Father Stephano Gobbi and the Marian Movement of Priests

One of the most enduring characteristics of Marian Apparitions in modern times is the constant request from the Mother of God that the Faithful, her children might form prayer groups.

Why is this? Might it not be enough that people pray as individuals and in Church. Why does Mary so constantly and urgently require that these groups be formed??

When we look at the Third Joyful Mystery the Descent of the Holy Spirit upon Our Lady and the Apostles Assembled in Prayer, we see the Birth place of the Church. For this is the Church, the Priests and People in Prayer, The Mystical Body of Christ. In time when the Church emerged from massive persecution it was able to organize itself in administrative units such as Parishes and Diocese. So when we think of the Church we naturally think of our Parish and our Diocese.

However Mary's messages and calls have a very strong Eschatological character Eschatoligical in that they point to the End Times into which we have entered. By End Times I do mean that the End of the World is Coming, but the character of the Times into which we have entered. This was mentioned by such Saints as Saint Louis Grignion De Montford when he forecast how we would move towards the times of the Great Epic Struggle between Our Lady and the Old Dragon Satan. One theologian , writing of this said that in future times more and more people would have to become mystics in order to become Catholics. Or to put it another way the Faithful will have to shine as stars in the greater darkness. More and more the Church as we know it will be unable to continue. Mary is forming Her own Army against Satan and her principle means of doing so is through Marian prayer groups. The Church will grow more and more persecuted, this is prophesied in the Book of Revelation when the woman flies from the Dragon with her child to desolate places. 

The means of this flight are the Marian Prayer groups. The activities of these groups will expand as time goes on so that they become the effective means not only of the Church continuing but of the actual physical survival of Catholics and especially Catholic priests. 
Or to put it another way the Church as we know it will appear to die, reborn in another way in the form of these Marian Prayer Groups. It will be as though we have gone back to the Catacombs. It is Mary's answer to the Great Persecution. In addition physical societies and countries will no longer survive in many, probably most or all areas and the old diocese and parish just will not be flexible to flourish or even exist. The prayer groups are Mary's answer. 

As time goes on we will see them more and more taking the weight as their importance increases. Already we see the Signs of this as they bear great fruits of Grace and sanctity) (by Padraig Caughey)

Our Lady's locutions to Father Gobbi are a very good example of all this:

Dec. 31, 1992 (Rubbio, Vicenza)

'I have announced to you many times that the end of the times and the coming of Jesus in glory is very near. Now, I want to help you understand the signs described in the Holy Scriptures, which indicate that his glorious return is now close. ... The first sign is the spread of errors, which lead to the loss of faith and to apostasy. ... 'The day of the Lord will not come unless the great apostasy comes first.' (2 Thes 2,3) ... The second sign is the outbreak of wars and fratricidal struggles, which lead to the prevalence of violence and hatred and ... natural catastrophes ... The third sign is the bloody persecution of those who remain faithful to Jesus and to his Gospel and who stand fast in the true faith. ... The fourth sign is the horrible sacrilege, perpetrated by him who sets himself against Christ, that is, the Antichrist. He will enter into the holy temple of God and will sit on his throne, and have himself adored as God. 'This one will oppose and exalt himself against everything that men adore and call God. ...' (2 Thes 2,4.9) ... 'One day, you will see in the holy place he who commits the horrible sacrilege. The prophet Daniel spoke of this. Let the reader seek to understand.' (Mt 24,15) ... 'Now, from the moment that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the horrible abomination is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days. ...' (Dn 12,9-12) The Holy Mass is the daily sacrifice, the pure oblation which is offered to the Lord everywhere, from the rising of the sun to its going down. The sacrifice of the Mass renews that which was accomplished by Jesus on Calvary. By accepting the protestant doctrine, people will hold that the Mass is not a sacrifice but only a sacred meal, that is to say, a remembrance of that which Jesus did at His Last Supper. And thus, the celebration of Holy Mass will be suppressed. In this abolition of the daily sacrifice consists the horrible sacrilege accomplished by the Antichrist, which will last about 3½ years, namely, 1,290 days. The fifth sign consists in extraordinary phenomena, ... sun ... moon ... stars ... [are darkened]'

Preparing For the Coming Tragedies

More on Marian Prayer Groups from Locutions To The World (http://www.locutions.org/2012/07/preparing-for-the-coming-tragedies/):

(376 ) 356. Preparing For the Coming Tragedies

Jul 1st, 2012
Mary
I lead you by a small and gentle path. Do not think of the enormous problems which will soon crash upon the world. Does not a mother look ahead to provide for her children in times of adversity? So, I can provide for all my children, wherever they are on the face of the earth.
The coming tragedies will touch all of them differently and the means I will provide will also be different. However, some parts will be common to all These I must explain.
First, you cannot survive by yourself. You need others. All must be gathered in my Immaculate Heart and all must share in a true devotion to me. Salvation will come as the group accepts me as their Mother, calls upon me for help, and listens to my words.
Leaders For The Group

In each group, I will raise up leaders for my people. These leaders must have hearts united with my heart. Otherwise, they will lead the group in the wrong direction.
Also, individualism and personal goals must be set aside. Many will be in need and I will provide by the service and generosity among the members. There will be no other way. This is a simple plan but all must begin now. These groups and these relationships in faith do not spring up overnight. They are formed daily in my heart.
Family Prayer

Where can you begin? Start with family prayer. How can I unite many families in prayer if the individual family is not united in prayer? Gather the family every night. Teach them the rosary. That is your first step. Do not omit this. Take this first step and I will show you your next step. Don’t forget. The goal is for many to group together in faith relationships.

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I think this is, again, a powerful message on the need of Marian Prayer Groups, also from Locutions To The World. This is part of the post, you can go to the complete post in this link: http://www.locutions.org/2011/05/preparing-for-the-chastisement/.

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29. Preparing for the Chastisement

May 6, 2011

Mary

A Chastisement of Mercy

A time of great trial will come upon the world, a great distress of the nations. Many will die. Others will not know what to do. However, those who know me and know my words will have enough light to get through this period of darkness.
The world will be purged by this extraordinary divine intervention. This is the purpose of the trial because the Father would not do this if he had any other choice. He cannot allow the world to go on as it is. If he did not intervene, as drastic as this is, life on earth would be even worse. Man would inflict on man unheard of sufferings as the weapons of mass destruction are released by those who are under the control of the evil one. So, what looks like divine chastisements are really acts of his mercy. God will purge the world before man destroys it.
God’s Care for the Living and the Dead

Those who live in light and believe my words will know this is true. Even in the worst moments, they will see God’s purposes and know what to do. Some will die but they will accept their deaths in a spirit of faith, knowing that they have used their lives to love and serve God. They will have no regrets and the Spirit will console their inner being.
Others will be preserved from death by the Spirit so they can form the new Church that will arise, the light of the new mankind that will be fashioned by the Father. This will include people from all over the world. They will be people of faith, even if they did not believe before. They will have come to faith in the middle of the trials because of the signs in the heavens and the wonders upon earth. They will know that God has saved them and they will tell the story to their children and their children’s children.
A New Creation

It will be like a new creation. Man will once more realize that he owes his existence to God’s choice. He will no longer say, “The earth is mine to do what I want”. Instead, he will say, “The earth belongs to God and I am the caretaker of his creation”.
Man will once more stand in God’s presence and will rejoice in the title “Children of God”. Faith will be everywhere. Man will see clearly that all life comes from God. A new world will begin, “as it was in the beginning”.
Man will still be free, still able to choose good and evil, but man will be so filled with light that good will be easily chosen and evil will be easily rejected. All of this can only take place after the world is purged.
New Lights for People of Faith

