TRUMP'S JEWISH LOBBY

 

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Following our previous post on Joe Biden's Jewish Lobby [see HERE  ] here is a list of Trump's Jews.

In St. John’s first epistle, he wrote that there are many antichrists in the world, and that sheer number of antichrists demonstrates we’re living in the end times:

1Jn 2:18  Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

A few verses later he clarified his statement, explaining that these “antichrists” are those who deny the Son of God, Jesus Christ.  As it’s written:

1Jn 2:23  Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.

In other words, if you deny the Lordship of Jesus Christ, then you do not have the Father, no matter how “godly” you might claim to be.  After all, Christ and the Father are one (John 10:30; John 14:8-9).  You can’t deny the Son and claim to have the Father at the same time. It just won’t fly.

In chapter 4 of the same epistle, John would further warn as follows:

1Jn 4:3  And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

Of course, St. John was speaking specifically of the false Jews who hate, loathe and despise our Lord and Savior, and who deny His Lordship while simultaneously claiming to be “God’s chosen people.”

Jesus Christ Himself would later speak of the false Jews to St. John, in his vision for the book of Revelation.  As it’s written:

Rev 3:9  Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

Part of the inheritance of the saints, beloved, is that the antichrist Jews will ultimately be under our command, and not above us.

But in the meantime, they remain the children of the devil.  And this earth remains under their charge and the charge of their father the devil, who St. Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians 4:4 is “the god of this world.”

Of course, we know the false Jews — who are actually descendants of Satan’s son Cain (I John 3:12; John 8:44) — love “the highest seats” (Luke 20:46) and always work to gravitate into positions of power.

Many Christians thought Donald Trump was going to work to put an end to this antichrist rule over our Christian people.  He promised to be the “best friend Christians have ever had in the Oval Office.”

But you can’t be “best friends” with someone who brings the enemies of Christ Jesus right into our national chariot, and plants them into high positions of power.  As St. John would later sum up, we’re supposed to keep the Christ-haters out of our homes, and I dare say that includes our national house, the White House.  As it’s written:

2Jn 1:9  Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.

 

2Jn 1:10  If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:

 

2Jn 1:11  For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

Think about that last verse, beloved.  Here’s just a small list of the antichrist Jews our President has embraced, and in many cases entrenched into high positions of power within his administration:

• Jared Kushner — Trump’s son-in-law, senior adviser to the president tasked with bringing “peace” to the Middle East; orthodox Jew and good friend of Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.

• Yael Kushner — aka Ivanka Trump, Executive Vice-President of The Trump Organization, senior advisor to the Donald J. Trump for President Executive Committee, senior member of the Trump Presidential Transition Team. Converted to Judaism in 2009 so she could marry Jared Kushner, upon which she took the Hebrew name Yael (apparently after the Biblical wife of “Heber the Kenite”).  The name Yael means “mountain goat,” whereas the surname Kushner means “fur skinner.”  Hold on to your fur beloved, it only gets worse from here.

• Charles Kushner — New York Real Estate Developer, father of Jared Kushner, convicted of illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering; served 14 months in prison; endorser of Donald J. Trump for President; donor to the Make America Great Again PAC; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Vanessa Trump — endorser of Donald Trump for President; previously married to Donald Trump, Jr.; her father was a Russian Jew.

• Wilbur Ross Jr., — former senior managing director of Rothschilds Incorporated for 25 years, donor to the Trump Victory Fund, member of the Trump Economic Advisory Council, now Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Steven Wynn — Billionaire real estate tycoon, and Financial Vice-Chairman of the Trump Presidential Inaugural Committee; Ashkenazi Jew.

• David Friedman — long-time Trump attorney, co-chairman Israel Advisory Committee for Donald Trump, now U.S. Ambassador to Israel; son of a conservative rabbi.

• Steven Mnuchin — former Goldman Sachs Chief Information Officer, donor to Trump Victory Fund, worked as Trump’s national finance chairman during the campaign; now U.S. Treasury Secretary; grandson of Russian-born diamond dealer Aaron Mnuchin; Skull and Bones member since 1985; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Stephen Miller — Trump speech writer, now Senior Advisor for Policy, self-described “practicing Jew.”

