Advent


Advent is a season observed in many Western Christian churches as a time of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus at Christmas. The term is ananglicized version of the Latin word adventus, meaning "coming." It is the beginning of the Western liturgical year and commences on Advent Sunday. The Eastern churches'equivalent of Advent is called the Nativity Fast, but it differs both in length and observances and does not begin the church year, which starts instead on September 1.[1] At least in theRoman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, Moravian, Presbyterianand Methodist calendars, Advent starts on the fourth Sunday before December 25, which is the Sunday from November 27 toDecember 3 inclusive.[2]
Latin adventus is the translation of the Greek word parousia, commonly used in reference to the Second Coming of Christ. For Christians, the season of Advent anticipates the coming of Christ from two different perspectives. The season offers the opportunity to share in the ancient longing for the coming of the Messiah, and to be alert for his Second Coming.

THE ANTICHRIST


MEN! WHEN THE HOUR COMES in which, according to the Divine Will, the purification and winnowing must take place on earth, then watch for the predicted and partly supernatural signs in the sky!
Do not then allow yourselves to be confused by those men and also churches who have already long ago surrendered to Antichrist. It is sad that until now not even the churches have known where to look for this Antichrist, although he has already been active among all men for so long. If they had only been a little on the alert they must have recognized it! Who can possibly act in a more anti-Christian manner than those who at that time fought against Christ Himself and finally also murdered Him! Who could have revealed themselves in a worse and also more obvious way as antagonistic to Christ!
They were the leaders and representatives of earthly religion; and the true teaching of God, as revealed in and through the Son of God, did not agree with what they had built up. Indeed, the true Message of God could not be reconciled with it, because the structure set up by priestly dignitaries was aimed at earthly influence, earthly power and expansion.
They proved quite clearly thereby that they were servants of the human intellect, which is directed solely towards earthly knowledge and earthly power, and is hostile and obstructive to everything that lies beyond earthly comprehension! Now since God remains completely outside the range of earthly intellectual knowledge, as also does the spiritual, the intellect is clearly the only real obstacle thereto! Thus by its nature it is opposed to all that is Divine and all that is spiritual! And with it logically therefore all men who acknowledge their intellect as of paramount importance, and seek to build only upon that!
The religious leaders of those days were afraid of losing influence among the people through the enlightenment of the Son of God. As everyone today knows, this was the main reason for the slanders they sought to spread against Christ, and ultimately also for the execution of the Son of God. They nailed Him to the cross as a blasphemer of the very God by Whom He was sent to bring enlightenment, and Whose servants they professed to be!
They tried to make people believe they were serving God; but how little did they really know this God and His Will, for Whose honor and earthly defense this Son of God, the Divine Messenger, was however … murdered by them!
This was clearly the disastrous result of their enslavement to the earthly intellect, which fought solely to maintain its influence thereby. They allowed themselves to become the executioner as tools of the Antichrist, whom they had secretly enthroned in their hearts. For this satisfied their human weaknesses - their presumption, arrogance and vanity.
Whoever expects clearer proof cannot be helped; for there is nothing more antagonistic to Christ, the Son of God, and His Words! And indeed Antichrist signifies the fighter against Christ, against man's redemption in God's Message. The earthly intellect drove them to it! This very intellect, as a poisonous product of Lucifer, is an instrument for him which has become the greatest danger to mankind!
Thus the disproportionate over-development of the human intellect in the past has grown into the hereditary sin for man! Behind this, however, stands Lucifer himself as Antichrist in person! He it is who through men was able to raise his head! He, the only real enemy of God! He acquired the name of Antichrist through his hostile struggle against the Mission of the Son of God. None other would have had the strength and the power to become the Antichrist.
And in his warfare against the Will of God, Lucifer makes use not merely of one man on earth but of nearly all mankind, thus leading them to destruction under the effect of the Divine Wrath! Whoever cannot grasp this most obvious fact, that only Lucifer himself could be the Antichrist who dares to oppose God, will never be able to understand anything of all that takes place outside the World of Gross Matter, that is, outside what is purely earthly.
And as it was then, so is it still today! Indeed far worse. Today, too, many religious representatives will wish to fight bitterly to maintain the earthly intellectual ordinances hitherto upheld in the temples and churches.
It is precisely this human intellect, blunting all nobler intuition, that is one of the most insidious growths of Lucifer which he was able to spread among mankind. All slaves of the intellect, however, are in truth Lucifer's servants, who are accomplices in the terrible collapse which must thus befall mankind!
Since no one suspected that Antichrist lurked beneath the intellect, he could extend his sinister influence all the more easily! Lucifer triumphed; for he thereby cut off mankind from any comprehending of all that lies outside the World of Gross Matter. From real life! From that place where contact is first made with the spiritual, which leads to the proximity of God!
With this he set his foot upon this earth as lord of the earth and of the greater part of mankind!
No wonder, then, that he could penetrate to the altars, and that representatives of earthly religions, also of the Christian churches, were bound to become his victims. For they too expect the Antichrist just before the predicted Judgment. Up till now the great Revelation in the Bible, like many other things, has never yet been understood in this respect.
The Revelation says that this Antichrist will raise his head before the Judgment, but not that he will first appear then! If it is said therein that he raises his head, this clearly indicates that he must be here already, but not that he is yet to come. It means that he will have reached the zenith of his dominion just before the Judgment!
Listen to this cry of warning, you who are not yet spiritually deaf and blind! Take the trouble for once to think quite seriously about it yourselves. If you remain indolent in this respect you give yourselves up as lost!
If you lift the protecting cover from the lair of a poisonous snake that suddenly realizes it is exposed, it will naturally try to rear up and bite this ruthless hand.
It is no different here. Finding himself exposed, the Antichrist will quickly protest through his servants; on being unmasked he will make a great outcry, and try in every possible way to maintain himself on the throne which mankind so willingly offered him. But all this he can only do through those who inwardly revere him.
Therefore now keep a sharp watch on your surroundings when the conflict begins! By their very outcry you will all the more surely recognize them, everyone who belongs to him! For once again, as before, fear of a pure truth will make them side with its opponents!
The Antichrist will again try desperately to retain his influence on earth. Observe his dubious methods in defense and attack; for he will once more make use only of slander and insinuations, since his followers are incapable of doing anything else. To stand before the Truth and refute it is impossible.
Thus Lucifer's servants will also fight the Messenger of God, just as they once fought the Son of God!
Be on the alert where such an attempt is made; for thereby such people only wish to protect Lucifer in order to uphold his reign on earth. A center of Darkness lurks there, even if the people habitually appear in bright earthly garments, even if they are servants of a church.
Do not forget what happened when the Son of God was on earth, but reflect that still today the same Antichrist, with a far greater human following, is striving to retain dominion over the earth, to escape destruction and to go on obscuring the true Will of God.
Therefore watch carefully for all the promised signs! Each individual must make his final decision. Salvation or destruction! For this time it is God's Will that everything which again dares to oppose Him shall be lost!
Every act of negligence will rise up against you in the Judgment! -The Divine Insignia will not appear above some church, nor will any priestly dignitary on earth bear the sign that he is the Messenger of God! But only He Who is inseparably linked with the Signs, Who therefore also carries them living and radiating with Him, as once the Son of God did when He dwelt on this earth. They are the Cross of Truth, living and radiating within Him, and the Dove above Him! They will become visible to all those who are blessed to see spiritual things, so that they may give testimony of it to all people on earth; for there will be among all peoples those who will this time be permitted to “see”, as the last Grace of God! — — —
These Sublime Signs of the Holy Truth can never be simulated. Not even Lucifer, who must retreat before them, can achieve this, much less a human being. Therefore he who still seeks to set himself against these Signs of God henceforth sets himself against God as an enemy of God. He shows thereby that he neither is nor ever was a servant of God, no matter what he has hitherto pretended to be on earth.
Be on your guard, lest you also be found among such!