I say all this to prepare you for these events. Prepare, you must. Whoever is not prepared will perish from hopelessness and despair, devoid of all light and understanding. Satan will put out all the lights of the world, all that men hoped would save them.
However, I will shine my light, new lights, extraordinary lights, seen only by people of faith, words heard only by those whom I have trained to listen. Let me explain.
The heavenly Father wants to communicate with his children by the powers of the Holy Spirit. This Age of the Spirit has already begun but too few are aware, even in the Church. I have appeared to some and have made certain places sources of divine messages. These are a sign to all, but my plan goes much further. The Father will pour out the Spirit on all mankind and I am his messenger.
True Light – Extraordinary Yet Essential

Two things must happen. All must be open to this new inner light and all must be aware of false lights. There will be extraordinary true lights and extraordinary false lights.
I will raise up leaders in my Church who will know the true light by their own deep personal experiences and by their solid theology. They will point out the true light and will reject the false light. Follow them. Plunge into this true light for it will be the only light that you have in the darkness. Get used to the light and learn how it guides you.
All of this is extraordinary but the darkness will be extraordinary. The deep personal light of the Holy Spirit guiding individuals and families will become essential
Gathering in the Light

You cannot be like the foolish virgins who believed that they could get oil for their lamps at the last minute. You cannot gain this new light when the darkness comes upon you. You must become a child of the light now. I say “now” because the Spirit’s light is available and he will train you in the light. You will learn to act in his light. You will also gather others, because many must walk in this light.
You must gather. Gather in praise, exalting my Son, Jesus. This is the Spirit’s method to give light. Gather daily. Lift your hands in praise and the Spirit will descend upon you. Otherwise you will never learn his gifts or receive the light that I intend.
Do not ask me to tell you when these trials will begin or to give you signs. Doing that is useless. Even with the clearest signs, people will not listen. My words are enough and they are clear. Why talk about some future sign when I have already told you to begin now. If you do not believe and if you do not start now, will you start in the future? Will some sign jolt you into belief? You will be jolted but not by my signs.
My words are signs and I tell you clearly that this is the Age of the Holy Spirit. If you invoke him, he will give you personal signs, especially a unity with others.
The Scattered Children Must Gather

I sorrow over my children because they are scattered. Their little light cannot overcome the darkness and they cannot survive even now, before the great darkness comes. What will they be like when Satan puts out all the lights?
When people invoke the Holy Spirit, he joins them together. They find a common voice of praise. They lift their hands to the Father. While they pour out their praise, the Spirit joins their hearts. They are no longer alone. They have others at their side.
I will be with all of these little groups. They will be called Marian Gatherings of the Holy Spirit. Even if just three or four gather, this will be enough. I will teach them and they will learn together. This advice is very easy but this is how you will prepare for the darkness. Gather with others in a Marian Gathering of the Holy Spirit. Do not put this off. If you go and search, I promise that you will find others. Then you will discover my plan for you. You will rejoice and say, “Mary has provided me with others. Together we will prepare for the darkness. May I find you together when I come”.

A Clear Plan of Action

What will you do when you gather? You will read my words. They will teach you. More important, you will give me your hearts as slaves of the Immaculate Heart as taught by St. Louis de Montfort.
This is only the beginning. Let each one use their gift of the Spirit. Let each heart, touched by the Spirit, bring forth a word, a hymn, a revelation. Serve one another with the spiritual gifts. Do not wander into other concerns. The Spirit must do his work in you and you must learn his ways. Enough for now. I have given you a clear plan. Begin to act.
Family Preparations

Different structures must be built. Tiny structures which can multiply and be present everywhere. These structures will survive. They can be built right now. Whose authority do you need to gather in your home? Whose blessing must you seek for family prayer? I give you my authority and my blessing. Begin now, before it is too late. Gather your children into the Marian Gatherings of the Holy Spirit. Since this is where everything must begin, I will speak to the parents.
 

 

The Coming Financial Crash

On Sept. 13, 2012, Bernake said the Federal Reserve will purchase Mortgage backed securities every month. THEY will spend 40 BILLION dollars EVERY SINGLE MONTH FROM NOW ON! They will invest them in the fractional derivatives market at a fraction of the amount and purchase treasury bills to pay down the interest on National Debt. of the United States. NOT invest in the economy. THIS IS WORTHLESS. 

LOOK UP QE3

http://money.cnn.com/2012/09/13/news/economy/federal-reserve-qe3/index.html

This money is coming out of thin air. THE U.S. does not have that kind of money. Its being printed as I speak. The Federal Reserve will buy all the mortgaged real estate in the U.S. They will use them to invest into this derivatives market and then they will 'hedge' the market. 'Prop themselves up'. The big banks have committed to this takeover because the big banks (Citi, Bank of America, U.S. Bank, CHASE) are now owned by the U.S. Govt. In Iceland, Greece, Spain this has happened and is continuing to happen all over the world. By hedging the market the 40 Billion will become 360 Billion and they will make a huge profit. (they do this many times in the Pharmaceutical industry (the CDC re-defined the word plague one month before H1N1 alert, so all the big pharms could make tons of money, and all those who were in on the planned fake plague; which was the plan, besides bankrupting small nation's emergency funds so they would go broke). 

They will invest OUR money in T-Bills, which are worthless. It depreciates our dollar. The NWO people are now saying, " we know we can do what we want. The people of the U.S. refused to do anything. No protests, no riots. They are lazy. They will go belly up without a battle." ON THAT Sept. 13th Gas instantly went up 15 cents and Gold instantly went up $35. The currency that purchased that gas went DOWN 15 cents because our dollar DEVALUED instantly. 

From now on, groceries will go up 10% every month. This is being engineered by bankers monetizing the debt by our mortgages. Gas and diesel will go up every month as value of currency goes down. Inflation will double and triple as the lower dollar diminishes our purchasing power. It would be WISE right NOW to purchase long term food storage ASAP. Stores will be full, but inflation will skyrocket. The trickle down effect of expensive milk, no money to buy it, means the farmer can't sell it, which means he can't make a living, which means he sells or slaughters his cows etc...

By buying T-bills, now anyone can purchase them. China can own your mortgage… The Govt. will continue welfare checks, Medicare, and Medicaid for right now. They WANT everyone one the programs. They will have conquered the U.S. through MEGA BANKING. They want to postpone the inevitable CRASH, amassing debt everywhere until they have their own money in place to control the people. 

Watch: youtube: Retired Gen. Wesly Clark

PROOFS:
Feb. 2012- Largest trade agreement between China and Japan. Said they will NOT use American dollar. First time in History. 

April 27, 2012- India and Japan-currency swap. NOT using the dollar. Buying oil from Iran. 

Sept 7, 2012-China and Russia agreement to sell between themselves and NOT use American dollar.

China and Brazil- Huge currency swap- NOT using the American dollar

China and Australia- Huge currency swap- NOT using the American dollar

Iran and Russia- NO dollar.

China and Chile- NO dollar.

China and United Arab Emerites- NO dollar.

China and Africa- #1 trade partners now. NO using the American dollar for the sale and trade of products. 

Sept. 6, 2012- China announced that anyone who wants to trade crude will use their money—NOT AMERICAN MONEY. 

The Dollar is dead. Unused and unwanted. It will be 6-8 mo. for all dollars to come home. Trillions of dollars are floating around. This will make inflation skyrocket. 

