St. Bernadette, the visionary of Our Lady of Lourdes had a life full of suffering. Doubts and derisions about authenticity of her vision comes first from her own family, and then from her own community, and then from the Church investigators.
How often do you catch yourself engaged in self-talk?
What is the motive of your self-absorption?
The prophecy of Simeon; the flight into Egypt; the losing of the Holy Child at Jerusalem; the meeting with Jesus on His way to Calvary; standing at the foot of the Cross; our Lord being taken from the Cross; and the burial of Christ, ARE THE SEVEN SORROWS of the Blessed Mother, which figuratively represent the troubles that beset humanity.
St. Malachy was an Archbishop of Armagh, Northern Ireland, to whom were attributed several miracles and an alleged vision of 112 popes later attributed to the apocryphal Prophecy of the Popes.
Pope St. Pius V attributed the victory of the Christian forces at the Battle of Lepanto on October 7, 1571 to the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary. That victory inspired him to establish October 7 as the Feast day of Our Lady of Victory (later more popularly known as Our Lady of the Rosary).
Who is ready for the GREAT CHANGE?
It promises a New Heaven and a New Earth.
For it to unfold, the old earth and the old ways must come to pass.
THIS IS CATASTROPHIC FOR THOSE WHO ARE NOT READY.