Latest Medjugorje Message, October 2, 2012 - Apparitions to Mirjana

“Dear children, I am calling you and am coming among you because I need you. I need apostles with a pure heart. I am praying, and you should also pray, that the Holy Spirit may enable and lead you, that He may illuminate you and fill you with love and humility. Pray that He may fill you with grace and mercy. Only then will you understand me, my children. Only then will you understand my pain because of those who have not come to know the love of God. Then you will be able to help me. You will be my light-bearers of God’s love. You will illuminate the way for those who have been given eyes but do not want to see. I desire for all of my children to see my Son. I desire for all of my children to experience His Kingdom. Again I call you and implore you to pray for those whom my Son has called. Thank you. ”

How to Know God


What does it take to begin a relationship with God? Devote yourself to unselfish religious deeds? Become a better person so that God will accept you?

You may be surprised that none of those things will work. But God has made it very clear in the Bible how we can know Him.

The following principles will explain how you can personally begin a relationship with God, right now, through Jesus Christ...

Principle 1:

God loves you and offers a wonderful plan for your life.
God's Love
"God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life." 1

God's Plan
[Christ speaking] "I came that they might have life, and might have it abundantly" [that it might be full and meaningful]. 2

Why is it that most people are not experiencing the abundant life? Because...



Principle 2:

All of us sin and our sin has separated us from God.
We Are Sinful
"All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." 3

We were created to have fellowship with God; but, because of our stubborn self-will, we chose to go our own independent way, and fellowship with God was broken. This self-will, characterized by an attitude of active rebellion or passive indifference, is evidence of what the Bible calls sin.

We Are Separated
"The wages of sin is death" [spiritual separation from God]. 4

This diagram illustrates that God is holy and people are sinful. A great gulf separates us. The arrows illustrate that we are continually trying to reach God and the abundant life through our own efforts, such as a good life, philosophy, or religion -- but we inevitably fail.

The third law explains the only way to bridge this gulf...



Principle 3:

Jesus Christ is God's only provision for our sin. Through Him we can know and experience God's love and plan for our life.
He Died in Our Place
"God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." 5

He Rose From the Dead
"Christ died for our sins...He was buried...He was raised on the third day, according to the Scriptures...He appeared to Peter, then to the twelve. After that He appeared to more than five hundred..." 6

He Is the Only Way to God
"Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me.'" 7

This diagram illustrates that God has bridged the gulf which separates us from Him by sending His Son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross in our place to pay the penalty for our sins.

It is not enough just to know these three principles...



Principle 4:

We must individually receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord; then we can know and experience God's love and plan for our lives.
We Must Receive Christ
"As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name." 8

We Receive Christ Through Faith
"By grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast." 9

When We Receive Christ, We Experience a New Birth

We Receive Christ by Personal Invitation
[Christ speaking] "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any one hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him." 10

Receiving Christ involves turning to God from self (repentance) and trusting Christ to come into our lives to forgive our sins and to make us what He wants us to be. Just to agree intellectually that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that He died on the cross for your sins is not enough. Nor is it enough to have an emotional experience. You receive Jesus Christ by faith, as an act of the will.

These two circles represent two kinds of lives:



Which circle best describes your life?

Which circle would you like to have represent your life?

The following explains how you can receive Christ:
You can receive Christ right now by faith through prayer

Prayer is talking to God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart. The following is a suggested prayer:

"Lord Jesus, I need You. Thank You for dying on the cross for my sins. I open the door of my life and receive You as my Savior and Lord. Thank You for forgiving my sins and giving me eternal life. Take control of the throne of my life. Make me the kind of person You want me to be."

If this prayer expresses the desire of your heart, then you can pray this prayer right now and Christ will come into your life, as He promised.

NOSTRADAMUS - Prophecies of The 2012 Apocalypse


The 3rd and final Anti-Christ. Nostradamus Predicted the First Two with chilling accuracy as Napoleon and Hitler.

An Emperor shall be born near Italy.
Who shall cost the Empire dear,
They shall say, with what people he keeps company
He shall be found less a Prince than a butcher.

The captive prince, conquered, is sent to Elba;
He will sail across the Gulf of Genoa to Marseilles.
By a great effort of the foreign forces he is overcome,
Though he escaped the fire, his bees yield blood by the barrel.

Napoleon was born in Corsica, near Italy, placed Bees into his Imperial Crest, and was exiled to Elba.

He shall come to tyrannize the land.
He shall raise up a hatred that had long been dormant.
The child of Germany observes no law.
Cries, and tears, fire, blood, and battle.

A captain of Germany shall come to yield himself by false hope,
So that his revolt shall cause great bloodshed.
Beasts wild with hunger will cross the rivers
The greater part of the battlefield will be against Hister.

Adolf Hitler seduced Germany with false hope and Nostradamus is only a few letters off from Hitler's name- "Hister".

According to Nostradamus, the first two anti-Christs were extremely evil, and history has shown this to be so; however, Nostradamus speaks of a third anti-Christ who is more hideous than all the others combined. Someone that can cause apoclyptic changes, perhaps in the year 2012. Some have said Saddam Hussein, the fprmer dictator from Iraq, is now dead and can now be eliminated from the candidates. Osama Bin Laden, George Bush,or Barrack Hussein Obama, Could they be this evil tyrant?  Others say that he has not yet appeared.  What does Nostradamus say about this third anti-Christ?  First, Nostradamus tells us he will come from Arabia.

Out of the country of Greater Arabia Shall be born a strong master of Mohammed,
He will enter Europe wearing a blue turban.
He will be the terror of mankind.
Never more horror.

Here, Nostradamus says that a man from Greater Arabia will lead his forces on an invasion through Europe.  (A Greater Arabia State is the design by pan-Arab nationalism in which a single state would exist for the Arab nation across the Middle East and Northern Africa. Attempts at founding a Greater Arabia were attempted by Egyptian President Gamal Nasser in the 1950s and 1960s and Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi's proposal of an Arab Islamic Republic.) The Arab League has already been formed, is Greater Arabia next...before the year 2012?

The Blue or Indigo Turban is traditional garb worn in The Saharan Desert by most countries in Northern Africa.
The Peshawar Blue Turban is worn in the tribal regions of NorthWest Pakistan.

In the year 1999 and seven months
From the sky will come the great King of Terror.
He will bring back to life the King of the Mongols;
Before and after war reigns.

In the year 1999 and seven months, July, 1999: King Mohammed VI of Morocco, a pro-posed Greater Arabia State, was enthroned July 23, 1999, just hours after the death of his father. Mohammed is the 18th king in the Alaouite dynasty, which has reigned in Morocco since 1666 (The Number 666 has been said to be the mark of "The Beast"). Is this the Beast that will lead the world to near annihilation, the 2012 apocalypse?

The Number of The Beast is a concept from the Book of Revelation of the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The Number of The Beast is 666 in most manuscripts of the New Testament, it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred, three score and six (666)  Rev 13:18. In the year 2012, The Beast will rise with apocalyptic consequences.

This man of sin will have the number 666 within his name, seal, and/or title Rev 13:18, for it is the number of a man, the greatest False Prophet. He is the one who shall call for men to build an image (a likeness, a replica) of the fallen beast of Babylon, a revival of the Holy Roman Empire Rev 13:15.  He is the one who shall have the power to make it happen!  He appears as a righteous and Godly man and is also given the power to perform miracles Rev 13:13-14 and 2 Thess 2:1-10. Will Mohammed VI rise to incite the 2012 apocalypse?

