Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton And Mysticism?

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Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton And Mysticism?

By Bob Lord  |   Co-Author: Penny Lord  |   Submitted On January 02, 2011

We haven't spoken in this account of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton about any visions, locutions or mysticism. Quite honestly, that's because we haven't come across anything of that nature. And Mother Seton had always been a very down-to-earth, practical woman. However, the time was to come when the Lord would decide when the community would be built, where it would be built, and how it would be financed. And that information had to be projected to Mother Seton.
This question had been rolling around for some time in Elizabeth's mind. She even wrote to Antonio Filicchi in Italy, in an attempt borrow money for the building of the convent, but although her letter reached him, his reply never reached her. She took this as rejection at first, until a year later when his letter arrived, long after the fact. But it is obvious that she was throwing out feelers. Whoever the Lord wanted to be involved, would respond in a positive way. That was Elizabeth's thinking. However, the Lord unfolded another plan, His plan.
One day, Elizabeth ran into the office of Fr. Dubourg to tell him what the Lord had clearly said to her during Communion at Mass that day. "Go and address yourself to Mr. Cooper; he will give you what is necessary to commence the establishment." Now, this could be considered by some as being out of left field. Mr. Samuel Cooper was a well-to-do young man from Philadelphia who had converted to Catholicism, and was discerning if the priesthood was where the Lord wanted him. He met Elizabeth when Fr. Hurley brought him to Baltimore for the consecration of St. Mary's Chapel. They had become close friends for a while, because they had so much in common. They went their separate ways in their search for God's Will in their lives, but remained friends and were in communication with each other from time to time. They had not seen each other for a while, and so the suggestion had to come from the Lord; it didn't come from Elizabeth.
Fr. Dubourg agreed that this might be the Word of the Lord, but didn't want Elizabeth to pursue it any farther until the Lord had an opportunity to speak to Mr. Cooper's heart. By the Lord's coincidence, Mr. Cooper dropped in on Fr. Dubourg that same evening, asking what was happening with the convent for the ladies who wanted to embrace the religious life. Without mentioning anything about Elizabeth Seton to Mr. Cooper, he shared that there were many who wanted to proceed with this project, but they couldn't for lack of money. Mr. Cooper said to him quite calmly, "I have ten thousand dollars which I can give you for this purpose."
Fr. Dubourg, who believed in Divine Intervention as well as the next man, was knocked from his seat. He asked, in an effort at calmness, "Have you been speaking to Elizabeth Ann Seton?" Mr. Cooper said he had not, but then asked if she would be considered as heading up the project. When Fr. Dubourg confirmed that, Mr. Cooper seemed very happy with the idea. Fr. Dubourg held him off for two months, in the event he wanted to change his mind. To the contrary, he was chomping at the bit to begin. He immediately became involved with the project of building a convent for the Sisters. He even prophesied where it would be located. When he brought the money to Fr. Dubourg, he said, "Sir, this establishment will be made at Emmitsburg, a village eighteen leagues from Baltimore; and then it will extend throughout the United States."
At the mention of Emmitsburg, the priest was taken aback. He did not really approve of the idea of being out of Baltimore. Neither did Elizabeth Seton; neither did the archbishop. Of all the people involved, only Mr. Cooper saw the vision of Emmitsburg, and while he vowed he would not exert any influence in choosing the location, Emmitsburg was the final choice.
Elizabeth wrote to Filippo Filicchi, apprising him what had happened, and now, rather than asking him for money to build the project, she invited him to be involved in any way he could with Fr. Dubourg and Mr. Cooper. In this letter to Filippo, she made an unusual revelation. The final proof for them that this was being done directly by the Lord was given to Elizabeth by Fr. Matignon, from Boston, who had befriended Elizabeth some years before. Elizabeth confided to Filippo Filicchi the following in a letter: "Fr. Matignon had suggested Cooper's plan to Elizabeth long before Cooper himself had ever thought of it. It is no wonder that everyone concerned in the matter was profoundly convinced that the hand of God was writing on the wall."

