Are You a Collector of Vintage Stuff?

In addition to all of the other things that show up on this blog, I also run an antique shop with my mother. She began the shop in 1988 after her last child went away to college, and so this shop is often called her 4th child. She began in one location, but unfortunately there was a fire at that building and she had to move. A good portion of her wares were salvageable but needed a great deal of soap and water. The smell of smoke lingered for a real long time.

She made her way to her current location in Marine City; an old bakery building that had evolved many times over the years. Many people come in and ask what was this building used for back in the day. We did have an older gentleman come in and say that his grandparents lived in the house next door and ran the bakery. That was probably in the 1940’s. We think the building was built in the late 1800’s. What was it originally, we really don’t know.

In the late 1990’s, early 2000s, antiquing was at its height, at least for us. While people are still buying pieces, the antique collector has changed if not disappeared. And the definition of antique has also changed in the last 30-40 years because people tend to gravitate to what they remember from when they were kids, or what grandma had in her house.

Mom has always had a few pieces of vintage Catholic items, but in the past year or two we have added some new Catholic pieces as well, in addition to my blessing cords. So the name she chose all those years ago covers all possible types of inventory: Old Times N Such.

So are you a collector? Something vintage, something new? Just curious about the current trends of the collecting world. Thanks for your input! and God bless you.

This is Our Time, Be Not Afraid.

The first iteration of this post sounded very hopeless; I was told. And so, I would like to open with hope and end with hope. We are God’s creation, and He loves us, and He wants us to be with Him forever in Heaven. The big question is what do we want? Do we want Heaven? If yes, then great! But we need to adhere to God’s rules, His Ten Commandments and live a life with His Sacraments. Not really a lot to ask for actually, since we usually make pretty lame decisions on our behalf anyways. There are a lot of people who seem to be living joyless, miserable lives. They, and we, need to convert to a life with God.

A recent Gospel reading was Mark 4:26-34:

Jesus said to the crowds:
“This is how it is with the Kingdom of God;
it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land
and would sleep and rise night and day
and the seed would sprout and grow,
he knows not how.
Of its own accord the land yields fruit,
first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.
And when the grain is ripe, he wields the sickle at once,
for the harvest has come.”

He said,
“To what shall we compare the Kingdom of God,
or what parable can we use for it?
It is like a mustard seed that, when it is sown in the ground,
is the smallest of all the seeds on the earth.
But once it is sown, it springs up and becomes the largest of plants
and puts forth large branches,
so that the birds of the sky can dwell in its shade.”
With many such parables
he spoke the word to them as they were able to understand it.
Without parables he did not speak to them,
but to his own disciples he explained everything in private.

As the priest explained it in his homily, and my recollection of it; we all have jobs to do, and God makes them “grow”. He is in control. We have to let God be in control. Even if it seems like the world is out of control, God has it. We cannot possibly comprehend His plan. So we need to do our jobs, whatever and however many jobs we each have, and then leave the rest to God. Jesus, I Trust in YOU!

We were born in this time; we were born for this time. Do not be afraid.

And now back to our regularly scheduled programming:

We all have heard things. Things about the end of the world; things about the corruption of humanity; things about cataclysmic earth events; and on and on. These things are there in the back of our minds, but we don’t think much about them. There is too much going on in our day to day lives, and we need to take care of the business at hand. And, who really wants to focus on all of that doom and gloom. Don’t be a Debby-downer, aye? Think only happy thoughts, the power of positive thinking.

But what caused the dinosaurs to become extinct? What caused the great depression? What causes an earthquake? What causes a paradigm shift in just about any subject? What causes climate change? It’s funny how so many non-man-made problems are attributed to man, and how so many man-made problems are attributed to anything but man.

What the heck am I trying to say here? Well, ever since Covid came on the scene, the world has been a very different place, at least from a human stand point. Again, what caused the Covid virus? That is the million dollar question and there are many different answers, depending on who you talk to, or listen to. But let’s back up some.

Several decades ago, when I was trying to find my peace with the happenings of the world, I began reading political commentaries. Some made more sense than others and some of the writers were astounding; Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell, those men are geniuses. Whether those two mentioned the New World Order, I can’t remember, but I know that New World Order was mentioned many times in my readings; and I kept thinking, if they know about it and how bad it is or will be, why can’t something be done to stop it now? Fast forward to today, and New World Order (and whatever other names it goes by as well) is talked about in many circles, not just political commentaries. The Davos meetings regularly make the mainstream and not-so mainstream news headlines.

Apparently, the New World Order has been planning to take over the world for at least a century or two. And as the WEF and Klaus Schwab like to say, you will own nothing and be happy. This robbing of humanity is to take place “soon”. Also, apparently, the control factor of the Covid lock downs is part of the New World Order. It was a test run of their ability to control the masses. Just like climate change is a control factor.

Control factors. For some reason, there are powerful people who want to control every aspect of the lives of the little people. They are able to manipulate our food supply, our news stories, our history, and so much more. Some people can see it and get angry. Other people can’t see it and are oblivious. Some people try to counteract these control factors and others enable them. Personally, I have no clue on how to do anything about it, except to try to get others to see that there is a problem.

Switching gears a bit, within some Catholic circles it is believed that there is a coming chastisement and tribulation that will conclude with the Three Days of Darkness. There are supposedly several steps that lead up to the three days of darkness; some have even mapped the seven seals in the Book of Revelation to the precursors of the days of darkness. A lot of those steps map amazingly well to the steps that the New World Order has been bragging about.