Mohammed was born in Rabat, Morocco on August 21, 1963. In his Forties, and of Middle-Eastern Descent...is King Mohammed VI (THE SIXTH) from the 1666 Alaouite dynasty, the King of Terror?
The Moroccan royal family is one of the most ancient and most powerful in the world. It also commands extraordinary loyalty from its subjects. [John Laurenson, of BBC News],
During Mohammed's father's 38-year reign, thousands of political opponents disappeared or "were disappeared", to use the chilling phrase of the time, into secret desert prisons. And secret desert graves.
Not surprisingly, Hassan II commanded "hiba", the Arabic word for fear and respect of the patriarch.
But his more constitutionally-minded and modernising son, Mohammed VI, does, too. [Mohammed VI, Time, 2000]

Genghis Khan, King of the Mongols,  united the Mongolians of the Central Asia into an all-conquering army that forged the largest land empire in history.

The vast Islamic western wing of his empire included modern-day Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, and the Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union

Dr. A.Q. Khan who developed the Atomic Bomb for Pakistan and also gave it away to other Muslim countries. Pakistan's nuclear weapons program is a source of extreme national pride, and, as its father, A.Q. Khan -- who headed Pakistan's nuclear program for some 25 years. Dr Khan holds the knowledge and has the ability to give immense power to causethe apocalypse 0f 2012.
In a startling televised confession, Abdul Qadeer Khan, admitted selling nuclear technology to Iran, Libya, and North Korea. A.Q. Khan asked for clemency, but the Pakistani government made no public announcement about whether he is to be prosecuted

Has Dr A.Q. Khan brought back to  life the The Wrath of Khan??
Nostradamus predicted a major 'King' of war was empowered in 1999, and Septermeber 11th has brought us into a long hard faught war on Terror, The war that will last seven and twenty years.

Nostradamus says that the war will be so terrible that the world will come face to face with final annihilation.  Here, he implies that the war might involve some kind of horrible weapon, possibly nuclear.  Nostradamus tells what the first target will be.

The sky will burn at forty-five degrees.
Fire approaches the great new city.

In this phrase, Nostradamus refers to a great city in the new world of America near forty-five degrees latitude.  Experts agree this could only be New York.  Many claim that this predicted September 11th. The sky did burn at 45 degrees, and it was the great new city. But is there more catastrophies to come for New York City?

By fire he will destroy their city,
A cold and cruel heart,
Blood will pour,
Mercy to none.

Is the New City at 45 degrees yet to be destroyed? He does give us some hope by telling us how this third world war will end.  He says it will end as a result of an unexpected alliance.

When those of the Northern Pole are united,
In the East will be great fear and dread...

One day the two great leaders will be friends;
Their great powers will be seen to grow.
The New Land will be at the height of its power:
To the man of blood the number is reported.

Again, the new land was a common term used by Nostradamus to refer to what we now call The U.S.  The countries of the northern pole could be Russia, China, and the United States.  We have recently seen the breakdown of Communism in Russia,  and a slight warming to China, increasing the likelihood of Russia, China, and the U.S.  working together against the source of evil. A Trinity of Allies aligned to combat the evil powers.

Nostradamus did say significant events that could change the world would occur in 1666, 1999, 2012, and 2096. In fact, he felt if we took it upon ourselves, we could change the outcome of the event he predicted.

Time will tell if the Iraq conflict, the World Trade Center attack, or Iran's alleged pursuit of Nuclear Weapons have begun the ticking time bomb of The 2012 Apocalypse, Armageddon, or the end of the world.

Nostradamus predicted the war with Napoleon, the American Revolution, the Civil War, the rise and the fall of Hitler, events in the British monarchy such as the abdication of Edward VIII, the assassination of Lincoln, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and Robert Kennedy. He also predicted three reigns of terror by persons he named as antichrists.

What Nostradamus did prophesize that a great war would come, preceded by famine, drought and a series of other natural disasters. This war will last 27 years, after which there will be one thousand years of peace, or a new golden age.
Nostradamus speaks of a series of natural disasters caused by a comet that will allow the third Antichrist to disperse his troops around the globe under the guise of aid in preparation for a possible nuclear war, although in the strictest sense it is unspecific as to nuclear war or some other natural or man caused destruction. These set of actions could set off the apocalypse of 2012.

The 27 Year War-

The antichrist very soon annihilates the three,
twenty-seven years his war will last.
The unbelievers are dead, captive, exiled;
with blood, human bodies, water and red hail covering the earth.


If the war ends with 2012 apocalypse, and it is a 27 year war, one must assume the war started in 1985. The following events are the likely start of a long hard war of retaliation that has spilt the blood of many.


What happened in 1985?

On February 16, 1985, Sheik Ibrahim al-Amin issued Hezbollah's Manifesto. Shortly after, Sheikh Subhi Tufaili officially announced the formation of Hezbollah (also in 1985). According to Hezbollah's manifesto the three objectives of the organization are:
To expel Americans, the French and their allies indefinitely from Lebanon, putting an end to any colonialist entity on our land.

To submit the phalanges to a just power and bring them all to justice for the crimes they have perpetrated against Muslims and Christians.

To permit all the sons of our people to determine their future and to choose in all the liberty the form of government they desire. We call upon all of them to pick the option of Islamic government which alone is capable of guaranteeing justice and liberty for all. Only an Islamic regime can stop any future tentative attempts of imperialistic infiltration onto our country.

The 1985 manifesto makes it clear that Hezbollah intends to use armed force to achieve these goals and phrases its argument for this measure through the language of defensive jihad.

From the inception of Hezbollah to the present, the elimination of the State of Israel has been one of Hezbollah's primary goals. Some translations of Hezbollah's 1985 Arabic-language manifesto state that "our struggle will end only when this entity (Israel) is obliterated", however neither the original publication of the manifesto, nor those found on Hezbollah's website include the statement.

In an interview with the Washington Post, Nasrallah said "I am against any reconciliation with Israel. I do not even recognize the presence of a state that is called 'Israel.' " Throughout its history, Hezbollah has made statements and actions against the United States, in part because of the United States' support for Israel.

On March 8, 1985, a car bomb equivalent to 440 lbs. of dynamite exploded 9-45 metres from The Spiritual leader of Hezbollah, Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Muhammad Hussein Fadl-Allah's home in Lebanon.

The blast destroyed a 7 story apartment building, a cinema and killed 80 people but Fadl-Allah escaped injury.

The assassination attempt was believed to have been the work of Israel, or of the CIA, as a response to the Hezbollah bombings of the American embassy and of American and French peacekeeping headquarters in Beirut in October, 1983.

The operation was funded by the Saudis who, like the Israelis and the Americans, saw Fadlallah as a threat to their interests in Lebanon.

Fadl-Allah was born on November 16, 1935, in the Iraqi Shi'i shrine city of Najaf.

Najaf is home to the largest cemetery in the Muslim world (and possibly the largest in the entire world), containing the tombs of many prophets. Many of the devout from other lands aspire to be buried here, to be raised from the dead during the apocalypse of 2012 - Judgement Day.

Fadlallah, studied under strict religious guidelines for 21 years and was reportly invited back to Lebanon in
June, 1966 ( 6/66 ).

In 6 / 66 Fadlallah was invited back to Lebanon? A chilling reminder that his return was 'Marked by the sign of The Beast'. Can this be a coincidence, similar to King Mohammed VI from a 1666 Dynasty???

There he is using his hard line beliefs of jihad and Judgement Day, to spiritually lead the people of Southern Lebanon and Hezbollah into what I believe will be the 2012 apocalypse.

