tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767475475753279918.post8081182539383836555..comments2024-03-27T09:30:39.371+00:00Comments on Unveiling the Apocalypse: St. Augustine vs. Fr. IannuzziEmmett O'Reganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01043723932377194248noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767475475753279918.post-38215900366161660692016-06-05T16:11:27.483+01:002016-06-05T16:11:27.483+01:00And not just Ezekiel 47, but the entire metaphor o...<br />And not just Ezekiel 47, but the entire metaphor of the river of life. For me personally it keeps cropping up in prayer - a lot. In recent days I've been praying and memorizing psalm 46. The second strophe is quite striking: "The waters of a river give joy to God's city, the holy place where the Most High dwells." Juxtapose this with John 7.38. Juxtapose that with psalm 84 (v 6), e.g. "as the believer goes through the valley they make it a place of springs." This metaphor is powerful, and all through the scriptures in obvious and less-than-obvious ways and meanings.<br /><br />It has become extremely prominent in my interior life these past six months or so. The Spirit is truly speaking in all of this, somehow, for His own mysterious purposes. I don't pretend or presume to know God's purpose in it. (John 3.8)<br /><br />Mark L.<br /><br />Mark Lnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767475475753279918.post-66737983486647849052016-06-05T10:55:23.650+01:002016-06-05T10:55:23.650+01:00It's interesting that Ezek 47 keeps cropping u...It's interesting that Ezek 47 keeps cropping up. I've mentioned before how this is a prophecy of the renewal of the Church at the end of time, and in the new version of Unveiling the Apocalypse, I will explain the significance of this passage in some detail, and how it ties into several approved apparitions.Emmett O'Reganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01043723932377194248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767475475753279918.post-675521128909734582016-06-04T13:42:35.547+01:002016-06-04T13:42:35.547+01:00Here's a page with the messages:
http://www.m...Here's a page with the messages:<br /><br />http://www.miraclehunter.com/marian_apparitions/messages/sannicolas_messages.htmlMark Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15138095328541163796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767475475753279918.post-28265047193900952952016-06-04T13:37:11.101+01:002016-06-04T13:37:11.101+01:00Has anyone else seen this:
http://www.catholicnew...Has anyone else seen this:<br /><br />http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/a-marian-apparition-has-been-approved-in-argentina---and-its-a-big-deal-31979/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+catholicnewsagency%2Fdailynews+%28CNA+Daily+News%29&utm_term=daily+news<br /><br />I don't know how to do the small url. Sorry.Mark Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15138095328541163796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767475475753279918.post-32601222683608068892016-05-30T01:09:56.637+01:002016-05-30T01:09:56.637+01:00(continued from above)
Love requires an Act of Wi...(continued from above)<br /><br /><b>Love requires an Act of Will.</b><br /><br />Love requires an act of the will. So what is an act of the will? It is a choice, a decision, and an expression of one’s entire being. “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.”<br /><br />This is how God loves us, and how he desires each of us to love him. Life is about learning how to love like this; how to open ourselves and make a supreme act of will, consciously and with full knowledge, to love God back with our whole beings. God’s plan is for each of us to be in union with him through Love, an act of the will.<br /><br />This is the point, and it is to this goal that we are called. There is a catch, however. With love being an act of the will, it can never be forced. It cannot be by default. It must be chosen freely, and expressed individually. Therefore, we must have the capacity to choose to love God, which results in us also having the choice to not love God. Without this choice, we are no better than the robotic children programmed to behave in certain ways, going through the motions, but exhibiting a hollow, empty facsimile of love.<br /><br />As long as humanity is created with God's intention of coming to know Him, and to LOVE Him, sin will by default continue to exist. There can be no Triumph of Christianity on this mortal coil, where sin is no more. Where sin is no longer an option, free will no longer exists, and Love and Acts of the Will are no longer possible.<br /><br />So what about Purgatory? Do souls in purgatory have free will? I kinda don't think so, at least not as we currently understand and experience our free will. If free will was the same in purgatory as it is here on earth, you could still sin in purgatory. If you could sin in purgatory, it would no longer be purgatory. You'd just be in hell, having made a choice to remove yourself from God and his grace. <br /><br />Likewise, in Heaven sin is not possible either. I don't think you get into Heaven without fully and completely submitting to the Will of God, and being in complete harmony and union with His Will and Love. <br /><br />Once you're in the afterlife, your choices have been made. When exposed to a choice or a decision to be in communion with the Will of the God, or to put an eternal distance between you and the Will of God, there isn't any redos. You know the consequences of your decision in the fullest, and the choice is made once. That is part of the miracle of life with us as humanity. We get to try to figure this out over and over again, to participate in the miracle of