End Times Speculation XV

[2livfree]

Originally Posted by spauline

THNX, BRO MUZHIK.

How this IS related:

St. Bridget of Sweden (1303-1373) "Forty years before the year two thousand, the Devil will be let loose for a period to tempt men. When all will seem lost, God Himself will suddenly bring all evil to an end. The sign of when these events will occur will be when priests will have discarded their holy habits and dress themselves in lay clothes and when women will dress like men and men like women."

Thanks Scott,
Your reminder brings me how my church (a new pastor this year) is becoming ....American, Protestant!!! I was introduced 2 weeks ago to a visiting priest. Sad to say if I saw him on the street (he was in lay clothes, dress shirt not even tucked in) I would have prayed that he convert from his possible perverted ways. So sad, so sad, so very sad.

[2livfree]

Originally Posted by DawnInTexas

Congrats, Scott! Nothing like a new baby in the family!

I have been praying for Suri & her family for years. Her parents were both raised Catholic. Now this:

Katie Holmes returns to Catholicism


Her child will finally be Baptized, I believe.
So public. So visible! Such timing!

Thanks Be To God!
All Glory to You, Lord Jesus Christ!
Amen!

+Jesus, I Trust in You!
Love, Dawn

PS Pray that the open-mindedness (gay and lesbian couple thing) doesn't make them leave. She was devout before.

Wow I thought my church was getting bad!!! We can't be too careful on what parish we go to here in USA. Lord keep us under good and faithful priests!!
Sursum Corda

[Muzhik]

Will historic National Cathedral be unloaded?



”With these draconian measures, Budde appears to have attempted to stop any publicity from the now defunct Washington Window [the Episcopal diocesan newspaper] about the grave Cathedral financial crisis. Now these unexplained multiple crises at the Washington National Cathedral are erupting into plain view.”

National Episcopal Church membership has plummeted from 3.5 million in the last century, to barely 2 million today.

That and the $20 million cost of repairing the Cathedral (on which the denomination has never invested earthquake insurance) is renewing speculation that the Cathedral may be sold to another denomination rather than closed down, as have Episcopal cathedrals in Delaware and Rhode Island.

The Episcopalians also just voted in favor of a new ceremony for blessing same-sex unions. I can't help but wonder if maybe possibly this is affecting the finances. I also have to wonder if maybe the Archdiocese of Washington (http://www.adw.org/) could use a second cathedral? Maybe for the use by the Anglican ordinature?

[CaptFun]

Originally Posted by Muzhik

I'm afraid the link is corrupted. You'll need to repost the URL; preferably without the google.ie header.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUdYeYy3NQA < hope this is better! Worked when I did it. Don't know how I got the other site.


On YouTube it's listed as: The Truth About Mary and Scripture: MUST SEE!

A scriptural study of Mary ... and especially St. John's writings of her and how he juxtaposed OT events with the New Testament Gospel, Epistles, and Revelation he wrote.

[donsnow]

Originally Posted by Muzhik

I mix up my daughter's names all the time. It's a long and treasured family tradition, so much so that when my dad bought a sailboat we christened it "The MaryBarbara"

Hi, Muzhik,

When we were little, my twin and I would dash around in the house, and our parents would get our names mixed. I thought that was funny, then. Now, it's not so funny, when it happens to me.

God loves you,
Don

[donsnow]

Originally Posted by DawnInTexas

It comes with our age!

Lol!

You oughta see how mixed up the woman I work for-can get me. Geezooey.


God Bless you.
+Jesus, I Trust in You!
Love, Dawn

Thank you, ma'am, I needed that

God love ya and yours,
Don

[donsnow]

Originally Posted by DawnInTexas

I hope everyone has checked out your computers.
At midnight, they estimate millions will lose the internet:

http://www.dcwg.org/


+Jesus, I Trust in You!
Love, Dawn

Thanks, again, Dawn,

For the heads up.

My Norton Anti-virus has seen me safely through this flap.

