This conclave will not give us PETRUS ROMANUS

For the Prophecy of the Popes by St Malachy to be fulfilled, the next and the last Pope should be called PETRUS ROMANUS (Peter the Roman).

Who is that cardinal elected pope who would dare to take the name Petrus Romanus to fulfull a prophecy? It would take a very arrogant cardinal to assume such a name for the sake of fulfilling a prophecy.

So, no, the next Pope in the Vatican’s seat will not be called PETRUS ROMANUS. So who will it be? And if a false Pope will be occupying Rome’s seat, where will the real pope’s seat be?

However the prophecy will be fulfilled in some way or another!

Conclave 2013

Pope Benedict XVI’s last angelus

It is very interesting to read the last angelus of Pope Benedict XVI. He says that the Lord is calling him to climb the mount (see text of angelus further down).

Has Pope Benedict XVI been called by the Lord as Jesus was called in the Garden of Gethsemane, the garden of olives? If this is the case, no wonder St Malachy’s motto of Benedict XVI is De Gloria Olivae.

And is the mount mentioned by Pope Benedict XVI the same one of the third part of the Fatima secret? Again if this is the case, like Jesus Christ was called in the garden of olives to sacrifice himself by death  for the salvation of humanity, so is doing Benedict XVI. His resignation is his calling in the preparation for the Second Coming. If the third part of the Fatima secret is to be interpreted correctly, Benedict XVI shall die as sacrifice for humanity.

Pope Benedict XVI giving his last angelus

Here is the last angelus of Pope Benedict XVI:

Dear brothers and sisters. During the service on the second Lent Sunday, the Gospel of the Transfiguration of the Lord is always presented.

Luke, the evangelist, has highlighted the fact that Jesus transfigured while he prayed. His is a deep, profound experience of relationship with the Father during a sort of spiritual retreat that Jesus lives on a high mount accompanied by Peter, James and John, the three disciples who were always present during the moments of the divine manifestation of the Master.

The Lord, who not long ago had proclaimed his death and resurrection, offers the disciples an anticipation of his glory.

And in both the transfiguration and the baptism, the voice of the heavenly Father echoes: “This is my son, the chosen one, listen to him!”

The presence of Moses and Elias later on, representing the laws and the prophets of the ancient covenant, is far more important: All the story of the covenant is oriented towards Him, the Christ, who fulfills a new exodus not towards the promised land as during the times of Moses but towards Heaven.

St. Peter’s intervention: “Master, it is beautiful for us to be here” represents the impossible attempt to stop such mystical experience.

St. Augustine has commented: “St. Peter… on the Mount… Christ’s only food was the soul. Because he must have descended to return to exhaustion and pain, while above, he was filled with feelings of sacred love towards God, which thus inspired him to a sacred path.”

Pondering over this fragment of the Gospel, we can draw a very important lesson: First of all, the supremacy of prayer, without which all the apostolate endeavors, and that of charity, will be reduced to activism.

During Lent, let us learn to give the right time to prayer, both personal and community prayer, which breathes air into our spiritual life.

However, praying does not mean isolating oneself from the world and its contradictions, as St. Peter would have liked to have done on Mount Tabor, but prayer leads us back to the path, to action.

Christian existence — I have written in the Message for this Lent — means to continuously climb up the mount for our encounter with God, so that afterward we can descend again filled with his love and strength to serve our brothers and sisters with the very love of God.

Dear Brothers and sisters, this Word of God I feel in a particular way towards me, at this moment in my life.

The Lord is calling me to “climb the mount,” and to devote myself to meditation, reflection and prayer.

However, this does not mean abandoning the Church, but rather, if God has requested this of me, it is so that I can continue to serve the Church with the same dedication and the same love with which I have done up until now, but in a way adapted to my age and my strength.

Let us invoke Virgin Mary’s intercession: Let her guide all of you to follow the Lord Jesus always, in prayer as well as in laborious charity.

De Gloria Olivae (The Glory of the Olive)

De Gloria Olivae (The Glory of the Olive) is the motto that St Malachy attributed to Pope Benedict XVI. Proponents of the prophecies have generally try to draw a connection between Benedict and the Olivetan order to explain this motto. Benedict’s choice of papal name is after Saint Benedict of Nursia, founder of the Benedictine Order, of which the Olivetans are one branch. 

Benedict’s name is a sound reference to the motto by St Malachy. In fact St Benedict is the patron saint of Europe and the olive is a symbol of peace thus implying that the head of church is a herald of peace in Europe and to the world.