The City of Tyre (Tyrus or Sur) is in Southern Lebanon, a stronghold of Hezbollah, and is recognized in ancient times as Tyrus. For this Fadlallah earns his symbolic title of King of Tyrus. The Book of Ezekiel claims The King of Tyrus is Satan himself. Another odd omen comes to light when Fadlallah dies on America's birthday - July 4, 2010. The Prince that is to spark a war with Israel can now surface.

Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, 'Aha', she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste: Ezekiel 26:2

In Ezekiel 26, The City of Tyre is used as Satan's stronghold to destroy Jerusaleum in the start of the apocalypse.
MABUS

This quatrain from Nostradamus has been analyzed, interpreted, and re-interpreted, and it has been generally accepted that the Anti-Christ's name, title, or alias is MABUS. But...Who is MABUS? The possibilities are intriguing.

Mabus will soon die, then will come,
A horrible undoing of people and animals,
At once one will see vengeance,
One hundred powers, thirst, famine, when the comet will pass.

The name 'Mabus' is or is associated with The Anti-Christ, and involved in the Apocalypse. Many have interpreted this as osa'MA' and 'BUS'h or ObaMA and BUSh, Although there are some other striking names in the news...

Obama Names 'MABUS' as counsel for Middle East Issues
Many have interpreted the recent political situation with Iran as Apocalyptic. If we take the first two letters MAhmoud Ahmadinejad and President BUSh, we get MABUS.

If Former President Bush is one half of MABUS, this means that he planted the seeds to attack Iran . There are already plans for The U.S. to launch the largest air and sea attack against Iran in the history of the modern world. The start of WWIII, that ends in the 2012 apocalypse?

OR...

Is MABUS... osaMA Binladen and the US.

Using another accepted spelling...USaMA Binladen...all letters included in his name. His power from Alus (Allah?). Will he reappear in public wearing a Blue Turban from Peshawar to lead the world into the 2012 Apocalypse?
OR...

Is MABUS...M. ABBAS? Mahmoud Abbas is a leading politician in Fatah, a majority group in the Palestian Liberation Organization (PLO). ABBAS was also the first Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority. M. Abbas at one time denied the Holocausts existence- "The Zionist fantasy, the fantastic lie that six million Jews were killed."

Although M. Abbas is labeled a moderate by many leaders today, remember the organization he represents and has been a member of since it's founding (The PLO), #1 goal was the destruction of the State of Israel through armed struggle. The original PLO Charter stressed Israel's annihilation, as well as a right of return and self-determination for Palestinian Arabs.

The PLO was considered "the richest of all terrorist organizations" with $8-$10 billion in assets and an annual income of $1.5-$2 billion from "donations, extortion, payoffs, illegal arms dealing, drug trafficking, money laundering, fraud, etc.", according to a 1993 National Criminal Intelligence Service report. The Daily Telegraph reported in 1999 that the PLO had $50 billion in secret investments around the world.

The PLO has a multi-billion dollar war-chest to spark the 2012 apocalypse.

In May 2005, the Italian National Library in Rome made an amazing discovery. Buried in their archives was an unknown manuscript written by the famed prophet Michel de Nostradame, or Nostradamus (1503-1566). This manuscript was handed down to his son and later donated to Pope Urban VIII. It did not surface again until now, almost four hundred years later.

When the prophecies-within-prophecies are deciphered, the hidden timeline of World War III is revealed. Is the 2012 apocalypse part of his predictions? A sample of the new predictions include:

A conflict between the US and Iran
The next major terrorist attack on the US
Osama, Obama and "Mabus"
The nuclear destruction of Rome


The Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse


Will The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse be unleashed on the Earth in the Great Apocalypse of 2012? They are the forces of man's destruction described in the Christian Bible in chapter six of the Book of Revelation. The four horsemen are traditionally named after the danger they represent: Conquest, War, Famine, and Death.

The White Horse
The rider of the white horse is very commonly interpreted to be the Antichrist figure, but such an interpretation ignores much of the imagery presented throughout the Revelation and many cross references of whom the Bible names as being given a crown. For instance, every other time the color white is used in the Revelation, it is always representative of righteousness and holiness, and whenever the author, John, depicts a malevolent force, he consistently shows it as evil (the two beasts of chapter 13, or the scarlet beast and the prostitute of chapter 17). One can easily mis-interpret the white horse as representing something that is righteous and holy. So, it could be mistaken to mean: a righteous or holy force who is able to overcome and gain victory. Also, considering the rider is given a crown, one might conclude that the rider of the white horse is on the side of good. However, it is the Antichrist in disguise, as it is said that the Antichrist would seem pure, and make himself seem righteous and working for peace while actually deceiving mankind.

The Red Horse
The rider of the second horse is generally held to represent War. The red color of his horse represents blood spilled on the battlefield. He carries a greatsword, which represents battle and fighting. The Red Horse is also said to represent the Planet Mars.
Revelation 6:4 - "And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword."

The Black Horse
The third horseman, riding the black horse, is called Famine. The black color of the third horse could be a symbol of the dead.
Revelation 6:5 - 6:6 - “And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.’”

The Pale Horse
The fourth horseman, his colour is sage (on the pale, or sickly horse, which may be the source of the notion of "pestilence" as a separate horseman) is explicitly named Death.

The Greek word interpreted here as "pale" is elsewhere in the New Testament translated as "paisley." The horse is sometimes translated as "pale," "pale green," or "green." The pale greenish color of the fourth horse could mean fear, sickness, decay, and famine. His horse is thin and weak, instead of strong and healthy.
Revelation 6:8 - "And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given.

Prophecy of the Popes


The prophecy was attributed to Saint Malachy, the 12th-century bishop of Armagh in Ireland. According to the traditional account, in 1139, Saint Malachy was summoned to Rome by Pope Innocent II. While in Rome, Saint Malachy purportedly experienced a vision of future popes, which he recorded as a sequence of cryptic phrases. Systematically recording the names of 112 Popes into the future. This manuscript was then deposited in the Roman Archive, and thereafter forgotten about until its rediscovery in 1590.

Saint Malachy implies Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's chosen name would be Benedictine- Benedict XVI, which is the fulfilment the prophecy of the 111th Pope.

Prophesy dictates that our present Pope, Pope Benedict XVI is our second to last Pope, whose death will signal the 112th, Last, and Final Pope..."Peter The Roman".  The possibilty of this happening in the year 2012 is very real. The date and chosen name of this 112th pope will signal the 2012 apocalypse.

During the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church, the seat will be occupied by Peter the Roman,
who will feed his sheep in many tribulations;
and when these things are finished, the seven-hilled city will be destroyed,
and the formidable Judge will judge his people.
The End.

According to Roman Catholic tradition, Saint Peter was installed as the first Pope by Jesus Christ. Though the adoption of that name is not canonically barred, it is considered unlikely that any future pope would ever choose the name. Thus, if the name Peter is used, it furthers the accuracy of this prophesy. The Apocalyptic ending of 2012.

King of Tyrus- Lucifer, Evil and False Prophet
After the judgment of the Prince of Tyrus, God directs the prophet Ezekiel to write a judgment about the King of Tyrus, and from the scripture is learned that this individual is Lucifer, as this was his former position before the throne of God before his fall. Satan is also eventually be judged in the 2012 Apocalypse.

Tyrus is said to be the ancient city of Tyre in Lebanon. A Shi'ia city allied with Hezbollah and Iran. The Spiritual Leader and King of Tyrus (Tyre and Southern Lebanon) is Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Muhammad Hussein Fadl-Allah.

