The Warning

One of the topics discussed in Dr. Bowring’s book, The Secrets, Chastisement and Triumph, is the Warning (the illumination of conscience), a divine gift of God’s great mercy about to befall humanity in our time. In his book, Dr. Bowring discusses the Warning in detail and how it fits into God’s plan for the renewal of the world. He also discusses all the related events of which the Warning is just the beginning.

A Booklet on the Warning

It is worth noting that Father Philip Bebie, C.P. wrote a beautiful booklet, with Ecclesiastical permission, just on “the Warning” itself.

Besides his own book, Dr. Bowring recommends this booklet to those interested in the Warning and what to do when it occurs.

Fr. Bebie’s whole booklet can be read online here: http://www.call2holiness.org/BebieWarning.html

Below is an excerpt from Fr. Bebie’s booklet on the Warning:

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Many Catholics believe that the world is about to experience the real events of the fulfillment of the apocalyptic prophesies. The Catholic perspective of the end-times prophesies is discussed in a new book by Catholic theologian, Dr. Kelly Bowring.

According to his book, “The Secrets, Chastisement, and Triumph of the Two Hearts of Jesus & Mary”, (http://www.TwoHeartsPress.com) which has received official Church recognition with an Imprimatur from a Catholic Cardinal, Archbishop Ricardo Vidal, the Catholic Church has regarded end-times prophecies as authentic and many Catholics acknowledge that we are likely now living in the times of their fulfillment.

The Catholic Church bases its apocalyptic prophesies not on mere guessing and speculation, but, instead, on claims from a heavenly source, that is, from various recent apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In these heavenly messages given to various visionaries, which include places like at Fatima (1917), La Salette (1840s) and reportedly today at Medjugorje (in former Yugoslavia) and recently at Garabandal (Spain), Catholics believe Mary (see Revelation 12:1) has been sent by God to warn us that humanity is about to suffer an increase in natural disasters, a great apostasy, a period of Satan’s reign, and God’s justice and divine chastising, all due to the increase of sin in the world today.

Like those doomsday predictions in the Mayan prophecies and portrayed recently in the movie, ‘2012’, the divine warnings that Catholics believe they are receiving from the Blessed Mother are related to the Book of Revelation, and thus are on the level of the Apocalypse and Armageddon. To a Catholic nun at Akita, Japan, in the 1970s, the Blessed Virgin stated, in a Catholic Church-approved apparition: “As I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge (Noah’s Flood), such as one will never have seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead.” Mary has indicated that God is about to fulfill this prophecy, and immanently, as the cup is now today flowing over, she says.

According to Dr. Bowring, Catholics believe that the Blessed Mother has been sent by God today from Heaven to pre-warn all humanity and also to offer us hope and mercy. In reported Marian apparitions from Garabandal, Spain in the 1960s, the Blessed Mother said that before the time of the divine chastisement, God will first send two great signs of His mercy to help humanity. The first will be a world-wide Warning. In it, every person on earth will find themselves all alone in the world no matter where they are at the time, alone with their conscience right before God. They will then see all their sins and what their sins have caused. The purpose of the Warning will be to wake us up and call us to repent of our sins. Second, and within a year of the Warning, God will send a Great Miracle that will include a permanent Sign of His presence and mercy. The purpose of the Miracle is to show us the love God has for us and to convert the whole world. Then, the apocalyptic events will follow soon afterward, according to Catholic prophecy.

Whether these apocalyptic events will occur in 2012 or not, the Catholic perspective, based on these Marian prophecies, is that they will occur in this generation and soon. Perhaps God is trying to warn us in every way He can: this may include through other religions like the Mayans, through Hollywood movies like “2012″, and possibly even more directly through His own Mother sent from Heaven as many Catholics believe.

One thing is for certain, according to Dr. Bowring in his new book: As our heavenly Mother is warning, the events of the apocalypse are upon us — events which will not cause the end of the world as some think; but instead, are intended to purify and prepare us for a new era dawning for humanity — one that Catholic prophecy states will entail three aspects: the divine granting of the New Era of Peace, the coming Triumph and Reign of the Two Hearts of Jesus and Mary, and the establishing of the universal Kingdom of the Divine Will on earth.

