4. my grandfather and his family having been born Catholics in Connacht, making me a descendant Galatian with a right to read Knock’s allegory
Can you explain "right to read.."?
(both my grandfather and grandmother and families were born Catholics in Connacht also)
5. Now while the Church has never officially interpreted the apparition at Knock
Why is this?
The answers lie in the mystery of Allegory, which by its very nature is open to speculation. In other words, others can interpret the vison as they see it. The essay explained:
'It is a fact that the only place where the word allegory is mentioned in Scripture is in St Paul’s Letter to the Galatians: ‘
things are said by an allegory’ (Gal. 4:24). We also know that it was the Galatians who were advised that if an angel from heaven [let alone Vatican II] should preach a different gospel to that which they had been taught, to reject it (Gal 1:8).'
As a direct descendant of a long Catholic family line that lived in Connacht I claim the right to offer our (my friend lives near Knock) interpretation. Your grandparents too PerEvangelicaDicta inherited this right from St Paul, as you yourself do. The fact that you can relate so much to it shows you too can share the gift to work out the true meaning of the apparition.
For me the most profound vindication of the meaning of Knock was the fact - as we found out- it happened on the very day that the statue of Our Lady of La Salette was crowned by the Archbishop of Paris.
On Sept. 19, 1846, the Mother of God appeared in a private apparition to two peasant children at La Salette in France. Our Lady did however give the children a message to tell the world some years later. She bewailed the weak faith and sinfulness of Catholics, especially the clergy, and foretold the consequences should such behaviour continue without repentance. Even though approved by three popes, Pius IX, Leo XIII and Pope St Pius X, the message was met with furious opposition from masonic or masonic controlled bishops. Among the most important messages were:
(1) ‘The Church will be in eclipse.’
(2) ‘Evil books will be abundant on earth and the spirit of darkness will spread everywhere a universal slackening in all that concerns the service of God.’
(3) ‘Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of the Antichrist.’
Why has the Church never interpreted the Knock vision? I suspect it is because some things only become clear in retrospect, hindsight. Similar to the Apocalypse, the Church has never given us a clear explanation of it and only as we see these things happening can we interpret what it probably meant. For example, as a 1950s Catholic I would never, in a 1,000,000 years, have believed what has happened in the Church since Vatican II. Up to the 1960s few in the Church knew what was going on in the greater picture. I recall being shocked that Our Lady would say such things about the Church of her Son. This led to the opinion La Salette HAD to be a false Marian message. Now that we traditionalists have seen what did happen at Vatican II and since, we can now see La Salette in its true light.
Our effortts to interpret what Knock surely meant in the light of events, we put together a history of the battle since La Salette. I can put it up for what it is worth. It is a long read if any are interested.
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