The BOOK OF REVELATION and The 2012 Apocalypse


(8:7) And the first sounded, and there followed hail and fire, mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of the earth was burnt up, and the third part of the trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

Is this the Asteriod 433 Eros, the first discovered Near-Earth asteroid, smashing through our atmospere? Eros is one of the few NEAs with a maximum diameter greater than 10 km. It is believed to be larger than the impactor that created Chicxulub Crater in the Yucatán, which has been linked to the Apocalypse (extinction) of the dinosaurs.

On January 31, 2012, Eros is expected to pass Earth, Is this the 2012 Apocalypse??

Objects in an orbit like Eros can exist for only a few hundred million years before the orbit is perturbed by gravitational interactions. Simulations suggest that Eros may evolve into an Earth-crosser with Apocalyptic power.

(8:8) And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;

(8:9) And there died the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, even they that had life; and the
third part of the ships was destroyed.

(8:10) And the third angel sounded, and there fell from heaven a great star, burning as a torch, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of the waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

Wormwood crashes into the ocean or sea, causing one third of the drinking water to be poisoned. Wormwood may be a Comet, Asteroid, or Arab  Missile that hits NYC as W.W. III explodes across Europe, a War fought for food and fresh water. The 2012 Apocalypse?

(8:12) And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; that the third part of them should be darkened, and the day should not shine for the third part of it, and the night in like manner.

The 2012 Apocalypse Into The Age of Aquarius ?


The ruler of Aquarius is Uranus. Its symbol represents water, a universal image which dates back into prehistory. This will also be recognized in the egyptian hieroglyph representing the same. The association in Aquarius is that of the servant of humanity pouring out the water of knowledge to quench the thirst of the world.

To create this age of beauty and splendor after the year 2012, one has to destroy. When we can clearly observe the zodiacal sign of Aquarius, this is the dawn of a new age. Aquarius is the house of Uranus and Saturn. Uranus is a revolutionary, terrible, catastrophic planet. Saturn, reminds us of chaos, the return to the point of original departure.

Undoubtedly the Transition from the Age of Pisces, our present age, to The Age of Aquarius will be earth shattering. Pisces, the Fish, has come to symbolize the age of Christianity.
Is The Age of Pisces symbolic of The great world Savior, Jesus Christ, coming to an end? With the arrival of the Aquarian Age, does humanity begins its "entrance into heaven" ~ the Spiritual Kingdom? Does the water bearer water the earth for growth after its destruction and baptise the survivors with love knowledge enlightenment? Cleanse the people of old ways and truth.
Or...
Will the Age of Aquarius signal the loss of belief in Christianity and a transition another belief?


Many have predicted a "Golden Age" into the early part of the New Millenium. They believe that the Age of Aquarius with all its splendor and beauty has to fully manifest beyond 2012. It is believed that humanity will go through a radical transformation after the year 2012.

The 2012 Apocalypse is the transition of the ages. A point of destruction and near annihilation which transitions into a world of spirituality never experienced on earth. World peace after a costly lesson for mankind and its creatures.


Terence and Dennis McKenna in The Invisible Landscape advance an idea derived from studies of primitive shamanism and psychoactive drugs that our universe is created between two hyper-universes. Based on extensive computer modelling, they think that humanity will experience a Resurrection into the Light during six days in the 2012 apocalypse, comparable to the appearance of life, the invention of language or the achievement of immortality will be experienced.

Jose Arguelles discovered a system of cycles based on the ancient Mayan calendar and determined that the year 2012 would be the end of the 396 year Baktun of the Transformation of Matter, the collapse of global civilization. The 2012 Apocalypse will follow with an era of information and crystal-solar technology and galactic synchronization. The age of Pisces Transitons into the age of Aquarius during this process.

THE MAYAN CALENDAR ENDS December 21, 2012


The 2012 Apocalypse

The Mayans viewed 'time' and 'dates' as a meshing spiritual cycles. The Mayan calendar was sacred and religious, each day had it's own patron spirit.

The Mayan grand cycle of evolution will culminate on December 21, 2012 AD. The 2012 Apocalypse.

This time now has many names "The Time of Trial on Earth," "Judgement Day," "The Time of Great Purification," "The End of this Creation," "The Quickening," "The End of Time as We Know It," "The Shift of the Ages," "The Apocalypse" and "Armageddon".

It is foretold that the completion of the Mayan Calendar brings regeneration of Earth, offering an awakening to all with open hearts and minds. The Mayans, Hopis, Egyptians, Kabbalists, Essenes, Qero elders of Peru, Navajo, Cherokee, Apache, Iroquois confederacy, Dogon Tribe, and Aborigines all believe in an ending to this Great 2012 Apocalyptic Cycle.

As keen stargazers, the ancient Maya were familiar with astrological cycle we call the Precession of the Equinoxes. This is close to a 26,000 year cycle in which Earth passes through each of the 12 signs of the zodiac for 2000-2152 years each. Each of these astrological ages represents one month of the Cosmic Year.

The Mayans were known worldwide for their architectural, artistic, mathematical and scientific achievements. With great attention to detail they constructed stone monuments and pyramids with precise computations. Built with purpose, these dates were left to ensure that future generations would be alerted to the end point of this great 26,000 year cycle - The 2012 Apocalypse.

A cycle which corresponds also to a 26,000 year relationship of our Sun orbiting Alcyone, the central star of the 7 Sisters Pleiades constellation. According to the Maya, the "future" which lies beyond this end date is literally a new world age - a new creation - an Apocalypse.

The Mayans believed that December 21, 2012 AD is the culmination of a series of events over time that leads to towards an the ultimate spiritual awakening of the world ( The 2012 Apocalypse ). They believe the changes are underway and will continue steadily accelerating as we head towards this date.

Sunspot Cycles; Adrian Gilbert and Maurice Cotterell, in their book The Mayan Prophecies, say that the end of the Great Cycle is the culmination of a series of long-term sunspot cycles which will flip the sun’s magnetic field, causing earthquakes and flooding on earth and an apocalypse in the year 2012.

The Mayan King Pacal Voltan was known for his prophecies and was known for his knowledge of numbers. Pacal Voltan speaks about the end of the world on December 21, 2012, a year which many believe is the year of the apocalypse.

Part of the 2012 mystique stems from the stars:
On the winter solstice in 2012, the sun will be aligned with the center of the Milky Way for the first time in about 26,000 years. This means that "whatever energy typically streams to Earth from the center of the Milky Way will indeed be disrupted on 12/21/12 at 11:11 p.m. Universal Time," according to Lawrence Joseph.

Others believe gravitational, magnetic, and solar energies will go awry when this galactic and planetary alignment occurs, causing an array of natural disasters, including the weakening of our magnetic field, allowing solar radiation to penetrate our atmosphere and the 2012 Apocalypse.

Our Lady’s September 2012 message to Marija


Dear children! When in nature you look at the richness of the colours which the Most High gives to you, open your heart and pray with gratitude for all the good that you have and say: “I am here created for eternity” – and yearn for heavenly things because God loves you with immeasurable love. This is why he also gave me to you to tell you: “Only in God is your peace and hope, dear children”. Thank you for having responded to my call.
Medjugorje message, September 25, 2012

2012 in Mayan Mythology

In recent years, there's been much talk about an approaching date on the Mayan Calendar. Famously, the Mayan long-count calendar is supposedly set to end and reset in the year two-thousand and twelve (2012), which, according to some (loose) interperetations of Mayan myths, corresponds with an end of the current creation and the beginning of the next. This has led to laregly unfounded speculation, and in some cases fears, of an apocalyptic event before the end of 2012, as well as media capitalization of the supposed event with many books and films being released on the subject.

