What Do You All Think of Marie-Julie Jahenny?

I think about this now and then because it was the year that my family and I were accepted into the church. I find that proclamation much more significant now than I did then.

 

Mystics can sometimes write and say the strangest thing that can get you thinking.

Monsignor Hugh Benson was the son of the Archbishop of Canterbury who became a Catholic. He wrote Pope Francis's favourite book, 'The Lord of this World', about the coming of the anti Christ which seems eerily similiar to was going on the world at the moment.

Anyway I cam across a book of mystical Catholic stories of his from a book long , I think out of print. The book would have been at least a hundred years old.
He told them as stories but reading between the lines I think these were all things that actually happened to him, though he never says so.

They were wonderfully weird stories that as a Catholic forced you to think. They were rather like that old Sci Fi series, 'The Outer Limits.' The French would call them , 'Outre' or outside the bounds. I loved them.

One story for instance was of him walking down the road and seeing a young child standing there and his Guardian Angel , gently smiling pushing the child to its death in front of an on coming vehicle.Monsignor Hugh suggest that the child's time on Earth to leave had come and that the angel was the agent of God's Will.

I told this story to a very holy old Hermit Priest and he was horrified.

But I don't know I could kinda see Monsignor Hugh's point.

http://www.catholicauthors.com/benson.html

The book was called , 'The Light Invisible' and you can read it online here:

I think it was maybe the strangest book I ever read in my life. But I just ate it up, loved it.

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edit...v=1&dq=robert+hugh+benson&printsec=frontcover

 

I see it on utube as audio book.

 

In her Diary, St. Faustina gives us a mystical insight into what our judgment may be like. She writes of Jesus calling to the soul not once, but three times. If the soul remains unresponsive, whether hardened or despairing, here's what happens:

Then the mercy of God begins to exert itself, and, without any co-operation from the soul, God grants it final grace. If this too is spurned, God will leave the soul in this self-chosen disposition for eternity. This grace emerges from the merciful Heart of Jesus and gives the soul a special light by means of which the soul begins to understand God's effort; but conversion depends on its own will. The soul knows that this, for her, is final grace and, should it show even a flicker of good will, the mercy of God will accomplish the rest (1486).

 

Saint Faustina was once given the grace of gaining a glimpse of Heaven. She writes:

... and I saw its inconceivable beauties and the happiness that awaits us after death. I saw how all creatures give ceaseless praise and glory to God. I saw how great is happiness in God, which spreads to all creatures, making them happy; and then all the glory and praise which springs from this happiness returns to its source; and they enter into the depths of God, contemplating the inner life of God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, whom they will never comprehend or fathom.

This source of happiness is unchanging in its essence, but it is always new, gushing forth happiness for all creatures. Now I understand Saint Paul, who said, "Eye has not seen, nor has ear heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man what God has prepared for those who love Him. (777)

 

https://www.thedivinemercy.org/articles/death-judgment-heaven-and-hell

 

Thank you, Donna. Very enlightening.

 

I don't know the priest pictured here's name....but, I went to confession to him in a huge tent the day before Divine Mercy 2 years ago in Stockton. There were about 20 priests....He came in and they waved me to him....I was thinking, boy he looks cranky....It was the most beautiful confession ever! What a holy, sincere priest. Love him. He gave me a prayer to recite for my family after communion which I still use to this day.

 

Would you consider sharing that prayer? My family needs all the help it can get!

 

13 of Benson's books, including this one, are available for free download from Project Gutenberg. They are so old that there is no copyright. Here's the link for this book: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58433

 

Thank you, I never realised he wrote so much.

 

the prayer was: to focus on the 5 wounds of Christ and repeat 5 times....Blood and water, which gushed forth from the heart of Jesus as a fount of Mercy, I trust in You. then repeat 3 times Jesus I trust in You. he said he never saw any family not healed by this prayer....so I pray it after every communion.

 

His name is Fr Dan from the Marianists (MIC)....I just looked him up

 

That prayer is also part of the Miracle prayer given to St Faustina, which Jesus asked to be prayed at 3pm each day.

The prayer:
You expired, Jesus, but the source of life gushed forth for souls, and an ocean of mercy opened up for the whole world. O Fount of Life, unfathomable Divine Mercy, envelop the whole world and empty Yourself out upon us.
(Repeat three times)
O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fount of mercy for us, I trust in You!

Like you Donna, I also pray this prayer at the consecration and elevation of the Chalice at mass.

 

This prayer is recited daily on ewtn during the time for the Divine Mercy chaplet. It’s a wonderful prayer. Thanks for telling us about it, Donna.

 

Thank you, Josephite.