The Green Gandolfo Mass, now the Rainbow parade and Lavender Mass at St. Peter’s. If, as predicted by Our Lady of LaSallette, “Rome will lose the Faith,” we now witness the Vatican and the Church no longer undergoing just the assaults of revolution but facing chaos and conquest.
A chilling spiritual parallel can be made with the dreadful destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple by the Roman Titus Caesar. The historian Josephus records several omens believed to have foretold the disaster. Among those, “a star resembling a sword” (which reminds us of the lightning strikes over St. Peter’s at the time of Pope Benedict’s departure); also a “bright light around the temple altar” during one Passover season (anyone remember the “mysterious light” in the April sky over St. Peter’s during the funeral for Pope Francis… or the ghostly beam trained on his tomb in St.Mary Major Basilica?).
In 70 A.D., Titus captured the Temple Mount, ordered the Sanctuary to be profaned, the Temple itself looted and destroyed. Because of fear, confusion, even bribes, great numbers of the priestly and upper classes surrendered and in turn persuaded many others to surrender or flee. Historians like Cassius Dio described how the high priests impiously threw away the keys to the Temple complex as “they held on to one another and were drawn into the flames.”
Meanwhile, Jerusalem was systematically leveled, all traces of former grandeur erased. According to Josephus, the devastation was so thorough that a visitor might not believe it had ever existed. However, rediscovering the backwater that Jerusalem had become, Roman emperor Hadrian built a temple to Jupiter on the ruined Temple Mount and dedicated the Golgotha area to Venus, goddess of love.
The Green Gandolfo Mass, now the Rainbow parade and Lavender Mass at St. Peter’s. If, as predicted by Our Lady of LaSallette, “Rome will lose the Faith,” we now witness the Vatican and the Church no longer undergoing just the assaults of revolution but facing chaos and conquest.
A chilling spiritual parallel can be made with the dreadful destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple by the Roman Titus Caesar. The historian Josephus records several omens believed to have foretold the disaster. Among those, “a star resembling a sword” (which reminds us of the lightning strikes over St. Peter’s at the time of Pope Benedict’s departure); also a “bright light around the temple altar” during one Passover season (anyone remember the “mysterious light” in the April sky over St. Peter’s during the funeral for Pope Francis… or the ghostly beam trained on his tomb in St.Mary Major Basilica?).
In 70 A.D., Titus captured the Temple Mount, ordered the Sanctuary to be profaned, the Temple itself looted and destroyed. Because of fear, confusion, even bribes, great numbers of the priestly and upper classes surrendered and in turn persuaded many others to surrender or flee. Historians like Cassius Dio described how the high priests impiously threw away the keys to the Temple complex as “they held on to one another and were drawn into the flames.”
Meanwhile, Jerusalem was systematically leveled, all traces of former grandeur erased. According to Josephus, the devastation was so thorough that a visitor might not believe it had ever existed. However, rediscovering the backwater that Jerusalem had become, Roman emperor Hadrian built a temple to Jupiter on the ruined Temple Mount and dedicated the Golgotha area to Venus, goddess of love.