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 Behold Thy Mother The princess of a far away un-civilized land–which could recall but a faint memory of Christianity—had a dream. A bright being led her to the ocean shore and pointed out a fleet of ships with black crosses on their sails (like that on the forehead of the shining guide), and told her that the knowledge of the true God would come to her people through the people on those ships. The far away land was North America; the princess was the sister of the Mexican Emperor and one of the first Mexican converts; three of the many ships were Columbus’ Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria; and the bright guide? The Blessed Virgin Mary of Guadalupe, who wore a broach with a black cross at her throat and made all about her shine like gems with her light. Despite the efforts of the Spanish missionaries, before she appeared few natives converted. Stuck in their pagan habits or hindered by bad example, they didn’t bother turning to the newcomers’ Faith—true or not. Then she appeared to the convert Juan, as an Indian like himself, speaking in his own language beautiful, loving words. She asked for a church to be built on that hill where she stood—Tepayak hill where once stood the temple to the ‘goddess of motherhood’ who took the lives of thousands of babies as sacrifice victims. By asking for a Catholic church here Our Lady was saying: Forget that murdering demon—I will be your true Mother; “…your merciful Mother, the Mother of all who love me, of those who cry to me, of those who have confidence in me.” Was she not also protesting against the murderous devil of abortion in our own times? A temple of the true God she desired, where, as Our Lady then said, she would hear their sorrows and answer their prayers. It was for that reason she performed the miracles we have ofter heard: how she caused Spanish roses to bloom and grow overnight amidst the dead of winter, arranged them with her own hands, and ‘painted’ herself as a young girl on his tilma the way she appeared to Juan Diego. Niña pinta Santa Maria—“Young girl paints Holy Mary.” The church was built and miracle upon miracle occurred when she was invoked. Literally millions of native souls clamored for baptism, so that the missionaries wrote home begging for re-enforcements because their arms were ‘paralyzing’. Maybe some wonder (as I did) why she is called Our Lady of Guadalupe? Mary didn’t appear there, where then did the idea come from? From her own lips; Our Lady desired to be called ‘Guadalupe’, from the word in the native language meaning “she who crushed the head of the serpent”. Quite appropriate, especially when we consider that the ‘head god’ of the pagan Indians was named Quetzelcoatl, the feathered serpent. Once again Our Mother cruses his thy head, as Genesis says “I will put enmities between thee and the Woman, and thy seed and her Seed. She shall crush thy head and thou shalt lie in wait for her heal.” And you know, Our Lady didn’t go to Mexico by herself—she brought her Seed, Baby Jesus, in her womb with her, for the black belt that she wore is what the Mexicans used to indicate pregnancy. The last book of the bible also has some fulfillment in her. A woman clothed with the sun, see the golden rays that surround her? The moon was under her feet, she stands on a crescent moon wearing a starry mantle: crowned with twelve stars. Plus, the woman in the apocalypse was with child and brought Him forth despite the dragon that sought to eat Him up. Thus, she will give birth to Jesus Christ in our souls in spite of Satan—as she did in Mexico—if we but remember to love Mary, cry to her and have confidence in her.
