BELIEVE OR NOT TO BELIEVE THE THREE DAYS OF DARKNESS....THAT IS THE QUESTION?

QUESTION?

I’m listening to Jesse talk about the three days of darkness. Can you please tell me what you have found out to be the truth about the three days of darkness regarding what will happen and what we shall do? Are we supposed to have blessed candles? Are we supposed to tape up and cover our windows and not look outside? Etc.

ANSWER!

The 3 days of darkness is private revelation by persons in the process of canonization so you don't have to believe it. Having said that, I personally believe it, It makes sense to me because God has already punished people in the Old Testament with three days of darkness.

"But the Lord said to Moses: Extend your hand toward heaven. And may there be darkness upon the land of Egypt, so dense that it may be felt. And Moses extended his hand toward heaven. And a horrible darkness occurred in all the land of Egypt for three days. No one saw his brother, nor moved himself from the place where he was. But wherever the sons of Israel lived, there was light" (Exodus 10:21-23). Notice, he punished the non believers with 3 days of darkness and protected the believers.

From the New Testament, we also learn that a cloak of darkness enveloped the world (for 3 hours) when Our Lord died on Calvary as was recorded by the Evangelists:

Then from the sixth hour, there was darkness over the entire earth, until the ninth hour. (Mt 27:45).

And when the sixth hour came, there was darkness throughout all the earth, until the ninth hour. (Mk 15:33).

But it was almost the sixth hour, and there was darkness in the entire earth, until the ninth hour. (Lk 23:44).

Also, remember, Our Lord spent 3 days of darkness in the tomb of Joseph of Arimethea. There is a theological principle at play here; whatever happened to the person of Christ while on earth, will also happen to the mystical body of Christ (His Church).  This is confirmed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church paragraph 675-677.