Millenarianism

[simple_soul]

Hi everyone,

The other day I stumbled on an old thread forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=739929&page=2. And had a question about something I read from the catechism that one of the posters shared that I was hoping to get a more in-depth understanding of, or more insight into, the Church’s official or traditional teaching is on this.

I was raised with the understanding or belief of the “Reign of Mary.” For those who are not familiar with it, it is a belief of a time period of peace in which Our Blessed Mother’s heart will triumph and we would enter a 1,000 year reign of peace that would lead us to the time period of the Anti-Christ and then Jesus’ Second Coming.

What I read the other day was this, (from the catechism);

675 Before Christ’s second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers.574 The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth575 will unveil the “mystery of iniquity” in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh.576 [cf. Thess 2:4-12; 1 Thess 5:2-3; 2 Jn 7; 1 Jn 2:18,22.]

676 The Antichrist’s deception already begins to take shape in the world every time the claim is made to realize within history that messianic hope which can only be realized beyond history through the eschatological judgment. The Church has rejected even modified forms of this falsification of the kingdom to come under the name of millenarianism, especially the “intrinsically perverse” political form of a secular messianism.

So I looked up the word “millenarianism” and it is the following;

millenarianism; The doctrine of or belief in a future ( and typically immanent) thousand-year age of blessedness, beginning with or culminating in the Second Coming of Christ. It is central to the teaching of groups such as Plymouth Brethren, Adventists, Mormons, and Jehovah’s Witnesses.

-belief in a future golden age of peace, justice, and prosperity.

It has really got me wondering, is this concept or understanding of a millennium 1,000 years of a Reign of Mary not in line with the Church’s teachings? If it is what is the difference between this and what the catechism is saying about millenarianism?

Like I mentioned earlier, I am just looking to get a more in-depth understanding of what I was taught growing up and how it is or is not part of then Church’s traditional teachings or understanding of Millenarianism and if what I was taught about the Reign of Mary is or is not just another form of it.
I have always understood that we needed to keep our hearts immaculate in order to truly let Jesus reign in them but never really questioned before if this understanding of a time period called The Reign of Mary was a sound or official teaching of the Church.

Please try to keep it simple if that can be done. I don’t want to make my cranium or brain to start cramping with too much or too wordy of explanations.

 

[FrDavid96]

Any form of millenarianism is inconsistent with the Christian faith.

It’s really that simple.

I would like to write more here to explain it, but there just isn’t anything to explain. If it’s millenarianism then it is not consistent with the truths of Christianity.

 

[simple_soul]

**Any form of millenarianism is inconsistent with the Christian faith.

It’s really that simple. **

I would like to write more here to explain it, but there just isn’t anything to explain. If it’s millenarianism then it is not consistent with the truths of Christianity.

Thank you so much Fr. David.
I never really quite unerstood what Millenarianism was before I saw that definition. All I can say right now is that it has been an eye-opener for me. Will keep what you have said here in mind and will hopefully see, recognize and know better next time I start hearing or reading about about something like this that I recognize it for what it is.