Day of Disclosure - What does the Catholic Church Say about UFO's

"Before  Christ's second coming the Church must pass through a final trial," (CCC 675) What will that trial be?  Only God knows.  But soon the US government will be releasing information on UFO's etc.  There will also be a new movie by Steven Spielberg called Disclosure Day regarding this subject.  Will this be part of the trial, the test God has in store for Christians?  It is important that Catholic's and all Christians be informed about what these "UFO's" might be.  This blog will be a collection of videos and articles regarding this subject.  As always, pray and do your own research.  This is for informational purposes only.  Blessings and peace, Lynn  

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CCC 675 The Church's ultimate trial - Before Christ's second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers.(Luke 18:8, Matthew 24:12) The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth (Luke 21:12,  John 15:19-20) will unveil the "mystery of iniquity" in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth.  The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh." (2 Thess 2:4-12; 1 Thess 5:2-3, 2 John 7; 1 John 2:18, 22) 

1 Timothy 4:3-4 "As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine, nor to occupy themselves with myths and endless genealogies which promote speculations rather than the divine training that is in faith." 

2 Corin 11:3 "But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ." 

Galatians 1:8 "But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to that which we preached to you, let him be accursed."  

                           Disclosure Now: What Catholics MUST Know

A few scripture passages and paragraphs from the Catechism that are helpful when decerning this issue.

Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." 

CCC 326 "The Scriptural expression "heaven and earth" means all that exists, creation in its entirety. It also indicates the bond, deep within creation, that both unites heaven and earth and distinguishes the one from the other:  "the earth" is the world of men, while "heaven" or "the heavens" can designate both the firmament and God's own "place", "our Father in heaven" and consequently the "heaven" too which is eschatological glory. Finally, "heaven" refers to the saints and the "place" of the spiritual creatures, the angels, who surround God" 

Genesis 1:27 "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." 

CCC 355 "God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them." (Genesis 1:27) Man occupies a unique place in creation:  (1) he is "in the image of God"; (2) in his own nature he unites the spiritual and material worlds; (3) he is created "male and female"; (4) God established him in his friendship." 

Romans 5:12 "Therefore as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men sinned." 

1 Corn 15:22 "For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. " 

Tobit 8:6 "You made Adam and gave him Eve his wife as a helper and support.  From them the race of mankind has sprung." 

CCC 36 "Our holy mother, the Church, holds and teaches that God, the first principle and last end of all things, can be known with certainty from the created world by the natural light of human reason.  Without this capacity, man would not be ale to welcome God's revelation. Man has this capacity because he is created "in the image of God." (Genesis 1:27)

John 15:15 "No longer do I call you servants for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends for all that I have heard from the Father I have made known to you."  

CCC 65 "In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son."  (Heb 1:1-2) Christ, the Son of God made man, is the Father's one, perfect, and unsurpassable Word.  In him he has said everything; there will be no other word than this one." 

Psalm 115:16 "The heavens are the LORD's heavens, but the earth he has given to the sons of men." 

Sirach 49:16 "Shem and Seth were honored among men, and Adam above every living being in the creation." 

CCC 358 "God created everything for man, but man in turn was created to serve and love God and to offer all creation back to him." 

CCC 293 "Scripture and Tradition never cease to teach and celebrate this fundamental truth:  "The world was made for the glory of God."  St. Bonaventure explains that God created all things "not to increase his glory, but to show it forth and to communicate it," for God has no other reason for creating then his love and goodness:  "Creatures came into existence when the key of love opened his hand." 

CCC 294 "The glory of God consists in the realization of this manifestation and communication of his goodness, for which the world was created.  God made us "to be his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace,"(Eph 1: 5-6) for "the glory of God is man fully alive; moreover man's life is the vision of God:  if God's revelation through creation has already obtained life for all the beings that dwell on earth, how much more will the Word's manifestation of the Father obtain life for those who see God." The ultimate purpose of creation is that God "who is the creator of all things may at last become 'all in all,' thus simultaneously assuring his own glory and our beatitude." (1 Cor 15:28)

John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." 

CCC 2566 "Man is in search of God.  In the act of creation, God calls every being from nothingness into existence.  "Crowned with glory and honor," man is, after the angels, capable of acknowledging "how majestic is the name of the Lord in all the earth." (Psalm 8:1, 5) Even after losing through his sin his likeness to God, man remains an image of his Creator, and retains the desire for the one who calls him into existence.  All religions bear witness to men's essential search for God. (Acts 17:27)

CCC 2567 "God calls man first.  Man may forget his Creator or hide far from his face; he may run after idols or accuse the deity of having abandoned him; yet the living and true God tirelessly calls each person to that mysterious encounter known as prayer.  In prayer, the faithful God's initiative of love always comes first; our own first step is always a response.  As God gradually reveals himself and reveals man to himself, prayer appears as a reciprocal call, a covenant drama.  Through words and actions, this drama engages the heart  It unfolds throughout the whole history of salvation." 

Colossians 1:18 "He is the head of the body, the Church; he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in everything he might be pre-eminent."

Ephesians 4: 11 -16 "And his gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; so that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth  and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the cunning of men, by their craftiness in deceitful wiles. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by every joint with which it is supplied, when each part is working property, makes bodily growth and upbuilds itself in love." 

CCC 792 "Christ "is the head of the body, the Church." (Col 1:18) He is the principle of creation and redemption.  Raised to the Father's glory, "in everything he is preeminent," (Col 1:18) especially in the Church, through whom he extends his reign over all things." 

CCC 795 "Christ and his Church thus together make up the "whole Christ" (Christus Totus).  The Church is one with Christ.  The saints are acutely aware of this unity:  Let us rejoice then and give thanks that we have become not only Christians, but Christ himself.  Do you understand and grasp, brethren, God's grace toward us?  Marvel and rejoice: we have become Christ.  For if he is the head, we are the members; he and we together are the whole man...The fullness of Christ then is the head and the members.  But what does "head and members" mean? Christ and the Church." (St. Augustine) Our redeemer has shown himself to be one person with the holy Church whom he has taken to himself." (Pope St. Gregory the Great) Head and members from as it were one ad the same mystical person. (St. Thomas Aquinas)"

John 3:29 "He who has the bride is the bridegroom; the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice; therefore this joy of mine is now full."

Mark 2:19 "And Jesus said to them "Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them?  As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast."  

Ephesians 4:4-6 "There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of us all, who is above all and through all and in all."

CCC 796 The Church is the Bride of Christ - The unity of Christ and the Church, head and members of one Body, also implies the distinction of the two within a personal relationship. This aspect is often expressed by the image of bridegroom and bride.  The theme of Christ as Bridegroom of the Church was prepared for by the prophets and announced by John the Baptists. (John 3:29)  The Lord referred to himself as the "bridegroom." (Mark 2:19) The Apostle speaks of the whole Church and of each of the faithful, members of his Body, as a bride "betrothed" to Christ the Lord so as to become but one spirit with him. (Matt 22:1-14, 25:1-13, 1 Cor 6:15-17, 2 Cor 11:2) The Church is the spotless bride of the Spotless Lamb. (Rev 22.17, Eph 1:4, 5:27) "Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her." (Eph 5:25-26)  He has joined her with himself in an everlasting covenant and never stops caring or her as for his own body (Eps 5:29)."