Are you prepared for the 3 days & 3 nights of darkness?

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CSN:
Good morning, Seabird. I had to read your first sentence a couple of times to understand what it meant 🙂

Well, there’s another thing about the popes, and that is the list of Saint Malachy, which ends either at this pope or the next one. It’s a bit morbid, but sometimes I feel like I have been lucky to live in perhaps the best of times in the best of places, not having gone through any war, famine, disease or any other calamity. The payback is that I feel the strong likelihood is that I will be seeing the end of world…
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Saint Malachy? I’m not familiar with him, could you refer me to a book or two where he is mentioned?

Thanks,
Seabird
 
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seabird3579:
Saint Malachy? I’m not familiar with him, could you refer me to a book or two where he is mentioned?

Thanks,
Seabird
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Here is a link…

catholic-pages.com/grabbag/malachy.asp

I chose this one because it points out that it is believed the list of popes is a fake. Not saying I believe it’s a fake, but just pointing out that there is that view.
 
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CSN:
Here is a link…

catholic-pages.com/grabbag/malachy.asp

I chose this one because it points out that it is believed the list of popes is a fake. Not saying I believe it’s a fake, but just pointing out that there is that view.
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It does appear that the other popes pretty much fall in line, or have some resemblance to their discription. If the pattern continues, it does seem that Pope Benedict may well be the second to the last Pope.

…Very interesting prophesy.

We certainly are living in amazing times. Just think how much the world has changed from 1900 to the year 2000. Think about how “small” it has become in just one century. It sure seems that things are beginning to happen in a lightening fast kind of way.

What I mean is that, the speed of technology is incredible. New inventions, even in the 20th century use to come along about every 10 years or so. We thought that century was changing quickly. Now, it’s like every year we’re *light years ahead * of where we were last year.

I find it all amazing.

Maranatha! Come Lord Jesus!
 
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As for stocking up with enough food and water for 3 days and nights??? Don’t most people normally shop once a week and buy for the following week anyway??
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:o heh-heh-heh…If indeed there is three nights of darkness, actual physical darkness complete with demons and not just a poetic reference to something else, I am going to be downing a lot of food from my deep freeze. The water will be melted ice cubes. I tend to buy in bulk when it comes to meat sales. I also buy bread at the bread thrift shop, and canned goods when they go on sale or at Aldi in case lots. I do buy fresh produce weekly, though.

As a child, I was frightened by my first grade teacher into believing the devil was just around the corner waiting for me- physically, to attack me (Well, the devil and the communists, and the Bomb). I had nightmares for weeks. Nobody could convince me otherwise. My dear aunt pointed out the fact that if I loved Jesus, all I had to do was call out His Name and he would be there. So, I do not buy into prophecy without personally investigating it first, and then checking where it could be discounted or human error could come into play.

However saintly, the people who make these prophecies are human beings, and therefore, subject to mistakes. They don’t have to be purposely trying to make them, they just could make mistakes, or even not understand their own [private revelation.
 
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seabird3579:
They don’t mention why they think the prophesies are suspect. Do you know why? Is there more info on the subject?
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Extract from the online Catholic Encyclopedea:

Concerning the Popes

The most famous and best known prophecies about the popes are those attributed to St. Malachy. In 1139 he went to Rome to give an account of the affairs of his diocese to the pope, Innocent II, who promised him two palliums for the metropolitan Sees of Armagh and Cashel. While at Rome, he received (according to the Abbé Cucherat) the strange vision of the future wherein was unfolded before his mind the long list of illustrious pontiffs who were to rule the Church until the end of time. The same author tells us that St. Malachy gave his manuscript to Innocent II to console him in the midst of his tribulations, and that the document remained unknown in the Roman Archives until its discovery in 1590 (Cucherat, “Proph. de la succession des papes”, ch. xv). They were first published by Arnold de Wyon, and ever since there has been much discussion as to whether they are genuine predictions of St. Malachy or forgeries. The silence of 400 years on the part of so many learned authors who had written about the popes, and the silence of St. Bernard especially, who wrote the “Life of St. Malachy”, is a strong argument against their authenticity, but it is not conclusive if we adopt Cucherat’s theory that they were hidden in the Archives during those 400 years.
 
I am curious about your source of information for her predictions about these three days and about two world wars. Was it in a some particular book you read?
 
