2,000 years ago, St. Paul and St. Barnabas led people in Central Turkey to “Be Catholic” with healing miracles that cured disorders in their minds and bodies. That was a threat to other religious marketing plans! Those most threatened sent “some Jews from Antioch and Iconium who arrived and won over the crowds. They stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing he was dead.”
He wasn’t “dead”! “When the disciples gathered around him, he got up and entered the city! On the following day, he left with Barnabas for Derbe.” That “Hidden Prophecy” foretold that Catholics would be persecuted for the next 2,000 years by those who followed religious marketing plans instead of honoring He Who Fulfilled the Prophecies. They still hate anyone who loves their neighbors enough to encourage them to consider that He Who Fulfilled The Prophecies Spoke One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church Into Being with His Church-Creating Word to His First Catholic Pope!
“And I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.”
St. Paul and St. Barnabas then returned to the cities they had left, “and exhorted them to persevere in the (Catholic) faith”. Their lives became “Hidden Prophecies” predicting what Catholics would do for the next 2,000 years to get into Heaven: “It is necessary for us to undergo many hardships to enter The Kingdom of God”.
Those two Catholic Bishops were blessed with enough Faith to Ordain the first Catholic priests outside of Israel! “They appointed presbyters for them in each Church and, with prayer and fasting, commended them to the Lord in Whom they had put their faith.” That is a “Hidden Prophecy” of how Catholics from all over the world would get the Catholic Sacraments from Catholic priests and religious who let them choose to get their immortal souls into Heaven!
Today, Psalm 145:10-13, 21 is a “Hidden Prophecy” from the Old Testament that predicts what Catholics would do for the last 2,000 years! “Your friends make known, O Lord, the glorious splendor of Your Kingdom.” King David used the same word that foretold what Jesus would tell every Catholic on earth who would make that “known”! “You are My friends if you obey My commands.” (John 20:23!)
Today’s Gospel, from John 14:27-31, is one “Hidden Prophecy” after another! “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you… Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid… I am going away and I will come back to you… If you loved Me, you would rejoice that I am going to The Father for The Father is greater than I… the world must know that I love The Father and that I do just as The Father has commanded Me.”
Today’s “Hidden Prophecies” from Jesus predict His Crucifixion, Death, Resurrection, Ascension, and Return!
“And now, I have told you this before it happens, so that when it happens, you may believe.”
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “God loves Catholics who share His Words / that we are grateful to have heard, / from Jesus!”
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