For centuries, one particular day has signified repentance for God’s people. It had deep meaning for Jonah, Moses and Jesus Christ.
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I'm still reading through this but thought other Catholics and maybe non-Catholics would be interested. Apparently, the Virgin Mary told a young girl about the Church being in eclipse. Anne Catherine Emmerich who lived in a previous era said that we should "pray for the demise" of the dark church!
It's pretty dark with a heretic "at the helm." Myself, I say the Chair of St Peter is empty.
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It is no secret that since the election of Pope Francis in 2013, there has been a concerted effort underway to dissolve marriage and dignify cohabitation, and to strengthen this infidelity by allowing divorced people living in adultery to receive Communion.
(Amoris Laetita) Cardinal Carlo Caffara told Sr. Lucy of Fatima that "the final battle between the Lord and the reign of Satan will be about marriage and the family"
(Voce di Padre Pio, March 2008), and
Lucy's words are certainly being fulfilled in our time.
Rome indeed has "become the seat of Antichrist," referencing the diabolical disorientation that now deludes the Vatican hierarchy. The Church in our time has truly lapsed into spiritual darkness--misguiding... the modern world, as prophesied by Our Lady at La Salette: "The Church will be in eclipse, the world will be in dismay."
The Church has been under assault, siege, experienced serious demise many time in its long history as has Judaism with its much longer history. That long history is a repeated theme of Creation, Sin, Judgment, Redemption found in the Old Testament of the Bible. Multiple times God began again with a remnant of the Jews and the Jewish faith is still with us.
And also that has been the case with the Church.
Jewish orthodoxy (the law) sustained their remnants making it possible to begin again with renewed faith and confidence despite the corruption and self serving evils of its leadership from time to time.
It has been the same with Catholic orthodoxy that, in spite of corrupt self serving popes and other clergy, provided a stability and foundation that kept the Church alive, however barely, in the darkest times.
At times the Light of the Church flickered dimly and was in danger of being extinguished, but a remnant of believers inevitably created revival of the faith and the Church became the foundation of cultures and societies again. It now has far more advocates than any other religion in the world.
IMO, the Church again has fallen upon hard times. Many, perhaps most, mainline denominations, including the largest which is the Roman Catholics, have succumbed, at least in part, to the 'woke' Marxist doctrines pushed by the radical left. God is pushed aside and is replaced by these social doctrines that do more to corrupt and weaken communities and societies than what benefit can be found in them. And the Light of the Church flickers more dimly and is in danger of being snuffed out.
And I think again revival is coming. And it will again pull the people back to God instead of worshipping manmade doctrines. And it will right much that is wrong and give us all hope again.
Maybe in 2023? Who knows?