INFLATION 101---1960’s- 1 silver $ = 1 dollar NOW—40 Silver $ = 1 dollars

THE LAST INDICATOR WILL BE THAT THE

FEDERAL RESERVE MAKES AN INTEREST HIKE 

ITS LIKE A SLOW BOIL…..We MUST protest, we MUST PRAY, and we MUST prepare physically to help our families get through this time. We must remain united and ask our GOOD LORD JESUS to purify us as HE sees fit. Because truly this is a purification of the world, spiritually, physically etc. The natural disasters added to all of this is going to be very, very tough. Stay in a state of peace and see all through the eyes of Mary. The HOLY FATHER is leading us—SO ALL EYES SHOULD BE ON HIM!! LIVE HIS WORDS OF WISDOM. 

I give this information because we NEED to be wise and understand the tyranny of what is happening. NOT sit back and say—WHATEVER----and take it. THESE PEOPLE SHOULD BE INUNDATED WITH PRAYER CONSTANTLY!!! We will hear about conversions like St. Paul when all of this is said and done….

Padraig Caughey- Six Visions or Icons

 From his Forum: motheofgod.com

THE FIRST ICON-

I was shown, in prayer another place, another time; it was the South of France, Gaul many centuries ago. I saw a Roman Legion collected with the Standards in front, very imposing and war like.

I saw, very clearly the Legate seated in front at a folding down table very clearly. He was a man with a very
broad face, graying short black hair, dressed in a white toga and with a very serious, determined demeanor.
In front of the Legion were braziers with smoke rising up, ready to receive sacrifices to the Roman Emperors
and around them too, dressed in strange garments, priests of the cult, dressed bizarrely ready to witness
sacrifice to the God/Emperor. They were assembled on a military parade ground, glistening white, perhaps
limestone and large pieces of wood had been set up by the Legion to execute those who refused sacrifice to
the Emperor/God.
Ahead was a large queue of Christians who had been assembled to sacrifice to the Emperor, man women and
children, and a few soldiers. I was surprised to hear a few women crying quite loudly as I often read how
joyfully Christians went to their death. But I realized that martyrdom was not always such an easy thing for
everyone. . They were being invited to sacrifice to the Emperor, ritually three times and when they did not do
so they were at once at a nod form the Legate taken to the blocks and killed by soldiers. It was very efficient
(as, I suspect everything these Roman troops did} and the line of Christians moved forward steadily to their
deaths.
This may not seem to have anything to do with the future in America at first sight and I was a little surprised
on being shown this, but pray about it; it has everything to do with the future there.
I'll write a little on why this is tomorrow. But Pray about it and you'll see for yourself, if you ask Our Lady for
the grace of insight.


In the 3rd century, the Neoplatonist philosopher Porphyry wrote:

'How can people not be in every way impious and atheistic who have apostatized from the customs of our
ancestors through which every nation and city is sustained? ... What else are they than fighters against God? '

The Theban Legion-The FIRST ICON
'In the year of Christ 286, a most remarkable affair occurred; a legion of soldiers, consisting of six thousand six
hundred and sixty‐six men, contained none but Christians. This legion was called the Theban Legion, because
the men were Egyptian Christian Copts who had been recruited from and stationed in Thebias in Upper Egypt.
The Theban Legion were quartered in the east until the emperor Maximian ordered them to march to Gaul, to
assist him against the rebels of Burgundy. It was the custom of the Romans to move troops from extreme
parts of the empire to avoid the problem of Roman‐trained soldiers participating in uprisings to free their
native lands.
It should be noted here that the Egyptians or the Copts accepted Christianity so very rapidly to the extent that
the Romans had to exercise a series of persecutions in an attempt to suppress the growth of a religion which
openly defied the divinity of the Emperor. The Roman Edict of 202 A.D. decreed that Christian conversion
should be stopped at all costs. The edict of 250 A.D. decreed that every citizen should carry at all times a
certificate issued by the local authorities testifying that he had offered sacrifice to the gods. Those who
refused to conform were tortured with unprecedented ferocity. Some were beheaded, others were thrown to
the lions and others were burnt alive. All were subjected to even innovated veracious torture regardless of age
or sex. The Catechetical School of Alexandria was closed by order of the authorities, though its members
continued to meet in other secret places. At one time, the number of bishops was restricted by the State to
three. The consummation of the age of persecution is considered by the Copts to be during the reign of
Emperor Diocletian (284‐305). So severe was the mass execution and the savage torture of the Copts that they
took the day of DiocIetian's military election as Emperor to mark the beginning of the era of the Coptic
martyrs. That very day marked the start of the Coptic Calendar known in the Western world as Anno
Martyrum (A.M.) or the year of the Martyrs.
The area around Thebes has always enjoyed a reputation for its strong, almost fanatical, Christianity. The first
monks in the Christian tradition, known as "The Desert Fathers," contained a majority of Thebans, and Theban
Christians celebrate many martyrs who have refused to yield their faith to the many persecutions in the first
centuries of the church.
The Theban Legion passed through the Alps into Gaul, under the command of Mauritius, Candidus, and
Exupernis, their worthy commanders, and at length joined the emperor. About this time, Maximian ordered a
general sacrifice, at which the whole army was to assist; and likewise he commanded that they should take
the oath of allegiance and swear, at the same time, to assist in the extirpation of Christianity in Gaul. Alarmed
at these orders, each individual of the Theban Legion absolutely refused either to sacrifice or take the oaths
prescribed. This so greatly enraged Maximian that he ordered the legion to be decimated, that is, every tenth
man to be selected from the rest, and put to the sword. The names of the soldiers were written on papers and
placed in the caps of the centurions, for 600 were destined to perish as examples. These embraced their
comrades, who encouraged them and even envied their fate. The plain soon flowed with the blood of the
martyrs. The survivors persisted in declaring themselves Christians, and the butchery began again; the blood
of another 600 reddened the waters of the Rhone. This second severity made no more impression than the
first had done; the soldiers preserved their fortitude and their principles, but by the advice of their officers
they drew up a loyal remonstrance to the emperor. This, it might have been presumed, would have softened
the emperor, but it had a contrary effect: for, enraged at their perseverance and unanimity, he commanded
that the whole legion should be put to death, which was accordingly executed by the other troops, who cut
them to pieces with their swords, September 22, 286. The Maximian period is known as the Sixth Primitive
Persecution in Fox's Book of Martyrs. During this persecution, raised by Maximinus, numberless Christians
were slain without trial, and buried indiscriminately in heaps, sometimes fifty or sixty being cast into a pit
together, without the least decency. '

Our Blessed Lady explains that I will be shown nine icons or pictures of the future.
She invites, as each one is revealed, that her children may, themselves interpret and understand their meanings.
The first six.
......and three to follow.....at a future time.
The first declared (the Theban Legion)and five more...the three to follow at a time when the entire history of the United
States will appear rewritten

