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Fatima and the possible meaning of the miracle of the Sun
Our lady told the children that the World War 1 would end but that there would be another and more terrible one if people did not change, and of course people did not change they only got worse so God allowed the World War 2. But our lady did not say there would be a World War 3, but she did promise that there would be a great miracle on the 13th of October 1917. 70,000 people turned up to see if there would be a miracle and as we know there was the great miracle of the Sun which the 70,000 people saw (See this page on Fatima). Perhaps the great Miracle of the Sun which the 70,000 people saw was a prophecy of a future World Wide Warning to mankind from God? In the Bible the number 7 symbolises completeness (The Bible tells us God completed Creation and His Rest in 7 days and Jesus' miracle of the 7 loaves for the 4,000 showed that His "Bread" was for everyone on the 4 directions (North, South etc) of the whole world) 70,000 people might symbolise all mankind, the people had been walking around in mud which might symbolise mankind stuck in our sins, the Sun plumetting towards earth (3 times) perhaps shows that one day the Trinity is going to enlighten all mankind. This enlightenment would be a purification which perhaps was symbolised by the people and the ground being miraculously dried up during the miracle. Unfortunately if this does actually happen some people will not repent. Our freewill can throw us into hell. God says in the Bible that He " will pour out His Spirit on all mankind and that young men will have visions and old men will dream dreams". In the 3rd Secret of Fatima the children saw "at the left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendour that Our Lady radiated towards him from her right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice: 'Penance, Penance, Penance!'. And we saw in an immense light that is God: "something similar to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it a Bishop dressed in white, we had the impression that it was the Holy father". So hopefully one day God will flood the earth with the "immense Light" of the Holy Spirit and all of us will see the state of our souls as if in "a mirror" given to us by God. Our Lady said at Fatima that "In the end my Heart will triumph". This tremendous gift for mankind if it happens will be obtained through her intercession with her Divine Son Jesus and it will crush the head of satan in the world.
Whats in a name? KAROL or Karl!
Two men who had a very big effect on the modern world both had the same name! Karl Marx and Karol Wojtyła, the first one wrote about Communism and the second one who became Pope John Paull II helped to bring about its downfall. Communism would be lovely if it was voluntary and if had belief and love of God and neighbour as the motive for the equality of all people. Unfortunately it is just dictatorship.
James Bond
What would James Bond say to Jesus when he dies? Maybe something like "Hello, I don't think we have met before, my name is Bond, James Bond" and Jesus might say "Unfortunately James we met hundreds of times during your life but you never stopped to help me or even to just say hello or even recognise me as a person, you were too busy saving the world you forgot to save yourself! You see James, my name was Bond, Vagabond!"
Ruthless or Rootless!
Don't be Ruthless to the Rootless! Stop and say hello to them, the worst thing to do is just to ignore them, ask them their name and what their problems are, refer them to some available help. Remember Jesus will come at the end of time to judge us on how we treated Him in them! See the Gospel of Matthew chapter 25 "When I was hungry you gave Me food, when I was naked you clothed Me" but we could add "When I was lonely you stopped to talk to Me!"
Get your Wings!
I would rather be FEATHERED like the ANGELS in HEAVEN
than fettered like the demons in hell.
Atheism
If God did not exist then parents should never allow their children to read fairytales or believe in Santa Claus or to have any contact with supernatural stories or beliefs! That would only increase their hope when they get older for immortality or eternal LIFE and if God did not exist that would be a terrible lie. About six or seven years ago a friend of ours woke up in the middle of the night with a terribly depressing feeling, he never suffered from depression before or after that night but his sense of bleakness was so desperate that he BEGGED God to let him go back to sleep. It was as if it was a bleak horrible winter all around the world, nothing and no one in the universe meant anything or had any value. Everything was garbage. Nobody and no money would have rid him of the horrible feelings he was feeling, he felt as if he was the only person on the planet or in existence and it was a bleak and lonely feeling. He does not think he would have been able to live with the bleak feeling he was enduring. It was probably something like being in hell. Thank God he fell asleep again and has never had that experience since and never wants to have it again! He thinks that what he experienced was something like what reality would have been like if God did not really exist.
