Three Days of Darkness?

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maryalene said:
Does anyone know why must the candles be beeswax?
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Candles used to have to be beeswax under the older rubrics/ritual. Poorer parishes were permitted to have 51% beeswax candles.

They represent the purity of Christ, as beeswax is seen as pure, wholly coming from bees etc.
 
CatholicNick said:
Candles used to have to be beeswax under the older rubrics/ritual. Poorer parishes were permitted to have 51% beeswax candles.

They represent the purity of Christ, as beeswax is seen as pure, wholly coming from bees etc.
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They also burn for a super, super long time.
Longer then normal candles.
LOL!

The candles in the tall long jars that they sell in the international foods section at Safeway (near the mexican/Spanish food) 😃 with Jesus, Lourdes and Fatima. Those candles have got to have beeswax in them becase they burn forever. I’d bet one would burn for 24 hours. I have 5 of them (just in case). I just have to get them blessed now.

Holy water is another good thing to have on hand.
I have a bottle of Lourdes water.

Also, I’ve placed little silver crucifixes over all the windows and doors inside my home (even interior doors like the bedrooms).

Everybody’s mentioning that Padre Pio talked about the 3 days but I read that that was false, that he never mentioned it. I even read that in a couple books about him (he is my patron saint). Just thought I’d mention that.
 
Shoshana said:
Here is an article from Opus Dei about different Saints prophesying this:

opusdeialert.com/3daysofdarkness.htm
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Here is a quote from the above article from Opus Dei. The bold exists in the original:
**Obtain some wax candles and have these blessed by a Traditionalist priest. Do not buy ordinary white candles; they are not made of wax. Do not trust either a “new-breed” priest to bless your candles./**QUOTE]
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So what exactly is a “new-breed” priest? Would a blessing by a “new-breed” priest really not count? And why is no mention made of a priest who follows the Pope being the best kind of priest to go to for the blessing of wax candles? Is this prediction being interpreted then by the schismatic Traditionalist movement? And if I were to go to my local parish priests whom I trust, and ask them to bless beeswax candles and matches for me because of the Three Days of Darkness, what sort of reaction should I expect? I mean, having your throat blessed with candles in honor of St. Blaise in February is very common, I’ve seen that a lot. If the Three Days of Darkness is truly an issue, don’t you think priests should hold special candle blessings for that too?
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And if they need to be beeswax, I suppose we should hurry before all the bees die from that strange colony disease thing affecting them.
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~~ the phoenix
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the_phoenix said:
Here is a quote from the above article from Opus Dei. The bold exists in the original:
Obtain some wax candles and have these blessed by a Traditionalist priest. Do not buy ordinary white candles; they are not made of wax. Do not trust either a “new-breed” priest to bless your candles./
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That isn’t an Opus Dei Article or website, its a sedevacantist site, from what Ive seen, the type who think Cardinal Siri was really Pope…
 
Shoshana said:
Here is an article from Opus Dei about different Saints prophesying this:

opusdeialert.com/3daysofdarkness.htm
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I would stay away from that site, it attacks Opus Dei, read the following header from their site:

*This website is dedicated in reparation for the offenses, outrages and overall misrepresentation of true Catholic devotion to St. Joseph, the worthy spouse of the Most Chaste Virgin, as is advanced and perpetrated by the anti-Catholic Talmudic sect known as Opus Dei. *
 
Tom317 said:
I would stay away from that site, it attacks Opus Dei, read the following header from their site:

This website is dedicated in reparation for the offenses, outrages and overall misrepresentation of true Catholic devotion to St. Joseph, the worthy spouse of the Most Chaste Virgin, as is advanced and perpetrated by the anti-Catholic Talmudic sect known as Opus Dei.
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From Trail, Tribulation & Triumph
by Simon Birch

p. 283

“As the reader is about to see, numerous approved Catholic prophecies, including canonized Saints have predicted such a specific event. But a subsequent problem may have developed. There are printed materials containing prophecy of three days of darkness which attribute such a prophecy to Padre Pio. But the author has in his possession sworn documents from the Capuchin Order stating that no such prophecy ever emanated from Padre Pio. All the author’s attempts to track down an authentic source from Padre Pio have led to the conclusion that; some person (s) either accidentally or willfully created these attributions of such a prophecy to Padre Pio.”
 
The Ecstatic of Tours

“There will be earthquakes and signs in the sun. *Towards the end darkness will cover the earth.”

*Blessed Mary of Jesus Crucified

“During a darkness lasting three days the people given to evil will perish so that only one forth of mankind will survive.”

Sister Elena Aiello

“Clouds with lightning rays of fire and a tempest of fire will pass over the whole world and the punishment will be the most terrible ever known in the history of mankind. It will last 70 hours [three days]. The wicked will be crushed and eliminated. Many will be lost because they will have stubbornly remained in their sins. Then they will feel the force of light over darkness. The hours of darkness are near.”

Notice here that it says 70 hours, lightning rays of fire and so forth.