creation, and to do such wonderful things as to exercise our imperfect wills in charity and love for each other. God is wonderfully pleased by us when we do so. <br /><br />But just so, if the eternity and fullness of our decisions is brought to our souls, and a fully informed and binding choice is made by us, then the choice is made. There's no turning back. <br /><br />Espousing a belief in a worldly triumph and removal of sinfulness in mortals on this earth seems to be completely inconsistent with Christianity and Catholocism, and hence it has been condemned as heresy. In Heaven, that will absolutely be the case. I have no understanding of the New Heaven and New Earth that is referenced occassionally. Maybe Emmett can speak to that. But on this earth, until the very end of humanity and the exercise of free will, there shall be sin. It is built in to the fabric of the universe, in order to allow us to choose to love God with all our souls, with all our minds, and with all our strength.Ceterahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05043066262438636003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767475475753279918.post-40853454731326302502016-05-30T01:09:23.606+01:002016-05-30T01:09:23.606+01:00(continued from above)
So what is the point? Why...(continued from above)<br /><br /><b>So what is the point? Why did God make us? Why did God make me?</b><br /><br />Love is a recurring theme in the Bible. Indeed, one may say it is THE THEME of the Bible. God IS Love (1 John 1:18), and God created us to love. The point is that we love each other, and to love God. Older Catholics among us may remember a quote from the Baltimore Catechism that God made us to know Him and to love Him and to serve Him, in this life and the next. We are here to learn to love, to choose to love, and to actively love God and our fellow man.<br /><br /><br />If we proceed from an initial conclusion that we are to love both God and each other, how do we do so? What is love? First Corinthians tells us love is the greatest thing there is. That is all fine and dandy, but what is this thing called Love that we are called to be, to espouse, and to do?<br /><br />Again, the quotes I selected previously (John 3:16, John 15:13, Mark 12:30-31) suggest the answer. Love is not an emotion or a feeling. Love is not something passive. Each passage involves action.<br /><br />Spend some time with young children, and you will come to appreciate their points of view and marvel at the occasionally phenomenal and intuitive insights they have on life. They cannot explain love, and they cannot describe it, but they can tell what is and is not love, and they can certainly name examples of love in their lives. If you ask, they will tell you that they love their parents, or that their parents love them.<br /><br />In a religious education class I taught with my wife a number of years ago with a bunch of fourth graders, I asked them about love. They believed that saying you loved someone was a primary example of love, as was hugging them, or patting them on the back. Several even believed that being obedient was part of loving their parents. I asked if, instead of children, their parents had robots instead, and the robots would always say “I love you,” and give their parents hugs and be obedient and keep their rooms clean, would those robots love their parents? Each of them said no. They could not explain why, since all the forms we talked about were there, but they said it was different. Something that they could not explain but that was a part of them, and was not a part of programmed machine who did those things by rote, was responsible for love, and without that something there could be no love.<br /><br />Those children were correct. What is missing is intent. Love requires an Act of Will.<br /><br />(continued below)Ceterahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05043066262438636003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767475475753279918.post-24908143797659526272016-05-30T01:08:47.256+01:002016-05-30T01:08:47.256+01:00I'm going to jump in here, just because I have...I'm going to jump in here, just because I have something to say that I think applies, and I'm gosh darn sick and tired of the folks who seem to understand nothing about the Catechism or their faith, let alone why we're here, or what all of this means in the final picture.<br /><br />To start, let's get back to basics, and examine some first principles.<br /><br /><b>Why are we here? What is our Purpose?</b><br /><br />I don’t mean why any of us, as individuals, are here in this time, or at any particular place, but why is humanity here at all? To what end do any of us work? It is inevitable that we each will die. It is unavoidable, and non-negotiable. To be alive is to eventually die. Only life can die, and only those that experience death are ever alive. Yet life has this funny instinct of trying to survive, to do anything possible to remain living for just a little longer, no matter the circumstances.<br /><br />We strive for our offspring, we fight to defend our children and our families. We hope in a better and brighter future, and we sacrifice to make a better life for our future selves, our children, and future generations. But why?<br /><br />In the long run, everyone dies. The earth will be destroyed, the Sun will no longer provide for life, stars blow up, grow dim, go out. On a long enough timeline, the survival of everyone is zero.<br /><br />Therefore, I believe it to be self-evident that we are not here for any purely physical reason, or to accomplish any physical objectives. The things that matter most in our lives are the things we do for others. The most meaningful accomplishments on a daily scale and on a lifetime scale are when we help others, when we express love and compassion and charity towards others. Making a difference in someone else’s life is the one thing that has always resulted in the greatest joy and happiness in my life.