User:Mark waterinckx

MARK WATERINCKX : C.V.

May I introduce myself. My name is Mark Waterinckx. I was born on the 4 th of July 1939 in Aalst, the province of East Flanders in Belgium, -just before Hitler's invasion of Poland. Now, since 1963, I am living in the outskirts of Bruges, having been a teacher of chemistry at the Technical University of West Flanders in Brugge/Sint Michiels. Since the first of August of the year 2000 I am on retirement, which now gives me ample time to commit myself to spiritual things. In my youth, like every Flemish idealist, I considered to become a priest. However, the obligatory celibacy finally withheld me from this idea. I got married and like the average man I raised a family. In the year 1969 a devastating car accident affected our family. At that time I lived in the Netherlands, where I was an examiner of inventions at the "International Institute of Patents" in The Hague. I actually -for two years- had quitted my teaching profession in Belgium, because of a declining number of students in 1969. Besides, salary in the Netherlands was twice fold and on top of it I attained diplomatic status. On our very first trip to the Artis-Zoo in Amsterdam a man fell asleep behind his steering wheel and crashed into my parked car. My wife suffered a broken neck, her brain-stem was contused and she lost an unborn child of six and a half months. She was in the process of dying... I myself moaned and out of pure misery I drank. After being hospitalized in Amsterdam for two months my wife came out completely cured. Later I learned that a distant cousin of mine, a Carmelite nun, had among others prayed to Padre Pio for healing. At a later date this nun sent me to the tomb of Padre Pio. This Italian Father, who for fifty years carried the stigmata, -Jesus' wounds of the cross-, died in 1968 and was recently canonized. This very same nun talked to me about all sorts of apparitions of the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God. In the beginning I was inclined to take many of these "apparitions" to be genuine. Learning by bitter experience, -I had given numerous lectures on the subject-, I was several times deceived by fraudulent 'visionaries'. In my zealous eagerness to convert the world I often placed myself above the jurisdiction of the local bishop, who in most cases rejected these 'apparitions' as not authentic. After starting to read the books of St. John of the Cross, -one of the Doctors of the Church-, I began to realize how the devil can beguile a person with false apparitions. In this process most of the time pride, sensationalism, money and sex are playing an important role. Quite a lot of false 'charismatics' have led to the formation of sects. I myself now always work in accordance with the Hierarchy of the Church. I am now trying to give to the deceived faithful in several languages truthful information with articles, video's and websites on Internet. Google with the name Waterinckx Mark. I was instrumental to a French book of 700 pages written by Joachim Bouflet, -"Les Faussaires de Dieu"-, (Presses de la Renaissance - Paris, ISBN nr. 2-85616-697-0). This book deals with some 300 false apparitions. I have written many articles about actual false apparitions in a Dutch periodical called AVE, -Nieuwsbrief over Actuele Verschijningen-(Newsletter about Actual Apparitions). See www.stichtingvaak.nl After more than thirty years 'in the field' I have collected hundreds of files of true and false messages, apparitions, miracles, stigmatized persons... Though private revelations can and may have deep influence on the faithful, -to only mention Lourdes, Fatima, Guadalupe ..-, they are secondary and do not belong to the "Depositum Fidei" (the teaching of the Church which all Catholics are bound to accept in Faith). With other words, they are no doctrine "Of Faith" and Catholics are not bound to accept them. Nevertheless, some recent false apparitions -like Medjugorje, San Damiano, Garabandal... ,-have, despite the objections of the Church, often led to fanaticism and sectarianism, as a consequence of lies and manipulations of those who profit financially from these events. But... some people actually do want to be deceived. Human interests so often play a bigger role than searching for the truth. Jesus came into this world to bring to us the Truth. I too intend to convey the truth about the present explosion of false apparitions that are sweeping the world, but I always do so in accordance with the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, which was founded by Jesus Christ, which is guided by the Holy spirit and which will never perish, despite the present confusion