On the spiritual level, are we really all alike or is there a difference between the nature of the feminine spiritual connection and the male spiritual connection? Most of the time it seems as though I run into women who want to test my spiritual connection. They will also want to compete with me on a basis of what I perceive as the male form. What this tells me is they are apparently unaware of what the feminine power is on the spiritual side. I don’t blame them for this because in the world today there is little or no instruction for them in this regard.
On a greater level perhaps we are all the same but, I would suggest that this is only because every living thing in the universe is composed of the universe. In other words, that essence which we call life is reflective of the greater life force of the universe and this element exists in all of us. This does not mean however that we have the ability to join with this greater form or even participate with it in the nature of sustaining the universe. To make the attempt to join with this form while on this Earth is rather ridiculous. It should be obvious that if you had the ability to do this there would be no need for you to be on this Earth in any form.
It is my belief that all life on this Earth was created by the Father of this system. We are all an aspect of Him. This is why Jesus and every other true master of every faith I am aware of has presented the goal of attaining union with Him. This in my opinion means that you first attain to a conscious awareness of Him within you. Even this is in the beginning is rather difficult because you have to overcome the idea that you are an independent being who has free choice and can do anything you want your own way.
But, if you can acknowledge the possibility that you may be a manifestation of the Father then you have to consider the possibility that He created you (your angel that is) as either male or female. And since He has chosen to create both males and females there must be some reason for this. And that each has their own purpose and connection with Him.
From my experiences with Mary I have come to know Her as the essence of the feminine. She is essentially the latest manifestation of His first creation. His first creation was of a feminine form through which He could manifest life on Earth. She is connected to Him like no other. And if a woman should choose to find her connection to the Father in the most beneficial way they would best find it by learning from Mary.
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Monday, July 30, 2007
The Passover and the Ten Secrets
Moses led the Hebrews of out of bondage at the end of the last world age. The Passover was originally created to perpetrate the remembrance of the tribulations and miracles that usually accompany these times. The Hebrew word for the Passover is the pesach. Pesach was translated into the word Passover because the root of the Hebrew verb “to pass over” is found in the word pesach. However, pesach originally came from the Egyptian language. In Egyptian it means “to strike a blow.”[1]
When the concept of ages was virtually eliminated from the Bible, the true significance of the word pesach was lost. “The blow” is what Mary calls the Hand of God striking the Earth. The Great Chastisement is the result of this “blow” that will end the current world age. Moses was instructed to go Egypt no just to free the Jews from slavery but to save them from complete annihilation. The end of an age was at hand. If the Hebrews had stayed where they were, working on the temples of the king near the Nile tributaries they would most certainly have been drowned by inundations or buried in the ruble of their houses.
For the Seder meal of the Passover, special foods are prepared, which are symbolic of the hardships of the Exodus. While eating the food, the Ten Plagues are recited. The Ten Plagues of Moses were: Changing his staff into a snake, turning the waters of the Nile to blood, a plague of frogs, the air filled with gnats, the air filled with flies, animals dieing from a pestilence, a tremendous hail storm, a plague of locusts, an absolute darkness, death of the first born.
As these curses were unleashed upon the Egyptians, God hardened the heart of Pharaoh against freeing the Jews. As the Bible explains it, this was done so Moses could demonstrate the glory of the Lord with even greater demonstrations of his power. The Ten Secrets of the Mother Mary will also be a demonstration of the power of the Lord.
From what has been revealed about the Ten Secrets of Mary so far, they will have ramifications which will be way beyond the Ten Plagues of Moses. Mary’s Secrets will all have global consequences. They will be demonstrations of the power of God on all levels, not just the physical. Lighting up the Earth’s atmosphere for a week overshadows changing a staff into a snake by about a thousand times. Healing everyone in the world while God is seen in every form is way beyond turning the Nile River to the color of blood. If there are plagues and diseases they will probably be far worse than anything experienced by the Egyptians.
If the Ten Secrets of Medjugorje hold the same religious significance as the Ten Plagues of Moses, then Mary is the Moses of the current world age. By the time they are all fulfilled, the story of Mary’s Apparitions and Her Ten Secrets will be the beginning of a New Testament for the New Covenant. After “the blow” that ends the current age, a new Passover will be created in remembrance of Mary, the Ten Secrets, the tribulations and the Second Coming.
[1] “New American Bible,” St. Joseph Edition, Catholic Book Publishing Co. Ref. To the Book of Exodus pg.69
When the concept of ages was virtually eliminated from the Bible, the true significance of the word pesach was lost. “The blow” is what Mary calls the Hand of God striking the Earth. The Great Chastisement is the result of this “blow” that will end the current world age. Moses was instructed to go Egypt no just to free the Jews from slavery but to save them from complete annihilation. The end of an age was at hand. If the Hebrews had stayed where they were, working on the temples of the king near the Nile tributaries they would most certainly have been drowned by inundations or buried in the ruble of their houses.
For the Seder meal of the Passover, special foods are prepared, which are symbolic of the hardships of the Exodus. While eating the food, the Ten Plagues are recited. The Ten Plagues of Moses were: Changing his staff into a snake, turning the waters of the Nile to blood, a plague of frogs, the air filled with gnats, the air filled with flies, animals dieing from a pestilence, a tremendous hail storm, a plague of locusts, an absolute darkness, death of the first born.
As these curses were unleashed upon the Egyptians, God hardened the heart of Pharaoh against freeing the Jews. As the Bible explains it, this was done so Moses could demonstrate the glory of the Lord with even greater demonstrations of his power. The Ten Secrets of the Mother Mary will also be a demonstration of the power of the Lord.
From what has been revealed about the Ten Secrets of Mary so far, they will have ramifications which will be way beyond the Ten Plagues of Moses. Mary’s Secrets will all have global consequences. They will be demonstrations of the power of God on all levels, not just the physical. Lighting up the Earth’s atmosphere for a week overshadows changing a staff into a snake by about a thousand times. Healing everyone in the world while God is seen in every form is way beyond turning the Nile River to the color of blood. If there are plagues and diseases they will probably be far worse than anything experienced by the Egyptians.
If the Ten Secrets of Medjugorje hold the same religious significance as the Ten Plagues of Moses, then Mary is the Moses of the current world age. By the time they are all fulfilled, the story of Mary’s Apparitions and Her Ten Secrets will be the beginning of a New Testament for the New Covenant. After “the blow” that ends the current age, a new Passover will be created in remembrance of Mary, the Ten Secrets, the tribulations and the Second Coming.
[1] “New American Bible,” St. Joseph Edition, Catholic Book Publishing Co. Ref. To the Book of Exodus pg.69
Mary in Medjugorje
On June 24, 1981, the Virgin Mary made Her first appearance in Medjugorje, Bosnia where She announced Herself as the Queen of Peace. From then to the present day, She has continued to be seen there by Her chosen messengers and a host of others. Visions of the dancing sun and numerous other miracles have been reported in conjunction with Her appearances. According to Marija, Mary will remain at Medjugorje until the Great Chastisement.
“At five o’clock one afternoon, two girls, Ivanka and Mirjana, took a walk directly below a steep hill behind the village. Suddenly, Ivanka, noticed a person on the mountain holding a child in Her arms. She understood immediately that this was Our Lady and told her friend, Mirjana, who dismissed it by saying, ‘Come on, what lady? How could Our Lady appear to us?’
Mirjana convinced Ivanka that she was hallucinating and they continued on their way home. On the way, they met their neighbor, little Milka, who asked them to go with her to help bring in the sheep. In the meantime, Vicka with her neighbors Ivan (son of Jozo) and Ivan (son of Stanko) had taken a walk to the hill. When Ivanka returned from tending the sheep she once again saw Our Lady at the same spot on the hill. She directed the others to look and they saw Her too.
None of them heard Our Lady say anything. She just waved at them, motioning them to come toward Her. She also showed them the child in Her arms as She kept covering and uncovering Him. After five or six minutes, Our Lady disappeared, leaving in a bright light. The children returned to their homes with indescribable impressions and thoughts about what happened.”[1]
The events to follow were a virtual repeat of what happened in Fatima and Garabandal. There were conflicts between the priests who supported and questioned the validity of the children’s visions. There were intrusions by local government officials. There were doubts cast on the authenticity of the Apparitions from the villagers. Skeptics and doctors came to examine the children.
All the while the visions continued the people who accompanied the children to the Apparition site had numerous miraculous experiences. About two years after Her initial appearance, Mary told the children that She was going to give each of them ten secrets. Over the next several years all of the visionaries were given their secrets one at a time.
They have all guarded the information Mary gave them very tightly. For this reason, it is unclear whether the secrets are all the same or not. From what they have revealed, the first four secrets are about the same events Mary spoke of in Fatima and Garabandal; the Final Warning, The Great Miracle, a permanent sign and the Great Chastisement.
[1] “The First Months Of The Apparitions In Medjugorje” written by Stipe Cavar, The Publisher - Ziral, Special Edition, translator: Schwanhild Heintshel-Heinegg, Medjugorje 2000, pg. 19.
“At five o’clock one afternoon, two girls, Ivanka and Mirjana, took a walk directly below a steep hill behind the village. Suddenly, Ivanka, noticed a person on the mountain holding a child in Her arms. She understood immediately that this was Our Lady and told her friend, Mirjana, who dismissed it by saying, ‘Come on, what lady? How could Our Lady appear to us?’
Mirjana convinced Ivanka that she was hallucinating and they continued on their way home. On the way, they met their neighbor, little Milka, who asked them to go with her to help bring in the sheep. In the meantime, Vicka with her neighbors Ivan (son of Jozo) and Ivan (son of Stanko) had taken a walk to the hill. When Ivanka returned from tending the sheep she once again saw Our Lady at the same spot on the hill. She directed the others to look and they saw Her too.
None of them heard Our Lady say anything. She just waved at them, motioning them to come toward Her. She also showed them the child in Her arms as She kept covering and uncovering Him. After five or six minutes, Our Lady disappeared, leaving in a bright light. The children returned to their homes with indescribable impressions and thoughts about what happened.”[1]
The events to follow were a virtual repeat of what happened in Fatima and Garabandal. There were conflicts between the priests who supported and questioned the validity of the children’s visions. There were intrusions by local government officials. There were doubts cast on the authenticity of the Apparitions from the villagers. Skeptics and doctors came to examine the children.
All the while the visions continued the people who accompanied the children to the Apparition site had numerous miraculous experiences. About two years after Her initial appearance, Mary told the children that She was going to give each of them ten secrets. Over the next several years all of the visionaries were given their secrets one at a time.
They have all guarded the information Mary gave them very tightly. For this reason, it is unclear whether the secrets are all the same or not. From what they have revealed, the first four secrets are about the same events Mary spoke of in Fatima and Garabandal; the Final Warning, The Great Miracle, a permanent sign and the Great Chastisement.
[1] “The First Months Of The Apparitions In Medjugorje” written by Stipe Cavar, The Publisher - Ziral, Special Edition, translator: Schwanhild Heintshel-Heinegg, Medjugorje 2000, pg. 19.
After the Warning A Great Miracle
A message to Conchita Gonzolas from the Virgin Mary
On the day of the warning, everyone in the whole world will see a sign. They will find themselves all alone in the world, no matter where they are at that time, along with their consciences. The warning will be very personal. We will all react differently to it. To me, I understand that it will be like a preparation to see the miracle.