The Three Days of Darkness has some Biblical references, and many mystics and Marian apparitions have spoken about it as well. But why would the New World Order people care about what the Bible or some saints have to say? They clearly want to control humanity and don’t appear to be God-fearing people. But again, these things seem to line up a little too well. Only God knows when the Three Days of Darkness will occur because it will be His chastisement on humanity.

So let’s switch gears once again. This next topic is very new to me. As I said, I’ve known about the NWO for several decades and I’ve known about the Three Days of Darkness for about 25 years. This new topic, the Earth Catastrophe Cycle, tells us that the Earth is on schedule to experience its once every 12000 years magnetic pole reversal. The earth is going to flip within the next 20 years! Yes, really! This magnetic pole reversal began almost two hundred years ago. Scientists have been studying this Earth Catastrophe Cycle for a good long while, and you know that other people (the Elites included) have been listening in and making plans on how to use this information. (Yes, really….? Well, some circles of this scientific study are 75-90% certain that this pole reversal is slated to happen in the next 10-50 years. Only God really knows.)

We are in the midst of an energy crisis, an economic crisis, a climate crisis, and a whole bunch of sub-crises that stem from these. Life as we know it is one big crisis. So my mind has cross analyzed and over analyzed all of these things and from the comments of the experts who talk about these things individually, and sometimes overlapping, I see that the Elites are also aware of the pending Earth magnetic pole flip and they are assuming that a large portion of humanity will die as a result and so they are taking over the world with abandon.

The economic experts say that the U.S. debt is currently growing $1 trillion every quarter! That can never be paid back. The custodians of our pension plans are investing our money to their benefit with wild abandon. The climate and energy crises are tightly coupled. The powers that be think that in order to “save the planet” we need to destroy humanity by turning off all of the fossil fueled power plants. We are very dependent on our electricity. And “they” are telling us to use less energy while as the same time telling us to buy only electric cars! The climate crisis is mostly caused by the earth’s weakening magnetic field and the cycle of the sun, which is sending more solar flares our way, but if you listen only to the news, humanity is causing the climate problem.

The way I see it, the three factors are converging: the New World Order plan, the 12000 year extinction event, and the Divine Chastisement. Unfortunately many people are going to die because of all three factors.

Before I end with the final call for repentance and hope in God’s great plan for us, I want to speculate a bit about the Earth’s Catastrophe Cycle and the Three Days of Darkness. Some scientists believe in God, some don’t. But pretty much all of them are driven to analyze the science to make sense of the world. Great, we need their scientific study. But we also need to remember that this Earth is God’s creation, and it operates according to His specifications. Just because science can figure things out doesn’t mean that there isn’t a God aspect to the happenings. Also, we have prophecy, where, through His messengers, God is preparing His people for the coming Chastisement. Some religious people who also believe in the prophecies disregard the findings of science when it comes to God’s miraculous happenings. They don’t like it that science wants to scientifically explain the plagues of Exodus or other miraculous things. Some of them are explainable. God can do miracles within His creation’s law of physics and without the laws.

Which gets me to this: I believe that the next catastrophe cycle of the earth and the prophesied Three Days of Darkness are one and the same thing. The timing is uncanny. The details of both are very similar.

Why does God have this 12000 year reset cycle? We will have to ask Him when we get to Heaven (so make Heaven your eternal goal!). But clearly the science shows that extinctions happen (the dinosaurs). But it also shows that there are geological markings of survival too. Some life on the planet will survive the catastrophe, the darkness. Even some of the messages say that there will be great migrations of people seeking a more hospitable climate, presumably after the earth and pole shift during the Three Days of Darkness. Whether you want to plan to be with the survival crowd is up to you. There are a lot of preppers these days. I’m not sure what kind of catastrophe they are planning for, many are being predicted by all sorts of mindsets.

So here we are, nearing the “end of the world” as we know it. What to do? Firstly, continue living your best life, don’t shut down. Stay committed to your family and friends and all of your jobs and have some fun while you’re at it. Some of us will survive this catastrophic chastisement, and some won’t. Regardless of our surviving that event or not, we must get right with God as soon as possible.

One of the precursors of the Three Days of Darkness is the Warning, a.k.a. the Illumination of Conscience. A great gift from God. God wants our conversion and our repentance. The sooner the better. Repent and believe in the Gospel, Jesus said. He has been saying this to us for 2000 years, and we have mostly been lackadaisical. Repent now is the best case. Repent after you get your personal Warning where God shows you ALL of your sins and where you would end up if you were to die that day. He means Heaven or hell. Yes, hell is real. And, yes, souls do end up there; souls that choose not to love God. We choose our eternal destination. We either want to live a life with God or we don’t. We either want to be in Heaven forever or hell forever.

(Unfortunately, there are prophecies that science will be used to explain away the Warning. The evil one will use science to say it was all a hallucination or something like that. There are aspects of this post that are a little Catch 22. So, we must pray and ask God for discernment in all that is happening and will happen. There is good science and bad science; there is good prophecy and bad prophecy.)

The point of all of this is, that according to the mathematical calculations of the astronomers and science guys, the polar flip could very well finalize WITHIN 20 years. And the messages from Heaven are sounding more and more urgent. Unless you’re already over 80 there is a good probability that you will still be alive in 10 or 20 years. Decide now! Choose life. Choose eternity with God in Heaven. Do it now!

Most of the Heavenly messages I read are from CountDownToTheKingdom.com.

The Earth Catastrophe Cycle information comes from Suspicious0bservers.org.

How God Prepares Us for Conversion

Faith is a journey. God gives us His Eucharist as Food for the journey. But so many of us reject His Food, reject His gift of faith.

But even in our rejection of Him, He is still reaching out to us, preparing us for our moment of conversion. And so, I will set the stage for the upcoming great moment of conversion, the Warning. Again, when is it going to happen? Only God knows, but there are a lot of signs that it will occur within most of our lifetimes.