2 Types of Atheists (quote from Bishop Fulton Sheen) and the reason why people believe in God
There are two types of Atheist! There are atheists of the "Intellect" and atheists of the "Will", atheists of the Intellect are people who genuinely find it hard to believe that God exists but atheists of the Will are people who reject God, they want to believe that God does not exist, they often hate God and usually promote their atheism. Common sense tells us that everyone should want to believe in God because that would mean the chance of immorTality but many reject this immorTality for the sake of immorality! That T could remind us of the Cross of Jesus because on the Cross He paid the price for the immorality of all mankind and bought for us immorTality! Most of the people in the world believe in God, whether they are Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Seikh, Budhist? etc so why do we believe? Are we all deluding ourselves? That is what some atheists claim! The reason that we all believe in God is because we have had an experience of God! Yes, God has proven Himself to us in some way or another, maybe God has answered our prayers or we have experienced His presence in our lives. Most of us are in a relationship with God so we don't need any more proof of His existence! now we are on the long journey of getting to know God. We cannot prove that God exists to an atheist but neither can anyone disprove our experience of God.
Jesus as High Priest of Israel
If Jesus had been accepted by the Jewish leaders and made High Priest of the Jewish Nation what would have happened? Well, He would have been delighted! He would have taught the Jewish leaders all about the New Sacrifice and New Covenant and the Church. He probably would have instituted the Last Supper and told all His followers that the next day He was going to suffer death in some other way but that He would rise on the Third Day and they would see Him again. He could have allowed Himself to suffer by the Romans or perhaps by Barabbas or a wild animal or He could even have given the devils power to attack Him.
Bible Humour!
Is there humour in the Bible? I think there is humour in the Old and New Testaments. When Moses came down from the mountain after he received the 10 commandments and the Jews had made a Molten Calf to worship, God seems to disown His people when He says to Moses "Go down now for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have apostasised" but Moses tries to pacify God and says to Him "But why should your anger blaze at Your people whom You brought out of Eygpt" ! God disowns them and Moses tries to get Him to take them back. It is a sort of "They are not mine they are yours" "No no they are not mine they are Yours" ( See Exodus 32: 7 and 11 !). "Your people" "no! they are your people" "You brought them out!" "No No! You did!" Of course the idolatry of the people was no joke but perhaps God did try to soften His great anger with humour. In the New Testament there is the incident of Jesus walking on the water and His disciples are terrified in the boat. St Mark (6 : 48 ) tells us that Jesus made as if to walk on by them! It is funny to try and imagine Jesus giving them a big wave as He passed by them saying something like "See you all at My Mother's house later!" Jesus must have had great fun with His disciples as He could see their amazement and bewilderment at the things He did and said. It is easy to imagine that Peter and the rest had some perplexing private discussions behind His back about Him! "Who is this guy! Did He just walk across the lake? Are we all mad! or Peter saying "Did i just walk on the water as well! God i could have drowned! Is He posessed or are we posessed! Somebody please hit me to make sure i am not imagining all this! Am i losing it? Is my name Peter? etc etc!
Mary and her other children!
Jesus was a Sinless Virgin all His life and Mary His mother was too. Mary had the Creator of the Universe in her womb for nine months and then He was a member of her family for 33 years! She fed Him, listened to Him, talked to Him, contemplated Him, clothed Him, prayed with Him and to Him, rejoiced with Him and suffered with Him. She heard the Angel Gabriel tell her that "He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His ancestor David, He will rule over the House of Jacob for ever and of His reign there will be no end" So Mary was told that her Son is a Divine Eternal Person who is Son of the Most High God! Mary's whole life and thought from then must have been one of service to her Divine Son, she must have thought about Him every moment of her life after that and wanted to bring everyone to Him. No doubt Mary would have liked to have other children but only so that she could bring them to Him and then how would they be able to accept and keep the most incredible and greatest secret in the universe! their older brother was actually their God! And what if they sinned against Him or sinned at all? How would they be able to forgive themselves? She would have had to tell them who He was, their brother was their Creator God! So perhaps that is why God did not want her to have other children but at the foot of the Cross Mary got all the children she yearned for when Jesus gave all the children and people of the world to her as He told St John " Son, behold your Mother, Woman behold your son" (See St John's Gospel 19: 25 to 27)
TIME
GOD gives Mankind 24 hours a day 7 days a week 52 weeks a year and after that then He gives us ETERNITY but yet Mankind has no time for God
God gives us Eternal Time but we have no time for God
God's Existence
If God did not exist then Man would be the most unfortunate creature on the planet because he would be the only ANIMAL (If man has no soul he is just an intelligent animal) who could dream of eternal life but yet know he would never have it, the other "animals" because of their small inteligence don't know what they are missing!
