What’s your favourite private revelation?

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What is your favourite private revelation? It can be personal or a story of one of the Saints. One of the most interesting ones for me is the “illumination of Conscience” which has been foreseen by many saints and mystics.
 
How does one even answer this question w/o risking a suspension for mentioning the name of a private revelation?
 
I like St. Hildegard of Bingen’s visions of the five beasts, and the Holy Infant of Prague.
 
That’s a good one too. It’s a long read, but every page is worth it.
 
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I’m reading the abridged City of God - I purchased the 4 volume set on ebay at a really good price.
 
We could mention “approved” private revelations, such as Lourdes or Fatima.

However, I can see your point, undead_rat .

OP: Discussing unapproved private revelations is against the TOS of the forum. Technically, you’re encouraging people to break the TOS if their “favorite private revelation” happens to be one that the Church has not approved. I am not flagging anyone for that on here because your topic basically invites it.
 
My favorite approved revelation is probably Our Lady of Fatima.

My favorite unapproved private revelation is Rhoda Wise. In order to stay within the TOS I won’t discuss it further though.
 
My favorite is “The Way of Divine Love” by Sister Josefa Menendez. There’s so many good things in that book. It’s full of personal revelation. I’ve read the book several times and would recommend it.

This is what EWTN said about the book:
“Yes, The Way of Divine Love by Sister Josefa Mendendez is safe reading, and in fact a modern spiritual classic. No objections have been raised to her writings that I’m aware of, though that doesn’t mean the Church has authenticated her apparitions. It means only that no heresy has been detected in what she taught. Whether there is a cause for her canonization, we have not been able to determine, though we think there may be, if only at an early stage.”
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In the past year the mods have been more relaxed. If people write about private Revelations attributed as if they were public revelation, then they jump in. The problem is when even approved Revelations are misused, or they are used as a template to evaluate the magisterium.

Posters have at times misused Fatima for instance, “our lady warned us against this liberal Pope or archbishop”. Those threads ought to get cautioned.

The line between approved and unapproved private Revelation is helpful. The line between private and public revelation is crucial, and often forgotten.
 
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Since I don’t know much about private revelations, Church approved or not, I can only say that for me, it was the one the Holy Spirit gave me that made me leave Protestant churches behind and solely attend the Catholic Church. It was just something that answered my personal questions. But it meant a lot to me.
 
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Several Popes have spoken of Fr. Arnold Wion’s revelation in a positive way. One of these even made a tacit endorsement of it and is still known by its prediction. In light of these facts, it seems to me that branding Fr. Wion’s prohecy as an “unapproved” private revelation is nothing more than a means of censoring it made by those who are uncomfortable with its predictions.
 
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I apologize if I broke any rules. I’m fairly new to CAF. I realize that no private revelation through anybody, including The saints, is necessary for salvation and we are not bound to believe it. I think of many (Church approved revelation - not public revelation) like Fatima and Lourdes but also Divine Mercy Sunday, The Rosary, the brown scapular, and how “imporant these are to Catholics, though I’m aware that they are not necessary for salvation.

My intention was just to discuss an area of something that holds some importance to Catholics and expands on 2000 year old “public revelation”. I’ll absolutely change the topic to approved private revelation, if that is in line with these forums.
 
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Since I don’t know much about private revelations, Church approved or not, I can only say that for me, it was the one the Holy Spirit gave me that made me leave Protestant churches behind and solely attend the Catholic Church. It was just something that answered my personal questions. But it meant a lot to me.
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This is exactly what private Revelations are for. They then lead to study of public revelation, the Mass, and spiritual and corporal works of Mercy.
 
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In the past year the mods have been more relaxed.
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The “mods” are more “relaxed” because they are barely here and dependent on those of us who enforce the TOS via community flags. There have also been many complaints about the content on here now that the mods don’t do what they did on the old forum.
 
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