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I am trying to do my assignments and the prophecies just keep running in my mind.
Scared of reading prophecies such 3 days of darkness and the messages of The Lady of Akita
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Focus on your assignments and forget about 3DOD and Akita right now. Our Lady of Fatima called for offering of one’s daily duty, and your assignments are your “daily duty” at the moment. There will be plenty of time for 3DOD and Akita when school is over.
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mdgspencer
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Our Lady of Akita has been confirmed by the Church. This includes a message from the Virgin Mary that the world will face a terrible catastrophe and that nations will be destroyed. I have thought about what it will be like personally. I am concerned but not frightened. What can I do about it? I am 79 and hope it will not happen while I am alive. But I believe in God. Let his will be done. Even if I have to suffer such a thing, God is with me.
As far as the success of this prophecy among men is concerned, I think it is like the prediction at Fatima that there will be another war (which, as it turned out was World War II). I see no evidence that people listened (and, it is likely, they didn’t want to hear about such a thing).
The story that there will be three days of darkness has no justification as far as I can see, and so I disregard this. A prophecy can be from God, from the person’s own mind, or even from Satan, and I don’t think there is evidence this is from God.
Our Lady of Akita has been confirmed by the Church. This includes a message from the Virgin Mary that the world will face a terrible catastrophe and that nations will be destroyed. I have thought about what it will be like personally. I am concerned but not frightened. What can I do about it? I am 79 and hope it will not happen while I am alive. But I believe in God. Let his will be done. Even if I have to suffer such a thing, God is with me.
As far as the success of this prophecy among men is concerned, I think it is like the prediction at Fatima that there will be another war (which, as it turned out was World War II). I see no evidence that people listened (and, it is likely, they didn’t want to hear about such a thing).
The story that there will be three days of darkness has no justification as far as I can see, and so I disregard this. A prophecy can be from God, from the person’s own mind, or even from Satan, and I don’t think there is evidence this is from God.
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Tis_Bearself
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Ask Jesus and Mary to help you put them out of your mind.
Say “Jesus, I trust in you” a few times.
And don’t read such prophecies again if you are going to be so bothered by them. Catholics do not have to believe in private revelations, and most of what goes around under the “3 Days of Darkness” prophecy umbrella isn’t even approved by the Church.
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Margaret_Ann
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That’s Matthew 6, not John 6.
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Margaret_Ann
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Only God is the source of prophecy. The evil one cannot prophesy, nor can we unless God gives the gift of prophecy to a person.
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JSRG
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Akita was not “confirmed”… it was “approved.” And an “approval” is simply a statement that it is worthy of belief, not a statement that it’s actually true. (I suppose someone could say the terminology is nitpicking, but “confirmed” implies a stronger level of approval than is actual)
If you are referring to the Second Secret, people couldn’t have listened, because the secret wasn’t revealed until after World War II ended.
A few notable people have made prophecies over a supposed “Three Days of Darkness” but to my knowledge none of them are approved and I question how many of them are actual prophecies given they are frequently presented without any actual source.
“The problem with quotes found on the Internet is that they are often not true.” -Abraham Lincoln
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Tis_Bearself
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The prophesy of Blessed Anna Maria Taigi is technically approved, since she is a beati and there is no question of the prophecy being written by anyone else and attributed to her. To my knowledge, that’s the only such prophecy that could be considered approved.
That doesn’t mean that her prophecy is literally going to come to pass; it could have been symbolic, or she could have made an error, and in any event Catholics are not required to believe private revelations. Furthermore, even if it did come to pass, if you aren’t an “enemy of the Church”, you have nothing to fear.
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mdgspencer
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It is true that we don’t have to believe in private revelations.
However, here is the local bishop’s official confirmation that supernatural events occurred at Akita. The local bishop has jurisdiction when it comes to such events.
This is at Akita. Ito, John Shojiro. Pastoral letter (1984-04-22)
However, here is the local bishop’s official confirmation that supernatural events occurred at Akita. The local bishop has jurisdiction when it comes to such events.
This is at Akita. Ito, John Shojiro. Pastoral letter (1984-04-22)
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I thought that was Thomas Jefferson
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tomarin
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Remember that St. John Paul when he was pope made ‘be not afraid’ the motto of his pontificate - I find that to be a comforting message in times of distress.
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Paul_Edwards
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Strangely enough, for the first time in decades Sr Agnes received a message in October, around the time of the Amazon Synod and just before the Coronavirus and the Eucharist being taken away.
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The distinction between public and private revelation is crucial. Private revelation is helpful only to the extent it points our attention back to public revelation, to actions of faith, hope charity.
It’s not a One Size Fits All. It’s possible a given private revelation helps someone else, but not you.
It’s not a One Size Fits All. It’s possible a given private revelation helps someone else, but not you.
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Gab123
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God gave us the answer, and it comes down to “Jesus, I trust in You”.
It doesn’t’ mean there won’t be storms. Suffering is the price of sanctification. No matter what comes, that too will pass; our lifetime will pass too, and 100 years from now other human beings on earth will be living through their trials.
