In 1978, Fr. Bob Bedard, Founder of the Companions of the Cross, was given this EXTRAORDINARY PROPHECY regarding the Body of Christ and the call to UNITY which is so embedded in the heart of Fr. Ed Wade, CC:
September 20, 1978: The Lord is speaking :
“I am going to bring it all together and I have a word for you now, my ancient people: (Catholics)
I want you to get ready. I want you to get ready for what I am going to do.
As I put my people together, I want you to bring with you what I have done with you over twenty centuries.
What I have taught you is for all.
You can learn from one another, my people. My ancient people, you can learn from the others.
You can l earn from the Evangelicals and the famous world -wide ministries the importance of calling people to faith, how essential it is to make a personal faith decision, to accept Jesus, my Son, as Saviour and Lord, for so he is.
You can learn from the Pentecostals how to be open to all the gifts of my Holy Spirit, how to have great expectancy of me, of how I will intervene in your lives.
You can learn from the Anglicans how to be a body submitted to authority and yet comfortable with allowing all believers to have part in coming to decisions and in choosing leaders.
You can learn from the Orthodox in the profound beauty of their worship.
You can learn from the Baptists how vital it is for adults to make a real profession of faith.
You can learn from the Presbyterians the riches that lie in lay ministry, what it means to be a royal priesthood.
You can learn from the Lutherans how salvation is my free gift, that you don’t earn it.
And you can learn from these and from many others, much, much more. For they are my people too and I have not been idle in their midst.
But, my people of the ages. my ancient people , my Catholic people, know too that these others need to learn from you. I have been with you over the centuries. Don’t back out on me now. Don’t water down what I have done with you. Share your riches.
Teach them what it is to be a Eucharistic people, to be united and healed around the table of my Son.
Teach them what I have taught you about community, sharing life, about celibacy, about poverty.
Teach them about the role of Peter. My Son, Jesus, asked him three times about his love and told him: Feed my lambs , Feed my little sheep, Feed my sheep. Show them how Peter’s ministry continues today.
Teach them of the union you have with those who have gone before, of Mary, the chosen mother of my Son. Do not be afraid to call her Queen of Heaven, for so I have made her and so she is.
Teach them what I have spoken to you down through the ages through Benedict, and Augustine, and Jerome, and Basil, and Catherine, and Thomas, and Theresa, and John, and Gregory, and Francis, and Dominic, and Ignatius. Show them that my people, all my people, stand on the shoulders of giants, giants that I myself have raised up.
Teach them how I speak to my people, that only in the body of my Son can my word be discerned and authentically and surely known.
Come together, my people. Be together. Pray together. Work together. But come in fullness, with all that I have given you. Find out who you are, my people. Search out your roots.
But be guided by your shepherds for each step along the way. For I have chosen them well, with great care, and have invested them with wisdom and sensitivity and have given them and will continue to give them a prophetic word for you. Do not pass them by. For you will risk in doing so the further fracturing of the Body of my Son.
It is broken and wounded now. You need to weep for that. You need to experience the pain of your divisions. I did not divide the Body. But I will bring good out of the division. I am doing it now. I will continue to do it. I will perform a mighty work of healing in the Body of my Son on earth. I will forge a oneness the world will not be able to ignore. I will make of the Church that light on the mountain top, that light to all the world.
But to do this I need you. You are a part of my plan. Find out who you are and bring that with you as you walk and work with me in this faith adventure.
This is Fr. Ed Wade’s response to the above prophecy of the Founding Father of the Companions :
A few weeks ago a friend of mind sent me a copy of this prophecy that Father Bob Bedard gave in 1978 and was published in the CC newsletter in 1987. As I read it through a few times I was struck by the fact that I never knew of its existence and also by the fact it seemed that it was a clear mandate and commission for the Companions of the Cross to break down the dividing walls that exist within the Christian community at large.
The prophecy came to my attention at a significant time in my life. I saw it as a confirmation of the work that I have been doing the last year here in North Carolina in bringing the Christian communities together to seek restoration and reconciliation. I am seeing, and experiencing, the gifts and talents that we all bring to the table to further the proclamation of the gospel in the world today. How do we expect the world to believe that Christianity has any value or much to say when the Body of Christ is so fractured?
Christian values are being attacked from the outside by secular ideologies and well as from within the
church itself, yes by both clergy and laity alike who seek to destroy or reinvent the church according to their own taste .
The key to establishing unity must begin by learning how to love and trust one another. The first wall to come down lies within our own heart which separates us from God, others and ourselves.
People are looking for truth, love and acceptance. As we seek to build and restore the body of Jesus Christ then we can expect to see revival. How can the Holy Trinity possibly ignore our pleas and crying out?
We are seeing the Holy Spirit move throughout North Carolina for those seeking unity. Call it what you will but there is a grass roots movement and I don’t believe this can be stopped. Leaders from various parts of the US are moving to North Carolina.
I urge everyone to prayerfully read the prophecy of Father Bob and then ask the Holy Spirit to speak to you.
Fr. Ed Wade CC. The Call to Chrisan Unity… Ut Unum Sint!
http://comeholyspirit-tkc.com/blog/
Click on the link below to read the very interesting interview of Fr. Ed Wade CC. on why he joined the Companions.
http://companionscross.org/news/1998/FallIssue1998.pdf
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