All of these events, Our heavenly Mother states, are part of God’s Providence. And the apocalyptic events themselves are conditional, she says; they depend upon how humanity responds in these merciful times before they begin. Prayer and conversion are means to diminish the apocalyptic events and quicken the new era to come. So, for Catholics, 2012 and the time that follows, is a time of prayer, hope and renewal!

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by John-Henry Westen

VATICAN, November 28, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One of the highest ranking cardinals in the Vatican has said that the United States is “well on the way” to the persecution of Christians.

 

Cardinal Raymond Burke

Cardinal Raymond Burke, former Archbishop of St. Louis and now the head of the Vatican’s highest court, told Catholic News Agency that he could envision a time when the Catholic Church in the U.S., “even by announcing her own teaching,” is accused of “engaging in illegal activity, for instance, in its teaching on human sexuality.”

Asked if the cardinal could even see American Catholics being arrested for their faith he replied, “I can see it happening, yes.”

In his remarks to several U.S. Bishops meeting with him Saturday, Pope Benedict XVI made similarly emphatic warnings about the U.S. The pope told the bishops that “the seriousness of the challenges which the Church in America, under your leadership, is called to confront in the near future cannot be underestimated.”

He added: “The obstacles to Christian faith and practice raised by a secularized culture also affect the lives of believers.”

In the interview published today, Cardinal Burke declared that “it is a war” and “critical at this time that Christians stand up for the natural moral law.”  Should they not, he warned, “secularization will in fact predominate and it will destroy us.” (more…)

The famed locutionist, Father Stefano Gobbi, 81, of Milan, died at three p.m. June 29 after spending several days in “very critical condition” in a coma that was induced after he suffered a heart attack on June 19. May he rest in peace.

Fr. Gobbi had founded the worldwide Catholic movement, the Marian Movement of Priests (MMP), following an interior locution that he reported receiving in 1972 at the shrine of Our Lady of Fatima.

The interior messages he reported receiving from Our Lady from July 1973 to December 1997 were published in the book: “To the Priests, Our Lady’s Beloved Sons”, which has received various imprimaturs.

He received an official papal blessing from Bl. John Paul II in November 1993 and has always been in good standing with the Church.

According to the MMP, its members now include over 400 Catholic cardinals and bishops, more than 100,000 Catholic priests, and several million lay Catholics worldwide.

Dr. Bowring’s new book, “The Secrets, Chastisement, & Triumph” (www.TwoHeartsPress.com), which includes some of Our Lady’s reported messages given through Fr. Gobbi, has recently brought new attention to these heavenly messages he received.

Bowring’s book has also helped to restore credibility to Fr. Gobbi and the heavenly messages given to the world through his reported locutions, a few of which had suffered misguided interpretations (and accusations of inaccuracies) from critics in recent years.

In Dr. Bowring’s book, he relates Fr. Gobbi’s messages to other credible heavenly prophecies about the apocalyptic times we are living in and about God’s plan to bring His peace to humanity.

Perhaps now with the death of Fr. Gobbi, the Church will consider anew his life of sanctification; and with that, confirm the authenticity of his reported locutions more definitively, especially in light of their agreement with other credible heavenly prophecies and conditional warnings of our time.



OFFICIAL POSTULATOR FOR CAUSE OF JOHN PAUL II DOCUMENTS THAT POPE BELIEVED IN APPARITION

–Michael H. Brown, www.spiritdaily.com

As it happens, June 25 is the anniversary of Medjugorje — now in its thirtieth year –

Speaking of sainthood testimony and of Medjugorje, it was fascinating to learn that the postulant for Pope John Paul II’s cause — Monsignor Slawomir Oder of Poland — records in his book, Why He Is a Saint, about the late pontiff: “His devoted love for Mary only grew and flourished when the connection between the third secret of Fatima and the assassination attempt of May 1981 became clear. In connection with the dramatic event, extrajudicial sources confirm, John Paul II also saw a link with the apparitions of the Queen of Peace in Medjugorje, in the former Yugoslavia, which began at the end of June of the same year. The Pope spoke of it in very favorable terms and said, ‘To say that nothing is happening at Medjugorje means denying the living and praying testimony of thousands of people who have been there.’”

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When Card. Karol Wojtyla came to the United States in 1976, just before becoming Pope John Paul II, he said:

“We are NOW standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide circles of the American society or wide circles of the Christian community realize this fully. We are NOW facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel versus the anti-Gospel. This confrontation lies within the plans of Divine Providence.”

