In 1997, the messages of Itapiranga at times emphasized devotion to St. Josephs Most Chaste Heart, and Jesus asked for the following Feast Day to be introduced into the Church: I desire that the first Wednesday, after the Feast of My Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, be dedicated to the Feast of the Most Chaste Heart of St. Joseph. On March 26, 1994 he heard a voice saying Little son, write! Marco, dear son, do not be afraid, I am [your] Mother, write for all your brothers and sisters. Together with my blessing, I express my best wishes for the Words of Heaven contained here to resonate in every creature of good will. Mary appears in these apparitions as Rosa Mystica, a title under which she appeared to nurse Pierina Gilli in Montichiari-Fontanelle (1947), an event to which the Brazilian apparitions to Eduardo and Junior refer repeatedly. Seven months later, a statue of Our Lady of the Immaculate Heart in their home began to weep oil profusely (later, other sacred statues and images began oozing fragrant oil while a crucifix and statue of St. Pio bled. Taking them with him to the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament during his lunch break from his job as a real-estate broker, he devoured them and quickly became a different man. Prepare your refuges, especially in your homes. A month later, Elizabeth was scheduled to board a train from Austria at 10:00 a.m. in order to return to the Swiss family who decided to adopt her. For a powerfully effective Marian consecration, order the book, Marys Mantle Consecration: A Spiritual Retreat for Heavens Help, endorsed by Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone and Bishop Myron J. Cotta, and the accompanying Marys Mantle Consecration Prayer Journal. On the popular web site, "Countdown to the Kingdom", they offer a brief commentary on Gisella's most recent message from Our Lady about the coming warning. One of those images is now hanging in the Marian Center located at the Divine Mercy Shrine in Massachusetts). It was two years into these cenacles that the words of Jesus came true: Our Lady began to lead him, but in the most remarkable way. Collectively, they are available in the book: She Who Shows the Way: Heavens Messages for OurTurbulent Timesand have been studied thoroughly by several priests and found free of all doctrinal error and are wholeheartedly endorsed by Archbishop Emeritus Ramn C. Argelles of Lipa. These meetings, at which Valeria delivered her messages, were first held twice monthly on Wednesdays, then weekly at the request of Jesus, whom she says that shesawat the church of SantIgnazio in connection with a meeting with the American Jesuit, Fr. The Marian messages to Father Gobbi seem to warn that this event (and afterwards a promised Miracle and also a Chastisement or Punishment) were to occur at the end of the twentieth century. Leading Mariologist, Dr. Mark Miravalle of Steubenville University devoted a book to them, called The Three Hearts: Apparitions of Jesus, Mark, and Joseph from the Amazon. Dear children, hold one anothers hands; even when everything becomes impossible for you, trust God, who will not abandon you. The messages were passed to Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, John Paul IIs personal secretary. Many of the prophecies Luz de Mara has received have already been fulfilled, including the attack on the Twin Towers in New York, which was announced to her eight days in advance. In 1964, was ordained at the age of 34. She was one of five daughters who lived in the small city of Corato, Italy. Furthermore, the urgency of the messages content is such that suspending the dissemination of this material until the resolution of Edson Glaubers case (which may take several years) would risk silencing heavens voice at a time when we most need to hear it. While an investigative commission was established in 1998 by Bishop of Brescia Bruno Foresti, the Church has never taken an official position on the apparitions, although Marcos prayer group has been allowed to meet in a church in the diocese. I need to decide if I should consecrate my life to the Mother of God., Thats great, Walter, Aaron responded, but its 9 a.m., and we have work to do. On one occasion, Jesus placed the crown of thorns upon her head causing her to lose consciousness and the ability to eat for two or three days. It was a sensation of pleasure so strong that he wondered if he would have a heart attack, and so he pulled off the freeway. Dom Carillo Gritti, Bishop of the diocese of Itacoatiara, approved the 1994-1998 phase of the apparitions as supernatural in origin on May 31, 2009 and personally laid the cornerstone of a new Sanctuary in Itapiranga on May 2, 2010. In the following year, Jesus began to speak interiorly to her especially after receiving Holy Communion. The attitude of the clergy is predictably mixed: some priests are skeptical, while others participate fully in the cenacle. Elizabeth Kindelmann The Diocesan Administrator contacted the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and obtained a statement in 2017 to the effect that the CDF did not consider the apparitions supernatural in origin, a position also maintained by the Archdiocese of Manaus. Quite naturally, this work makes use of certain instruments; and in a particular way, Don Stefano Gobbi has been chosen. A Nihil obstatwas recently granted by an Archbishop for the Polish translation of the second of these,In Cammino con Maria(On the way with Mary) published byEdizioni Segno, containing the story of the apparitions and the associated messages up until 2018. As he was praying at the shrine of Our Lady for certain priests who had renounced their vocations and were attempting to form themselves into associations in rebellion against the Catholic Church, he heard Our Ladys voice urge him to gather other priests who would be willing to consecrate themselves to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and be strongly united with the Pope and the Church. .). My children, pray much, for the earth is an immense desert and where there will be water, it will cause much damage. Gobbi would receive over the course of his life. Below is a presentation given