Monday, November 29, 2004
THE SINS OF TODAY FORETOLD BY SAINTS
From a recent Sunday bulletin at my parish:
St. Anthony of the Desert (4th Century) [Disquisition CXIV]. "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 will 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. Because our Divine Master placed a barrier between His things and the things of the world." (Quoted in "Voice of Fatima", January 23, 1968).
St. Bridget of Sweden (1303-1373) "Forty years before the year two thousand, the devil will be let loose for a period to tempt men. When all will seem lost, God Himself will suddenly bring all evil to an end. The sign of when these events will occur will be when priests will have discarded their holy habits and dress themselves in lay clothes and when women will dress like men and men like women."
