Are we running out of time?
After so much reading, I see that God does not repeat Himself in revelations. If God goes into great detail with Sister Josefa Menendez about His crucifixion, He will not repeat the same information to any other saint in human history. If He talks about Gethsemane with Saint Emmerich, He would not divulge Gethsemane again to any other saint. If He describes his body on the Cross to Norwich or describes His divinity to Saint Mechtilde, no other saint in history would get the same details. Saint Faustina describes hell. Saint Teresa of Avila, His Mansions in His Heart. Mary's life through the Venerable Mary of Agreda.
When we compare the hundreds of messages from Jesus around 2010 in the book "In Sinu Jesu", to the hundreds of messages God gave to Saint Bridget of Sweden around 1360, we see that God is not reiterating the same information! Similar topics, complementing each other in His wisdom but not repeating. A curious trait affirming God's presence in them. Saints' visions may be skewed, as they are descriptions from the eye and heart of the beholder, but when Jesus is talking to the saint, it is God who talks.
Book: In Sinu Jesu: When Heart Speaks to Heart - The Journal of a Priest at Prayer by A Benedictine Monk
Book: The Prophecies and Revelations of Saint Bridget (Birgitta) of Sweden: Volume 1, Volume2, Volume3, Volume 4 by Saint Bridget (Author)
People have said to me, "I only need the Bible!" falling into their own interpretations and denominations. May Mother Mary guide them!
[Jesus speaks] My words, which you hear from me frequently in spiritual vision, are like a good drink satisfying to those who thirst for true love; second, they warm the cold; third, they cheer the troubled; fourth, they heal those who are weak in soul.[Saint Bridget,1360]
My concern is that we now possess an extensive body of knowledge regarding the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the life and Passion of Jesus Christ, His crucifixion, His Sacred Heart and divinity, the nature of hell, and the mystery of our creation. Although God is infinite, human understanding of Him is necessarily limited; consequently, from a human perspective, we appear to be approaching the limits of topics on which further detailed revelation can be given. According to the writings attributed to Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich and the Book of Revelation**, there exists a divinely appointed “number” of saints destined to fill the places of the fallen angels in heaven. At present, however, vocations to the priesthood and religious life are at a historic low.
In light of prevailing anti-religious rhetoric, many may assume that the world will endure for centuries to come; however, it would not surprise me if human history were instead brought to an earlier conclusion. The information is readily available, yet it is consistently disregarded, and rather than deepening our religious commitment, society appears to be moving decisively in the opposite direction: 25% of Catholics go to church every Sunday, of those, only 63% believe in the Eucharist as the true body and blood of Christ, and that is only 3% of the world population!
Later, my suspicion got confirmed by the Old Testament, Job 33:14 (Douay-Rheims), "God speaketh once, and repeateth, not the selfsame thing the second time."
Do not expect things to improve. We are going through an apostasy of the Church, fueled by anti-religious sentiments from most governments,
At a pace of four hours per day, it would take the average reader approximately four years to complete the more than one hundred religious works listed on this website. As knowledge increases, so too does awareness of moral shortcomings; resistance from friends and family is therefore to be expected, and applying these insights to one’s own life often proves to be an arduous task. In this long and often solitary journey, one is called to rest in Jesus, who reminds us that “His yoke is easy and His burden is light.” The challenge is compounded further by the rapid closure of churches,
Moreover, many of the remaining Roman Catholic churches that are still open remain inaccessible for much of the time, opening primarily for the celebration of Mass due to diminished attendance and staffing. It is, indeed, an uphill battle. While some may respond by saying, “They deserve it; it is entirely of their own making,” my perspective, shaped by the reading of more than one hundred religious works, is markedly different: I grieve for the souls who pass from this life without the benefit of the Church’s sacraments. When I pray before the Blessed Sacrament, this reality is profoundly heartbreaking and a source of deep sorrow.
In the following video (minute 59), with careful discernment, Jesus confirms that only 2.5% of people will go to heaven, and 97.5% will go to hell.
Jesus also said, "I died for everybody to go to heaven. I gave the church the tools, and it is failing!" Only "selfless love and having lived it in Christ" can get you to heaven. Church sacraments will give you strength to accomplish this.
Finally, let's consider the disapproving statement I personally heard from God: "Unless you take the bread, you have no part with me." (I only had two locutions in my lifetime, "I love you too!" was the second). Jesus said to Saint Gertrude: "He who takes the Eucharist from a pure desire of God's glory, can never communicate with irreverence." We also know by statistics that only 3% of all souls—all Catholics—fall into this category. If we include the revelations of Saint Bridget: "God quickly withdraws from the heart that is not protected by the humility of confession." We can now draw the conclusion that 20% of people who reverently partake of the Eucharist do not appropriately attend confession. It's a narrow path that involves attending confession with an attitude of humility and an understanding of sin. Tragically, just 2.5 percent of people are willing to do that.
Let's approach this subject from a different perspective. Eucharist miracles show that Jesus' blood type is AB-positive. 2.5% of people have an AB-positive blood type (source: google). AB-positive blood types are known as “universal recipients” because AB-positive patients can receive red blood cells from all blood types. Since His crucifixion, the blood of Christ has been mixed with the blood of the saints, for they "complete what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church." (Colossians 1:24). Saints' blood becomes of a new type in Christ, which excludes 97.5% of people unwilling to mix their suffering with Christ's.
Let us remember Blessed Taigi's comment: "Those cast in hell were as numerous as flakes of snow in mid-winter."
Timid, slothful, spiritless persons delude themselves with the false hope that... heaven is not hard to win... and succeed in deceiving themselves and others. St John Chrysostom said: "Out of this thickly populated city with its thousands of inhabitants not a hundred will be saved."
Book: The Four Last Things, Chapter 4, "On the number of the saved" by Father Martin Von Cochem
If we assume at best that John Chrysostom (Doctor of the Church) is talking about four thousand people in Antioch, circa 375, and 100 are saved then our 2.5% salvation rate holds; but sadly John Chrysostom writes, when Ignatius of Antioch was bishop in the city, that the number of free adult men and women without counting children and slaves numbered 200,000 thousands, half of them Christians. Extremely worrisome for us when even 2.5 percent is a very hopeful salvation rate number.
** "and they are not so obscure as the words in the Apocalypse which I[Jesus] revealed to John in an obscure way in order that they would be interpreted by my Spirit at the time that pleased me." (St. Bridget, Vol 1, 1360)