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1 posted on 05/18/2011 1:40:13 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: WKB

Ping.


2 posted on 05/18/2011 1:40:48 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Eccl 10:19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.)
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To: Graybeard58

I’m packed and ready. Just in case.
(Better change your underwear on the 21st, even if it’s not in your schedule.)


3 posted on 05/18/2011 1:42:31 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Graybeard58

No one but God the Father knows for sure.


4 posted on 05/18/2011 1:42:55 PM PDT by exnavy (May the Lord bless and keep our troops.)
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To: Graybeard58

Man, I have a vollunteer luncheon planned for Saturday. I hope it comes in the afternoon when I am finished eating and at home. I would hate to be taken away in the middle of my fried catfish dinner.s/ All kidding aside, Jesus said even HE didn’t know the day or the hour - only the Father. The reason no one will know is that God doesn’t want people waiting to the last minute to accept Christ and live a dedicated Christian life.


5 posted on 05/18/2011 1:58:37 PM PDT by Bitsy (!)
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To: Graybeard58
I am currently reading this book. A much different story than Camping's

BTW, this book was written in 1881; you wouldn't believe how accurate it is!

The End of the Present World
 
Reading this book was one of the greatest graces of my life!"
— St. Thérèse of Lisieux

In the late nineteenth century, Father Charles Arminjon, a priest from the mountains of southeastern France, assembled his flock in the town cathedral to preach a series of conferences to help them turn their thoughts away from this life’s mean material affairs—and toward the next life’s glorious spiritual reward. His wise and uncompromising words deepened in them the spirit of recollection that all Christians must have: the abiding conviction that heavenly aims, not temporal enthusiasms, must guide everything we think, say, and do.

When Father Arminjon’s conferences were later published in a book, many others were able to reap the same benefit—including fourteen-year-old Thérèse Martin, then on the cusp of entering the Carmelite convent in Lisieux. Reading it, she says, “plunged my soul into a happiness not of this earth.” Young Thérèse, filled with a sense of “what God reserves for those who love him, and seeing that the eternal rewards had no proportion to the light sacrifices of life,” copied out numerous passages and memorized them, “repeating unceasingly the words of love burning in my heart.”

Now the very book that so inspired the Little Flower is available for the first time in English.

Let the pages of The End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life fill you with the same burning words of love, with the same ardent desire to know God above all created things, that St. Thérèse gained from them. Let them also enrich your understanding of certain teachings of the Faith that can often seem so mysterious, even frightening:

  • The signs that will precede the world’s end
  • The coming of the Antichrist, and how to recognize him
  • The Judgment and where it may send us: heaven, hell, and purgatory
  • Biblical end-times prophecy: how to read it and not be deceived

    Jesus commands us to be ever-watchful for his return, and ever-mindful that we have no lasting city on earth. The End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life is an invaluable aid to inculcating in your spirit that heavenly orientation, without which true human happiness cannot be found—in this world or the next.


6 posted on 05/18/2011 2:00:18 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Graybeard58

I predict it won’t be the last, either.


8 posted on 05/18/2011 2:13:41 PM PDT by Skepolitic
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To: Graybeard58

I thought Jehovah’s witnesses cornered the market on predictions?!
They have the expertise, experience, and the credibility, me thinks.


9 posted on 05/18/2011 2:18:18 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Graybeard58; a fool in paradise; JoeProBono; Daffynition; Slings and Arrows
There too much cynicism on these pages, even if that is a sign of the times.

When it comes to such matters as the end of the world, who do you trust:

The politicians, who promise to solve all our problems?
The celebrities, who seem to know everything?
The Feds itching to regulate every aspect of our lives?
The scientists unable to find a cure for the common cold?
Your neighbour who forgets to return the tools he's borrowed?
The lying media? HA!

I trust our spiritual leaders like Dr Camping.

Goodbye Cruel World (on May 21, 2011.)

11 posted on 05/18/2011 3:01:01 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Graybeard58

“....now predicting Judgment Day on May 21, 2011....”

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Judgment day is every day.


12 posted on 05/18/2011 3:09:53 PM PDT by 353FMG (The M1911 is mightier than the sword.)
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To: Graybeard58

Could be right.


13 posted on 05/18/2011 3:15:01 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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