Sr Agnes, the Stigmatic Nun of Akita

“Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity.”
 
bones_IV said:
From Trail, Tribulation & Triumph
by Simon Birch

p. 283

“As the reader is about to see, numerous approved Catholic prophecies, including canonized Saints have predicted such a specific event. But a subsequent problem may have developed. There are printed materials containing prophecy of three days of darkness which attribute such a prophecy to Padre Pio. But the author has in his possession sworn documents from the Capuchin Order stating that no such prophecy ever emanated from Padre Pio. All the author’s attempts to track down an authentic source from Padre Pio have led to the conclusion that; some person (s) either accidentally or willfully created these attributions of such a prophecy to Padre Pio.”
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Thank you, I knew I had read that somewhere. It is easy to sensationalize these sort of prophecies.
 
Tom317 said:
Thank you, I knew I had read that somewhere. It is easy to sensationalize these sort of prophecies.
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Thank you. Shoshana, I don’t know where you are going to find this type of information but you should be cautious about what you run into.
 
Ok, I don’t understand a few things here. One is that If I am Catholic and I die in a state of grace, I go to heaven. So, why would I care to “survive” these three days. Some prophesies state that children wil be spared these horrors. so if I am caught outside and am killed then why would I have wanted to go through the three days of absolute horror, in darkness. Also some prophesies state that you should not open your doors or help those who are calling to you from outside. This seems to be in contradiction to What Jesus himself would preach. If I heard voices calling for help and tried to help them and died because of it then wouldn’t that be a great case for mayrterdom.
Again is why would one want to be lucky enough to survive these three days what is the reward for doings so, why must we prostrate and pray acts of contrition if the outcome is already foretold…Three days. I guess an equation would be the passover so eventhough I feel that this is theologically ignorant I probably will nonetheless go out and buy some beeswax candles and sheepishly ask a priest to bless them. Better safe than sorry and better faithful than logical I always say.
 
Potato1 said:
Ok, I don’t understand a few things here. One is that If I am Catholic and I die in a state of grace, I go to heaven. So, why would I care to “survive” these three days. Some prophesies state that children wil be spared these horrors. so if I am caught outside and am killed then why would I have wanted to go through the three days of absolute horror, in darkness. Also some prophesies state that you should not open your doors or help those who are calling to you from outside. This seems to be in contradiction to What Jesus himself would preach. If I heard voices calling for help and tried to help them and died because of it then wouldn’t that be a great case for mayrterdom.
Again is why would one want to be lucky enough to survive these three days what is the reward for doings so, why must we prostrate and pray acts of contrition if the outcome is already foretold…Three days. I guess an equation would be the passover so eventhough I feel that this is theologically ignorant I probably will nonetheless go out and buy some beeswax candles and sheepishly ask a priest to bless them. Better safe than sorry and better faithful than logical I always say.
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Don’t worry about it.
 
Potato1 said:
Ok, I don’t understand a few things here. One is that If I am Catholic and I die in a state of grace, I go to heaven. So, why would I care to “survive” these three days. Some prophesies state that children wil be spared these horrors. so if I am caught outside and am killed then why would I have wanted to go through the three days of absolute horror, in darkness. Also some prophesies state that you should not open your doors or help those who are calling to you from outside. This seems to be in contradiction to What Jesus himself would preach. If I heard voices calling for help and tried to help them and died because of it then wouldn’t that be a great case for mayrterdom.
Again is why would one want to be lucky enough to survive these three days what is the reward for doings so, why must we prostrate and pray acts of contrition if the outcome is already foretold…Three days. I guess an equation would be the passover so eventhough I feel that this is theologically ignorant I probably will nonetheless go out and buy some beeswax candles and sheepishly ask a priest to bless them. Better safe than sorry and better faithful than logical I always say.
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If any of us are here to experience and survive the three days, then it would be a huge grace to do so because the 1/4 if hmanity left would be responsible for rebuilding.
 
Tom317 said:
If any of us are here to experience and survive the three days, then it would be a huge grace to do so because the 1/4 if hmanity left would be responsible for rebuilding.
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I was under the impression that the New Covenant (Jesus) stopped this cycle of chastisement of broken covenants. I.e the flood, sodom, the passover. forty years in the desert type stuff. It would seem that Jesus sacrifice on the cross is for naught if God is still destroying a huge part of humanity and then “starting over again” This is contrary to who Jesus is and why he died. I believe that the end is near, but tha it is just that… The end. Then the beatific vission will be seen and held by the faithful. No more of this “oh ****, the temple is down again, lets rebuild it” stuff.
 
Tom317 said:
If any of us are here to experience and survive the three days, then it would be a huge grace to do so because the 1/4 if hmanity left would be responsible for rebuilding.
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Like I said, the prophecy is conditional, it may or may not happen.
 
Potato1 said:
I was under the impression that the New Covenant (Jesus) stopped this cycle of chastisement of broken covenants. I.e the flood, sodom, the passover. forty years in the desert type stuff. It would seem that Jesus sacrifice on the cross is for naught if God is still destroying a huge part of humanity and then “starting over again” This is contrary to who Jesus is and why he died. I believe that the end is near, but tha it is just that… The end. Then the beatific vission will be seen and held by the faithful. No more of this “oh ****, the temple is down again, lets rebuild it” stuff.
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Where does it say that?
 
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