Tim Francis prepared this educational program to help you increase your faith and love for the Holy Trinity and our Blessed Mother. His website is http://YouShallBelieve.com
I have known Tim for many years and recommend his work highly. He is a strong advocate for the “The Real Body and Blood Of Jesus” and the numerous miracles that occur on a daily basis. Both of us are greatly inspired by the amazing writings of Catalina Rivas.
Catalina is one of the few individuals in history who personally experienced the “Stigmata Of Jesus Christ.” The video below was broadcast on FOX TV.
Gospel John 20:1-9
On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don’t know where they put him.”
So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb. They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and arrived at the tomb first; he bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in. When Simon Peter arrived after him, he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there, and the cloth that had covered his head, not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place. Then the other disciple also went in, the one who had arrived at the tomb first, and he saw and believed. For they did not yet understand the Scripture that he had to rise from the dead.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church
640 “Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen.” The first element we encounter in the framework of the Easter events isthe empty tomb. In itself it is not a direct proof of Resurrection; the absence of Christ’s body from the tomb could be explained otherwise. Nonetheless the empty tomb was still an essential sign for all. Its discovery by the disciples was the first step toward recognizing the very fact of the Resurrection. This was the case, first with the holy women, and then with Peter. The disciple “whom Jesus loved” affirmed that when he entered the empty tomb and discovered “the linen cloths lying there,” “he saw and believed.” This suggests that he realized from the empty tomb’s condition that the absence of Jesus’ body could not have been of human doing and that Jesus had not simply returned to earthly life as had been the case with Lazarus.
From “The Great Crusade of Salvation” Testimony of Catalina Rivas (CS 77:8-12)
8) I will be victorious. Man will not be capable of inflicting a Passion greater than that which I suffered. And this is because I live My Passion of today in you, My followers and incurable dreamers of quick triumphs.
9) I have suffered everything in an orderly fashion in the time desired by the Father, and I have risen after three days in the tomb… And you would like to prevail and triumph immediately… Could it be that My creature is in such a hurry so as to perhaps abbreviate its sufferings?
10) I know it; I see everyone and even more so, I am within you to guide you, to talk to you, to restrain you, to move you forward. I am within you and you are in Me. So, let Me guide you; I want to give you more faith, more love. Do you understand? Do you understand that I suffer in you, that I suffer My Passion again?
11) Oh, happy are you, if you can be docile and trusting! Happy because then,My living within you, aside from becoming obvious, will bring to flower all the virtues. It will give you strength and victory and will make you in My likeness.
12) My Passion, therefore, is present in the world now; it continues now in you. Be glad because I have chosen you. Rejoice because you will be Me. You will take Me to the world and I will triumph with you, in you and through you.
Each week we will be presenting a portion of the following Sunday’s readings, and linking it to relevant parts of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and messages from the Testimony of Catalina. Pay special attention to the italicized underlined sections. Any comments you have are certainly welcomed.
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