Dreams and Visions

First vision (about a year prior to coming into the Catholic Church):
One night several minutes after going to bed, while still awake, a brilliant light suddenly appeared in my room to my left side.  The light was sort of transparent and very bright although I could look directly at it. A feeling of great peace came over my entire being and I felt such incredible love coming from the light.  My feeling was that I was in a differnt world, and yet I seemed to be still aware of my surroundings, in fact, I remember thinking that I hoped I would not wake up my husband.  I did not hear a voice in my ears or in my interior, but I knew that I was being asked something, although I do not remember what it was.  I replied with three yes's repeated one after the other which were spoken out loud in a long drawn out sound.  I remember lifting my arms towards the light as though imploring it to bring me into it.  I felt absolutely no fear and was totally at peace and very joyful.  After my answer, the light disappeared and I immediately got out of bed.  The next day while thinking about what I experienced, a thought came to me that I hoped I did not answer "yes" to God asking me to give up my horses!  I knew I had been asked something and my reply was without hesitation.

One morning while at Mass, I picked up a missal and opened to the inside cover and read that non-Catholics were not welcome to receive Communion.  I was horrified as I had been receiving Communion for sometime before reading this.  All I could do was sit and cry through the rest of Mass.  No words can explain how I felt.  The next day I went back to Mass and sat there in tears while everyone received Communion.  I then saw Jesus (interiorly) standing in the center isle just a few feet away from me with His arms out to me.  I heard Him say, "Come to Me". (Oh how beautiful His voice was!)  I could see that He was wearing a long white robe type garment and had long brown hair.  Sometime later, at another Church, I again heard Him say, "Come to Me", but did not see Him this time.  Just after this, I began going to RCIA.  A few months after this experience, I told this story to a Priest and he immediately set up for me to be received into the Church which was on Jan. 12, 1993. Thank you my Jesus!

Sat. Jan. 21, 1995 (2 yrs. after coming into the Catholic Church)
During Adoration, I saw a long dark tunnel with a bright light at the far end which looked like a Host brightly lit up.  Jesus told me that the darkness in the tunnel was the darkness of sin that surrounds us, but He is the Light at the end of the tunnel.  He told me to focus my eyes on the light and He said to me, "This is my Sacred Heart which prepares a place for you to rest.  Rest within My Heart as I rest within yours." 

"The outpouring of the Spirit"

I was reading a message Jesus gave to Vassula on Oct. 29, 1991.  Jesus told Vassula, “I will come back.” And Vassula writes next to this, “Second Pentecost.  The outpour of the Spirit.  Joel 3”)  I went to my Bible to read Joel 3 which speaks about “the day of the Lord” and in Verse 17 it says: “And Jerusalem shall be holy and strangers shall pass through it no more.”  A little while after this I read in Volume 15 from the Book of Heaven:

“Beloved daughter of Our Supreme Will, see, this whole machine of the universe – heavens, sun, seas, and all the rest – was created by Us to give it as a gift; but do you know to whom? To the ones who would do Our Will. Everything was given to them as to Our legitimate children. “…and Jerusalem shall be holy…” (Joel 3:17) We did this for the decorum of Our works, depositing them and giving them as gift, not to foreign people “..and strangers shall pass through it no more.” (Joel 3:17) or to illegitimate children, who would not understand the great goods contained in them, nor appreciate the greatness and the sanctity of Our works – on the contrary, they would waste them and despise them. On the other hand, by giving them to Our legitimate children, since in each created thing there is a distinct love and a special good for the one to whom the gift is directed, Our Will, dwelling in them, “and the Lord will dwell in Sion” (Joel 3:21) and forming Its very life in them, would make them comprehend all these loves, one distinct from the other, which are present in the whole Creation, as well as all the specialties of goods. So, they would give Us requital for each distinct love, and glory and honor for all the goods given to them. Our Will, which had created them with one Fiat, and which knew all the secrets - dwelling in Our legitimate children, with another Fiat would reveal Our secrets contained in all created things, and would make them give Us love for love. The harmonies, the communications, would be reciprocal between them and Us. And even though it seems that those who do not do Our Will enjoy and take part in them, yet the gifts are not theirs – it is as indirect cause, as usurpers, and as illegitimate children. More so, since my Will not dwelling in them, “Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom a wilderness destroyed”:  (Joel 3:17) they understand nothing or very little of my love which all Creation brings to them, and of the great goods present in It. Even more, many don’t even know Who created so many things - true foreign people who, while living of the things that belong to Me, don’t even want to recognize Me.

Jesus’ message to Vassula:

“Since they have rejected My Spirit, My Light and My Knowledge, I shall take away my Kingdom from them “Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom a wilderness destroyed” and give it to a people who can produce its fruit “So you shall know that I am the Lord your God who dwell in Zion my holy mountain” (Joel 3:17).  I shall then welcome these people as My own and ask them to come with Me and keep house with Me – in fact, this hour is here already.”

 “I will remove far off from you the northern enemy: and I will drive him into a land unpassable, and desert, with his face towards the east sea, and his hinder part towards the utmost sea: and his stench shall ascend…”  Joel 2:20

“And it shall come to pass after this, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh…”  Joel 2:28

Lynne B.

Sept. 23, 1999

For your discernment

https://vimeo.com/134035153

Ratzinger's forgotten prophesy on the future of the Church

 In five little known radio speeches made in 1969 and published again a while ago by Ignatius Press in the volume “Faith and the Future”, the future Pope gave his vision of the future of man and the Church. His last teaching, which he read out on “Hessian Rundfunk” radio on Christmas day, had a distinctly prophetic tone.

Ratzinger said he was convinced the Church was going through an era similar to the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. “We are at a huge turning point – he explained – in the evolution of mankind. This moment makes the move from Medieval to modern times seem insignificant.” Professor Ratzinger compared the current era to that of Pope Pius VI who was abducted by troops of the French Republic and died in prison in 1799. The Church was fighting against a force which intended to annihilate it definitively, confiscating its property and dissolving religious orders.

Today's Church could be faced with a similar situation, undermined, according to Ratzinger, by the temptation to reduce priests to “social workers” and it and all its work reduced to a mere political presence. “From today's crisis, will emerge a Church that has lost a great deal,” he affirmed.

 “It will become small and will have to start pretty much all over again. It will no longer have use of the structures it built in its years of prosperity. The reduction in the number of faithful will lead to it losing an important part of its social privileges.” It will start off with small groups and movements and a minority that will make faith central to experience again. “It will be a more spiritual Church, and will not claim a political mandate flirting with the Right one minute and the Left the next. It will be poor and will become the Church of the destitute.”

The process outlined by Ratzinger was a “long” one “but when all the suffering is past, a great power will emerge from a more spiritual and simple Church,” at which point humans will realise that they live in a world of “indescribable solitude” and having lost sight of God “they will perceive the horror of their poverty.”

 Then and only then, Ratzinger concluded, will they see “that small flock of faithful as something completely new: they will see it as a source of hope for themselves, the answer they had always secretly been searching for. 

  Marco Bardazzi