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If You Want To Be Spared, Learn About The 3 Days Of Darkness - The Coming Chastisement From God

Many people of different faiths are either asking or stating that we are in the last days. If you take a look at all the various events that are going on in the world, you will come to the conclusion that yes we are in the end times. Now one of the issues is that various denominations do not believe that the various events will happen in the same time frame. This becomes a problem, because not everyone can be right.
 So ask yourself, who is right and who is wrong ? How can you make the correct conclusion ? Well the first thing to determine is what church is the only Church started by God. If you study religion through history, you will come to the realization that the only church started by God is the Holy Catholic Church.
 Okay now back to the 3 Days Of Darkness. This is a time when God will loose Satan and he and his demons will roam the earth looking to kill as many as possible. According all of the mystics and seers, you will need to be inside your home with all the windows closed, locked and the curtains closed. Do Not go outside or you will surly die. Stay inside with a 100% Beeswax Candle burning. This is the only thing that will function and give some light. Open your Bible and read scripture and pray.
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Has The Coronavirus Pandemic Of 2020 Changed You In Any Way ?

 First of all I would like to say Happy Easter to everyone. Okay my question is to everyone, has the coronavirus pandemic changed you in the way that you think about things and what you do. As I scan around the internet I am noticing that many people are saying how they have changed in various ways. pretty much most of them are in a positive way. They are focusing on what is important in life. Mainly your family and friends.
 So is the coronavirus a chastisement from God or is it merely God saying Wake Up Before It's Too Late. You see he has basically stopped everyone from doing all the things that seem important. These are generally the material things that we do on a every day basis. He has in a way forced us to spend the time with our Husband, Wife and Children. From what am seeing, this is having a profound effect on all of us.
 Now when this comes to an end, will we just go right back to our old ways ? I have a feeling that some will go back to their hanging out at bars and all the other things that we were doing. Not all of us will do that as this has been a real wake up call. It will take a long time before we feel safe going into a store or just going to the doctors office or even work. You just do not know who is sick or what they have.
 I know for myself I have spent more time thinking about my family and friends. I have spent more time praying and talking with God. I have thought more about my sinful life and have been praying for forgiveness for God. I watch Mass on youtube and have a definite feeling that I miss it and long to be there receiving the Holy Eucharist. My hope is that many people will convert to the Catholic Church.
 Thank You And God Bless All !!!

Uplifting news: To Fight Coronavirus, Catholic Priest With Connections Donates 10,000 N95 Masks

Amidst this coronavirus emergency, individuals are doing out of the blue kind things for other people, in any event, for complete outsiders. On the off chance that you've been aided, or you have seen others making a special effort to help, let us know. Send your accounts to vmorgan@courierjournal.Com, and put Good News in the subject field.

Here is the present positive story in a pandemic:

The Rev. Jim Sichko has associations. Also, he's utilizing them to enable the province to battle the coronavirus.

Chosen by Pope Francis as an ecclesiastical evangelist of leniency, Sichko has ventured to the far corners of the planet meeting and helping individuals. So when Gov. Andy Beshear requested that Kentuckians cooperate to fight the coronavirus, Sichko got caught up with hoping to make sure about truly necessary N95 veils for human services laborers.

His associations came through.

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Sichko is giving 10,000 N95 veils to the Kentucky Department for Public Health, which will disseminate them varying.

Through the liberality of Kentucky organizations, for example, Fayette Heating and Air, Longship and Jeff Ruby's and people like Joe Minor and William Sichko, the veils are being delivered speedily.

The Rev. Jim Sichko is giving 10,000 N95 covers to the Kentucky Department of Public Health.

The Rev. Jim Sichko is giving 10,000 N95 covers to the Kentucky Department of Public Health. (Photograph: Jim Sichko)

In excess of 600 covers showed up Wednesday, and another 7,000 ought to show up Thursday, Sichko said. The others are in transit.