However there could be a hidden truth behind his motto. Like Jesus in the Garden of the Gethsemane (the garden of olives) has let himself in the Lord’s will to sacrifice for the salvation of mankind, could the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI imply he’s sacrificing himself and preparing us to the Second Coming? Is Pope Benedict XVI part of the Olivet Prophecy?

Pope Benedict XVI leads a mass at the Garden of Gethsemane at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem – 15th May 2009

 According to Gospel of Matthew Chapter 24 (as part of the Olivet Prophecy):

36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,[f] but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.

Could the two men be the two Popes, i.e. the ‘retired’ Pope Benedict XVI and the one who’ll take the seat in Rome? If so what will happen to Benedict XVI if he’s taken? Read also about the last angelus of Pope Benedict XVI.

2013 the year of the space phenomena

Surely the discovery of Comet ISON in September 2013 came as an exciting surprise at least in the scientific world. However Comet ISON is expected to be the most spectacular among several other comets and asteroids to come within the inner solar system and potentially close to our planet, the Earth.

It may seem like a well-orchestrated campaign. The fact is that 2013 proved to be the year of the comet and that simultaneously the Rosetta mission is preparing to turn its tools and land on a comet nucleus. Is it just a coincidence? If it is, it is one of those coincidences that cheer the lives of scholars and lovers of astronomy. However the coincidence doesn’t stop there. Comet ISON has a path full of religious symbols and is expected to be the most spectacular too. Is it pure coincidence or something else related to faith?

So far there are three protagonists in 2013 with the tail of order, and all likely to be visible to the naked eye even from our skies. The first of these is scheduled for mid-March, is called Pan-STARRS , also known as the Easter Comet and as of today it has already begun to be photographed and collecting fans among astronomers and amateur astronomers in the Southern Hemisphere.

An image of the comet Pan-STARRS taken by Ignacio Diaz Bobillo , from Buenos Aires, Argentina

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The comet Pan-STARRS , which makes a fine show in this photo made ​​Feb. 16 by Ignacio Diaz Bobillo, in Argentina, is the big news of the southern sky these days. As demonstrated in recent weeks Pan-STARRS began to be followed and photographed. The observations culminate around March 10, when the comet will pass at a minimum distance from Earth of about 45 million km.

In reality it is difficult to estimate precisely the exact day when the comet becomes visible in our country and its maximum brightness. The forecasts are cloaked in an aura of uncertainty, as is always the case for comets, astronomical objects able to appear suddenly and disprove the calculations even on very short timescales. To make matters worse, the fact that this comet has not been already observed in a previous visit to the Solar System. Pan-STARRS is in fact a long-period comet (also referred to as aperiodic), which completes its orbit around the sun in about 110,000 years. For these reasons, when astronomers can only estimate when and how much will become bright in our skies. And if it is currently visible with a simple pair of binoculars for amateur astronomers Australians, many are willing to bet that in mid-March will become visible to the naked eye from Italian skies (see this link for the section on comets UAI Italian Amateur Astronomers Union ).

As its name indicates, Pan-STARRS or better C/2011 L4 Pan-STARRS was discovered June 6, 2011 by the telescope Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System in Hawaii.At the time of its discovery, was about 1.2 billion miles from Earth and the first observations made ​​it possible to calculate preliminary orbit, then improved in the following months. Pan-STARRS is from the Oort Cloud , a spherical cloud of icy bodies made ​​ready to become comets that surrounds the solar system to the incredible distance from the Sun than 100,000 AU, or astronomical unit, that is 100,000 times the distance between the Sun and Earth, well beyond the orbit of Neptune, the last planet, located about 30 AU. Pan-STARRS has an orbit inclined at about 84 °, cutting the plane of the solar system, other carattrtistica typical for non-periodic comets.

But Pan-STARRS is only the first parade of the comet in 2013. The second oldest is the green Lemmon , already presented at the end of March and it promises to become visible in our own. With its long tail, unmistakable for the greenish color due to the gases that are evaporating from the nucleus, Lemmon has already been widely photographed in the southern hemisphere and one of the three wins (for now) the band more beautiful. Finally, the third protagonist of 2013 is already famous comet ISON , whose discovery was announced in September, and will close the year probably becoming the Christmas Comet of 2013. ISON, like her colleagues, promises great things: passing very close to the Sun, it will be incredibly bright, probably equaling the Moon, remaining visible even in daylight.

Lemmon: the green comet