Mother Mary

           Jesus laments unbelieving priests; St. Michael warns anew on “shaking” Our times have reached the peak of urgency and, again, there’s a repetition in the recent prophecies of the world “shaking,” among other dire events. Mankind is to suffer, but is also being told to keep faith and hope: there is eternal light at the end of the tunnel. This, even as Our Lord Jesus Christ expressed lament over the failure of  priests to give importance to the messages being issued these days by mystics. The lament was issued by Our Lord Jesus to Italian Archbishop Ottavio Michelini. Of course, there is no obligation for anyone to believe private revelations, but if good reason tells us that such messages are indeed being issued supernaturally and quite urgently, a prayerful Catholic must lend ear. Even the Catechism of the Catholic Church affirms  prophecies on great trials for the Church, if not for entire mankind. By the way, ...

Most people regard St. Padre Pio (1887-1968) as being among the holiest in his years on earth, yet, despite the high regard of him by his followers, the good padre had instead hailed other contemporaries as deserving of being called saint. One whom Padre Pio praised loftily was Fr. Dolindo Ruotolo (1882-1970), a Neapolitan priest who, like him,  also bore Our Lord Jesus Christ’s stigmata.  Once, Padre Pio told a group of pilgrims from Naples:  “Why do you come here, if you have Don Dolindo in Naples? Go to him, he's a saint!”  Padre Pio and Fr. Dolindo knew each other on a personal basis. Once, Padre Pio remarked to his friend: “the whole of paradise is in your soul.” Why do I cite Fr. Dolindo? For several reasons, mainly around the prospect of the entire world already at the doorway of biblically historic chastisements that have been filling up the messages of Catholic mystics. We are in the end times and some of the messages, certainly from Heaven, warn that situat...