David Moorcroft wrote an excellent in my opinion
article
in which he writes:
Here is the definition from the Oxford English Dictionary:
‘Plausible - specious, seeming reasonable or probable; persuasive but deceptive.’
After this promising start, Dr Bowring tells us:
‘I have examined all the messages, as well as all of the published evaluations and criticism of her messages, and have not found them to establish a single error in her reported messages…I have not found that her messages contradict any doctrine, or that they contain an actual error.’
Already, in his second brief paragraph, this learned theologian confesses himself unable to see any doctrinal error in the following alleged messages from ‘Jesus’:
(1) 6th Feb 2011: ‘Dearly beloved daughter, this is one of the finalmessages to be inserted in My first piece of Sacred Scripture contained in theVolume “The Warning”’.
The messages of the‘warningsecondcoming’ are here claimed to be ‘Sacred Scripture’, and therefore binding in divine faith. The church teaches that the Canon of Scripture was complete at the death of the last Apostle. Divine faith may not be given to any private revelation, however strongly approved.
(2) 12th May 2012: ‘It will take strong faith and acceptance of the Truth contained within these messages from Heaven to stay on the true path to eternal life.’
We must, then, believe MDM’s messages if we are to be saved. They are thus claimed to be public revelation.
(3) 21stNov 2010: ‘All paths lead to God, the creator of mankind.’
31st Aug 2011: ‘All religions,all creeds…are all so precious to My eternal Father.’
If our learned Doctor agrees with these words, he must believe that animism, spiritualism, headhunting, thuggee, devil worship, Freemasonry, witchcraft and Marxism lead to God, and are so precious to the Father.
‘But, as is Our Apostolic duty, we wish your Episcopal solicitude and vigilance to be aroused, so that you will strive as much as you can to drive from the mind of men that impious and equally fatal opinion, namely, that the way of eternal salvation can be found in any religion whatsoever.’ (Pius IX, ‘Singulari quadem.)
(4) 18th Dec 2010: ‘The Book of Truth is being presented to mankind to help them redeem themselves in My heart’.
We have no power to redeem ourselves in the eyes of God. This falsehood is repeated many times in the messages.
‘In Adam’s sin all men lost their natural power for good and their innocence. No one can of his own free will rise out of the depth of this fall if he is not lifted up by the grace of the merciful God.’ (16th Council of Carthage.)
(5) 24th Jan 2011: ‘It is harder to achieve My special graces than it is to avoid sin in any form.’
This is not harder; it is impossible. A grace, by definition, is a free gift of God’s love.
(6) 7th Nov 2011: (Jesus to MDM) ‘Without your sacrifice I could not fulfil My promise to save mankind.’
It follows, then, that Jesus is not God omnipotent, and MDM is necessary to our salvation.
(7) 21st May 2011: ‘My love, after the act of Redemption takes place, will flood your soul.’
A Catholic theologian who does not know that the act of Redemption took place once and for all time on Calvary is in trouble.
(8) 14thApril 2011: ‘Many Christians ignore one of the most fundamental promises I made during My crucifixtion [sic] where I would be present in bread and wine and leave a permanent mark to help nourish souls’.
If Dr Bowring has ‘examined all the messages’, he must have read this one. Perhaps his eyes were glazing over at the time – a common condition after prolonged exposure to the ‘ warningsecondcoming’ messages. It is perhaps understandable,then, that he overlooked the following facts:
(a) Jesus never made any such promise.
(b) Christ is not ‘present in bread and wine’ after the Consecration. The substance of these elements is no longer there, having become the substance of the body, blood, soul and divinity of the Lord.
(c) Reception of the Eucharist does not leave a permanent mark’ on the soul.
(9) 13th Sept 2011: ‘Never allow yourselves to accept any truth other than that contained in the Holy Bible.’
(a) Doctor Luther’s proposition ‘Scripture only’ was condemned at the Council of Trent.
(b) Catholics have an obligation to the truth as such, whether found in the Bible or elsewhere.
(c) The ‘messages’ of MDM are not contained in the Holy Bible.
(10) 25th May 2011: [God the Father] ‘This New Paradise on Earth is now being planned for all My children. It will last 1,000 years on Earth.’
The Church has consistently rejected this belief, known as ‘Millenarianism’. The Catechism of the Catholic Church condemns it as ‘the Antichrist’s deception’. (CCC, no 676.)
This is just a part of a longer article.
Anyway, the Chaplet helped bring me into the Church and have prayed it daily ever since. Can’t imagine having any peace in my day without the Rosary. But yes, my revert husband does think I am “over the top”. And yes, I agree, it is very important to let the Lord lead- funny you said back to basics because that is my Lenten reading plan