Posted on 09/15/2009 9:53:34 PM PDT by Salvation
Can you substantiate this, please?
Update: Irish bishop reviews Gallagher case
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on March 3, 2008 10:37 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Zenit reports a statement from the Archbishop of Tuam on the phony mystic Christina Gallagher:
Irish Prelate: “House of Prayer” Not OK’d by Church
Achill Center Founded by Woman Who Claims to Hear Virgin Mary
http://catholiclight.stblogs.org/archives/2008/03/update-irish-bi.html
You don’t validate charlatans with how often they are right, you validate them by how often they are wrong. Seeing 2 towers surrounded in smoke 9 years before 9/11 is not a prophecy. How many times has she predicted things that have not happened. I would venture to say it vastly outnumbers the few times she has been even vaguely correct. Fortunately for people like Esperanza true believers always forget the prophecies that never come true.
Maria Esperanza’s husband was one of the keynote speakers at the Conference, CALL TO HOLINESS, in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houson.
http://www.diogh.org/cth/program/program.html
THE MAN WHO PREDICTED 9/11
http://www.rickrescorla.com/
I have also found this:
“Father Timothy Byerley, pastor of St. John Vianney Parish, Deptford, has been appointed vice postulator for the beatification cause of Maria Esperanza Medrano de Bianchini.
Maria Esperanza was a visionary and the central figure in the Marian apparitions at Betania, Venezuela, which were approved by the Church in 1987.
She fell sick during a visit to Long Beach Island, N.J., and died there on Aug. 7, 2004. Consequently, her cause is being initiated from Trenton, the diocese within which Long Beach Island is located.
Father Byerley has known Maria Esperanza and her family since 1994. As Vice Postulator, he will work with the Roman Postulator, Dr. Andrea Ambrosi in attending to the legal, procedural and monetary matters related to the cause.
He will also have the duty to work with the local groups in the United States and Latin America to promote devotion to Maria Esperanza and to study and make known her life and spirituality for the edification of the faithful and the strengthening of the church in the Americas.
The Catholic church’s process leading to canonization involves three major steps. First is the declaration of a person’s heroic virtues, after which the church gives him or her the title Venerable. Second is beatification, after which he or she is called Blessed. The third step is canonization, or declaration of sainthood.”
Status: Her cause was put forward in August, 2009. It is in the preliminary stages of the diocesan investigation but has not received the decree “nihil obstat” from the CCS.
MARÍA ESPERANZA MEDRANO PARRA de BIANCHINI
layperson of the dioceses of Los Teques and Trenton; married
born: 22 November 1928 in San Rafael de Barrancas, Monagas (Venezuela)
competent diocese: Trenton
CCS protocol number:
type of cause: heroic virtues
nihil obstat:
opening of diocesan inquiry:
closing of diocesan inquiry:
postulator: Dr. Andrea Ambrosi
petitioner: Asociación Civil Fundación Betania, Santuario de Finca Betania, Edo. Miranda, VENEZUELA
Russia and NKorea.
Here is freeper’s SamAdams76 dream posted on
05/10/2001.For some reason the original thread link is dead.It was reposted here on a Dream Thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1800992/posts?q=1&;page=401
To: semaj
I’ve had the following dream at least twice involving an airliner:
I dreamed I was in downtown Boston and a Boeing 747 flew into the John Hancock tower. For those unfamiliar with Boston, the John Hancock tower is a 60 story glass building - the tallest skyscraper in Boston at 790 feet.
Anyway, in the dream, I’m walking past the Boston Public Library towards Copley Place and I look up in the sky and see this 747 coming in low to the ground. It crashes into the building up near the top so that the nose section is sticking out one end and the tail section is jutting out of the other. The wings shear off and fall to the ground.
Strangely enough, nobody around me seems to react to this seemingly catastrophic event. People just go on walking as usual. However, several fire trucks and police cars nonchalantly approach the building and begin to commence rescue operations. None of the rescue personnel appear to be in much of a hurry. It’s almost like they are carrying out a tired, routine drill.
However, I can hear distant screams from the airplane above as I approach the building. Sort of like the screams you hear from a distant roller coaster. People up there are screaming but nobody down below seems to be paying very much attention.
After waking from this dream (I’ve had it at least twice), I can’t seem to get myself together right away. The eerie feeling persists for an hour or two and I can’t get the sound of the distant screams out of my head nor the vision of the airliner pierced like an arrow through the John Hancock building in Boston.
16 Posted on 05/10/2001 17:25:30 PDT by SamAdams76
I’m in awe.
Iran and Russia.
So, you’re saying that God no longer sends us prophets. And wasn’t the Bible (The word of God) revealed to us through prophets?
1. Christine Gallagher has been exposed as a fraud.
2. The visions of Maria Esperanza have been approved, but the subsequent prophetic messages are not included in that approval. Yes, Betania is a sacred PLACE, and miracles occurred there, and YES, she received visions of the Blessed Mother, but her pronouncements are not, in fact, approved.
That said, if her prophecy is true, I would venture to guess that it refers to Russia and Venezuela, or Russia and Iran.
Spiritism is communication initiated by mortals. These visions are initiated by the saints. That’s distinctly different from Spiritism. There is no summoning that occurs.
I’m thinking that was in 2004.
I think you're substantially correct, though, I don't think there was an outright condemnation, but a lack of approval. I could be wrong, but I do recall having to remind myself that her locutions are not approved by the Church, though the visions and the happenings at the site (e.g. the Eucharistic miracle) of Betania are authenticated.
In any event, just a word of advice to, perhaps, dig a little deeper on the specifics of Betania and what the Church has approved of it vis-a-vis this woman and where and when the association between the two runs afoul of the Church's decision concerning the Betania event.
Sage words.
They are supposed to be open to all who come. My priest did not say “Catholic” churches. Just two churches were to be built on that site.
Could be Iran too. For some reason I am leaning toward Venezuela. Can’t explain it. Just my instincts.
Iran and Syria
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