When one reads history and what prior generations have gone through, one realizes how brief our journey is. But be-very generation soon passes. Think about how StJerome wept when Rome fell to the Barbarians. In the following letter to Agenuchia, a highborn lady of Gaul, Saint Jerome bemoans the fate of Rome. Read his letter here in two separate posts:
St. Jerome’s “The Fate of Rome” (c. 409)
“I shall now say a few words of our present miseries. A few of us have hitherto survived them, but this is due not to anything we have done ourselves but to the mercy of the Lord. Savage tribes in countless numbers have overrun all parts of Gaul. The whole country between the Alps and the Pyrenees, between the Rhine and the Ocean, has been laid waste by hordes of Quadi, Vandals, Sarmatians, Alans, Gepids, Herules, Saxons, Burgundians, Allemanni and–alas! for the commonweal!–even Pannonians. For “Assur also is joined with them.” The once noble city of Moguntiacum has been captured and destroyed. In its church many thousands have been massacred. The people of Vangium after standing a long siege have been extirpated. The powerful city of Rheims, the Ambiani, the Altrebatae, the Belgians on the skirts of the world, Tournay, Spires, and Strasburg have fallen to Germany: while the provinces of Aquitaine and of the Nine Nations, of Lyons and of Narbonne are with the exception of a few cities one universal scene of desolation. And those which the sword spares without, famine ravages within. I cannot speak without tears of Toulouse which has been kept from failing hitherto by the merits of its reverend bishop Exuperius. Even the Spains are on the brink of ruin and tremble daily as they recall the invasion of the Cymry; and, while others suffer misfortunes once in actual fact, they suffer them continually in anticipation.
I say nothing of other places that I may not seem to despair of God’s mercy. All that is ours now from the Pontic Sea to the Julian Alps in days gone by once ceased to be ours. For thirty years the barbarians burst the barrier of the Danube and fought in the heart of the Roman Empire. Long use dried our tears. For all but a few old people had been born either in captivity or during a blockade, and consequently they did not miss a liberty which they had never known. Yet who will hereafter credit the fact or what histories will seriously discuss it, that Rome has to fight within her own borders not for glory but for bare life; and that she does not even fight but buys the right to exist by giving gold and sacrificing all her substance? This humiliation has been brought upon her not by the fault of her Emperors who are both most religious men, but by the crime of a half-barbarian traitor who with our money has armed our foes against us.
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It doesn’t’ mean there won’t be storms. Suffering is the price of sanctification. No matter what comes, that too will pass; our lifetime will pass too, and 100 years from now other human beings on earth will be living through their trials.
When one reads history and what prior generations have gone through, one realizes how brief our journey is. But be-very generation soon passes. Think about how StJerome wept when Rome fell to the Barbarians. In the following letter to Agenuchia, a highborn lady of Gaul, Saint Jerome bemoans the fate of Rome. Read his letter here in two separate posts:
St. Jerome’s “The Fate of Rome” (c. 409)
“I shall now say a few words of our present miseries. A few of us have hitherto survived them, but this is due not to anything we have done ourselves but to the mercy of the Lord. Savage tribes in countless numbers have overrun all parts of Gaul. The whole country between the Alps and the Pyrenees, between the Rhine and the Ocean, has been laid waste by hordes of Quadi, Vandals, Sarmatians, Alans, Gepids, Herules, Saxons, Burgundians, Allemanni and–alas! for the commonweal!–even Pannonians. For “Assur also is joined with them.” The once noble city of Moguntiacum has been captured and destroyed. In its church many thousands have been massacred. The people of Vangium after standing a long siege have been extirpated. The powerful city of Rheims, the Ambiani, the Altrebatae, the Belgians on the skirts of the world, Tournay, Spires, and Strasburg have fallen to Germany: while the provinces of Aquitaine and of the Nine Nations, of Lyons and of Narbonne are with the exception of a few cities one universal scene of desolation. And those which the sword spares without, famine ravages within. I cannot speak without tears of Toulouse which has been kept from failing hitherto by the merits of its reverend bishop Exuperius. Even the Spains are on the brink of ruin and tremble daily as they recall the invasion of the Cymry; and, while others suffer misfortunes once in actual fact, they suffer them continually in anticipation.
I say nothing of other places that I may not seem to despair of God’s mercy. All that is ours now from the Pontic Sea to the Julian Alps in days gone by once ceased to be ours. For thirty years the barbarians burst the barrier of the Danube and fought in the heart of the Roman Empire. Long use dried our tears. For all but a few old people had been born either in captivity or during a blockade, and consequently they did not miss a liberty which they had never known. Yet who will hereafter credit the fact or what histories will seriously discuss it, that Rome has to fight within her own borders not for glory but for bare life; and that she does not even fight but buys the right to exist by giving gold and sacrificing all her substance? This humiliation has been brought upon her not by the fault of her Emperors who are both most religious men, but by the crime of a half-barbarian traitor who with our money has armed our foes against us.
