'Visionaries' in Ireland (3) - Priest speaks on The Warning Second Coming Revelations from anonymous visionary ''Maria Divine Mercy'

Fr. Owen Gorman who writes for the Alive newspaper in Ireland wrote this article in March 2012 on the 'Warning Second Coming'  which is based on supposed revelations from an anonymous Irish visionary calling herself 'Maria Divine Mercy'.  Below is his article: 

Many faithful Christians at present believe that the world has gotten so bad that God will intervene directly in human affairs to bring us to our senses. Something big will happen, they say, and soon!

This view is central to a website, ‘the warning second coming’, that is popular with some Catholics. It is associated with an anonymous‘European seer’ who goes by the name, ‘Maria Divine Mercy’.

The website claims that since November 2010, ‘Maria’ has been receiving messages from God the Father, Jesus and Our Lady. They speak of a worldwide warning from God, the need for conversion and the Second Coming of Christ.

In judging private revelations, the Church rightly proceeds with great caution. If any “revelation” contains a substantive doctrinal or moral error it can be dismissed as being ‘not of supernatural origin’.

Applying this standard to ‘Maria Divine Mercy’, we find a number of doctrinal errors in her writings. Here are sample messages followed by responses based on Church teaching:

(1) Message (20 May 2011):

Many people believe that My Second Coming indicates that the end of the world has come.

This is not the case, for instead, it will mean the End Times when Satan and his followers will be banished from earth for 1000 years.

Response: This “message” contradicts Church teaching, where the Second Coming will indeed mean that the end of the world has come. Our Lord’s Second Coming will signal that the history of the world has run its course.

The earth and the cosmos will be renewed and evil will no longer tarnish God’s creation. The ‘new heavens and the new earth’ and the renewed creation will be free from Satan’s power not for 1000 years, but forever.

 (2) Message (7 May 2011):

My Passion the Cross and the atrocities committed by man at My crucifixion have not been revealed to the world in the way they were meant to be.

Response: The revelation of Jesus’ passion is found in the four Gospels, which are inspired by God.  

To claim that the events around Jesus’ crucifixion have not been revealed as they were meant to be belittles Biblical revelation. It implies that the Gospel accounts are defective.

But this cannot be, for God Himself is the author of Scripture which manifests his mind and will. Maria Divine Mercy has not got this point right. Is anyone sniffing heresy?

(3) Message (31 January2012):  I grant them [my disciples] [a] plenary indulgence to enable them carry My torch of fire so that they can spread conversion. They must say this prayer for seven consecutive days and they will be given the gift of total absolution and the power of the Holy Spirit.

Response: 

Private revelations often contain promises of special rewards for faithful

followers. But there are two big problems here.

(a) Jesus does not grant plenary indulgences. He has delegated the dispensing of

indulgences to Church authorities. They decide what pious practices merit a plenary indulgence, and the conditions.

(b) total absolution of sins comes through the sacrament of penance, not from reciting

a particular prayer over a 7-day period, however meritorious that prayer may be.

This small sampling of messages should make it clearthat the views on the ‘warning’ website contain serious doctrinal errors and are not a reliable guide to the Catholic faith. 

Above from March 2012 edition of Alive Newspaper link here:  Alive - Fr. Owen Gorman on Warning Second Coming