(information taken from The Wonder of Guadalupe, by Francis Johnston.) ~JMJ~ Our Lady of Fatima “Beyond a doubt the finest book on Our Lady of Fatima”* Thus the Catholic Messenger speaks of Mr. William Thomas Walsh’s book .The book is a work of art, so magnificent and detailed that I deem it unnecessary to write an essay on that apparition. There may be, however, one or two of you who have not read Mr. Walsh’s wonderful book or who have forgotten parts of it. That small number of you will find this essay of value as an incentive to read -or as a reminder of- Mr. Walsh’s book ‘Our Lady of Fatima.’ Our Blessed Mother appeared to Lucia Ab`obora and her two cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto** on May 13’Th 1917 in the Cova de Iria, a field belonging to Lucia’s father in a little place in Portugal called the Sarra da Aire. Mary returned on the thirteenth of every month with one exception until October 13- the day the sun danced. ‘The day the sun danced’ is a day well known by contemporary Catholics. Who could not know about it? The sun does not get so close to earth as to dry clothes and yet not burn them; it does not change the color of the sky multiple times in midday, nor does it dance back to its post in the heavens. No, it happened just once by Mary’s intercession, to prove that it was she whom those three children saw and her Son who had chosen them as messengers to a sinful people. During these six apparitions Our Lady made known some desires of her and her Son’s hearts and disclosed many things for the good of souls. Among the things the Mother of God asked was the consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart by all the Bishops including the Pope, in order that Russia would be converted and not spread her errors over the world. That wish was never granted in the way our Queen wished, Russia has spread her errors over the whole world: there is no country without communism. Mary also asked us to pray the Rosary every day, to stop sinning against God ‘for He is already much offended.’, and to make sacrifices for the conversion of sinners so that God would not have to punish the world. She informed them that when a strange light was seen in the night, God was about to punish the world. The three children heeded our Lady and did what she asked, but most of the world did not. Just before World War II a strange greenish light was seen by many. God punished the world. We too must heed Mary as the children did, if we do not we will find ourselves in worse shape. Our Lady gave the Children three secrets over the course of the six months. The third secret is the most interesting for our times, because it refers to the present crisis in the Church. This Secret was reveled to the children on the July apparition but they were cautioned to tell no one–excepting Francisco–what the secret was. We know (despite the great caution the three had) that the secret had to do with ‘the Holy Father’. We know this only because of Jacinta’s visions. One of which she asked Lucia if she could speak of: “Can I tell the people about the Holy Father and all those people?” she had said “No. Don’t you see that that is part of the secret and if you tell it will be discovered?” That snippet of a conversation and the fact that the secret was to be made public by the Pope by 1960 is a rather good hint that those three children were a part of a very small group of people who knew what the true Catholics have gone through and are still going through. But stay; do not lose heart because of our Church’s exile–of which Mary spoke–and the scandal some people are giving in the Church’s name. Listen to our Mary as she gives guidance and hope; ponder well her words especially these: “in the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph.”
* All information in this essay is taken from Mr. Walsh’s historical book “Our Lady of Fatima.” **When the children saw Our Lady only Lucia spoke, Jacinta could hear and see our Lady but Francisco could only see her, what she said was told to him afterwards by one of the other two. Our Lady and the Brown Scapular of Carmel  Since the time when, on Mount Carmel, Elias prayed that God would send rain to the parched earth, there had always been holy persons praying on the same mountain for the clouds to “rain the Just”–for the Savior to be born of a virgin mother. The faithful disciples of Elias were all baptized on Pentecost Sunday. They saw, spoke and knew the Blessed Mother personally during her earthly life and one can imagine what devotion they must have felt for her. They went back to the mountain and made and oratory to Our Lady and so they were called (as the Liturgical Year informs us) “Brothers of Blessed Mary of Mount Carmel”. So Our Lady of Mount Carmel is not ‘just’ an apparition, but Mary of Nazareth–in flesh and blood. Nevertheless when most people refer to her under this title they mean something that occurred much later; after Our Lady directed her order away from “the midst of a faithless people” (Jerusalem) by means of the invading Turks. Because of the dangers of the Moorish armies all but a few of the brothers left the mountain to settle in the West. Up to this time of 1251, scapulars (or aprons) were worn by the oldest Religious orders in Europe, but not by the Carmelite brothers from the East. So when Our Holy Mother appeared to St. Simon Stock, the General of the Order, she not only promised Whosoever shall die in this habit shall not suffer eternal flames, but she also approved of their exodus into Europe and their taking up the western customs. She later visited another of her sons in the order to tell him that when he would be made Pope (and she informed him that he would) he should let everyone know about the privileges she grants to all members if they go to Purgatory–that she would come down the Saturday after their death and bring their soul to