THE SECOND ICON.
I stand in a Catholic Church in America.
It is wooden, clap board and seems small to me. But,I suppose, is no less small than small of the country Churches in
Ireland.
My attention is, at once drawn, to the fact that the tabernacle door is open and the Our Blessed Lord is not,
Eucharistically present in the Church.
I look and see...and I realise, throughout America there is no Eucharistic presence ; I see hundreds of Churches...but Our
Lord is not present anywhere......
I look towards the front of the Church and a lady lies dead…
she wore a brown dress...I think Paisley or floral design beautiful black hair and holding a golden pyx on her outstretched
right hand..............
The vision changes to another Catholic Church...I am surprised to see a Church in the USA so old........at first I think I am
in the country, but I am not, I am in the city and as I look at the Church I realise ,here, too the Tabernacle Door is open,
Christ is not present.....
I see all over America ...Christ is no longer present...
...and as I look at the front of the Church men marching....they look , they claim to be Federal Police....but they are not....
THE THIRD ICON
I see the Houses of Government.
On all sides I see the Representatives filled with a bitter, bitter, bitter, killing fury; they hate and despise each other...
They are very, very bitterly divided, no longer brother and sisters they ARE NO LONGER ONE.
I see them with raised fist, poised to strike.
I see a very special man...i t seems to me a country man....I see him clearly......he leads a very large part out of the
halls........many will call it Rebellion.... but he leads them away........the Union is Divided.....brother against brother,, town
against town, State against State.
I see many hands raised to the Stars and Stripes, each...to claim it as their own, but as they reach out the flag is
rent..............
Civil War
At least the Americans will have the courage to fight. I don’t like violence, the older I get the less I like wars, but, then
again the Catholic Church does not teach pacifism.
The gentleman who leads the senior statesmen out of the Hall, one day in the future statues will be erected to him, he
will be considered another Lincoln.
It would be nice to think we might have someone here in Ireland, but I have my doubts...who would we have here like
him? A great leader. I wonder who he is? I must have a look on the internet and see if I can find him...but I think he will
rise up and is not currently well known, a very good and brave man, as indeed are his fellow States people who walk out
of the Hall with him. It’s wonderful how God can raise people up for the occasion. May God raise in Ireland, when the
time comes folk of similar stature.
Americans will have a name for this occasion when they walk out, it is a divide a parting of the ways...brother will raise
hand against brother, daughter against mother....town against town neighbourhood against neighbourhood. ...but you
know some times I wonder if the worst thing is to fight...might it not be worst simply to accept things and lie down and
not to fight?
For myself I more inclined to turn to prayer and trust in God. Though it is easy to see, that when people defend that
which they hold most dear, their faith and freedom …well how they could be filed with fury. It is very sad...I think of
Lincoln.
The Fourth Icon.
3‐7‐4
I was shown the United States as being like the most beautiful crystal bowl, whole and looking like it will last forever.
However on looking closer I was shown that it had deep cracks running right through its very soul and it was on the very
point of fragmenting.
After the dissolution of the Union, which is shown in the third icon, the pace of events and persecution of Christians
...and Catholics moves so quickly from area to area that it seems impossible to keep up with. However alliances between
States and regions sometimes remain solid and firm. So between Three States, Seven states and Four states which will
for each combination provide a great shelter for those of Faith. One of these alliances however will include non‐
Americans from the Pacific region.
I know how unlikely this seems, but folks do not realise that the whole world is about to change, from top to bottom.
So in much of the Future of the USA will be a struggle between Faith and those who have abandoned Faith and turned to
outright evil.
I will not really defend myself, folks will ever believe or not as they want...
But as Darell says what I write about is mirrored in USA media at the minute and I can only say as Darrell wrote …and
others this is a Sign that the 5th Icon is true.
Finally another problem; I am not an American; I am Irish. Why then am I publishing on the Future of America? Would it
not have been better if God had Chosen an American? In fact are not these icons anti‐ American?...and am I not myself
anti‐ American, leading folks to worry and despair?
I have no answer as to why Our Blessed Lady chose me for this, these icons will, as they are realised become very, very,
very famous. But they ARE icons they do not invite comment, only prayer. Our Lady has explained to me that those who
wish to understand should simply kneel at her feet. The 5th Icon has two parts, both related and requires deep prayer for discernment.

THE FIFTH ICON-
I stand above a freeway looking down. All the automobiles are stopped in place it looks like a car park. I go down. The
automobiles are covered in dust it reminds me of a car I saw in the scrap yard years ago...these vehicles have stayed
here many, many years....decades....I go inside one...the tapestry inside it is so old it is very, very brittle, so old
everything I touch crumbles.
I look outside the windscreen which is just green with age and see the city far down the road... I do not of course
recognise it...but I hope someone will, there is the most unusual tower but it is a bit like a onion on top flattened, very
tall.

The second part of the icon is extraordinary. I have thought about it for weeks, but cannot understand, however I think
this is how the automobiles got stuck.
I see a very wide valley and above it a sphere in the sky. It travels very slowly and majestically along a kind of dull red.
But as it travels everything, trees bits of ground, people are attracted up to it......it seems to be an agent of great, great,
great destruction...

 Last Icon.
(The Icon of Comfort}
I stood in a very small wooden Church, it could hardly have been much larger than my class room at school, composed
entirely, it looked like of simple wood with no real decoration. Our Lady stood at the front of the Church dressed
unusually but very beautifully. She wore a flowing dress of deepest blue, almost black. Over it was like a white lace
through which you could see the dress the colour of the sky just before it turns to night. On the dress were like pearls or
stars that shone on and off slowly and beautifully. On her head was a flowing white mantle, something between a shawl
and a wimple a little like this...

She gestured with one hand toward the open door at the side of the little Church and in her other hand was a set of
rosary beads, like the most beautiful pearls. As I looked out the door I realsied that this was the very heart of a little
Catholic Community that the Church was the heart of the community and that the Church , the community had become
the Heart of America. That it had returned in a way to its roots in faith and rediscovered itself in great simplicity and
prayerfulness. It reminded me a little of Laura Engles series of books, if you recall, 'Little house on the Prairie' Or, I
suppose, 'The Waltons' But a simplicity born of deep ,deep faith.
The following was impressed on me. that love for country; love for anything, wife , husband, neighbour, self can only
spring from love of God. Anything, including love of country that does not find its source in this wellspring is vain. But
that so long as men love God, America will always exist and always be free. That however America as a Nation finds its
source not in a Constitution or on laws or law makers but on this love for God and so long as men love God America will
always exist. Men may give way to despair as they see what they falsely conceive America to be to Fall, but America will
never truly Fall for while men love God America will always exist...though not in its present form.

Padraig Caughey-Mary leads into Battle

 From his Forum: motheofgod.com

MARY LEADS HER ARMY TO BATTLE.
The Second Spring time.
Revival and resurgence 1978 to the Present Day.
Every Nation like every soul, fights her won Battles with her own weapons, each unique to her own Destiny and Vocation
in the heart of God. Though some are similar each is individual for that countries calling.
The century in which as Satan had been unleashed, at his won request from Hell had seen him return in great fullness of
power to vaunt his full fury right across the globe, wars followed wars, concentration camps and mass murders, huge
famines and the greatest apostasy form Faith that the world had ever seen. Though much that he did in the terrible
bloody 20th century was contrived in secret much that he did was achieved openly by agents, little antiChrists who
made no secret of their evil and vile intents:
Satan, like a brilliant general arranged his armies in battle to suit the corruption soul of the Nation he wished to traduce.
In the case of the United States circumstances dictated he push forward the struggle in great secrecy and stealth by
hidden means, to corrupt from within. Like a great ravening lion he hid behind bushes luring his prey closer with
promises and bribes seeking second Judases amidst those who should have been shepherds and who should have been
the very first to raise the sound of alarm and lead the fight to battle.
As the 20th century drew to close so too did the allotted period for Satan's great temptation and battle wind to its end
and the forces of heaven under the leadership of Mary go forth to battle.
In fact we can trace perhaps the very point were the tide of battle began to change.
On the 16 October 1978 with the election of Karol Józef Wojtyła as Pope John Paul II to the second longest Papacy in the
entire history of the Church; and the inauguration of the modern Marian Age of apparitions with the return of Our
Blessed Lady, in direct intervention , the Marian Era which Pope Benedict himself spoke of as a , 'Marian Age of
apparitions'. Pope John Paul, the Great, himself talking of a 'Second Spring time', for the Church.
This revival is a mystical reality and it’s a mistake I think to seek too closely human causes. The fight is fought in the
heavens, through its instruments on Earth, as Saint Paul reminds us:
Eph. 6:12 "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the
darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places]."
..and in Revelation:
Revelation 12:7‐12
...and it is because the war of Satan in the USA has been fought in secret that the straws of change, of this New
Springtime are perhaps sometimes harder to see than they are, for instance in Eastern Europe and Russia with the
downfall of the Red Dragon of Communism, but there they are in there thousands and millions, the green buds of a
great Marian Spring and in my next post we shall look a little closer at these buds in our own days as turn to look with
great hope and the help of Our Blessed Mother at what the Future holds for the USA.was shown, in prayer another place, another time; it was the South of France, Gaul many centuries ago. I saw
a Roman Legion collected with the Standards in front, very imposing and war like.

