Is time speeding up?

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AS TIME ITSELF SEEMS TO HAVE SPED UP, IT’S TIME TO HEAD FOR THE BLESSED SACRAMENT

By Michael H. Brown

I have this sense that things are accelerating. Do you feel the same way? First, of course, there are the natural events – hurricanes followed by floods and volcanic activity, by storms, by the tsunami. In our own lives, it’s all now rush-rush: we don’t seem to be able to slow down. Busy-ness. In fact, one bishop in India cited our frantic pace of life and our ignoring the Lord as a possible reason for the horrid Asian disaster.

Whether or not that’s the case, it’s also like time itself has been sped up. Does it seem like the weeks just fly by, that it’s suddenly Monday or Wednesday or Friday again – and again? Are you on a treadmill? Are you too “busy” to deal personally with people any longer?

Maybe it’s a product of aging – that everything seems to be moving fast. But there are alleged seers who have felt that God is speeding up time as an act of mercy in this troubled period. A “timetable” has been set in place, we read in one alleged prophecy. A South American seer said that before we know it, major events will be upon us – with unexpected rapidity. “’Launched,’ that’s what I heard from God, and I got the sense that things are really going to accelerate, that God really wants our attention, that things are just too out of balance,” said another alleged mystic, this one in California.

Ironically, even geologically, scientists say the earthquake that caused the tsunami repositioned islands and altered the earth’s rotation in such a way that the North Pole was shifted by an inch (2.5 centimeters) and the length of each day was shortened by 2.68 microseconds.

Of course, that’s minuscule, but symbolic: There is not enough time any more in a day. We can’t get things done. There’s no time for family. There’s no time for personal interaction. There’s no time for God.

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And we must combat this by going before the Blessed Sacrament.

This is what the Vatican recently advised us to do by issuing a new “indulgence” for those who pray before Our Lord as He is present in that potent sacrament!

Let us take advantage of it. In these times, God grants us peace from all the turmoil, from the bad news, from television, from the everlasting noise around us.

As I wrote in Secrets of the Eucharist: “When we spend time in front of the Blessed Sacrament, we feel a power similar to that during elevation of the Host. We encounter a holiness second only to Mass. While nothing is more powerful than the liturgy, Adoration comes in second. During Adoration, which keeps the Blessed Sacrament right there before us, prayers are heard and answered.”

I have spoken to nuns who have had visions of mighty angels in chapels of the Blessed Sacrament, and others who have encountered delightful and reverential strangers who in retrospect seemed like angels praying fervently before the Host or even prostrate on the floor of a chapel. In one shrine dedicated to Fatima in Youngstown, New York, a medical doctor reported the inexplicable materialization of a Host in the hands of a woman she was accompanying in the Blessed Sacrament chapel. Others saw or felt wonderful things while praying there, including an image of the Shroud that seemed to take shape in the monstrance.

If we could see just a fraction of the graces available before the Blessed Sacrament, and realize the peace we can obtain there, we would flock to the nearest chapel each and every day.

When I visit a church to deliver a speech, I can often sense when that church has Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. I can sense it because there’s a feeling of peace and unusually high Mass attendance. The Blessed Sacrament draws people. It imbues the church with an aura of holiness. It gives the parish an active charism. It becomes the very heart – the radiant and vibrant heart – of a parish.

St. Margaret Mary saw the Host this way, as radiant. Often, while praying before the Blessed Sacrament, it came alive to her. It served as a window – a port hole – into the heavenly dimension. It drew her like a powerful magnet. “I could have spent whole days and nights there, without eating or drinking, and without knowing what I was doing, except that I was being consumed in His presence like a burning taper, in order to return Him love for love,” said St. Margaret Mary, speaking of the Blessed Sacrament.

We remember Padre Pio saying that a few minutes before the Blessed Sacrament are worth more than years of any worldly endeavor. It is during Adoration that we get direction from On High. It’s during Adoration that God speaks to us through the peace that touches our hearts. It is there that He speaks best not so much in locutions or visions as in the deep recesses of our consciousness.

It is there that we find a sense of safety. It is there that we feel peace. It is there that the earth slows down.

Go the Adoration, slow things down – and pray for the world there!

