IT’S now almost four decades ago that the Queen of Peace issued an urgent appeal to mankind, and that’s a rather long time for a warning with a tone of immediacy, thus:
"The world lives amidst very strong tensions. It is on the edge of catastrophe...Tell the whole world; tell it without delay, that I ardently wish conversion. Be converted, do not wait. I will ask my Son that He not chastise the world. Convert yourselves, renounce everything, and be ready for everything."
The message was conveyed to the Medjugorje visionaries way back in 1984.
Other messages received by credible Catholic mystics reveal deferment, postponement of conditional prophecies, especially those that warn of tribulations which, in uniformity being disclosed from Heaven towards various points of the compass, would be unprecedented, even worse than Noah’s flood. Only mercy, only a bargaining for more to be reached for conversion, could be the reason for the delays. But then, even regardless of the pandemic, the world is becoming stranger amid prophecies that seem to be descending.
Some such prophecies trace back to centuries ago but now seem to be finding reality. For example, St. Senanus (d. 560) had warned that "dreadful plagues will come upon all the race of Adam" while St. Columba (d. 597) prophesied “dreadful storms and hurricanes shall afflict them. Numberless diseases shall then prevail.”
Amid the motu propio issuance of Pope Francis, there is the prophecy of St. Malachy of Ireland *1095-1148) who said: "During the last persecution of the Holy Roman Church, there will sit upon the throne, Peter the Roman, who will feed the sheep amid great tribulations, and when these are passed, the City of Seven Hills (Rome) will be utterly destroyed, and the awful Judge will then judge the people.”
Yes, there was also a warning of a comet threat, as was prophesied by St. Hildegard, 1098-1179) as follows: "Before the comet comes, many nations, the good excepted, will be scourged with want and famine. The comet by its tremendous pressure, will force much out of the ocean and flood many countries, causing much want and many plagues. All sea coast cities will be fearful and many of them will be destroyed by tidal waves, and most living creatures will be killed and even those who escape will die from a horrible disease.”
The contention that the dire prophecies would befall our times seems to find confirmation in the prophecy of Mother Shipton in the 16th century. She said:
"The great chastisement will come when carriages go without horses and many accidents fill the world with woe. It will come when thoughts are flying round the earth in the twinkling of all eye, when long tunnels are made for horseless machines, when man can fly in the air and ride under the sea, when ships are wholly made of metal, when fire and water great marvels do, when even the poor can read books, and when many taxes are levied for war.”
This was corroborated by Blessed Rembordt in the 18th century when he prophesied:
“God will punish the world when men have devised marvelous inventions that will lead them to forgetting God. They will have horseless carriages, and they will fly like the birds.”
St. Vincent de Paul (1580-1660) also saw things to happen in our days: “Many cities and villages shall be in ruins, with the deaths of an innumerable quantity of bad and good men” as did Blessed Anna Maria Taigi (d. 1837) who said: "Religious shall be persecuted, priests shall be massacred, the churches shall be closed, but only for a short time; the Holy Father shall be obliged to abandon Rome.”
And here’s what French mystic Marie-Julie Jahenny (d. 1941) saw:
“The ocean will cast its foaming waves over the land; the earth will be changed to an immense cemetery; the corpses of the wicked and the just will cover the face of the earth. The famine that follows will be great. All vegetation will be destroyed as well a! three-fourths of the human race. The crisis will come all of a sudden and chastisement will be worldwide.”
On April 1, 1947, Mother Elena Aiello of Italy quoted a warning from the Blessed Mother, thus:
“Clouds with lightning flashes of fire in the sky and a tempest of fire shall fall upon the world. This terrible scourge, never before seen in this history of humanity, will last seventy hours.”
German mystic Therese Neumann (1898-1962), who was feared by Adolf Hitler, said “the furies of hell rage now. The chastisement of God is inevitable.”
On March 2, 1975, the Blessed Mother told Mother Elena Patriarca Leonardi in Rome: “A terrible flaming scourge is prepared. It will purify the world of the many and grievous sins which envelope it like a dark obfuscation.”
As much was revealed by the Blessed Mother to Sister Agnes Sasagawa in Akita, Japan in the early 1970s. She said: “The heavenly Father will send a terrible punishment over the whole world of mankind if people do not repent and change their lives: a punishment that will be more terrible than the great flood; a punishment the world has never experienced. Fire will fall from heaven and destroy the larger part of mankind and will not spare priests and lay people. The survivors will suffer so much that they will envy the dead.”
The Akita apparitions, along with the message, were approved by Sister Agnes’ bishop as being credible.
One objective of all these warnings was again reiterated by the Blessed Mother to mystic Theresa of Vietnam on Jan 25, 1982: "Repent, because the Great Purification is coming.”
Yes, there is much lament in the way the world is today, and this can be gathered from what the Blessed Mother told the seers of Medjugorhe on July 25, 1982: “Today many persons go to Hell. God permits his children to suffer in Hell due to the fact that they have committed grave unpardonable sins. Those who are in Hell no longer have a chance to know a better lot.”