• Carl Icahn — Special Adviser on Regulatory Reform to Donald Trump, 26th wealthiest person on Forbes 400, well-known billionaire; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Gail Icahn — Finance Vice-Chairman, Trump Inaugural Committee; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Gary Cohn — former Chief Operating Officer Goldman Sachs, now head of the White House National Economic Council, founder of the Cohn Jewish Student Center at Kent State University; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Boris Epshteyn — New York-based investment banker and finance attorney; senior advisor Donald J. Trump for President, now Special Assistant to the President; Russian Jew.

• David Shulkin — former president Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, now the Undersecretary for Health at the Department of Veterans Affairs; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Reed Cordish — real estate mogul and friend of Jared Kushner, now Assistant to the President for Intragovernmental and Technology Initiatives; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Avrahm Berkowitz — first cousin to former AIPAC president Howard Friedman, now serving as Special Assistant to President Trump and assistant to Jared Kushner; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Lewis Eisenberg — chairman, Trump Victory Committee; former Goldman Sachs employee and Private Equity Chief for Granite Capital International Group; major contributor to groups backing Trump’s election; now U.S. Ambassador to Italy under the Trump administration; holds an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree from the Rabbinical College of America; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Michael Glassner — Deputy Campaign Manager and National Political Director for Trump campaign, known for his experience in Jewish voter relations; outspoken supporter of Israel; former political director AIPAC; Ashkenazi Jew. 

• Michael Abboud — Communications Coordinator, Donald J. Trump for President; Sephardic Jew

• Paul Achleitner, Chairman, Supervisory Board, Deutche Bank, Donald Trump’s largest lender; Ashkenazi Jew

• Miriam Adelson — endorsed Donald J. Trump for President; appointed Finance Chairman for the Trump Inaugural Committee; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Sheldon Adelson — Billionaire Las Vegas casino mogul, endorsed Donald J. Trump for President, largest financial donor to the Trump campaign; appointed as Finance Vice-Chairman for the Trump Inaugural Committee; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Paul Atkins — former SEC commissioner during the time leading up to the 2008 financial crisis in which housing loans were packaged as securities (i.e., stocks) and sold to investors for exorbitant sums, ultimately resulting in the market crash; now a member of President Trump’s Strategic and Policy Forum; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Brian Ballard — Dubbed “the most powerful lobbyist in Trump’s Washington” by Politico magazine; Finance Vice-Chairman of the Trump Presidential Inaugural Committee; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Mel Sembler — Vice-Chairman of the Trump Victory Committee, Finance Vice-Chairman of Trump Presidential Inaugural Committee, former U.S. Ambassador to Italy, and “one of the more prominent Jewish donors to the Republican Party” (Wikipedia), served on the board of the Florida Holocaust Museum. (See also here for child abuse accusations.)

• Elliot Broidy — Vice-Chairman Trump Victory Committee; Finance Vice-Chairman Trump Presidential Inaugural Committee; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Safra Catz — Israeli-born American business executive; head of Oracle Corporation; sixth wealthiest woman CEO of a Fortune 500 company; Executive Committee member, Trump Presidential Transition Team; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Michael Cohen — Executive Vice-President and Special Counsel (i.e., lawyer) to the Trump Organization; political “fixer” now caught up in a massive payment scandal, not to mention the alleged “Stormy Daniels” affair payoff; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Delos Cosgrove — Former Cleveland Clinic CEO, member of President Trump’s Strategic and Policy Forum; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Gil Dezer — Israeli-American real estate developer; president of Trump-Dezer Development; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Michael Dezer — founder of Trump-Dezer Development; “known for his investments in New York and Florida real estate in association with Donald Trump” (Wikipedia); Ashkenazi Jew.

