Our times have reached the peak of urgency and, again, there’s a repetition in the recent prophecies of the world “shaking,” among other dire events. Mankind is to suffer, but is also being told to keep faith and hope: there is eternal light at the end of the tunnel.
This, even as Our Lord Jesus Christ expressed lament over the failure of priests to give importance to the messages being issued these days by mystics.
The lament was issued by Our Lord Jesus to Italian Archbishop Ottavio Michelini.
Of course, there is no obligation for anyone to believe private revelations, but if good reason tells us that such messages are indeed being issued supernaturally and quite urgently, a prayerful Catholic must lend ear. Even the Catechism of the Catholic Church affirms prophecies on great trials for the Church, if not for entire mankind.
By the way, Archbishop Michelini (14 August 1906 - †15 October 1979) used to be a priest of the Carpi diocese in Modena, Italy, spending his retired years as chaplain of an association for disabled people.
It is believed that in the last four years of his life, he had been in communication with Our Lord Jesus and His Blessed Mother. He later put into writing what he was told in his mystic experiences in a book titled “Confidences of Jesus to a Priest.”
Michelini quoted Our Lord Jesus as having told him: “ Son, the world is rushing to its ruin like an avalanche. When a landslide begins, its descent is rarely noticed; the first movement is almost imperceptible. Then little by little it increases until it is turned into such motion that it drags everything with it. Well then, this avalanche, this landslide, has already begun its movement, and men, like blind ones, do not notice the destruction toward which they are going.
“The alarm had been given, but it is almost useless: very few have accepted it and many have ignored it. But what most saddens my merciful Heart and the Immaculate Heart of My mother and yours, is the fact that many priests have ignored the multifarious calls that have come from Heaven.”
Indeed, the tone of such messages are rising in urgency. This, again, is manifest in the June 17, 2023 message of St. Michael the Archangel to third-degree Augustinian stigmatist Luz de Maria de Bonilla as follows:
“Beloved children of the Most Holy Trinity, I come to you to bring you the Divine Word. Accepting the Sacred Hearts is the means of protection by which humanity can fight the demons that tempt you. The Immaculate Heart of Mary calls you to willingly entrust yourselves to it, so that she might shelter you in her virginal womb, before which the demons are afraid.
“ Darkness is coming, and you will have no means of communication... Grow in faith, be charitable, and do not refuse to help your brother in such difficult times.
(Note from Ding: Scientists have been warning of unprecedented solar flares from the sun that could affect communications on earth.)
“Children of the Most Holy Trinity, spiritual defenses are indispensable for you: defenses that you take up by your own free will in order to fight everything that leads you away from our King and Lord Jesus Christ. At this moment, already spiritually prepared through Confession before June 15, commit yourselves to a new life, without so much evil that keeps you away from our King and Lord Jesus Christ and our Queen and Mother. Good intentions must be a reality in each one of you. You must arm yourselves with the breastplate of faith and commit to a life of combating personal sin.
“Pray, children of the Most Holy Trinity, pray for the United Kingdom, which will suffer excessively due to war and whose soil will shake: Aberdeen will suffer, Glasgow will suffer due to the earthquake, Ireland will suffer.
“Children of the Most Holy Trinity, France will be shaken by the earthquake: Lyon will be severely shaken, Marseilles will suffer due to the war and the earthquake, Le Havre will be lashed by water and shaken.
“Children of our Queen and Mother of the End Times: These are moments when you must be as wise as snakes and as innocent as doves. Beloved People of the Most Holy Trinity: Wake up, before it is too late! Everything has been prepared by those who turn the wheels of humanity so that the moment will arrive .
“Look at what is happening in the world, and do not deny what is happening. Continue on the right path with faith, with love, charity, and with abundant love for your neighbor. May the Trinitarian blessing be salvation and forgiveness in each one of you.” (End of quote.)
Amid such frightening scenarios, the prophecies also tell us of the value of suffering and direct us to keep faith and hope by directing our focus on the brevity of earthly life and, in the end, everlasting life, possibly in Heaven if we choose so.
In His message to mystic Maria Valtorta (1897-1961), Our Lord Jesus underscored this. (By the way, Our Lord Jesus categorically told Fr. Michelini that He is the “author” of Valtorta’s work, The Poem of Man-God. This authorship was also affirmed by the Blessed Mother in her apparitions in Medjugorje.)
Valtorta quoted Our Lord Jesus as having said: “Iit is horrible to live without hope. Life is beautiful, in its hardship, only because it receives such warmth from the Divine Sun. The aim of life is that Sun . The days of man may be dismal, wet with tears and smeared with blood. But the Sun will rise again. Then there will be no more grief, no separations, no harshness, no hatred, no misery or solitude in an enveloping fog. Instead there will be brightness and singing, serenity and peace, there will be God.”
Also enlightening was what Our Lord Jesus also told Michelini about suffering, explaining its nature and value. Our Lord said:
“Our human actions are never only personal; their consequences, whether good or evil, are not only personal, but they have repercussions in a positive or negative way, in the entire Mystical Body, of which each one is a member.
“For this reason, the Christian is never more a Christian than when he suffers, whether he is guilty or innocent, whether on a large or small scale, because his suffering, in the same way as Christ's, is converted into the patrimony of everyone, although always conserving its personal worth.
“The Christian with his suffering approaches Christ more and more; he approaches closer and concurs, in order to complete the mystery of Redemption in the Church. And the Church, just as it came forth from the side of Christ, triumphs in sorrow, in humiliation and in persecution.
“Not to want to suffer is a lack of love for God; it is a lack of justice and of love for one's neighbor and for the brethren most in need of Divine Mercy. Social injustices are deplored, and justly so, but spiritual injustices are never deplored, that are perpetrated with harm for so many souls that are lost, because they have rejected suffering with him for their salvation. It is a terrible lack of Christian sensibility, that reveals the tremendous crisis of faith, and with faith in crisis, hope and charity are also brought into crisis.
“Not to want to suffer manifests a lack of justice and of charity toward God and toward the brethren, and the lack of these two virtues that form the support of the entire Christian life. Those who are rebellious to suffering run the risk of eliminating themselves from the Mystical Body; they run the danger of making themselves arid, like dry and useless branches, and even more harmful branches, good only to be burned in the fire.
“There is lacking in Christians the vision of the great value of eternal goods, for which
they were created and redeemed.”
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