Holy Love Message – 11/10/2018


Once again, I (Maureen) see a Great Flame that I have come to know
as the Heart of God the Father.  He says: “Children, the era of
complete trust in Me is at hand.  Many people who in the past were
trustworthy, will in the future, prove otherwise, as My Son tests what
is in their hearts.  Certain events in nature itself, will cost lives
and disarm many who felt secure in the world.  I am your protection.  My
Provision is a trustworthy resource.”

“No one is alone in this life.  Even though a soul is an unbeliever,
I tender forth the grace he needs to accept the path of salvation and
to believe.  You see the snowflakes outside.  There are that many souls
and more on the path to perdition.  When storms visit any soul in life,
My Grace is also attendant through the Heart of the Holy Mother.”*

“Be at peace then, children.  Depend on Me, your Heavenly Father, to
support and guide you.  The greater your need, the more of My angels I
send to surround you.  I transform great problems into great graces.”

* Blessed Virgin Mary.

Read Psalm 5:11-12+

But let all who take refuge in thee rejoice,

   let them ever sing for joy;

and do defend them,

   that those who love your name may exult in you.

For you bless the righteous, O LORD;

   you cover him with favor as with a shield.

+Scripture verses asked to be read by God the Father. (Please note:
all Scripture given by Heaven refers to the Bible used by the visionary.
Ignatius Press – Holy Bible – Revised Standard Version – Second
Catholic Edition.) 

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lilium-orientalis:

What the world thinks angels are: soft, dainty women with long, flowing hair. Cute wings and a lil’ golden halo. Delicate.

Biblical angels: EYES ALL AROUND YOU. DO NOT BE AFRAID. FACE OF A LION AND A BULL. I SAID DO NOT BE AFRAID. EYES LIKE TORCHES AND THE VOICE OF A MULTITUDE. SERIOUSLY DO NOT BE AFR-

womb-and-the-cloud:

Misunderstanding What the Angels Look Like

There’s quite a lot of posts floating around about angels and errors regarding what they look like. Although people are welcome to think as they please, the views espoused do not follow logically from the fact that angels are spiritual beings, thus literally applying physical features to them, as these folks are doing, is incorrect. There is also a misunderstanding of the Biblical texts when they speak about the angels.

The Christian view, based on the biblical text and apprehended in the light of Tradition, complemented by philosophical logic, makes it very clear that angels (descriptive of what they do, more than what they are) are spirits, thus they are immaterial, and do not have corporeal features. Whenever the Scripture uses language to describe the angels, this language is figurative, it is sometimes anthropomorphic and the descriptions draw from physical things, since this is the only reference point we have, to use material things to help understand immaterial things. Aquinas writes (Summa I.Q.88, 2, co.), drawing from the Arabian philosopher Avempace:

By the understanding of natural substances we can be led, according to true philosophical principles, to the knowledge of immaterial substances.

Hence when the Scripture describes the angels as sometimes having eyes, wings, feet, bronze this, golden that, a particular animal face etc., we are not supposed to envisage that such and such an angel literally looks like this, it is merely metaphorical, to help us apprehend something of the unseeable nature, character and role of a given angelic being.

Spirits are spirits, they are not physical, nor are they visible, nor do they have corporeal features; whenever a vision is had of them, the appearance is a figurative projection and visible form adopted and manifested to the seer for the sake of accommodating to human nature and our weakness in understanding.

To quote from Dionysus the Areopagite (or Pseudo, but authoritative nonetheless):

We cannot, as mad people do, profanely visualize these heavenly and godlike intelligences as actually having numerous feet and faces. They are not shaped to resemble the brutishness of oxen or to display the wildness of lions. They do not have the curved beak of the eagle or the wings and feathers of birds. We must not have pictures of flaming wheels whirling in the skies […] or any of those shapes handed on to us amid all the variety of the revealing symbols of scripture. The Word of God makes use of poetic imagery when discussing these formless intelligences but, as I have already said, it does so for the sake of art, but as a concession to the nature of our own mind. [….]