<br /><br />We see this specifically stated in the Bible in a couple of places. “Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends,” (John 15:13). When asked what is the most important commandment, Jesus replies, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these,” (Mark 12:30-31).<br /><br />There is another big hint in John 3:16: “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.”<br /><br />(continued below)Ceterahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05043066262438636003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767475475753279918.post-11789652499967960592016-05-29T23:52:09.050+01:002016-05-29T23:52:09.050+01:00I'd like to thank you both for honoring Emmett...I'd like to thank you both for honoring Emmett's request. Mark Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15138095328541163796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767475475753279918.post-5673448598474608712016-05-29T23:37:04.472+01:002016-05-29T23:37:04.472+01:00I think you will find Fr Ianuzzi certainly thinks ...I think you will find Fr Ianuzzi certainly thinks evil and sin will disappear. I am not implying anything, I am saying straight up, evil will remain until the last day. Suffering, illness-all forms of evil will exist. I dont know how you can say that is grve error when I have quoted an Ecumenical Council document and papal quotes to back it up. calm down on the Jewish rhetoric. Freemasonry has members of many nations and religions.The Jews are central to the history of salvation and God never revokes his covenant. Its all in st Paul's letter to the Romans. We should look with hope to their entrance into the Kingdom of Christ not be slagging them off. They are part of our extended family at present. Rachmaninovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11499478363503549408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767475475753279918.post-20262755753414240812016-05-29T23:28:28.114+01:002016-05-29T23:28:28.114+01:00The monumental struggle is at all times operative....The monumental struggle is at all times operative. No one is suggesting that evil, sin and suffering will disappear before the Second Coming. But peace is possible at every moment. People have the choice to either live in a state of grace or live in a state of mortal sin. If most people alive today were living in a state of grace and were obedient to the authority of the Catholic Church then the world would be a very different place. Sadly, Jewish Freemasonry has had a death grip on the civilized world since the Enlightenment. Are you implying, Rachmaninov, that Jewish Freemasonry and all the evil it produces, must continue unabated until the Second Coming? Because if you are implying that you are in grave error.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767475475753279918.post-44463792447909096452016-05-29T23:15:21.259+01:002016-05-29T23:15:21.259+01:00Just remember its thanks to me and my research tha...Just remember its thanks to me and my research that you know it was Abbott Vonier who wrote it, and not some made up "theological Commission." By the way if you look on the mog forum, you will see Bill has some interesting quotes on what fr vonier wrote. The term he used for the hope in a millennium (not millenarianism I hasten to add, but millennium was " a form of religous dreaming." For those who dont manipulate the truth, the Abbott was simply stating the fact that in the future, Christainity could spread in a triumpahnt evangelizing manner (as I certainly hold because I believe the Lord's words that the Gosepl would be spread throughout the world) so its fine; but that is a million miles from the heretical stance of a spiritual millennium. If you believe in vatican II, then you also thus believe that a "monumental struggle" will continue unabated between good and evil until the very last day. You cant have it both ways. Either you accept the real magisterium, or you have your own. Which is it? <br />Sorry but true. Rachmaninovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11499478363503549408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767475475753279918.post-73698132160083980142016-05-29T23:06:32.627+01:002016-05-29T23:06:32.627+01:00The only one lying, Rachmaninov, is you by your eq...The only one lying, Rachmaninov, is you by your equating a period of Triumphant Christianity with the heresy of Millenarianism. You know full well that the two are not the same.<br /><br />Thankfully, we have the voice of the Church to guide us in the writings of Abbot Vonier which were included in a book entitled the Teachings of the Catholic Church, which carries the Nihil obstat and Imprimatur. And not only Abbot Vonier but several Popes and numerous approved mystics who all point to a coming restoration which WILL NOT be a Utopia but will indeed be a period of Triumphant Christianity when Freemasonry is vanquished and Catholicism restored once again to its position of prominence and governance in the affairs of the nations.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767475475753279918.post-40082700699269804522016-05-29T22:05:50.224+01:002016-05-29T22:05:50.224+01:00Who said there would be a period of triumphant Chr...Who said there would be a period of triumphant Christianity? i known Abbot Vonier (you know the one who brings new meaning to the phrase "ghost writer" considering he is supposed to have written it 14 years after his death) said "if" there is going to be a triumphant period. But of course for you millenarians anything goes if you can just plug a heretical theory. Who cares about a bit if twisting here, or the odd manipluation there. Even blatant lies are fair game are they not?