God loves you,
Don

[donsnow]

Originally Posted by spauline

non end time related:

At 9:20 pm this evening, Isaac was born to Sarah and Lyrik, Sarah being Linda's niece. Let us rejoice, Isn't it kewl, Sarah gives birth to Isaac. Now three year old Alexander has a new brother!

History repeats itself?

Congratulations!

God loves you and yours,
Don

[Muzhik]

I'm afraid this author is right in his predictions as to what President Obama will do to the Catholic Church in America:

Obama's 'September surprise' for American Catholics

Second, this campaign strategy—this drive to create an “alternate magisterium” for American Catholics—fits neatly with President Obama’s long-term political goals. Like anyone else determined to further the cause of the sexual revolution, Obama wants to break the moral authority of the Catholic Church. In his choice of cabinet members (think Kathleen Sebelius) and Congressional allies (think Nancy Pelosi), he has shown a marked preference for Catholics who reject the doctrine and discipline of their faith. This administration’s policies have always been guided by the principle that “the only good Catholic is a bad Catholic.”

If the author's analysis is accurate -- and frankly, to me it matches with what I've seen the Obama political machine do to its opponents (divide and conquer) -- then there is one word the author doesn't use in his article but which stands as a real possibility: schism. If Obama is successful in dividing the Church in America, his minions may focus on promoting an American Catholicism with an "alternate magisterium", one that is "responsible" and "reasonable", that the Administration "can work with." IOW, the American version of the Catholic Patriotic Association (CPA), the Chinese state-sponsored "Catholic" church that is in opposition to the true Catholic Church lead by the Pope and the bishops.

Will they succeed? I doubt it, but that won't stop them from trying.

[donsnow]

Originally Posted by Muzhik

I'm afraid this author is right in his predictions as to what President Obama will do to the Catholic Church in America:

Obama's 'September surprise' for American Catholics

Second, this campaign strategy—this drive to create an “alternate magisterium” for American Catholics—fits neatly with President Obama’s long-term political goals. Like anyone else determined to further the cause of the sexual revolution, Obama wants to break the moral authority of the Catholic Church. In his choice of cabinet members (think Kathleen Sebelius) and Congressional allies (think Nancy Pelosi), he has shown a marked preference for Catholics who reject the doctrine and discipline of their faith. This administration’s policies have always been guided by the principle that “the only good Catholic is a bad Catholic.”

If the author's analysis is accurate -- and frankly, to me it matches with what I've seen the Obama political machine do to its opponents (divide and conquer) -- then there is one word the author doesn't use in his article but which stands as a real possibility: schism. If Obama is successful in dividing the Church in America, his minions may focus on promoting an American Catholicism with an "alternate magisterium", one that is "responsible" and "reasonable", that the Administration "can work with." IOW, the American version of the Catholic Patriotic Association (CPA), the Chinese state-sponsored "Catholic" church that is in opposition to the true Catholic Church lead by the Pope and the bishops.

Will they succeed? I doubt it, but that won't stop them from trying.

Good morning, Muzhik,

Thank you, for posting the link to Phil Lawler's article. I would like to beat my drum for a minute, then advance to the heart of his article. Mr. Lawler referred to Perception Management two times. He is warning us of the coming fulisade against our Holy Roman Catholic Church.

Now, to the heart of his article, the alternative Magesterium does not exist, thank God. The PM people cannot offer any other teaching authority for Catholics, devout or lapsed, than the Magesterium. So, there's a very real hope that we can withstand the coming broadside against our Church.

In closing, I would like to submit my opinion (another drum of mine ) that all these ideas are not original to President Barak Hussien Obama II. These ideas have been part and parcel of an ideological war against America since the consolidation of the USSR by Stalin. These ideas are nothing new and have been abroad since the 1930's. This other drum I'm beating is that there's an international Communist party not only against America, but against Catholicism and liberty in all countries. Our president, I submit, is a puppet of that international Communist conspiracy, whether knowingly or unknowingly.
Communist or Communist sympathizing professors have been teaching the ideas in our colleges, which our president now present as new ideas, since the 1950's. Nowadays, not only our college level education system but also the entire public education system from elementary schools to senior high schools, have been infiltrated by teachers who also profess these decades old Communist ideas. I say, the Soviet Union is dead, but the Communist Party is alive.