I follow the alleged Heavenly messages of the modern mystics. They give me great peace as I watch the chaos swirling around us. From these messages a possible timeline of the coming chastisements and tribulations can be determined that might go something like this: the Warning, a six weeks of conversion time, the Great Miracle at Garabandal, the arrival of the Antichrist, the time of the refuges (three and a half years or less), the Three Days of Darkness, and then the Era of Peace.

So what is the Warning? Previously I wrote that the character, Scrooge, in A Christmas Carol, had a warning experience that was very similar to the Warning stories in Christine Watkins’ book. So even without reading the real-life stories in Watkins’ book, most of us know a little bit about Ebenezer Scrooge’s story. He was a cranky, selfish old man who was visited by four ghosts on Christmas eve, and it transformed him. I am praying that all of my family and friends will respond “properly” to the Warning and convert and come (back) to the faith, so that they won’t be lost into the darkness of the Antichrist and the mark of the beast and all that. And so, I wait and pray… While I completely trust in God, in His infinite mercy and goodness, I have trouble trusting my family and friends who clearly aren’t interested in what God has to offer them.

But God, the miracle worker, already has it all planned out.

Personally, I have been trying to live a more faithful life, even more so in the recent months. I have been getting to daily Mass almost every day and I have been really praying my Rosary, instead of just listening to the app. As a result, God has given me some additional insights.

A new insight came when I learned about a new book called Guadalupe and the Flower World Prophecy (available at Sophia Press). Here is a half hour interview with the authors and the information they share is just amazing! We all know that Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to Juan Diego over the course of four days in December of 1531 and then within ten years some 10 million Aztecs converted to Christianity. The part most of us don’t know is that God gave the Mesoamerican culture 3000 years of evangelical preparation. That preparation was the flower world prophecy which came down through the ages in the flower song poems where the flowers represent the ultimate truth and attaining heaven in the afterlife. The authors tell us that on the first day of the apparition, Juan Diego was swept into a flowery paradise in the land of heaven, and he said, “Is this the flower world?” All the indigenous people immediately knew what he meant by the flower world. And because Juan Diego was baptized, he was able to see and experience this flowery paradise. All the Aztecs wanted to experience this flowery paradise, too, and so, they were baptized. This is just a very brief summary of the topic. My copy of the book has been ordered, so stay tuned. Make sure to listen to the above interview.

Where am I going with this? Well, another prayerful Rosary time and I am crying out to God that He gave the Aztecs the flower songs and they converted. What is He doing to prepare us for the Warning? It seems to be so close and yet so many people are totally disinterested in God and their everlasting residence after death. And then God said to me, remember that Scrooge article you wrote? That is My preparation for this generation.

Wow! I was bouncing off the ceiling! When did Dickens first write this story? 1843. That’s almost 200 years of preparation for the Warning! Of course, God’s got this. Pray, hope and don’t worry. And do not be afraid. Jesus, I Trust in You.

To a young girl from Nazareth:

Imagine if you will, thousands of years before you were born, some proud angel tempted another woman to her downfall, thinking she was you.

Then as time went on prophets of old would prophecy about you and the miraculous things you would be involved with.

And then you came to earth. As an adolescent young woman, immersed in your faith praying to God, that you would be the chosen virgin to bear His Son, just like your peers and generations of young girls before you. And behold, another angel appears to you and,… ‘hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you’; blessed are you among women. You have been chosen by God to be the mother of His Son. Miraculously you conceive by the power of the Holy Spirit. The angel also tells you about your elderly cousin, Elizabeth, who is also miraculously with child, and you go in haste to visit her.

This visitation, in a human face-to-face way, sets the stage for your future Heavenly visitations to humanity.

Your Son is born, the King and Lord of all, in a lowly stable. Immediately He is glorified and also hunted as a threat to the powers of humanity. For thirty years your family life is quiet and under the radar. And then His time has come. You were His first disciple. You were there at the wedding of Cana and said to us, ‘do whatever He tells you’; and you were there at the foot of the Cross. And then He left you, in the human sense.

You received the Holy Spirit in the Upper Room with the apostles and other disciples, and then John cared for you as his own mother, as our mother. And then your earthly life was over. As the Mother of God you received another miraculous gift. You were assumed into Heaven to be with your Son. Once there, that little girl from Nazareth, was crowned the Queen of Heaven and Earth, the Queen of the Angels. There you are in the midst of the Heavenly Throne Room, as the mother of the King, the Queen Mother, you have a big job to do, and God gave you the supernatural power to do it. You are the most powerful creature in the universe, and you are mother of us all, and are we in serious need of mothering!

There is something special about the Second Joyful Mystery. All the Mysteries are special, but this one, like a few others, sets the stage for more to come. You went in haste to visit Elizabeth, and then as Our Lady of the Pillar in 40 A.D. you went to visit (as in bilocate) St. James in Spain to console him. You were still earthly alive, living here on earth! And so, it began.

Humanity was slowly brought to know your Son and His saving grace. Missionary work spread throughout the world and people converted. But it wasn’t perfect conversion. The devil was still at work. But the Christian lifestyle seemed to create a mostly positive world for all levels of society. Monasteries were built and towns and villages grew up around them. The people tithed to the church and the church religious offered assistance with hospitals and education. Of course, people complained about all the rules. They always do. Especially since their pagan neighbors didn’t have to abide by them and they were doing okay. Time progressed and the “Enlightenment” grew, and the devil was pleased. Missionaries were still moving farther out into the world along with the secular powers as they looked to find and conquer new lands.

