I am not going to report you because I think of you as a friend
I know you deeply love the Church and our Lord Jesus Christ, but I feel like this post is a bit off topic
this thread is about Our Lady of Fatima, the message she gave us, the humble little children she appeared too
it is about how our Lady helps us grow close to Jesus
it is not about the election of this Pope or that Pope.....
please do not feel the need to edit your post, maybe LivingWordUnity will enjoy what you posted or maybe other people will be edified by it
you always post such interesting stuff
but please try to stay more on topic
not for my sake
but out of respect for Our Lady of Fatima and the message She brought to us
I dunno know. It was 11 years ago. I wish I could remember the story this old lady told me. She printed out, I want to say the Spirit Daily web site. But at the end, it's all speculation. The thing about me is this crazy memory I have. I can remember stuff most ppl forget and this was said before any of this happened. There was some crazy story about Franciscans and demons and somebody screaming she made me do it... I don't know. I can't remember. Maybe there is an archive that can be looked up. This poor lady. She was my moms best friend since childhood and she's very faithful and she's godmother to my sister and to my youngest child. She would tell me all kind of mystical stuff. She was a big believer in Medj. which always makes me raise a brow. Granted, this woman also told me demons were coming through the x box.
well this is what I'd like to know, since there is no precedent to popes resigning, where does it say one even can? Look, I do not put any stock in craziness, I really don't and I know as a little sheep this is not on me, gates of hell will not prevail and all I have to do is live my life and try to be holy and be ready when Jesus comes but one can not help but think something is just odd just by reading the times in which we live. We had JPll and he was called liberal himself and then Benedict's elected. He supposed to transition us and get us more to the right and bring some stuff back, and he up and quits? Can't help but recall his homely at Jpll's funeral. Smaller Church, purer Church. Then we get Francis? It seems to me one of those, Benedict or Francis wasn't supposed to be pope. And Benedict really didn't want to be pope. I do not know what to make of it so I don't think about it but I will go on record saying this, since the second they announced Francis as pope I had a weird feeling and I had no idea who he was. Then when I saw him in the media my first impression of him was, and this is the truth, I felt he's trying to steal JPll's image. Like he's trying to be a JPll knock off, to have his popularity and the ppl's love. These are just my feelings, my gut and I do not put any stock in it, I could be just nuts. I'm just sitting back and letting it play out, not really forming opinions, at least I am trying not to but expressing my inner gut feelings. I'm trying to be neutral and give him the benefit of the doubt but my gut says this is all so odd. I try to put it in context also. And look, this is then I thought this and since then I come to find out others feels the same and he's really is bringing a sword. For all those that think he's so wonderful and great, he is bringing a sword, dividing and putting ppl's faith in a crisis. So do we look at the fruit or what? A pope should bring peace and not confusion. So I don't know, I do not know. I. just. don't. know. And let me say this to all. This has nothing to do with not submitting. PPl who didn't submit before, they're not submitting now... the pope has switch gears is all, leaving them to not have to submit. He has not address any of their dissent. he has just drooped the subject like a hot potato. The pope has normalized for lack of a much better word, the cafetieres. Is that really mercy? It would be if I saw the repentance but instead we have chaos in this world. I do not see the repentance of St. Faustia's revelations. I see normalizing sin and calling it mercy while still calling it sin. Now, i do not like to express my inner most feelings on the matter that even I realize I could just be being deceived myself, I might just be crazy. I am very open to being wrong, being proven wrong and I do not like expressing this because i do not like putting doubts on anyone else. I do not want to plant anything in anyone's head. So please, pay me no mind. But when i see many other folks whom I have known for a long time feel the same, Hmm is all i can say. Hmm. I'm just sitting back and taking it all in. I'll never leave the Church because I know this is all just a moment in time in the Church and what ever it turns out to be God will handle it all so I am not worried. If any of us in and out of the CC is on Jesus' right, we have nothing to fear.
It's odd is all I am saying. Not the conspiracies, leaving them all out, but to step back and look at the chain of events since 2005. It's almost as if Benedict needed to be in there to get some things done because of this. I dunno, it's just weird to me. All of this is weird.
lol. I won't rule it out. Look, here is the deal. We either believe there is a spiritual battle or not. Why would any of us think that the enemy is going to play fair with us and not attack us in the worse kind of way? Why would anyone think the enemy would not try to stop electing a pope?
Okay. Look. This ^ I really didn't know. And this is what I mean where I'll feel some sort of way and then I find out my feelings aren't that crazy at all. I found it beyond strange that he resigned. Popes don't resign.
In the book Light of the World (published in 2010), he was asked by an interviewer, "Have you considered resigning?" That seems to indicate that there was a lot of pressure on him to resign. Why else would the interviewer ask him that question? And if he felt pressured to resign then it would mean that he resigned under duress.
