Saturday, September 4, 2010
Friday, September 3, 2010
Mary for these times...
"In the Second Coming of the Lord, Mary will be made known in a special way by the Holy Spirit so that through her, Jesus may be better known and served...Mary will shine forth higher than ever in these latter days to bring back poor sinners who have strayed from the family of God..."
"However, souls hardened by impiety will provoke a terrible rebellion against God attempting to lead all souls astray (even those who oppose their revolt) and they will cause many to fall by their threats, snares, and alluring promises...Satan, knowing that he has little time left, will redouble his efforts and his combats. He will conjure up cruel persecutions and put terrible snares in the path of the faithful...Mary will raise up apostles of the latter times to make war against the evil one..."
..."they shall be little and poor in the world's esteem and will even be persecuted by other members of the Body of Christ. But they shall be rich in grace and Mary will bless them abundantly"...
..."they will have recourse to Mary in all things and they will know the shortest and most perfect way of going to Jesus and they will belong entirely to Him"...
"They shall be the true apostles of the latter times, to whom the Lord shall give the word and might to work marvels and to carry off the spoils of His enemies...they shall carry the gold of love in their hearts, the incense of prayer in their spirit, the myrrh of mortification and self-sacrifice in their bodies...they shall be true disciples of Jesus Christ, faithfully following in His footsteps, teaching the narrow way to salvation according to the Holy Gospels"...
"These are the great men who will come at the end of time and Mary is the one who by order of the Most High will fashion them to extend God's Kingdom and to manifest the Lord's victorious triumph over the impious and over all His enemies"...
--St. Louis de Montfort. True Devotion to Mary (1700-16). His works were found by a member of his Order in 1846-47. Publishing began soon thereafter. [Montfort Publications, Bayshore, NY.]
"However, souls hardened by impiety will provoke a terrible rebellion against God attempting to lead all souls astray (even those who oppose their revolt) and they will cause many to fall by their threats, snares, and alluring promises...Satan, knowing that he has little time left, will redouble his efforts and his combats. He will conjure up cruel persecutions and put terrible snares in the path of the faithful...Mary will raise up apostles of the latter times to make war against the evil one..."
..."they shall be little and poor in the world's esteem and will even be persecuted by other members of the Body of Christ. But they shall be rich in grace and Mary will bless them abundantly"...
..."they will have recourse to Mary in all things and they will know the shortest and most perfect way of going to Jesus and they will belong entirely to Him"...
"They shall be the true apostles of the latter times, to whom the Lord shall give the word and might to work marvels and to carry off the spoils of His enemies...they shall carry the gold of love in their hearts, the incense of prayer in their spirit, the myrrh of mortification and self-sacrifice in their bodies...they shall be true disciples of Jesus Christ, faithfully following in His footsteps, teaching the narrow way to salvation according to the Holy Gospels"...
"These are the great men who will come at the end of time and Mary is the one who by order of the Most High will fashion them to extend God's Kingdom and to manifest the Lord's victorious triumph over the impious and over all His enemies"...
--St. Louis de Montfort. True Devotion to Mary (1700-16). His works were found by a member of his Order in 1846-47. Publishing began soon thereafter. [Montfort Publications, Bayshore, NY.]
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Mary's role in salvation...
"Every action has a reaction in view. The reaction is the fruit of the action. God the Father is the primary Principle and the Last End. The Immaculata is full of grace; nothing in the way of grace is lacking to her. The path of grace is always the same; action: from the Father through the Son and by the Holy Spirit [and through] the Immaculata; and then the inverse reaction: from creatures through the Immaculata [by] the Holy Spirit and [to] Christ back to the Father."
--St. Maximilian Kolbe, Notes (1938); The Thunder of Justice (1993), Ted and Maureen Flynn, p.47
--St. Maximilian Kolbe, Notes (1938); The Thunder of Justice (1993), Ted and Maureen Flynn, p.47
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Clarification on the 'mark of the beast...'
September 8, 1989
"Allow yourselves to be nourished and formed by me; allow yourselves to be lead by me with docility; allow yourselves to be signed by me with my motherly seal. These are the times when the followers of him who opposes himself to Christ are being signed with his mark on the forehead and on the hand.