Love of power was growing and so was sin. You could see that your children were choosing sin over God’s love and souls were being lost. And so your visitations began in earnest. By the power of God you are able to appear in various places on earth. You usually appear to little children or to those of lowly birth. You echo the message of your Son, repent and believe in the Gospel, repent and convert. You want us to choose Heaven and we want fast, fun and easy living or at least we are easily swayed by the promises of the powerful of whatever time we happen to live in. You give us more miracles: a 500 year old tilma with your miraculous image, a healing spring dug by a young girl in a grotto full of garbage, a dancing sun and so much more. But we are still too distracted by what the devil has offered to us through his minions.

Why is it so difficult for us to focus on the Heavenly when we have all of these miracles placed in front of us? Why do we choose momentary bling instead of eternal bliss?

And, at the same time, your faithful children can’t seem to see you properly and consistently. You come to us in many ways in these modern times. There are the apparitions, which dramatically increased in the 20th century, and there are messages via locutionists. We have the messages and visions of old that we have scrutinized, and we have many alleged modern day visionaries. Oh what discord they cause. We really don’t know if any of them are true, especially since many of them are on-going. Some people believe them but most don’t. And various scholars attack modern prophecy. But those of us with faith in your visitations believe.

These modern messages again tell us to repent and convert. If we all did that the world would be such a different, better place. The messages also give us warnings of potential chastisements and tribulations. Why the scholars and others vocally disregard these warnings is beyond comprehension. The Bible warns us of these prophecies and yet these modern messages can’t be true?, especially not true in the near-future sense. And so we are confused but hopeful and waiting for some sign from God. Waiting.

Three Days of Darkness? But Wait, There’s More!

One of my previous posts on the Three Days of Darkness has taken on a life of its own. But there are a few other details that aren’t fully explained in that post.

The Three Days of Darkness is at the very end of the coming tribulation. We also have the three and a half years prior to it to live through. Several places in the Bible mention these three and a half years:

Revelation 12:13 When the dragon saw that it had been thrown down to the earth, it pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.

Revelation 12:14 But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle, so that she could fly to her place in the desert, where, far from the serpent, she was taken care of for a year, two years, and a half-year.

A year + two years + a half-year = three and a half years… And next in Daniel, “times” is the same as years.

Daniel 12:6 One of them said to the man clothed in linen, who was upstream, “How long shall it be to the end of these appalling things?”

Daniel 12:7 The man clothed in linen, who was upstream, lifted his hands to heaven; and I heard him swear by him who lives forever that it should be for a time, two times, and half a time; and that, when the power of the destroyer of the holy people was brought to an end, all these things should end.

Daniel 7:25 He shall speak against the Most High and wear down the holy ones of the Most High, intending to change the feast days and the law. They shall be handed over to him for a time, two times, and half a time.

According to various Church Fathers, these three and a half years are the time of the antichrist who will change the feast days and the law. For the faithful Church remnant, it will be the time of refuges. They, we, will be living under God’s Divine protection, carried there on eagle’s wings, or at least led there by our guardian angel.

Exodus 19:4 You have seen how I treated the Egyptians and how I bore you up on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.

But prior to these three and a half years, we will experience The Warning, a.k.a. the Illumination of Conscience. God’s greatest gift will be bestowed upon us just before things get real hairy, real scary. At the same moment in time, the world will be put on pause and God will show each and every one of the world’s people, regardless of their faith/belief in Him, what the state of their soul currently is, and where they are bound for eternity, heaven or hell. After the Warning, what we do with this new knowledge of ourselves is up to us. Do we become better followers of Christ, new followers of Christ, or say heck no to Christ? God gives us free will.

So we have The Warning, the Time of Refuges, and the Three Days of Darkness after which we will have the Era of Peace.

There is also the Six Weeks of Conversion. This directly follows the Warning. The devil will be disabled, shall we say, for these six weeks, and those of us who were already on board with God’s great plan of salvation that we are speaking of here, will have to work feverously for six weeks to get all of our loved ones to convert to Jesus Christ and His Church. They will need to be baptized if they aren’t already and then get to Confession ASAP. The Confession lines will be LONG. Please encourage everyone to be patient AND to assist our overworked priests with sandwiches and beverages and bathroom breaks!

We also will need to pack our bugout bags during these six weeks to be ready in a flash for when the angels let us know that the time for refuge is now. We will have only 20 minutes to collect our necessities and exit our homes for the refuges. Know that you will NOT be returning to your homes ever again. I know. We are attached to our things, but God and Heaven should be more important to us than our worldly possessions. So, collect what is really important, and necessary for basic living, in the six weeks and have it ready to go when your angel calls (pack up your car in advance if you need to).

And you will know that your angel is calling. You will receive an inner locution message and then a flame of light will appear in front of you, and you will follow that light. Remember, within 20 minutes you need to exit your homes, after that the doors of the “banquet” are closed and you will be locked out like the unwise virgins who didn’t bring extra oil for their lamps.

Oh, and know too that your cellphones and computers and any other “smart” devices are NOT important. You will not be allowed to bring them into the refuges so don’t even bother to pack them.

Life in the Refuge…. think Amish-style. It will be difficult and know that you will have plenty of chores to do.

Finally, don’t be afraid. The only thing to truly be afraid of is being left in the world with the antichrist in charge. Know that God wins in the end. And I plan to be on His team! God bless you all.

A Scrooge Type Warning for All of Us

A couple I know have a Scrooge marathon every Christmas season. They watch several versions of A Christmas Carol. One time I asked the woman why the fascination with Scrooge? She likes to see his transformation. Apparently, so do many other people. Since the beginning of broadcast media, there have been over 80 renditions of A Christmas Carol, starting with radio programs in the early 1900’s! Both men and women have been portrayed as Scrooge or a Scrooge-like character. So, it appears that the Scrooge fascination is very widespread and long lived.