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mspencer:
I am curious about your source of information for her predictions about these three days and about two world wars. Was it in a some particular book you read?
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mspence,

the book that I read many years back was called, “The Three Days’ Darkness” by Albert J. Hebert, S.M. It is copyrighted in 1986 and the inside cover says, "books obtainable from author, P.O. Box 309, Paulina, LA 70763. My book says that it is the Tenth Printing, November 1991.
 
I don’t think about it. I’m reminded of St. Catherine, who said, “so often we spend our time fretting about, when we should be resting quietly on the heart of Jesus.”

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what about it? I have no idea what you are referring to, unless it is the time Christ spent in the tomb before his resurrection. What we do know for sure is that we must be prepared for death at any time, and therefore must take care to make every thought and action conform to God’s will and so remain in His grace, because we do not know the day nor the hour our soul will be required of us.
 
After reading several books of personal revelation and of the many apparitions of Our Lady, there are allusions to three days of darkness coming as a result of a force of nature(comet?). Regardless as one reads the many wonderful approved spiritual books, what happens, when it happens, how it happens will always be at God’s command. When we read the bible, it says that we will not know the day or the hour and those are words to believe.
 
I suppose that is my frustration with people who get so heavily into it. We should be prepared for any moment, not sit there planning for the moment. Reminds me of the Y2K hype personally.
 
I started a long thread on this very topic and it can be found by clicking here (it had even more replies prior to the crash).
 
Blessed Anna – Maria Taigi

"God will ordain two punishments: one, in the form of wars, revolutions and other evils, will originate on earth; the other will be sent from Heaven. There will come over all the earth an intense darkness lasting three days and three nights. Nothing will be visible and the air will be laden with pestilence, which will claim principally but not exclusively, the enemies of religion…Only blessed candles can be lighted and will afford illumination…
“All the enemies of the Church, secret as well as known, will perish over the whole earth during that universal darkness, with the exception of a few, whom God will soon after convert. The air shall be infected by demons who will appear under all sorts of hideous forms.” (Public and Private Prophecies About the Last Times, Rev, Benjamin Martin Sanchez, Pub: Opus Reginae Sacratissimi Rosarii, University of Salamanca, 1972, p. 47).

After three days of darkness, St. Peter and St. Paul, having coming down from heaven, will preach in the whole world and designate a new Pope. A great light will flash from their bodies and will settle upon the cardinal, the future Pontiff [Pope]. Then Christianity will spread throughout the world. He is the Holy Pontiff, chosen by God to withstand the storm. At the end, he will have the gift of miracles, and his name shall be praised over the whole earth." [The above has been qouted from the Beatification documentation on Bl. Anna Maria]
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Blessed Anna – Maria Taigi

"God will ordain two punishments: one, in the form of wars, revolutions and other evils, will originate on earth; the other will be sent from Heaven. There will come over all the earth an intense darkness lasting three days and three nights. Nothing will be visible and the air will be laden with pestilence, which will claim principally but not exclusively, the enemies of religion…Only blessed candles can be lighted and will afford illumination…

After three days of darkness, St. Peter and St. Paul, having coming down from heaven, will preach in the whole world and designate a new Pope. A great light will flash from their bodies and will settle upon the cardinal, the future Pontiff [Pope]. Then Christianity will spread throughout the world. He is the Holy Pontiff, chosen by God to withstand the storm. At the end, he will have the gift of miracles, and his name shall be praised over the whole earth." [The above has been qouted from the Beatification documentation on Bl. Anna Maria]
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It sounds like so much blather to me. I’m guessing the details have some meaning to the authors and are allegorical at best as far as describing anything that’s going to happen. Perhaps these were visions that fit in with the saints’ spiritual journey.

My wife used to be concerned about the three days and nights, but I never understood it. Since then we have been through a great deal of spiritual warfare and frankly, this sort of prophecy is just not all that impressive to me at this point and neither is she concerned any more about it. Although it’s hard to say just why, but it comes across a contrived and not a particularly useful vision. A vision about Peter and Paul selecting a new Pope and the flash of light and everything could very easily come into the mind of someone having mystical experiences, but it sounds to me like its usefulness was probably greatest in the authors.

Who am I to claim all this? Just some guy on the web with an opinion, that’s all. 🙂

Alan
 
I would not presume to instruct as each individual needs to refer to a spiritual director and prayer to obtain truth/direction.
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I do not understand the prior comment of y2k. It meant nothing to me other than computer problems.
 
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