God did not make death, nor does he rejoice in the destruction of the living. ... God formed man to be imperishable; the image of his own nature he made him. But by the envy of the devil, death entered the world, and they who belong to his company experience it.– The Book of Wisdom, 1:13; 2:23-24FOR online followers of Catholic visionaries steeped in recent world war warnings, the June 30 Mass readings for the 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time, excerpted above, offer sorely needed comfort.
on Apparition Hill, where Mary reportedly first appeared to six Croat teenagers on June 24, 1981.Notable, too, is a June 13 statement from another reputed visionary, Costa Rican mystic, wife and mother Luz de Maria de Bonilla, who bears the stigmata or wounds of Christ. Cited by columnist Ding Cervantes, Argentina-based Bonilla quoted Mary as saying in part: 'You should pray, my children, pray for those who are going to start the Third World War.