There are many internet hits when Ebenezer Scrooge is entered, again, pointing to the timelessness of his story. What are people looking for when they search out this grumpy miser turned humble man? Do we see ourselves in his transformation?

My recent interest in this story has to do with its similarity to The Warning, a.k.a. Illumination of Conscience or Life Review or Judgment in Miniature. There is a prophesied warning coming from God that will allow all of us to have a Scrooge review of our lives. It is supposed to happen to everyone all at the same time, and then, like Scrooge, we get to decide to keep on living as previous, or will we change our ways? The ideal is that we will have a conversion experience and give our lives to God and want to do His Will and follow His law.

Christine Watkins wrote a book called The Warning: Testimonies and Prophecies of the Illumination of Conscience. She writes about the prophecies and about people who have had a real Ebenezer Scrooge experience and transformation. Some of the testimonies highlight people who had majorly indulgent lifestyles, and others weren’t “bad” people, they just didn’t care about God and their relationship with Him as they should. In these examples, the people all transformed for the good. Are there people who have received a private warning and chose to continue in their former ways, probably.

What made Charles Dickens come up with the warning scenario for Scrooge? Did he have one himself? That doesn’t appear to be discussed much, if at all, when the story is mentioned. There are a few analyses behind paywalls, but I can’t get to them. If God has given us modern day warning stories, He most likely gave warnings to people in the past as well.

When will the global Warning happen? That is the million-dollar question. We are not to know God’s timing, but He does give us signs and signals that “something” is on the way. People “feel” something is eminent. But it appears that the main response to this feeling is prepping, i.e., being able to withstand the coming Armageddon and having supplies for when the grid goes down.

How many of us are preparing our souls? If Armageddon does happen, many of us will die. I don’t know about you, but I want to get to Heaven if I don’t happen to live through the chaos. So, I need to live a good life now, by living according to God’s Will, following the Ten Commandments, and practicing the Sacraments, especially regular Confession/Penance and receiving the Eucharist often and in a state of grace (no mortal sins on my soul).

I don’t know what other people are listening to or reading for the news, but every now and then I get a little rush in my shop for my Three Days of Darkness kits. A few orders come in in rapid succession and then it’s quiet again. This happens over and over. Don’t get me wrong, I am happy for the sales. But what are the signs and signals that people are getting? I have my own sources for “news”, both secular and spiritual, but I have been following this for several years, so I like to consider myself as tuned in to the coming chastisements. Are more people waking up to the coming Chastisements? I sure hope so!

As for when? It potentially could be “soon”. However, soon for God is way different than soon for us. There are a few factors though that could put it in the more sooner than later timing. The current chaos of our world for one. We have economic, war, and climate issues. These match the seals in the book of Revelation. Yes, there are different interpretations of those seals, whether they are explaining the past or predicting the future. It could be both! There is also the coming Great Miracle at Garabandal, Spain. It is supposed to happen within the lifetime of Conchita, one of the visionaries, who will announce the Miracle eight days before it happens. According to the proposed timeline, this Great Miracle will happen shortly after The Warning. These make it sound like it will happen in my lifetime.

Final thought, don’t be frightened by these revelations. Knowing about them and doing my best to get right with God has given me great peace. Do not be afraid, this phrase appears 365 times in the Bible. Peace to you and God bless you.

Spiritual and Physical Health, Which Gives Us the Most Peace?

In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

I have mentioned a couple times that I am regularly reading and find great peace in the Heavenly messages that are presented on CountDownToTheKingdom.com. I have also mentioned several years ago, that I took a course on health coaching among other wellness classes. Well, just recently I took another course on detox for parasites, mold and what-not, and an old inspiration came roaring back.

This recent detox course was very rigorous, lots of rules and guidelines. If you want to see the expected outcome of the class, you must follow the protocols to the letter. Yes, each person is physiologically different and some need to go slower than others, but protocols and the food filters and the environmental factors must all be considered and followed. So they say. And then for those who follow a more allopathic course for their bodily health, they do the diet and exercise as well as preventative testing and pills and procedures. All in all, it doesn’t matter if you subscribe to holistic or allopathic health means there are still many steps and guidelines that are recommended for optimal health and healing.

What about spiritual health? What are the protocols and rules and guidelines for spiritual health? There actually is a spiritual component in that last class that I just took, there are seven layers; environmental, biochemical, bioelectrical, emotional, mental, collective, and spiritual. Starting at the bottom (environmental) the toxins flow upward from each level and contaminate our whole person. That’s our body and soul person. I have seen many memes and articles, Catholic and otherwise, telling us to control our emotions. And yes, we need to do that but sometimes we have gotten ourselves into such a big mess with all of the toxic stuff that is in the world today that it’s not easy to control them. I’m not saying this as a cop-out, but rather an additional thing to consider on our spiritual journey.

Once again I bring in a favorite quote from St. Augustine: “Treat the body as if you are going to live forever, and treat the soul as if you are going to die tomorrow”. Way back then it was understood that we are a unit, body and soul. Today we treat them as separate entities, both in the Church and in modern medicine. So going back to St. Augustine, we need to consider that a portion of our spiritual journey begins with a healthy body.