• Stephen Feinberg — Billionaire financier, donor to Trump Victory Fund; member Trump Economic Advisory Council, head of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Larry Fink — CEO Blackrock; member of President Trump’s Strategic and Policy Forum; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Alan Fishman, chairman Ladder Capital; Trump’s second largest lender; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Samuel Fox, vice-chairman Trump Victory Committee; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Alan Garten, Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer at The Trump Organization; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Bruce Geld, endorser of Donald J. Trump for President; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Lawrence Glick, Executive Vice-President of Strategic Development for The Trump Organization; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Jason Greenblatt, Executive Vice-President and Chief Legal Officer to Donald Trump and The Trump Organization, co-chairman Israel Advisory Committee for Donald J. Trump, now Special Representative for International Negotiations to President Trump; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Vincent Harris — former Digital Strategy Manager, Donald J. Trump for President; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Thomas Hicks, Sr., — billionaire private equity investor, Finance Vice-Chairman Trump Inaugural Committee; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Robert Eager, chairman and chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company, member of President Trump’s Strategic and Policy Forum; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Travis Kalanick — co-founder of Uber; member of President Trump’s Strategic and Policy Forum; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Peter Kalikow — President of H. J. Kalikow & Company, LLC, one of New York City’s leading real estate firms; donor to the Trump Victory Fund; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Daniel Kowalski — Deputy Policy Director of the Donald J. Trump for President Committee; member of the Trump Economic Advisory Council; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Bennett LeBow — Chairman of the Board of Vector Group; former owner of the Liggett Group, the fifth largest cigarette company in the U.S.; testified under oath that “since cigarettes are a legal product and people choose to use them, whether or not they cause cancer is irrelevant” (Wikipedia); friend of Ukrainian mob boss Vadim Rabinovich (Wikipedia); donor to the Trump Victory Fund; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Richard Lesser — member of President Trump’s Strategic and Policy Forum; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Ronald Lieberman — Executive Vice-President of Management and Development for The Trump Organization; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Howard Lorber — President and CEO of Vector Group, donor to the Trump Victory Fund, member of Trump Economic Advisory Council; Ashkenazi Jew.

• David Malpass — member of the Trump Economic Advisory Council, serves as Under-Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs under President Donald J. Trump; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Douglas Manchester — donor to the Make America Great Again PAC; Trump’s nominee for Ambassador to the Bahamas; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Bernard “Bernie” Marcus — Home Depot co-founder; co-founder of the Israel Democracy Institute; endorser of Donald J. Trump for President; donor Rebuild America Now PAC; donor Make America #1 PAC; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Rebecca Mercer — Mercer family heiress; dubbed by Politico magazine as “the most powerful woman in GOP politics” and as a political “kingmaker” by Town and Country magazine, and said to have been “quietly pulling strings for the Trump campaign”; donor to Make America #1 PAC; Trump Executive Committee member; member of the Trump Presidential Transition Team; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Robert Mercer — Father of Rebecca Mercer (see above); co-CEO of Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund, donor to the Make America #1 PAC; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Amanda Miller — Vice-President of Marketing for The Trump Organization; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Eli Miller — Chief Operating Officer, Donald J. Trump for President; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Jason Miller — Senior Communications Director of the Trump Presidential Transition team; Communications Director and Assistant to the President at the White House; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Stephen Miller — National Policy Director, Donald J. Trump for President; National Policy Director Trump Presidential Transition Team, Senior Advisor to the President for Policy at the White House; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Samuel Nunberg — Political advisor to Donald J. Trump for President; Ashkenazi Jew.

• David Orwitz — Senior Vice-President of Acquisitions and Development, The Trump Organization; Ashkenazi Jew.

• John Paulson — Known as “one of the most prominent names in high finance”; donor to the Trump Victory Fund, member of the Trump Economic Advisory Council; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Laura Perlmutter — Wife of Isaac “Ike” Perlmutter, an Israeli-American businessman and financier, CEO of Marvel Entertainment. Laura donated $449,000 to a PAC supporting Donald Trump and was Finance Vice-Chairman of the Trump Inaugural Committee; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Richard Roberts — Vice-chairman, Israel Advisory Committee for Donald Trump; Ashkenazi Jew.