<br />But anyway back to your point. I think what you actually meant to say was "I look forward with joy to the day when God's plan will come to fruition in its fullness when our elder Jewish brothers and sisters embrace the catholic faith and complete the mystery of salvation. This will bring about the period of Triumphant Christianity without end. The eternal eight day of the resurrection. I realize now that to place a temporal Kingdom within history is to reduce Jesus to a political revolutionary like Che Guevara, rather than the King who is "not of this world". Rachmaninovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11499478363503549408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767475475753279918.post-116037446358905912016-05-29T15:57:34.740+01:002016-05-29T15:57:34.740+01:00Millenarianism is not the same thing as a period o...Millenarianism is not the same thing as a period of Triumphant Christianity. Nice try, Rachmaninov. But you have failed to muddy the waters. I can't wait for Jewish Freemasonry to be destroyed and for Christianity to once again rule the West.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767475475753279918.post-33158913270447774132016-05-29T09:52:02.354+01:002016-05-29T09:52:02.354+01:00Millenarianism is a heresy.This teaching applies t...Millenarianism is a heresy.This teaching applies to that as it is a variation on a theme. Popes have taught that the Church will suffer constantly until the end of the world.Popes have taught the phrase second coming means the last judgment Popes have never taught the "day of the Lord" is made up of two time periods separated by a millennium.Bill has shown today on the 'M.o.g.forum that Gaudium st Spes, a Famous Vatican 2 document states that the "monumental struggle" between good and evil is constant from the beginning of salvation history until it's end on the last day.Conclusive proof that there is no room and no chance of a temporal kingdom of God coming to create a terrestrial paradise on earth. Through history, the kingdom is spiritual and will only flower definitively after the last judgment.Rachmaninovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11499478363503549408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767475475753279918.post-52902572091585485962016-05-29T01:32:08.488+01:002016-05-29T01:32:08.488+01:00The title of this thread is misleading. Father Ia...The title of this thread is misleading. Father Iannuzzi and Saint Augustine are not at odds. Saint Augustine's interpretation of the Millennium is not dogma. The Church has never infallibly defined the Millennium. A period of Triumphant Christianity and Christian Restoration in the West is not ruled out. In fact, many approved private revelations speak of just such a time, when the old disciplines will be restored and when a very holy Pope and a "Great Catholic Monarch" will rule side by side. Of course, this will mean that Jewish Freemasonry will have to take a back seat, so I can understand why there is so much resistance to the idea.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767475475753279918.post-5084392232581093532016-05-28T22:56:23.398+01:002016-05-28T22:56:23.398+01:00That's probably for the best, Emmett. Don'...That's probably for the best, Emmett. Don't worry about it, and just move on. You have lots of good still to do, and you don't need to be down in the mud. <br /><br />Besides, we're all still eagerly awaiting your book! You need to expend your efforts for our benefit! We're selfish, and entitled, and we want what's in your brain!<br /><br />Just kidding. I hope you're doing well. Leave all that crap in the past. Dream big, work small. Cheers!Ceterahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05043066262438636003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767475475753279918.post-74643377684501857702016-05-28T20:43:48.936+01:002016-05-28T20:43:48.936+01:00I'm not going to even bother going back to deb...I'm not going to even bother going back to debate on this. Iannuzzi's book was directly inspired by the condemned false possibly demonic apparitions at Emmitsburg. You can't bend doctrine to suit private revelation. Montanism must always be shunned<br />Emmett O'Reganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01043723932377194248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767475475753279918.post-39550825395708068852016-05-28T12:26:42.225+01:002016-05-28T12:26:42.225+01:00I see Mark Mallett is still claiming it was a &quo...I see Mark Mallett is still claiming it was a "theological Commission" of 1952 who wrote that bit on eschatology, even though we know the writer of it was Abbott Anscar Vonier who died in 1938. You see i was kicked off the forum for claiming Mark was leading people atray with manipulations and errors.I suppose in a world where people are happy to be led along like in the Pied Piper of Hamelin story, it matters not that facts like this are revealed.Rachmaninovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11499478363503549408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767475475753279918.post-85881829801417004262016-05-28T03:05:21.597+01:002016-05-28T03:05:21.597+01:00Ya know, I'm beginning to feel left out. It se...Ya know, I'm beginning to feel left out. It seems that I'm the only one to NOT get kicked out of MoG.<br /><br />How are you holding up, Emmett?Mark Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15138095328541163796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767475475753279918.post-48236109704778834152016-05-27T20:06:52.085+01:002016-05-27T20:06:52.085+01:00Bernadette
Praised be Jesus!