Using matter, one may be lifted up to the immaterial archetypes. Of course one must be careful to use the similarities as dissimilarities, as discussed, to avoid one-to-one correspondences, to make the appropriate adjustments as one remembers the great divide between the intelligible [the immaterial spirits being understood] and the perceptible [the forms figuratively applied to them]. (Celestial Hierarchy, Chp. II, 1,4).

Holy Love Message – 10/20/2018

Our Lady comes as Refuge of Holy Love.  She says: “Praise be to Jesus.”

“When I come to visit this site* on My Feast of Guadalupe,** it will
be with many angels.  The angels that are always present here will be
joined by many of their associates from Heaven.”

* The apparition site of Maranatha Spring and Shrine.

** Wednesday, December 12, 2018. 

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by-grace-of-god:

All the current angel books seem to assume the angels are comforting. Yet almost every time a real angel appears in the Bible, he has to say “Fear not!” …

Religious fear, or awe, is an  essential ingredient of all true religion, yet it has been systematically exiled from modern, “psychologically correct” religion … The thing the Bible calls “the beginning of wisdom” (Ps 111:10; Prov 1:7, 4:7, 9:10; Wis 6:17; Sirach 1:14)  is the experience modern religious educators and liturgists deliberately remove or try to remove from our souls: fear and trembling, adoration and worship, the bending of the knee, the prone heart. The modern God is “something I can feel comfortable with.” The God of the Bible, in contrast, is “a consuming fire” (Psalm 104:4; Hebrews 12:29).

Angels are closer to God, and something of his fiery fearsomeness rubs off on them. Rabbi Abraham Heschel, when told by a student that it must be gratifying to spend his life amid “the comforts of religion” replied, “God is not an uncle. God is not nice. God is an earthquake.” The same applies to God’s angels.

Of course God and his angels are good.  But “good”  does not mean “comfortable.” … And of course fear does not mean craven fear or fear of an evil tyrant. It means awe …

Angels always do us good. They warn, rescue, guide, and enlighten. So the end result is indeed comforting. But not at first. True religion never begins in comfort. It begins in repentance and humility and fear.

– Peter Kreeft, Angels and Demons

What do angels actually look like per the bible?

glitterbomb-goblinking:

the-unreadable-book:

revelation19:

musiqchild007:

revelation19:

Well, according to Ezekiel 1 they might look something like this…

According to Daniel 10 something like this…

According to Isaiah 6…

In Ezekiel 10… 

Again in Ezekiel 10…

Basically, when the people writing Scripture tried to describe what they saw when they saw an angel… they run into the end of their imagination… they can never quite seem to fully explain it because they had trouble even comprehending what they saw, let alone being able to describe it to someone else. 

Yeah, that’s usually how people responded to seeing them in the Bible…

There’s a good reason why angels’ standard greeting is ‘Do not be afraid’.

I used to listen to this radio show and one thing I remember because it was so funny was a Christmas special where an angel showed up to tell the shepherds about the birth of Christ.  The conversations went:

Angel: “FEAR NOT.”

Shepherds: *screaming*

Angel: “I SAID FEAR NOT.”

Shepherds: *screaming LOUDER*

Angel: “WHAT PART OF FEAR NOT ARE YOU NOT UNDERSTANDING?”

Holy Love Message – 9/29/2018

St. Michael comes. He says: “Praise be to Jesus.” He has sparks of lights all around him. I’m (Maureen) wondering what they are. He says: “Many angels have accompanied me. These days, my greatest challenge is in getting people to recognize sin for what it is. Many do not even consider the long-term effects of their thoughts, words and actions. This indifference does not exonerate them at their judgment. Pray that sins and the effects of sin come into the public eye. Satan uses all types of ways to encourage sin. Let us begin to use media and other means in a more effective way to define the evils of sin.”

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