I'm just one old man somewhere on the internet, without an established columnists' reputation to preserve, so I can cry 'wolf' about the international Communist party without fear of much reprisal.

I think that Mr. Lawler's article is very valuable, because it describes graphically just how Perception Management works.

God loves you,
Don

[beehumble]

Originally Posted by donsnow

<snip>He is warning us of the coming fulisade against our Holy Roman Catholic Church.

Back from vacation...playing catch-up!

Yes, there is a coming fulisade against the Church - it has been building up as the final plan of Satan (Satan's Short Time cited in Rev chapter 20) since the start of the twentieth century back in 1901.

I mentioned how I think the 3 1/2 years from spring 2014 until autumn 2017 could be a final burst of satanic-ness in the world, before Our Lady's Triumph that finally and for all time crushes his head, thus saving her children. So I watch all these things and sense it is the snowball going down the hill, and that snowball is large and almost at the bottom of the hill - those 3 1/2 years it will grow very big in size, just before the end of it (the snowball going down the hill is exponential, not linear, so it grows the most at the end, like an e-shaped curve.)

Yes, Muzhik, I have noticed for a while how Obama picked anti-Catholic Catholics ("Then I saw another beast, coming out of the earth.He had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon." -Rev. 13:11) for key posts in the admin. They were baptized and claim to be Catholics, but are modernists and thus speak a perverted doctrine - i.e. they speak a doctrine of the dragon, of Satan, not the Gospel teaching of Christ.

Also, he does the same with his traveling road shows...he pointedly went to Notre Dame and Georgetown (the cross was removed), and he tried to go to St. Edward's in Austin (they politely declined, claiming logistical reasons). I lived in Austin at the time and I can tell you it is very odd for a President to choose it for a speech. It is a tiny college that nobody outside of Austin ever heard of, whereas UT just a couple of miles away has some 50,000 students. He chose it because it is Catholic, and he thought, since it is located in Austin which is liberal by Texas standards, it would be another good place to try to divide Catholics.

"Diaz acknowledged that parallels have been drawn between the decision by St. Edward’s and the president’s commencement speech last year at another Roman Catholic institution, the University of Notre Dame.

Some Catholics were upset that Obama, who supports abortion rights, was invited to speak and awarded an honorary degree. Notre Dame and St. Edward’s were established by the same Holy Cross priest."

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/conte...o_host_ob.html

Originally Posted by donsnow

<snip>
In closing, I would like to submit my opinion (another drum of mine ) that all these ideas are not original to President Barak Hussien Obama II. These ideas have been part and parcel of an ideological war against America since the consolidation of the USSR by Stalin. These ideas are nothing new and have been abroad since the 1930's. This other drum I'm beating is that there's an international Communist party not only against America, but against Catholicism and liberty in all countries. Our president, I submit, is a puppet of that international Communist conspiracy, whether knowingly or unknowingly.
Communist or Communist sympathizing professors have been teaching the ideas in our colleges, which our president now present as new ideas, since the 1950's. Nowadays, not only our college level education system but also the entire public education system from elementary schools to senior high schools, have been infiltrated by teachers who also profess these decades old Communist ideas. I say, the Soviet Union is dead, but the Communist Party is alive.

I fully agree - the Act of Consecration of Russia (and the world) to the Immaculate Heart of Mary enacted by Bl. JPII on March 25, 1984, 'killed' Russian atheistic errors and freed that nation from Satan's grasp, but as Jesus told Sr. Lucia in the 1930's, the Act of Consecration would be done, but late, after Russia had already spread its errors to the world. Hence, we see exactly what you say here Don: the Soviet Union is dead, but the ideas of the Communist Party are alive and well. We have come through a lot of physical oppression in the mid-20th century when Russia tried to spread atheism and the church of Satan to the world, but now, post-Consecration, the world has entered into mainly (not always though - see Rwandan Genocide 1994) spiritual oppression. Indeed, just as Our God and Savior said, the errors are now manifest throughout the world. One recent glaring example: just the other day many of the world's leaders agreed to provide funding for the teaching of the use of contraception to the world's poorest.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/ne...-16184138.html


Look up!

