Did mystical experience change approach of Pope Francis?

[Michie]

Catholic World News - March 09, 2015

Did mystical experience change approach of Pope Francis? : News Headlines - Catholic Culture

Pope Francis had a mystical experience on the night after his election to the papacy, which has given him special confidence in his role, reports John Allen of Crux.

Allen quotes a Latin American cardinal, who reported a conversation in which the Pontiff said he received “a great sense of interior freedom and peace.” Allen suggests that this personal experience accounts for a dramatic transformation of the Pontiff's public persona.

What’s really miraculous about Pope Francis? (Crux)

 

[Tigger45]

Great thread Michie,

 

[Michie]

Glad you like it.

 

[eastcoast_bsc]

I read that on the Crux the other day. Fascinating.

 

[St_Barnabus]

Superb! It confirms the mystical experience I had the day he was elected. I was blessed with an interior joy that was not of this world, and it lasted for several hours. I knew instinctively and with certainty that his pontificate was going to be very specially anointed and blessed. Praise be to God, and may Pope Francis guide our Church to deep sanctity!

 

[St_Barnabus]

No surprise here. My diocesan Catholic paper today featured this article from Catholic News Service, saying:

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Two years after he was elected pope, Pope Francis' popularity rating among U.S. Catholics is at 90 percent, surpassing Pope Benedict XVI's best-ever popularity, and rivaling that of St. John Paul II.

 

[St_Barnabus]

As the second vote took place [during the papal conclave], he said he was praying the Rosary — “I usually pray three Rosaries daily” — and added that he felt “great peace, almost to the point of insentience.” He continued to feel such peace when “everything was resolved,” and this, for him, “was a sign that God wanted it.” From that day on, he continued, “I have not lost it. It is ‘something inside’; it is like a gift.”

Read more: Pope Francis on Being Pope: Inner Peace Fueled by the Rosary | Daily News | NCRegister.com

 

[katerinah1947]

As the second vote took place [during the papal conclave], he said he was praying the Rosary — “I usually pray three Rosaries daily” — and added that he felt “great peace, almost to the point of insentience.” He continued to feel such peace when “everything was resolved,” and this, for him, “was a sign that God wanted it.” From that day on, he continued, “I have not lost it. It is ‘something inside’; it is like a gift.”

Read more: Pope Francis on Being Pope: Inner Peace Fueled by the Rosary | Daily News | NCRegister.com

Hi,
Wow. This whole thread makes me weep the tears of heaven, but not sad tears, joy tears, tears of wondement, tears of God, shed by me, with wishes and hopes, that yes, He smiles upon you all again, for that makes my heart glad, me glad, me sad in remembering how much grief, I am all you go through, as we await the God of us, to make us, what we ought to be, One day, one day said He, but in allegory, one day said, He, we will be worthy of He.
When sin is no more, as He said. When death is no more, as He said, When all that is evil is locked away, what?, what will we have learned?, will we remember these days?, it is implied in remembering Jesus?, I hope not, I wish to remember noon..., I was going to say none, none of my days, but that would take away the goodness, He has proferred upon me, no, I cannot say anymore, that I wish all would end in my memories, maybe somehwo, it will all no lnonger haunt and tear the eyes of me, in reprehensible thoughts and deeds, that I yes I conceived, and some indeed, I did do, some of these, haunt me still, how can I live, an eternity, having these, follow me, the good, the good oh yes, those can stay, those I want, those I neeed, but the others plague, yes plague me, then one day, I was called, yes me, only I said, it cannot be so, it mustn't be so, there are others many others better than me, how could you, ask, ask me, before that day, the one I started to talk about, I was called to go over there, the place doesn't matter to me I say, it was that, I must obey, so I did, after first saying no, so I did, ever so slow, so I did resisting a lot, how can a thing like this be, how can a calling, be a mystery, it should be clear, come down here, talk to me like me, not talk to me, like you are, talk to me, like you are me, no, no, she did not do that, no, she called and called, I said no because the church said that, but she still beckoned me, no, at the time, I did not know it was her, I found out, when I asked in dread, should I have gone, should I have gone instead, yes she said, but in her own way, then I knew the source of my call, I went, stumblingly, I went in dread and almost refused, but now the other three helped her, give a gift, A GIFT, a gift to me, there that place, in Medjugorje, and that is one, like the Pope's, I wonder, I hope, I know now like me, he was changed gloriously, for him, the Pope, it is that, for me it was this, I saw, I fell, in love with Them, with Them, the Trinity, when they did depart, from my eyes only, I could not exist, I didn't want to, not without Them, then or now, but exist I did, and exist I am, not alone but seemingly, and this is part, of that mystery, how God can change one, INSTANTLY, ~yet before actually, because before the words are sthey are spoken, the deed the thought, happened to me, but this is one level removed, from the world, in which I once was, and now no longer, in God's own world, I return to the world of you~, and now back here, INSTANTLY, but before instantly, yes that is how, God does things, The Will and the act, all maybe are one, then the words come, but the act is done, yes that is how, the Pope was done, it was done, it was done, to the Pope, that he.
LOVE and love,
...Katherina., He, They and all the holy ones.
(Sorry, I did not know, my fingers would type, and I would show, the world of God this way, you see, but you don't, for even this is a thing waiting on God to say, what is true and what is nay.)
LOVE and love,
...Katherina., He, They and all the holy ones.