by Luz de Mara in Esteril Cathedral in Nicaragua, with an introduction given by Bishop Juan Abelardo Mata who granted her the Imprimatur: Indeed, an international consensus seems to have emerged that the messages of Luz de Maria de Bonilla are worthy of consideration. The campaign against the alleged visionary began when it was reported that, under her maiden name Maria Giuseppa Scarpulla, Gisella had received a conviction (preliminary and open to appeal) from a Sicilian court along with three other individuals for the "fraudulent bankruptcy" of a firm of which she was the administrator in 2013, three years On account of her embarrassment before her family, who did not understand the cause of her sufferings, Luisa asked the Lord to conceal these trials from others. The Marian Movement of Priests must be my work alone. But I come again, bringing the graces of God, Our Lord, to grant them to all the families most in need of Divine protection. In a follow-up meeting, Msgr. She was, perhaps, what one would have called a typical Sunday-going Catholic who knew little about her faithand even less about the Bible. The conversion has to be now! The apparitions have already been the subject of an Italian national TV broadcast during which the seer behaved with remarkable calm in the face of some heated criticism from panelists in the studio toward her and two books. We remain in full compliance with all of these directives; and, if his messages are formally condemned in the future, then we will remove them from this website. It was Fr. Our Ladys messages from July 1973 to December 1997, through locutions to Fr. In 2010, her mystical communications came to a conclusion, two years before her death from cancer in St. Johns Hospice, Szczecin, on January 5, 2012. Jesus immediately granted her request by allowing her body to assume an immobile, rigid-like state that appeared almost as if she were dead. As a layman, he managed an insurance agency, and then following a call to the priesthood, he went on to receive a doctorate in sacred theology from the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome. Since then, she has mostly received two messages per week and on occasion, only one. As regards the often sobering content of the messages,** there is a striking convergence between them and other serious sources, with notheological errors. He also received 11 secrets concerning the world, Italy, apparitions in the world, the return of Jesus, the Church and the Third Secret of Fatima. There are several major reasons for focusing on Trevignano Romano as a potentially important and solid prophetic source. They will have lost the occasion to be saved. Their message is so mind-boggling that doubt in them would be quite tempting, but for the fact that simply no reasonable grounds remain for such doubt. She booked a ticket to Rome and, against all odds, found herself and her companions in the inner corridors of the Vatican. She returned to Budapest temporarily at age eleven to be with and care for her mom who was seriously ill and confined to bed. The CDF, under Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Mller at the time, did not mention a second seer, Glaubers mother, Maria do Carmo, who likewise met with approval by the now-deceased Bishop Gritti. My children, I ask you to have a pure heart: rid it of hatred and resentment, and make weekly confession; be ready, because the Warning is about to occur. And in the not-so-distant future, her flame will engulf the entire world. All this is not to frighten, but to urge man to turn his gaze toward God. On October 4, 1996, appearing in front of the cross on the mountain next to the chapel, the Virgin said: Beloved son, I wish to tell you this afternoon and to tell all my children the importance to live the messages. thus I have again succeeded in postponing the time of the chastisement decreed by divine justice for a humanity which has become worse than at the time of the flood.(#576). Apparitions subsequently occurred almost daily until January 1, 1996, two months after the first message from Jesus in a hospital where Eduardo was working as a nurse. Jesus told the man, I will cease speaking to you now, but My Mother will continue to lead you. The couple felt called to start a cenacle of the Marian Movement of Priests where they would meditate on the messages of Our Lady to Fr. As regards the often sobering content of the messages,** there is a striking convergence between them and other serious sources, with notheological errors. No pronouncement has yet been made on the authenticity of the apparitions, which continue to be monitored by the Church. In all the places where I have already appeared and continue to appear, I always confirm my apparitions so that there will be no doubts, and here in Itapiranga, my Heavenly manifestations will be confirmed. She also requested that a chapel be built that still stands. *Here, the final act of mercy should be taken as reference to collective rather than individual mercy, given the unique universal dimension of the Illumination of Conscience. We can talk about that later.. In December of that year, Pope Frances lifted a moratorium ondiocesan organized pilgrimages, essentially elevatingMedjugorjeto shrine status. With 4921 messages allegedly received by Pedro Regis since 1987, the body of material associated with the purported apparitions of Our Lady of Anguera in Brazil is extremely substantial. While such a foreignNihil obstat does not, on its own, constitutein situ diocesan approval of the apparitions, it is certainly not insignificant. The principal themes of the messages to Eduardo Ferreira (more than 8000 to date) are convergent with the majority of other serious contemporary prophetic sources. Today the movement cites membership of over 400 Catholic cardinals and bishops, more than 100,000 Catholic priests, and millions of lay Catholics around the world, with cenacles of prayer and fraternal sharing among priests and lay faithful in every part of the world. It was on this date that she began recording her mystical dialogues. They began in 2016 following her visit to Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and purchase of a statuette of Our Lady, which