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I'm posting this because I doubt that many are aware of Akita or know of the message given there by Our Lady. Whether you believe or not that Mary, the Mother of God, has been appearing around the world since the death of her Son, it doesn't hurt to consider what the Church and the seers claim she has said. So much that has been prophesied has come true and so much is in the process of it.
Personally, I take these messages under advisement, for lack of a better phrase. I'm aware of them and what they say and I watch for the signs they mention. As I see the things that were prophesied happen I at least am not surprised by them. It gives me a chance to prepare, and brace myself.
"In 1984, just before retiring at a venerable age, the diocesan Bishop of Niigata, Bishop John Shojiro Ito, in consultation with the Holy See, wrote a pastoral letter in which he recognized as being authentically of the Mother of God, the extraordinary series of events that had taken place from 1973 to 1981 in a little lay convent within his diocese, at Akita, Japan. Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, in June 1988, approved the Akita events as "reliable and worthy of belief". In fact the Philippine ambassador to the Vatican, in 1998 spoke to Cardinal Ratzinger about Akita and the Cardinal: "personally confirmed to me that these two messages of Fatima and Akita are essentially the same". Hence in Akita we are dealing with a Church approved intervention of the Blessed Virgin Mary as sure in this respect as Lourdes, La Salette, or Fatima.
Only a few Catholics know of Our Lady of Akita but the message, like that of Fatima, is a specific warning of worldwide chastisement. The chastisement threatened is truly terrible – far worse than the possibility of annihilation of several nations prophesied at Fatima. Akita is absolutely consistent with prophecies of Scripture.
The first message received by Sister Agnes Katsuko Sasagawa on June 6, 1973, was a call for prayer and sacrifice for the glory of the Father and salvation of souls. The second message, August 3, 1973, was for prayer, penance and courageous sacrifices to soften the Father's anger.
The third message on October 13, 1973, the actual anniversary of the final visions and miracle of Fatima is as follows: "As I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one will never have seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead. The only arms which will remain for you will be the Rosary and the Sign left by my Son. Each day, recite the prayers of the Rosary. With the Rosary, pray for the Pope, the bishops and the priests. The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, and bishops against other bishops. The priests who venerate me will be scorned and opposed by their Confreres. The Church and altars will be vandalized. The Church will be full of those who accept compromises and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord.
"The demon will rage especially against souls consecrated to God. The thought of the loss of so many souls is the cause of my sadness. If sins increase in number and gravity, there will no longer be pardon for them."
In his pastoral letter approving the events of Akita as supernatural, the Bishop of Niigata said: "After the inquiries conducted up to the present day, one cannot deny the supernatural character of a series of unexplainable events relative to the statue of the Virgin honored at Akita (Diocese of Niigata). Consequently I authorize that all of the diocese entrusted to me venerate the Holy Mother of Akita."
Concerning the messages, His Excellency said: "As for the content of the messages received, it is no way contrary to Catholic doctrine or to good morals. When one thinks of the actual state of the world, the warning seems to correspond to it in many points." His Excellency explained that he had taken eight years to give this judgment because of the importance and the responsibility in question. "The Congregation of the Doctrine for the Faith has given me directives in this sense," the Bishop said, "that only the bishop of the diocese in question has the power to recognize an event of this kind."
Our Lady of the Rosary Library
OK, so now I'm getting so lazy I'm copying and pasting from the comments on my own blog. My friend Ioannes replied to my post of Glenn Becks "Pledge of Nonviolence" with the comments below. I'm putting this up because I've been thinking about this a lot over the last few weeks; the question of what the proper response to the coming violence should be.
Because there will be violence. We are dealing with evil now in our country and evil will have its way. We've seen the beat downs from SEIU here in St. Louis and elsewhere. These are just the beginning. The forces aligned with the administration have waited for this moment for years and they aren't going to let it slip from their hands.
I've been, for most of my life, of the mindset that force should be met with overwhelming force. If my family or I am threatened then I wouldn't wait to be hit first but would attack with as much power as I could muster to destroy the threat before it harms us. Just like a fist fight; they don't remember how you won, just that you did.
But this fight for the soul of our country and the fate of our people is different. It's not a fistfight, personal and dirty. We're not just trying to come out on top, to survive to fight another day. We are working for something much greater. We are trying to restore our country to the ideals established by our Founders. To do this we must act as our Founders acted; slow to anger and deliberate in our actions. We must make the case, not only to the people of America and the world of today, but to future generations, that we have done all we can to find a peaceful resolution to our circumstances. Because we will be judged by history for the decision we make.