But on to the main point of this article, the protocol for spiritual healing. There are many spiritual retreats and books by spiritual masters. They are there for your additional spiritual care. The protocols to be collected here are from the Heavenly messages gathered at CountDownToTheKingdom.com. In many of the messages Our Blessed Mother calls us to follow her guidance. It took me awhile to recognize the guidance, but I think I see it now, and I will share many points to follow. Additionally, there is a message from Pope John XXIII: “We urge you to listen with simplicity of heart and sincerity of mind to the salutary warnings of the Mother of God… The Roman Pontiffs… If they are instituted the guardians and interpreters of divine Revelation, contained in Holy Scripture and Tradition, they also take it as their duty to recommend to the attention of the faithful—when, after responsible examination, they judge it for the common good—the supernatural lights which it has pleased God to dispense freely to certain privileged souls, not for proposing new doctrines, but to guide us in our conduct.” —POPE ST. JOHN XXIII, Papal Radio Message, February 18th, 1959; L’Osservatore Romano.

Mother Mary is to be our guide in our conduct! What a blessing; what peace of mind. Are we going to follow her guidance? That is the big question. We are in troubling times, that are getting progressively more troubling. We desperately need Heavenly guidance. I have been collecting these Heavenly messages for over six months in journals, but I have been regularly reading them for over three years. Thankfully the messages are similar, the guidance is consistent. Is it repetitive? A little, but most prominent speakers of our day have learned that they need to repeat themselves several times so that their audience absorbs the message. So it is with Our Blessed Mother, and Jesus and St. Michael the Archangel, who also give messages to the visionaries and locutionists. Heaven is consistent and persistent, let us join with the program.

Here we go!

(Most of these are not the whole message but rather just the guidance portions.)

Pedro – Do Not Forget – Countdown to the Kingdom

Our Lady Queen of Peace to Pedro Regis on June 8th, 2023:

Dear children, trust in Jesus, for in Him alone is your true deliverance and salvation.

Do not forget: in your hands the Holy Rosary and the Holy Scripture; in your hearts, love for the truth. My Jesus expects much from you. Always seek Him in the Eucharist, and you will be great in faith.

Love and defend the truth. Alongside the good shepherds, fight for the Church of my Jesus. Heaven will be your reward.

Our Lady Queen of Peace to Pedro Regis on June 6th, 2023:

Be meek and humble of heart, for only in this way can you understand God’s plans for your lives.

Do not stay mired in sin. This is the opportune time for your great return.

Do not forget the lessons of the past. In God there is no half-truth. Pray. Seek strength in the Words of my Jesus and in the Eucharist. Whatever happens, remain faithful to the teachings of the true Magisterium of the Church of my Jesus.

Our Lady Queen of Peace to Pedro Regis on June 3rd, 2023:

My Jesus loves you and will never abandon you. He is faithful to His promises and will be with you. Trust in Him Who is your absolute good and knows you by name. Do not be afraid! To human eyes, all seems lost; but the Lord is in control of everything, and the righteous will be victorious. Take care of your spiritual life. Devote part of your time to prayer and to listening to the Word of God. Let my Lord speak to your heart. Humanity is sick and needs to be healed. Repent and turn to the One Who is your way, truth, and life. Your spiritual healing is in the Sacrament of Confession. Be meek and humble of heart, for only then can you understand the greatness of this Sacrament that is indispensable for your salvation. Onward!

Valeria – Offer Your Sufferings with Love – Countdown to the Kingdom

“Your Most Holy Mother Mary” to Valeria Copponi on May 24th, 2023:

I am with you and will not leave you, even for a moment. You mothers understand me, especially in the most difficult moments, you know well that she who loves her children would be ready to offer her life for them. And I understand well how much we mothers would do for the welfare of our children.

I firstly showed you how strong I was at the foot of the Cross of my only Son. Dearly beloved, [plural] try to speak to your children about Jesus, about His love, about His faithfulness.

I, your Heavenly Mother, invite you to go on your way without being afraid of what you may encounter on your journey. Remember that with love you can overcome all the obstacles you encounter on the earthly path. Always offer your sufferings with love, and Jesus will reward you with His infinite love when you return from the cold earth.

My children, draw near to Holy Communion, receive Jesus in your heart, and pray to Him, above all, to save you from all the dangers that you encounter on your earthly path. Your return to the Father will be your eternal reward.

“Jesus your brother” to Valeria Copponi on May 17th, 2023:

My beloved children, ask yourselves this question: why is the climate against us? The answer can be said quickly: have you respected nature? No. You believe that you have become the masters of this world, and nature is making itself heard by responding, above all, with the weather, with these disasters.

You have now realized that what you want to change with your own hands will never give you what you set out to obtain. Nature is revolting against you, and faced with certain disasters, you no longer know how to respond.

My dearest children, say, “My fault, my most grievous fault.” Your heart will always give you better answers, if you let My Will enter your hearts.

I am like a good father, I know what you need to live your lives at ease and in agreement with one another. If you let Satan enter your hearts, you will soon realise that the good which you need will flee far from you.

My children, go back to praying to your Good Shepherd; ask with love and you will be answered with love and above all with justice. You have only lost everything because you have put your ego in God’s place.

Convert, My children, otherwise My Father will answer your requests in the same way that you ask. If you return to Him with true conversion, everything will come back to the earth, good and just.

I will pray to the Father in order to obtain the conversion of all your hearts.

Marco – The Devil is Increasingly Unleashed Against Souls – Countdown to the Kingdom

Our Lady to Marco Ferrari in Paratico (Italy) on May 28th:

Children, the devil is increasingly unleashed against souls. Pray! Black clouds bringing darkness have spread to so many parts of the world and to so many people. While they delude themselves that they have reached the summit of all progress, they are still walking in darkness. Too many of my children no longer ask for help from God, the Creator and giver of all good, but rather continue to walk and to live in the deepest darkness and in sin. Everything has become darkened by the shadow of death that kills, sin that imprisons souls and hatred that destroys hearts and relationships. Darkness and shadows have even blackened the Holy Church. Pray! Children, confusion and darkness are spreading more and more, and every day the devil is reaping victims among my children, even among my favored sons [priests]. Pray, pray, pray!

