The Apocalypse - Letter by Letter: CHURCH WILL TOWER AGAIN, BUT BEFORE IT DOES A PURGE IS NEEDED -- AND URGENTLY
The Apocalypse - Letter by Letter
Blog to discuss the book "The Apocalypse - Letter by Letter: A Literary Analysis of the Book of Revelation" and current events that point to the events described therein.
CHURCH WILL TOWER AGAIN, BUT BEFORE IT DOES A PURGE IS NEEDED -- AND URGENTLY
It is going to look like a disaster but in the end the Church will rise.
Count on that. But also count on things looking yet more dismal.
Many will live to see a time when there is going to be spontaneous prayer in the Holy Roman Catholic Church once again -- on a large scale (not just tiny prayer pockets).
There is going to be praying like the early Church prayed.
That day will come.
There is going to be a return to relics. There is going to be more tradition.
There is going to be an end to songs that have made Mass secular.
There is going to be healing; the charisms of Jesus, directly ministered, will resurrect. Count on that also. There will be unknown utterances and the "flames" of the Holy Spirit.
There will be resounding rosaries.
It will happen during this century.
The Church will rise -- it will tower.
But before then: a test of faith.
For the Church is still in the midst of a grinding, excruciating purification. That will be followed by persecution.
To wit, in just the past few days: -- A priest who is a Navy chaplain is court-marshaled for sexual abuse -- while he had HIV. -- A woman who was sexually abused by seven Roman Catholic priests in Los Angeles (and had a baby by one of them) received a $500,000 settlement, it is revealed. -- Also in L.A.: word that last summer Cardinal Roger Mahony was physically assaulted on a street in the wake of that diocese's huge abuse settlement (of $660 million). -- A Croatian priest is sentenced for gay abuse as a popular Arizona priest who was once featured on TV is ready to go to trial (and despite that is still holding prayer services). -- A priest is linked to both child pornography and a photo showing him holding a rifle in Afghanistan. This too makes the news. Oh, the news! -- In New Hampshire, meanwhile, it turns out that the poor fellow who allegedly held hostages at Hillary Clinton's New Hampshire headquarters had once allegedly been abused by a cleric in Boston archdiocese.
