Author Topic: The end is near...? (Read 1440 times)

Hobbledehoy · « **on:** October 14, 2012, 11:28:48 PM »

In his commentary upon the Epistle and Gospel lessons (Eph. cap. v., 15-21; S. Joann. cap. iv., 46-53) for the Mass of the 20th Sunday after Pentecost, found in The Liturgical Year: Time after Pentecost - Book II (trans. Dom Laurence Shepherd; Westminster, MD: The Newman Press, 1949), Dom Prosper Guéranger depicts the latter days wherein Holy Church shall be attacked and what manner are her children to comport themselves during the last throes of this world's agony.

It is truly an terrifyingly similar depiction of the times we face today.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #1 on:** October 14, 2012, 11:35:26 PM »

Dom Prosper Guéranger gives another harrowing glimpse of our times in these pages taken from the tome Explanation of the Prayers and Ceremonies of Holy Mass: Taken from Notes Made at the Conferences of Dom Prosper Guéranger, Abbot of Solesmes (trans. Dom Laurence Shepherd; London: Burns & Oates, 1885).

brotherfrancis75 · « **Reply #2 on:** October 15, 2012, 01:08:00 AM »

Wise Mr. Hobbles,

Many of our Catholic ancestors foresaw that our Dark Age would arrive. The Outer Darkness around us is much worse than terrifying: It is hopeless! Ours is an Age of Warriors.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #3 on:** October 15, 2012, 09:21:03 PM »

Quote from: brotherfrancis75

Many of our Catholic ancestors foresaw that our Dark Age would arrive. The Outer Darkness around us is much worse than terrifying: It is hopeless! Ours is an Age of Warriors.

It is hopeless for those who have given themselves over to anti-Christ and their own concupiscences and pride, but it is hopeful for those who abandon themselves unto the maternal patronage and divinely-ordained supremacy of Mary Most Holy, so that they may all the more know, love and serve God: particularly by the devout recitation of the Most Holy Rosary, and the cultivation of the interior life that becomes such sacred Mysteries as are proposed for our meditation by this holy practice.

St. Louis-Marie wrote also about these days, and specifically about how Our Lady would triumph over the enemies of her Divine Son.

Your spiritual father, St. Francis, knew this well, as did his beloved friend, St. Dominic: these two souls essentially restored Christendom and renewed the spirit of Apostolic zeal and charity amongst the Pastors of Holy Mother Church. They did that through the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #4 on:** November 24, 2012, 11:06:34 PM »

From the work of the great scholar Rev. Father Cornelius J. Ryan, The Gospels of the Sundays and Festivals with an Introduction, Parallel Passages, Notes and Moral Reflections (Vol. II; Dublin: Browne and Nolan, Ltd., 1921), here is a commentary upon the Gospel lesson for the Mass of the last Sunday after Pentecost.

Emerentiana · « **Reply #5 on:** November 25, 2012, 11:05:02 AM »

Thanks, Hobbs for these profound reflections.

When the terrible days come, and Christians will be martyered, do you think they will be martyred in groups, or stand up and say Im from the SSPX, or the CMRI or the SSPV? I hardly think so! In the end, those of us who perservere will be few in number, and will ALL be Catholics.
The divisions we have now make the devil very happy, as divide and conquer is his motto.
He will get as many of the remaining traditionals as he can. When the deception is complete, he will then proceed to inspire his minions to martyr the remainder. His goal is the complete extermination of Christianity.

This thought from the writings you posted inspires me:

"The simplicity of the just shall guide them, and far more safely than any human ingenuity can do : humility will give them wisdom, and keeping themselves closely united to this noble companion, they will be made truly wise by her , and will know what is acceptable to God (pp 427-428)

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #6 on:** December 02, 2012, 10:51:18 PM »

From the work of the great scholar Rev. Father Cornelius J. Ryan, The Gospels of the Sundays and Festivals with an Introduction, Parallel Passages, Notes and Moral Reflections (Vol. I; Dublin: Browne and Nolan, Ltd., 1914), here is a commentary upon the Gospel lesson for the Mass of the first Sunday of Advent.