@FaithWithMase So my saying âHailâ to the Mother of God is as regal as my addressing the Emperor of Rome? Not only that, but an archangel addressed her as such. No wonder sheâs the Queen of Angels.
Good to know.
@JoshuaTCharles Jesus gave us the parable of the persistent friend and I always think we here on earth, are the traveler, sometimes needing to send our friends and Our Lady to knock for bread on our behalf, without ceasing. The master does get up and at midnight! They knock for us! â€ïžđ„
I have always, and will always, reject and spurn the identification of the United States of America as the âcity on a hill.â
NEVER.
The City on a Hill is the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ, into whom every son of Adam and daughter of Eve is invited to become a Son and Daughter of God.
This is the one City against which the gates of Hell will never prevail. This is the one City that offers humanity the hope of eternal life.
I love my country, and always will.
But none of us should EVER allow Godâs promise to His people to be co-opted by a worldly entity that never received such promises, and is so often tempted by its own Messianic delusions.
@melodymlyons Gosh I agree with you here, sometimes I wonder if these particular accounts do this because they know itâs kind of a half truth and theyâll get click bait and retweets and stir the pot for whatever their agenda is. Come Holy SpiritâŠcome and convict us! đ„
@catholicpat Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again. That is the mystery of faith alllll concentrated into a single host. â€ïžđ„ a great mystery and gift
@ElijahSeraphim Oh I love this very much â€ïž the Good Shepherd has called you and your wife, each by name, to the Feast. All for you!!! He wants to give you so many gifts. He invites and you felt a nudge and followed it. I love it! What an adventure youâre onâŠGod bless! đâ€ïž
@detransaqua You are already spreading so much light to the world, but this new life, this baby boy, he is just what our world needs. I will be praying for you Prisha.
@MRibnek đŹ bc the truth is faith is not transactional⊠itâs a great GIFT. Itâs why I pray & pray about the spreading of the method of Catechesis of the Good Shepherd. We are in the Word &go straight to the â€ïž of the faith in the parables Christ gave to us. All can be done in homes too.
On the revelations on the Divine Will from Jesus to the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta (the promotion of which became the life mission of her spiritual director, St. Hannibal di Francia): there has not been a single mystic, seer, or private revelation in the entire history of the Church that has seen anywhere close to the verifications of authenticity Luisa has, only to later be proven a fraud. Luisa is authentic. This is a fact. Her messages truly are from Jesus Christ. Having studied every single intricacy of this (as well as every argument against her) for over a decade, I can assure you of what I say here with absolute certainty.
But Jesus' words to Luisa are not merely authentic; they are direly and urgently needed by the Church & the world. Therefore, stay away from any commentator who takes it upon himself to attack these messages (unless and until he retracts). When one condemns so great and important a good as this, his public messageâthe mark he leaves upon the Church and the worldâquickly becomes defined by that choice.
Those Catholics who, in the early stages of the great works of God, chose to oppose them, doubtless did plenty of other objectively good public things in the Faith. Yet no one remembers them for that. The "good Catholic" opponents of the Rosary, the Divine Mercy devotion, the Sacred Heart devotion, Our Lady of Fatima, the many saints persecuted by "good Catholics" (e.g., Padre Pio, Joan of Arc, Mary MacKillop, etc. etc.), Our Lady of Lourdes, and on the list goes (all of these works of God were zealously opposed and attacked by many "good Catholics" in their early days), were ultimately and above all only stumbling blocks to the accomplishment of God's Will in the world. They fought against God Himself. Their good writings and other efforts do not hold a candle to the great darkness they freely chose to define their legacy by.
"It hurts you to kick against the goad." (Acts 9:5)
I assure you it will be the same with today's "good Catholic" opponents of the Divine Will (unless they change their tune.) These revelations are not going away. They may yet again be persecuted by some wolf in a red hat in the Vatican, but they will triumph over that in time as well. And we will soon have an angelic Pontiff who rescues the Church from the chaos now enfolding it, and who above all dedicates his Pontificate to proclaiming the Divine Will, as revealed by Jesus to Luisa (not unlike JPII deemed his own pontificate above all a mission of proclaiming the Divine Mercy as revealed by Jesus to Faustina). Mark. My. Words.