If somehow, by the grace of God, we are able to restore our Republic to what it was intended to be we need future generations to know we fought with honor, that we worked for peace and if we take up our guns that we only took them up after all other options had been exhausted. We must fight on the side of God, looking to him and Him alone for guidance. We have to act humbly and prayerfully or we will be destroyed.
Anyway, you can read Ioannes' comment below and my response below that. I'd be real interested to get the input of others on this subject so please leave your comments.
(Follow up: Ioannes has posted a follow up on his site. Please hop over and read it.
Every American needs to, no, absolutely must begin to think about this issue. Much will be asked of us in the coming days. We have to know where we stand and be ready to take the action we deem appropriate. When the time comes for action there won't be time for thinking.)
"I pledge to always place the individual right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness first, and to never initiate force against another.
I cannot pledge never to use force. Hitler could never have been stopped by the type of resistance showed by Ghandi to the British, and the only thing that dissuaded the Soviets was the threat of the use of overwhelming nuclear force on the part of the United States if we were to be attacked.
Evil respects one and only one thing: overwhelming and unremitting force to engulf and conquer it. Pacifism does NOT work. It never has. And it never will. Our freedom will once again require the shedding of blood not by martyrs in the cause of pacifism, but by men willing to be soldiers in the defense of hearth and home. If attacked, then we have to fight NOT because we hate liberalism (though that may be true), BUT because we love our families, our churches and our freedom.
No, I won't sign Glenn Beck's pledge. I won't be a mere martyr. If I have to go to my death because I oppose the onslaught of tyranny, then once attacked (and "they" will attack, rest assured), let me go defending what is most precious and noble: my family (such as it is), my church and my freedom to worship God.
I do pledge however to NEVER EVER bend my knee to the Obamination of Desolation and his demonic legions of putrid liberalism and rancid wicked progressivism from very depths of satan's hell."
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"You go boy!
Look, I agree that the attack will come and in the end we will have to fight, if a nonviolent witness proves ineffective. However, I think the nonviolent witness must be tried first.
My reason is that when the attacks come they will use the media against us. They will try to paint us as the aggressors and themselves as the defenders of all that is good and holy.
If we respond to their violence with violence we will play into their hands. It will be all to easy for a skilled technician to cut and paste defensive fighting and turn it into aggression.
We must show the world that we are the sensible ones, the ones on the side of the angels. It is this peaceful approach that is causing Obama's forces trouble now.
They have tried to paint the Tea Party as a group of wild eyed revolutionaries bent on the destruction of the Republic. Boy have they tried. The full force of the government propaganda machine has been brought to bear, from Saturday Night Live to most of the major newspapers to MSNBC and CNN and even the snide and inane remarks made during sit coms.
And it's not working. Why? Because the Tea Parties haven't given them anything to work with. No arrests, no beatings, no rock throwing; nothing but peaceful assembly to ask the government for redress of our grievances.
This peaceful witness has been our best weapon and it will continue to be because the American people see it for what it is and they see the Progressives and their union thugs for what they are.
At some point the people may have to pick up their guns once again to defend our natural rights. If that time comes, and I pray it doesn't, there will be no turning back and no end until one side or the other emerges the clear victor.
Americans are a peaceful people and a peaceful approach must be our first response. We must try to remain peaceful, even in the face of violence, asking for the protection of God in our times of trouble. We must allow God the time to change hearts. If the time comes that we must take up arms, let God make the decision. By acting in peace we leave it in His hands. We will act as His instruments of justice, not our own."
Why not? Just one more thing to mark the end of an age. We're sure going out with a bang. Hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes , plagues and disease. War and rumors of war.
Haven't we heard this somewhere?
"A potentially deadly strain of fungus is spreading among animals and people in the northwestern United States and the Canadian province of British Columbia, researchers reported on Thursday.
The airborne fungus, called Cryptococcus gattii, usually only infects transplant and AIDS patients and people with otherwise compromised immune systems, but the new strain is genetically different, the researchers said.
"This novel fungus is worrisome because it appears to be a threat to otherwise healthy people," said Edmond Byrnes of Duke University in North Carolina, who led the study.
