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One thing that comes up in the endless theism v atheism debates is that if God really exists, and really loves us all, would He not at least warn us when terrible things happen to us on earth? Well He did and does, after all in the Bible its quite common to see Him send down a prophet to warn people to come back to the right path, and unfortunately they often suffer if they don't take His advice.
Maybe in fact that is happening nowadays but people are not aware of it. Anyway here is a couple of examples, from a huge corpus of material out there right now, which might be of interest.
Our Lady of Good Success
These messages are sometimes known as Our Lady of Good Success and are very highly respected in Ecuador and around the world.
When you get into modern times it gets very confusing with serious messages from people that sometimes only to a degree are approved by the Church, but which could be very authentic. Anyway virtually all modern messages received in Marian Apparitions, and from other supernatural sources like Our Lord or St Michael, are of the opinion that we are going to enter into very difficult times because of the very serious universal sins out there.
Maybe in fact that is happening nowadays but people are not aware of it. Anyway here is a couple of examples, from a huge corpus of material out there right now, which might be of interest.
Our Lady of Good Success
"[16th Jan 1599:]
In the 19th century, a truly Christian president [Gabriel Garcia Moreno] will come; a man of
character whom God Our Lord will give the palm of martyrdom on the square adjoining this Convent of mine. He will consecrate the Republic of Ecuador to the Sacred Heart of my Most Holy Son and this consecration will sustain the Catholic Religion in the years that will follow, which will be ill-fated ones for the Church.
These years, during which the accursed sect of Masonry will take control of the civil government, will see a cruel persecution of all religious communities, and will also strike out violently against this one of mine.
[21st Jan 1610:]
Thus, I make it known to you that from the end of the 19th century and from shortly after the
middle of the 20th century, in what is today the Colony and will then be the Republic of Ecuador, the passions will erupt and there will be a total corruption of customs, for Satan will reign almost completely by means of the Masonic sects. They will focus principally on the children in order to sustain this general corruption. Woe to the children of these times!
It will be difficult to receive the Sacrament of Baptism and also the Sacrament of Confirmation. They will receive the Sacrament of Confession only if they remain in Catholic schools, for the Devil will make a great effort to destroy it through persons in position of authority.
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As for the Sacrament of Matrimony, which symbolises the union of Christ with His Church, it will be attacked and deeply profaned. Freemasonry, which will then be in power, will enact iniquitous laws with the aim of doing away with this Sacrament, making it easy for everyone
to live in sin and encouraging the procreation of illegitimate children born without the blessing of the Church. The Catholic spirit will rapidly decay; the precious light of Faith will gradually be extinguished until there will be an almost total and general corruption of customs. Added to this will be the effects of secular education, which will be one reason for the death of priestly and religious vocations.
The Sacrament of Holy Orders will be ridiculed, oppressed, and despised, for in this Sacrament, the Church of God and even God Himself is scorned and despised since He is
represented in His priests. The Devil will try to persecute the ministers of the Lord in every possible way; he will labor with cruel and subtle astuteness to deviate them from the spirit of their vocation and will corrupt many of them. These depraved priests, who will scandalise the Christian people, will make the hatred of bad Catholics and the enemies of the Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church fall upon all priests.
This apparent triumph of Satan will bring enormous suffering to the good Pastors of the
Church, the many good priests, and the Supreme Pastor and Vicar of Christ on earth, who, a
prisoner in the Vatican, will shed secret and bitter tears in the presence of his God and Lord,
beseeching light, sanctity and perfection for all the clergy of the world, of whom he is King and Father.
Further, in these unhappy times, there will be unbridled luxury which will ensnare the rest into sin and conquer innumerable frivolous souls who will be lost. Innocence will almost no longer be found in children, nor modesty in women.
[2nd Feb 1610:]
Know, beloved daughter, that when your name will become known in the 20th century, there will be many who will not believe, claiming that this devotion is not pleasing to God.
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A simple, humble faith in the truth of my apparitions to you, my favoured child, will be
reserved for humble and fervent souls who are docile to the inspirations of grace, for our
Heavenly Father communicates His secrets to the simple of heart, and not to those whose hearts are inflated with pride, pretending to know what they do not or infatuated with empty science.
[December 1624:]
As you see, St. Gabriel also carries a ciborium filled with Hosts: this signifies the most august Sacrament of the Eucharist, which will be distributed by my Catholic priests to faithful belonging to the Holy Roman, Catholic and Apostolic Church, whose visible head is the Pope, the King of Christendom. His pontifical infallibility will be declared a Dogma of Faith by the same Pope [Pius IX] chosen to proclaim the Dogma of the Mystery of my Immaculate Conception. He will be persecuted and imprisoned in the Vatican by the unjust usurpation of the Pontifical States through the iniquity, envy and avarice of an earthly monarch."
(Brian Nugent, Slí na Fírinne (Corstown, 2011), p.74-77.)
These messages are sometimes known as Our Lady of Good Success and are very highly respected in Ecuador and around the world.
When you get into modern times it gets very confusing with serious messages from people that sometimes only to a degree are approved by the Church, but which could be very authentic. Anyway virtually all modern messages received in Marian Apparitions, and from other supernatural sources like Our Lord or St Michael, are of the opinion that we are going to enter into very difficult times because of the very serious universal sins out there.