Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich

When God had created the first Adam, he cast a deep sleep upon him, opened his side, and took one of his ribs, of which he made Eve, his wife and the mother of all the living. Then he brought her to Adam, who exclaimed: 'This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh....Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be two in one flesh.' That was the marriage of which it is written: 'This is a great sacrament. I speak of Christ and in the Church.' Jesus Christ, the second Adam, was pleased also to let sleep come upon him--the sleep on the cross,and he was also pleased to let his side be opened, in order that the second Eve, his Virgin Spouse, the Church, the mother of all the living might be formed from it. It was his will to give her the blood of redemption , the water of purification, and his spirit-the three which render testimony on earth--and to bestow upon her also the holy Sacraments,in order that she might be pure,holy and undefiled;he was to be her head,and we were to be her members,under submission to the head, the bones of his bones,and the flesh of his flesh. In taking human nature,that he might suffer death for us,he had also left his Eternal Father,to cleave to his Spouse the Church, and he became one flesh with her, by feeding her with the Adorable Sacrament of the Altar,in which he unites himself unceasingly with us. He has been pleased to remain on earth with his Church,until we shall all be united together by him within her fold,and he has said: 'The gates of hell shall never prevail against her.' To satisfy his unspeakable love for sinners,our Lord had become man and a brother of these same sinners,that so he might take upon himself the punishment due to all their crimes. He had contemplated with deep sorrow the greatness of this debt and the unspeakable sufferings by which it was to be acquitted. Yet he had most joyfully given himself up to the will of his Heavenly Father as a victim of expiation. Now, however, he beheld all the future sufferings,combats, and wounds of his heavenly Spouse, in one word, he beheld the ingratitude of men.

The soul of Jesus beheld all the future sufferings of his Apostles,disciples, and friends;after which he saw the primitive Church, numbering but a few souls in her fold at first,and then in proportion as her numbers increased,disturbed by heresies and schisms breaking out among her children, who repeated the sin of Adam by pride and disobedience. He saw the tepidity,malice,and corruption of an infinite number of Christians,the lies and deceptions of proud teachers,all the sacrileges of wicked priests, the fatal consequences of each sin, and the abomination of desolation in the kingdom of God, in the sanctuary of those ungrateful human beings whom he was about to redeem with his blood at the cost of unspeakable sufferings.

The scandals of all ages,down to the present day and even to the end of the world--every species of error,deception,mad fanaticism,obstinacy, and malice--were displayed before his eyes,and he beheld,as it were floating before him,all the apostates,heresiarchs, and pretended reformers,who deceive men by an appearance of sanctity. The corrupters and the corrupted of all ages outraged and tormented him for not having been crucified after their fashion, or for not having suffered precisely as they settled or imagined he should have done. They vied with each other in tearing the seamless robe of his Church;,many ill-treated,insulted, and denied him,and many turned contemptuously away,shaking their heads at him,avoiding his compassionate embrace, and hurrying on to the abyss where they were finally swallowed up. He saw countless numbers of other men who did not dare openly to deny him,but who passed on in disgust at the sight of the wounds of his Church, as the Levite passed by the poor man who had fallen among robbers.Like unto cowardly and faithless children, who desert their mother in the middle of the night,at the sight of the thieves and robbers to whom their negligence or their malice has opened the door, they fled from his wounded Spouse. He beheld all these men,some times separated from the True Vine,and taking their rest amid the wild fruit trees,sometimes like lost sheep,left to the mercy of the wolves,led by base hirelings into bad pasturages,and refusing to enter the fold of the Good Shepherd who gave his life for his sheep.They were wandering homeless in the desert in the midst of the sand blown about by the wind,and were obstinately determined not to see his City placed upon a hill,which could not be hidden,the House of his Spouse,his Church built upon a rock,and with which he had promised to remain to the end of the ages.

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[mrtruthify]

@616MGT

"She said what is most painful for me to repeat, that if only one priest offered the Unbloody Sacrifice as worthily and with the same sentiments as the Apostles, he could ward off all calamities from the church" -----Anne Catherine Emmerich

We know this is true when we read abou Sodom & Gamorrah.. every last one of these cities inhabitants was living in sin.. fornicating and mixing holy blood with non-Adamic blood (abominations).

God creates.. we do no re-create.

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@616MGT

Easy.. just pause the video as the quotes roll by. You will se these are just two of them from this video.

[616MGT]

@mrtruthify Could you direct me to where you found this? Amazing!

[mrtruthify]

I love this Saint.

She indeed had the faith.. I see it already.

Thank you for this upload brother Chasluim.

"She said what is most painful for me to repeat, that if only one priest offered the Unbloody Sacrifice as worthily and with the same sentiments as the Apostles, he could ward off all calamities from the church" -----Anne Catherine Emmerich

May God bless His Catholic remnant.. let us all pray for each other.. and for all who are lost in this terrible time of anti-Christ..

[mrtruthify]

"Were man and the earth in perfect harmony, there would be paradise here below. Prayor governs the weather . . . I see the life of nature intimately connected with that of the soul" --Anne Catherine Emmerich

[HiawathaMohawk]

Much to read at blinding speed.