Posted on 06/03/2010 8:22:33 AM PDT by Brian Kopp DPM
The best way for any of us to be prepared is not by hording food, water and beeswax candles and holy water, but by frequent confession, receiving the Holy Eucharist, prayer, Eucharistic adoration. This is the best preparation any of us could ever have. And this is what Holy Mother Church teaches each of us. Lets look to the Church for the answer, not things that can distract us.
I agree with you one hundered percent. You will not be able to go out during these three days of darkness so having extra water on hand as well as the blessed candles is important. One can live without food for three days.
It was written in 1907.
The Wiki page has a link to the story at Project Gutenberg.
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Here are some Prophecies from Anne Catherine Emmerich....
“I saw the Pope praying. surrounded by false friends who often did the very opposite to what he had ordered, and I saw a little black fellow laboring actively against the Church. Whilst it was thus being pulled down on one side, it was rebuilt on the other, but not very zealously.” (Vol 1 p. 565)
I see the little black man in his own country committing many thefts and falsifying things generally. Religion is there so skillfully undermined and stifled -Anne Catherine Emmerich
Yes, some time ago. A laywoman, young, did the blessing with crossed candles.
As to candles, I stashed some somewhere but now can't remember which ones are blessed and which aren't. Hmmmm. I've read Bl. Anna Taigi (sp?) and remember she said only beeswax candles will burn.
Well, it's biblical except for the candles, I don't think they had them then but I'm not sure; oil lamps (surely they existed in some cultures?), but I'm not sure I want to live to that time to experience it; could be soon as I hardly know anybody not technically in some state of sin or another according to church teaching, including moi.
I think of the oddest things sometimes. Today I was wondering how they baked the loaves in biblical times and guessed that they used something like dough starter for leaven. Then I thought maybe they were like pita bread, but they are described as having been baked in ovens, probably smallish and more portable than what we think of ovens. So much I don't know.
Interesting — and a little scary.
darkness for three days? sounds like when MtPinatubo went...between the dust and the typhoon, it was a mess...
But remember, prophecies are often sent to warn about local problems but later people think they mean the end of the world.
The prophecies before Diocletian’s persecution were seen as the end of the world...what they meant was that the Christians would be in trouble...but then God gave European Christians a breathing time to recover before the chastisement of the fall of Rome, the invasions, and the Justinian plague caused havoc and depopulation.
Ditto the prophecies of the high middle ages...preceded the black death.
John Paul II and Benedict see the end of the age, with a dechristianization of Europe and maybe the US, so the church will be marginalized in the NWO and maybe persecuted. They do not see the “end of the world”.
And there are prophecies of an “era of peace” that will come after troubles...some think we are living in that era now...
my favorite prophecy was that the little folks who continue to pray will overcome the NWO, and that the revival will start in the Philippines. When I read it, I thought the seer was nuts, but now, 30 years later, I realize that millions of Catholic Christian Pinoys work all over the world, including over a million in the Muslim Middle East...hmm...that wasn’t true when the seer made her prediction.
So “do not be afraid”...
When is the feast of St. Blaise?
Where does one obtain the blessed candles?
Hear hear, my friend! Remember, folks, that this is primarily based on private revelation, which isn't binding like public revelation. Worry about the state of your soul - and not whether you have enough blessed candles on hand!
Seriously, wouldn't the Church have offered some official guidance on this matter if it were absolutely true?
Nice to see you here!!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2526934/posts?page=25#25
I missed this post the first time it was posted. Thanks.
At the Candlemas on February 2! Go to Mass — hopefully you will have some there. If not check your local Catholic store.
St. Blaise — February 3rd.
Thanks sweetie.
I wanted to ping this thread because it has been on my mind lately... I hope that doesn’t mean anything. Shiver!
Time to bump this thread again.
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