The miracle will affect everyone in Garabandal, as well as all peoples around the world. The sick will be cured, no matter what disease they suffer from, or religion they follow. Those without faith will come to believe. At the moment of the miracle, there will appear a sign in the pine trees overlooking the village. It will be seen and can be touched, but cannot be felt or sensed. For me the time is very close.[1]
Conchita was given the day for the Miracle. She is to relay this information to the world eight days ahead of time. Conchita now lives in New York City. From what Mary has shown Her, Conchita believes that the Great Chastisement will be horrific. She does not want anyone to have to live through it. She hopes the Divine Mother will take her and her children away when the Great Miracle happens.
What Mary-Loli remembers of the message, is different from what Conchita is willing to talk about. She saw a time when no motors would operate anywhere in the world. There would be a terrible heat. People will be looking for water and unable to find it. They will attempt to kill each other because of a universal shortage of resources. Mary Cruz and Jachinta are waiting until the announcement of the Miracle before they speak about the messages they received.
Just as it was in Fatima, an air of confusion has surrounded the Garabandal visionaries. Mary told them that they would all give conflicting accounts of what happened. She said they would even deny they had seen Her before their ordeal was over. Mary also told them why this would happen. They would be passing through the confusion of the Church. To date, all of these things have come to pass.
None of the girls remember everything about their ecstasy experiences. Considering the intensity of what they went through and the influences around them, it would not be surprising if they got some of the messages confused. Until Mary began to communicate through Veronica Lueken, in 1968, it was difficult to discern what was actually going to happen at the time of the Final Warning, the Great Miracle and the Great Chastisement.
[1] Ibid,
On the day of the warning, everyone in the whole world will see a sign. They will find themselves all alone in the world, no matter where they are at that time, along with their consciences. The warning will be very personal. We will all react differently to it. To me, I understand that it will be like a preparation to see the miracle.
The miracle will affect everyone in Garabandal, as well as all peoples around the world. The sick will be cured, no matter what disease they suffer from, or religion they follow. Those without faith will come to believe. At the moment of the miracle, there will appear a sign in the pine trees overlooking the village. It will be seen and can be touched, but cannot be felt or sensed. For me the time is very close.[1]
Conchita was given the day for the Miracle. She is to relay this information to the world eight days ahead of time. Conchita now lives in New York City. From what Mary has shown Her, Conchita believes that the Great Chastisement will be horrific. She does not want anyone to have to live through it. She hopes the Divine Mother will take her and her children away when the Great Miracle happens.
What Mary-Loli remembers of the message, is different from what Conchita is willing to talk about. She saw a time when no motors would operate anywhere in the world. There would be a terrible heat. People will be looking for water and unable to find it. They will attempt to kill each other because of a universal shortage of resources. Mary Cruz and Jachinta are waiting until the announcement of the Miracle before they speak about the messages they received.
Just as it was in Fatima, an air of confusion has surrounded the Garabandal visionaries. Mary told them that they would all give conflicting accounts of what happened. She said they would even deny they had seen Her before their ordeal was over. Mary also told them why this would happen. They would be passing through the confusion of the Church. To date, all of these things have come to pass.
None of the girls remember everything about their ecstasy experiences. Considering the intensity of what they went through and the influences around them, it would not be surprising if they got some of the messages confused. Until Mary began to communicate through Veronica Lueken, in 1968, it was difficult to discern what was actually going to happen at the time of the Final Warning, the Great Miracle and the Great Chastisement.
[1] Ibid,
Mary in Garabandal
On June 18, 1961, in the tiny village of San Sebastian de Garabandal, Spain, four young girls; Conchita Gonzolas, Mary-Loli Mazon, Mary Cruz Gonzolas and Jachinta Gonzolas, began having visions of the Virgin Mary. Conchita describes her encounter with an angel when the visions first began.
“I was ten years old then and I was with my three friends when we heard a loud noise like thunder. Suddenly, a very beautiful figure appeared to me. Then, the other girls saw it. We froze for a moment, and then ran toward the church very frightened. Most of the people thought we were making it up. I was very sad, going to bed that night. When I was saying my prayers, I heard a voice that said, ‘do not be troubled, you will see me again.”[1]
The angel appeared to them several more times over the next twelve days. Then, on July 1, the angel proclaimed himself to be Michael. He had come to introduce them to the Blessed Mother. On July 2, at about 6:00 PM, Mary appeared to them with an angel to each side of Her. The angels were later identified as Michael and an identical twin, who was probably Gabriel. Above the Virgin was a large eye. The children thought it to be the Eye of God.
Over the next year and a half, Mary appeared to them hundreds of times. Sometimes, they would go into ecstasy multiple times in a single day. During these episodes, the girls would do many erratic and miraculous things. There were reports of levitation. They would fall backwards in a completely rigid position, with no effort to catch themselves. After landing flat on their backs, they would then rise back up again while their bodies remained perfectly stiff.
One time, four large men attempted to move one of the children while she was in a state of ecstasy. They could not budge her. The children were also exposed to tests by the medical community. They were poked with needles and had matches lit close to their eyes. They were pinched and prodded in an effort to see how they would respond while they were in an altered state. While they were having the ecstasy experience, nothing seemed to faze them. When they awoke, there was never a mark left on them.
Again and again, they would fall into these trances, sometimes for minutes, sometimes for hours. After four months of these experiences with the Mother, Conchita announced their purpose. Mary had chosen the children to receive a message to convey to the world. The girls received the message on two consecutive nights. The first night they were heard to scream in terror. For this reason this message has come to be called, “the prophecies of the night of screams.”[2]
The girls had been reminded twice before about a Great Chastisement. A view of a hell on Earth was shown to them one more time. Then, the girls were told of two more events that would come to pass before the punishment. First, there would be a world wide warning. This would be followed by a Great Miracle for all to see.
[1] “San Sebastian de Garabandal” Produced by Michael Tubberty, M. F. J. Productions, Avondale, Auckland, New Zealand, 1997.
[2] Ibid,
“I was ten years old then and I was with my three friends when we heard a loud noise like thunder. Suddenly, a very beautiful figure appeared to me. Then, the other girls saw it. We froze for a moment, and then ran toward the church very frightened. Most of the people thought we were making it up. I was very sad, going to bed that night. When I was saying my prayers, I heard a voice that said, ‘do not be troubled, you will see me again.”[1]
The angel appeared to them several more times over the next twelve days. Then, on July 1, the angel proclaimed himself to be Michael. He had come to introduce them to the Blessed Mother. On July 2, at about 6:00 PM, Mary appeared to them with an angel to each side of Her. The angels were later identified as Michael and an identical twin, who was probably Gabriel. Above the Virgin was a large eye. The children thought it to be the Eye of God.
Over the next year and a half, Mary appeared to them hundreds of times. Sometimes, they would go into ecstasy multiple times in a single day. During these episodes, the girls would do many erratic and miraculous things. There were reports of levitation. They would fall backwards in a completely rigid position, with no effort to catch themselves. After landing flat on their backs, they would then rise back up again while their bodies remained perfectly stiff.
One time, four large men attempted to move one of the children while she was in a state of ecstasy. They could not budge her. The children were also exposed to tests by the medical community. They were poked with needles and had matches lit close to their eyes. They were pinched and prodded in an effort to see how they would respond while they were in an altered state. While they were having the ecstasy experience, nothing seemed to faze them. When they awoke, there was never a mark left on them.
Again and again, they would fall into these trances, sometimes for minutes, sometimes for hours. After four months of these experiences with the Mother, Conchita announced their purpose. Mary had chosen the children to receive a message to convey to the world. The girls received the message on two consecutive nights. The first night they were heard to scream in terror. For this reason this message has come to be called, “the prophecies of the night of screams.”[2]
The girls had been reminded twice before about a Great Chastisement. A view of a hell on Earth was shown to them one more time. Then, the girls were told of two more events that would come to pass before the punishment. First, there would be a world wide warning. This would be followed by a Great Miracle for all to see.
[1] “San Sebastian de Garabandal” Produced by Michael Tubberty, M. F. J. Productions, Avondale, Auckland, New Zealand, 1997.
[2] Ibid,
The Pope's Reaction
When Pope John Paul II was in Fulda, Germany in Nov 1980, he was questioned about the third secret of Fatima.
Q): What about the third secret of Fatima? It already should have been published in 1960.
A): (of the Holy Father): Due to its shocking content, and so as not to allow the global power of communism to interfere with the affairs of the Church, my predecessors gave confidential information in a diplomatic way. In addition, it should be enough for every Christian to know the following: when you read, that oceans will flood whole continents that millions of men will die very suddenly, in a few minutes. ...if this is known, it isn’t really necessary to claim the publication of this secret. Many people want to know it just for curiosity, and sensationalism: but, they forget, that knowing also involves responsibility. But, they just want to satisfy their own curiosity.
Q): How will things go with the Church?
A): (of the Holy Father): We must be ready to face great imminent trials, which could also require the sacrifice of our life for Christ. The trials could be reduced through yours, and our prayers, but they can’t be (anymore) avoided, because a true renewal of the Church can take place only this way. Just as it has already occurred many times, that the Church rose up again through blood, it won’t be different either this time. Let’s be strong, and let’s get ready, having faith in Christ, and in His Mother.[1]
Oddly enough, almost nothing Pope John Paul II talks about in this interview can be found in the Fatima secrets, at least as they have been published in Lucia’s book. Either what has been made available to the public has been edited, or Pope John Paul II was making reference to information from other sources. John Paul’s response to the question about the fate of the Church was the only answer complicit with the published edition of the third secret. However, none of his comments match the Vatican’s official press release in 2000.
Of course, he made these statements before his attempted murder. His assailant claimed to be motivated by what was in the third secret of Fatima. Wouldn’t it be something if he was hired to keep Pope John Paul II from continuing to speak openly about what he really knew? “We must be ready to face great imminent trials, which could also require the sacrifice of our life for Christ.”
In 1980 John Paul II must have viewed the killing of the pope in the third secret as a repeat of the persecutions of the early Christians by the Romans. “The Church rose up again through blood” is a statement of his expectation of a renewal of the church after another similar period of persecution. But, what if the last pope is killed “when oceans will flood whole continents (and) millions of men will die very suddenly, in a few minutes?” Why is there no mention of great ocean waves in the secrets as they were published from Lucia?
Perhaps, John Paul II thinks everyone fully understands what Jesus said about the end of the age. Or, everyone is aware of the messages from the Mother Mary about moving away from the shorelines. Or, everyone has studied the writings of Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce who have also prophesized great waves, famine and persecution. Why else would he say, “If this is known, it isn’t really necessary to claim the publication of this secret?”
If this were true, why did the church publish an interpretation of the third secret without addressing the traditional church doctrines about the Judgment Day and the end-times? If the secrets are about just another persecution of the church by tyrants like Caesar, Hitler or Stalin, the pontiff’s comments would be apropos. What is going to happen at the end of this age goes way beyond the total of all the atrocities ever committed by any of the most notorious despots in the last 2,500 years.
The magnitude of the destruction associated with the secrets is why Mary is appearing in the first place. Not only this, but Jesus will be coming to Earth in the body shortly after the Chastisement. This situation does not compare to anything the Church has had to deal with before.
At no time has the Divine Mother encouraged the clergy and the lay people to be martyrs in the face of the persecution of the Church. For those who have seriously studied Her messages and sought Her guidance it should be apparent that She is making every effort to save Her children from complete annihilation.
