GHOSTS APPEAR IN WORKING CLOTHES

WITH some, if not most mystics, relaying to us terrifying warnings for our times, how do we not fear? This was the topic of noted Catholic influencers and authors Mark Mallett and Daniel O’Connor in their Queen of Media Productions online program. Both have strong beliefs in modern-day Marian apparitions and that, yes, we are in an era that could be described only as apocalyptic.

My past columns shared some of such prophecies that, in sum, warned of a chastisement worse than the deluge of Noah’s time unless mankind changes, reforms, returns to God. That’s a lot of terrifying things to say, yet there is also an admonition: Fear not. How?

Both Mallett and O’Connor agree that such admonition can be realized only if one has firm faith in God; it also helps to believe in all that He teaches via his Church. There is life everlasting and each one is called to be part of the blissful side of this non-ending reality. If there has to be tragedy and disasters, these are means of last resort for those who can be converted only by the shock of it all and, thus, not be lost forever. You know, in hell.

Mallett is not in a rush, however, as he expresses concern for a wonderful wife and happy kids. But he happily declares his family is also prepping up for divine encounters, in a way that would make leaving this world, regardless of how even an attraction. This reminds us of St. Therese of the Little Flower who wrote how elated she was the day she coughed up blood. She took it as an indication that she was soon to go to everlasting life.

Faith in life everlasting, as Catholics profess at the end of the Credo, is something all should reflect on frequently. Even hourly. Or even more frequently than this because this should define the way we live each moment. Otherwise, lack of faith or worse, denial of the afterlife would only drive us to live to the hilt each moment. This is the core of the modern saying: life is short, the panacea to such brevity being that every second must be made pleasurable at any cost for as long as one does not land in jail which, after all, is not enjoyable.

Life on earth is indeed short but it is followed by life everlasting. Life on earth, however, determines where in the everlasting each one is to land. This should make all the difference in our earthly lives, ultimately ending in a choice between Heaven and hell. There are ground rules to be obeyed. And God had set the rules with due respect to our free will.

Because I really want to promote faith in the afterlife (which by the way can also include Purgatory in the meantime), I have also been writing about Maria Simma and her encounters with ghosts from Purgatory, as well as the experience of Medjugorje visionary Vicka who, during the first days of the Marian apparitions there, was allowed to see and even be embraced by her mother, who had died two months earlier.

After having relayed to readers some of the terrifying prophecies conveyed via modern mystics, I am shifting meantime to the likes of Maria Simma in the hope of helping firm up faith in the afterlife. This is also tagged with the hope that, in the mold of Mallett and O’Connor, fear would subside despite the times already showing, without doubt, the slip of the apocalypse. 

Simma: I am obedient to my Priest and to my Bishops who have said that as long as everything is theologically correct, as it has been so far, to continue with my apostolate. At first Bishop Wechner did have problems with my being able to get answers for other people. He called me in to see him and asked me from where these answers came, so I responded exactly the way I had found out myself when all this started. Very early on I asked a soul where it was getting the information. I thought perhaps that it would go out into Purgatory to find the other soul and then ask the second what it needed to be delivered. But the one in front of me instead answered, ‘No, all the information that we bring to you comes from and with the permission of the Mother of Mercy.’ When the good Bishop heard this he said, ‘Well, in that case, I cannot and will not say anything against it.’”

Q: Are you content with having this experience or is it difficult and painful at times?

Simma: I do not find it difficult because I not only help the Poor Souls, I help the living to return to their faith or to find the faith and it is that which brings me much joy. And when you see the Poor Souls, what do they look like? They come exactly as they were while here on earth and this I myself can, of course, confirm because many have come who I myself had known well. Yes, with the same clothes -- their working clothes. This is because our duty here is the most important. They always come in their work clothes, not in a bathrobe or Sunday suit. Our daily work is our mission.