REMEMBER THE prophecy in Garabandal, Spain that there would be only two more popes after Pope Paul VI (died 1978)? With apologies, I admit my misinterpretation of that prophecy conveyed by the Blessed Mother to visionary Conchita Gonzalez. There were two more popes after Paul VI: John Paul I and St. Pope John Paul II. So how explain Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis?
What Conchita said, quoting the Blessed Mother, was that there would be two more popes and then the “end of times” would happen. There is no question that Conchita said the “end of times” not “the end of the world.” The only conclusion we can have is that the “end of times” started in the reign of Benedict XVI.
Garabandal is also where the Blessed Mother foretold events that would happen apparently in our time: a warning that will strike consciences of all, even pagans; a miracle that will remain up to the end of the world, and a chastisement as never occurred before in this history of mankind.
My recent research into the prophecies of holy people, including saints over the centuries, would seem to indicate the “end of times” would unfold over a period of some years. Years whose count ends in 2038 when all the Garabandal (include here Kibeho, Akita, and Medjugorje apparitions) would have occurred and would pave the way for a new era, new times.
I will give more details on this in a future column.
Meanwhile, since I have already surely raised interest on prophecies of saints that seem to apply to our times, let me share more:
St. Anthony of the Desert (born 251, died 356): “Men will surrender to the spirit of the age. They will say that if they had lived in our day, faith would be simple and easy. But in their day, they say, things are complex; the Church must be brought up to date and made meaningful to the day’s problems. When the Church and the world are one, then those days are at hand.”
St. Senanus (b 488 to d 560): “Falsehood will characterize that class of men who will sit in judgment to pass sentence according to the law; between the father and his son, litigations will subsist. The clergy of the Holy Church will be addicted to pride and injustice… Women will abandon feelings of delicacy, and cohabit with men out of wedlock. They will follow those practices without secrecy, and such habits will become almost insuppressible. All will rush into iniquity against the will of the Son of the Blessed Virgin Mary.”
St. Columba or Columbkille (d 597): “The changes of seasons (weather) shall produce only half their verdure, the regular festivals of the Church will not be observed, all classes of men shall be filled with hatred and enmity towards each other… The clergy shall be led into error by the misinterpretation of their readings, the relics of the saints will be considered powerless… Young women will become unblushing… aged men will be of irascible temper… The possessors of abundance shall fall through the multiplicity of their falsehoods… their arrogance will know no bounds. Between mother and daughter, anger and bitter sarcasms shall continually exist, neighbors will become treacherous, cold and false-hearted towards each other… blood relations will become cool towards each other. Church (property) will become lay property.”
Blessed Bernardt Rembordt (1689- 1793): “God will punish the world when men have devised marvelous inventions that will lead them to forgetting God. They will have horseless carriages, and they will fly like birds. But they will laugh at the idea of God, thinking that they are ‘very clever.’ There will be signs from heaven, but men, in their pride, will laugh them off . Men will indulge in voluptuousness, and lewd fashions will be seen.”