subsequently began to weep blood. In the messages, Jesus and Mary express their profound sadness over mans disobedience of the Divine law, which has led him to align with evil and act against God. The conversion has to be now! In each revelation given to Luz de Mara, Our Lord Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary guide the steps, the work, and the actions of the people of God in these times in which humanity needs to return to the teachings contained in Holy Scripture. Yet there is additional video evidence of solar phenomena in the presence of multiple witnesses during prayer at the apparition site, similar to the phenomena of the Dancing Sun in Fatima in 1917 or attested by Pope Pius XII in the Vatican Gardens immediately preceding the proclamation of the Dogma of the Assumption in 1950. It was only when a priest made the signof the Cross over her body that Luisa regained her faculties. Together with her brother, she started participating in the meetings of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in 1984 following the death of their mother. I call you to pray that human beings would discern and continue to be united to the Will of the Father. There, in the street below, she saw a crowd and armed soldiers leading three prisoners; she recognized Jesus as one of them. Gobbi and celebrated Mass with him in his private Vatican chapel annually for years. In May of 2017, acommission established by Pope Benedict XVI andchaired by Cardinal Camillo Ruiniconcluded its investigation into the apparitions. The alleged Marian apparitions in Trevignano Romano in Italy to Gisella Cardia are relatively new. I call you to pray concerning the next great earthquake that will shake the Ring of Fire, striking in the direction of America. While I am not worthy of this, I accept with great fear and responsibility this great gift, handing myself over totally to His Divine Will. Even though some of the Lords words were of warning, he described Jesuss voice as always beautiful and gentle. The children were received and blessed by Mgr Dominik Toth of the Trnava-Bratislava archdiocese, where an official inquiry was instigated on October 28, 1998. The volumes that contain PRIVATE REVELATION from heaven, given to Luz de Mara from the year 2009 to the present time, have been given to me for the respective ecclesiastic approval. In particular, how could Pedro Regis have imagined the extensive message #458, which he received publicly while kneeling for nearly two hours on November 2, 1991? My children, thank you for having responded to my call in your hearts. After years of abandoning herself to the will of God, Luz de Mara began to suffer the pain of the Cross, which she carries in her body and soul. Dermine with respect to the general question of contemporary private revelation, it quickly becomes apparent that he has a theologicala prioriagainst any prophecy (such as the writings of Fr. Thus began an adventure with God and Our Lady that Walter could never have dreamed of. An hour later, he walked back into Aarons office with a smile on his face and said, I did it!. Taking them with him to the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament during his lunch break from his job as a real-estate broker, he devoured them and quickly became a different man. Around that time, she also began to have intimate conversations with the Lord through inner locutions, followed by conversations with the Virgin Mary and her guardian angel. As he was praying at the shrine of Our Lady for certain priests who had renounced their vocations and were attempting to form themselves into associations in rebellion against the Catholic Church, he heard Our Ladys voice urge him to gather other priests who would be willing to consecrate themselves to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and be strongly united with the Pope and the Church. The following is adapted, in part, from the book, THE WARNING: Testimonies and Prophecies of the Illumination of Conscience, pp. Then he heard a voice that he believed was God the Father: The Blessed Mother has chosen you to be used as an instrument of God. Elizabeths answer was Yes, and through her, Jesus and Mary began a Church movement under a new name given to that immense and eternal love that Mary has for all her children: The Flame of Love.. The consistently elevated theological content and pedagogy of these messages and devotions. See above and www.MarysMantleConsecration.com. Around the age of fourteen, Luisa began to experience visions and apparitions of Jesus and Mary along with physical sufferings. For an inspirational read of amazing conversions as a result of the Medjugorje apparitions and to read an account of the very first apparitions, see the best-sellers, FULL OF GRACE: Miraculous Stories of Healing and Conversion through Marys Intercession and OF MEN AND MARY: How Six Men Won the Greatest Battle of Their Lives. Sometimes these are in the presence of witnesses for which we have video evidence (see here). She returned to Budapest temporarily at age eleven to be with and care for her mom who was seriously ill and confined to bed. Around that time, she also began to have intimate conversations with the Lord through inner locutions, followed by conversations with the Virgin Mary and her guardian angel. Zanoni, the current Archbishop of Feira de Santana, with diocesan responsibility for Anguera, is broadly supportive, as can be seen from this short interview (in Portuguese with Italian sub-titles): Click here. Vatican envoy Archbishop Henryk Hoser was also appointed by the pope to oversee the care of pilgrims there, declaring in July 2018 that thelittle village is a source of grace for the whole world.In a personalconversation withBishop Pavel Hnilica,Pope John Paul II stated, Medjugorjeis a continuation, an extension of Fatima. To date, theapparitions and accompanying graces have producedover four hundred documented healings, hundreds of vocations to the priesthood, thousands of ministriesworldwide, and countless and often dramatic conversions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkZ3LUxx-8E. These are the words that Jesus is begging us to have ever on our mind, heart, and lips.