifest grave sinners is choosing Barabbas over Jesus. The tree is green now because we have Jesus in the Eucharist. For how much longer? Probably until the same hierarchy who show no respect for the Real Presence do something to remove it by making every consecration invalid. We get the hierarchy we deserve. We all share in the blame. May God forgive us.
What a really great post. I was thinking about it after mass this morning. Pope Benedict once said that the way we pray is the way we are. He was talking about the Liturgy but it seems to me to be true of all prayer, especially the Mystical.