My children, continue to pray. Do not let yourselves be distracted by anything; pray, pray. I am with you, I caress you and hold you close to me.

Luz – Charity Is the Weapon of God’s Children – Countdown to the Kingdom

St. Michael the Archangel to Luz de Maria de Bonilla on June 2nd:

By Divine Will I come to you and invite you to be one with God’s Will. It is solely in God alone that you will find true life. Be meek, charitable. Live without losing hope and be self-effacing so that your brothers and sisters may shine.

Bear witness to fraternity, knowing that those who forgive are forgiven, that those who love their brothers and sisters are loved by the Most Holy Trinity and by Our Queen and Mother of the End Times. Be more spiritual. In this way you will bring the divine light to those who live in darkness and to those who are lost on paths lined with sacrileges against our King and Lord Jesus Christ and against our Queen and Mother.

Every act contrary to divine love is directed by the hordes of Satan. This generation has risen up against our King and Lord Jesus Christ, against our Queen and Mother, and against all that is order, morality, respect for the gift of life, faithfulness, fraternity – and against the innocence of children.

The children of the Most Holy Trinity must make reparation for the offenses of this generation.

Give to God what is God’s: honor and glory. Be grateful and do not forget the medicines given by the Father’s House for fighting unknown diseases. In this final stretch, beloved children of the Most Holy Trinity, you will find brothers and sisters on the side of the road waiting for a friendly hand to lift them out of the mire. Be that hand, filled with love for God and neighbor; help the disadvantaged.

You must understand that charity is the weapon of God’s children at this time. Nothing is your property… Whatever is given is the property of the Most Holy Trinity. Works, missions, prayers, all that the laity offer to the Most Holy Trinity and to our Queen and Mother, must be offered to the One who deserves all honor and glory, forever and ever.

The more humble you are, the more blessings you will receive, the more gifts and virtues. This is the time for hearts of flesh, for the children of the Most Holy Trinity who keep Them in the first place. … Children of the Most Holy Trinity, in order to utter this Name you must remain conscious of Its great majesty.

REVELACIONES MARIANAS

MESSAGE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST TO LUZ DE MARIA JUNE 24, 2023 (this one hasn’t yet been published on CDTTK.com yet)

Humility is a great virtue that I love in creatures…

YOU ARE LIVING THROUGH THE MOMENTS PRIOR TO THE GREAT GLOBAL DEVASTATION.  Envy manages to crush even man’s thinking and makes him forget that he is going to destroy himself. The struggles and threats for supremacy continue…

THE HUMAN RACE BELIEVES WHAT SUITS IT, WHAT IT WANTS TO HEAR, AND THIS IS A WAY OF REBELLING AGAINST THE DIVINE WILL.

My People have such faith that they know that, as a people on the march, they will be delivered by Me from what is going to happen to humanity in the midst of the fulfillment of the Prophecies.

The place to protect oneself from danger is “a heart of flesh”, (Ezek. 11,19) otherwise nothing will be sufficient.

I will not tire of calling you to a change of life.

[Ezekiel 11 – Restoration for the Exiles.

14 The word of the LORD came to me:

15 Son of man, the inhabitants of Jerusalem are saying about all your relatives, the other exiles, and all the house of Israel, “They are far away from the LORD. The land is given to us as a possession.”

16 Therefore say: Thus says the Lord GOD: I have indeed sent them far away among the nations, scattered them over the lands, and have been but little sanctuary for them in the lands to which they have gone.

17 Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, I will gather you from the nations and collect you from the lands through which you were scattered, so I can give you the land of Israel.

18 They will enter it and remove all its atrocities and abominations.

19 And I will give them another heart and a new spirit I will put within them. From their bodies I will remove the hearts of stone, and give them hearts of flesh,

20 so that they walk according to my statutes, taking care to keep my ordinances. Thus they will be my people, and I will be their God.

21 But as for those whose hearts are devoted to their atrocities and abominations, I will bring their conduct down upon their heads—oracle of the Lord GOD.]

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This is just a small portion of Heavenly guidance for the health of our soul, the health of our whole person.

While the messages say to pray, pray, pray; we have to remember that Our Lord called us to prayer, fasting and alms giving. We need to suffer a little, sometimes a lot; and that involves depriving ourselves of food or entertainment or whatever it is that we are overly attached to. Prayer is ultimate, but so is fasting. The Lord sacrificed for us, what can we sacrifice for Him? Do we pray on our knees? Do we pray in front of the Blessed Sacrament? Do we live the Ten Commandments? How worldly are we?

There are so many things to pray about to change our lives to live according to the Will of God.

How’s Your Prayer Life?

Just listened to a keynote by Tucker Carlson at a Heritage Foundation gala. I have never watched Carlson’s show, I don’t have cable, etc. But I have seen clips of his show, and in general I like and appreciate his message. In the keynote, one of the things he calls for is praying for our country. We are in a sad state of affairs these days! There is so much confusion. And so we must pray, but we really need to pray for a whole litany of things: for our own conversion so that we can become a good witness to others, for our family, for our community, for our country, for world peace. That seems like a good start and covers a fairly broad spectrum of the world around us.