• George Ross — Executive Vice-President and Senior Counsel for The Trump Organization; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Steven Roth — Donor to the Trump Victory Fund; member of the Trump Economic Advisory Council; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Keith Schiller — former Deputy Assistant to U.S. President Donald Trump who concurrently served as Director of Oval Office Operations; Schiller also served as the Director of Security for The Trump Organization (personal bodyguard to Trump). He has been described as “one of Trump’s most loyal and trusted aides” and “a constant presence at Trump’s side for nearly two decades”; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Stephen Schwarzman — CEO of the Blackstone Group; chairman of President Trump’s Strategic and Policy Forum; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Peter Thiel — Billionaire venture capitalist, co-founder of PayPal, endorsed Donald J. Trump for President, donor to the Trump Victory Fund, donor to the Rebuilding America Now PAC, Executive Committee Member of the Trump Presidential Transition Team; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Kevin Warsh — Former governor of the Federal Reserve System during and in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis; acted as the central bank’s primary liaison to Wall Street; now a member of President Trump’s Strategic and Policy Forum; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Mark Weinberger — Global Chairman and CEO of EY, formerly known as Ernst & Young; member of President Trump’s Strategic and Policy Forum; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Andrew Weiss — Executive Vice-President of The Trump Organization; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Allen Weisselberg — Executive Vice-President of Development and Acquisitions at The Trump Organization, and Chief Financial Officer for The Trump Organization; known as “Donald Trump’s Loyal Numbers Man”; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Larry Weitzner — CEO of Jamestown Associates, one of the nation’s premier political consulting firms; advisor to Donald J. Trump for President; Ashkenazi Jew.

• Daniel Yergin — A director on the Council on Foreign Relations; member of President Trump’s Strategic and Policy Forum; “In December 2016 Yergin joined a business forum composed primarily of CEOs assembled to provide strategic and policy advice on economic issues to President Donald Trump; Ashkenazi Jew.

Yes, as St. John wrote in 1 John 2:18, “…even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.”  And so it is, beloved.   And so it is.

Think carefully about who and what you throw your support behind.  There are no “good” antichrists, so don’t give me that “good fig/bad fig” stuff.  If they hate the Lord, they hate the Father.  If they hate the Father, and you support them, then…well…I’ll let you think that through for yourself.

SOURCE: https://haveyenotread.com/75-of-trumps-top-antichrist-jews/

GREAT RESET WARNING [26 April '21]

 

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FIVE MARIAN APPARITIONS

 

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MAY 29, 2019

5 Messages from Marian Apparitions and Their Meaning

Nicholas LaBanca

One of the four marks of the Church is that it is universal, or catholic. We can see this mark of the Church in many different manifestations. Perhaps the most beautiful of these would pertain to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Catholics regard Mary as the Queen of all saints. She intercedes for the Church Militant in a very special way before the throne of her son, Jesus Christ. It was appropriate, therefore, when Pope Francis recently extended the feast of Mary, Mother of the Church to the Roman Catholic general calendar. As Cardinal Robert Sarah put it in the decree establishing the feast last year:

“Mary is the mother of the members of Christ, because with charity she cooperated in the rebirth of the faithful into the Church, [and] the birth of the Head is also the birth of the body, thus indicating that Mary is at once Mother of Christ, the Son of God, and mother of the members of his Mystical Body, which is the Church.”

As she is the mother of the whole Church, we see over the course of history how she desires to communicate with her children, always at our Lord’s direction. She has appeared in nearly every corner of the globe, from Portugal to Japan, from Wisconsin to Egypt. We looked at a few of these apparitions before, and today we’ll look at five others. Some of them you have probably heard of, while others may have flown under your radar. With there literally being a feast of at least one Marian apparition for every day of the year, it’s understandable if you have missed a few!

Here we will take a look at the specific messages that Our Lady gave during these five particular apparitions. All five of these have been approved by the Holy See and/or the local bishop. In other words, each of these titles of Our Lady are most worthy of our veneration. As Christians, we should strongly consider these messages she has given to us.

1. Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal

While many Catholics wear the brown scapular or a crucifix around their necks, another popular sacramental that has been in use for almost two hundred years is the Miraculous Medal. In 1830, the Mother of God appeared to a twenty-four year old woman. Her name was St. Catherine Labouré. She had recently joined the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul at their mother house in Rue du Bacin, Paris. On the eve of St. Vincent de Paul’s feast day, July 18, a child—shining with a dazzling light—awoke her and told her that Our Lady was in the chapel awaiting her.

When St. Catherine arrived in the chapel, she heard the rustling of a silk dress. She looked to see the Virgin Mary near the altar. St. Catherine immediately leapt to her side and rested her hands on Our Lady’s knees. The two of them spoke for over two hours. She later recounted that:

“There, a period of time passed, the sweetest of my life.  It would be impossible for me to say what I experienced.”

