This LifeSiteNews.com article discusses "The final confrontation: Examining the end times through the lens of Fatima and Benedict XVI." https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/the-final-confrontation-examining-the-end-times-through-the-lens-of-fatima-and-benedict-xvi/ In it is a reference to an early church theologian named Tyconius. Most people have never heard of Tyconius, but in researching the sayings of Pope Benedict XVI during his pontificate, one can see Tyconius [...]
Category: Revelation
Dead Sea Scrolls – A Message for our Time
Fr. Mark Goring's latest YouTube describes two small fragments retrieved recently from the Dead Sea Scrolls. Listen to his podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOOAnZTKrWY After hearing the two verses, I do think God is trying to get our attention. Here is the one verse that is very appropro to today's world: These are the things you are to [...]
The False Prophet
Our Catholic Study Session this week focuses on false prophets in general and The False Prophet from the book of Revelation. Let us start our session with the sign of the faith. This last week I ran across an article by Fr. Frank Unterhalt is a German diocesan priest. He recently wrote an article for [...]
Mark of the Sea Beast
Our Catholic Study Session this week focuses on the Mark of the Sea Beast. To help understand scripture I refer to the beast from the sea that starts chapter 13 as the Sea Beast. It's also discussed in the Blue Book as the Black Beast. As we continue in chapter 13 after the first beast, [...]
I saw a beast rising out of the sea
In my previous post "The Sea Beast and the Land Beast" I talked very briefly about the Sea Beast, the beast rising out of the sea. The description in Revelation contains so much more and it's time to unpack the mysteries of the heads, horns, diadems, and blasphemous names written on the heads. And I [...]
Book of Revelation – 7 Churches
Today's reading is from the book of Revelation chapter 4 and discusses the heavenly worship in the throne room of heaven. https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/111820.cfm This heavenly discourse comes with a description that clearly identifies 24 other thrones and the "elders" that sit on those thrones and bow in worship "before the one who sits on the throne." [...]
Catholic View of End Times, pt. 5
This is the fifth lesson in a series that is being hosted at St. Genevieve Catholic Church in Las Cruces. Lesson 4 can be found here. In this fifth in the series on the End Times we will research what has been described in Scripture, Magisterial teaching, Tradition, and writings from saints and blesseds, especially Blessed [...]
Catholic View of End Times, pt. 4
This is the fourth lesson in a series that is being hosted at St. Genevieve Catholic Church in Las Cruces. Lesson 3 can be found here. In this fourth in the series on the End Times we will research even further on what has been described about Purgatory and then a description of the rise (and [...]
Catholic View of End Times, pt 2
This is the second lesson in a series that is being hosted at St. Genevieve Catholic Church in Las Cruces. Lesson 1 can be found here. In lesson 1 we discussed the Catechism of the Catholic Church paragraphs 668-682 where it discusses the Church entering into a final passion similar to Christ's passion. The Church, [...]
Catholic View of End Times, pt 1
This is the first lesson in a series being hosted at St. Genevieve Catholic Church in Las Cruces. There is much anxiety in the world about the craziness in society today. Yes, it's bad but are we really in the End Times? Article 7 in the Catechism discusses "FROM THENCE HE WILL COME AGAIN TO [...]