If God did not exist then Man has evolved too much!
New Commandment
Jesus gave us a NEW COMMANDMENT : "LOVE YOUR ENEMIES"
Universe
God created the Universe so long ago in order to help us to understand how OLD He is!
He created the Universe so Big in order to help us to understand how BIG He IS!
Sacred Heart of Jesus
When you love someone and they do not want to believe that you love them it causes you a lot of Pain in your heart
it is the same with Jesus, his Heart burns with infinite Love for each of us and so many reject His love or do not believe He
loves us and so His Heart is pierced with a painful crown of thorns.
Inventor and inventions
How can an invention be so foolish that it rejects it's Inventor!
People who deny that God exists are like that.
"Head on the block" and Great Mercy
It is a great act of Mercy when God allows your worst enemy to fall into your power (As if they put their head on the execution block and you can CHOP!) but you refuse to take vengeance, "Vengeance is Mine" said God in (Deuteronomy 32:35) so let God deal with your enemies but you can pray and hope that they will repent themselves so that God will not have to punish them. A great example of this is when David was being persecuted and on the run from King Saul and one day God put a deep sleep on Saul's camp which allowed David and some of his men to enter Saul's tent as he was asleep and rob his spear and leave safely. One of David's men had urged David to kill Saul because he said God had put him in his power but David being a man of Mercy realised that God put Saul in his power for David to have Mercy on him as God had Mercy on David every day of his life. God has mercy on each of us everyday by not punishing us for our sins and for forgiving us when we repent of our sins! so we should always be merciful to others. In a sense God has all the demons that exist in His power or on His "block" and He could at any time "CHOP" them out of existence! That is probably why satan and all the demons have a dreadful fear of God.
Safer to believe in God or not?
A friend named Debbie from Boston told us that her father always told her when we die that it is safer to have believed in God and so to have been a good person than not to have believed in God and been a bad person only to realise too late that God does really exist!
Pennies from heaven!
Most people will pick up a lost coin from the ground but at every moment of our lives we can simply pick up priceless graces from Heaven for ourselves or others by simply praying! we can pick up and save souls that were destined to be lost by simply praying.
Endeavour and Persevere
"Endeavour, for ever and ever and ever endeavour!"
"It is better to be Persevering than to be a severe person!
Food poison and Fire hazards
We are all careful not to get food poison and we take precautions to prevent fires
but we are not so careful about the spiritual food poisons of the Seven deadly sins of Pride, Envy, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Greed and Sloth.
Our hearts can be on Fire with hatred or with Love and we can receive all of these things from our friends! We should be careful of the type of friends we have and our children have because friends can have a great good or bad invisible influence on us.
Human evil necessary?
Human evil is never necessary, God did not need the Pharisees or chief priests to kill Jesus, Jesus could have suffered from some wild animal or some disease or even have allowed some demons to attack Him and also only one drop of His blood was necessary to save ALL mankind!
"Bright Eyes" song (Art Garfunkel) and Jesus lying dead in the arms of Mary at the foot of the Cross
"Bright eyes, burning like fire
Bright eyes, how can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly,
Suddenly burn so pale?
Bright eyes
Fortune tellers and mediums
A friend went to a Fortune teller and she was told some truth and some lies
She was told that she would marry someone with a different name than her boyfriend and the breakup of the two of them afterwards nearly ended in suicide so who said they are harmless?
