Author Topic: Three Days of Darkness (Read 5764 times)

Matthew · « **Reply #1 on:** October 08, 2006, 08:42:07 PM »

It seems to contradict the prediction of Our Lady of Akita -- which way will 3/4 of the world's population be destroyed? By demons from hell, or by fire from the sky?

Our Lady of Akita says nothing about boarding up the windows, etc.

Fr. Doran (one of my old seminary professors) said the Three Days of Darkness would rank as "tolerated opinion" on the Theological Scale of Certainty (De Fide, De Fide Proxima, etc.) which is about the lowest ranking -- basically opinions that have nothing un-Catholic in them.

The way the prophecy says that scoffers, even doubters (which, in my opinion, is always a good thing when it comes to private revelation and prophecy -- the Church herself advises us to be that way!) will be lost. Sounds a bit fishy to me.

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Those who spread the message will be protected, but the scoffers, the skeptics, and those who dismiss the message because they are frightened, will not escape the chastisement.

I wouldn't reject anything just because I was afraid -- I think most readers of CathInfo.com would agree with that :)
But I want to be cautious about believing just anything, especially when it doesn't "fit" with other things much more certain.

God bless,

Matthew

CampeadorShin · « **Reply #2 on:** October 08, 2006, 08:56:16 PM »

Much thought must be put into these things, yes. But this article is a compilation of different prophesies from different saints.

We can't know for sure, but it couldn't hurt to watch for the following:

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THE WARNING AND THE MIRACLE

These will take place between the proximate and the immediate signs. Both will be supernatural occurrences, and the Miracle will closely follow the Warning. There will be a solar prodigy; a Cross will be visible in the sky all over the world. The Warning will be associated with the letter "A"; it will not fall on a Feast day of Our Lady, nor on the l8th of the month.

The Miracle will fall on the Feast day of a young martyr of the Eucharist; this will be on a Thursday evening, and it will coincide with an important Church event.

Since the Miracle is to be seen only in Northern Spain and in Rome, and since the Cross in the sky is to be seen everywhere, it seems that the latter occurrence will take place with the Warning, not with the Miracle. However, the Miracle may also have a Cross in the sky.

During the Warning, everyone will be made aware of his/her own sinfulness, and many will wish to die, but the Warning itself will be completely harmless.

Both the Warning and the Miracle must be viewed as the last act of mercy from God, a final appeal to mankind to do penance before the three days of darkness and the destruction of three-quarters of the human race. At a time when the murder of unborn babies and the sin of Sodom and Lesbos have become respectable and sometimes legal, we should not wonder why God is going to punish mankind.

By that time, war and revolution will have already caused a high deathtoll, and Communism will be victorious, but all this will be as nothing compared with the deathtoll caused by the Three Days.

Brian · « **Reply #3 on:** October 08, 2006, 09:05:19 PM »

If nothing will burn during this period, how does one light the blessed wax candles?

Kephapaulos · « **Reply #4 on:** October 08, 2006, 10:12:31 PM »

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It seems to contradict the prediction of Our Lady of Akita -- which way will 3/4 of the world's population be destroyed? By demons from hell, or by fire from the sky?

Our Lady of Akita says nothing about boarding up the windows, etc.

Fr. Doran (one of my old seminary professors) said the Three Days of Darkness would rank as "tolerated opinion" on the Theological Scale of Certainty (De Fide, De Fide Proxima, etc.) which is about the lowest ranking -- basically opinions that have nothing un-Catholic in them.

The way the prophecy says that scoffers, even doubters (which, in my opinion, is always a good thing when it comes to private revelation and prophecy -- the Church herself advises us to be that way!) will be lost. Sounds a bit fishy to me.

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Those who spread the message will be protected, but the scoffers, the skeptics, and those who dismiss the message because they are frightened, will not escape the chastisement.

I wouldn't reject anything just because I was afraid -- I think most readers of CathInfo.com would agree with that :)
But I want to be cautious about believing just anything, especially when it doesn't "fit" with other things much more certain.

God bless,

Matthew

I think any prophecy, whether true or false, might encourage a considering of it. (It would actually not be a prophecy though if it were found to be false.) Because a prophecy might give a claim of being true, that does not mean you have to believe de fide definita the claims such a prophecy gives. It depends though, and of course, if indeed an apparition ends up being declared worthy of belief, it would still not have to be believed de fide definita to be true. Did not Our Lady of Fatima encourage belief in the messages she gave though?

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