What are we supposed to get from "gloom and doom" apparitions and prophecies?

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This entire thread is baffling me, because I never read about Marian apparitions while dwelling on “chastisements.”

Our Mother appears, she wants us to do something like pray for sinners and repent. It’s stuff we should be doing anyway. It’s like when we’re kids and our mothers have to remind us from time to time to clean our rooms, wash our hands, and be kind and polite to annoying old Uncle Grump. Only Mary is reminding us of our duty to help the world through prayer and sacrifice. All the stuff about hell and how a sinful world brings bad upon itself through mankind’s bad acts, we know all that already.

I’m getting the impression some people are focusing only on what terrible thing might happen next and not on what we’re supposed to be focusing on and doing.
 
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I don’t really pay much attention to appearances and upcoming chastisements to be honest.

The one thing that made me repent and change my way of life and thinking was the Eucharist and its concept and its presence in the Church.

This cemented my decision to be come Catholic and live as one.
 
I had the impression that your question was kind of hypothetical rather than that you were thinking of carrying on 🙂
 
People who truly repent have the Lord’s peace. When challenges and pain come along they can offer them up to the Lord. In this way they are building up the Body of Christ, God is glorified, and they gain in grace.
 
Yes it was.

I was actually echoing the questions of acquaintances who are not Catholic but are either agnostic or Protestant.
 
I am going through the time that you describe.

I lost my job due to COVID and have health issues that will make getting COVID potentially fatal for me.

There’s so much stuff that’s out of my control right now that it’s a struggle trusting God.

However, in spite of the struggle , I make the decision to continue to trust in spite of the uncertainty.

One thing I know for sure, I’d rather go through this difficult time with him than without.
 
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That is exactly how that question seemed!

I am in a similar situation to yours, also looking for work, luckily not in dire immediate need, but still… and yeah, it is hard sometimes when bad things happen to feel that confidence.
 
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I think it’s part of human nature to take a perverse glee in having insider knowledge of others being punished.
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Then that is a part of human nature that needs to be cured and remedied by faith, grace, and the sacraments.

You’d never know it, but I’m a real softie — I hate to see anyone get punished for anything. So when that “perverse glee” mutation of human nature was getting handed out, I guess I was out sick that day.
 
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So how are we supposed to live with such gloom and doom knowledge about terrible things about to happen to us, our neighbors, and the world dangling in front of us all the time?
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I think it means for us to do our best to obey Christ and when we sin repent, confess and change our lives.

It’s also important to pray for God’s grace, remembering the message is for us just as it is for our neighbor.

and also know that this life is temporary. Our goal is heaven.
 
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After reading some lengthy compilation of these last evening I found myself seriously depressed and wondering what in the world we are supposed to “get out of” such announcements. Serious Catholics are going to be prepared for death, confessing their sins and striving for virtue, no matter what. Non-serious Catholics and/or the general non-believing public are not going to pay attention whatsoever to such apparitions/prophecies.
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IMO I would consider 3 things:
  1. That’s not really human nature at all. We’re not angels. We’re people and we have material bodies like animals do. We need daily reminders and reflection otherwise we immediately start falling apart. A person is either moving forward or backwards but they never or almost never stand still.
  2. In everyday life the message is already overwhelmingly positive. Again, human nature: we don’t like to hear about sins and consequences. So, these messages are rubbing against the grain and they wouldn’t have been said unless it was beneficial for us to hear them.
  3. Depression is a chronic pattern of sadness that needs to be treated but feeling sad on certain occasions isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
 
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