"I'm truly attempting to assist whoever wishes or needs assistance," he said.

Kelly Alexander, head of staff for the Department for Public Health, said the state has been overpowered since the senator's source of inspiration for all Kentuckians to give individual defensive gear.

"It's incredible seeing the overflowing of help for Team Kentucky."

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This Is My Journey Of Faith Back To The Catholic Church

I was brought up Catholic and was married in the Pentecostal Church. My wife and I eventually left that church due to reasons of judging everyone and every thing. Basically the Holy Spirit spoke to me and I listened. I did not go back to the Catholic Church at that time. I never put down the Catholic Church, it was just getting older and wandering. We ended up in the Lutheran Church for quite a few years and one day The Holy Spirit spoke to me again and it had to do with what the Pastor said about communion being a symbol. Well I decided it was time to leave. I decided to search through history to determine what the true Church was. I kept ending up back at the Catholic Church. One night I happened to watch EWTN and Scott Hahn was the guest speaking about the Holy Eucharist and the Early Church Fathers. I started reading and Realized the The Catholic Church was the only true Church started by God. All others were started by men. I spoke to the priest and came back to the Catholic Church. My wife prayed about it and decided to become Catholic and my 3 children became Catholic. I went through the RCIA as my wife's sponsor and learned a lot in the process. So my advise is to speak to a Priest. Thank You and God Bless. I will never wander away again. Amen

 

Top Genius life Pioneer: Coronavirus Pandemic Is 'rebuke' For Transgression Of Fetus removal

LONDON, Britain, 3/24/2020 (LifeSiteNews) – John Smeaton, CEO of the General public for the Security of Unborn Youngsters, the first and biggest star life association in the Assembled Realm, has called the coronavirus pandemic a "rebuke" for fetus removal and different sins.

"Boris Johnson's legislature doesn't understand that the coronavirus is a rebuke for, in addition to other things, the slaughtering of honest youngsters in the belly," he composed on Facebook Walk 23.

His remarks were made after the administration had declared that due to the coronavirus flare-up, ladies would no longer need to go to an emergency clinic or to have a clinical premature birth. A representative of the UK's Division of Wellbeing and Social Consideration has since strolled back the declaration and stated, "This was distributed in blunder. There will be no progressions to fetus removal guidelines."

Regardless, LifeSiteNews caught up with Smeaton to appropriately comprehend his comments.

While "it's a prudential judgment whether a specific awful fiasco is a rebuke," the expert life pioneer said that there are various viewpoints that make an association between the present pandemic and its portrayal as a reprimand conceivable.

In particular, he referenced "the hardship from Catholics worldwide of the Heavenly Eucharist," which he said was "uncommon." He proceeded with that "it helps us horrendously to remember the disgraceful maltreatment of the Body and Blood of Our Ruler which is generally seen at Masses all through the world, specifically at Novus Ordo Masses where Fellowship in the hand has prompted endless blasphemies occurring."

Smeaton clarified how premature birth has murdered "between one to two billion" individuals on the planet over the most recent 50 years. "That is a greater number of individuals executed than all the individuals murdered in all the wars in the entire of recorded mankind's history."

Premature births influence not just the little child, whose life is removed. "All of these youngsters was executed in the core of an individual family so every fetus removal has the chance of obscuring the still, small voices of a lot more than one individual," Smeaton stated, portraying the outcomes.

Another point referenced was the advancement of the LGBT motivation in schools, "not least by singular Catholic diocesans and by, for instance, the whole Meeting of Catholic Religious administrators of Britain and Ribs." Smeaton called this "a wrongdoing that is far more atrocious than premature birth and may well incite God's indignation in an awful reprimand."

"Incalculable church authorities, even at the most significant level of the Congregation, are empowering sins (not just, I should state, as the LGBT motivation) against which Our Woman of Fatima especially cautioned Jacinta, during dreams got by her between December 1919 and February 1920, essentially precisely 100 years prior: 'More spirits get lost for the transgressions of the substance than for some other explanation.'"

