If it’s important enough for Christ to send His mother with warnings… one would think we would all be just a wee bit more concerned and have just a lil’ more sense of urgency to the deplorable state of affairs within The Church.
Some would go as far as to say that we are currently living the 3d Secret of Fatima… “The Age of Apostacy”.
Here’s the bottom line… per the Akita Warnings, few will argue that we currently have many of our own Church leaders who are in league with the devil. (If anyone has a problem with me coming out and saying that… take it up with Jesus and His mother)
We have a majority of practising Catholics who don’t even adhere to the very basics of Catholicism (belief in The Real Presence, actually attending the Sacrament of Confession on even a semi-regular basis, etc.)
And the worse part of alll this is that the average Catholic either doesn’t want to hear about it, or they just shrug their shoulders and say this is the way it’s always been.
Look at it this way, guys… if the IRS notified you that they were about to take absolutely EVERYTHING you owned and leave you destitute unless things in your finacial situation changed REAL SOON… wouldn’t we all have one dire sense of urgency in fixing things?
Again, per Jesus via His Holy Mother… the Great Chastisment is at hand unless things change real darn quick.
Shouldn’t we act like it?
Caveman:
The head of the Church is the Holy Father in communion with the Bishops. The Holy Father is incapable of erring in matters of faith and morals. Therefore, you can relax on this issue. So are the bishops when in communion with each other, such as when the Pope is dead, etc.
This Pope and his predecessors have a clear understanding of the dangers whithin and around the Church. They have offered much guidance to the faithful on avoiding those dangers or getting out of them, for those who may be steeped in sin.
I say this in the gentlest manner and with the utmost respect to our Lady. When it comes to authority in the Church, Peter is still the Vicar of Christ, not Mary. Our Lady would tell you the same thing that she told the waiters at the wedding, “Do whatever he tells you.”
She recognizes and accepts the authority of Peter. She also recognizes and accepts that her Son speaks through Peter by the Power of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, she would say, “Do whatever Peter tells you.” She knows that Peter’s teachings on faith and morals cannot err, even if he’s the greatest sinner on Earth.
Therefore, when Mary delivers a message from her Son, she will never deliver a messae that the Holy Spirit has not already revealed to Peter. Her messages are usually confirmations. I’m rememering Lourdes when she told Bernadette, “I am the Immaculate Conception.” The Eastern Orthodox church had already taught us this. The Roman Catholic Church also believed it. It had not been declared a dogma, but it was already part of our faith, by tradition. Mary simply confirmed what we already believed.
In the end, it’s ok to follow the guidance of the Holy Father to get out of the mess that we’re in. Our lady will not take offense if the Holy Father does not mention her messages, be they from Akita, Lourdes, Guadalupe or Fatima.
Haven’t you noticed that the Holy Father never mentions any of Mary’s messages in his official declarations, incyclicals, or decrees? He will mention Mary in speaking about devotion to her or in speaking about her place in salvation history and the life of the Church. But he does not cite her authority when teaching faith and morals. He uses her as an example of faith, for that is her role in the Church. She is the first and perfect Christian, also the mother of the Church. She is not the head of the Church.
Christ and Peter are the authorities. The Holy Father will either refer to Christ’s authority or to his own, when making an official declaration. Usually he uses the pronoun “We”.
My point is that Jesus may have sent Mary with a message, but it’s not a message that the Holy Father has not received through the Holy Spirit.
Therefore, do not be upset if he does not mention her. It is not because he wants to ignore her. The last several Popes have been very Marian. He does not mention her messages, because it is not necessary. He already knows and in the end, she has no jusristiction over the Curch. He does. Therefore, only he can mandate what we are to do.
Please relax and believe that the Holy Father already knows and is already acting on whatever needs attention.
God bless you
He told us these same things himself! What I am saying is that these messages aren’t something to be inordinately alarmed about, as if they are something we have not ever known, but that they are a reiteration of what Christ has already warned us about 2000 years ago. We should always be aware of these things - there should never be a time when we aren’t aware of them.
