Account: "The Prophetic Saint Who Foretold What the End of the World Will Be Like."

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He is also the patron saint of plumbing, home repair, and builders (edited because I forgot St. Patrick was patron saint of engineers, Sorry St. Patrick), all of which I find more useful than end of the world teachings. Then again it’s kinda the end of the world when your toilet has a major failure.
 
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It was kinda the end of the world for me when my water heater broke and I didn’t have hot water.

Taking a cold shower in January was not enjoyable.

My water heater has been replaced and I hope :crossed_fingers: it works reliably.
 
St Vincent Ferrer, you who were able to convert Jews to Christianity in Spain, pray for them who reject Christ in our time!
 
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That the end of the world will come dramatically is a Catholic conviction. But what will happen then? This saint told of this.
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Thank you. I thought the article was very good.
Tis_Bearself said:
He is also the patron saint of plumbing, home repair, and builders (edited because I forgot St. Patrick was patron saint of engineers, Sorry St. Patrick), all of which I find more useful than end of the world teachings. Then again it’s kinda the end of the world when your toilet has a major failure.
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In all charity, it is an excellent article that tells more about his life than just what he preached about the end of the world, though that is important to have some understanding of also. He was an excellent preacher, he knew the Bible by heart, he healed many people in the name of Christ and brought many people to Christ with his beautiful ministry. 🙂

I am way more concerned about people’s souls and their salvation than a toilet. Perhaps this article can help this saint be remembered for more than just plumbing. He apparently went way beyond that. 🤔
 
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I pray to him several times a week for over a year.

My concerns are not all about the end of the world though. They are practical concerns, for which he is a designated patron saint. If the world ends, I will no longer have earthly concerns to request help with. Since the world does not seem to be ending just yet, I must continue with my current responsibilities.

Sorry but I’m just not much into all the “end of the world” stuff that seems to inspire a lot of discussion on here. I don’t have time to be honest.
 
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I read this the other day it is interesting, took me about two hours to read it though.
 
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I am way more concerned about people’s souls and their salvation than a toilet. Perhaps this article can help this saint be remembered for more than just plumbing. He apparently went way beyond that. 🤔
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There’s no reason why he can’t be remembered for both.

Helping out people with their souls and salvation sometimes involves helping them out with real life concerns and practical matters. Otherwise we wouldn’t be instructed to clothe the naked and feed the hungry or help an elderly neighbor with their plumbing problem or shovel the snow off their walkway. Corporal works of mercy do count.

I am supporting a ministry that helps people all over the world obtain decent water supply and sanitary facilities. Water borne pathogens is one of the causes of child deaths all over the world. This ministry does God’s work. It may be just a toilet but it can save lives.
 
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Yes, I completely agree. I just felt what he was saying spiritually was being dismissed as unimportant or of lesser importance than a plugged toilet.
 
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There’s nothing unimportant about home repairs, especially when you’re in the position I’m in right now. Also, I consider the saints that I regularly invoke, including St. Vincent Ferrer, to be my friends, and I doubt a friend would mind if I made a light-hearted remark. The world has been going on for 600 years since this saint went to his heavenly reward, and people have needed to keep their houses in repair and deal with their water and sewer issues for that entire time; it’s perfectly respectable for him and other saints to assist us with that, and takes nothing away from the saint.
 
Mundane matters may not be as important as spiritual matters but they are still important.

It’s hard to keep your focus on spiritual things when you are cold, tired and hungry.
 
The saints were once here in the flesh, and I’m sure they had similar issues to deal with concerning their physical/material environments. They probably experienced some of the same frustrations we do when the things we depend on for our everyday living prove unreliable or go kaput completely. Just because they’re in a non-physical state right now doesn’t mean they’ve forgotten how life was here on earth, and I’m sure they’re aware of how it continues to be.

Having moved on doesn’t make them dumbed down or indifferent.
 
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There’s nothing unimportant about home repairs, especially when you’re in the position I’m in right now. Also, I consider the saints that I regularly invoke, including St. Vincent Ferrer, to be my friends, and I doubt a friend would mind if I made a light-hearted remark.
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I’m sorry if I offended you. There is absolutely no way I would know what type of position you are in right now and no way I would know that you meant your comment as light hearted. I just took it for what I read. I didn’t know there was lightheartedness in your comment but saw it more towards the end times subject of the article. I’m glad it was just a lighthearted comment.
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The world has been going on for 600 years since this saint went to his heavenly reward, and people have needed to keep their houses in repair and deal with their water and sewer issues for that entire time; it’s perfectly respectable for him and other saints to assist us with that, and takes nothing away from the saint.
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Completely, totally agree, I consider the saints my very good friends also and rely on their very intercession for a whole bunch of earthly needs. Just as I said it appeared to me as though his spiritual insight was being dismissed. Apparently you did not mean it that way. 🙂
Sarcelle said:
Mundane matters may not be as important as spiritual matters but they are still important.

It’s hard to keep your focus on spiritual things when you are cold, tired and hungry.
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Absolutely, totally, completely agree! and as I said earlier I do not think those things are unimportant because they certainly are, I just read the comment differently, as dismissing his spiritual insight or the subject of the article. Apparently that is not how it was meant 🙂
 
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Thanks for the article. In light of Genesis 8:21 (which has been neglected) and of our knowledge of the destructive capability of the world’s nuclear weapons arsenals, we can make a more defined assumption about what Judgement Day will be like. In my opinion, it is nothing less than a global nuclear war.
 
Thanks for posting this. I’d like to learn more about St. Vincent Ferrer and will look him up. His ideas about the death of the Anti-Christ and the 45 days afterwards are interesting and I’d never heard that before.
 
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