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the reproach of Christ 
Ron,
Why does God allow so much evil for such a long time in the World? Is it simply a mystery? I am appalled at the amount of sin in today’s world.
IN order to create persons who can understand truth and love one another as well as love God, reason and free will are required. But free will also allows for the possibility of sin and harm. God allows evil because we have free will. It would be wrong for Him to force us to be good.
However, the tribulation will begin soon (perhaps very soon). And that is the start of a long process that will free the world from the reign of sin, and bring about the triumph of the Jesus and His Church over evil.
Ron-
What do you make of caritas in regards to medjugore? I sometimes question the reliability of their website…..
Also any word what the hold up is between the Vatican accepting medjugore?
Many blessings
-frank
my opinion is that caritas is using Medjugorje to exalt themselves. I would avoid them.
There is a growing opposition in the Church to Medjugorje. I’m not sure why. In any case, the Holy See is not going to approve of any apparition that is on-going. They have to wait to see what the sum total of all the messages might be.
Ron,
It looks like Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII are both going to be made saints. Pope Francis cleared Pope John Paul II for sainthood on Friday, July 5th. Pope Francis also pushed aside the rules requiring at least two confirmed miracles in order to clear the way to make Pope John XXIII a saint. Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said that the two will be officially named saints “within a year.” It is looking like they will be declared saints on the same day. Could the day that they are made saints be the day of the Miracle? (I don’t think that the Vatican has said when the day will be yet).
Conchita has said that the Miracle of Garabandal will coincide with a great event within the Church. She has said that it is a singular event in the Church that happens very rarely, and has never happened in her lifetime. It is not new or stupendous, only rare. Could this event be the day that two popes are made saints? If the Vatican pushes off the day of canonization until sometime in March to May of 2014, I think this will be the day of the Miracle. What do you think?
I have previously proposed that the rare Church event that coincides with the Miracle might be a canonization of two Popes. It may be that the start of the tribulation will delay these canonizations. I don’t think the Miracle will occur within a year. The Warning, Consolation, and Miracle all occur in 2016.
1.Ron…you have concluded that there will be a nuclear blast/bomb (triggered by Iran )in NewYork to usher in WW3 …how did you arrive at this?
2. Why do you suppose that the Virgin Mary hasmany times used the sun to show the masses a miracle …as opposed to other objects. do believe that there is some forshadowing going on ?
1. It is too lengthy to explain how I arrived at this conclusion. See my past posts in this blog on the topic of NYC and WW3.
2. I don’t know how many times Mary has used such a miracle; it does not seem like many to me. Signs in the heavens are part of the tribulation, as described in the Book of Revelation and in Matthew 24.
Do you think the moving of the ark be the true trigger of the tribulation?
I don’t know what you are referring to. But the tribulation begins with the first Seal: War.
Ron,
What do you think the Great Sign will be at the true apparitions sites around the World? Is there a description of the Great Sign by any Saint? Will amputees be miraculously healed with new limbs?
St. Faustina stated that in Hell the seventh torture is horrible despair, hatred of God, vile words, curses and blasphemie. Your writings state that a person in Hell can not curse as punishments will then keep increasing which is not possible with God as his justice is perfect. I am confused between the two writings. Can you explain further.
Yes, I think that the Permanent Signs spoken of at Garabandal and Medjugorje will be placed also at other sites of true private revelation. I don’t know of any Saint who described the Permanent Sign. Some amputees will be healed with new limbs, I suppose.
The description of persons in Hell as forever uttering curses and blasphemies against God is figurative, not literal. Their souls in Hell are not in a state of grace, but in a permanent state of unrepentant actual mortal sin. And this state is comparable to a continuous outpouring of blasphemies and curses.
However, no matter what any Saint says, no matter what any private revelation says, we must always have faith in God as being infinitely Just and infinitely Merciful. So He certainly would not permit all the many souls in Hell to continuously curse and blaspheme forever. The plan of God does not include having perhaps billions of souls continuously blaspheming him, for eternity.
In addition, each additional blasphemy would deserve additional punishment, resulting in a steady increase in sufferings for the souls in Hell FOREVER, making those sufferings unimaginably great and beyond all bounds of mercy and justice. So the good God does not permit anyone in Hell to sin. Their souls are like a continual blasphemy, figuratively, because they are in a state of unrepentant grave sin.