@wigglespork@BreeSolstad@BritCathAes Also it has to be said that a healthy discussion about apparitions that are supposedly taking place is a good thing. If the apparitions of Lourdes where happening right now even if not approved wouldn’t you want to go and be present in the moment?
@wigglespork@BreeSolstad@BritCathAes However what Bree said was quite vague.
From my personal experience of going to Medjugore yearly from a very young age it is a very special place with many pilgrims whose lives and faith have been changed for the better.
@wigglespork@BreeSolstad@BritCathAes Sorry I am unfamiliar with a message coming from an apparition of Our Lady of Medjugore that strays from other accepted apparitions or official church teaching. Could you elaborate?
@BreeSolstad@BritCathAes Usually being the most important word. The apparitions of Our Lady of Laus lasted around 50/60 years I believe and similarly her message was of Peace, conversion and Confession.
@BreeSolstad@BritCathAes If the devil is at hand in Medugorje he is driving the faithful towards Christ and his church and that doesn’t really sound like him does it.
@BreeSolstad@BritCathAes The message of Our Lady of Medugorje has continuously been for Catholics to go to confession regularly, to pray the rosary, to spend time before the blessed sacrament and to pray for world peace.
The Diocese of Wichita is doing something right.
They have a 195% priest replacement rate (meaning the diocese has nearly double the number of seminarians needed to replace retiring or deceased priests).
The vast majority of seminarians come from homeschool or parochial schools. The diocesan Catholic schools are authentically Catholic.
Adoration chapels across the entire diocese. Praying for vocations is part of every parish’s culture.
Weekly Mass attendance is through the roof. Liturgies are reverent and embrace tradition.
If I’m a Catholic bishop, I’m looking at this diocese and taking notes. The blueprint for Catholic renewal in the USA is in Kansas.
Popes don’t do exorcisms.
At least, that’s what most people think.
But St. John Paul II performed three—inside the Vatican itself.
Each is a rare glimpse into a Pope’s direct fight against evil.
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@RobbieKnox looking forward to the show tomorrow managed to get front row seats however my wife is coming along and probably won’t get most of the jokes so don’t get put off by the pregnant lady at the end of the front row but if you do get a laugh out of her congrats 🎉