Padraig Caughey- Dream of the Warning

 From his Forum: motheofgod.com

PADRAIG'S DREAM OF THE WARNING

I had the most beautiful dream about the Warning last night. I dreamt I was in Dublin City staying in five different homes for the night, not too long after the Warning, sharing with people about the Mysteries of the Faith and the meaning of what the people had seen, explaining things and comforting folks. Ireland was in a state of ferment and excitement, the greatest in its entire history and in a religious awakening greater than even when St Padraig walked the land, the people who m I was talking to were even kinda bug eyed;as it says in Scripture, As I walked the streets of Dublin and through the housing estates during the day I called into many houses where people were gathered to meet and try to make sense of what they had seen.

However I was told to remember the names of the five families I stayed with in Dublin, but I can only remember three, the Corrs, the Dalys, and the Allen's. I left the Corr's in Dublin at 2 am in the morning. I remember this specifically as Mr Corr wanted me to stay the night. I had been talking late to a large group assembled in his house. But I was anxious to move on and did not feel the least bit tired. I recall in Dublin how large groups of people stood on the street corners, complete strangers speaking earnestly to each other, trying to make sense of it all.

Next I found myself leaving a small town in county Cavan walking up a country road at night. But it was as though the star shine from the Warning was still present; as though it was the lightest of mid summers night and I could see so clearly as though it were nearly day. Many people wailed the road to my surprise. I looked through the windows of the houses lit up fully though it was very late. They had drawn up chairs for people to come calling in a state of spiritual great excitement. One large house I passed had rows of chairs drawn up, nearly like a Church in expectation of the callers. At the end of the row I looked into one house, it was one old man lived there and I felt sorry for him living on his own. But even he had chairs drawn round in a circle for callers and I knew he was a person of faith able to explain something of what the entire island, the entire world, had seen.

I met two young girls smiling and laughing, they were in their early twenties, they told me they were from Belfast and were walking to Our Lady's Shrine in Knock.

I found myself drawn up in car at the car park beside the old Church in Knock. People were standing everywhere in crowds in a state of very high excitement, a real ferment. I tried to move past time to spend time in prayer alone in the Church but I was recognized and they walked quickly, even running towards me to explain things.

Then I was shown the starry sky and hanging down from it seven rugs of animal skins of different hues and colors’. One black like the skin of a bear, one light brown and white like the skin of a goat, one of black and brown and white. Mottled. Each skin represented a soul who looked within itself and in the skin recognized him/herself as she really was in the eyes of God.

I looked with one lady, whose name was Rose; into her soul. Then I understood it was not just individual sins but entire patterns of sin which were exposed. For instance Rose (or Rosa) saw patterns of extreme negativity in her life, talking badly about others and behaving badly towards them . But what she was particularly condemned for was her negativity towards religion and the Church. This part of her 'skin' was totally black,


One thing , though made me slightly sad. When I was talking to the two girls on the county road one said to the other,

'Look how busy it is with people!'

To which the other replied,

‘Yes, but not as busy as it was a night ago'

Which made me and them a little sad as we knew the good effects of the Warning were waning. We will be given a great grace, but we must use it or lose it; as with all graces..And this will be the very greatest of graces....

But oh how excited and happy I am this morning! What a wonderful grace this will be for Ireland and the entire world!!

It was beautiful; it reminded me of the Christmas a special show was put on round the University here. I went with my sister, nephews and nieces to see how right through the park they put up special lighting to turn it into a fairy park. Actors roamed about dressed as fairies, pixies and magical creatures. The children were bug eyed staring.

But how do I know if it is true or not? The question suddenly occurred to me yesterday and it left me wondering.

Well the Warning itself is certainly true. It's quoted too often in Catholic Prophecy to be false.

But the dream itself?  Time will tell. All I can say is that I prayed about it to check and felt a strong inner assurance it was true.
So I believe it was, for what it’s worth.

As Bobby mentioned in his quote Our Lady herself is praying for it, so since this is so the great grace will come, the greatest grace since Pentecost.

All I have to say is anyone who rejects it (the grace of the Warning) will be begging on their knees to be sent to hell.

The Miracle will seal this grace. So people cannot say, 'Maybe it was collective hysteria’, the Miracle is the seal, the permanent sign assuring the truth of the Warning.

Have you noticed Gail that the Warning is referred to repeatedly in Scripture?

For instance today at mass:
,
First readingJeremiah 30:1-2,12-15,18-22 ©
The word addressed to Jeremiah by the Lord: the Lord, the God of Israel says this: Write all the words I have spoken to you in a book.
Yes, the Lord says this:
Your wound is incurable,
your injury past healing.
There is no one to care for your sore,
no medicine to make you well again.
All your lovers have forgotten you,
they look for you no more.
Yes, I have struck you as an enemy strikes,
with harsh punishment
so great is your guilt, so many your sins.
Why bother to complain about your wound?
Your pain is incurable.
So great is your guilt, so many your sins,
that I have done all this to you.
The Lord says this:
Now I will restore the tents of Jacob,
and take pity on his dwellings:
the city shall be rebuilt on its ruins,
the citadel restored on its site.
From them will come thanksgiving
and shouts of joy.
I will make them increase, and not diminish them,
make them honoured, and not disdained.
Their sons shall be as once they were,
their community fixed firm in my presence,
and I will punish all their oppressors.
Their prince will be one of their own,
their ruler come from their own people.
I will let him come freely into my presence and he can come close to me;
who else, indeed, would risk his life
by coming close to me? – it is the Lord who speaks.
And you shall be my people and I will be your God.

Padraig Caughey- Children of the Mist

From his Forum: motheofgod.com

Our Lady has been pushing me, in prayer to explain a few things about this thread.

 So although I am a bit reluctant to do so, I will or she will not let me alone.

First of all in the original formation of this forum and in subsequent posts I always pray to see what Our Lady wants me to write, even if it is about stuff I would really not write about, for instance graces I have received in prayer, very often I don't really want to write about, but Our Lady insists that it will be an encouragement to others to pray and a strengthening in faith and so I have done. A great encouragement has been when it seems this has helped others grow or even led them to Faith; this is such a wonderful Sign that the Hand of the Mother of God is in this and so I have continued, happily enough, though often , personally with some reluctance.