The mark on the forehead and on the hand is an expression of a total dependency on the part of those who are designated by this sign. The sign indicates him who is an enemy of Christ, that is to say, the sign of the Antichrist. And his mark, which is stamped, signifies the complete belonging of the person marked to the army of him who is opposed to Christ and who fights against His divine and royal dominion.
The mark is imprinted on the forehead and on the hand. The forehead indicates the intellect, because the mind is the seat of the human reason. The hand expresses human activity, because it is with his hands that man acts and works.
Nevertheless it is the person who is marked with the mark of the Antichrist in his intellect and in his will. He who allows himself to be signed with the mark on his forehead is lead to accept the doctrine of the denial of God, of the rejection of His law, and of atheism which, in these times, is more and more diffused and advertised. And thus he is driven to follow the ideologies in mode today and to make of himself a propagator of all the errors.
He who allows himself to be marked with the sign on his hand is obliged to act in an autonomous manner and independently of God, ordering his own activities to the quest of a purely material and terrestrial good. Thus he withdraws his action from the design of the Father, who wants to illumine it and sustain it by His divine providence; from the love of the Son who makes human toil a precious means for one's own redemption and sanctification; from the power of the Spirit who acts everywhere to interiorly renew every creature.
He who is signed with the mark on his hand works for himself alone, to accumulate material goods, to make money his god and he becomes a victim of materialism.
He who is signed with the mark on his hand works solely for the gratification of his own senses, for the quest of well-being and pleasure, for the granting of full satisfaction to all his passions, especially that of impurity, and he becomes a victim of hedonism.
He who is signed with the mark on his hand makes his own self the center of all his actions, looks upon others as objects to be used and to be exploited for his own advantage and he becomes a victim of unbridled egoism and of lovelessness.
If my Adversary, is signing with his mark, all his followers, the time has come when I also, your heavenly Leader, am signing with my motherly seal, all those who have consecrated themselves to my Immaculate Heart and have formed part of my army."
--Our Lady Speaks to Her Beloved Priests; Interiour locutions to Fr. Stefano Gobbi, MMP (1973-97).
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"Allow yourselves to be nourished and formed by me; allow yourselves to be lead by me with docility; allow yourselves to be signed by me with my motherly seal. These are the times when the followers of him who opposes himself to Christ are being signed with his mark on the forehead and on the hand.
The mark on the forehead and on the hand is an expression of a total dependency on the part of those who are designated by this sign. The sign indicates him who is an enemy of Christ, that is to say, the sign of the Antichrist. And his mark, which is stamped, signifies the complete belonging of the person marked to the army of him who is opposed to Christ and who fights against His divine and royal dominion.
The mark is imprinted on the forehead and on the hand. The forehead indicates the intellect, because the mind is the seat of the human reason. The hand expresses human activity, because it is with his hands that man acts and works.
Nevertheless it is the person who is marked with the mark of the Antichrist in his intellect and in his will. He who allows himself to be signed with the mark on his forehead is lead to accept the doctrine of the denial of God, of the rejection of His law, and of atheism which, in these times, is more and more diffused and advertised. And thus he is driven to follow the ideologies in mode today and to make of himself a propagator of all the errors.
He who allows himself to be marked with the sign on his hand is obliged to act in an autonomous manner and independently of God, ordering his own activities to the quest of a purely material and terrestrial good. Thus he withdraws his action from the design of the Father, who wants to illumine it and sustain it by His divine providence; from the love of the Son who makes human toil a precious means for one's own redemption and sanctification; from the power of the Spirit who acts everywhere to interiorly renew every creature.
He who is signed with the mark on his hand works for himself alone, to accumulate material goods, to make money his god and he becomes a victim of materialism.
He who is signed with the mark on his hand works solely for the gratification of his own senses, for the quest of well-being and pleasure, for the granting of full satisfaction to all his passions, especially that of impurity, and he becomes a victim of hedonism.
He who is signed with the mark on his hand makes his own self the center of all his actions, looks upon others as objects to be used and to be exploited for his own advantage and he becomes a victim of unbridled egoism and of lovelessness.
If my Adversary, is signing with his mark, all his followers, the time has come when I also, your heavenly Leader, am signing with my motherly seal, all those who have consecrated themselves to my Immaculate Heart and have formed part of my army."
--Our Lady Speaks to Her Beloved Priests; Interiour locutions to Fr. Stefano Gobbi, MMP (1973-97).
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Urgent calling of our Lady...
