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When the story of human history comes to a close, death and violence don’t get the final word. The love of God does. That love, burning bright in the heart of Fr. Emil Kapaun in the darkness of a POW camp in the Korean war, made him a hero.

Years ago, when there was an eruption of proclaimed apparitions and locutions in Ohio — the hotspot of such paroxysms back then — one of the quieter and yet more interesting and profound ones was known as the “Apostolate of Holy Motherhood.”

The alleged locutions, to a young mother whose messages from Jesus and Mary were often interrupted by her crying infant, were received, in vision, from February through August 1987. The recipient has always remained anonymous — known only as “Mariamante” (we tried to get in touch with her, to no avail).

For our purposes, the interesting part is that her book of messages, under the same “Apostolate” title, was granted a nihil obstat by Monsignor Joseph P. Malara, censor liborum of her diocese (Steubenville), and an imprimatur from the bishop, Most Reverend Albert H. Ottwenwller. It’s interesting not only because most such “messages” do not bear an imprimatur, but also because of certain things Mariamante quoted the Blessed Mother and Jesus as saying, which fall into the realm of prophecy.

While the vast majority of the locutions had to do with holiness and devotion (and while an imprimatur doesn’t mean the bishop believes they are coming directly from the Blessed Mother, only that they are fruitful meditations that do not contradict the Church) — while for the most part they were guides to prayer and better living, especially in the raising of a family — there were, as in other supposed messages, warnings about the future. Perhaps the most stark one came on February 14 of that year, when Mariamante quoted the Virgin as telling her, “The world is facing a grave cataclysm beyond known proportion due to impiety and impurity. I have come to rescue the world from this fate. God has given me this mission.”

“You will know by the sign in the heavens which is I myself that the time is at hand for the instantaneous conversion of the multitude,” she said Mary told her a week later, on February 22, at 10:30 a.m., in 1987. “This I will accomplish through a tremendous outpouring of Grace upon earth given at the hands of God to me for this purpose.” It would be her triumph. But before that, purification.

“Heaven is most distressed with the state the world is in,” was one message from Mary. “It is very bad right now. Only prayer and penance can change this. Be attentive to your children. They are most important. They will live during the reign of my Immaculate Heart. This is a prelude to the ushering in of the reign of the Sacred Heart… Do not be afraid. You have nothing to fear. I love you and will protect you always from the public eye.” Humility, said Mary, was especially urgent. Faith had to be put into personal change and action.

While distressed with the world, said the Blessed Mother, Heaven was pleased with devout families. One’s salvation and sanctification can occur through simple family duties. As elsewhere she requested recitation of the Rosary as well as the First Friday and First Saturday devotions. (This recalls Fatima.) Mariamante quoted Jesus as the Christ Child as saying: “Listen to what she has told you at Fatima and other major apparitions. These will help you to follow My Gospel. Her intercession is a blessing to the world. Only God could conceive of such mercy, to give you such a tender mother to intercede on your behalf. She makes recompense for your sins by her intercessions; but it is true that you must still atone for them. My Father is too offended. This cannot go on.” That was back in the 1980s! “I will bless the world again,” Jesus reportedly said, “as I did at Fatima. Each will have a chance to repent.”

But there would be major events, said the alleged locutions. While a warning of such constituted a small fraction of the locutions, they were there and in interesting language.

“You have been given many indications in the past of that which is about to occur,” said Mary on June 24, perhaps referring to something personal in the seer’s life. “But you will be surprised when it occurs. I have prepared your soul as an advocate for many and wish to endow you with extraordinary graces so that all may be accomplished through the children whom I love in a most tender way.”

In the little ways of daily living, she said, do we prepare our souls.

She called television an “intrusion” into the home and urged unselfishness.

Everyone working for her triumph would receive harassment, said the Blessed Mother, but there was too much preoccupation with the evil one. One needed to fear nothing when one invoked “the protection of the Precious Blood,” she allegedly said.

