I have a huge collection 2500 of DVD movies and docuмentaries.  People give them away for free now since they take up room.  I throw the boxes away and keep the discs in alphabetical order.  I pay nothing for most of them.

In the event of an internet down or power down situation I will be renting them out to people along with a player and a solar panel for the evening.  Or start a cinema saloon in my house.

Also, devout, prayerful people have been noticing unusual spiritual premonitions in those prayer lives -- not "private revelation" stuff -- just signs in their personal lives that point more to the imminence of some kind of intervention, although the nature/timing of it is unclear, of course.  I experience this myself.  It seems like a call to preparation, more in the spiritual than in the worldly sphere.

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I'm a little curious what you're getting at here. Could you go into a little more detail?

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I mean that in our prayer and meditation we sense a need to "wrap-up" our spiritual lives, preparatory to judgment. This impulse is not coming from ourselves (such as anxiety or some artificial fear or self-induced expectation) but from divine urging or insight, unsolicited. In that respect, we are also being given gifts/graces to review our past, with a sense of gratitude for gifts, opportunities associated with our state in life.  We also feel a need to make reparation, given heightened awareness of deficiencies, offenses, etc. Again, without any artifice involved on our part. It's just happening naturally but with perceptions in common that something is much more imminent  -- our personal deaths, the Final Battle, something like divine intervention.

There is definitely a very different dimension to our prayer lives and the urgency of them than we normally have experienced as Catholics.

And even for those who haven't experienced a hint of something "impending," as one acquaintance told me recently, "When not involved in something related to work or other personal duties, I find myself spontaneously praying, attracted to prayer during most of my [non-occupied] time."  (Unlike before.)

That's interesting. As a convert, my own conversion was not necessarily gradual but happened quite quickly over the course of maybe less than a year (and my subsequent conversion to true Catholicism from the Novus Ordo took the past 3 years).

As for prayer, I'm a naturally anxious person, so I've always had a feeling of impending doom. Although, once becoming Catholic, that feeling has become more of a hope of my own death rather than a fear of a cataclysm. That being said, having a sense of our own impending deaths should always be at the forefront of our minds at all times, as Our Lord said He would come as a thief in the night at a time unexpected. So, as good Catholics, we should be prepared for a good death at all times, meaning keeping a solid prayer life and keeping our souls free from mortal sin.

I have a huge collection 2500 of DVD movies and docuмentaries.  People give them away for free now since they take up room.  I throw the boxes away and keep the discs in alphabetical order.  I pay nothing for most of them.

In the event of an internet down or power down situation I will be renting them out to people along with a player and a solar panel for the evening.  Or start a cinema saloon in my house.

Not sure if copyright laws (i.e., the right to rent out videos instead of using them for home entertainment) would apply, or would fall into desuetude, if there were a global physical chastisement that wipes out much of humanity. 

I'd say we need to be planning for life without much electricity, and go back to reading books instead during the hours of natural light.  We might go back to medieval cycles of people sleeping once night falls, and then getting up in the middle of the night, puttering around for a bit, and then going back to sleep until dawn.  Sometimes that's what I do right now, the middle-of-the-night puttering around, that is.  That's why some of my posts are time-stamped 3:30 am and the like.  Sometimes I even have a cup of coffee which, strangely, doesn't keep me up.

I have a library of over a thousand books, and a set of Britannicas from circa 1990.  Much knowledge never needs to be updated.

Not sure if copyright laws (i.e., the right to rent out videos instead of using them for home entertainment) would apply, or would fall into desuetude, if there were a global physical chastisement that wipes out much of humanity.  

Sadly, it seems as if you were NOT offering this as a joke.

As far as the chastisement leading into the Triumph of Our Lady's Immaculate Heart I believe it started long ago, like decades ago and is just continuing to get worse and will continue to get worse un till enough people are praying the rosary as Sister Lucy was told by Our Lady. When some of you say that the spiritual part has started with Vatican II but the physical hasn't started yet, Well I disagree with the second part of that statement.  Here in the US, true, we haven't experienced much of the physical part yet.  But if you look at other parts of the world, people fleeing with only the clothes on their back, watching their children and loved ones being decapitated and burned alive, sold into slavery, starving, freezing to death and so on, I would say the physical part has been here for a long time as well.  For those people , it really can't get worse and they can't hang on any longer.  When Our Lady came, she was speaking to the  world as a whole, not just the US or certain parts.  We are full blown into a chastisement both spiritual and physical now! As far as the period of peace PROMISED by Our Lady, the length of it I believe will be much longer the a decade or two.  If you look up Venerable Father Bartholomew Holzhauser, he has a pretty interesting take on the periods of the church and where we are now. He believes we are very close to the sixth church age, where we experience the great restoration of the church and the peace period promised by Our Lady.  He believes this peace period will last over 300 years, then comes the 7th and last period of the church and the anti christ. 

Obviously were not meant to know when this will all happen, but I do believe we are given signs to tell us that we are at least getting close and the signs are all over the place!!!!!! As most have said, try and keep your soul clean and pleasing to God and make reasonable physical preparations, God and Our Lady will take care of the rest. 

As far as the chastisement leading into the Triumph of Our Lady's Immaculate Heart I believe it started long ago, like decades ago and is just continuing to get worse and will continue to get worse un till enough people are praying the rosary as Sister Lucy was told by Our Lady. When some of you say that the spiritual part has started with Vatican II but the physical hasn't started yet, Well I disagree with the second part of that statement.  Here in the US, true, we haven't experienced much of the physical part yet.  But if you look at other parts of the world, people fleeing with only the clothes on their back, watching their children and loved ones being decapitated and burned alive, sold into slavery, starving, freezing to death and so on, I would say the physical part has been here for a long time as well.  For those people , it really can't get worse and they can't hang on any longer.  When Our Lady came, she was speaking to the  world as a whole, not just the US or certain parts.  We are full blown into a chastisement both spiritual and physical now! As far as the period of peace PROMISED by Our Lady, the length of it I believe will be much longer the a decade or two.  If you look up Venerable Father Bartholomew Holzhauser, he has a pretty interesting take on the periods of the church and where we are now. He believes we are very close to the sixth church age, where we experience the great restoration of the church and the peace period promised by Our Lady.  He believes this peace period will last over 300 years, then comes the 7th and last period of the church and the anti christ.

Obviously were not meant to know when this will all happen, but I do believe we are given signs to tell us that we are at least getting close and the signs are all over the place!!!!!! As most have said, try and keep your soul clean and pleasing to God and make reasonable physical preparations, God and Our Lady will take care of the rest.

Many other countries are being punished for sin but the physical is supposed to be global. I mean "various nations will be anhialated" type of chastisement. Though I feel the global physical isn't too far off, the conflict and tension of WW2 didn't begin in 1939. There were smaller country-to-country conflicts several years beforehand.