September 15, 1987 Akita, Japan
"A chastisement worse than the flood is about to come upon this poor and perverted humanity. Fire will descend from Heaven and this will be the sign that the justice of God has as of now fixed the hour of His great manifestation. I am weeping because the Church is continuing along the road of division, of loss of the true faith, of apostasy and of errors which are being spread more and more without anyone offering opposition to them. Even now, that which I predicted at Fatima and that which I have revealed here in the third message confided to a little daughter of mine is in the process of being accomplished. And so, even for the Church the moment of its great trial has come, because the man of iniquity will establish himself within it and the abomination of desolation will enter into the holy temple of God."
--Our Lady Speaks to Her Beloved Priests (post 1987). Interior locution for Fr. Stefano Gobbi, given on the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows.
"And do this (obey and love)because you know the time;
it is the hour now for you to awake from sleep.
For our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed;
the night is advanced, the day is at hand.
Let us then throw off the works of darkness [and] put on the armor of light;
let us conduct ourselves properly as in the day, not in orgies and drunkenness,
not in promiscuity and licentiousness,
not in rivalry and jealousy.
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and make no provision for the desires of the flesh."
--Romans, 13:11-14
"A chastisement worse than the flood is about to come upon this poor and perverted humanity. Fire will descend from Heaven and this will be the sign that the justice of God has as of now fixed the hour of His great manifestation. I am weeping because the Church is continuing along the road of division, of loss of the true faith, of apostasy and of errors which are being spread more and more without anyone offering opposition to them. Even now, that which I predicted at Fatima and that which I have revealed here in the third message confided to a little daughter of mine is in the process of being accomplished. And so, even for the Church the moment of its great trial has come, because the man of iniquity will establish himself within it and the abomination of desolation will enter into the holy temple of God."
--Our Lady Speaks to Her Beloved Priests (post 1987). Interior locution for Fr. Stefano Gobbi, given on the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows.
"And do this (obey and love)because you know the time;
it is the hour now for you to awake from sleep.
For our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed;
the night is advanced, the day is at hand.
Let us then throw off the works of darkness [and] put on the armor of light;
let us conduct ourselves properly as in the day, not in orgies and drunkenness,
not in promiscuity and licentiousness,
not in rivalry and jealousy.
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and make no provision for the desires of the flesh."
--Romans, 13:11-14
Monday, August 30, 2010
From the Pastor...
"In reviewing the causes of cultural unbelief, one has to include the problem of evil. The rampant injustices in the world, the suffering of innocents, and death itself, are all used by some as excuses to rebel against God, the Church, or religion in general. Actually, the key to solving the problem of evil is the mystery of Jesus. He is God made man. The innocent One willingly entered into the world and drank from the bitter cup of human injustice and death.
Jesus was put to death because He was holy. In other words, people were rebelling against God. But God's ways are not our ways. The evils of the world will not have the last word. Jesus is risen from the dead. He will come to judge the living and the dead. Ultimately, He will destroy death itself. Rejection and denial of God, therefore, are self-defeating. The world needs Him. He is our only Hope." --Fr. Sean Donnelly, MA, D. Min. (August 28, 2010). Pastor, Immaculate Conception Church; Madison, OH.
"I keep the Lord always before me;
with the Lord at my right I shall never be shaken.
Therefore my heart is glad, my soul rejoices;
my body also dwells secure,
For you will not abandon me to Sheol,
nor let your faithful servant see the pit.
You will show me the path to life,
abounding joy in your presence,
the delights at your right hand forever."
--Psalm 16, 8-11
Jesus was put to death because He was holy. In other words, people were rebelling against God. But God's ways are not our ways. The evils of the world will not have the last word. Jesus is risen from the dead. He will come to judge the living and the dead. Ultimately, He will destroy death itself. Rejection and denial of God, therefore, are self-defeating. The world needs Him. He is our only Hope." --Fr. Sean Donnelly, MA, D. Min. (August 28, 2010). Pastor, Immaculate Conception Church; Madison, OH.
"I keep the Lord always before me;
with the Lord at my right I shall never be shaken.
Therefore my heart is glad, my soul rejoices;
my body also dwells secure,
For you will not abandon me to Sheol,
nor let your faithful servant see the pit.
You will show me the path to life,
abounding joy in your presence,
the delights at your right hand forever."
--Psalm 16, 8-11
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