A reflection from Susan Skinner of Veil of Veronica on September 10, 2025…
I am the good shepherd.
The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
John 10:11
I know it has been awhile since I posted anything. I have spent my time praying and pondering all the sufferings in the world. I haven’t sat down to write on any of them until today.
First, I wanted to say, I do not like to get political in as much as I try to keep my eyes on Christ and love the people I come in contact with regardless of where they are coming from, but I do watch some political commentators and figures. One of them was Charlie Kirk. I liked to watch Charlie because he was always respectful of the people he came in contact with. He always listened to other points of view even if he disagreed. That was his thing, “ask me anything”. He could agree to disagree without screaming or getting violent. And most of all he never shied away from speaking of Christ. For this, I admired the man. So, I want to explain a series of events that happened starting last night and through the day.
Last night our fire alarm started beeping. My husband tried to change the battery and reset it but it resulted in all the alarms in the house going off. For me, when I hear alarms of any kind I pray. I take the alarms as a warning, and I pray. I don’t usually know what I am praying for, but God does.
Then I went to lunch for Radio Maria, USA and sat next to my friend Leah who started telling me about this amazing and strange dream she had last night. I will come back to this and tell you about the dream in a minute, as now with the news of Charlie Kirk’s passing the dream made perfect sense. But before I tell you the dream, I wanted to relay that on the way home from the lunch my friend Debbie and I prayed a Rosary, like we often do when we ride together. This was around 1:00 p.m. CST. After we finished the Rosary, I was expecting to chat and Debbie said, “let’s pray a Divine Mercy Chaplet for our country.” I agreed, so we did. It was later that the news of Charlie being shot happened shortly after we prayed for mercy. But the more profound part was Leah’s dream.
Leah sat next to me at lunch and said, “I had a very vivid dream last night.” She went on to explain that in the dream she was at a University surrounded by beautiful mountains. She has a daughter college age, so she thought perhaps they were visiting a University for her. She said she went into a large auditorium like place but it was pitch black inside. She saw a light in front of the room and realized a dark haired man was kneeling with his head bowed in prayer very close to a tabernacle that housed the Eucharist. He did not seem aware that the tabernacle was there. He had a silhouette around him of light that was emanating from the tabernacle. The only actual light in the room was the red sanctuary lamp with one candle burning in it, but light itself emanated from the tabernacle onto the man. Leah said she woke up at this point and had the Whitney Houston song in her head, Greatest Love of All.
She and I had pondered what this meant at lunch. We no longer have to speculate. The man in front of the tabernacle was Charlie Kirk. And though he was not Catholic I do believe he had the light of Christ. And he did believe the children were the future which is why his mission was to talk to the young at universities. My prayer now is that Charlie is with the Greatest Love of All.
We are at a turning point. Violence is increasing. God is being mocked and hated. We must persevere in love and fortitude. Choose love. May God Bless you all tonight and May God bless America.
2 Peter 3
Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking. I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles.
Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.” But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water. By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.
Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat. But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.
So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him. Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure position. But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen.
Alicja Lenczewska
Elizabeth Kindelmann
Through what became The Spiritual Diary, Jesus and Mary taught Elizabeth, and they continue to instruct the faithful in the divine art of suffering for the salvation of souls. Tasks are assigned for each day of the week, which involve prayer, fasting, and night vigils, with beautiful promises attached to them, laced with special graces for priests and the souls in purgatory. In their messages, Jesus and Mary say that The Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is the greatest grace given to mankind since the Incarnation. And in the not-so-distant future, her flame will engulf the entire world.
Father Stefano Gobbi
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Thirdly, the messages have frequently been accompanied by visible phenomena, photographic evidence found in In Cammino con Maria, which cannot be the fruit of subjective imagination, notably the presence of the stigmata on Giselle’s body and and the appearance of crosses or religious texts in blood on Gisella’s arms. See the pictures taken from her apparition website 
Jennifer
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Why the Visionaries of Our Lady of Medjugorje?
Why Pedro Regis?
Why the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta?
of the saints. It wasn’t until she became a “Daughter of Mary” that the nightmares finally ceased at the age of eleven. In the following year, Jesus began to speak interiorly to her especially after receiving Holy Communion. When she was thirteen, He appeared to her in a vision that she witnessed from the balcony of her home. There, in the street below, she saw a crowd and armed soldiers leading three prisoners; she recognized Jesus as one of them. When He arrived beneath her balcony, He raised his head and cried out: “Soul, help Me!” Deeply moved, Luisa offered herself from that day on as a victim soul in expiation for the sins of mankind.
immobile, rigid-like state that appeared almost as if she were dead. It was only when a priest made the sign of the Cross over her body that Luisa regained her faculties. This remarkable mystical state persisted until her death in 1947—followed by a funeral that was no little affair. During that period in her life, she suffered no physical illness (until she succumbed to pneumonia at the end) and she never experienced bedsores, despite being confined to her little bed for sixty-four years.
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