With all due respect, why are these messages proliferating of these threads? Private revelations have no doctrinal authority (Catechism #67) but are intended to help us live more fully in a certain period of history...
This is just private opinion, not private revelation, but I don't understand how "messages" such as these are supposed to help us. It seems to me they are more likely to panic folks.
Jesus left us all that is necessary for Salvation and many of these "messages" tend to make folks anxious and anxiety does not add one second to our lives, or the enjoyment of our lives.
These messages and alleged Marian apparitions have exploded since 1960 and I don't think it a sign of spiritual health. The Bible warns about those seeking signs...
Of course, I accept Fatima and any other apparitions approved by the Local Ordinaries and/or Rome, but H.M. Church, the Ark of Salvation is more than sufficient to sail me and thee into eternity...
I was just at TAN books website, they have a book on (now) Venerable Anna-Maria Taigi, entitled 'Wife, Mother & Mystic', it mentions that she had visions and foretold the future for over 40 years. That she counciled Cardinals and Popes and that her body is incorrupt.
The Catholic Encyclopedia has an entry on her that says she was blessed with "extraordinary" gifts from God, seeing the future one of them.
Here's an excerpt from a book I have about her: "She touched the sick and they were cured; she warned others of their approaching end, and they died holy deaths. She endured great austerities for the souls in purgatory, and the souls, once set free, came to thank her...He (God) gives her knowledge of the past, present and future. She declares that Pius VII will return. She sees even beyond the reign of Pius IX...
Pretty remarkable. I'll take her word for something.
Perhaps people may panic if they read some of this stuff. Perhaps that is best. I'd rather panic now, and do something about it, like the people of Ninive, than do nothing and really panic when it happens and then its too late.
I'm curious about your thoughts on Jesus's words to St. Faustina in her diary, which are along the same lines as Ven. Taigis.
Thank you Sir, and Happy Father's Day.
This is true. The Eucharist and a renewed respect and reverence is one of things mentioned in this apparition, however. No one can argue that point at all.