Three Days of Darkness?

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AlexV said:
It’s extremely dangerous for you and others to be spreading fear, terror, and false views of Catholicism and its tenets.

It is objective fact that it would be better for a Catholic to pray the Divine Office than to read up on a private revelation, especially an unapproved one. Liturgical prayer is the highest form of worship we can offer God, and the most efficacious form of supplication, thanksgiving, you name it.

And I will continue to spread the truth, not subscribe to terror and fear.

As for Revelation, I have read it. In Greek, in fact. No Three Days of Darkness there!
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Have you ever read the book The 4 Last things? Its about the end of EVERYONE’s life and it discusses 4 things. Death, judgment (particular), Hell, Heaven. I remember reading it and the thing that stood out was the terror that saints felt come judgment. Surely you can agree with that.

It is also an objective fact that we should do a lot more in our lives than just read the Divine Office. We should also live the virtues. Charity and humility come to mind and stereotyping people who are perfectly justified in reading approved private revelations is not very charitable.

You can read all the Divine Office you like but if you don’t have charity towards each other then it means NOTHING. Like St. Paul says in that Public Revelation book called the Bible "It’s like a cymbal clanging.
 
I suggest you catch up on this thread. Some of your associates in defending the nonsense of the Three Days had interesting things to say about charity.

I am well aware of Catholic dogma on matters eschatological. And said dogma does not include demons being unleashed from hell, demons faking human appearance to trick the righteous, beeswax 51% or better magic to protect us, or gamma rays shooting at us from a star…or, indeed, any of the garbage some have asserted about the End Times.

Many Catholics who subscribe to the cottage industry that exists in these scary “prophecies” are indeed in need of an education in the essentials of the Faith.

My comments on the Divine Office, reading the Fathers, the medieval masters, studying the liturgy…they stand. Time MUCH better spent than worrying about who claims they heard from Mary today.

As for TERROR…Christ NEVER said to feel terror. On the contrary, his consistent message was one of RELIEF from terror. As John Paul II rightly reminded us from first day of his reign.
 
AlexV said:
I suggest you catch up on this thread. Some of your associates in defending the nonsense of the Three Days had interesting things to say about charity.
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I have read every single post in this thread but just as others can’t speak for me I don’t speak for them. I speak on only what I feel needs to be said.
I am well aware of Catholic dogma on matters eschatological. And said dogma does not include demons being unleashed from hell, demons faking human appearance to trick the righteous, beeswax 51% or better magic to protect us, or gamma rays shooting at us from a star…or, indeed, any of the garbage some have asserted about the End Times.
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Nobody really knows what those times will bring but they will come.
My comments on the Divine Office, reading the Fathers, the medieval masters, studying the liturgy…they stand. Time MUCH better spent than worrying about who claims they heard from Mary today.
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I don’t disagree that the Divine Office is a great prayer but Fatima helped bring lapsed Catholics back into the Faith (one of the signs that the Church looks for when judging a Private Revelation). Redemption is one of the greatest aspect of our Faith.
As for TERROR…Christ NEVER said to feel terror. On the contrary, his consistent message was one of RELIEF from terror. As John Paul II rightly reminded us from first day of his reign.
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I totally agree but Fear of the Lord is a great Virtue.
 
The Divine Office is more important than any devotion connected to Fatima.

Remember my story about those Catholics who were so upset that Saturday, August 6 Mass was the Transfiguration and not something related to First Saturday.

THAT’S the problem with these private revelations, approved or not. They become cultish fads. They can distract from the essentials, starting with the liturgy.

And that’s why they’re utterly unnecessary.

John of the Cross was right: be wary of apparitions and visions.
 
AlexV said:
The Divine Office is more important than any devotion connected to Fatima.

Remember my story about those Catholics who were so upset that Saturday, August 6 Mass was the Transfiguration and not something related to First Saturday.