She is offering a safe harbor in places where the destruction will be minimal. She is offering salvation and guidance. She is appalled by the useless degradation of martyrdom. She is disappointed that the Vatican has never offered any other means to deal with the tribulations. They have not offered any positive guidance as to where to go or what to do in order to survive.
No doubt, they did not see fit to publish the third secret of Fatima for over eighty years for fear of creating a panic in the general populous. According to John Paul II, they also believed it would invigorate the communist movement; everyone else was just curious and thrived on sensationalism. The common man was not deemed capable of dealing with the information in the pious manner expected by the Church. Instead, the Vatican relayed what they knew to the governments of various countries, exclusive of those under communist rule. By doing so, the weight of the secret was no longer on their shoulders.
As a result of these attitudes and political agendas, a great paradox has arisen between the policies of the Church and the actions of the Mother Mary. While the Vatican has been frozen by fear of the Communists and unwilling to feed the desire for sensationalism, Mary has appeared to three children in Fatima, four young girls Garabandal, five children in Rwanda and six children in Medjugorje giving them terrible visions of a hell on Earth.
So, how is it that Mary can entrust this information to ten year old children and the Vatican can’t see fit to reveal anything to their own priests or let alone the lay people? Are children able to bear the responsibility of this knowledge, when those grownups responsible for world religious organizations are not?
All of the children Mary has appeared to have been normal people. None make any claims to a special spiritual status. Most say they are just as mystified by what happened to them as everyone else is. In contrast, the piety of the priests seems to have tainted their humanity. Their self-righteousness has perverted their trust in their fellow man. If there is to be a final demise to the church, these attitudes will certainly contribute to it.
[1] Interview with John Paul II, “Vox fidei” issue no.10-1981
Q): What about the third secret of Fatima? It already should have been published in 1960.
A): (of the Holy Father): Due to its shocking content, and so as not to allow the global power of communism to interfere with the affairs of the Church, my predecessors gave confidential information in a diplomatic way. In addition, it should be enough for every Christian to know the following: when you read, that oceans will flood whole continents that millions of men will die very suddenly, in a few minutes. ...if this is known, it isn’t really necessary to claim the publication of this secret. Many people want to know it just for curiosity, and sensationalism: but, they forget, that knowing also involves responsibility. But, they just want to satisfy their own curiosity.
Q): How will things go with the Church?
A): (of the Holy Father): We must be ready to face great imminent trials, which could also require the sacrifice of our life for Christ. The trials could be reduced through yours, and our prayers, but they can’t be (anymore) avoided, because a true renewal of the Church can take place only this way. Just as it has already occurred many times, that the Church rose up again through blood, it won’t be different either this time. Let’s be strong, and let’s get ready, having faith in Christ, and in His Mother.[1]
Oddly enough, almost nothing Pope John Paul II talks about in this interview can be found in the Fatima secrets, at least as they have been published in Lucia’s book. Either what has been made available to the public has been edited, or Pope John Paul II was making reference to information from other sources. John Paul’s response to the question about the fate of the Church was the only answer complicit with the published edition of the third secret. However, none of his comments match the Vatican’s official press release in 2000.
Of course, he made these statements before his attempted murder. His assailant claimed to be motivated by what was in the third secret of Fatima. Wouldn’t it be something if he was hired to keep Pope John Paul II from continuing to speak openly about what he really knew? “We must be ready to face great imminent trials, which could also require the sacrifice of our life for Christ.”
In 1980 John Paul II must have viewed the killing of the pope in the third secret as a repeat of the persecutions of the early Christians by the Romans. “The Church rose up again through blood” is a statement of his expectation of a renewal of the church after another similar period of persecution. But, what if the last pope is killed “when oceans will flood whole continents (and) millions of men will die very suddenly, in a few minutes?” Why is there no mention of great ocean waves in the secrets as they were published from Lucia?
Perhaps, John Paul II thinks everyone fully understands what Jesus said about the end of the age. Or, everyone is aware of the messages from the Mother Mary about moving away from the shorelines. Or, everyone has studied the writings of Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce who have also prophesized great waves, famine and persecution. Why else would he say, “If this is known, it isn’t really necessary to claim the publication of this secret?”
If this were true, why did the church publish an interpretation of the third secret without addressing the traditional church doctrines about the Judgment Day and the end-times? If the secrets are about just another persecution of the church by tyrants like Caesar, Hitler or Stalin, the pontiff’s comments would be apropos. What is going to happen at the end of this age goes way beyond the total of all the atrocities ever committed by any of the most notorious despots in the last 2,500 years.
The magnitude of the destruction associated with the secrets is why Mary is appearing in the first place. Not only this, but Jesus will be coming to Earth in the body shortly after the Chastisement. This situation does not compare to anything the Church has had to deal with before.
At no time has the Divine Mother encouraged the clergy and the lay people to be martyrs in the face of the persecution of the Church. For those who have seriously studied Her messages and sought Her guidance it should be apparent that She is making every effort to save Her children from complete annihilation.
She is offering a safe harbor in places where the destruction will be minimal. She is offering salvation and guidance. She is appalled by the useless degradation of martyrdom. She is disappointed that the Vatican has never offered any other means to deal with the tribulations. They have not offered any positive guidance as to where to go or what to do in order to survive.
No doubt, they did not see fit to publish the third secret of Fatima for over eighty years for fear of creating a panic in the general populous. According to John Paul II, they also believed it would invigorate the communist movement; everyone else was just curious and thrived on sensationalism. The common man was not deemed capable of dealing with the information in the pious manner expected by the Church. Instead, the Vatican relayed what they knew to the governments of various countries, exclusive of those under communist rule. By doing so, the weight of the secret was no longer on their shoulders.
As a result of these attitudes and political agendas, a great paradox has arisen between the policies of the Church and the actions of the Mother Mary. While the Vatican has been frozen by fear of the Communists and unwilling to feed the desire for sensationalism, Mary has appeared to three children in Fatima, four young girls Garabandal, five children in Rwanda and six children in Medjugorje giving them terrible visions of a hell on Earth.
So, how is it that Mary can entrust this information to ten year old children and the Vatican can’t see fit to reveal anything to their own priests or let alone the lay people? Are children able to bear the responsibility of this knowledge, when those grownups responsible for world religious organizations are not?
All of the children Mary has appeared to have been normal people. None make any claims to a special spiritual status. Most say they are just as mystified by what happened to them as everyone else is. In contrast, the piety of the priests seems to have tainted their humanity. Their self-righteousness has perverted their trust in their fellow man. If there is to be a final demise to the church, these attitudes will certainly contribute to it.
[1] Interview with John Paul II, “Vox fidei” issue no.10-1981
Fatima Secrets Revealed
The story of the Fatima Apparitions, as they have been approved by the Catholic Church, can be found in a book called In Lucia’s Own Words. It is a collection of Lucia’s writings which were both prompted and approved by the Catholic clergy. These are the three secrets revealed to the children at the Cova da Iria as written by Lucia.
The Vision Of Hell
Our Lady showed us a great sea of fire which seemed to be under the Earth. Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, floating about in the conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames that issued from within themselves together with great clouds of smoke, now falling back on every side like sparks in a huge flame, without weight or equilibrium, and amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and made us tremble with fear. The demons could be distinguished by their terrifying and repulsive likeness to frightful and unknown animals, all black and transparent. This vision lasted but an instant. How can we ever be grateful enough to our kind heavenly Mother, who had already prepared us by promising, in the first Apparition, to take us to heaven? Otherwise, I think we would have died of fear and terror[1].
Lucia grew up at a time when the orthodox views of heaven and hell were still intact. She has continued to maintain her allegiance to church doctrines and authority. The description of hell contained in her memoirs corresponds to the traditional portrayals of hell and purgatory which have been a part of the Catholic faith for nearly fifteen-hundred years. Because Lucia’s writings have been approved and released by the church, they would have to comply with Catholic doctrines.
None of the messages received in conjunction with secrets after 1961 have been approved. None of the visionaries who have received this information have become priests or nuns. All of them were raised in the Catholic faith. All of them have made a great effort to work within church guidelines. All of them have seen the vision of hell. None of them describe what they saw as a realm under the Earth. Instead, they saw it as a condition on the surface of the planet.
If what Lucia saw was actually the same thing, then what she calls “demons” could have been burning “animals” being thrown up into the air in a sea of flames. If the Earth was hit by a celestial object, there would be bodies of all kinds, animal and human, burned, twisted and distorted beyond recognition as they were thrown about in a global conflagration.
The Unknown Light
You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace. The war is going to end: but if people do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out during the Pontificate of Pius XI. When you see a night illuminated by an unknown light, know that this is the great sign given you by God that he is about to punish the world for it’s crimes, by means of war, famine, and persecutions of the Church and of the Holy Father. To prevent this I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart and the Communion of reparation on the First Saturdays. If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred; the Holy Father will have much to suffer; various nations will be annihilated. In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and she shall be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world[2].
“The war is going to end,” was a reference to the conclusion of World War I. Mary’s appearance in Fatima at the height of the first global confrontation was another part of the picture. Of particular interest, is how this war was ended. History books tell of the Allies defeating the Central Powers on the battle field. However, according to some analysts, the war was really forced to a halt by the Spanish Influenza; the same disease that took the lives of Francisco and Hacinta.
Millions of soldiers on both sides of the conflict either died, or were too ill to fight.[3] The fighting took the lives of 8.5 million in the military. Ten million civilians were also killed in the conflict. Twenty million people died of the influenza in the final year of the war. No number has been recorded for the millions more who were bedridden. The disease was called the Spanish Influenza because it was believed to have started in Spain. It’s true origins it could easily have been from Portugal.
Researches are still trying to unravel the nature of the virus that caused it. At the time of the outbreak, doctors and scientists were completely baffled. There was nothing they could do to stop it. There was never any vaccine developed to stem the tide of death. It was first detected in January of 1918. It ended just as mysteriously as it began when the war concluded in November of the same year.[4]
Mary may have unleashed the Spanish Influenza through the two children in Fatima. This was the way She ended the First World War. Still, man did not stop “offending God” and World War II began during the reign “of Pius XI (1922-1939).” If Mary is giving Her predictions in chronological order, then after World War II, “when you see a night illuminated by an unknown light” a period of greater tribulations will begin. “This is the great sign given you by God that He is about to punish the world for its crimes, by means of war, famine and persecutions of the church and of the Holy Father.”
At the end of the current age, divine intervention will end a great war. The only difference between the First World War and the Last World War will be the number of people involved. Both World Wars I and II have been previews of what is to come. The final battle will include all of the elements of the first two; disease, pestilence, nuclear weapons and a final great explosion near Japan. More people will die as the result of this conflict and its ultimate conclusion than the sum of all those killed in every previous war put together.
Mary asked for the “conversion of Russia” in the 1990’s, in an effort to prevent the initiation of a World War III before the “unknown light” is seen. In Her early messages, She would sometimes say, that the punishment by God could be avoided with increased devotion. Now it appears as though all hope of avoiding the tribulations is gone. If so, then “a period of peace” was all that could be hoped for in the “conversion of Russia.”
Mary has never altered Her messages with regard to the significance of the “unknown light.” From the beginning, She has associated it with a Final Warning. Neither has She wavered from the inevitability of a Great Chastisement. Although some of the tribulations might be mitigated, they cannot be entirely avoided. The punishment must then be inevitable. If the prophecies of the Bible about the coming of the Anointed One are to be fulfilled then all of these things must happen to one degree or another.