In his discussion with LifeSiteNews, Smeaton more than once alluded to the specters of Our Woman at Fatima, Portugal. In 1917, she had told the three kids that if individuals didn't quit insulting God, he would rebuff the world "by methods for war, yearning and mistreatment of the Congregation and of the Heavenly Dad."

"Our Woman's message was not given to the 'learned and the shrewd,'" the English professional life pioneer accentuated. Since it was given to three little youngsters, "it's along these lines impeccably authentic for basic laymen such as myself to make such an association" between the coronavirus episode and the idea of a rebuke, "if there are sensible justification for doing as such."

Undoubtedly, Smeaton highlighted comments made by Italian history specialist Roberto de Mattei.

He watched matches between the 21st century and the fourteenth century, which was assaulted by starvation, torment, and war all over Europe. As LifeSiteNews announced, numerous extraordinary holy people instructed that these were "indications of God's reprimand."

"Holy person Bernardine of Siena (1380-1444) counseled: Tria sunt flagella quibus Dominus castigat: there are three scourges with which God chastens: war, plague, and starvation," de Mattei said.

"Holy person Bernardine has a place with various holy people like Catherine of Siena, Bridget of Sweden, Vincent Ferrer, Louis Marie Grignon de Montfort, who cautioned how from the beginning of time catastrophic events have constantly went with the acts of unfaithfulness and abandonment of countries."

Smeaton made a point to clarify that "the entire of humanity is rebuffed by transgression – by both unique sin and by singular sins." As Christ took our wrongdoings upon himself, "we are called to partake in Christ's sufferings for the wrongdoings of humankind."

He said that "Star life pioneers, myself notwithstanding, can be blameworthy of a wide range of sins and we should all analyze our inner voices, yet I can sincerely say that my remark that the coronavirus is a reprimand depends on sensible grounds, of the sort I've referenced, and not personal responsibility."

The genius life pioneer said he regards individual Catholics who are cautious about calling a specific "war or plague or mistreatment" a rebuke, as long as they give reasons.

"Maybe religious administrators who state that it is anything but a reprimand are being pessimistic – especially in the event that they don't give their purposes behind utilizing that term which appears to be proposed to be a bit of annoying," he said.

Vatican Scholar: Pandemic Is God's Rebuke For 'unfaithfulness' Of Top Catholic Shepherds

April 3, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Italian cleric and scholar Nicola Bux has recognized both the wrongdoings inside the Congregation just as the transgressions of the world as the base of the present pandemic and its consequences for the day by day life of Catholics. Like Diocese supervisor Viganò and Diocesan Schneider, the previous consulter of the Gathering for the Regulation of the Confidence portrayed COVID-19 as a rebuke from God.

In an extensive proclamation distributed as a video on YouTube Walk 24, just as by Chiesa e post concilio in composed structure, Bux said "we can peruse this infection as 'a typical issue,' in the sense most importantly of a notice to the world."

"We should now decline, as a discipline," he clarified, "from such a large number of grasps thus numerous connections, even against nature. We have resisted characteristic law and submitted 'sins that shout out to paradise for retaliation.'"

"Shouldn't something be said about disloyalty and lack of concern, of the individuals who live in commonsense agnosticism, and hypothesize a nature liberated from God," Bux inquired. "And afterward infidelity, premature births, divorces. We have disregarded the privileges of God and set in their proper place those of man."

Explicitly discussing the wrongdoings inside the Congregation, Bux started by referencing excessive admiration, which he called "the gravest sin."

"We surrendered to excessive admiration … by bowing before piles of earth and revering worshipful statues even in St. Diminish's Basilica. We transformed houses of worship into asylums and motels when we had much better offices to suit poor people and transients. We have overlooked what a congregation is for and why it is devoted with serious custom. We have submitted manhandles, profanations in the hallowed formality and horrendous disfigurements, put-down and contemptuousness, we have ventured to such an extreme as to state that the finesse of God can exist together with a circumstance of ongoing sin, approving blasphemous Fellowships given to unrepentant delinquents."