God bless you.

[aegsemj]

Originally Posted by Muzhik

I'm afraid this author is right in his predictions as to what President Obama will do to the Catholic Church in America:

Obama's 'September surprise' for American Catholics

Second, this campaign strategy—this drive to create an “alternate magisterium” for American Catholics—fits neatly with President Obama’s long-term political goals. Like anyone else determined to further the cause of the sexual revolution, Obama wants to break the moral authority of the Catholic Church. In his choice of cabinet members (think Kathleen Sebelius) and Congressional allies (think Nancy Pelosi), he has shown a marked preference for Catholics who reject the doctrine and discipline of their faith. This administration’s policies have always been guided by the principle that “the only good Catholic is a bad Catholic.”

If the author's analysis is accurate -- and frankly, to me it matches with what I've seen the Obama political machine do to its opponents (divide and conquer) -- then there is one word the author doesn't use in his article but which stands as a real possibility: schism. If Obama is successful in dividing the Church in America, his minions may focus on promoting an American Catholicism with an "alternate magisterium", one that is "responsible" and "reasonable", that the Administration "can work with." IOW, the American version of the Catholic Patriotic Association (CPA), the Chinese state-sponsored "Catholic" church that is in opposition to the true Catholic Church lead by the Pope and the bishops.

Will they succeed? I doubt it, but that won't stop them from trying.

Unfortunately, my husband and in-laws are 3 of those Catholics who love Obama. It is strange, because they go to Mass every week, pray daily, go to Adoration every week, read the Magnificat daily. They are totally fooled. Nothing I say helps because they just don't think like I do. They proudly call themselves liberal Catholics and see me as judgmental. They truly think they are doing right because God is "love".

[beehumble]

And those who are (still) looking at Russia as the enemy, I think they are very mistaken. In 1917 Satan chose Russia, the largest Christian nation at the time, to become his modern day Roman-legion style pagan army against Christ and His Gospel of life and truth. Russia caused many of the horrors of the mid-20th century, and spread its errors to China, Vietnam, Korea, Cuba, and Eastern Europe, among other places.

It was a time of great tribulation against Christians living in these regions of the world, with unspeakable horrific acts committed against them. But the Russian brutality ended with the Act of Consecration, and Christ was symbolically seen to be re-born in Russia when pointedly, on Christmas day in 1991 in the West, the banner of Nergal (Satan), the god of death with its mallet and sickle over a red field of blood was lowered for the last time. Christ came once again to Russia through the Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Through Mary, Christ was born a second time in Russia. This triumph of Mary over Satan's grip on Russia prefigures Our Lady's Triumph over Satan's grip on the world.

Satan, with only a Short Time (mentioned in Rev chapter 20) to succeed against Christ's people, having lost to Blessed Mary in Russia, has now moved the battle to the Christian West. And he has changed his modus operandi from one of sheer open brutal oppression of Christ's people to one of insidious spiritual oppression - hence we see same-sex marriage, the West spearheading and paying for worldwide abortion and contraception, etc. Russia has been saved by Our Lady; the West is stumbling under Satan's onslaught.

So I think Russia, saved by Our Lady, will carry the banner of Christ high and help to save the West from Satan's onslaught. Russia, having suffered a near-death under Satan's attack but saved from 'death' by Christ sending Our Lady to her, will come to glorify Christ the most and help to save us of the West.

And in the end of this final battle with Satan, just when all seems lost, the hour of Blessed Mary will arrive with her last, great intercession on behalf of her children: "In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph." And although there is much more oppression and brutality still to come, this moment is rapidly approaching, so look up and convert so we are ready!