Our Lady would appear to St. Catherine on two more occasions, and during these apparitions, she made it clear that she desired to dispense many graces upon the faithful, only if they might ask. Our Lady would appear at one point with beams of light coming forth from gems on the ring which she wore on her finger. However, some of the gem did not glow. The message Our Lady gave to St. Catherine was this:

“These rays symbolize the graces I shed upon those who ask for them. The gems from which rays do not fall are the graces for which souls forget to ask.”

How important, then, it is to pray for the intercession of our Blessed Mother! After this, the image we see on the Miraculous Medal appeared, with Our Lady telling St. Catherine to have the medal struck as soon as possible. She promised:

“All who wear it will receive great graces; they should wear it around the neck. Graces will abound for persons who wear it with confidence.”

To this day, graces abound for those that have received this precious medal as their own.

2. Our Lady of Gietrzwald

When we think of Our Lady and the Rosary, we might first think of what Our Lady said at Fatima. It was there that she asked the faithful to pray the Rosary each day. About forty years prior to this, though, Our Lady had given a very similar message in Poland. Just as she had visited three young children at Fatima, the Blessed Virgin Mary also visited two young girls over a three month period in the village of Gietrzwald in the year 1877. This is the only apparition in Poland that the Holy See has approved. It’s often overshadowed by the more popular apparitions that took place at Lourdes and Fatima. But the message, like the ones received at those locations, is also very important.

In June of that year, Justyna Szafryńska, who was thirteen, and Barbara Samulowska, who was twelve, were busy preparing for their first Holy Communion. On separate occasions, a woman with long hair greeted them under a maple tree “sitting on a golden throne decorated with pearls”. The Infant Jesus sat on her knee as he held a golden globe on his lap. When they asked the woman who she was, she simply responded by saying:

“I am the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Immaculate Conception.”

This is very similar to what Our Lady said at Lourdes just a few decades before. The two girls, who were rightfully very inquisitive, also asked what she desired.

Again, Our Lady gave a simple, yet very meaningful answer:

“I wish you to pray the Rosary every day.”

Again, the parallels to another apparition, at Fatima, are very clear. Once the girls spoke with their parish priest, the response to the messages became widespread throughout the villages and the surrounding area, with many people beginning to recite the Rosary regularly. Those availing themselves of the sacraments also increased immediately following the apparitions. Pope St. John Paul II canonically approved the apparitions in 1977. The Church now celebrates the feast of Our Lady of Gietrzwald each year on June 27.

3. Our Lady of Lourdes

As we saw with the Marian apparition above, Our Lady of Lourdes also drew particular attention to the dogma of Mary’s Immaculate Conception. And like the above apparition as well, this famous event also provided the faithful with a very powerful message, delivered to a poor, village girl. That young woman was St. Bernadette Soubirous, and she first encountered our Lady on February 11, 1858 at the tiny Grotto of Massabielle in the Pyrenees mountain region of France. The first few times the Blessed Virgin appeared to her, she said nothing. Finally, St. Bernadette asked her to proclaim what she wanted so she could write it down. According to Butler’s Lives of the Saints, Our Lady smiled and answered:

“There is no need to write what I have to say. Will you do me the kindness to come here every day for a fortnight?”  

St. Bernadette obliged. Soon crowds began to gather with her each time she fell into a trance as Our Lady appeared to her. She soon told the young saint to go to the spring which would eventually become a place of pilgrimage, and to drink and wash in it. While it was only a trickle at first, by the next week the spring was pouring forth thousands of gallons of water. Over the next several weeks, Our Lady would give St. Bernadette many messages, some that were between only the two of them, and others which she shared with all. Among those messages were calls for conversion. At one point, Our Lady told her:

“Penance, penance, penance. Pray for sinners.”

This is reminiscent of what was also said at Fatima, where Our Lady specifically asked for reparation of sins committed by people throughout the world. The conversion of sinners is something that should always be at the forefront of our minds, first starting with our own conversion. Another pertinent message that Our Lady gave here was this:

“I do not promise to make you happy in this world but in the other.”

This is the cost for following our Lord Jesus. He told us that we must carry our crosses in order to follow him. This entails suffering, but we know that even if we don’t experience happiness in this world, we will experience great happiness in the heavenly kingdom with our Lord and all the saints for eternity. The Church commemorates the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes each year on February 11.