"Father Christmas"
CHRISTMAS DAY is approaching but
please remember that Our Heavenly Father is the real FATHER CHRISTMAS and the evergreen Christmas Tree with the Presents underneath is a symbol of the TREE of Jesus' CROSS which gives us the Incredible PRESENT of ETERNAL LIFE. The green Christmas wreath or "Bough of Holly" symbolises our hope for the unfading wreath of Eternal Life!
Millions of houses will have Christmas Trees this year but how many people actually realise what the evergreen Christmas Tree means? The Evergreen Christmas Tree represents the Tree of Life! The Cross that Jesus died on is the Tree of Life for us because on the Cross Jesus saved us and won Eternal Life for us. Why not put a Crucifix on your tree this year to remind yourself and your kids that Christmas is all about Jesus and God our Heavenly Father Christmas! Santa Claus is nothing compared to our Heavenly Father Christmas! All the presents under the Christmas Tree are nothing compared to the Present of Eternal Life in our Heavenly Winter Wonderland which Jesus bought for us on the Tree of the Cross on Good Friday! Santa Claus is nothing compared to the Reality of God!
Goliath
The Chaplet of Divine Mercy is like David's five stone sling but which he with one stone used to slay Goliath but which we can use to slow down the Goliath of God's terrible Justice for the world!
"God's Presence"
If God decided to leave Heaven and to forever live in hell then Heaven would become hell and hell would become Heaven!
"The Good Samaritan and Peer pressure" (See the Gospel of Luke (10:25–37)
We could pretend that the Good Samaritan was actually a bad Samaritan who was originally a member of the same group of brigands who beat up the Jew but he was delayed that day and when he found the Jew his friends had just badly beaten up he had a change of heart and decided change his life. He left the injured Jew in the Inn and went off to catch up with his former friends to challenge them to change their lives also. It is not easy to disagree with our peers and those we allow to bully us. Bullies never want anyone to disagree with them but Christians have to be strong but also humble. We have to be careful not to allow our "friends" to bully us into bad behaviour. Hitler bullied a whole nation into worshipping him and denying the truth.
Death
Death is the meaning of life
But ETERNAL LIFE is the meaning of death
Death Row
Some people think Planet Earth is "Death Row" for all Mankind
and that God is a big executioner
but instead the Earth should be our "Waiting Room" for Eternal BLISS!
and God is our Heavenly "Father Christmas" !
"JESUS I TRUST IN YOU"
Why "TRUST"?
Perhaps it is because most people do not even "like" the people that they do not "Trust"
so how can they "Love" God if they do not yet even "Like" Him
Alot of people do not TRUST God, especially when tragedies
or problems enter their lives, we fear and do not Trust God because He holds our future in His hands
Trust is a great friendship builder.
Trust always in the Goodness of God.
Most Embarassing day and Responsibility
The Day we die might be the Most embarassing day of our lives
because we might see Jesus face to Face and see all His Love and suffering for us on Calvary
He might show us a multitude of lost souls
for who He had given us the graces necessary to save them
but we failed because of our sinful nature. We will be glad to only have to go to Purgatory!
St Francis of Assisi Prayer for ourselves
LORD, Make me an instrument of Your Peace
Where there is hatred in my heart, Please Sow LOVE
Where there is injury in my heart, Please Sow pardon
Where there is doubt in my heart, Please Sow Faith
Where there is despair in my heart, Please Sow Hope
Where there is darkness in my heart, Please Sow LIGHT
Where there is sadness in my heart, Please Sow JOY
Oh Divine Master
Grant that I may never seek
to be consoled as to Console
to be understood as to understand
to be loved as to Love
Because
It is in Giving that we receive
It is in Pardoning that we are PARDONED
and it is in dying that we are Born to ETERNAL LIFE!
"Actions"
"Actions speak louder than words"
All our actions should speak words of Love and never of hatred
All our actions, even small actions should be words of Love to God
"Too Clever"
Hey! Don't let your Great Intelligence prevent you believing in GOD!
"Funny thing"
Don't Take Life too Seriously!
because One Serious Day You will be Taken from life!
Love God and your neighbour (Relationships) is one of the most important things in Life
2 Verbs
To BE and To DO!
It is not what we Do for God that is important
But what we ARE is what is important to Him
We ARE Human BEINGS before
we can become Human Doings!
