FOR those who are again enjoying the best post-pandemic leisure that money can afford, it is probably harder to believe mystics who are warning that the world is about to face a sweeping change as to even include the effacement of such grand cities as New York and Paris. This world, after all, can blind.
But the warnings cover possible scenarios of the earth being almost totally altered, to the point of cities being leveled down in a “purification” that would return earth to some environmental chastity where survivors would have to start anew with farming, assuredly bountiful this time, but existential.
In a post-pandemic resurrection of pleasure and leisure, suffering is pariah. Those who know some bit of religion know, of course, that suffering was a pivotal part of salvation history, that it is what Jesus Christ partly referred to when He said, “Come, follow Me”, and that all saints trod such a path.
I am convinced that it takes grace to better understand the reason for suffering, but to fully understand it must be beyond comprehension in earthly lifetime. Else Jesus would not have told St. Padre Pio not to seek understanding of suffering because “you can not.” At least, not a full understanding of suffering whose value, however, could be grasped.
In her Fatima apparitions, the Blessed Mother told the visionaries that when suffering, say: “Oh, Jesus, it is for the love of you, for conversion of sinners and in reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer you this suffering.”
Addressing the young visionaries, the Blessed Mother said: “Are you willing to offer yourself to willingly accept the sufferings it may please the most high God to send you in reparation for the sins committed against him?”
The visionaries, as we know, assented.
At one time, an angel also advised the visionaries (all minors) to “do all that your parents ask you” and that “when hurt by other children at play, don't revenge.”
The Blessed Mother also once told Fatima visionary Lucia to obey her teachers in school and that “in your daily work is your penance.”
In Aokpe, Nigeria, visionary Christiana asked the Blessed Mother to reduce the heat of the sun on a searing day. The Blessed Mother asked her to bear the heat as an offering for spiritual healing.
Meanwhile, let me share more recent messages from Heaven. In yet another message to mystic Pedro Regis on July 16, 2022, the Blessed Mother said:
“Dear children, I am your Mother and I have come from Heaven to lead you to the One who is your only Way, Truth and Life. Do not live far from the Lord. You are in the world, but you are not of the world. I ask you to keep the flame of your faith alight and everywhere to seek to witness to the Gospel of my Jesus.
“ You are heading for a painful future, and my poor children will walk like the blind leading the blind. Lack of love for the truth will lead many of my poor children to death. Be faithful to Jesus. Listen to me. Those who heed my appeals will not experience eternal death.
“Do not be discouraged. I will always be at your side, although you do not see me. This is the message I give you today in the name of the Most Holy Trinity. Thank you for having allowed me to gather you here once more. I bless you in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Be at peace.”
Also to Pedro on July 14, 2022, our Blessed Mother said:
“Dear children, the seed of evil will spread everywhere, but you can hinder the action of the enemies with the truth taught by my Son Jesus and proclaimed by His true Church. Pray. Seek strength in the Gospel and the Eucharist. Do not allow the enemies to win.
“You are important for the realization of my plans. Give the best of yourselves and you will be generously rewarded. I am your Mother, and I have come from Heaven to help you. Be obedient and listen to me. You have freedom, but do not let your freedom keep you from the path of salvation. Go forward on the path that I have pointed out to you.
“This is the message that I give you today in the name of the Most Holy Trinity. Thank you for having allowed me to gather you here once more. I bless you in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Be at peace.” (End of quote.)
At the same time, allow me to share again more prophecies from Canadian mystic Fr. Michel Rodrigue as he talked about the Warning as also cited in various Marian apparitions in modern times. He said:
"The Father (God the Father) told me that the twenty-first century is His century. After the Warning, no one left on Earth will be able to say that God does not exist. When the Warning comes, everyone will recognize Christ, and they will also recognize His Body, and the body of Christ is the Catholic Church. They will know that they have to come back to Him in the way that (he) will show them. Priests will also be there to welcome them. We will not be there to judge them. At that point, everyone will want to serve the Lord. Everyone can come back to the Church, together for this time that was chosen by the Father, himself. We will be there to serve the Lord.
"After the illumination of conscience, (every person on earth will see their sins) humanity will be granted an unparalleled gift: a period of repentance lasting about six and a half weeks when the devil will not have the power to act. This means all human beings will have their complete free will to make a decision for or against the Lord. The devil will not bind our will and fight against us. The first two and a half weeks, in particular, will be extremely important, for the devil will not return at that time, but our habits will, and people will be harder to convert. And all who have received the desire for him, the sense that they need His salvation, will be marked on their forehead with a luminous cross by their guardian angel.
"There will be a miraculous sign given to the world, sometime after the Warning. It will be in Garabandal, Spain, at the pines where (Mary) first appeared there. At the same time, it will be seen in Medjugorje, which has been promised also. The sign will be able to be seen and projected on the television. This will occur at the beginning of the Tribulation."
"So, we are all called to be ready, ready to help our brothers and sisters when this six and half week period comes, ready to guide them to the Church, where they will find their peace of heart, their happiness with the Lord. We are all called to be disciples of Christ. You must talk, you must stand, you must advise. Yes...
'When the devil returns after six and a half weeks, he will disseminate a message to the world through the media, cell phones, TV's, et cetera. The message is this: "A collective illusion happened on this date. Our scientists have analyzed this and found it occurred at the same time that a solar flare from the sun was released into the universe. It was so powerful that it affected the minds of the people on Earth, giving everyone a collective illusion."