MY OBSERVATION ON RECENT PRIVATE REVELATIONS
QUESTION? / COMMENT!
I have been watching some podcasts such as "O CRUX AVE media with Xavier Ayral and Monique T" and even from "U.S. Grace Force" with Father Richard Heilman and Doug Barry that talk about "The Warning" with Christine Watkins. I know Father Richard Heilman and Doug Barry are pretty solid when it comes to the Catholic faith and trust everything they say. I don't know much about Christine, Xavier, or Monique but they seem pretty solid in the faith as well and good intentioned. What is your opinion on "The Warning" and some refuges that are apparently being built to protect the faithful after the warning (illumination of conscience)? I'm having a hard time believing that this is all true. I'm use to seeing messages from Our Lady being more general and less detailed and still coming true like messages from Our Lady of Fatima, Our Lady of Kibeho, and Our Lady of Akita. These messages from Father Rodrigue and other people supposedly receiving them from heaven around the world, to me seem too detailed/specific. They even say what will happen during World War 3 and the spread of disease and cures to be made with the hawthorn leaves with instructions from Our Lady on details such as boiling times, etc... They detail major events that are supposed to happen in France and Rome in great detail, even nuclear attack targets. Have you heard of these? What is your opinion on these messages, specifically "The Warning" or illumination of conscience? Is there any approved apparition that mentions any of this?
ANSWER! / COMMENT!
The illumination of conscience is not a doctrine of the Church and it also has created a lot of confusion among Catholics. It is referred to in the (as of now) non-approved messages of Garabandal, Spain in the 1960’s, but I have not been able to find support for it elsewhere in the revealed Tradition of the Church, the patristics or even in the mystical writers like St. Teresa of Avila or St. John of the Cross. The general counsel of the Church on private revelation is to be “open but cautious.” Since this apparition has been approved and then unapproved by various local bishops, it is prudent to watch and wait. Most importantly, stay in a state of grace and know that in troubled times the most important thing is to live fully the faith and moral teachings of the Church. Frequent confession, renewed prayer life, and withdrawal from the world so as to grow closer to God. Time will tell if this prediction is true or false, so the best advice is to live your faith and be at peace.
St John of the Cross in the prologue of the Spiritual Canticle recognizes the primacy of Sacred Scripture over personal experience or that of other spiritual masters…(The Devil’s Role by Fr Ermatinger, p.8). These phenomena are often of demonic origin…the more exterior of the experience, the less certain it is to be of divine origin…Both a good and a bad angel by their own natural power can move the human imagination. The corporeal nature obeys the angel as regards to local movement, so that whatever can be caused by the local movement of bodies is subject to the natural power of the angels. Therefore, even outside the domain of possession or obsession, the devil may trouble or excite the imagination (ibid p60).
There has been one prediction of the 'Illumination of conscience' that did not occur. Dr Miravelle wrote about it below:
Unfulfilled dated prediction of the “Warning” to have happened within “a few months” after May 31, 2011.
The message of May 31, 2011 calls people to prepare for the “Warning” (a God-granted “illumination of conscience,” the prediction of which is found in other non approved Marian messages) which would take place “within a few months” from the May 31, 2011 date: “Prepare now for this event [the Warning] for you have only a few months left to prepare your souls” (May 31, 2011). The predicted event did not take place within a few months, or even a year or ever after the May 31, 2011 prediction - http://blog.newadvent.org/2013/03/a-closer-look-at-false-prophecies-of.html
False Prophet Father Michel Rodrigue - https://youtu.be/DeuEsT6x7Wo
I'm also done with that Mother and Refuge website because they keep trying to push him and his prophecies. I'm finding out a lot of these people just follow these alleged private revelations based on emotionalism and sensationalism. There are MANY good Catholics that have exposed his false prophecies on youtube. Fr Michel has misrepresented himself about being an exorcist (stolen valor). His Bishop said he’s NOT an exorcist and he does not stand by his prophecies which have been proven false.https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-americas/2020/09/two-canadian-bishops-disavow-priests-prophecies
Here is an article esposing Fr Michel Rodrigue and Christine Watkins - two supposed seers of our time. I did glean new information as to why these charismatics have NO credibility as seers of end time events. Jimmy Akin from Catholic Answers exposes the problems with 'Countdown to the Kingdom.'
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/what-is-countdown-to-th...
Sacred Scripture on false Prophets:
Deuteronomy 18:20 “But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, is to be put to death.”
Ezekiel 13:9 “My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations. They will not belong to the council of my people or be listed in the records of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD.”
Jeremiah 23:16 “This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Do not listen to what the prophets are prophesying to you; they fill you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.”
I have no doubt that when Our Lord comes back and "the sign of the cross will be seen in the sky" (Faustina Diary paragraph 83). Some of those that are alive will have a moment to examine their conscience, they will have contrition, compunction and will have an 'interior conversion' in their heart.