A few posts ago, I mentioned the Countdown to the Kingdom website. I love reading the messages from heaven. Yes, most of these visionaries are “unapproved”, but neither are they condemned by the Church. And as St. Paul says, “test everything, hold onto what is good”, from 1 Thessalonians 5:21. These messages largely call for conversion and prayer, while giving us a bit of future prophecies. In the prayer requests, though, the list is huge! And so I get to the point of this post. How is your prayer life and what is it that you are praying for? And, not only what are we praying for, but what is our disposition when we pray? Are we rushed and just getting it done, or are we truly spending time with God?

One visionary in particular, Luz de Maria de Bonilla, receives longer messages that the other visionaries and most of her messages contain a list of petitions that Heaven is calling us to pray for. Both Luz and the other visionaries call us regularly to pray for the priests and bishops and the Church. How often do we do that? Our religious are under constant attack by the devil and his minions. Sure, we hold them to a higher standard, because they chose that life, but in choosing that life they are also bombarded by temptations, more so that the rest of us. They need our prayers! Even the guardian angels of the countries and cities need our prayers. They too are bombarded by demonic attacks, which get stronger as we get weaker and more lost in worldly things.

There are frequent petitions in the messages to pray for various and many countries that will suffer earthquakes; as well as petitions to pray for the man-made chaos that is all around us in every facet of society. We all “feel” that there are big troubles in the world. We need to pray, continuously. The to-do prayer lists are huge. Take some time and just pray, pray for heaven to intervene in the mess that we have made. And at the same time, we have all of the prayer needs of our friends and family who have personal sufferings. Prayer can be a full-time job. I am grateful to our elderly who are stuck at home and spend more time than the rest of us praying. We need their prayers! Thank them for their prayers as well.

So this is a lot of praying. How do we pray this much? Start by turning off the noise around us. Music, TV, podcasts, etc. Clicking on our phones, endless chatter about nothing. Some of these have a time and a place, but God should be higher on our focus. While prayer shouldn’t be rushed, God is well aware of our obligations and knows that we can’t be in the church all day. We can offer moments of heart-felt prayer throughout our day. Something triggers a thought, say a quick prayer for it. You get a request from a friend with a prayer need, say a Hail Mary for them.

What will help us in our prayer effectiveness, is our time with God. How often do you just go into a church and say “hi” to Jesus in the tabernacle? When you go out to get lunch make a stop in the church first. Practice making a holy hour once a week. Whether or not Jesus is exposed in a monstrance, just give Him an hour of your time. “Could you not sit with Me for an hour?” He asked the apostles in the garden of Gethsemane.

We need to learn to live a life of prayer. We need it, our community needs it, our world needs it! God bless us all, and show us the way to eternal life.

Looking for a Custom Catholic Doorknob Hanger?

Do you have a few favorite saints? Are you looking for a confirmation gift? Or a housewarming gift?

We’ve got you covered! You can order a custom Catholic door hanger, or blessing cord as I call them.

I have three different sizes available: six cord, three cord or two cord. These can accommodate up to 12, 6 or 4 holy medals, respectively.

The cording can be either hemp or jute. The hemp is stronger than the jute, and smoother. The jute cording kind of looks like twine. The beads will be chosen based on the color preferences. And the medals will be as you require, provided I have them in my stock of over 200 silver oxide medals and crucifixes.

The three and six cord hangers are 10 to 12 inches long and can hang on most standard door knobs, or any hook. The two cord hangers are shorter and can only hang on a hook.

You can start the conversation with a message here or on my shop page. As we explore the blessing cord design, I will let you know how much the assembled piece will cost.

Here are some pictures to get you started on your custom door hanger/blessing cord.

Loneliness: A Health Problem or a Spiritual Problem?

It’s amazing how God fits pieces of the puzzle together for us!

I read a lot of blogs and articles and listen to assorted podcasts, both secular and religious/spiritual. And I like to put the pieces together, connect the dots. Actually, God does the connecting for me, I just have to tune in to His inspirations.

Dr. Joseph Mercola has provided me with a lot of good health information over the years, but it seems that a spiritual component is missing from his offerings. I listen to other health commentators and some of them clearly acknowledge God’s contributions to our lives.

One of Mercola’s recent articles is entitled “Loneliness is an Epidemic”. He writes about the increase in loneliness throughout the world, both young and old, and how it contributes to a great many health problems. Yes, the isolation due to the pandemic has contributed to loneliness, but so has the turning away from God.

Of the offerings to overcome loneliness in the article, the closest thing to a spiritual option is volunteering. But loneliness has been growing since prior to the pandemic. People have become more worldly, have stopped going to church, have stopped praying.

You’re never alone when you pray, because God is always on the other end of the prayer!

A while back I wrote a post about the website, Countdown to the Kingdom, and I recently encountered Alicja Lenczewska (1934-2012), a Polish visionary there. All of the messages are enlightening, but the way Jesus spoke to Alicja is so powerful! CDttK only has five messages on their site attributed to Alicja, so I went in search of more. I discovered several articles on the Love One Another! Magazine website. I read a few of the articles and the very first article it begins with, ” we begin to publish extracts from the directions given by Jesus and written down by the mystic Alicja Lenczewska in her spiritual diary Testimony.”

But the final paragraph of Jesus’ directions relates directly to loneliness. God has perfect timing, ay?!

“† Don’t be sad. Your loneliness relates only to the world. You are not alone. I am with you. And you have many friends in heaven. They accompany you, take care of you and pray for you. It doesn’t matter that you don’t see them. Their presence and assistance is more real than what you experience in the world. You don’t belong to this world anymore, and it can’t give you anything. Your home and your homeland are with me. Your soul and your heart should be here at all times and draw strength from here. The supernatural world is not far away. You move about it, mostly unawares.”

And so, to reiterate, loneliness may contribute to health problems, but a healthy spiritual life makes you less lonely and perhaps more healthy!

Jesus, I Trust in You!