Bux proceeded, "We planted disarray among God's kin, with the conjunction of the two popes and supported the giving over of the dedicated to the common specialists of skeptical states, for example, China. Paul VI's admonition resonates with respect to the self-destruction of the Congregation. Have secularism and the loss of confidence flourished among the men of the Congregation?"

All things considered, the COVID-19 pandemic is "an admonition to the men of the Congregation, who, for the sake of 'outlook change,' subordinate Christ's instructing to the truth of the world."

"They state they don't comprehend non-debatable standards. They think about disparity and not sin as the base of social disasters. They have permitted the gnostic and neo-agnostic scene on the veneer of St. Peter's. They have deserted the strategic the Gospel and the requirement for transformation, for smug discourse with religions … They have introduced Luther as medication for the Congregation. They have embraced circumstance morals rather than moral standards."

With the episode of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is still particularly influencing Italy, a large number of the issues and indecencies have gone to an abrupt stop.

"Presently the Pope, so stressed over the 'pueblo,' has stayed without individuals. Ministers, so inebriated with interest, are without the loyal. The steadfast, so acclimated with network formalities, endure deserting."

Most Catholics, Bux clarified, "have not been prepared in love, memory on their knees, individual supplication done covertly, where the Dad alone observes us."

"The places of worship are ruined, steadfast and ministers are presently as outcasts," the scholar said.

Bux brought up the trouble numerous individuals have with the possibility of a Divine being who rebuffs. Up until the earlier century, parades occurred and pledges were made with the end goal for reprimands to stop, he reviewed.

"Today, the word 'rebuke' stirs embarrassment even among churchmen, in light of the fact that they have overlooked that, toward the start of world history, after adoration, there is sin, outrage, and judgment."

"The facts confirm that, in Jesus Christ, we venerate the puzzle of celestial love which, with tolerance and benevolence, acquires the change of the heathen," Bux said. Nonetheless, "obliviousness, plague, hunger, war, enduring, and passing uncover to man his circumstance as a miscreant."

Bux then asked God to convey his kin from the "fury of judgment."

"Extraordinary is our wrongdoing, however more prominent is your adoration. Remove our transgressions for the greatness of your name. In the closeness of the spirit, we prostrate ourselves and entreat divine leniency. From the fury of judgment, convey us … Excuse us our missteps, mend our injuries, control us with your effortlessness toward the Easter triumph," Bux supplicated.

The scholar and ritualistic researcher finished up by calling the rebuke "fortunate," anticipating that it should prove to be fruitful.

Britons Rededicate Britain To The Queen Of Heaven, The Blessed Virgin Mary

Britons Rededicate Britain To The Favored Virgin Mary

London, Britain, Blemish 30, 2020/06:00 pm (CNA).- The greater part a million people partook Sunday in the rededication of Britain to Our Woman Sunday, coordinators have said.

The English priests had initially requested that Catholics assemble in places of worship and houses of God for the rededication around early afternoon Walk 29. They had to change their arrangements when the administration forced a lockdown the nation over in light of the coronavirus pandemic.

They welcomed Catholics rather to follow the rededication service live from their homes on the site of the Catholic National Place of worship and Basilica of Our Woman in Walsingham, Norfolk. Such huge numbers of signed on that the site slammed. Another site broadcasting the function, churchservices.Tv, likewise smashed. Coordinators at that point requested that watchers follow the occasion on YouTube.

During the service, Catholics recounted a Demonstration of Entrustment of Britain to Mary. The Demonstration reaffirmed Britain's status as the "Settlement of Mary", a title going back to at any rate the fourteenth century.

In an instruction after the rededication, sanctuary minister Msgr John Armitage stated: "When our diocesans chose three years back to embrace this rededication, they would never have predicted the degree of our need right now. Today we embrace this devotion in the 'eye of the tempest'.

