Posted on 05/10/2017 9:03:36 AM PDT by Salvation
Continuing with the theme of urgency from yesterday’s post, we do well to consider Mary’s fervent requests at Fatima for prayer, conversion, and consecration. This Saturday will mark the 100th anniversary of Mary’s first appearance at Fatima.
It was a critical time in human history. The First World War had claimed more than 17 million lives. Mary urged prayer to end this catastrophe:
Thanks be to God, through the children’s prayers and surely those of others, the war did soon end. In October, Our Lady said,
War is a terrible result of human sinfulness as well as a punishment for it. Sin is its own punishment; when we sow the wind, we reap the whirlwind. Part of the horror of the First World War was the use of chemical weapons. So appalling was the suffering and so great was the loss of life that in 1925 most nations willingly signed the Geneva Protocol, which prohibited their use in international armed conflicts.
But Mother Mary urgently warned that if the people of this world did not repent, pray, and cease offending God, a war far worse would come:
Sadly, as we know, the Second World War formally ensued in 1939. Months earlier, in 1938, a remarkable display of the Aurora Borealis further south than ever observed made international headlines. It was a final warning. More than 60 million people died in World War II. Atrocities were multiplied, and the most fearsome weapon ever contrived—the atom bomb—would haunt the world long after the war. Russia, too, spread Marxist and atheist errors.
See what happens when we do heed the urgent request to pray? Wars can be ended, souls can be saved, and peace can be brought.
But also note the terrible consequences of failing to pray and be converted! Jesus once said to paralyzed man he had healed, See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you (John 5:14). So, too, for the people of that time who, though having received God’s mercies in the end of World War I, fell back into sin. The decadence, financial excess, and foolishness of the “roaring” 1920s, both in Europe and America, brought a harvest of corruption, both morally and politically. It ushered in both the Great Depression and then a war far worse than ever imagined.
Yes, prayer and conversion are both urgent and essential. This is true not only in terms of this world, but also of the world to come. This world’s travails are indeed awful, but they are temporary. Mother Mary sets far greater stakes before us: Heaven or Hell.
Where will you spend eternity? What about your children, siblings, and friends? Have you thought about this at all? Do you understand the urgency? Consider well some of what our Lady of Fatima said by way of an eternal warning:
Here is a mother urgently warning her children of the fires of hell, of the consequences of sin and the final refusal to repent. Here is a mother urgently calling for prayer, reparation, sacrifices, and conversion.
She is urgent; are we? To be urgent does not mean to be in a panic; it means to be sober and alert, to be persistent and consistent in attending to our final end and to that of others to the degree that we are able.
Caritas Christi urget nos: The Love of Christ urges us on! …. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God (2 Cor 5:14, 20).
When the PRACTICE does NOT match the TEACHING; where will you place the blame for it?
That's simply wrong theology because with the death and resurrection of Jesus, God eliminated the sacrificial system.
In Christ Jesus, sin and death were conquered once for all.
Romans 8:1-2 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
Any teaching that denies the efficacy of the work of Christ on the cross is from the enemy. That apparition stated something that contradicts Scripture
Therefore, it's safe to conclude that it's demonic in origin.
It is biblical to pray for the dead.
You just have an incomplete Bible.
Check out Maccabees. — It’s there!
Your church has approved a lot of things that are not found in Scripture.
Your church is on the cusp of approving the homosexual lifestyle and communion for divorced and remarried people.
Church approval apparently means nothing.
That's the ticket.
Remove anything that Catholics disagree with and label as *hate*.
That way y'all won't have to see it and you'll have your little safe space where there won't be anything said to upset you or challenge your little world.
BTW...good pickup on the part of no one to pray for make sacrifices for them.
You're right..In Christ Jesus, sin and death were conquered once for all.He is THE SACRIFICE.
ealgeone is already saved.
Pray for someone who doesn’t know Christ.
How does non-Catholics posting on a thread keep y'all from commenting on it and discussing it among yourselves?
Have a good night af.
Pray for someone living who doesn’t know Christ.
The way in which it was used made it pretty obvious what the intent was.
And considering that the post has since been deleted, apparently the RM agrees.
And your argument is beyond weak. It's absolutely pathetic. Just because a word has another meaning, doesn't mean it can't and won't be used as profanity, and that time it was.
Don’t be lazy.
Provide the reference yourself, like the rest of us do.
Don’t send me along to try to find something that you claim is in there. You’re the one trying to make the claim, not me.
It’s not my job to provide support for your arguments.
Who needs Mary when we have JESUS HIMSELF doing it?
Romans 8:33-34 Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
Hebrews 7:25 Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.
Who needs Mary when we have JESUS HIMSELF doing it?
Romans 8:33-34 Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
Hebrews 7:25 Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.
So right there it goes to show that the apparition lied when it said that there would be no one to pray for people or make sacrifices for them.
Jesus gave His life for us. Someone already has made a sacrifice for them.
So in both cases, the apparition was wrong.
The RC poster swore.
Deal with it.
Absolutely.
Thank you for that correction.
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