Maundy Thursday 13 April 2017 That date is the Feast of Spanish martyr for the Eucharist, Prince St Hermenegild, whose own father, the King of Visigothic Spain, ordered his execution because he would not take communion from an Arian heretical priest. Prince Hermenegild was imprisoned in Tarragona or Toledo by his father, King Leovigild. During his captivity in the tower of Seville, an Arian bishop was sent to St. Hermenegild during the Easter Season, but he would not accept Holy Communion from the hands of that heretical prelate. King Leovigild ordered him beheaded and he was martyred on 13 April 586. Prince St Hermenegild refuses to take communion from the hand of an Arian heretical prelate and is thereafter martyred It is highly significant that this is the feast of a saint who would not take communion from an heretical priest since there are many today who would consider such an action far too scrupulous and who quite happily receive communion from priests with heterodox views and from non-Catholic clergy. That date is also remarkable in that, as well as being exactly 100 years since the Fatima visions in 1917, it is one of the few times when Maundy Thursday, the great Feast of the Institution of the Blessed Sacrament, coincides exactly in both the Eastern and the Western churches. It will also coincide with the Jewish Feast of the Passover. We shall know if this is correct because Conchita will confirm the date, 8 days before, there will be a permanent sign at the pine grove in Garabandal and it will be preceded by the Warning. We can expect the Warning within a year of that date and thus any time after 13 April 2016. Some have suggested that it might be on the Feast day of another martyr of the Eucharist and a Feast day of our Lady. One obvious date would be the Feast of the Assumption which concides with the Feast of St Tarcisius, the young Roman martyr of the Eucharist, i.e. 15 August 2016. That is, however, the purest speculation. Thereafter, once the Miracle has occurred and been seen, if men do not heed these great events and return to God, then we can expect a fearsome Chastisement, something, again, which St Pius of Pietrelcina believed in and warned about. The important point which ought not to require to be made but which plainly does need to be made is that now is the time of grace in which we must seize every opportunity for penance, sacrifice, fasting and reparation, lead good lives, pray the Rosary daily, wear the Brown Scapular of our Lady of Mount Carmel and make frequest visits to the Blessed Sacrament. We should also attend mass as often as we can, receive Holy Communion and, if possible, partake of the daily prayer of the Church (e.g. Lauds, Vespers &c).
Posted on: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:51:12 +0000
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