Dear friends

I found this on ‘Spirit daily’

Is time speeding up??? The days do seem to be flying by, no sonner I start a day, it is finished and I’m on the next day and before I know it the weeks have flown by, it is almost a month since Christmas day and it seems like just yesterday I ate my Christmas dinner!

hmmm??? Is time flying by and speeding up???

God Bless you and much love and peace to you

Teresa**
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Could be. I recently retired from my regular job and now find that time goes by faster than when I was working. Maybe it’s because I have more time to devote to the lord. When you are doing something that you like, the time speeds by.

Deacon Tony SFO
 
It also seems that when I was a kid in grade school, summer lasted a long time. Now as an adult, time seems to speed up. That can be an sign for each one of us in our personal life. As we get older, we are rapidly approaching our ‘meeting the Lord’ when we die from this world.

God IS with Us!
Edwin
 
Is Time speeding up?

Of course! This earth made it’s trip around the sun in a shorter length of time than last year. This year the time to go around the sun was 0.020 seconds faster. Did you feel that?
 
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Edwin1961:
It also seems that when I was a kid in grade school, summer lasted a long time. Now as an adult, time seems to speed up.
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Time inevitably speeds up as we age. Consider that for a 1 year old toddler, a year is 100% of his lifetime to date. For a 10 yr old, one year is 10% of his lifetime (summer vacation lasts a long time!). For a 30 yr old, 1 year is only 3% of his life, and for a 60 yr old, one year is a mere 1.6% of his life. If you think you have less time, it’s true!
 
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JimG:
Time inevitably speeds up as we age. Consider that for a 1 year old toddler, a year is 100% of his lifetime to date. For a 10 yr old, one year is 10% of his lifetime (summer vacation lasts a long time!). For a 30 yr old, 1 year is only 3% of his life, and for a 60 yr old, one year is a mere 1.6% of his life. If you think you have less time, it’s true!
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And I thought it was just me! 😃
 
Since each year goes by faster, older people are legally entitled to state their age in “time modified years”. After the age of 30, each year that passes is worth only one quarter of a real year. So a 50 year old is only 35 in time modified years.

Isn’t that much better?
 
Originally Posted by Edwin1961
It also seems that when I was a kid in grade school, summer lasted a long time. Now as an adult, time seems to speed up."
*Consider your self as a clock. As you age your clock slows down. *
Lets say when you reach 50, your biological clock shows that 25 days have passed when in real world (actual) time 30 days have passed.
So when two months actual time has passed you think 1 1/2 months have passed. You have the illusion of time passing faster.
 
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Pug:
Since each year goes by faster, older people are legally entitled to state their age in “time modified years”. After the age of 30, each year that passes is worth only one quarter of a real year. So a 50 year old is only 35 in time modified years.

Isn’t that much better?
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Dear friend

:rotfl: I like you thinking! By this time scale I am 30 and 3/4 years!!

I’ll leave you to work out my actual age 🙂 ! I’m going to stick to this time scale of yours, I’ll let you know when I have another birthday so you can give me your well wishes 😃

God Bless you and much love and peace to you

Teresa
 
I always thought the appearance of time speeding up meant was a reflection of me getting old. It is true though that time spent in prayer is a great oasis, where things don’t seem to fly past as quickly.
 
Dear friends

Are you guys trying to make me feel old??? :rotfl: !!!

I suppose then if time is moving fast I am either :
  1. Enjoying myself TOO much…or
  2. Ageing rapidly
Either way neither is bad!! 😃

Having said all of the above, The time I spend infront of the Blessed Sacrament does n’t slow things down, the time passes quickly and I wonder what I could have done for time to pass so fast!

I think that time is always 24 hours in a day, it is our perecption of it that alters and maybe this is what is altering among many.

God Bless you and much love and peace to you

Teresa
 
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springbreeze:
Dear friend

:rotfl: I like you thinking! By this time scale I am 30 and 3/4 years!!
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Such a lovely age. I think about how old Jesus was before his public ministry, and how much he got done in so few years. If only we could do the least bit like him! We all have our “hidden years” too, I think.

Pray for me tomorrow morning. We are doing a retreat for our RCIA people at the parish.
 
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springbreeze:
Dear friends

Are you guys trying to make me feel old??? :rotfl: !!!

Teresa
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Well, Teresa, I’ve got good news for you…no matter how “old” you get, you’ll never be as old as me :tiphat: (at least that’s what my younger sister loves to remind me 😃 )
 
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