The Secret For The Pope
I write in obedience to you, my God, who commands me to do so through his Excellency the Bishop of Leiria and through your Most Holy Mother and mine. After the two parts which I have already explained, at the left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendor that Our Lady radiated towards him form her right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice: ‘Penance, Penance, Penance!’. And we saw in an immense light that is God: ‘something similar to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it’ a Bishop dressed in White ‘we had the impression that it was the Holy Father’. Other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark; before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way; having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him and in the same way there died one after another of the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and various lay people of different ranks and positions. Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a crystal aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God[5].
The angel with the “sword of flames” is usually associated with Michael the Archangel. Michael is in essence the Hand of God. It is he who will unleash the purification in the form of a rain of fire and brimstone to “set the world on fire.” The crucifixion was an expression of this kind of energy. Those who feed on the ideals that condemned Jesus to the cross will end up being martyrs. They will be consumed by the fire of the “sword” of self-righteousness.
The Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and Jesus can mitigate certain circumstances. Mary stopped Michael from carrying out a “penance” upon the world before now. However, a balance between dark and light has to be maintained. God has seen fit to let the punishment be carried out. Therefore, Mary showed Lucia the final hours of the Church.
When the Vatican finally saw fit to release the third secret in the early part of the year 2000, they included an interpretation. They deemed the death of the “Holy Father” to be a depiction of the attempt to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981. How they arrived at this understanding is a great a mystery. Nothing Lucia describes fits anything John Paul II was doing at the time he was shot. He was not walking up a “steep mountain.” He was not killed by a hail of “bullets and arrows.” He was not walking through “a big city half in ruins.” No other “Bishops” or “lay people” were killed by “soldiers.”
What Lucia was shown must have been the annihilation of what is left of the Vatican in the days just before “the punishment of the world.” The scene does not take place in Rome. The pope is not supposed to be there when the end comes. Somewhere in Europe, near “a big city,” there must be a “steep mountain” with a “rough hewn” cross on “the top” of it. A likely spot would be somewhere in France.
The last pope will be in hiding there during the last days before the Chastisement. At some point, he will emerge. He will bless the dead and dying as he walks through the city and up a steep hill followed by “other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious.” They will all be killed by the mobs and the invading soldiers.
[1] “FATIMA in Lucia’s own words”, Secretariado Dos Pastorinhos, Fatima, Portugal, Translated by Dominican Nuns of Perpetual Rosary, 11th edition, September 2000, pg.209.
[2] Ibid, pg.210.
[3] “Spanish Influenza,” http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/
[4] “WWI,” Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia 1998 edition
[5] Ibid, pg.215.
The Vision Of Hell
Our Lady showed us a great sea of fire which seemed to be under the Earth. Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, floating about in the conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames that issued from within themselves together with great clouds of smoke, now falling back on every side like sparks in a huge flame, without weight or equilibrium, and amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and made us tremble with fear. The demons could be distinguished by their terrifying and repulsive likeness to frightful and unknown animals, all black and transparent. This vision lasted but an instant. How can we ever be grateful enough to our kind heavenly Mother, who had already prepared us by promising, in the first Apparition, to take us to heaven? Otherwise, I think we would have died of fear and terror[1].
Lucia grew up at a time when the orthodox views of heaven and hell were still intact. She has continued to maintain her allegiance to church doctrines and authority. The description of hell contained in her memoirs corresponds to the traditional portrayals of hell and purgatory which have been a part of the Catholic faith for nearly fifteen-hundred years. Because Lucia’s writings have been approved and released by the church, they would have to comply with Catholic doctrines.
None of the messages received in conjunction with secrets after 1961 have been approved. None of the visionaries who have received this information have become priests or nuns. All of them were raised in the Catholic faith. All of them have made a great effort to work within church guidelines. All of them have seen the vision of hell. None of them describe what they saw as a realm under the Earth. Instead, they saw it as a condition on the surface of the planet.
If what Lucia saw was actually the same thing, then what she calls “demons” could have been burning “animals” being thrown up into the air in a sea of flames. If the Earth was hit by a celestial object, there would be bodies of all kinds, animal and human, burned, twisted and distorted beyond recognition as they were thrown about in a global conflagration.
The Unknown Light
You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace. The war is going to end: but if people do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out during the Pontificate of Pius XI. When you see a night illuminated by an unknown light, know that this is the great sign given you by God that he is about to punish the world for it’s crimes, by means of war, famine, and persecutions of the Church and of the Holy Father. To prevent this I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart and the Communion of reparation on the First Saturdays. If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred; the Holy Father will have much to suffer; various nations will be annihilated. In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and she shall be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world[2].
“The war is going to end,” was a reference to the conclusion of World War I. Mary’s appearance in Fatima at the height of the first global confrontation was another part of the picture. Of particular interest, is how this war was ended. History books tell of the Allies defeating the Central Powers on the battle field. However, according to some analysts, the war was really forced to a halt by the Spanish Influenza; the same disease that took the lives of Francisco and Hacinta.
Millions of soldiers on both sides of the conflict either died, or were too ill to fight.[3] The fighting took the lives of 8.5 million in the military. Ten million civilians were also killed in the conflict. Twenty million people died of the influenza in the final year of the war. No number has been recorded for the millions more who were bedridden. The disease was called the Spanish Influenza because it was believed to have started in Spain. It’s true origins it could easily have been from Portugal.
Researches are still trying to unravel the nature of the virus that caused it. At the time of the outbreak, doctors and scientists were completely baffled. There was nothing they could do to stop it. There was never any vaccine developed to stem the tide of death. It was first detected in January of 1918. It ended just as mysteriously as it began when the war concluded in November of the same year.[4]
Mary may have unleashed the Spanish Influenza through the two children in Fatima. This was the way She ended the First World War. Still, man did not stop “offending God” and World War II began during the reign “of Pius XI (1922-1939).” If Mary is giving Her predictions in chronological order, then after World War II, “when you see a night illuminated by an unknown light” a period of greater tribulations will begin. “This is the great sign given you by God that He is about to punish the world for its crimes, by means of war, famine and persecutions of the church and of the Holy Father.”
At the end of the current age, divine intervention will end a great war. The only difference between the First World War and the Last World War will be the number of people involved. Both World Wars I and II have been previews of what is to come. The final battle will include all of the elements of the first two; disease, pestilence, nuclear weapons and a final great explosion near Japan. More people will die as the result of this conflict and its ultimate conclusion than the sum of all those killed in every previous war put together.
Mary asked for the “conversion of Russia” in the 1990’s, in an effort to prevent the initiation of a World War III before the “unknown light” is seen. In Her early messages, She would sometimes say, that the punishment by God could be avoided with increased devotion. Now it appears as though all hope of avoiding the tribulations is gone. If so, then “a period of peace” was all that could be hoped for in the “conversion of Russia.”
Mary has never altered Her messages with regard to the significance of the “unknown light.” From the beginning, She has associated it with a Final Warning. Neither has She wavered from the inevitability of a Great Chastisement. Although some of the tribulations might be mitigated, they cannot be entirely avoided. The punishment must then be inevitable. If the prophecies of the Bible about the coming of the Anointed One are to be fulfilled then all of these things must happen to one degree or another.
The Secret For The Pope
I write in obedience to you, my God, who commands me to do so through his Excellency the Bishop of Leiria and through your Most Holy Mother and mine. After the two parts which I have already explained, at the left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendor that Our Lady radiated towards him form her right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice: ‘Penance, Penance, Penance!’. And we saw in an immense light that is God: ‘something similar to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it’ a Bishop dressed in White ‘we had the impression that it was the Holy Father’. Other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark; before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way; having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him and in the same way there died one after another of the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and various lay people of different ranks and positions. Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a crystal aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God[5].
The angel with the “sword of flames” is usually associated with Michael the Archangel. Michael is in essence the Hand of God. It is he who will unleash the purification in the form of a rain of fire and brimstone to “set the world on fire.” The crucifixion was an expression of this kind of energy. Those who feed on the ideals that condemned Jesus to the cross will end up being martyrs. They will be consumed by the fire of the “sword” of self-righteousness.
The Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and Jesus can mitigate certain circumstances. Mary stopped Michael from carrying out a “penance” upon the world before now. However, a balance between dark and light has to be maintained. God has seen fit to let the punishment be carried out. Therefore, Mary showed Lucia the final hours of the Church.
When the Vatican finally saw fit to release the third secret in the early part of the year 2000, they included an interpretation. They deemed the death of the “Holy Father” to be a depiction of the attempt to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981. How they arrived at this understanding is a great a mystery. Nothing Lucia describes fits anything John Paul II was doing at the time he was shot. He was not walking up a “steep mountain.” He was not killed by a hail of “bullets and arrows.” He was not walking through “a big city half in ruins.” No other “Bishops” or “lay people” were killed by “soldiers.”
What Lucia was shown must have been the annihilation of what is left of the Vatican in the days just before “the punishment of the world.” The scene does not take place in Rome. The pope is not supposed to be there when the end comes. Somewhere in Europe, near “a big city,” there must be a “steep mountain” with a “rough hewn” cross on “the top” of it. A likely spot would be somewhere in France.
The last pope will be in hiding there during the last days before the Chastisement. At some point, he will emerge. He will bless the dead and dying as he walks through the city and up a steep hill followed by “other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious.” They will all be killed by the mobs and the invading soldiers.
[1] “FATIMA in Lucia’s own words”, Secretariado Dos Pastorinhos, Fatima, Portugal, Translated by Dominican Nuns of Perpetual Rosary, 11th edition, September 2000, pg.209.
[2] Ibid, pg.210.
[3] “Spanish Influenza,” http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/
[4] “WWI,” Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia 1998 edition
[5] Ibid, pg.215.
The Secrets Begin
The Secrets Begin
While the sun was dancing in the sky, three secrets were given to the children. Until Lucia’s writings were officially published, the three secrets were presumed to be as follows:
The First Secret
A terrifying vision of hell on Earth
The Second Secret
When you next see the night lit up by the great unknown light, know that it is a sign God gives you, of the punishment of the world, by another war, famine and persecution, of the holy church and the Holy Father
The Third Secret
Mary instructed Lucia to deliver a third secret to the Pope, who was to reveal it in 1960. This secret was not published until after the year 2000.[1]
The vision of hell, was the first case where Mary relayed a vision of a Great Chastisement to befall mankind. Since then, a number of Mary’s visionaries have seen the same thing. Initially, it was believed to be a vision of the atrocities of the Second World War, or a hell under the Earth where sinners go. Certainly, the Nazi death camps and the effects of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan would comply with a scene of hell. Secret number two is still considered to be a mystery. Secret number three, as it has now been interpreted by the Vatican, was a depiction of the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II in 1981.
In order to understand the reason for Mary’s appearance on Earth in the present day, you need to accept Her role as the one who has previously announced the coming of Her Son Jesus. Gabriel appeared to only Her before the birth of Jesus 2,000 years ago. It was She and only She who made the announcement of His inception to the world. Just as the Blessed Mother delivered Him then, so in essence She is doing so again, only this time it is the Second Coming.
If this is so, then all of the secrets must relate to what is going to happen immediately before His return. As such, there is yet to come a time on Earth when conditions will be as close to hell as anyone could imagine. A few years ahead of this conflagration, a warning will be given. An “unknown light” will be seen in the sky. A confirmation of the timing of secrets was to be made with the revelation of the third secret in 1960. None of the Fatima secrets would be experienced until after this time.
