Sacredstar said:
Dear Q
Yes you are correct that will teach me to respond quickly without due thought, yes I did mean a focus for other's hatred. Yes Bush is just a catalyst, the darkness is in those that have the negative thoughts 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder'.
But as Mother Mary promised after the Iraq war began
"There is a new dawn on the horizon and out of the darkness will come the light."
Love beyond measure
Kim
Thank you Sacred for acknowledging my catholic roots, in a kind way. That isn't done often
I believe you when you say Mary made a promise after the latest war in Iraq commenced. Or I believe you saw something and interpreted it as such. My reason is not necessarrily due to blind faith, but due to historical repetitiveness, of such "visions" in the recent past.
The Lady appeared at Lourdes
The Lady appeared at Fatima
The Lady appeared at
Medjugorje
The Lady appeared at Guadalupe
The Lady appeared at Akita
The Lady appeared at Zeitoun
The Lady appeared at Garabandal
There were others as well, but each time the Lady petitioned man to turn back to the Son of God, to pray, and to repent. Even secular non-believers achnowledge something strange happening at the time of the apparitions, while the faithful saw in more detail and clarity.
One particularly famous apparition was the Lady of Fatima. She first appeared to three children, but then to others as well, and made three promises if man would repent, and pray. This was in 1917 I think. Any way one of the promises was that Russia would rid itself of communism (Russia was not yet a communist nation, but was in the throws of the Boshliveck revolution), and once again welcome Jesus into the land and hearts of the people. I find it ironic that after 70 years of communism, the coupe staged to overthrow the Soviet Government was rather bloodless...a far cry from its birth in 1917. The first promise was the revelation of Hell as it truly is (not a pretty sight for three small children let alone the rest of us). but the third one was never revealed to the public until 1960. It revealed an assasination attempt of the pope, but that instead of dying, the bullet would be unable to end the life of the "Bishop" of Rome, when for all pretenses it should have. John Paul II was that "Bishop", and the year was 1981. For the secular folk, the one thing clearly documented in the historical records was that hundreds of people reported seeing the Sun move closer to earth, before moving back to its original position. The three children also reported that two of them would die very soon, and this in fact happened.
On a personal note, my mother went to Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina. I guess you could call it a pilgrimige. She doesn't talk much about what happened, however she brought back a rosary that was made of silver (I know, I've held it), before she left for Europe. Now the rosary (cross) is made of gold blended with silver (verified by a jeweler). What is unique about this is that it is almost impossible to marry silver and gold together (molecularly). The cross is not made of gold and silver side by side, but literally blended together. It can be done (we engineers fuse aluminum and steel together in an explosive welding process called Dato coupling). But it takes a tremendous amount of energy, heat and compression, and is ususally done on large objects, not tiny bits of precious metal.
I don't know if I would call Mother Mary a prophet, but perhaps the visionaries that see her might be considered such. Whether true or false prophets depends on their message, and what the intentions are.
I think that if a "prophet's" message detracts from or leads people away from focusing completely on Jesus as the savior and messiah, that that prophet is false.
One of the interesting things about Mother Mary is that even Jesus did not question her a second time, but obeyed her. (the wedding in Cannan). As I recall Jesus complained that his time was not yet, but his mother seemed to know better. Mothers have a way of doing that...
v/r
Q