In the case of this particular thread it has been the same pattern. I am not an American of course and have little experience of America and so when in prayer Our Lady put her foot down and wanted me to write I did so like a stubborn old mule as I thought Americans on the forum would think I was being more than a little presumptuous and arrogant on writing on this subject, one which they themselves would, naturally know a million times better than I myself.

More than this as soon as I started to write I was very aware how blank my own thoughts were on this subject and so I have constantly had nothing to say and so have had constantly to kneel at the feet of Mary and so I have in effect being acting as a very reluctant and stubborn secretary, writing down what she herself has wanted and directed to be written.

But all to the best as I have learnt so much myself and since so little of myself has gone into this all the more of Our Blessed Mother shines forth; which is all any of her children could ever want or ask.

Anyhow I have done as she asked and will continue to do so. But she just wanted me to point out the hand she is having in all this. I pray and write down as she tells me, she also wanted me to tell you this because we are coming up to stuff about the future, which is the important bit and what I have explained may help folks to be more open and docile too, as this stubborn old mule keeps writing.

The Children of the Mist

The Children of the Mist are a very busy people, busy about many things. So busy, practical and up to date and relevant that time spent praying and attending to Mass seems at best a distraction or at worst like a waste of time. They seem superficially a very attractive people. Warm hearted and deeply caring. 

They are activists concerned with a whole host of issues such as the environment, wars, violence, women's rights, poverty, the criminal system, injustice, sexual issues and so on. They are attractive because they are so much people who really CARE and unlike the Children of Mary who they see as judgmental, conservative, and old fashioned and entrenched in outmoded ways of thought, too tied up in heavenly matters, the Children of the Mist regard themselves as in touch, relevant, progressive, open to present needs and very much activists.

 They are very much in setting up structures, most especially committees and agencies, groups to deal with ISSUES with which they are constantly embattled in dealing with. They are tremendous listeners and talkers and come across as very warm, your best friend, your brother, sisters, mother or father. Yet much of this is delusional for when challenged on the directions they which to persuade you to walk they are in fact made of steel. For instance I have heard of Seminarians and novices who have professed belief in apparitions, such as Medugorje being hurriedly and very efficiently and quickly being dispatched out the seminary or novitiate back door.

The Grey Mists are concerned always with, 'Rights' but seldom with responsibilities. They emphasis personal choice and decisions and are opposed to structures or 'mindless obedience' unless the structures or authorities happen to be controlled by their own folks.

They love innovation and see tradition as fusty and getting in the road.

They have no real conception of evil as a force in its own right. They regard evil as being a result of processes which they can set right.

They do not accept the reality of Satan and Hell and dislike the notion of Purgatory or a Last Judgment. On the other hand they underline love, mercy, heaven and all loving God.

They dislike devotions which they consider old fashioned and it is almost a badge for them that they very much oppose apparitions, the supernatural, the mystical or any kind of Devotion to Our Blessed Lady, especially such things as the use of the Rosary. 

...and so in the period leading up to the Second Vatican Council {11 October 1962 and closed under Pope Paul VI on 21 November 1965} ; Satan gradually infiltrated and traduced as his own those whose responsibility it was to educate the young priests and religious, those who in their own turn bore the responsibility in their own turn to teach the young of the Catholic Church in their country.

In fact at least one Catholic writer, the Englishman and devout Catholic writer JR Tolkein in his trilogy, 'The Lord of the Rings (He appears in the second and third volumes of the work, The Two Towers and The Return of the King};Grima Wormtongue a type of the children of the Mist who corrupt all that they touch from within. Worms eating at the heart of goodness, the Church.

The name Gríma derives from the Icelandic word meaning "mask

'Gríma, son of Gálmód, was at first a faithful servant, but he secretly fell in league with Saruman, and from then worked to weaken Théoden and his kingdom through lies and persuasion.

Tolkien describes him as "a wizened figure of a man, with a pale wise face, and heavy lidded eyes", with a "long pale tongue"; he later says his face is indeed very pale.

He was not much loved in Edoras; everyone except Théoden himself called him "Wormtongue", for his malicious words were like that of a serpent (or dragon, as this quite fits with the speeches of Glaurung in the First Age). Gandalf repeatedly compares him to a snake:

The wise speak only of what they know, Gríma son of Gálmód. A witless worm have you become. Therefore be silent, and keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. I have not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a serving-man till the lightning falls.

See, Théoden, here is a snake! To slay it would be just. But it was not always as it now is. Once it was a man, and it did you service in its fashion.

It is implied that Saruman had promised him Éowyn, the king's niece, as a reward for his services. Éomer accused him of "watching her under his lids and haunting her steps", but was prevented from killing him right there and then; he would have killed him for this earlier if it had not been against the law.

As Tolkien writes in Unfinished Tales, Gríma may even have given Théoden "subtle poisons" that caused him to become frail and appear to age even more.'

SOLEMNITY OF THE HOLY APOSTLES PETER AND PAUL 

THURSDAY, 29 JUNE 1972 


…referring to the situation of the Church today, the Holy Father affirms that he has a sense that “from some fissure the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God.” There is doubt, incertitude, problematic, disquiet, dissatisfaction, confrontation. There is no longer trust of the Church; they trust the first profane prophet who speaks in some journal or some social movement, and they run after him and ask him if he has the formula of true life. And we are not alert to the fact that we are already the owners and masters of the formula of true life. 

Doubt has entered our consciences, and it entered by windows that should have been open to the light. Science exists to give us truths that do not separate from God, but make us seek him all the more and celebrate him with greater intensity; instead, science gives us criticism and doubt. Scientists are those who more thoughtfully and more painfully exert their minds. 

 But they end up teaching us: “I don’t know, we don’t know, we cannot know.” The school becomes the gymnasium of confusion and sometimes of absurd contradictions. Progress is celebrated, only so that it can then be demolished with revolutions that are more radical and more strange, so as to negate everything that has been achieved, and to come away as primitives after having so exalted the advances of the modern world. 

This state of uncertainty even holds sway in the Church. There was the belief that after the Council there would be a day of sunshine for the history of the Church. Instead, it is the arrival of a day of clouds, of tempest, of darkness, of research, of uncertainty. We preach ecumenism but we constantly separate ourselves from others. We seek to dig abysses instead of filling them in. 

FOR A LIFEGIVING AND REDEEMING “CREDO” 

How has this come about? 

The Pope entrusts one of his thoughts to those who are present: that there has been an intervention of an adverse power. Its name is the devil, this mysterious being that the Letter of St. Peter also alludes to.

So many times, furthermore, in the Gospel, on the lips of Christ himself, the mention of this enemy of men returns. The Holy Father observes, “We believe in something that is preternatural that has come into the world precisely to disturb, to suffocate the fruits of the Ecumenical Council, and to impede the Church from breaking into the hymn of joy at having renewed in fullness its awareness of itself. Precisely for this reason, we should wish to be able, in this moment more than ever, to exercise the function God assigned to Peter, to strengthen the Faith of the brothers. We should wish to communicate to you this charism of certitude that the Lord gives to him who represents him though unworthily on this earth.” Faith gives us certitude, security, when it is based upon the Word of God accepted and consented to with our very own reason and with our very own human spirit. Whoever believes with simplicity, with humility, sense that he is on the good road, that he has an interior testimony that strengthens him in the difficult conquest of the truth. 

Time moved on and the prayers of Blessed Pope John 23rd for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit to renew the Church was convened with the opening of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council. 