This article will attempt to very briefly explain how the long-count calendar works, what the Maya believed and what the 2012 date actually means to them.

Understanding Long-Count dates

The Mayan long-count calendar uses 5 divisions of numbers to indicate a date. The numbers are all base-20, except the second (or second-from-right) number which rolls over at 18.

Long-Count Date     Mayan unit of time     Number of days
0.0.0.0.1 1 k'in 1 days
0.0.0.1.0 1 winal 20 days
0.0.1.0.0 1 tun 360 days
0.1.0.0.0 1 k'atun 7,200 days
1.0.0.0.0 1 b'ak'tun 144,000 days
Each unit of time is equal to twenty of the previous unit, except for the tun, which is equal to eighteen winal.

According to the most widely-accepted calculations, the Mayan calendar begins on August 11, 3114 BCE. The 12th b'ak'tun is nearing completion, with the date 12.19.19.17.19 calculated to be December 20, 2012 CE. On December 21, 2012 CE, the date will be "13.0.0.0.0".

Creation myths

According to Mayan myth, the gods have attempted previous versions of creation, and human beings are currently the third version of their creation.

The creator gods Gucumatz (or Kukulkán, better known by the Aztec name Quetzalcoatl) and Tepeu wanted to create a people that would resemble them and praise them. With the help of the storm god Huracán, they began creating life, beginning with animals. The first version of humanity was made from mud, but these people could not move or speak, and they easily crumbled. After this failed, the creators summoned other gods, and remade mankind out of wood. The wooden men were able to move and speak, but they were soulless creatures who quickly forgot about the gods. For their third attempt, the gods created men out of maize (which was the primary source of food for the Maya).

The previous version of creation, according to Mayan myth, is beleived to have ended on its thirteenth b'ak'tun — that is, 13.0.0.0.0 or August 11, 3114 BCE. At this point the current creation began, and the long-count calendar reset to 0.0.0.0.1 the next day.

Thus, the significance of the arrival of the thirteenth b'ak'tun in this round of the long-count calendar is that the previous creation ended on its thirteenth b'ak'tun.

However, there seems to be no evidence that the Mayans themselves believed that the current version of creation would come to an end at its thirteenth b'ak'tun. A five-numeral count will reset after the thirteenth b'ak'tun, but this is celebrated as the completion of a cycle, and was not seen as a doomsday event by Mayan culture.

Mayan dates beyond 2012

Further demostrating Maya belief in the continuation of this creation is that Mayan artifacts mark future commemorations, and some of these occur beyond the thirteenth b'ak'tun in 2012.

In fact, there is evidence that the Maya expected to add another numeral to its calendar when the b'ak'tun count is complete. The unit piktun is said to be the next value, although scholars disagree on whether a piktun should be considered to be 13 or 20 b'ak'tun, and there are Mayan dates scheduled beyond a completed piktun. (Most Mayanists generally go by the convention that all five-numeral dates roll over at 13 b'ak'tun, while larger dates count 20 b'ak'tun.) If there are 20 b'ak'tun in a piktun, he first piktun would appear on the Mayan long-count calendar on October 13, 4772 CE, well beyond 2012. If there are only 13, then December 21, 2012 would become 1.0.0.0.0.1, marking the completion of the first piktun since the calendar's beginning date.

The word piktun is not an original Mayan word, but evidence of higher orders is found in Mayan relics. In fact there are an additional three units, kalabtun, k'inchiltun, and alautun, all higher than the piktun. The names of all of the units above the b'ak'tun were created by scholars in the absence of knowledge of Mayan words for them.

Since the age of the Mayan civilization occured within a single piktun, however, there was no need to use more than five digits in their calendar for most uses. This alone may be the cause for confusion about the supposed end of the long-count calendar.

Some interperetations of Mayan dates also suggest that the 3114 BCE date of creation is incorrect, and that the 13-b'ak'tun (or 5,125 solar year) calendar has completed before. One inscription, for example, puts the creation date at
13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.0.0.0.0. By this date, the calendar won't end until 4.134105 × 1028 years into the future, a span of time three quintillion times the scientifically-accepted age of the universe. By that time, the sun will have long-since devoured the Earth and been destroyed itself, and the universe may have drifted apart, condensed or otherwise reconfigured itself in some unrecognizable way. If you're concerned about the fate of mankind, there are more pressing issues than the end of the Mayan calendar.

No cause for alarm

There are a number of new-age theories surrounding 2012, which predict anything from galactic alignment and solar flares, to alien invasion, to global consciousness. However, these predictions are not based in or accepted by science, or even the so-called predictions of the Maya themselves. They are at best misinterperetations of science and myths, and at worst total fabrications. There is simply no evidence that December 2012 will be any more important than the average month, other than the Y2K-like hysteria that has developed since.

Comunità Cenacolo: A School of Life

The Comunità Cenacolo is not a program; rather, it is a School of Life. The Community offers an authentic and concrete proposal of life based on Jesus Christ. We live a simple life based on prayer, sacrifice, authentic friendship, truth, work, and faith.

For those of us who had enough materially, but fell into an inner darkness, often accompanied by alcohol and drugs, this simple proposal of life is deeply valued because it is genuine, true, and of God. Everyone in desperation is thirsting for love - true, authentic love - and this comes not from man, but from God. This school of life is for all who want truth and life, without any distinction of race or religion.

The Holy Eucharist and the Blessed Mother
The Holy Eucharist is the heart of Comunità Cenacolo, which is committed to faith in the Word of God made flesh in Jesus Christ, who died and rose for our salvation. We entrust ourselves to Mary, Mother of God, whom weknow as our own mother, always protecting us and guiding us deeper into the heart of her Son Jesus.

Ours is a very active community with a precise daily rhythm. Every morning we begin the day by thanking the Father for His gift of new life. Through reading the scriptures and praying the Rosary before the Blessed Sacrament, we join as a family in offering ourselves and the entire day to Jesus, asking Him to heal us and to empower us with His Holy Spirit. We ask Him to show us the masks and lies that have ruled our lives and to replace these with His light and truth.

The Discovery of Work as a Gift
Comunità Cenacolo offers to each young man and woman the discovery of work to be lived as a gift. As we build exterior structures, God builds the inner man. Through working together, we learn to communicate more effectively, accept the ideas of others, and resolve conflicts. Obedience and acceptance of authority, values previously rejected in attitude and behavior, slowly develop within us. Hard work helps us to build the interior discipline we have always lacked. It combats our fears and our laziness, both of which have prevented us from persevering with difficult challenges. It builds our will, which has always been weak, and bridles our passions, which have always ruled our lives. Community jobs include carpentry, welding, construction, baking, cultivating fruit and vegetable gardens, cooking, and home maintenance.

Formation of Christian Character
The very fabric of community life forms a genuine Christian character within the members of Comunità Cenacolo. The truth about ourselves emerges in our daily interactions, as we deal with each other's weaknesses and interior poverty. We encourage, correct, criticize, and support, thus learning how to accept the truth about ourselves, as well as how to speak the truth to others. We learn to serve and sacrifice for another in spite of frailties and imperfections. Persevering through difficulties in relationships shapes our will and teaches us the meaning of Christian love and commitment.

Dependence on the Providence of God
Comunità Cenacolo depends and lives totally on the Providence of God, which sustains us through the gifts and contributions of those who desire to help in this work of God's healing. We learn to live in gratitude, realizing that our joy does not depend on what we have or what we lack. We know and trust that the Father, who is rich in mercy, will give us all that we need. We receive no government funds, nor do we ask payment of anyone living in Community.