The devil was best battled not through detailed knowledge of him, she said Jesus told her, but through prayer and penance.

The Blessed Mother said she needed followers to spend hours in prayer for the world!

How much time she has bought us!

“Oh, pray for the world especially now when it is so urgent!” the Christ Child allegedly said — this before the grand flurry of similar warnings in the late 1980s and early 1990s see: The Final Hour). “The cries of the innocent call out to Me. So much injustice cannot continue for long. It must be changed and very soon or a grave chastisement will come to the world; this is the way it must be. Heaven can tolerate no more. My Father and I have determined it so. Either change or this will have to come about.”

And so went the messages.

How many have been listened to? How many ones that were heard have been forgotten? How many requests from Jesus have we not followed because we are caught up in the worldly version of Catholicism?

http://www.spiritdaily.com/Mariamante.htm

BREMERTON — When the Bremerton BREMERTON — When the Bremerton Knights take the field against Sequim on Thursday, a group of Satanists dressed in ceremonial robes will be watching from the stands.

The members of The Satanic Temple of Seattle say they are coming to the game to advocate for religious equality, in light of the controversy sparked by Bremerton High School assistant football coach Joe Kennedy, who has threatened to sue the school district if he is not allowed to pray on the field after games.

Bremerton School District spokeswoman Patty Glaser confirmed Wednesday the district has received a request from the Satanic Temple asking to be allowed access to the field after the game for a ceremony. The district is working on a statement in response, Glaser said.

The Satanists aren’t coming uninvited. Two Bremerton High School students responded to a public offer made by the Temple this week to give an invocation at the game and asked the Satanists to attend.

The two students had different motivations for contacting the Satanists, but both said they wanted to emphasize the need for equal religious opportunity at their school. They believe if the district allows prayer on the football field after games, people of all faiths should be allowed to participate.

“The school district needs to create religious opportunity for everyone or ban it completely,” said Abe Bartlett, senior class president and one of the students who contacted the Satanic Temple. “There can’t be a middle ground.”

Bartlett said he was aware of Kennedy’s tradition of praying after games and wasn’t concerned with the coach’s actions in the past. “No harm no foul,” as Bartlett put it. He believed Kennedy’s intentions were good, at least to begin with. But Bartlett’s feelings changed as Kennedy moved toward legal action against the district this week.

“I think that crossed a line,” Bartlett said. “That’s when I felt the need to contact The Satanic Temple.”

Bartlett hopes the appearance by the Satanists will prompt action by the school district. He expects to receive backlash from some members of the community over his decision to contact the Temple, but he believes most will understand his motivation.

“I want to do what’s best with the kids at this point,” Bartlett said. “And not just what’s best for Joe Kennedy.”

It was national media coverage of the controversy that drove the other Bremerton High School student to respond to The Satanist Temple. The student asked to remain anonymous, fearing backlash from the community, but responded to questions Wednesday in an email to the Kitsap Sun.

“The portrayal of Joe Kennedy by Fox News as a would-be hero is definitely a reason why I’m frustrated,” the student, a self-described atheist, said. “Once Fox News covered us, we appear in the Seattle Times, all over atheist and Christian rights websites; our school is notorious for one man, despite our success in lowering dropout rates, student achievements, etc. It’s national coverage for a local school that I feel was doing pretty well.”

The student said the district didn’t go far enough to block Kennedy from praying. Like Bartlett, the student thinks inviting Satanists to pray at the game will help hasten a resolution.

“I hope the attention from outside interests will finally get all people to realize that this is why prayer and religion isn’t allowed in public schools or by public school officials,” the student said. “I’m quite exhausted with progress that we haven’t made, so it’s time to change strategies. Protesting won’t cut it.”

Bartlett said controversy over prayer at the school has sparked some healthy conversations between teachers and students. In some classes, he said the situation has been used as an opportunity to discuss the First Amendment and the polarized national debate over religion in schools.

That said, he hopes the maelstrom will die down after Thursday’s game, and life at Bremerton High can return to normal.