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Glenn Beck has this on his website. I'm posting it in hopes that many people will see it, read it and agree, then go and sign it. The pledge of non-violence comes from Martin Luther King and the freedom marches. All marchers were required to sign this pledge.
We're at a pivotal moment in history where good must stand up against evil. For good to triumph it cannot use evil means. Blood will be shed, of this I'm sure. But let it be the blood of martyrs, willing to die to themselves, pick up their crosses and follow the truth.
This is going to be really, really difficult, but I believe we are being called.
Pledge of Nonviolence
1. As you prepare to march meditate on the life and teachings of Jesus
2. Remember the nonviolent movement seeks justice and reconciliation - not victory.
3. Walk and talk in the manner of love; for God is love.
4. Pray daily to be used by God that all men and women might be free.
5. Sacrifice personal wishes that all might be free.
6. Observe with friend and foes the ordinary rules of courtesy.
7. Perform regular service for others and the world.
8. Refrain from violence of fist, tongue and heart.
9. Strive to be in good spiritual and bodily health.
10. Follow the directions of the movement leaders and of the captains on demonstrations.
The Five Principles of Nonviolence
1. Non-violent resistance is not a method for cowards. It does resist. The nonviolent resister is just as strongly opposed to the evil against which he protests, as is the person who uses violence. His method is passive or nonaggressive in the sense that he is not physically aggressive toward his opponent, but his mind and emotions are always active, constantly seeking to persuade the opponent that he is mistaken. This method is passive physically but strongly active spiritually; it is nonaggressive physically but dynamically aggressive spiritually.
2. Nonviolent resistance does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding. The nonviolent resister must often express his protest through noncooperation but he realizes that noncooperation is not the ends itself; it is merely means to awaken a sense of moral shame in the opponent.
3. The attack is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who are caught in those forces. It is a struggle between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.
4. Nonviolent resistance avoids not only external physical violence, but also internal violence of spirit. At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
5. Nonviolence is based on the conviction that the universe is on the side of justice. It is the deep faith in the future that allows a nonviolent resister to accept suffering without retaliation. The nonviolent resister knows that in his struggle for justice, he has a cosmic companionship.
Boy, I'm getting tired of this politically correct stupidity. We can't fly any Confederate flags anywhere because it represents, to some, the evils of slavery. My question is, why just these flags? And now, some can't even wear the uniform of the Confederate army. Why?
Because the South had slavery. That's true. Lest we forget, which apparently we have, during the entire history of the Confederate States of America, the North had slaves, too. Yet, the groups that scream and squirm anytime the "Stars and Bars" is flown or a gray uniform is worn say nothing about the flag of the United States or the Union blue, even though slavery ended in the Union at exactly the same time it ended in the Confederacy.
Julia Dent Grant, the wife of General Grant owned slaves and retained them all through the war, even bringing one of them with her to visit Grant in the South after the surrender was signed at Appomattox Court House. One could make the argument that the only slave still in the South after the war belonged to General Grant.
Of course, why would we expect college students to know that?
A college fraternity inspired by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee has banned members around the country from wearing Confederate uniforms to "Old South" parties and parades after years of complaints that the tradition was racially insensitive.
The Virginia-based Kappa Alpha Order issued new rules to chapters earlier this year saying members aren't allowed to wear Rebel uniforms to parties or during their parades, which are a staple on campuses across the South.
The decision, announced in an internal memo posted on the group's website, followed a flap last year at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where a black sorority complained after a KA parade stopped in front of its house on campus. KA members were dressed in the gray uniforms of Confederate officers, and young women wore hoop skirts.
More than 70 alumnae of the sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, sent a petition to Alabama President Robert Witt complaining about the use of Confederate flags and uniforms on campus.
In the memo to chapters, Kappa Alpha's national executive director, Larry Wiese, said such displays had to end.
Yahoo
"April 22, 2010
U.S. Food Inflation Spiraling Out of Control
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today released their Producer Price Index (PPI) report for March 2010 and the latest numbers are shocking. Food prices for the month rose by 2.4%, its sixth consecutive monthly increase and the largest jump in over 26 years. NIA believes that a major breakout in food inflation could be imminent, similar to what is currently being experienced in India.