[1] “FATIMA in Lucia’s own words”, Secretariado Dos Pastorinhos, Fatima, Portugal, Translated by Dominican Nuns of Perpetual Rosary, 11th edition, September 2000, pg.210.
While the sun was dancing in the sky, three secrets were given to the children. Until Lucia’s writings were officially published, the three secrets were presumed to be as follows:
The First Secret
A terrifying vision of hell on Earth
The Second Secret
When you next see the night lit up by the great unknown light, know that it is a sign God gives you, of the punishment of the world, by another war, famine and persecution, of the holy church and the Holy Father
The Third Secret
Mary instructed Lucia to deliver a third secret to the Pope, who was to reveal it in 1960. This secret was not published until after the year 2000.[1]
The vision of hell, was the first case where Mary relayed a vision of a Great Chastisement to befall mankind. Since then, a number of Mary’s visionaries have seen the same thing. Initially, it was believed to be a vision of the atrocities of the Second World War, or a hell under the Earth where sinners go. Certainly, the Nazi death camps and the effects of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan would comply with a scene of hell. Secret number two is still considered to be a mystery. Secret number three, as it has now been interpreted by the Vatican, was a depiction of the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II in 1981.
In order to understand the reason for Mary’s appearance on Earth in the present day, you need to accept Her role as the one who has previously announced the coming of Her Son Jesus. Gabriel appeared to only Her before the birth of Jesus 2,000 years ago. It was She and only She who made the announcement of His inception to the world. Just as the Blessed Mother delivered Him then, so in essence She is doing so again, only this time it is the Second Coming.
If this is so, then all of the secrets must relate to what is going to happen immediately before His return. As such, there is yet to come a time on Earth when conditions will be as close to hell as anyone could imagine. A few years ahead of this conflagration, a warning will be given. An “unknown light” will be seen in the sky. A confirmation of the timing of secrets was to be made with the revelation of the third secret in 1960. None of the Fatima secrets would be experienced until after this time.
[1] “FATIMA in Lucia’s own words”, Secretariado Dos Pastorinhos, Fatima, Portugal, Translated by Dominican Nuns of Perpetual Rosary, 11th edition, September 2000, pg.210.
Mary In Fatima
In May of 1917, in the tiny village of Fatima, Portugal, three young children; nine year old Lucia, seven year old Francisco and six year old Hacinta saw an angel they came to know as Michael. Initially he introduced himself as the guardian angel of Portugal. He had come to tell them that they would soon be meeting the Mother Mary. When the day came, a beautiful young female being appeared before them and identified Herself as Blessed Virgin.
Between May and October, The Divine Mother appeared to the children many more times; giving them prophecies and advice for the people in the village. Early on in these visits, She told them that two of would die soon and one would live for a long time. Not long after the visions ceased, Francisco and Hacinta became victims of the influenza that took millions of lives in 1918. Lucia is still alive today, living the cloistered life of a nun.
Because the children were constantly being questioned by local authorities and other people in the village about the validity of their visions, they implored Mary several times to let the people know She was really there. Eventually, She promised to perform a great miracle for everyone to see in October. She also pledged to deliver three secrets to the children during the miracle.
On October 13, 1917, exactly five months after the original vision, more than 80,000 people jammed the small village of Fatima, awaiting the promised event. In the crowd were many non-believers and journalists. Before the Blessed Virgin appeared, it was a cloudy, rainy day. Then, toward the afternoon, the children went into a trance, the clouds parted and someone said, “look at the sun!”
News reports described the spectacle as a mysterious solar occurrence. The faithful called it the vision of the dancing sun. Some of the witnesses saw the sun spinning wildly on its axis, emitting white, blue and green sparks along with great rays of light. Others reported seeing it becoming larger, as if it were falling toward the Earth. Still more people saw the sun spiral down to the horizon and back up again two or three times. Everyone dropped to their knees in reverence. Many doubters asked for forgiveness.[1]
[1] “San Sebastian de Garabandal” Produced by Michael Tubberty, M. F. J. Productions, Avondale, Auckland, New Zealand, 1997.
Between May and October, The Divine Mother appeared to the children many more times; giving them prophecies and advice for the people in the village. Early on in these visits, She told them that two of would die soon and one would live for a long time. Not long after the visions ceased, Francisco and Hacinta became victims of the influenza that took millions of lives in 1918. Lucia is still alive today, living the cloistered life of a nun.
Because the children were constantly being questioned by local authorities and other people in the village about the validity of their visions, they implored Mary several times to let the people know She was really there. Eventually, She promised to perform a great miracle for everyone to see in October. She also pledged to deliver three secrets to the children during the miracle.
On October 13, 1917, exactly five months after the original vision, more than 80,000 people jammed the small village of Fatima, awaiting the promised event. In the crowd were many non-believers and journalists. Before the Blessed Virgin appeared, it was a cloudy, rainy day. Then, toward the afternoon, the children went into a trance, the clouds parted and someone said, “look at the sun!”
News reports described the spectacle as a mysterious solar occurrence. The faithful called it the vision of the dancing sun. Some of the witnesses saw the sun spinning wildly on its axis, emitting white, blue and green sparks along with great rays of light. Others reported seeing it becoming larger, as if it were falling toward the Earth. Still more people saw the sun spiral down to the horizon and back up again two or three times. Everyone dropped to their knees in reverence. Many doubters asked for forgiveness.[1]
[1] “San Sebastian de Garabandal” Produced by Michael Tubberty, M. F. J. Productions, Avondale, Auckland, New Zealand, 1997.
The Black Madonna
The story of the Black Madonna like many aspects of religious history has been generally shoved to the side, dismissed entirely or at the least distorted in some strange way. The only half way plausible story about the origins of this portrayal of the Madonna can be traced to an old legend which came from the regions of Southern France. As the story goes, Mary Magdalene, the Mother Mary and a girl child landed on a beach near the town of Les-Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France in 43 CE in a small boat with no oars. In a small church supposedly built near the site of the landing there is a statue in black stone of a young woman who became known as the Black Madonna.
Popular thought has it that the Black Madonna was Mary Magdalene. This idea probably arose from the reputation attributed to her by the early Church Fathers. For some reason they concluded that Mary Magdalene was originally the prostitute that Jesus saved from that profession. Thus, she would be the Black Madonna with all of those bad feminine traits in contrast to the White Madonna who would be the Mother Mary.
Another idea is that the Black Madonna suggests the possibility that the Mother Mary may have been of African decent. Or, that statues and paintings of Mary were done in black in order to appeal to those people of dark colored skin. One more thought is that it represents the dark side of the Feminine Spirituality which has become identified with the empowerment of women in the present day for some reason. What ever the case, over the last 2000 years a number of Black Madonna statues were erected all over Europe and in countries around the Southern Mediterranean.
If we take the premise that the Black Madonna represents Mary Magdalene, there is nothing in the Bible that would directly infer that she was at any time a prostitute. It is generally concluded by modern scholars that she was most likely a woman of means who took to Jesus in a very special way. Although the Bible does mention a prostitute who was blessed by Jesus, then told by Him to “go her way and sin no more,” it does not say that this was Mary Magdalene or that the prostitute ever saw Jesus again. . Even if Mary Magdalene was this prostitute one would have to assume that since she spent a considerable amount of time with Jesus she would have had a rather complete transformation into something which was not dark.
She was indeed referred to several times in various texts as the favorite of Jesus. She was the first to find the open tomb and the first to see Him in the Apparition form after He had ascended. In John there are accounts of Jesus kissing both Mary Magdalene and His Mother Mary and other women who were close to Him on the lips frequently in public. All we really know for sure is that very little has been passed down about how Jesus related to women in general. The only thing we do know, based on the Biblical texts, is that His behavior around them was not typical of Hebrew cultural traditions. Nor, would it appear as though the women in His life behaved in keeping with the traditions of the time either.
It has been suggested recently that Jesus may have been married and He may also have had children. Most all Rabbis’ are married and have children and this would not be unusual in the Jewish tradition. However, Jesus was no ordinary Rabbi; He came as the predicted Messiah of the Jews. Not only this, but He brought a message to the world which was very different than what had come before. And this message will supercede the era of Moses. Now, if you toss Mother Mary into the mix as the Immaculate Conception and give Jesus dominion over heaven then we have a whole new situation to consider.
Although there were prophecies of a coming Messiah made by prophets who came before Daniel, Daniel’s visions of the Son of Man portrayed why and how this Messiah would be coming to Earth. Simply put; there were a substantial number of souls on this planet who had evolved to the point where they no longer wanted to be dominated by more primal forms which in Daniel are portrayed by a variety of Beasts. They wanted a higher standard to exist in the world and they brought Jesus before the Father as the example of this new form of life.
The Father agreed to this request and ordained that a transformation would begin. What is not indicated in Daniel but is somewhat inferred in the exchanges between Mary and Esther is that if there was going to be a new generation of souls in the likes of Jesus living on this planet then there had to be a Mother as well as a Son and a Father in order to foster these souls. And God chose Mary to be this Mother. And He made Her the Immaculate Conception which was necessary to create a form of man that had not existed before.
This form is first created in the mind of god which is then manifested in the angel form which is then born into the body. I would suggest that Jesus may have planted the seed of His form into the women who were around Him while He was in the body. And that even today there are probably Immaculate Conceptions going on which are not recognized as such. This would be especially possible if a woman was very close to the Mother Mary.
In any case, it is very possible that Mary Magdalene had a child by Jesus by one means or another. She may have landed on the coast of France with this child when her daughter was around 10 to 12 years old, as depicted by the statue. The reason the statue was black is because in those times when a person of royalty was in hiding or was known to be of royal blood but not generally acknowledged publicly they were depicted as being black – in the shadows so to speak.
Although one might first conclude that a child of Jesus would be a threat to the Romans in some way, or even a threat to the early Catholic Church and this would be the main reason for keeping the child in hiding. For three hundred years after the Resurrection, the Jews were indeed persecuted by the Romans mostly for reasons they brought upon themselves. A great number of Jews were in hiding and many proclaimed themselves as Christians in an effort to escape the persecutions. In spite of this, we must also remember that Jesus didn’t advocate confronting the Romans or anyone else for the sake of political gain.
What many people failed to recognize was that the real transformation on Earth was taking place in heaven and as such was eventually guaranteed to play out in the physical world. And that the Next Generation of souls who would be coming to Earth in the likeness of Jesus and Mary would not be interested in political conquests. So, although in a very real sense the Black Madonna child was indeed a future queen of the Next Generation, this queen was not about the dominion of physical kingdoms, churches, or political gains she was one of the first of a new form of life on the planet. And in the female form these new souls will be very much like Mary.
Popular thought has it that the Black Madonna was Mary Magdalene. This idea probably arose from the reputation attributed to her by the early Church Fathers. For some reason they concluded that Mary Magdalene was originally the prostitute that Jesus saved from that profession. Thus, she would be the Black Madonna with all of those bad feminine traits in contrast to the White Madonna who would be the Mother Mary.
Another idea is that the Black Madonna suggests the possibility that the Mother Mary may have been of African decent. Or, that statues and paintings of Mary were done in black in order to appeal to those people of dark colored skin. One more thought is that it represents the dark side of the Feminine Spirituality which has become identified with the empowerment of women in the present day for some reason. What ever the case, over the last 2000 years a number of Black Madonna statues were erected all over Europe and in countries around the Southern Mediterranean.