The intention of the Church Fathers can be summed up very simply, renewal of the Church. Renewal by returning to sources and cleaning of the dust and rubbish that had accumulated down the centuries. to return to the sources of the streams of grace and draw from them anew.

However the Children of the Mist were now perfectly placed in America to hi-jack the wonderful; Spirit guided intentions of the Council Fathers and uses it for their own malicious and even evil ends. The Council was, for them rather like a brand new, shiny automobile that has been left in a driveway with the keys in the ignition and the engine running, they simply jumped in the empty vehicle and drove away in it to all kinds of bad and destructive destinations. They had no interest in Renewal, their whole interest was in innovation in driving towards their many and nefarious agendas.

So many and extraordinary and shocking were these innovations that it is difficult to know where to start to list them all. But they had one thing in common; they defied or misunderstood the original intent of the Council Fathers in going to the past to bring forward something new, they were total innovators ignoring 2.000 years of Church history and the wisdom of ages of spiritual wisdom to drive the automobile of the Catholic Church in the USA to total disaster. But the children of the Mist had risen over the previous decades and were emerging in positions of power everywhere. They could do pretty well as they liked as they were now at the driving wheel, and that is what they did. 

Effectively they gutted the cultural and spiritual heart of the Church, the tools their war cry being at all times, 'Vatican 2' a Church Council they neither understood nor showed obedience too but simply used for their own purpose. But much more sinister than this was that they actually changed the teachings of the Church itself so that, for instance confession boxes were empty and the children in the schools were taught some new, weird versions of the faith and, effectively whole new generations of Americans would grow up with no conception of what it actually meant to be a Catholic. They often went to Church and had their children baptized but they were no longer, very often, in any serious ways Catholic in any meaningful ways themselves. The soul of the Church in America was being gutted.

Ordinary Catholics knew this and voted with their feet.

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/features/index.cfm?recnum=22821


'After skyrocketing from about 27,000 in 1930 to 58,000 in 1965, the number of priests in the United States 

dropped to 45,000 in 2002. By 2020, there will be about 31,000 priests--and only 15,000 will be under the

age of 70, according to a study conducted by Dr. James R. Lothian of Fordham University.

The shortage of priests has created a problem previously unknown to modern Catholics: the priest- less parish.

 Only 3 percent of the parishes in the US--a total of 549--were without a priest in 1965. In 2002 there 

were 2,928 priest-less parishes, about 15 percent of all US parishes. By 2020, a quarter of all parishes,

 4,656, will have no priest.

As one would expect, the priest dearth has been fueled by a collapse in the seminarian population.

 There were 16,300 seminarians in 1930 and 49,000 in 1965. By 2002 the number had plunged to 4,700:

 a 90 percent decrease. Without any students, countless seminaries across the country have been sold

 or shuttered. There were 596 seminaries in 1965 and only 200 in 2002.

And empty seminaries result in declining ordinations. While there were 1,575 ordinations to the

 priesthood in 1965, in 2002 there were 450, a decrease of 350 percent. Taking into account

 ordinations, deaths and departures, in 1965 there was a net gain of 725 priests. In 1998, 

there was a net loss of 810.

RELIGIOUS ORDERS DISAPPEARING

The tragedy of the convents has been perhaps even more startling. A host of 138,000 sisters ran 

the Catholic education and health systems in 1945; their numbers swelled to 180,000 by 1965.

 In 2002, there were 75,000 sisters, with an average age of 68. By 2020, the number of sisters

 will drop to 40,000--and of these, only 21,000 will be age 70 or under. One does not have to be 

Chicken Little to predict that within a generation there will be no nuns.

The same is true for the once-proud religious orders of men. For example, in 1965 there were

 5,277 Jesuit priests and 3,559 seminarians; in 2000 there were 3,172 priests and 389 seminarians.

 There were 2,534 OFM Franciscan priests and 2,251 seminarians in 1965; in 2000 there were

 1,492 priests and 60 seminarians. There were 2,434 Christian Brothers in 1965 and 912 seminarians; 

in 2000 there were 959 Brothers and 7 seminarians. It does not require special training in statistics

 to conclude that by 2050, if these trends continue, the Jesuits, the Franciscans, and the

 Christian Brothers, will be the virtually extinct in the US.

Other statistics on the life of the Catholic Church in America tell the same story. At the time

 of the Council there were 4.5 million students in US parochial schools; now there are 2 million. 

Before the Council there were less than 400 marriages annulled by Catholic diocesan tribunals in 

an average year; now there are 50,000. Before the Council 3 out of 4 Catholics

 attended Mass each week; now the figure is 1 in 4. ' 

On 25 July 1968 Pope Paul VI did something incredible and Prophetic in publishing a letter on Human Life, 'Humae Vitae'. People, including many clergy had forgotten the role of the Spiritual Leader, especially the Pope as Vicar of Christ is intensely Prophetic and Humanae Vitae was perhaps the most intensely prophetic document of modern times.

Like Moses , Pope Paul called Chosen People from the flesh pots of Egypt. He had been to the desert and encountered the Fire of the Holy Spirit in the Desert and brought the fire back to the People of God. This was an intensely counter cultural act in that it called for the people of God to renounce the values and direction of Western Societies at that time. It would cause folks to take risks and turn their backs on the material, on the flesh pots of Israel. It was Prophetic in that it took the Word of God to shout a cry or warning to a people grown deaf to its voice. It was Prophetic in that it risked martyrdom to those who followed it and to the Prophet himself. It was Prophetic in that it saw round the bend to the future, a future were the people of the United States would become enslaved to the value systems and beliefs of the Egyptians around them to a point where they themselves would worship the false Gods of the Egyptians themselves. God, through His Prophet was calling them to make an exit, a turning point a walking away from the Mist, the cold Satanic Mist that had fallen so hard and fast on their Nation and forge a new path in the Light, the Spiritual Clarity of the Desert.

Like Moses, the authority of the Pope was challenged by his own people:

Exodus 2:14
The man said, "Who made you ruler and judge over us?

 Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?”

The people contended with the Pope's prophetic role, his spiritual leadership as they had with Moses and set God to the test.

17:2 So the people contended 7 with Moses, and they said, “Give us water to drink!” 8

 Moses said to them, “Why do you contend 9 with me? Why do you test 10 the Lord?”

For Humanae Vitae we can say with Jesus:

Mat 19:11 But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given. 

This rejection by the majority of the Church in America was to institute the low point

 of effects of Satan's War against the Children of God in that Nation. One Protestant commentator, Mary Eberstadt, brilliantly charts the effects of its rejection, for instance on the Anglican Communion and much of what she says can be applied, in a lesser way to our Church: 

‘How did sex, of all subjects, come to occupy such a prominent place in the division of Christendom? In a sense, the potential was always there. From the first believers on up, the stern stuff of the Christian moral code has been cause for commentary—to say nothing of complaint. “Not all men can receive this saying,” the disciples are told when Jesus puts divorce off limits. Observers throughout history, Christian or not, have agreed: that particular moral teaching and its corollaries are hard indeed. From pagan Rome two thousand years ago to secular Western Europe today, the Church’s rules about sex have amounted to saying no, no, and no to things about which non-Christians have gotten to say yes or why not.

Even so, there is no denying that the traditional rules do seem more problematic now than ever before. Widespread abortion, ubiquitous pornography, diminished social opprobrium, and above all easy and effective contraception: All have divided recreation from procreation as never before in history. They have also been the driving force behind the embrace of Christianity Lite itself. After all, many would say, hasn’t this explosion of sexual expression made what was once a difficult moral code practically an impossible one? Shouldn’t the proper Christian response be one of mercy, rather than censure—including a merciful rewriting of the moral rules in these particularly difficult times?