I would shed every drop of my blood without a moment's hesitation for my belief in Jesus Christ, my belief in all the Catholic Church teaches, for my belief that 2+2=4, and, yes, for my belief in Jesus' words to Faustina and Luisa. (Though for different motivations in each case, of course; only the Deposit of Faith--which no private revelation adds to--is the proper object of Supernatural Faith.) Would the opponents of these mystics do the same for their own beliefs against them?
I am turning off comments here simply because I have already fully addressed & refuted all of the attacks made against Luisa. (And I really don't have time for endless debates on points I've already addressed elsewhere). Please see, for example:
âThe appendices of my 2019 book, The Crown of Sanctity. Free on my website (https://t.co/ESbZm69e9K) as a PDF. https://t.co/maTcCYTd4R
âOr, the appendices of my 2021 book, Thy Will Be Done, wherein I refute the criticisms of Luisa more succinctly:Â https://t.co/qs4zWSz7cq
âA website I made a while back, https://t.co/dAufXAKy3L
âMy talk at the National Shrine of Divine Mercy last month: https://t.co/V5Vdh1TatA
âMy video with Fr. Mark Goring on Luisa:Â https://t.co/ShGgkufelD
âAnother video I made on Luisa here:Â https://t.co/KuuDn0kdI5
âYes, there are plenty of bogus Divine Will promoters out there saying outlandish and heretical things which they erroneously claim are based on the Divine Will revelations. But they are contradicting what Jesus actually said to Luisa, as I explain here:Â https://t.co/md86KGeyEF
In a recent Tweet that angered many, I noted that so many Catholicsâtraditionalists, modernists, conservatives, liberals, and mainstreamers alikeâare putting themselves in a tremendously spiritually dangerous position by refusing to judge the tree by its fruits.... By, instead, (and in an act of supreme arrogance), deeming themselves qualified to ignore the fruitsâwhich Jesus taught we must judge by, lest we risk Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit... By, instead, only purporting to judge the core of all phenomena directly with their own supposed intelligence & learnedness, endlessly nitpicking details. Each Catholic subculture has its own favorite way of succumbing to this diabolical trap, but with the "rad trads", it is often found in the refusal (of some among their ranks; not all, of course) to judge private revelation by its fruits, and in the obsession of some with condemning each and every such revelation that does anything other than confirm them in all of their opinions, preferences, likes, and dislikes. And as I said, unless they soften their hearts now, such people are in for an imminent shock that will shake them to the very core, and which they might not even survive.
His Will shall reign. The Our Father will be fulfilled.  His Kingdom is Comingâmore fully than ever before in history.
Don't be found on the wrong side of it. And don't squander your inheritance for a bowl of soup.
âMy daughter, as Adam sinned, God made him the promise of the future Redeemer. Centuries passed, but the promise did not fail, and the generations had the good of Redemption. Now, as I came from Heaven and formed the Kingdom of Redemption, before departing for Heaven, I made another promise, more solemn, of the Kingdom of my Will; and this was in the âOur Fatherïżœïżœ.  ... I placed My very Self at the head of this prayer, knowing that such was the Father's Will, and that, prayed by Me, He would deny Me nothing... And after I had formed this prayer before my Celestial Father, certain that the Kingdom of my Divine Will upon earth would be granted to Me, I taught it to my Apostles, that they might teach it to the whole world, so that one might be the cry of all:  âYour Will be done, on earth as It is in Heaven.â
A PROMISE MORE SURE AND SOLEMN I COULD NOT MAKE. ... the Kingdom must come, and creatures must await It with that certainty with which they awaited the future Redeemer, because there is my Divine Will, bound and committed, in those words of the âOur Fatherâ; and when It binds Itself, whatever It promises is more than certain.â
âJesus to Luisa. February 5th, 1928.
@JoshuaTCharles This is verse we go to in the atrium with the youngest children preparing for Firsr Reconciliation. What Jesus says happens!!! With the centurions servant and calming storms and calling LazarusâŠhe has authority! And now He says to his apostlesâŠwhat YOU say happens! All a gift!
@DSDOConnor I want people to read your Thy Will Be Done book MORE than the UFO/ET one. It has changed the way I pray the Our Father, and has given me so much focus to little me in my little world and my little work to do. Your chapter on The Rounds was also so powerful to my prayer life.