If we take the premise that the Black Madonna represents Mary Magdalene, there is nothing in the Bible that would directly infer that she was at any time a prostitute. It is generally concluded by modern scholars that she was most likely a woman of means who took to Jesus in a very special way. Although the Bible does mention a prostitute who was blessed by Jesus, then told by Him to “go her way and sin no more,” it does not say that this was Mary Magdalene or that the prostitute ever saw Jesus again. . Even if Mary Magdalene was this prostitute one would have to assume that since she spent a considerable amount of time with Jesus she would have had a rather complete transformation into something which was not dark.
She was indeed referred to several times in various texts as the favorite of Jesus. She was the first to find the open tomb and the first to see Him in the Apparition form after He had ascended. In John there are accounts of Jesus kissing both Mary Magdalene and His Mother Mary and other women who were close to Him on the lips frequently in public. All we really know for sure is that very little has been passed down about how Jesus related to women in general. The only thing we do know, based on the Biblical texts, is that His behavior around them was not typical of Hebrew cultural traditions. Nor, would it appear as though the women in His life behaved in keeping with the traditions of the time either.
It has been suggested recently that Jesus may have been married and He may also have had children. Most all Rabbis’ are married and have children and this would not be unusual in the Jewish tradition. However, Jesus was no ordinary Rabbi; He came as the predicted Messiah of the Jews. Not only this, but He brought a message to the world which was very different than what had come before. And this message will supercede the era of Moses. Now, if you toss Mother Mary into the mix as the Immaculate Conception and give Jesus dominion over heaven then we have a whole new situation to consider.
Although there were prophecies of a coming Messiah made by prophets who came before Daniel, Daniel’s visions of the Son of Man portrayed why and how this Messiah would be coming to Earth. Simply put; there were a substantial number of souls on this planet who had evolved to the point where they no longer wanted to be dominated by more primal forms which in Daniel are portrayed by a variety of Beasts. They wanted a higher standard to exist in the world and they brought Jesus before the Father as the example of this new form of life.
The Father agreed to this request and ordained that a transformation would begin. What is not indicated in Daniel but is somewhat inferred in the exchanges between Mary and Esther is that if there was going to be a new generation of souls in the likes of Jesus living on this planet then there had to be a Mother as well as a Son and a Father in order to foster these souls. And God chose Mary to be this Mother. And He made Her the Immaculate Conception which was necessary to create a form of man that had not existed before.
This form is first created in the mind of god which is then manifested in the angel form which is then born into the body. I would suggest that Jesus may have planted the seed of His form into the women who were around Him while He was in the body. And that even today there are probably Immaculate Conceptions going on which are not recognized as such. This would be especially possible if a woman was very close to the Mother Mary.
In any case, it is very possible that Mary Magdalene had a child by Jesus by one means or another. She may have landed on the coast of France with this child when her daughter was around 10 to 12 years old, as depicted by the statue. The reason the statue was black is because in those times when a person of royalty was in hiding or was known to be of royal blood but not generally acknowledged publicly they were depicted as being black – in the shadows so to speak.
Although one might first conclude that a child of Jesus would be a threat to the Romans in some way, or even a threat to the early Catholic Church and this would be the main reason for keeping the child in hiding. For three hundred years after the Resurrection, the Jews were indeed persecuted by the Romans mostly for reasons they brought upon themselves. A great number of Jews were in hiding and many proclaimed themselves as Christians in an effort to escape the persecutions. In spite of this, we must also remember that Jesus didn’t advocate confronting the Romans or anyone else for the sake of political gain.
What many people failed to recognize was that the real transformation on Earth was taking place in heaven and as such was eventually guaranteed to play out in the physical world. And that the Next Generation of souls who would be coming to Earth in the likeness of Jesus and Mary would not be interested in political conquests. So, although in a very real sense the Black Madonna child was indeed a future queen of the Next Generation, this queen was not about the dominion of physical kingdoms, churches, or political gains she was one of the first of a new form of life on the planet. And in the female form these new souls will be very much like Mary.
When Mary Appeared to Me
When I was in Medjugorje I was blessed with seeing an Apparition of the Mother Mary. This is the story of what happened to me on that day.
From the time of my arrival in Medjugorje until the 25th I attended mass daily and explored the village. On the 24th I made a final appeal. I had come 7,000 miles to see the Divine Mother and I was resolved to experience Her presence. I had to leave on the 26th to get to Split in time to catch my flight to Rome. My prayer was answered as on the evening of the 25, th I was compelled to return to the Apparition Hill one more time. It was around six o’clock in the evening when I began the climb up the rocky path to the place where the Medjugorje children first approached Mary’s Apparition.
On the trail, I passed a group of people who were gazing at the sky. They were pointing at the sun and commenting on how big it was getting. A little before hearing these words, I also had been inclined to look at the sky. At first glance, everything seemed to be normal, although a high thin cloud was forming out of a clear blue sky around the sun. A little farther on, I looked again. The sun seemed to have merged with the cloud and both were getting bigger.
A rainbow had also formed to the right of the cloud. It was not arched. It looked like a pillar of colored lights. I decided to take a picture of it. As I focused my camera on the rainbow, the sun could not be distinguished as an orb. It turned into a white glow which in a period of minutes had covered most of the sky. The picture showed nothing but a pure white sky with no sun or rainbow.
I had a feeling that the sky would appear this way at the time of the Final Warning. The light would last until the Great Miracle. It would over shadow the sun. It would be called His light, or the Light of God. The rainbow represented the permanent sign. It will be seen over one of the mountains at Medjugorje. It will be an unusual light. It will hover above the ground. These things were all a part of the first three secrets of Garabandal and Medjugorje.
After taking the picture, I continued my hike up the mountain. The first thing to catch my attention, as I approached the clearing, was a young nun kneeling in front of the cross located in the center of the open area. No one else was around her. I took a picture from directly behind her. When it was developed, a black form streamed down over the cross behind the nun.
I walked around the sister, looking for a good place to take a picture of the sunset. Eventually, I found a rock to sit on with a good view of the valley below. I was even with the cross about the same distance away from it as the nun, but a little further up the mountain. I began to read a book written by one of the friends of the Medjugorje visionaries.
Shortly thereafter I noticed, two young girls had knelt directly across from me on the opposite side of the cross. Even though other people were in the area, as I looked around, the nun, the two girls across from me and a young man sitting to my left, were the only people who seemed to have special significance. Everyone else, simply blended into the surroundings although a young barefooted young man approached the cross while I was there.
After noticing the two young girls, I returned to my book while waiting for the sunset. A few minutes later, I was compelled to look up and to my left. A young woman looking everything like I could imagine Mary to be, came walking down a trail from further up the mountain. She wore a sky blue dress, a perfectly white shawl and a white cloth draped over her head. My first thought was to wonder how She could keep the white portion of Her attire so completely spotless.
I also found myself wondering if this woman was just wandering around Medjugorje dressed like Mary for the sake of the tourists. I was baffled by the fact that She appeared to be a real, physical being. Then it began to dawn on me—it really could be Mary.
As She approached the cross, some part of me became excited. I wanted to stand up and shout, Look, there She is! It’s Mary, don’t you see Her? The only problem was, I couldn’t move. Neither would the words come out of my mouth. I looked around to see if anyone else had noticed Her. No one was paying any attention. As I recalled the scene later, everyone and everything was frozen for the full duration of Her presence.
As Mary continued walking down the hill, I became more anxious about what to do. I decided to reach for my camera; maybe I could get a picture of Her. I attempted to grab the pouch where the camera was located. I could feel it, but when I tried to grip it, my hand went right through it. Then I noticed that my physical arm hadn’t moved. I was still sitting in the same position on the rock, holding a book with both hands.
As soon as Mary appeared, time stopped and I had been shifted into a heavenly dimension. The experience was similar to what happened when I had seen Jesus. It felt like I was still functioning normally in my body. I was able to look around, think clearly, move my limbs, but my body didn’t move.
My next impulse was to get up and walk toward Her. I couldn’t do that either. My inability to approach Her in any manner was frustrating. My last recourse was just to stare at Her as hard as I could. I wanted to ascertain whether there was anything supernatural about Her. By this time, She had stopped a short distance behind the cross. She was about the same distance from it as each of the key individuals mentioned. You might say She completed the circle around it.
Mary raised Her hands slightly from Her sides, with Her palms facing the cross. I took this gesture to mean that She was creating the scene I was looking at. Then She abruptly turned and looked straight at me in response to my staring. I then discovered why all of the pictures I had seen of Her never showed Her eyes. When She looked at me, Her eyes were like two laser beams of sun light. The rays hit me in the chest in the area of my heart.
For a brief moment, I perceived a brilliant white light surrounded by the shell of Her body. Her physical appearance was an illusion like a thin veneer around the light. After a brief moment, I could no longer look directly at Her. The light was too bright. I was compelled to bow my head and look at Her feet. At the same moment, these words came into my head. It is not considerate of you to stare at your Mother like that.
As I look back on it, Her gentle reprimand was a confirmation of who She was and an effort on Her part to calm me down. She continued to look at me and repeat the message, be considerate, for what seemed like a minute or two. Eventually, She succeeded and I was content to watch Her from a distance. Then She once again turned to face the cross. At first, She simply resumed Her gesture of feeding the scene.
I was then compelled to look at the two young girls across from me. Another set of lips was superimposed over theirs. Although I heard no words Mary was telling me that I was seeing Her lips over theirs. She was speaking through Her visionaries. After another few moments, She walked back up the hill to the edge of the trail, turned and looked directly at the sun.
There was an intimate interchange as She seemed to merge with the light in the sky. She rocked gently back and forth, basking in the rays. She began to glow with it. It was a visual representation of Her love of the Father. I hoped She would eventually continue down the trail toward the nun. Instead, as if to read my mind, She quickly turned in the opposite direction, walking out of sight over the edge of the trail.
After Mary disappeared over the ridge, it took me a couple minutes to come to my senses. The man to my left got up, walked over and kissed the cross, then walked away down the most commonly used trail. Only then was I able to move. I immediately went to look for Mary where She had disappeared over the hill. I found a trail leading straight down the mountain. Because of the incline, there was a clear view of what was below, especially where the trail ended. I did not see Her in any direction.
Later I learned that this path was where the Medjugorje visionaries had run up to see Her. It was very steep and filled with brambles. Almost no one used this way to get to the Apparition site because of the difficultly of the climb. Yet, when the She summoned the children, they literally flew up over the rocks and through the thorny brush to where She was.
I followed the trail down the hill. I kept looking for Her to come out at the bottom. About half-way down, I heard the two young girls who were opposite me talking in Croatian. Their voices were coming from my right. After a few words, I heard a loud bang on the rocks to my left. What came from them were Her words and Her voice. It was as if the voices were coming from the Earth itself. The loud thump I heard on the rocks was the Chastisement. Mary would announce the coming of Her Son. She would do this through Her visionaries at Medjugorje.
Continuing on down the trail, I saw the two girls as they emerged at the bottom. I was surprised because they were still at the top when I started down. They had passed me and appeared at the bottom about the time I would have expected to see Mary there. I hurried on down to see if I could discover where they went, but they disappeared as well.
On my way back to the hostel, I couldn’t help but ponder the significance of what I had witnessed. What was Mary trying to show me? The nun in front of the cross could have represented Sister Lucia from Fatima. Lucia has continued to be a devoted nun, but has only received a few more personal messages. From what I could tell, Mary regarded Lucia as the perfect sister, but she had sunk into the confusion of the Church.
