Are there any positive private revelations?

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Were none of the Saints given any hopeful insights?

Parts of the Marian Apparitions being negative I can get. Our Lady is warning us to repent, and that if we don’t awful things will happen.
And I understand that negative things need to be given more attention as warnings.

But when I hear about the Church going to war with itself, the “true clergy” being reduced drastically, demons being unleashed for 72 hours to butcher us, and the entire planet being firebombed, among other disasters doesnt leave me with with a lot of hope. I’m sure we deserve it for our unrepentance, but still.

All I can cling to is when Our Lady said "In the end, my immaculate heart will triumph.’
 
Doesn’t that kind of answer the question?

Bad stuff will always happen.

But it’s nice to know everything will be okay in the end.
 
St. Faustina and St. Margaret Alacoque come to mind.
 
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In a way they are all positive. True, Our Lady is concerned about us keeping on the straight and narrow. But that she would give us these warnings is a sign of the great love she and Jesus have for us. Cling to that.
 
The thing is: human beings have concupiscence as a result of Original Sin. Part of that means that when it comes to the topic of sin - which is the one and only thing truly worth fearing - our inclination is to rationalize, minimize, deflect, avoid, deny, and ultimately delegitimize its existence. Without Divine Intervention, it would be impossible for the world today to have any grasp of the concept of sin. It would be as though a physician diagnosed us with cancer or some other fatal disease, and preferring that the problem didn’t exist, we continued to live our life the same way we always did, right up until the moment we end up in the hospital, followed eventually by the coffin.

So yes, there’s a whole lot on the topic of sin and penance and repentance in private revelation. I’m not sure what stuff you’re reading but I will say there’s a lot on hope and mercy as well, and this is because another human inclination (also a result of concupiscence) is to believe that we can’t be forgiven, so we do what Adam and Eve did: we hide from God. This is why Jesus told St Faustina on more than one occasion that a person’s lack of trust in his infinite mercy usually hurts His Sacred Heart more than the sin itself.

And yes, I agree that they are all positive in the end. God tells us what we need to hear.
 
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I remember St Pio repeatedly said “pray, hope and don’t worry.”

I also seem to remember that after the great period of change we are supposed to have sixty or so years of peace? And that eventually the elect will be saved and presumably live in perfect harmony and peace for eternity.

I often try to remind myself that I and my loved ones have immortal souls if we keep to the straight and narrow and though it’s not always easy to do so bear in mind that from that point of view death has lost its sting. I’m concerned that on the day of my departure I may well feel differently but I trust that good God will give me the mental strength to cope with that transition.

Peace be with you.
 
Private revelation concerns those things about which Christ said:
I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. But when he comes, the Spirit of truth […] will declare to you the things that are coming. (John 16:12-13, NAB)
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So, yes, private revelation is always pretty grim. Our hope lies in the possibility of escape from this world, not in things ending well in it.
 
The message from Our Blessed Mother, is that we will be given help through her intercession in our suffering.Her grace is available to us if we ask, even in the darkest times.
 
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Well, nothing succeeds like excess. In religion, as in other areas, the most extreme messages or descriptions get far more attention than they deserve, far more than other things, which might be more valid or useful for ourselves and others. Nothing spreads faster than lurid.

We are getting flooded with unapproved private revelations, or unapproved interpretations or variations on approved revelations, such as Fatima. Keep in mind:
  • Unapproved private revelations should be avoided.
  • Fatima was “approved” fully, in 1930. Most of what was released after 1930 - notebooks, secrets, predictions, letters attributed, maybe, to Sr. Lucia, and endless interpretations - is not part of the approved private revelation, even if it refers to events in 1917. This is probably 90% of what you see on the internet.
  • There is nothing good or true in private revelation that is not also more reliably found in public revelation. An approved private revelation is like the music in church. It may help open SOME persons’ hearts to respond to the message of the public revelation. A given hymn might mean nothing to the guy in the next pew, who is just as spiritual. If the music becomes equally important as the sermon or the readings, or the Catechism, there is a major problem.
*Even if an approved private revelation does not help you, keep in mind it might help someone else. Don’t disdain it.
  • The biggest problem in the Church today is not neglect of private revelation, but neglect, or rather the attack, on public revelation.
 
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The problem is, with the over-secularization of society, most people are faithless. Lots of people feel all their earthly needs are taken care of, so why bother with God? Rejection of God is on an unprecedented scale so what can be expected? some form of punishment has to occur.
 
In the West our physical needs have been satisfied though not everyone enjoys a good standard of living even here. In other parts of the World there is still great physical need but I’d guess that the need for spiritual nourishment is common to our species regardless of geography.

Sometimes I feel that our new electronic society has created a hell on earth and I don’t see happy well balanced people wherever I go. I think our need for God is at least the same as it ever was, maybe even greater as we find that our reliance on logic circuits has sold us short.
 
Her immaculate heart will triumph BECAUSE of the sacred heart of Her Son. 😉
 
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