Yes, we must DO work
but first we must BE good people.
"Good works" by a bad person is Evil work
"poor or bad work" by a good person can be Good work
Our heart is the Tree and our actions are the fruit
Good trees good fruit
bad trees never good fruit
"Do NOT TAKE and do NOT EAT" becomes "TAKE and EAT"
Before the Fall Adam was told by God not to EAT His fruit on the Tree
and later after God had created Eve Adam must have told her not to Eat the fruit from the Tree.
But in the redemption God asked Jesus the NEW ADAM to GIVE God's DIVINE FRUIT (Himself the SON of GOD) to be EATEN.
Jesus the NEW ADAM then asked the Church which is the NEW EVE to "TAKE and EAT" God's DIVINE FRUIT which is HIMSELF present in the Blessed Sacrament
"POWER"
We all want to sit at the "Right Hand of Power"
but unfortunately it is worldy power we want, Nobody wants to sit on the right hand of Jesus in this life which means being Powerless.
By wanting power we are worshipping satan because all the kingdoms (Big and tiny office ones!) of the world are his. " Worship me and i will give you all these kingdoms" but if we want to be kings we are worshipping satan already.
"You cannot make a Silk Purse
from a Pig's Ear!!!"
But God can! and God does make great Saints out of great sinners
It GLORIFIES HIS MERCY when He makes a great person out of a nobody
Some of the greatest Saints were the greatest sinners
and some of them were absolute nobodys like King David
who from being a shepherd boy became the great King of Israel
or Saint Paul who was once Saul the blind persecutor
or some of the Apostles who were fishermen
or Mary Magdalen from whom Jesus cast out 7 demons
It seems God loves to "Cast the mighty from their thrones and Raise the lowly"
as Mary said in her Magnificat (Luke 1; 52).
It is a fairytale idea like "Cinderella", "The Ugly Duckling!"
or even Rudolph the red Nosed Reindeer! but God is a Real Fairytale Being
and one Day the story of Humankind will end with
"And they all lived HAPPY FOREVER AFTER in HEAVEN"
"Poor God"
Long before Creation God must have looked forward to the time
when He would make creatures (Angels and Humans) who would be free to Love Him or reject Him
He probably did not think that even one of them would reject Him
How disappointed He must be with us, if we deny or reject God we are like an apple that cuts itself off from the Tree that is holding it up
How foolish it is to chose some short earthly pleasure (Money, Sex, Power, etc) instead of Eternal BLISS in HEAVEN
Weight Problems!
If we are not "Pulling our Weight"
or if we are "Pushing our Weight around"
we
have bigger problems than if we are "Overweight" or "Underweight"!
Lazy people start pushing their weight around when they are tired of pulling their weight!
"So Busy!"
"Lord! I Have so many things to do today!"
"Child, do you want Me to give you this day so that you can try to do them?"
"Ehhhhhh....
Divine Mercy
Marian website
Fatima Portugal
Knock Shrine Ireland
"Direction for our times" messages to "Anne" a lay apostle
Opus Sanctorum Angelorum (The work of the Holy Angels)
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In the Arms of Mary
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We should listen to the songs that are in our heart and mind
because they can be inspired by the Holy Spirit or by bad spirits.
God is always trying to help us and He often puts a tune in our head for a reason.
The Beatles "LET IT BE" (The words the Virgin Mary replied to Gabriel (Fr Peyton the Rosary priest ) )
John Lennon "WOMAN" (The Virgin Mary who is the New Eve, John Lennon died on the 8th December which is the Feast day of Mary's Immaculate Conception!)
ELO (the Electric Light Orchestra) "It's a LIVING THING" !anti abortion?
ELO "I'M ALIVE" ( I exist! the Mercy of God)
ELO "MAGIC" ( God is real Magic )
QUEEN " SAVE ME"
QUEEN "FLASH" ( Jesus is the real Saviour of the Universe )
BRIAN ADAMS "EVERYTHING I DO" for Jesus through Mary
BONEY M "OH MY LORD" the chorus from "Mary's Boy Child" many profound words!
MUSIC may speak words from HEAVEN or from hell or both
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