The two young girls across from me must have been two of the visionaries currently seeing Mary at Medjugorje. Mary would be speaking through them up until the Chastisement. Only two girls of the original six visionaries are currently seeing Her on a regular basis. The two girls across from me must have represented these two visionaries.
I stopped by the church. I couldn’t get in. In fact, I couldn’t seem to do anything; my mind was like mush. I went back to the hostel and went to bed. The next thing I remember was being awakened by a loud rumbling sound. It was as if a large vehicle was driving down the main street in front of the boarding house at a high rate of speed, but this would have been impossible. The street was too narrow. It could have been a train, but I couldn’t recall seeing any railroad tracks in the vicinity of the town.
Just after the rumbling started, my bed began to shake. The ground movement was particularly disorienting. It was as if the Earth was turning into jelly. In the middle of it, I heard the words, this is your Final Warning. I was convinced that the Final Warning was happening right then and there. When the shaking stopped, I got up and turned my radio to the BBC. There was no news about any explosions or major earthquakes. I wondered if anyone else had felt it. Even through the hostel was full, it remained quiet. The next day I forgot to ask anyone if they had felt it too.
From the time of my arrival in Medjugorje until the 25th I attended mass daily and explored the village. On the 24th I made a final appeal. I had come 7,000 miles to see the Divine Mother and I was resolved to experience Her presence. I had to leave on the 26th to get to Split in time to catch my flight to Rome. My prayer was answered as on the evening of the 25, th I was compelled to return to the Apparition Hill one more time. It was around six o’clock in the evening when I began the climb up the rocky path to the place where the Medjugorje children first approached Mary’s Apparition.
On the trail, I passed a group of people who were gazing at the sky. They were pointing at the sun and commenting on how big it was getting. A little before hearing these words, I also had been inclined to look at the sky. At first glance, everything seemed to be normal, although a high thin cloud was forming out of a clear blue sky around the sun. A little farther on, I looked again. The sun seemed to have merged with the cloud and both were getting bigger.
A rainbow had also formed to the right of the cloud. It was not arched. It looked like a pillar of colored lights. I decided to take a picture of it. As I focused my camera on the rainbow, the sun could not be distinguished as an orb. It turned into a white glow which in a period of minutes had covered most of the sky. The picture showed nothing but a pure white sky with no sun or rainbow.
I had a feeling that the sky would appear this way at the time of the Final Warning. The light would last until the Great Miracle. It would over shadow the sun. It would be called His light, or the Light of God. The rainbow represented the permanent sign. It will be seen over one of the mountains at Medjugorje. It will be an unusual light. It will hover above the ground. These things were all a part of the first three secrets of Garabandal and Medjugorje.
After taking the picture, I continued my hike up the mountain. The first thing to catch my attention, as I approached the clearing, was a young nun kneeling in front of the cross located in the center of the open area. No one else was around her. I took a picture from directly behind her. When it was developed, a black form streamed down over the cross behind the nun.
I walked around the sister, looking for a good place to take a picture of the sunset. Eventually, I found a rock to sit on with a good view of the valley below. I was even with the cross about the same distance away from it as the nun, but a little further up the mountain. I began to read a book written by one of the friends of the Medjugorje visionaries.
Shortly thereafter I noticed, two young girls had knelt directly across from me on the opposite side of the cross. Even though other people were in the area, as I looked around, the nun, the two girls across from me and a young man sitting to my left, were the only people who seemed to have special significance. Everyone else, simply blended into the surroundings although a young barefooted young man approached the cross while I was there.
After noticing the two young girls, I returned to my book while waiting for the sunset. A few minutes later, I was compelled to look up and to my left. A young woman looking everything like I could imagine Mary to be, came walking down a trail from further up the mountain. She wore a sky blue dress, a perfectly white shawl and a white cloth draped over her head. My first thought was to wonder how She could keep the white portion of Her attire so completely spotless.
I also found myself wondering if this woman was just wandering around Medjugorje dressed like Mary for the sake of the tourists. I was baffled by the fact that She appeared to be a real, physical being. Then it began to dawn on me—it really could be Mary.
As She approached the cross, some part of me became excited. I wanted to stand up and shout, Look, there She is! It’s Mary, don’t you see Her? The only problem was, I couldn’t move. Neither would the words come out of my mouth. I looked around to see if anyone else had noticed Her. No one was paying any attention. As I recalled the scene later, everyone and everything was frozen for the full duration of Her presence.
As Mary continued walking down the hill, I became more anxious about what to do. I decided to reach for my camera; maybe I could get a picture of Her. I attempted to grab the pouch where the camera was located. I could feel it, but when I tried to grip it, my hand went right through it. Then I noticed that my physical arm hadn’t moved. I was still sitting in the same position on the rock, holding a book with both hands.
As soon as Mary appeared, time stopped and I had been shifted into a heavenly dimension. The experience was similar to what happened when I had seen Jesus. It felt like I was still functioning normally in my body. I was able to look around, think clearly, move my limbs, but my body didn’t move.
My next impulse was to get up and walk toward Her. I couldn’t do that either. My inability to approach Her in any manner was frustrating. My last recourse was just to stare at Her as hard as I could. I wanted to ascertain whether there was anything supernatural about Her. By this time, She had stopped a short distance behind the cross. She was about the same distance from it as each of the key individuals mentioned. You might say She completed the circle around it.
Mary raised Her hands slightly from Her sides, with Her palms facing the cross. I took this gesture to mean that She was creating the scene I was looking at. Then She abruptly turned and looked straight at me in response to my staring. I then discovered why all of the pictures I had seen of Her never showed Her eyes. When She looked at me, Her eyes were like two laser beams of sun light. The rays hit me in the chest in the area of my heart.
For a brief moment, I perceived a brilliant white light surrounded by the shell of Her body. Her physical appearance was an illusion like a thin veneer around the light. After a brief moment, I could no longer look directly at Her. The light was too bright. I was compelled to bow my head and look at Her feet. At the same moment, these words came into my head. It is not considerate of you to stare at your Mother like that.
As I look back on it, Her gentle reprimand was a confirmation of who She was and an effort on Her part to calm me down. She continued to look at me and repeat the message, be considerate, for what seemed like a minute or two. Eventually, She succeeded and I was content to watch Her from a distance. Then She once again turned to face the cross. At first, She simply resumed Her gesture of feeding the scene.
I was then compelled to look at the two young girls across from me. Another set of lips was superimposed over theirs. Although I heard no words Mary was telling me that I was seeing Her lips over theirs. She was speaking through Her visionaries. After another few moments, She walked back up the hill to the edge of the trail, turned and looked directly at the sun.
There was an intimate interchange as She seemed to merge with the light in the sky. She rocked gently back and forth, basking in the rays. She began to glow with it. It was a visual representation of Her love of the Father. I hoped She would eventually continue down the trail toward the nun. Instead, as if to read my mind, She quickly turned in the opposite direction, walking out of sight over the edge of the trail.
After Mary disappeared over the ridge, it took me a couple minutes to come to my senses. The man to my left got up, walked over and kissed the cross, then walked away down the most commonly used trail. Only then was I able to move. I immediately went to look for Mary where She had disappeared over the hill. I found a trail leading straight down the mountain. Because of the incline, there was a clear view of what was below, especially where the trail ended. I did not see Her in any direction.
Later I learned that this path was where the Medjugorje visionaries had run up to see Her. It was very steep and filled with brambles. Almost no one used this way to get to the Apparition site because of the difficultly of the climb. Yet, when the She summoned the children, they literally flew up over the rocks and through the thorny brush to where She was.
I followed the trail down the hill. I kept looking for Her to come out at the bottom. About half-way down, I heard the two young girls who were opposite me talking in Croatian. Their voices were coming from my right. After a few words, I heard a loud bang on the rocks to my left. What came from them were Her words and Her voice. It was as if the voices were coming from the Earth itself. The loud thump I heard on the rocks was the Chastisement. Mary would announce the coming of Her Son. She would do this through Her visionaries at Medjugorje.
Continuing on down the trail, I saw the two girls as they emerged at the bottom. I was surprised because they were still at the top when I started down. They had passed me and appeared at the bottom about the time I would have expected to see Mary there. I hurried on down to see if I could discover where they went, but they disappeared as well.
On my way back to the hostel, I couldn’t help but ponder the significance of what I had witnessed. What was Mary trying to show me? The nun in front of the cross could have represented Sister Lucia from Fatima. Lucia has continued to be a devoted nun, but has only received a few more personal messages. From what I could tell, Mary regarded Lucia as the perfect sister, but she had sunk into the confusion of the Church.
The two young girls across from me must have been two of the visionaries currently seeing Mary at Medjugorje. Mary would be speaking through them up until the Chastisement. Only two girls of the original six visionaries are currently seeing Her on a regular basis. The two girls across from me must have represented these two visionaries.
I stopped by the church. I couldn’t get in. In fact, I couldn’t seem to do anything; my mind was like mush. I went back to the hostel and went to bed. The next thing I remember was being awakened by a loud rumbling sound. It was as if a large vehicle was driving down the main street in front of the boarding house at a high rate of speed, but this would have been impossible. The street was too narrow. It could have been a train, but I couldn’t recall seeing any railroad tracks in the vicinity of the town.
Just after the rumbling started, my bed began to shake. The ground movement was particularly disorienting. It was as if the Earth was turning into jelly. In the middle of it, I heard the words, this is your Final Warning. I was convinced that the Final Warning was happening right then and there. When the shaking stopped, I got up and turned my radio to the BBC. There was no news about any explosions or major earthquakes. I wondered if anyone else had felt it. Even through the hostel was full, it remained quiet. The next day I forgot to ask anyone if they had felt it too.
From the time of my arrival in Medjugorje until the 25th I attended mass daily and explored the village. On the 24th I made a final appeal. I had come 7,000 miles to see the Divine Mother and I was resolved to experience Her presence. I had to leave on the 26th to get to Split in time to catch my flight to Rome. My prayer was answered as on the evening of the 25, th I was compelled to return to the Apparition Hill one more time. It was around six o’clock in the evening when I began the climb up the rocky path to the place where the Medjugorje children first approached Mary’s Apparition.
On the trail, I passed a group of people who were gazing at the sky. They were pointing at the sun and commenting on how big it was getting. A little before hearing these words, I also had been inclined to look at the sky. At first glance, everything seemed to be normal, although a high thin cloud was forming out of a clear blue sky around the sun. A little farther on, I looked again. The sun seemed to have merged with the cloud and both were getting bigger.
A rainbow had also formed to the right of the cloud. It was not arched. It looked like a pillar of colored lights. I decided to take a picture of it. As I focused my camera on the rainbow, the sun could not be distinguished as an orb. It turned into a white glow which in a period of minutes had covered most of the sky. The picture showed nothing but a pure white sky with no sun or rainbow.
I had a feeling that the sky would appear this way at the time of the Final Warning. The light would last until the Great Miracle. It would over shadow the sun. It would be called His light, or the Light of God. The rainbow represented the permanent sign. It will be seen over one of the mountains at Medjugorje. It will be an unusual light. It will hover above the ground. These things were all a part of the first three secrets of Garabandal and Medjugorje.
After taking the picture, I continued my hike up the mountain. The first thing to catch my attention, as I approached the clearing, was a young nun kneeling in front of the cross located in the center of the open area. No one else was around her. I took a picture from directly behind her. When it was developed, a black form streamed down over the cross behind the nun.
