Private Revelation (I am not posting one)

[bonvivantHermit]

*I am not posting a revelation.

I dislike having to post here for a variety of reasons, but since EWTN Q&A seem defunct and the last priest I spoke to was not able/willing to respond- I am here.

I realize private revelation are suspect- and I am not here to share.

w/o going into details, what would be a parent’s role? Would one go to the Church till one
is listened to, or drop it?

 

[corsair]

I’m not sure what you are attempting to do; are you saying that you think a child is/has had/having a Revelation or Vision? I know that sounded confusing.

Are you trying to get help in determining the validity of such Revelation?

Sounds like your pastor is of no help. If you’d like to discuss this you can PM me.

 

[bonvivantHermit]

I do not want to discuss the facts of the event for obvious reasons.

If it was Divine no need for exorcist and/or psychiatrist.

I guess that’s why I sound confused. I tried to contact a priest, but that was not fruitful.

I am not sure the protocol. Do we keep these matters to ourselves? Or do I ask till
I find a receptive priest?

 

[JamestheOlder]

Please look up and contact the Vicar for Clergy for the diocese in which you live. Explain your request as best you can, and ask for guidance from an “approved” priest, or for a suggestion of whom to contact for spiritual guidance.

If you are uncomfortable with this method, seek out a nearby Benedictine or Trappist monastery, visit there and ask for spiritual guidance…which they WILL provide to you.

Our prayers go with you. Peace.

 

[bonvivantHermit]

Thank you! I emailed a Benedictine Monastery - the prior already replied.
Wonderful. Thank you all for your answers and prayers.

 

[couponfit]

*I am not posting a revelation.

I dislike having to post here for a variety of reasons, but since EWTN Q&A seem defunct and the last priest I spoke to was not able/willing to respond- I am here.

I realize private revelation are suspect- and I am not here to share.

w/o going into details, what would be a parent’s role? Would one go to the Church till one
is listened to, or drop it?

Well it usually depends on the revelation. The vast majority is meant only for the individual. But when it is directed for the church and given to an emissary, such as a child, then the church is notified either through the rector of your parish or the Diocese Vicar. Sometimes the message has a specific recipient so in those cases you must go to that specific person only. If I was given a message, I would write it down, or what I was allowed to on paper and mail it by fedex to the name of the Bishop for my Diocese, or the name of the recipient with my details, and the pertinent necessary details I could divulge.

I am familiar with one important notation, that the priest will ask for a sign. It’s a pretty common request. There is a request that the apparition or message given to the recipient is bone fide. There is usually not a condition on what this sign must be, but some previous signs included "making the sun dance before 100,000 witnesses; willing tress and flowers to bloom in impossible locations in impossible times and quickly (like in minutes), levitation with a 2000 lb object, blood flowing through the church walls or statues, raising the dead, things like that.

The priest will ask for a sign (they usually won’t say what the sign must be), and then the child must return to prayer or the location and ask the apparition or voice or whatever it is, to produce a sign. The sign must be given, and then shown to the Bishop.

A message with God telling you to quit your job, or God telling you not to marry a person, or to join a mendicant order, or that he loves you, or something like that is not something the church can process. There’s too many of those. Messages like, build a church here, and dig a well from which the holy water shall be blessed, that’s a message for the bishop.