Yet to say that the sexual revolution made Christianity Lite inevitable, as many people would, is to miss an important historical point. It was the Anglicans who first started picking apart the tapestry of Christian sexual morality—hundreds of years ago, long before the sexual revolution, and over one particular thread: divorce. In fact, in a fascinating development now visible in retrospect, the Anglican departure over divorce appears as the template for all subsequent exercises in Christianity Lite.

For about two centuries, and despite its having been midwifed into existence by the divorcing Henry VIII, the Church of England held fast to the same principle of the indissolubility of marriage on which the rest of Christian tradition insisted. According to a history of divorce called Untying the Knot, by Roderick Phillips, “no bishop, archbishop, or incumbent of high Anglican office in the first half of the seventeenth century supported the legalization of divorce.”

Even so, this early dedication to principle would turn out not to hold, ultimately eroding one priest and one parish at a time. In the United States, Phillips reports, Anglican churches soon were relaxing the strictest restrictions, making divorce more or less easy to come by depending on where one lived. Meanwhile, although the Church of England lagged behind the Episcopalians, by the mid-eighteenth century divorce was theoretically and practically available by an act of Parliament—a recourse that, although not widely exercised, went to show that exceptions to the indissolubility principle could be made.

Then came another turn of the theological wheel that could not have been foreseen by the first reformers.  As of the General Synod in 2002, divorced Anglicans could now remarry in the Church. A spokesman noted carefully at the time: “This does not automatically guarantee the right of divorced people to remarry in Church.” But such cautions were plainly a matter of whistling in the dark. If Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles can now marry in the Church—having already married and been divorced from other people—why should every other Anglican not enjoy the same mercy?

Thus does the Anglican attempt to lighten up the Christian moral code over the specific issue of divorce exhibit a clear pattern that appears over and over in the history of the experiment of Christianity Lite: First, limited exceptions are made to a rule; next, those exceptions are no longer limited and become the unremarkable norm; finally, that new norm is itself sanctified as theologically acceptable.

Exactly that pattern emerges in another example of the historical attempt to disentangle a thread of moral teaching out of the whole: the dissent about artificial contraception. Here, too, Anglicans took the historical lead. Throughout most of its history, all of Christianity—even divided Christianity—upheld the teaching that artificial contraception was wrong. Not until the Lambeth Conference of 1930 was that unity shattered by the subsequently famous Resolution 15, in which the Anglicans called for exceptions to the rule in certain difficult, carefully delineated marital (and only marital) circumstances.

Exactly as had happened with divorce, the Anglican okaying of contraception was born largely of compassion for human frailty and dedicated to the idea that such cases would be mere exceptions to the theological rule. Thus Resolution 15 itself—for all that it was a radical break with two millennia of Christian teaching—abounded with careful language about the limited character of its reform, including “strong condemnation of the use of any methods of conception control from motives of selfishness, luxury, or mere convenience.”

And also as had happened with divorce, the effort to hold the line at such carefully drawn borders soon proved futile. In short order, not only was birth control theologically approved in certain difficult circumstances but, soon thereafter, it was regarded as the norm. Nor was that all, In a third turn of the reformist wheel that no one attending Lambeth in 1930 could have seen coming, artificial contraception went on to be sanctioned by some prominent members of the Anglican Communion not only as an option but in fact as the better moral choice. By the time of Episcopal Bishop James Pike, only a quarter century or so later, it was possible for a leading Christian to declare (as he did) that parents who should not be having a child were not only permitted to use contraception but were, in fact, under a moral obligation to use the most effective forms of contraception obtainable.

Bishop Pike was only one of many leaders of Christianity Lite to participate in this same theological process leading from normalization to sanctification. Although the Eastern Orthodox churches sided generally with Rome on the issue of contraception, most Protestant churches ended up following the same script as the Anglicans—moving one by one from reluctant acceptance in special circumstances, to acceptance in most or all circumstances, and finally (in some cases) to complete theological inversion. No less an authority than the Baptist evangelist Billy Graham, for example, eventually embraced birth control to cope with what he called the “terrifying and tragic problem” of overpopulation.

In just a few decades, in other words—following the same pattern as divorce—contraception in the churches of Christianity Lite went from being an unfortunate option, to an unremarkable option, to the theologically preferable option in some cases. Now consider a third example of the same historical pattern holding in another area: dissent over traditional Christian teachings against homosexuality.

Although homosexuality may be the most explosive current example of the effort to reshape Christianity into a religion more congenial to modern sexual practice, it is actually new to that party. As many on both sides of the divide have had occasion to remark, homosexual behavior has been proscribed throughout history, by Judaism as well as Christianity, until very, very recently—including in the churches of Christianity Lite. (Henry VIII, to name one prominent example, invoked the alleged homosexuality of the monks as part of his justification for appropriating the monasteries.)

Yet “extraordinarily enough,” as William Murchison puts it in his book Mortal Follies: Episcopalians and the Crisis of Mainline Christianity (2009), “a question barely at the boundary of general consciousness thirty years ago has assumed central importance to the present life and future of the Episcopal Church.” Why this remarkable transformation? In part, because the reformers at Lambeth and elsewhere did not foresee something else that in retrospect appears obvious: The chain of logic leading from the occasional acceptance of contraception to the open celebration of homosexuality would prove surprisingly sound.

That is precisely why the change in doctrine over contraception has been used repeatedly by Anglican leaders to justify proposed changes in religious attitudes toward homosexuality. Robert Runcie, for example, former archbishop of Canterbury, explained his own personal decision to ordain practicing homosexuals on exactly those grounds. In a BBC radio interview in 1996, he cited the Lambeth Conference of 1930, observing that “once the Church signaled . . . that sexual activity was for human delight and a blessing even if it was divorced from any idea of procreation . . . once you’ve said that sexual activity is . . . pleasing to God in itself, then what about people who are engaged in same-sex expression and who are incapable of heterosexual expression?”

Similarly, archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has also retrospectively connected the dots between approving purposely sterile sex for heterosexuals on the one hand and extending the same theological courtesy to homosexuals on the other. As he observed in a lecture in 1989, three years before he became bishop, “In a church which accepts the legitimacy of contraception, the absolute condemnation of same-sex relations of intimacy must rely either on an abstract fundamentalist deployment of a number of very ambiguous texts or on a problematic and non-scriptural theory about natural complementarily, applied narrowly and crudely to physical differentiation without regard to psychological structures.”

Thus, in retrospect, does the modern Anglican path—from careful, even reluctant line-drawing over contraception at Lambeth in 1930, to divorced noncelibate homosexual Bishop Gene Robinson today—appear not only unsurprising but practically inevitable. Put differently, the rejection of the ban on birth control was not incidental to the Anglicans’ subsequent implosion over homosexuality. It was what started it.

Moreover, as of the December 2009 ordination in Los Angeles of the Episcopal Church’s second noncelibate gay bishop, it is clear that homosexuality’s theological status—like that of contraception before it—is now moving from an option to a religiously approved option. It therefore joins divorce and contraception in the signature religious cycle of Christianity Lite, conferring on a once prohibited sexual practice a theological seal of approval'.

You know I always felt sorry for Paul VI, for I always felt he was a martyr...and you know who stuck the nails in that laid him on a cross? His fellow Bishops and priests... mostly over Humanae Vitae. 

But that's where Prophets always wind up; hanging on a cross.