The Jesus Rosary (Given by Our Lady to Jelena)


Pray the Creed
1. Mystery: Contemplate the birth of Jesus 
Intention: pray for peace. 
5 Our Father's 
Exclamation: O Jesus, be strength and protection for us.
2. Mystery: Contemplate that Jesus helped and gave all to the poor 
Intention: Let us pray for the Holy Father and for the Bishops 
5 Our Father's 
Exclamation: O Jesus, be strength and protection for us.
3. Mystery: Contemplate that Jesus trusted in his Father completely and carried out His will 
Intention: pray for priests and for all those who serve God in a particular way 
5 Our Father's 
Exclamation: O Jesus, be strength and protection for us.
4. Mystery: Contemplate that Jesus knew he had to give up his life for us and He did so without regrets because He loved us. 
Intention: pray for families. 
5 Our Father's 
Exclamation: O Jesus, be strength and protection for us.
5. Mystery: Contemplate that Jesus made his life into a sacrifice for us 
Intention: Pray so that we, too, may be capable of offering our life for our neighbor. 
5 Our Father's 
Exclamation: O Jesus, be strength and protection for us.
6. Mystery: Contemplate the victory of Jesus over satan. He is risen 
Intention: let us pray that all sins may be eliminated so that Jesus may relive in our hearts. 
5 Our Father's 
Exclamation: O Jesus, be strength and protection for us.
7. Mystery: Contemplate the ascension of Jesus into Heaven 
Intention: let us pray that the will of God may triumph, so that his will may be done 
5 Our Father's 
Exclamation: O Jesus, be strength and protection for us.
After this, contemplate how Jesus sent us the Holy Spirit. 
Intention: pray so that the Holy Spirit may descend upon us. 
7 Glory Be's

Where do you need to find God?

You will never actually see a God, nor find any objective proof/Evidence that thatGod exists. All you can do is worship or pray to the God of your choice, thus finding the God in your heart.

God cannot be seen with your eyes. He can only be seen with eyes that show purity, faith, love and dedication
If you believe in God, your faith in Him will prove His existance to yourself. 
To have faith in Him, there is no loss. But no faith there is great loss.

Once you begin to seek and obey God, things about Him that were unclear become very understandable.
He does what He pleases. No one can oppose Him. Everything God does is right. How unsearchable is His wisdom. His plan is working out perfectly.
He's GOD, He can do whatever pleases Him. But by His own Nature, He will never interfere with Time. Until it ends.

LOSING YOUR FAITH?


Some of us have lost our faith slowly, letting it slip away as grains of sand in an hourglass, unnoticed and unrealized until it recedes to a minimum.  And there are many who never had a faith to lose.  For those proclaiming it, when times get tough and the answer hoped for is not forthcoming from God some begin to doubt the faith they insist they have.

Faith is the foundation of our Christian belief and the main tenet of our church.  The strength of that faith relies on how and what we feed it, and most importantly how we react when it is being tested.  Many feed it by going to church, doing good deeds, through prayer or generally just being a good person.   But, the critical validation will come in the midst of a severe crisis when we most need it to sustain us for it is during times of hardship that doubt can take hold and weaken it.  And the truth is, most of us undergo periods when trust in God becomes threatened by Satan, making faith fundamentally and literally inoperative.

Does this mean that my faith is not working, is limited or faulty?   Maybe it is so screwed up by life that I cannot believe God really cares about me.   What is even more disturbing is that this yardstick measure follows after a dire experience making us believe we cannot find God to ask for help.  During these moments when our faith should be at its strongest point it instead loses credibility and strength, leaving us feeling God has abandoned us.  Try as we might to get help from God it seems He is silent, uncaring or elsewhere occupied.

How could this happen if we profess to be Christians?  The common thought is, "what good is God if you cannot find Him when you need Him in times of trouble"?  This reasoning looms large and continues to grow if we can’t see anything changing.   We become angry with God.  We feel betrayed and rejected.  Losing faith and certainty that life itself has any great significance intensifies and some people even begin to wonder if there is indeed a God.

Loss of faith can involve questioning ourselves.   When our purpose of living is shattered and left in tatters, and there is no meaning to our lives we feel we have lost our mainstay, our all in all for everything we do in this uncertain life.  We feel adrift, with no one to care about us. This loss and separation makes us question everything. We become angry and fearful, alienated, full of anxiety and hopelessness for without a sign that God’s hand is in our lives we feel an overwhelming sadness of deception.   We feel empty and devoid of joy; joy that has turned cynical, leaving us empty and deflated with a sense of isolation so strong that many times we lose our desire to continue on.

But I believe it is only when we have faced the most drastic suffering in our lives that we can recognize and gain a true revelation of the greatness of our God. It is easy to fall to our knees in gratitude when His answers are as swift to come as we want them, but on the other side of the coin, doubt insidiously sets in when we don’t receive our  answers immediately.  Consider this however: I cannot appreciate God's power if I never get sick and experience the healing touch of His almighty Hand.  I can never see His miraculous strength until He opens doors that could not be opened before by any man to let me go through.  I could never recognize His mighty love unless He has delivered me from the jaws of death.  I would never know my footsteps were faltering on the brink of disaster if He had not changed my course.

God is an unexpected God and His comings and goings cannot be understood by humanity.   The belief we as Christians must hold is that He is constant and His promises are steadfast.  The longer we wait in trust and faith, the greater His answers can be. If I  truly believe and hold steady, I will be able to see His loving kindness that has brought me to this day.  I will recognize His Holy Spirit within me buoying my courage and hope when nothing seems to be coming my way.  I will be made to see that some of the things I wanted immediately were things that today seem frivolous, if downright dangerous in retrospect.

Our bible is full of afflictions, problems and tribulations.  We are not the first to suffer the slings and arrows of an imperfect world.  We are not the first to face the hardships of a sin sick earth.  But yet, and through it all, God still has the reins.  Our Christian character must be forged in the fires of adversity. It is only when we find ourselves in the depths of despair that the stronghold of our faith can begin to shine.

Is your faith real because your pockets are full so it is easy to praise God?  Does your faith waver and bend when hard knocks knock at your door?  Remember it is only when you have walked through the valleys and shadows of defeat that you can know if your faith has been victorious and true; that your faith can truly be judged and measured worthy.

Be still and wait upon the Lord.

When we can’t see any reason for hope, we must hope on anyway, because God has promised never, ever to leave us.  Our every breath that He breathes into us is a blessing, but He does not stop there.  He gave us promises that transcend time and man, and He never takes anything back that He gives.  And we cannot see the ending until God is ready to offer it.

Never mind that we feel that we have been singled out for unique trials and suffering.   Never mind that we feel that we have been chosen for all the bad stuff while your neighbor gets all the good things.  Never mind that every single step we take forward, we get pulled ten steps back.  Even though these trials seem to frequent our lives, we must keep in mind that God has already warned us our Christian walk with Him would not be a smooth and even path, that we have to be willing to suffer our own little crucifixions. We will see that even as we stumble, His grace and strength is sufficient to  hold us up and carry us through.

Remain strong in the face of calamity and plant your feet firmly on the road God set before you with the knowledge that He still is and always will be in control of each and every situation, and nothing that happens He does not know about or allow.  Through all life’s baggage, hang on with trust to the hem of Jesus’ garment, knowing that He will share each and every little thing.

God has told us many times through scripture, “Am I not God Who can do everything?”  With faith believe in it!

God is true and is worthy to be praised forever.