Bl. John Paul spent much of his focus during his pontificate on responding to the confrontation with a call for holiness, the New Evangelization, the New Pentecost, and the new springtime for the Church. As he saw the great confrontation, which is now at hand, he also prophetically pointed the way to the great era of peace that will come afterwards, as Our Lady of Fatima promised.

For more on Bl. John Paul II, visit http://catholic.org/pope/jp2/sainthood.php

Fatima, Portugal, May 13, 2010 / 10:16 am (CNA/EWTN News).- At Mass this morning in the Fatima shrine’s square, Pope Benedict said that it would be “mistaken” to consider the prophetic mission of the apparitions at Fatima complete. It continues to be relevant in that it continually invites men and women of good faith “to save the city of man,” he told the 500,000 people gathered for the feast of Our Lady of Fatima.

The Holy Father presided over Mass from the steps of the Church of the Most Holy Trinity in Fatima this morning. May 13, the Solemnity of Blessed Mary Virgin of Fatima and that of the Ascension, marks the 10th anniversary of the beatification of the shepherd-children Jacinta and Francisco.

Speaking to the estimated 500,000 people in attendance for Mass, Pope Benedict said that he, like them, is in Fatima on pilgrimage. He had come, he added, to pray for the human family and, with the same sentiments as the shepherd-children, to “entrust to Our Lady the intimate confession” that the Church, her priests and he himself love Jesus.

The Pope entrusted all nations and peoples to Heaven, embracing “all their sons and daughters” in God, “particularly, the afflicted or outcast, with the desire of bringing them that great hope which burns in my own heart, and which here, in Fatima, can be palpably felt.”

Pope Benedict recalled the lessons of the “Teacher,” Mary, who introduced the children of Fatima “to a deep knowledge of the Love of the Blessed Trinity and led them to savor God himself as the most beautiful reality of human existence.”

Noting that we might look upon the children’s experience with envy or disappointment for not being as fortunate, the Holy Father offered consolation in that “God … has the power to come to us, particularly through our inner senses, so that the soul can receive the gentle touch of a reality which is beyond the senses and which enables us to reach what is not accessible or visible to the senses.”

In order for this to come about, he explained, “we must cultivate an interior watchfulness of the heart which, for most of the time, we do not possess on account of the powerful pressure exerted by outside realities and the images and concerns which fill our soul.”

The Lord can “show himself to the eyes of our heart” and “has the power to inflame the coldest and saddest of hearts,” Pope Benedict encouraged the crowd.

The faithful can also draw inspiration from the way Jacinta, Francisco and Sister Lucia gave their entire lives to God, he said. “Blessed Jacinta, in particular, proved tireless in sharing with the needy and in making sacrifices for the conversion of sinners. Only with this fraternal and generous love will we succeed in building the civilization of love and peace.”

Turning to the message delivered by Our Lady of Fatima, the Holy Father said, “we would be mistaken to think that the prophetic mission of Fatima is complete.”

In the story of the Marian apparitions, God’s plan from Genesis of looking out for our brother takes on new life, he instructed. “Mankind,” the Pope noted, “has succeeded in unleashing a cycle of death and terror, but failed in bringing it to an end,” and in Scripture, “we often find that God seeks righteous men and women in order to save the city of man.”

The Holy Father said that the same call resounds from Fatima when Mary asks, “Do you want to offer yourselves to God, to endure all the sufferings which he will send you, in an act of reparation for the sins by which he is offended and of supplication for the conversion of sinners?”

At a dire time in human history, he recounted, Mary “came from heaven, offering to implant in the hearts of all those who trust in her the Love of God burning in her own heart.

“It started with just the three children, but their example has since spread throughout the world.”

He concluded with the prayer, “May the seven years which separate us from the centenary of the apparitions hasten the fulfillment of the prophecy of the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, to the glory of the Most Holy Trinity.”

Faith

Britain’s new cultural divide is not between Christian and Muslim, Hindu and Jew. It is between those who have faith and those who do not. Stuart Jeffries reports on the vicious and uncompromising battle between believers and non-believers.

Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian, Monday 26 February 2007

www.guardian.co.uk

The American journalist HL Mencken once wrote: “We must accept the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.” In Britain today, such wry tolerance is diminishing. Today, it’s the religious on one side, and the secular on the other. Britain is dividing into intolerant camps who revel in expressing contempt for each other’s most dearly held beliefs. (more…)