"We have since quite a while ago contemplated and prized the expressions of Pope Leo XIII to a prior age of ministers: 'When Britain comes back to Walsingham, Our Woman will come back to Britain.' In the hour of our need Our Favored Mother has to be sure come back to Britain."

In a message before the service, Pope Francis said he asked that the rededication would "rouse all to drive forward in the earnest undertaking of imparting the delight of the Gospel to the people of our occasions".

"As they endeavor to hold up under observer to the excellence of our Catholic confidence, to advance solidarity among Christians and to proffer the kind love of Jesus to the least fortunate of our siblings and sisters," he encouraged them "to draw intelligence and quality from the model and mediation of the nation's numerous inquisitors and saints."

Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the Ecclesiastical overseer of Westminster and leader of the Ministers' Gathering of Britain and Ridges, posted a video of himself presenting the rededication petitions at home.

"Today is simply the day we rededicate to Our Favored Woman," he composed on Twitter. "This demonstration of commitment asks of us to make an endowment of ourselves to her. We request her insurance, her mantle of affection cast over us and our countries."

Before the coronavirus episode, 299 places of worship, schools and associations had joined on a rededication map on the official site. After the legislature forced limitations on open get-togethers, in excess of 2,000 people added their markers to the guide.

Coordinators said that an aggregate of 382,000 individuals partook in the service by means of livestreams. They clarified that when they considered the information from the guide recruits, this brought the figure more than 500,000. They included this was a preservationist gauge, as EWTN Incredible England likewise livestreamed the service through Facebook, YouTube and its site.

At Fatima, 24 Countries Consecrated To Jesus And Mary Amid The Coronavirus Pandemic

 CNA Staff, Mar 25, 2020/05:25 pm (CNA).- Twenty-four nations on Wednesday were blessed to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Fatima, Portugal.

In a March 25 service that incorporated the recitation of the rosary and a reiteration asking the Blessed Virgin Mary to petition God for the tormented, Fatima's religious administrator, Cardinal Antonio Marto, reestablished the sanctification of Portugal and Spain to Jesus and Mary, and included the names of twenty-four different nations.

Because of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, the Portuguese ministers' meeting reported a week ago they would reconsecrate Portugal to Christ and Mary on the night of March 25. Soon after the declaration, the Spanish priests' meeting mentioned that their nation likewise be sanctified in a similar formality.

The Portuguese priests in this manner welcomed the heads of other national religious administrators' gatherings to demand that their countries be included too.

Notwithstanding Spain and Portugal, the other 22 nations sanctified in line with their particular episcopal gatherings are: Albania, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Slovakia, Guatemala, Hungary, India, Mexico, Moldova, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Kenya, the Dominican Republic, Romania, Tanzania, East Timor and Zimbabwe.

The cardinal likewise appealed to God for "youngsters, the old and the most powerless," asking the Blessed Virgin Mary to "comfort specialists, medical caretakers, medicinal services experts, and volunteer parental figures. Fortify families and strengthen us in citizenship and solidarity."

During his comments, the cardinal reviewed that Saints Francisco and Jacinto Marto, shepherd youngsters to whom a heavenly attendant, and afterward the Blessed Virgin Mary showed up in 1916 and 1917, both kicked the bucket in the midst of the survivors of the Spanish influenza pandemic.

Cardinal Marto asked that the holy people would intervene for "such a significant number of wiped out individuals who, nowadays and in a significant way, experience the isolation of segregation to which they are subject."

In an announcement, the clerics' gathering of Portugal noticed that on 36 years prior, on March 25, 1984, Pope St. John Paul II blessed the whole world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

In Spain, in excess of 3,600 individuals have kicked the bucket of the coronavirus, while in Portugal, about 3000 are contaminated and right around 50 have passed on. In excess of 21,000 individuals have kicked the bucket far and wide because of the novel coronavrius.