And the Spirit & the bride say, come.... Reveaaltion 22:17

And the Spirit & the bride say, come.... Reveaaltion 22:17
And the Spirit & the bride say, come...Revelation 22:17 - May We One Day Bow Down In The DUST At HIS FEET ...... {click on blog TITLE at top to refresh page}---QUESTION: ...when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? LUKE 18:8
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Friday, May 24, 2024

IN the NEWS - Internet "Saints"

For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect. 
Mark 13:22

"Pope Francis has recognized a miracle attributed to Blessed Carlo Acutis, clearing the way for him to become the first millennial saint of the Catholic Church.

Known affectionately as the “patron saint of the Internet,” Carlo was born on May 3, 1991, in London, England, grew up in Milan, and died on October 12, 2006, in Monza, Italy, succumbing to leukemia at the age of 15.

In 2020, Pope Francis traveled to Assisi for the beatification ceremony that set Carlo on the road to sainthood.
Catholic Church requires an authenticated miracle attributed to the intercession of a beatified individual in order to pass to canonization, at which point the Church recognizes the person as a saint.

On Thursday, Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Vatican’s Office for the Causes of Saints, met with
Pope Francis, who approved the necessary miracle for the canonization of young Carlo.
A Costa Rican woman named Liliana traveled to Assisi in 2022 and prayed for her daughter Valeria at Blessed Carlo’s tomb.
Valeria had fallen off her bicycle in Florence, where she was attending university. The fall resulted in severe head trauma, which required craniotomy surgery and the removal of the right occipital bone to reduce pressure on her brain.
Doctors said the young woman had a very low chance of survival.
On July 8, the day Liliana made her pilgrimage to Carlo’s tomb in Assisi, the hospital informed her that Valeria had begun to breathe spontaneously. The following day, she began to move and regain her speech.
Ten days later, a CAT scan showed that Valeria’s hemorrhage had completely disappeared, and, the following month, Valeria was moved to rehabilitation therapy.
On September 2, Valeria and Liliana together made a pilgrimage to Assisi to thank Blessed Carlo for his intercession.
In his post-synodal apostolic exhortation Christus Vivit (Christ Is Alive), addressed to young people, Pope Francis held up Carlo Acutis as a model for how to use the Internet and communications media for good." 
Breitbart

Sunday, March 3, 2024

IN the NEWS -Costa Rica and "Sunday" for Health

And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: Revelation 13:4

"It is a sign of trouble when the state starts pushing for Sunday
celebrations as a way to save the environment, promote healthy lifestyles and foster community cohesion. 
These kinds of initiatives, which aim to designate Sunday as the day to better our communities, are increasingly becoming more common. In this most recent case, political leaders in Costa Rica organized a smoke-free Sunday to encourage people to reduce car emissions, give up smoking, and to offer entertainment, food, sports, and leisure.

On February 18, 2024, La Teja News reported the following:
• “We take advantage of the ‘Smoke-Free Family Sundays’ organized by the municipality of San José on Paseo Colón to find out how informed families are about the real health risks caused by vaping.”

Many people mistakenly believe that Sunday is a special day for a variety of reasons, including religious ones. 
*Government leaders around the world are setting aside Sunday for their citizens in order to build stronger social connections, strengthen family relationships, promote health, and improve climate conditions. 
*However, inspiration says that many positive “moral reforms” will be combined with the Sunday movement in order to encourage people to return to church on this day. 
That is the bottom line, whether or not people want to recognize it. And just like we saw in Costa Rica, politicians and governments will play a vital role in getting everyone together on Sunday."
AdventMessenger

Here the temperance work, one of the most prominent and important of moral reforms, is often combined with the Sunday movement, and the advocates of the latter represent themselves as laboring to promote the highest interest of society … The leaders of the Sunday movement may advocate reforms which the people need, principles which are in harmony with the Bible, yet while there is with these a requirement which is contrary to God’s law, his servants cannot unite with them. Nothing can justify them in setting aside the commandments of God for the precepts of men” (Great Controversy, p. 587).