OUR LADY OF KNOCK, PADRE PIO AND THE END TIMES
August 21st is the anniversary of Our Lady appearing at Knock, Ireland. The picture above is a depiction of the apparition, with John the Beloved appearing alongside Our Lady. John the Beloved wrote the Book of Revelation, the hellscape that will be the End Times. I wrote a piece for Catholic Link, at the request of the editor Becky Roach, as to why Padre Pio said we are to be especially devoted to Our Lady of Knock now. I do not state that we are in the reign of the beast presently, but rather that the humble farming people who witnessed Our Lady of Knock, who fell and prayed the Rosary instantly when they beheld John the Beloved, are the models for the people who suffer the time foretold by John the Beloved.
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The picture used is in the public domain.
Mary,
ReplyDeleteDid you ever visit Knock?
Dear James, Yes, the last time I went was in my 20s, and I shocked the lady in the Mass office by requesting a bouquet of Masses for a late Irish prime minister who had been a right rogue.
Deletede Valera?
ReplyDeleteNo, Charlie Haughey. It was just before he died, I sent him the Mass offering with a card and he wrote a thank-you letter back, signed in cerulean blue ink. Say what you like about the man, but he had style.
DeleteAh, as a detached Irish American, I will have to look him up.
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