Shortly before he died (1226), St.
Francis of Assisi called together his brothers and warned them of
future tribulations, saying:
1. Brothers act with strength and
firmness in waiting for the Lord. A period of great tribulations and
afflictions in which great dangers and temporal and spiritual
discomforts will occur; the charity of many will grow cold, and the
malice of the wicked will abound.
2. The power of the demons will be
greater than usual, the immaculate purity of our religious community
and of others, will withered to the point that very few Christians
will want to obey the true Sovereign Pontiff and the Roman Church
with a sincere heart and perfect charity. At the decisive moment of
this crisis, a personage not canonically elected, raised to
the Pontificate, will endeavor to administer shrewdly to many the
mortal poison of his error.
3. While the scandals will multiply,
our religious congregation will be divided among others which will be
completely destroyed, because their members will not oppose but will
consent to error.
4. There will be such diversity of
opinions and divisions among the people and among the religious
and the clergy that if those evil days were not shortened, as
foretold by the Gospel, even the elect would fall into error (if
possible) (Mt 24:24), if in such a storm they were not protected by
the immense mercy of God.
5. Then our Rule and our manner of life
will be violently attacked by some. Terrible temptations will arise.
Those who will overcome the great trial will receive the crown of
life. Woe to the lukewarm ones who will place all of their hope in
the religious life, without firmly resisting the temptations
permitted for the proving of the elect.
6. Those who in spiritual fervor will
embrace piety with charity and zeal for the truth, will suffer
persecutions and insults as if they were schismatics and disobedient.
Because their persecutors, urged on by the evil spirits, will say
that in this way they render a great honor to God in killing and
removing from the face of the earth such pestilent men. But the Lord
will be the refuge of the afflicted and He will save them, because
they hoped in Him. And then in order to respect their Head, they will
act according to the Faith and they will chose to obey God rather
than men, gaining for themselves eternal life; they will fear
nothing, and they will prefer to die rather than consent to error and
perfidy.
7. Some preachers will keep silent
about the truth and, denying the truth, they will trample upon the
truth. The sanctity of life will be held in derision by those who
only profess it outwardly, and for this reason Our Lord Jesus
Christ will send them not a worthy Pastor, but a destroyer.
I, Father Joseph Dwight, translated
this document from an Italian translation in November 2013
(http://www.agerecontra.it/public/press20/?p=12166).
One can also find another translation
in English: “Works of the Seraphic Father St. Francis Of Assisi”,
Washbourne, 1882, p. 248.
(http://twoheartspress.com/uncategorized/st-francis-prophecy-of-the-false-pope/).
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Thank you Fr
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