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Gab123
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CONTINUED: Of old the Roman Empire was branded with eternal shame because after ravaging the country and routing the Romans at the Allia, Brennus with his Gauls entered, Rome itself. Nor could this ancient stain be wiped out until Gaul, the birth-place of the Gauls, and Gaulish Greece, wherein they had settled after triumphing over East and West, were subjugated to her sway. Even Hannibal who swept like a devastating storm from Spain into Italy, although he came within sight of the city, did not dare to lay siege to it. Even Pyrrhus was so completely bound by the spell of the Roman name that destroying everything that came in his way, he yet withdrew from its vicinity and, victor though he was, did not presume to gaze upon what he had learned to be a city of kings. Yet in return for such insults–not to say such haughty pride–as theirs which ended thus happily for Rome, one banished from all the world found death at last by poison in Bithynia; while the other returning to his native land was slain in his own dominions. The countries of both became tributary to the Roman people. But now, even if complete success attends our arms, we can wrest nothing from our vanquished foes but what we have already lost to them. The poet Lucan describing the power of the city in a glowing passage says:
If Rome be weak, where shall we look for strength? we may vary his words and say:
If Rome be lost, where shall we look for help? or quote the language of Virgil:
Had I a hundred tongues and throat of bronze
The woes of captives I could not relate
Or ev’n recount the names of all the slain.
Even what I have said is fraught with danger both to me who say it and to all who hear it; for we are no longer free even to lament our fate. and are unwilling, nay, I may even say, afraid to weep for our sufferings.“ -StJerome
If Rome be weak, where shall we look for strength? we may vary his words and say:
If Rome be lost, where shall we look for help? or quote the language of Virgil:
Had I a hundred tongues and throat of bronze
The woes of captives I could not relate
Or ev’n recount the names of all the slain.
Even what I have said is fraught with danger both to me who say it and to all who hear it; for we are no longer free even to lament our fate. and are unwilling, nay, I may even say, afraid to weep for our sufferings.“ -StJerome
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Poet
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What was the message? I know we can go look it up online but many won’t or don’t have the time. It would be helpful to have it right in the thread.
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Poet
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It seems most (all?) of the replies here center on dismissing and ignoring the prophecies, telling yourself they just may not be true.
They may not be entirely accurate or they may not come about exactly as described. However, I personally believe they will come to pass fairly accurately as described and it doesn’t scare me for a couple of reasons.
One is that we all have a limited life span anyway. I’m much more likely to die from almost anything other than the three days of darkness and if I’m right with God, the ‘how’ doesn’t matter.
More importantly–I take the prophecies as a great grace. IF these happen in my lifetime, my kids and I are prepared. We say the Rosary, we try to live according to God’s will, we go to confession. We have the blessed candles and if it happens in our lifetime, we’ll spend three days in our basement away from windows, praying, and the world is going to be a much better place after those three days.
I see it as a great grace. IF such a thing is going to happen in our lifetimes, how wonderful that God has told us exactly what to do to keep ourselves and our families safe.
In the meantime, we go about our lives.
I hope you can find some peace in this.
They may not be entirely accurate or they may not come about exactly as described. However, I personally believe they will come to pass fairly accurately as described and it doesn’t scare me for a couple of reasons.
One is that we all have a limited life span anyway. I’m much more likely to die from almost anything other than the three days of darkness and if I’m right with God, the ‘how’ doesn’t matter.
More importantly–I take the prophecies as a great grace. IF these happen in my lifetime, my kids and I are prepared. We say the Rosary, we try to live according to God’s will, we go to confession. We have the blessed candles and if it happens in our lifetime, we’ll spend three days in our basement away from windows, praying, and the world is going to be a much better place after those three days.
I see it as a great grace. IF such a thing is going to happen in our lifetimes, how wonderful that God has told us exactly what to do to keep ourselves and our families safe.
In the meantime, we go about our lives.
I hope you can find some peace in this.
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mdgspencer
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“The problem with quotes found on the Internet is that they are often not true.” -Abraham Lincoln
It took me a minute to realize this is a joke. This poster’s own quote on the internet isn’t true.
“The problem with quotes found on the Internet is that they are often not true.” -Abraham Lincoln
It took me a minute to realize this is a joke. This poster’s own quote on the internet isn’t true.
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commenter
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Unapproved private revelations aren’t supposed to be posted on this forum. Even if subsequent “messages” are rightly or wrongly attributed to someone involved in an earlier approved private revelation, this new “message” is not yet approved, it may or may not be in the future.Poet:
A very short and simple message on October 6: “ Put on ashes and pray a repentant Rosary every day . You (Sr. Agnes) must become like a child and make sacrifices every day.”
What’s interesting is the date. It was the first day of the Amazon Synod
There are other kinds of forums where they do this stuff, and more, all the time. That would be a better place. Or a private “message” to someone on CAF is an option.
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Tis_Bearself
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Her message last October has not been approved by the Church, so it falls in the category of “Unapproved Private Revelation” and we are not allowed to discuss it here.
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