Joshua 3:5,11,14 [my commentary in brackets]

Joshua also said to the people, "Sanctify yourselves [Be ready], for tomorrow the LORD will perform wonders among you."
The ark of the covenant of the LORD of the whole earth [Blessed Mary] will precede you into the Jordan [the promised land, Heaven].
The people struck their tents to cross the Jordan, with the priests carrying the ark of the covenant ahead of them [those priests who are what we call Marian; Blessed Mary leads us on the path to Heaven, to her Son].

God bless you.

[beehumble]

Blessed Mary is leading us across the river Jordan which is a type for the river mentioned in Revelation that is the evils of out times, spewed from the mouth of Satan that tries to drown Our Lady and her children, the people of God. Blessed Mary, the Ark, stops the flowing river so her children can cross over into the promised land - Heaven - that lies on the other side.

God bless you.

[2livfree]

Originally Posted by beehumble

Back from vacation...playing catch-up!

Yes, there is a coming fulisade against the Church - it has been building up as the final plan of Satan (Satan's Short Time cited in Rev chapter 20) since the start of the twentieth century back in 1901.

I mentioned how I think the 3 1/2 years from spring 2014 until autumn 2017 could be a final burst of satanic-ness in the world, before Our Lady's Triumph that finally and for all time crushes his head, thus saving her children. So I watch all these things and sense it is the snowball going down the hill, and that snowball is large and almost at the bottom of the hill - those 3 1/2 years it will grow very big in size, just before the end of it (the snowball going down the hill is exponential, not linear, so it grows the most at the end, like an e-shaped curve.)

Yes, Muzhik, I have noticed for a while how Obama picked anti-Catholic Catholics ("Then I saw another beast, coming out of the earth.He had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon." -Rev. 13:11) for key posts in the admin. They were baptized and claim to be Catholics, but are modernists and thus speak a perverted doctrine - i.e. they speak a doctrine of the dragon, of Satan, not the Gospel teaching of Christ.

Also, he does the same with his traveling road shows...he pointedly went to Notre Dame and Georgetown (the cross was removed), and he tried to go to St. Edward's in Austin (they politely declined, claiming logistical reasons). I lived in Austin at the time and I can tell you it is very odd for a President to choose it for a speech. It is a tiny college that nobody outside of Austin ever heard of, whereas UT just a couple of miles away has some 50,000 students. He chose it because it is Catholic, and he thought, since it is located in Austin which is liberal by Texas standards, it would be another good place to try to divide Catholics.

"Diaz acknowledged that parallels have been drawn between the decision by St. Edward’s and the president’s commencement speech last year at another Roman Catholic institution, the University of Notre Dame.

Some Catholics were upset that Obama, who supports abortion rights, was invited to speak and awarded an honorary degree. Notre Dame and St. Edward’s were established by the same Holy Cross priest."

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/conte...o_host_ob.html


I fully agree - the Act of Consecration of Russia (and the world) to the Immaculate Heart of Mary enacted by Bl. JPII on March 25, 1984, 'killed' Russian atheistic errors and freed that nation from Satan's grasp, but as Jesus told Sr. Lucia in the 1930's, the Act of Consecration would be done, but late, after Russia had already spread its errors to the world. Hence, we see exactly what you say here Don: the Soviet Union is dead, but the ideas of the Communist Party are alive and well. We have come through a lot of physical oppression in the mid-20th century when Russia tried to spread atheism and the church of Satan to the world, but now, post-Consecration, the world has entered into mainly (not always though - see Rwandan Genocide 1994) spiritual oppression. Indeed, just as Our God and Savior said, the errors are now manifest throughout the world. One recent glaring example: just the other day many of the world's leaders agreed to provide funding for the teaching of the use of contraception to the world's poorest.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/ne...-16184138.html


Look up!

God bless you.

So sad, might I encourage all posters and lurkers to homeschool your children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews and so on. Also encouraged others to do the same. It helps to strengthen the children against the current of mainstream.