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http://www.gopusa.com/news/2015/10/29/bremerton-hs-students-invite-satanists-to-oppose-praying-coach/

ST LOUIS- Friday night a cable TV show will broadcast a live exorcism inside a St. Louis County house.

And it’s not just any home. It’s the house where Catholic priests performed an exorcism on a young boy in 1949.

The true events that inspired the famous movie, ‘The Exorcist’, in 1973.

NewsChannel 5 got an exclusive first look at the made-for-TV event that leading Catholics in St. Louis are calling an unholy ritual.

It could be a house on any street in any town. But what happened here in Bel Nor, in 1949, is one of the most talked about paranormal events in modern history.

Jesuit priests from Saint Louis University performed an exorcism on a 14-year-old boy. A boy they believed was possessed by the devil himself.

The famous movie, “The Exorcist”, is based on the extraordinary events that happened here.

The most shocking details came straight from the diary of one of the SLU Jesuits involved. You can read the full text of the diary by clicking here.http://archive.ksdk.com/assetpool/documents/121026010134_SLU-exorcism-case-study.pdf

The diary describes the boy’s bed shaking violently, and mysterious scratch marks that appeared to spell words on the boy’s body.

“Many of the things you see in that movie (‘The Exorcist’),” said SLU archivist John Waide. “Evidently things like that or almost like that did happen.”

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But since 1949, nothing much out of the ordinary happened at the Bel Nor home, until just a few years ago.

In 2008, radio host Dave Glover invited people to spend a half hour in the room where the exorcism happened. Three tried–no one made it past five minutes.

“The look on one of the young lady’s face is as close to horror and terror that I ever want to see,” said the host of The Dave Glover Show on 97.1 FM.

Based on the genuine chills and screams from Dave Glover’s video shoot at the house, cable TV channel Destination America will have a crew and a bishop from an offshoot of the Roman Catholic church perform an exorcism on the house—on live TV, Friday night.

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“Exorcism is not entertainment,” says Bishop Robert Hermann with the Archdiocese of St. Louis. “Exorcism is serious business.”

Bishop Robert Hermann with the Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis is deeply concerned. Bishop Hermann believes any attempt to conjure up the devil– even for a TV show– is a gravely serious and potentially dangerous stunt!

“It can only be done with the authority of the Archbishop by someone appointed by the Archbishop who is the exorcist for the diocese.”

“Exorcism is to be done privately so as not to give Satan a lot of publicity.”

Many neighbors in the area are also upset with the production.

“It’s ludicrous. It’s a big hoax. Don’t come. Don’t pay attention to it,” said Linda Kemp.

Common complaints you’ll hear include too much additional traffic and noise to blocked streets and driveways.

Greg Taylor said, “There’s just lots of trucks moving around. You hear the beeping every now and then.”

“Generators going at 11 o’clock at night. And they’re loud. You can’t sleep,” Shauna McWoods said.

McWoods, a Catholic, has even gone as far as to have her home blessed before the showtime.

She said, “Those negative spirits are real.”

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EAG – A Texas seventh-grader is standing up for her religious beliefs after she alleges her teacher forced students to deny that God is real, and threatened them with failing grades if they don’t agree.

Jordan Wooley, a seventh grade student at West Memorial Junior High School in the Katy Independent School District, testified at a school board meeting last night about an assignment in her reading class that caused a serious controversy, and expressed frustration about her teacher’s atheist indoctrination.

“Today I was given an assignment in school that questioned my faith and told me that God was not real. Our teacher had started off saying that the assignment had been giving problems all day. We were asked to take a poll to say whether God is fact, opinion or a myth and she told anyone who said fact or opinion was wrong and God was only a myth,” Wooley told board members.

Students immediately objected, Wooley said, but the teacher refused to consider their position.

“Another student asked the teacher if we could put what we believe in the paper, and she said we could … but you would fail the paper if you do,” Wooley told the board.

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