Time will tell regard...Bernadette<br />Praised be Jesus!<br />Time will tell regarding Medjugorje. Until then prayer.<br />United in prayer<br />Michael Patrick Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767475475753279918.post-57299723429186010052016-05-27T01:22:59.292+01:002016-05-27T01:22:59.292+01:00Anonymous,
Of course not 'all' apparitions...Anonymous,<br />Of course not 'all' apparitions are from satan, but just about every apparition, locution that gets spoken about on MOG forum is a lie.<br />As for Medjugorje. I could speak for hours against it. But take this as facts. Ivan alone (not mentioning the other so called seers) receives approx. 1.8 million yearly 'just' form his hotel in Medj, this does not include the money he receives when he gives his stage performances of having apparitions. hmmmm????? Do the sums with his hotel.<br /><br />Pope Francis has spoken. Do our ears hear him? Or do we make excuses so not to see we are following a lie.<br />Pope F said 18/4/2016 "“Those who follow Jesus do nor err! ‘Oh, Father, yes, but things are difficult ... So many times I do not see clearly what to do ... I was told that there was a seer and I went there and I went there; I went to the [fortune teller], who turned the cards to me ...’ If you do this, you do not follow Jesus. You follow another, who shows you another way, a different way. Jesus shows the way forward: there is no other who can show the way.’ Jesus has warned us: ‘There will be others who will say the way of the Messiah is this, this, this [other way]: do not listen. Do not hear them. I am the way.’ Jesus is the door and also the path: if we follow Him we shall not go astray.”<br /><br />Pope F also said Nov 2013. "Mary is not a postmaster sending messages every day." Bernadettenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767475475753279918.post-61840584170498380612016-05-26T19:52:03.618+01:002016-05-26T19:52:03.618+01:00Also, re: possibly real apparitions regarding our ...Also, re: possibly real apparitions regarding our time and our Mother coming from heaven to warn us and call us to return to her Son. There are now 4 fully approved Church apparitions since 1960. <br />Akita, Japan <br />Wisconsin, USA<br />Kibeho, Rawanda<br />San Nicholas, Argentina<br /><br />San Nicholas was given full approval on Sunday last - May 22, 2016.<br />3 of them occurred in the last 46 years -- and all 3 are our Lady calling all of humanity to return to her Son and warning that if man does not change, then major chastisements are coming to clean everything up. FYI Let us continue to pray for one another. <br />United in prayer<br />Michael Patrick Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767475475753279918.post-74717900826942790902016-05-26T19:43:18.522+01:002016-05-26T19:43:18.522+01:00Bernadette
I don't think "every apparitio...Bernadette<br />I don't think "every apparition" is from satan. One must pray and discern. But yes, there is a problem when one follows every single person who says they have a locution or vision.<br />Personally, I think Medjugorje is worthy of belief. But as I've said many times, time will tell. And we await the Pope saying something in re: to the 3 yr study that the Vatican did officially on Medjugorje from 2011 - 2014. Otherwise, if one thinks that any apparition after Fatima (other then Banneaux and Beurang) are nonsense, then we should pray for them to begin to mature more in the faith and realize that the greatest gift is the 'visit' from our Lord Himself in the holy Eucharist! One of the signs that Medj. may full well be true is that Mary has told the 6 visionaries that the Mass is the greatest prayer! and the 6 always say it is a greater gift to receive our Lord in the Eucharist than to have an apparition. <br />Regardless. -- Adoration, Mass, Communion, rosary! We have obviously and absolutely entered into a new time of purification as we come closer to major events and the renewal of all things.<br />United in prayer <br />Michael Patrick <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6767475475753279918.post-51033606327696809702016-05-26T12:30:07.445+01:002016-05-26T12:30:07.445+01:00I too was banned from MOG forum. I believe Glenn H...I too was banned from MOG forum. I believe Glenn Hudson banned me because I was showing how the Bishops had condemned Garabandal. And showed all the falseness about it.<br />MOG forum is home to satan as all that forum does is promote every false apparition or prophecy.Bernadettenoreply@blogger.com