P.S. Before I could write, with all those errors above, one thing happened to maybe explain all in me, or at least it was the plan of she. One day, newly minted in God, I knew He was Real, I no longer believed, as one deos not have to believe, this computer exists, that I write to on, it is here. One day, I read and to my laziness then, that Mary said to pray the rosary. But, daily.
I did not want to do that, then. So I looked for a way to not do that. Never, have I found that. Never. So, like Jesus said to pray that back then I did, but in secret, just as Jesus said to do that. Slowly all things changed. Before even doing that, and I thought surely is was a Protestant idea, in secret, in writing, I gave my free will up to God, forever, if He would take it. There was never an expectation, that He would do that.
Yet, one day and then another, I find that He indeed on that day did take me up on this, and then in another day confirmed that in me.
The point of this if I were you, is to trust and let God do all He does, but on earth here, do what He asks, in secret, never for others to see, unless, it is destiny, that you all be coaxed, to do God, like me or someone else.
Remember it is to Faustina, that He asked her, but I think you and I, to give up our free will to Him. It was to Faustina this was said so clearly.
To follow what Mary says, as though God said it, I don't know where that is found, but it feel reight to me. All I have ever done, is what I am told, and testing my faith, is something we are all told, and I have done that. I have. We all do. That is why we don't agree with everything that is said to us, because historically some of it has been wrong.
Yet, Jeus is real, The Eucharist is real, the most important things in Catholicism are Real. Yet, doing science is commanded in Genesis by God, in His blessing to us, to subdue the earth. Following Civilian laws also made by God, is commanded to us in Romans 13 1-5, and those laws of God, in our hearts, are also to be followed, and God is Real, and the Bible is Real. All of these things we are supposed to use, simultaniously never, thowing anything out ever, but finding out how they can all be true. It is then, we are better doing what God says.
LOVE and love,
...Katherina., He, They and all the holy ones.

 

[StupidMike]

I have a mystical experience here in US everyday.

Just today I went to big Christian church and they had '666' all over the big screen, lol.

the carpet at the church is all a bunch of 666 designs, it's so obvious but you just know they would all deny it because they're all hypnotized by mass media witchcraft.

One hour of preaching a week does not make much of a dent in the 24/7 immersion in super powerful, techno-enhanced witchcraft by million year old Demons.

 

[paul becke]

I suspect Francis' prophetic vision is the product of his love of truth, and might have been acquired from the Holy Spirit incrementally, as with most of us.

At first, I thought this experience might have been a more intensive one-off gift of that charism, but in view of his own words, it sounds more like a comforting and uplifting confirmation of the prophetic gift he already possesses - although he made no reference to prophecy.