Kathy Bernard

Comunità Cenacolo Florida

Comunità Cenacolo America is part of the international Comunità Cenacolo, Community of the Cenacle, founded in Italy in 1983 by a dynamic, vibrant, and faith-filled religious sister named Elvira Petrozzi. Mother Elvira felt certain that God was calling her to serve the poor of the modern world: disillusioned young men and women who live in desperation and hopelessness, convinced that life has no meaning or value. Unable to find peace or joy in their lives, they seek to fill the emptiness with the illusory pleasures of the world, only to find themselves steeped in an intense interior isolation.

Trusting unwaveringly in the direction of the Holy Spirit, Mother Elvira proclaims to all those who live in darkness that only Jesus Christ can heal and transform their shattered lives, changing despair into hope, sadness into joy, hatred into forgiveness, and death into life.

Our Way of Life
To everyone we welcome, we propose a simple, disciplined, family style of life, based on the rediscovery of the essential gifts of prayer and work (''ora et labora''), true friendship, sacrifice, and faith in Jesus. The spirituality of the Community is profoundly Eucharistic and Marian. The day is structured around times of prayer (Eucharistic Adoration, the Liturgy of the Hours, the Rosary), work, deep sharing about one’s own life in the light of the Word of God, recreation, and times of celebration. We believe that the Christian life in its simplicity and fullness is the true answer to every restlessness in the human heart and that, in the living encounter with God's Mercy, man is reborn into hope and is freed from the chains that have enslaved him, thus rediscovering the joy of loving.

Medjugorje Message


Dear children!
Today I invite you to decide every day for God.
Little children, you speak much about God, but you witness little with your life.
Therefore, little children, decide for conversion, that your life may be true before God, so that in the truth of your life you witness the beauty God gave you.
Little children, I invite you again to decide for prayer because through prayer, you will be able to live the conversion.
Each one of you shall become in the simplicity, similar to a child which is open to the love of the Father.
Thank you for having responded to my call.

What is Faith?

by Ernest O'Neill


What really is faith? One little boy in Sunday School was asked that question and quick as a flash he replied, "Believing something you know isn't true." And I don't know what you feel about it. I often thought that that's what faith was.
It's believing something that you know with your mind isn't true. It's some kind of overdrive that you push in with a button of some kind in your mind or your emotions. Or, somewhere as "they" say down in your heart, to get you to accept something that you know with your intellect could not possibly be true. And so many of us, in this world today are sceptical of the whole idea of faith, because we think of it as something not connected with the ordinary processes of the mind at all. It's actually opposed to the convictions of the intellect. And so many of us who have been through some kind of education and especially some kind of scientific education, get the idea that to have faith you have to in some way close your mind, or put your intellect to sleep, or ignore the conclusions of science and research.
That's absolutely ridiculous. Faith is not that kind of an irrational thing at all. Faith, in fact, is something that you and I exercise every day in our lives. And we've exercised it from the very moment we were born. I suppose it's true that your mother even encouraged you to feel that we could trust her when we lay in her arms. And we learned day by day that was true, she would not drop us, that she was reliable, and we could put our faith in her arms.
And so as we grew up and came to the age of two or three or four years old and our Mom would ask us to jump from one chair into her arms, we would jump, because we would feel, "Yes, we can put our faith in her because she has never let us fall before. And every time we have observed her, every time we have experienced the stability and the safety of her arms we have not been disappointed, and so we learned to put our faith in her.
It was the same when we began to ride on a bicycle. We started to find out that the bicycle would carry our weight. Then as our Dad taught us how to balance we found that it was possible, amazing though it was, to push the bicycle along on the ground in such a way that we could stay up even though it had only two wheels. And we began to put our faith in the bicycle and in our ability to ride it and to stay up all the time. 
And so in all of our lives we have gradually come to put our faith in all kinds of things. If I ask you, "Would you put your faith in that chair that is sitting opposite you in your office or in your home?" You will probably reply to me, "That chair?
Yes, yes I would put my faith in that chair. That is, I wouldgladly go over and sit on that chair, because I have observed it holding other people. It has held me myself on many occasions, and I'm prepared to bet my life on the strength of that chair." 
It's so in the car this morning. If you're sitting in your automobile and you're in rush hour traffic, and you see the guy's lights in front of you or the woman's lights in front of you brighten up, you put your faith in the fact that the car in front of you is going to slow up. And you immediately move your foot from your accelerator over to your brake becauseyou put your faith in the stop light of the car in front of you working properly. Now sometimes, of course, it is not working properly and sometimes it fails to work. Then you find you are in real trouble at that moment. But even that failure of the car's tail light is proof that you actually do normally live by faith in that mechanism working efficiently. 
And so it is in all kinds of situations. You lift the phone when you hear the phone ringing, and you're absolutely certain that you will hear somebody speak on the other side of it. And it's the same when you hear the doorbell sounding, you're pretty certain that when you go to that door and open it you have faith that there will be someone standing on the other side. 
And so it is in all kinds of more important and vital matters. In connection with your bank account you have absolute faith that when you write a cheque out and send it to a certain person your bank will forward to them thenecessary amount of money as long as it's in your account. You put faith in your bank to do that.
Then we have all kinds of complicated expressions of faith when you get to the stock exchange floor. And you get to the buying of stocks and shares and you find that all kinds of massive purchases of stocks and shares in companies and investments are made simply on the word of one man. Often on the wild waving hands of some man on the stock exchange floor. And they shake the handand that's the deal done. Often, even thousands and millions of dollars change hands because they put faith in the shake of the other person's hand, or they put faith in what the other person has said is going to happen.
So it is of course every time we step into a plane. We put faith in the incredible theory of aerodynamics that assures us that the mass of metal is going to lift into the air and going to cross thousands of miles of ocean. Then it lands us safely in another country, even though to our ordinary eyes and to our ordinary intellect we cannot understand why that plane could possibly rise off the ground like that. And yet we put our faith in it because we've seen it happen again and again.
And so it goes on throughout all of our life. We'll often allow ourselves to be put to sleep by some stranger in a hospital because we'll have absolute faith in what the hospital has done with other people. We have even seen other hospitals do this with our own relatives and we have seen doctors and surgeons do. We'll put our faith in a great many unknown people and unknown eventsand unknown techniques, simply because we have observed in the past and we have good grounds for putting our faith in those things.
So practically everyday in our life we exercise faith a thousand times. We breathe because we put our faith in the fact that the air is clean enough to breathe and is not filled with poisonous gas.
So in all kinds of manifold situations we put our faith again and again in people, in things, in events, in techniques, in strategies, in processes that actually on many occasions we have not tried before, but we have observed other people trying them. So when we think of faith let's not think of something strange and superstitious; let's not think of something religious or something non-rational. Let's see that faith is something that we practise every day in our lives.


The Fifteen Promises of Our Lady, the Blessed Virgin Mary, to those who recite the Rosary


1. Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall receive signal graces.

2. I promise My special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary.

3. The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.

4. It will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of men from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.

5. The soul which recommends itself to Me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall not perish.

6. Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying himself to the consideration of its Sacred Mysteries shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just he shall remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of eternal life.

7. Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the sacraments of the Church.

8. Those who are faithful to recite the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plentitude of His graces; at the moment of death they shall participate in the merits of the Saints in Paradise.

9. I shall deliver from purgatory, those who have been devoted to the Rosary.

10. The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in Heaven.

11. You shall obtain all you ask of Me by the recitation of the Rosary.

12. All those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by Me in their necessities.

13. I have obtained from My Divine Son, that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors, the entire Celestial Court during their life and at the hour of death.

14. All who recite the Rosary are My sons, and brothers of My only Son, Jesus Christ.

15. Devotion to My Rosary is a great sign of pre-destination.


"Say the Rosary every day, to earn peace for the world and the end of war."

-- Our Lady of Fatima, 1917 --