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Probably most people know that there are quite a few Protestant religions out there who think we are living in the 'End Times' and as such they think they are going to be explicitly rescued by God as part of the 'Rapture'. Actually they think they will be physically removed from earth somehow as part of this understanding of the 'End Times'.
Of course Catholics don't believe that at all, but quite a few serious Catholic thinkers, mystics, and commentators, actually do think we are in some sense in the 'End Times', or at least in a time analogous to that before Noah and the Flood. On that score notice that in Mount Mellary Grotto in Ireland a highly respected apparition is said to have occurred in 1985, where a Biblical scene was shown to two mystics, the scene being Noah creating the Ark before the Flood.
In any case as part of this thinking there has been a lot of talk in the last few years about special Marian Refuges being created or at least that there might be, in some sense, isolated Marian or Christian communities that might be created to survive some sort of calamity. An example of this kind of talk, and what is claimed to be Christian revelation, you can see in the talks and writings of Father Michel Rodrigue in Quebec, who came to prominence around Covid times. But these discussions have waxed and waned in the last few years, and by no means everybody believes that such a thing will happen, or that these communities would even be necessary.
However in the last week or so a highly respected figure in this kind of Catholic mystical space in Ireland, Eddie Stones, has weighed in with what sounds like a similar sort of concept. He was originally a butcher in Clara Co. Offaly, who was inspired later to up sticks and found a house of prayer, the Emmanuel House of Providence in Clonfert in Co. Galway. This is what he said just recently, beginning with a quote from a book on prophecy from Our Lady of Cuapa in Nicaragua:
Possibly, although its a stretch, you could make the case that some of these Marian Refuges, if that is how one should interpret the above message, are already been created in Ireland, for example:
The Home of the Mother, founded by Father Rafael Alonso Reymundo, as "an International Public Association of Faithful of the Catholic Church with pontifical approval," is busy turning an old stately home in Ireland, Loughloher, a former ancillary building to the ancient St Mary's Abbey in Cahir in Co. Tipperary, into I think an explicit enough, Marian refuge.
Padraig Caughey, a mystic from Belfast who runs www.motheofgod.com, has recently emigrated and is busy creating a home in Galicia in Northern Spain, for himself but I suspect also as a potential future Marian refuge, if needed.
Human Life International Ireland, the principal figure here being Patrick McCrystal, not long ago purchased a large premises in Knock which they are now doing up. Again this is not some stated or obvious Marian refuge, but taking into account the people involved, and the location!, I don't think it would be stretching things too much if we speculated on those lines.
Anyway what is the view of the good citizens of this parish, could that kind of calamity happen and should we somehow prepare for it?
by Brian Nugent, http://www.orwellianireland.com .
Of course Catholics don't believe that at all, but quite a few serious Catholic thinkers, mystics, and commentators, actually do think we are in some sense in the 'End Times', or at least in a time analogous to that before Noah and the Flood. On that score notice that in Mount Mellary Grotto in Ireland a highly respected apparition is said to have occurred in 1985, where a Biblical scene was shown to two mystics, the scene being Noah creating the Ark before the Flood.
In any case as part of this thinking there has been a lot of talk in the last few years about special Marian Refuges being created or at least that there might be, in some sense, isolated Marian or Christian communities that might be created to survive some sort of calamity. An example of this kind of talk, and what is claimed to be Christian revelation, you can see in the talks and writings of Father Michel Rodrigue in Quebec, who came to prominence around Covid times. But these discussions have waxed and waned in the last few years, and by no means everybody believes that such a thing will happen, or that these communities would even be necessary.
However in the last week or so a highly respected figure in this kind of Catholic mystical space in Ireland, Eddie Stones, has weighed in with what sounds like a similar sort of concept. He was originally a butcher in Clara Co. Offaly, who was inspired later to up sticks and found a house of prayer, the Emmanuel House of Providence in Clonfert in Co. Galway. This is what he said just recently, beginning with a quote from a book on prophecy from Our Lady of Cuapa in Nicaragua:
Possibly, although its a stretch, you could make the case that some of these Marian Refuges, if that is how one should interpret the above message, are already been created in Ireland, for example:
The Home of the Mother, founded by Father Rafael Alonso Reymundo, as "an International Public Association of Faithful of the Catholic Church with pontifical approval," is busy turning an old stately home in Ireland, Loughloher, a former ancillary building to the ancient St Mary's Abbey in Cahir in Co. Tipperary, into I think an explicit enough, Marian refuge.
Padraig Caughey, a mystic from Belfast who runs www.motheofgod.com, has recently emigrated and is busy creating a home in Galicia in Northern Spain, for himself but I suspect also as a potential future Marian refuge, if needed.
Human Life International Ireland, the principal figure here being Patrick McCrystal, not long ago purchased a large premises in Knock which they are now doing up. Again this is not some stated or obvious Marian refuge, but taking into account the people involved, and the location!, I don't think it would be stretching things too much if we speculated on those lines.
Anyway what is the view of the good citizens of this parish, could that kind of calamity happen and should we somehow prepare for it?
by Brian Nugent, http://www.orwellianireland.com .
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