#end time

[bylagunabay]

Prophecy for the End Time

CONSECRATION TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY

Queen of the most holy Rosary, help of Christians, refuge of the human race, victorious in all the battles of God, we prostrate ourselves in supplication before your throne, in the sure hope of obtaining mercy and of receiving grace and timely aid in our present calamities, not through any merits of our own, on which we do not rely, but only through the immense goodness of your Mother’s Heart.

In you and in your Immaculate Heart, at this grave hour of human history, do we put our trust; to you we consecrate ourselves, not only with all of Holy Church, which is the Mystical Body of your Son Jesus, and which is suffering in so many of her members, being subjected to manifold tribulations and persecutions, but also with the whole world, torn by discords, agitated with hatred, the victim of its own iniquities.

Be moved by the sight of such material and moral degradation, such sorrows, such anguish, so many tormented souls in danger of eternal loss! O Mother of mercy, obtain for us from God a Christ-like reconciliation of the nations, as well as those graces which can convert the souls of men in an instant, those graces which prepare the way and make certain the long-desired coming of peace on earth.

O Queen of peace, pray for us, and grant peace unto the world in the truth, the justice, and the charity of Christ.  Above all, give us peace in our hearts, so that the kingdom of God may spread its borders in the tranquility of order.

Accord your protection to unbelievers and to all those who lie within the shadow of death. Cause the Sun of Truth to rise upon them. May they be enabled to join with us in repeating before the Savior of the world: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men of good will.”

Give peace to the nations that are separated from us by error or discord, and in a special manner to those peoples who profess a singular devotion toward you; bring them back to Christ’s one-fold, under the one true Shepherd.

Obtain full freedom for the holy Church of God: defend her from her enemies; check the ever-increasing torrent of immorality; arouse in the faithful a love of purity, a practicing Christian life; and, an apostolic zeal, so that the multitude of those who serve God may increase in merit and in number.

Finally, even as the Church and all mankind were once consecrated to the Heart of your Son Jesus, because He was for all those who put their hope in Him an inexhaustible source of victory and salvation, so in like manner do we consecrate ourselves forever to your also and to your Immaculate Heart, O Mother of us and Queen of the world. May your love and patronage hasten the day when the kingdom of God shall be victorious and all the nations, at peace with God and with one another, shall call you blessed and intone with you, from the rising of the sun to its going down, the everlasting “Magnificat” of glory, of love, of gratitude to the Heart of Jesus, in which alone we can find truth, life, and peace.  Amen.

- Pope Pius XII

[sundaynightservice]

What Now Shakespeare?

Everyone on stage

wondering the way to act,

the place is on fire,

the world burning all the scenes

as John's vision now unfolds.

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D W Eldred

[futurebird]

Man gave names to all the animals

The way that I think religion really works is:

We have texts and traditions, myths and songs, folk stories and superstitions. Fragments of truth are there but in the sense of a palimpsest the glyphs of dead languages faintly visible in the space between words.

A signal to noise ratio beyond hopeless. We won't ever know exactly what was correct. It could be anything

There is only one true fragment in all those pages and it is:

"The human would name all the animals, those of the sky and of the earth and until so-named the human would stand alone."

Is that disappointing? Were you hoping for something more central to the greater themes of the text?

I cannot emphasis enough how over-run with propaganda, mistakes religious texts must be to stand of chance of preserving even a fragment like this one.

I can't promise you I'm right either. But, there is power in names. And you are already engaged in this sacred project of naming all of the living creatures. That's why I've sought you out, a biologist, a taxonomist. I want to know if there is any way to rush the work along. Please don't laugh at me. --- In recent years we have perfected methods to detect the DNA present in soil samples. These fragments of DNA come from many animals, fungi, plants. It's a way to assess the biodiversity of an ecosystem. But DNA sampling has resulted in some unsettling observations. The kingdom of the fungi are woefully understudied and under-classified. We have named thousands, but their species number in the millions. And from the soil comes even more unsettling news. A great portion of fungi are parasitic. They can only live on a particular host, sometimes a particular plant, sometimes a particular fungi. There are millions of telescoping families of parasites and hyper parasites hinted at by the DNA of the soil of a mature forest. There are whole clades of fungi we have never seen, that only live deep in soil and only in association with other fungi that we have never seen. Adversarial and sympathetic ecological networks wherein none of the participants have been named or described. This is as close to a proof that the prophesy will never come to pass. We will never name the last living thing. We will always stand alone. As you can plainly see it's impossible! --- I refuse to accept that. I refuse to accept it is impossible. Why would the fragment talk about naming all living things if that task were impossible? Why would it describe what happens after all living things are named if that will never happen? I need you to use your imagination. Use technology. If we can find their DNA we can name them. ---

But, that's not how it works! You can't just name ... DNA. You need a type specimen. You need an exemplar of the organism. How are we supposed to find that? --- Can't you use the DNA to grow it or something? I can't believe that we could be so close to achieving the ultimate fate of all humankind and a bunch of mushrooms get in the way. -- You should have more respect for fungi. And don't call them "mushrooms" they don't all have those fruiting bodies. Especially these dark types found in soil. But... I suppose you are correct. We could contrive a type specimen directly from the DNA. Sort of revive each organism we detect and see what grows. I know how much this means to you so I will begin immediately.

[radicalgraff]

'Abolish Time'

Seen in Melbourne

[igate777]

[scifi-fantasy-horror]

by  Boris Groh

[dbaydenny]

Christ growing restless

expecting the command, "go,"

rising from the throne.

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D W Eldred