"Describing a world marked by signs of “the end of time,” including false prophets and cold hearts, Pope Francis on Tuesday urged Catholics to use Lent to counteract this “great tribulation” through prayer, almsgiving and fasting.
Those false prophets, Francis said, come either in the form of “snake charmers,” “who manipulate human emotions in order to enslave others and lead them where they would have them go,” or “charlatans,” “who offer easy and immediate solutions to suffering that soon prove utterly useless.”
Francis said hearts grown cold to the practice of charity are also a sign of the great tribulation.
“In his description of hell, Dante Alighieri pictures the devil seated on a throne of ice in frozen and loveless isolation,” he said....... “The seas, themselves polluted, engulf the remains of countless shipwrecked victims of forced migration. The heavens, which in
God’s plan, were created to sing his praises, are rent by engines raining down implements of death.”.
Pope Francis also recommended the “24 Hours for the Lord” initiative, in which at least one church is open for 24 consecutive hours in each diocese around the world for both Eucharistic adoration and sacramental confession.
Cardinal Peter Turkson, who heads the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, described the message as “prophetic” in a Vatican news conference on Tuesday morning." CRUX
Speaking of the Great Tribulation---And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. Revelation 13:15....didn't see anything in that verse having to do with migration or pollution....
Those false prophets, Francis said, come either in the form of “snake charmers,” “who manipulate human emotions in order to enslave others and lead them where they would have them go,” or “charlatans,” “who offer easy and immediate solutions to suffering that soon prove utterly useless.”
Francis said hearts grown cold to the practice of charity are also a sign of the great tribulation.
“In his description of hell, Dante Alighieri pictures the devil seated on a throne of ice in frozen and loveless isolation,” he said....... “The seas, themselves polluted, engulf the remains of countless shipwrecked victims of forced migration. The heavens, which in
Pope Francis also recommended the “24 Hours for the Lord” initiative, in which at least one church is open for 24 consecutive hours in each diocese around the world for both Eucharistic adoration and sacramental confession.
Cardinal Peter Turkson, who heads the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, described the message as “prophetic” in a Vatican news conference on Tuesday morning." CRUX
Speaking of the Great Tribulation---And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. Revelation 13:15....didn't see anything in that verse having to do with migration or pollution....