Some of the startling food price increases on a year-over-year basis include, fresh and dry vegetables up 56.1%, fresh fruits and melons up 28.8%, eggs for fresh use up 33.6%, pork up 19.1%, beef and veal up 10.7% and dairy products up 9.7%. On October 30th, 2009, NIA predicted that inflation would appear next in food and agriculture, but we never anticipated that it would spiral so far out of control this quickly.
The PPI foreshadows price increases that will later occur in the retail sector. With U-6 unemployment rising last month to 16.9%, many retailers are currently reluctant to pass along rising prices to consumers, but they will soon be forced to do so if they want to avoid reporting huge losses to shareholders.
Food stamp usage in the U.S. has now increased for 14 consecutive months. There are now 39.4 million Americans on food stamps, up 22.4% from one year ago. The U.S. government is now paying out more to Americans in benefits than it collects in taxes. As food inflation continues to surge, our country will soon have no choice but to cut back on food stamps and other entitlement programs.
Most financial experts in the mainstream media are proclaiming that the recession is over and inflation is not a problem in the U.S. Unfortunately, they fail to realize that rising food and gasoline prices accounted for 58% of February's year-over-year 3.85% rise in retail sales. NIA believes price inflation is beginning to accelerate in many areas of the economy besides food and energy, and all increases in U.S. retail sales this year will be entirely due to inflation."
National Inflation Association
Please go to the Wall Street Journal and read this entire article. The author has clearly laid out the real problem in the economy today; there is no truth. Markets are manipulated by government, banks and businesses in collusion with each other. The free market has ceased to exist.
How can we know that the car we would like to buy or the house we want are fairly and truthfully priced? How can we know that there is a reasonable expectation of gain or loss when the prices are artificially established and the rules that govern the banks and economy as a whole are fluid and dependent on political whim, not economic truth? Why would you sign a contract if that contract can be changed by a bureaucrat working at the behest of his masters after the fact?
Every "fact" we read in see in the media is suspect, especially those economic numbers generated in Washington. Nothing is as it seems anymore. We must begin to detach ourselves from this system as much as possible. We must live and act in the truth or we will perish.
We've stepped away from truth and in so doing we have stepped away from God. We're living in the Devil's world now.
"An Economy of Liars
By GERALD P. O'DRISCOLL JR.
Free markets depend on truth telling. Prices must reflect the valuations of consumers; interest rates must be reliable guides to entrepreneurs allocating capital across time; and a firm's accounts must reflect the true value of the business. Rather than truth telling, we are becoming an economy of liars. The cause is straightforward: crony capitalism.
Thomas Carlyle, the 19th century Victorian essayist, unflatteringly described classical liberalism as "anarchy plus a constable." As a romanticist, Carlyle hated the system—but described it accurately.
Classical liberals, whose modern counterparts are libertarians and small-government conservatives, believed that the state's duties should be limited (1) to provide for the national defense; (2) to protect persons and property against force and fraud; and (3) to provide public goods that markets cannot. That conception of government and its duties was articulated by the Declaration of Independence and embodied in the U.S. Constitution.
...The idea that multiplying rules and statutes can protect consumers and investors is surely one of the great intellectual failures of the 20th century. Any static rule will be circumvented or manipulated to evade its application. Better than multiplying rules, financial accounting should be governed by the traditional principle that one has an affirmative duty to present the true condition fairly and accurately—not withstanding what any rule might otherwise allow. And financial institutions should have a duty of care to their customers. Lawyers tell me that would get us closer to the common law approach to fraud and bad dealing.
...In the U.S today, we are moving away from reliance on honest pricing. The federal government controls 90% of housing finance. Policies to encourage home ownership remain on the books, and more have been added. Fed policies of low interest rates result in capital being misallocated across time. Low interest rates particularly impact housing because a home is a pre-eminent long-lived asset whose value is enhanced by low interest rates.
Distorted prices and interest rates no longer serve as accurate indicators of the relative importance of goods. Crony capitalism ensures the special access of protected firms and industries to capital. Businesses that stumble in the process of doing what is politically favored are bailed out. That leads to moral hazard and more bailouts in the future. And those losing money may be enabled to hide it by accounting chicanery.
...Piling on more rules and statutes will not produce something different than it has in the past. Reliance on affirmative principles of truth-telling in accounting statements and a duty of care would be preferable. Deregulation is not some kind of libertarian mantra but an absolute necessity if we are to exit crony capitalism."
Wall Street journal
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