4. Our Lady of Good Success

With this particular apparition, we go back a little bit in time. In Quito, Ecuador, a Conceptionist Sister, Venerable Mariana de Jesus Torres, received several apparitions of Our Lady over the course of four decades beginning in 1594. Space will not permit us to go deep into the messages given to Sister Mariana, but suffice it to say that Our Lady’s words were very prophetic. Our Lady predicted many events of the nineteenth and twentieth century, from local happenings in Ecuador to Blessed Pope Pius IX’s declaration of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception and his subsequent “captivity” following the Capture of Rome in 1870.

The Virgin Mary warned of a corruption of morals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and as we have just lived through this era, we can attest to the veracity of her predictions. What our Lady seemed to be very concerned with, however, were priests. She warned of much corruption and made requests of Sister Marianna which we as Christians in the twenty-first century should heed as well:

“The secular clergy [priests that do not belong to a religious or monastic order] will fall far short of what is expected of them because they will not pursue their sacred duty. Losing the divine compass, they will stray from the way of priestly ministry mapped out for them by God… Pray constantly, implore tirelessly, and weep bitter tears in the seclusion of your heart, beseeching the Eucharistic Heart of my most holy Son to take pity on His ministers.”

Are we praying for our priests? We know that our battle in this world is not “against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers… the spiritual hosts of wickedness” (Ephesians 6:12). The evil one wants nothing more than to tear down the priesthood, and in some quarters he has done a good job of it. We must continue to fervently pray for our priests.

Shortly before Sister Marianna’s death, Our Lady spoke these most sobering words to her:

“If mortals only understood how to appreciate the time given to them and would take advantage of each moment of life, how different the world would be! And a considerable number of souls would not fall to their eternal perdition!”

Do we appreciate the time God gives us on earth? Do we use the moments given to us by our Lord as opportunities to receive his grace, both for our sanctification and the sanctification of others? Let us more closely appreciate this time we have on earth so at the end of time we will be able to rejoice with all of our loved ones before the throne of God. The feast of Our Lady of Good Success is celebrated each year on February 2, the same date as the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

5. Our Lady of Good Help

This apparition hits close to home, literally. This is the only officially approved apparition site in the entire United States, and it happens to be in America’s dairy land, Wisconsin. During October of 1859, Our Lady appeared three times to a twenty-eight year old Belgian immigrant, Adele Brise. As we saw in the messages of the other apparitions above, Our Lady especially wanted to get the message across that the conversion of poor sinners was paramount. Like any good mother, our Blessed Mother is very concerned for the eternal destination of each of her children, desperately wanting to see each and every one of us in heaven with our Lord and God, Jesus Christ. After Brise asked Our Lady who she was and what she desired, she answered in a very direct manner:

“I am the Queen of Heaven who prays for the conversion of sinners, and I wish you to do the same. You received Holy Communion this morning and that is good. But you must do more. Make a general confession and offer Communion for the conversion of sinners. If they do not convert and do penance, my Son will be obliged to punish them.”

What is particularly striking is how Our Lady tells Brise that she has to do more than she is already doing. She already went to daily Mass, but she must still do more. How true is this for every one of us as well! What other extra things can we do? Lent has been over for several weeks, but we can still make penitential acts each day, especially on Fridays, for the conversion of poor sinners. We also must show sorrow and contrition for our own sins, and should more frequently avail ourselves of the sacrament of confession.

Our Lady continued to tell Brise that a life of conversion is also helped by catechesis, requesting that she “gather the children in this wild country and teach them what they should know for salvation… Teach them their catechism, how to sign themselves with the sign of the Cross, and how to approach the sacraments… Go and fear nothing, I will help you.” The feast of Our Lady of Good Help is celebrated on October 9.

We can take solace in Our Lady’s words given here from across time and space. She will help us. But we must ask for that help first, as we clearly saw from the vision of St. Catherine Labouré. Our Lady wants nothing more than to lead us to her son. This is why she is such a powerful intercessor. Let’s reflect on these words of Our Lady, and see how we can incorporate the request she makes in our own lives. Most importantly, let’s continue to pray for the conversion of souls and the entire world.

Holy Mary, Mother of the Church, pray for us!

SOURCE: https://media.ascensionpress.com/2019/05/29/5-messages-from-marian-apparitions-and-their-meaning/?fbclid=IwAR3ke8GK-eLMA8wQ_lBKymk2zDQ1eGtfcwg8fWldhe7GSH4sTtxCM_kM0XI