THAT’S the problem with these private revelations, approved or not. They become cultish fads. They can distract from the essentials, starting with the liturgy.

And that’s why they’re utterly unnecessary.

John of the Cross was right: be wary of apparitions and visions.
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Mass is more important than the Rosary but that doesn’t mean we can’t or should be discouraged from praying the Rosary.

I remember your post about Transfiguration and those people were wrong. However I am not those people.

The church doesn’t view Approved Private Revelations as problems. If they don’t think so why should we?

Of course we should be wary of apparitions but we shouldn’t let fear guide us in that wariness.
 
This thread is about the Three Days of Darkness.

Utterly unapproved.

Proven by this thread to be unCatholic in some aspects of its content.
 
There is no definitive evidence that Saint Pius of Pietrelcina spoke of the Three Days of Darkness.

And even if he did, saints are not infallible. Just because a saint said something does not make it true.
 
Techno2000 said:
:hmmm: Should I believe YOU, or a Genuine Saint like Padre Pio.:hmmm:
tldm.org/news/darkness-11-13-98.htm
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This has been said before. There is no proof that these quotes are authentic. This is one of the problems with this alleged prophecy. If I remember correctly, we have never seen copy of this letter even untranslated. Not only that, you can’t even find a “translation” of the entire letter. We have just seen quotes from the alleged letter. It’s highly unlikely that this alleged prophecy wouldn’t be found in any of Padre Pio’s writings which are available. Haven’t you yet noticed that these “famous” quotes of Padre Pio’s can only be found on TDoD websites???

Just for fun I googled and found this:

listserv.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9701c&L=apar-l&P=396

Some of you might want to contact the Society for Padre Pio too. Also, some of you might want to look at different Padre Pio sites. I’ve yet to run across one (yet) that’s dedicated to him and his teachings that mentions the Three Days of Darkness. Here’s one that most of us might consider accurate:
ewtn.com/padrepio/index.htm Where’s the TDoD mentioned. Don’t you find it curiously absent?!
 
Indyann said:
This is from an unnaproved apparition site (Bayside) Where are the mods when you need them? Unapproved apparitions are not even supposed to be discussed here, much less promoted.
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Please show me the web-link
or connection to Bayside, Thank you.
 
Indyann said:
This is from an unnaproved apparition site (Bayside) Where are the mods when you need them? Unapproved apparitions are not even supposed to be discussed here, much less promoted.
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Good work! That’s what I get for not going to the homepage. Yikes! Bayside has been disproved. We definitely shouldn’t take there word that this actually came from Padre Pio!

catholic.com/newsletters/kke_030722.asp
 
They probably got it from tlmd. :rotfl: And, not only that, they are a group that pretty much wants to take Opus Dei down - an approved by the Pope organization. You might want to look at their homepage too.
 
Indyann said:
Click on the link you provided for Padre Pio and then scroll to the bottom of the page. Left hand corner.
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I don’t understand Padre Pio Prophesys were
from the 50’s, Bayside was in the 70’s and 80’s Right?
 
AlexV said:
Now we know only demons will be outside, looking for people to kill. Despite the fact demons do not have the power to kill human beings.
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Maybe not. But wouldn’t tempting them in some way to forego their own salvation be ultimately the same thing?

Just a thought.

Who is to say that the resulting death being speculated is to be from physical attack … and not something worse such as your turning away from God in your final hour… ultimately preventing your entrance into the Kingdom forever?
 
Techno2000 said:
I don’t understand Padre Pio Prophesys were
from the 50’s, Bayside was in the 70’s and 80’s Right?
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How about this? Try and locate the letter supposedly written by Padre Pio to the Heroldsback Commission. You will not be able to find it in its entirety nor will you be able to find the alleged quotes from it from a website that’s completely in line with the Magisterium. The Vatican didn’t put it out. Nor, I doubt, will you find the quotes on a website that isn’t also linked to a dubious site.
 
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