Heaven. In sight of these assurances–deliverance from hell and a short time (if any) in Purgatory–is it a wonder that the Brown Scapular is the most commonly worn by devote Catholics? In fact, it is so beneficial and easy to take part in the promises that it is hard to understand why anyone would not wear the little patches of Brown wool—a symbol of love and thanksgiving for Our Lady’s motherly care. (All of the information in the above article has been gathered from Abbe Gueranger’s Liturgical Year, V. 13, page 110—if you could only read it! It’s not long, and perhaps the interesting and inspiring things you’ll read will supply for the inadequacy of this brief writing.) Our Lady of The Great Event (also known as Our Lady of Good Success) How long ago was the world warned? How long ago did God reveal the Devil’s plots for the nineteen hundreds? How did He tell? Whom did He tell? Did He tell at all? Yes, God told His people of the Devil’s plans through Our Lady of Good Success. Mariana de Jesus Torres didn’t know just how many favors and sorrows God was going to give her when she vowed herself to Him as a Franciscan of the Immaculate Conception in what is now called Quito, Equador. It was in the late fifteen and early sixteen hundreds when Our Lady came with her Son to warn Mother Mariana of the Church’s trial in the ninetieth and twentieth centuries. Our Lady was very precise. The information she gave is abundant, I can only give you a taste of her words. “…Satan will reign almost completely by means of the Masonic sects. They will focus particularly on the children in order to achieve this general corruption. Woe to the children of these times! It will be difficult to receive the sacrament of Baptism, and also that of Confirmation. Making use of persons in positions of authority the Devil will assiduously try to destroy the sacrament of Confession…”* Are you home schooling? Our Lady approves. Here are some of her words: “The effects of secular education will increase, which will be one reason for the death of priestly and religious vocations…” ** Although Our Lady told Mother Mariana much about the predicament of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Mary was not the only one to speak of it. Mother Mariana’s very own life was a foreshadowing of those -and our- times. For just as the true Church and her children are now in exile because they wish to follow the rules of Christ and His Church so Mother Mariana (who was Abbess) and her good sisters were thrown into prison by the bad sisters of the convent through the order of the bishop, whom those nonobservant sisters had deceived with horrible lies. Long was the time the faithful sisters where imprisoned, but they where not unhappy. Our Lady and the Saints come to visit them in their confinement. The prison was like a heaven on earth, while the convent out side was run by the bad and the weak willed sisters. In the end the bishop hearing about the holiness of the sisters imprisoned had them taken out and restored to their respective dignities in the convent. I fear I have not written the example well and that it will be hard for you, my reader, to see the significance in the episode. However I am sure that you will think of our Church and what I have written and be able to see how very much alike they are in spite of any defects in my writing. Don’t be surprised if you have never heard of this apparition. Our Lady said that it wouldn’t become well known until the nineteenth century. Although the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have past there seem to be much of what Our Lady said that applies to this, the twenty-fist century. We should all learn about Our Lady of Good Success and her holy daughter Mariana de Jesus Torres; Our Lady’s words and Mother Mariana’s life are for us and our times. *Our Lady of Good Success-Prophecies for our times- By Marian Therese Horvat, Ph. D. page 44
**Ibid page 46
A Short Essay on Our Lady of Lourdes What a triumphant day when Pope Pius the Ninth defined the dogma, over which Our Lady could be well pleased! Four years after that dogma had been defined, she declared it herself as if to reaffirm the Catholic Church’s teaching, saying: “I am the Immaculate Conception.” Then she established a miraculous spring of water to confirm the truth of her apparition, for only a certain Bernadette could see her, and what is the good of speaking if no one believes what you say? By her appearances to a humble, French shepherd girl at the town dump of Lourdes, our holy Mother also encouraged the practice of penance and the recitation of the rosary. She recited it with St. Bernadette in almost all of her eighteen visits. Sometimes during their rosary Bernadette would pause, entering into an interior conversation with her heavenly visitor. In one such instance Bernadette was seen to cry tears. She told an inquisitor afterward that: *“The Lady turned her eyes from me for a short while and looked out over my head. Then she looked at me again, and when I asked her why she looked so sad, she said, ‘Pray for sinners.’ ” The conversion of sinners through Immaculate Mary—doesn’t it seem a re-occurring theme in Our Lady’s apparitions? Why, less than forty years before Lourdes, she appeared to another favored soul in France, encouraging all to say: “O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.” Many Saints believed, and some were even told, that, of those souls who are in Hell, most are there because of sins of impurity. No wonder then that Mary has so many times—at Lourdes and in other places–urged us to devotion to her Immaculate Heart. It is a wonderful healing fountain of grace, making us brave soldiers of Christ. *Lourdes, by Johannes Jorgenson, pg. 24. Coming Sooner or Later: Devotion to the Sorrowful Heart of Mary; Her Seven Sorrows Our Lady of La Salette |
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