I walked around the sister, looking for a good place to take a picture of the sunset. Eventually, I found a rock to sit on with a good view of the valley below. I was even with the cross about the same distance away from it as the nun, but a little further up the mountain. I began to read a book written by one of the friends of the Medjugorje visionaries.
Shortly thereafter I noticed, two young girls had knelt directly across from me on the opposite side of the cross. Even though other people were in the area, as I looked around, the nun, the two girls across from me and a young man sitting to my left, were the only people who seemed to have special significance. Everyone else, simply blended into the surroundings although a young barefooted young man approached the cross while I was there.
After noticing the two young girls, I returned to my book while waiting for the sunset. A few minutes later, I was compelled to look up and to my left. A young woman looking everything like I could imagine Mary to be, came walking down a trail from further up the mountain. She wore a sky blue dress, a perfectly white shawl and a white cloth draped over her head. My first thought was to wonder how She could keep the white portion of Her attire so completely spotless.
I also found myself wondering if this woman was just wandering around Medjugorje dressed like Mary for the sake of the tourists. I was baffled by the fact that She appeared to be a real, physical being. Then it began to dawn on me—it really could be Mary.
As She approached the cross, some part of me became excited. I wanted to stand up and shout, Look, there She is! It’s Mary, don’t you see Her? The only problem was, I couldn’t move. Neither would the words come out of my mouth. I looked around to see if anyone else had noticed Her. No one was paying any attention. As I recalled the scene later, everyone and everything was frozen for the full duration of Her presence.
As Mary continued walking down the hill, I became more anxious about what to do. I decided to reach for my camera; maybe I could get a picture of Her. I attempted to grab the pouch where the camera was located. I could feel it, but when I tried to grip it, my hand went right through it. Then I noticed that my physical arm hadn’t moved. I was still sitting in the same position on the rock, holding a book with both hands.
As soon as Mary appeared, time stopped and I had been shifted into a heavenly dimension. The experience was similar to what happened when I had seen Jesus. It felt like I was still functioning normally in my body. I was able to look around, think clearly, move my limbs, but my body didn’t move.
My next impulse was to get up and walk toward Her. I couldn’t do that either. My inability to approach Her in any manner was frustrating. My last recourse was just to stare at Her as hard as I could. I wanted to ascertain whether there was anything supernatural about Her. By this time, She had stopped a short distance behind the cross. She was about the same distance from it as each of the key individuals mentioned. You might say She completed the circle around it.
Mary raised Her hands slightly from Her sides, with Her palms facing the cross. I took this gesture to mean that She was creating the scene I was looking at. Then She abruptly turned and looked straight at me in response to my staring. I then discovered why all of the pictures I had seen of Her never showed Her eyes. When She looked at me, Her eyes were like two laser beams of sun light. The rays hit me in the chest in the area of my heart.
For a brief moment, I perceived a brilliant white light surrounded by the shell of Her body. Her physical appearance was an illusion like a thin veneer around the light. After a brief moment, I could no longer look directly at Her. The light was too bright. I was compelled to bow my head and look at Her feet. At the same moment, these words came into my head. It is not considerate of you to stare at your Mother like that.
As I look back on it, Her gentle reprimand was a confirmation of who She was and an effort on Her part to calm me down. She continued to look at me and repeat the message, be considerate, for what seemed like a minute or two. Eventually, She succeeded and I was content to watch Her from a distance. Then She once again turned to face the cross. At first, She simply resumed Her gesture of feeding the scene.
I was then compelled to look at the two young girls across from me. Another set of lips was superimposed over theirs. Although I heard no words Mary was telling me that I was seeing Her lips over theirs. She was speaking through Her visionaries. After another few moments, She walked back up the hill to the edge of the trail, turned and looked directly at the sun.
There was an intimate interchange as She seemed to merge with the light in the sky. She rocked gently back and forth, basking in the rays. She began to glow with it. It was a visual representation of Her love of the Father. I hoped She would eventually continue down the trail toward the nun. Instead, as if to read my mind, She quickly turned in the opposite direction, walking out of sight over the edge of the trail.
After Mary disappeared over the ridge, it took me a couple minutes to come to my senses. The man to my left got up, walked over and kissed the cross, then walked away down the most commonly used trail. Only then was I able to move. I immediately went to look for Mary where She had disappeared over the hill. I found a trail leading straight down the mountain. Because of the incline, there was a clear view of what was below, especially where the trail ended. I did not see Her in any direction.
Later I learned that this path was where the Medjugorje visionaries had run up to see Her. It was very steep and filled with brambles. Almost no one used this way to get to the Apparition site because of the difficultly of the climb. Yet, when the She summoned the children, they literally flew up over the rocks and through the thorny brush to where She was.
I followed the trail down the hill. I kept looking for Her to come out at the bottom. About half-way down, I heard the two young girls who were opposite me talking in Croatian. Their voices were coming from my right. After a few words, I heard a loud bang on the rocks to my left. What came from them were Her words and Her voice. It was as if the voices were coming from the Earth itself. The loud thump I heard on the rocks was the Chastisement. Mary would announce the coming of Her Son. She would do this through Her visionaries at Medjugorje.
Continuing on down the trail, I saw the two girls as they emerged at the bottom. I was surprised because they were still at the top when I started down. They had passed me and appeared at the bottom about the time I would have expected to see Mary there. I hurried on down to see if I could discover where they went, but they disappeared as well.
On my way back to the hostel, I couldn’t help but ponder the significance of what I had witnessed. What was Mary trying to show me? The nun in front of the cross could have represented Sister Lucia from Fatima. Lucia has continued to be a devoted nun, but has only received a few more personal messages. From what I could tell, Mary regarded Lucia as the perfect sister, but she had sunk into the confusion of the Church.
The two young girls across from me must have been two of the visionaries currently seeing Mary at Medjugorje. Mary would be speaking through them up until the Chastisement. Only two girls of the original six visionaries are currently seeing Her on a regular basis. The two girls across from me must have represented these two visionaries.
I stopped by the church. I couldn’t get in. In fact, I couldn’t seem to do anything; my mind was like mush. I went back to the hostel and went to bed. The next thing I remember was being awakened by a loud rumbling sound. It was as if a large vehicle was driving down the main street in front of the boarding house at a high rate of speed, but this would have been impossible. The street was too narrow. It could have been a train, but I couldn’t recall seeing any railroad tracks in the vicinity of the town.
Just after the rumbling started, my bed began to shake. The ground movement was particularly disorienting. It was as if the Earth was turning into jelly. In the middle of it, I heard the words, this is your Final Warning. I was convinced that the Final Warning was happening right then and there. When the shaking stopped, I got up and turned my radio to the BBC. There was no news about any explosions or major earthquakes. I wondered if anyone else had felt it. Even through the hostel was full, it remained quiet. The next day I forgot to ask anyone if they had felt it too.
From the time of my arrival in Medjugorje until the 25th I attended mass daily and explored the village. On the 24th I made a final appeal. I had come 7,000 miles to see the Divine Mother and I was resolved to experience Her presence. I had to leave on the 26th to get to Split in time to catch my flight to Rome. My prayer was answered as on the evening of the 25, th I was compelled to return to the Apparition Hill one more time. It was around six o’clock in the evening when I began the climb up the rocky path to the place where the Medjugorje children first approached Mary’s Apparition.
On the trail, I passed a group of people who were gazing at the sky. They were pointing at the sun and commenting on how big it was getting. A little before hearing these words, I also had been inclined to look at the sky. At first glance, everything seemed to be normal, although a high thin cloud was forming out of a clear blue sky around the sun. A little farther on, I looked again. The sun seemed to have merged with the cloud and both were getting bigger.
A rainbow had also formed to the right of the cloud. It was not arched. It looked like a pillar of colored lights. I decided to take a picture of it. As I focused my camera on the rainbow, the sun could not be distinguished as an orb. It turned into a white glow which in a period of minutes had covered most of the sky. The picture showed nothing but a pure white sky with no sun or rainbow.
I had a feeling that the sky would appear this way at the time of the Final Warning. The light would last until the Great Miracle. It would over shadow the sun. It would be called His light, or the Light of God. The rainbow represented the permanent sign. It will be seen over one of the mountains at Medjugorje. It will be an unusual light. It will hover above the ground. These things were all a part of the first three secrets of Garabandal and Medjugorje.
After taking the picture, I continued my hike up the mountain. The first thing to catch my attention, as I approached the clearing, was a young nun kneeling in front of the cross located in the center of the open area. No one else was around her. I took a picture from directly behind her. When it was developed, a black form streamed down over the cross behind the nun.
I walked around the sister, looking for a good place to take a picture of the sunset. Eventually, I found a rock to sit on with a good view of the valley below. I was even with the cross about the same distance away from it as the nun, but a little further up the mountain. I began to read a book written by one of the friends of the Medjugorje visionaries.
Shortly thereafter I noticed, two young girls had knelt directly across from me on the opposite side of the cross. Even though other people were in the area, as I looked around, the nun, the two girls across from me and a young man sitting to my left, were the only people who seemed to have special significance. Everyone else, simply blended into the surroundings although a young barefooted young man approached the cross while I was there.
After noticing the two young girls, I returned to my book while waiting for the sunset. A few minutes later, I was compelled to look up and to my left. A young woman looking everything like I could imagine Mary to be, came walking down a trail from further up the mountain. She wore a sky blue dress, a perfectly white shawl and a white cloth draped over her head. My first thought was to wonder how She could keep the white portion of Her attire so completely spotless.
I also found myself wondering if this woman was just wandering around Medjugorje dressed like Mary for the sake of the tourists. I was baffled by the fact that She appeared to be a real, physical being. Then it began to dawn on me—it really could be Mary.
As She approached the cross, some part of me became excited. I wanted to stand up and shout, Look, there She is! It’s Mary, don’t you see Her? The only problem was, I couldn’t move. Neither would the words come out of my mouth. I looked around to see if anyone else had noticed Her. No one was paying any attention. As I recalled the scene later, everyone and everything was frozen for the full duration of Her presence.
As Mary continued walking down the hill, I became more anxious about what to do. I decided to reach for my camera; maybe I could get a picture of Her. I attempted to grab the pouch where the camera was located. I could feel it, but when I tried to grip it, my hand went right through it. Then I noticed that my physical arm hadn’t moved. I was still sitting in the same position on the rock, holding a book with both hands.
As soon as Mary appeared, time stopped and I had been shifted into a heavenly dimension. The experience was similar to what happened when I had seen Jesus. It felt like I was still functioning normally in my body. I was able to look around, think clearly, move my limbs, but my body didn’t move.
My next impulse was to get up and walk toward Her. I couldn’t do that either. My inability to approach Her in any manner was frustrating. My last recourse was just to stare at Her as hard as I could. I wanted to ascertain whether there was anything supernatural about Her. By this time, She had stopped a short distance behind the cross. She was about the same distance from it as each of the key individuals mentioned. You might say She completed the circle around it.
Mary raised Her hands slightly from Her sides, with Her palms facing the cross. I took this gesture to mean that She was creating the scene I was looking at. Then She abruptly turned and looked straight at me in response to my staring. I then discovered why all of the pictures I had seen of Her never showed Her eyes. When She looked at me, Her eyes were like two laser beams of sun light. The rays hit me in the chest in the area of my heart.
For a brief moment, I perceived a brilliant white light surrounded by the shell of Her body. Her physical appearance was an illusion like a thin veneer around the light. After a brief moment, I could no longer look directly at Her. The light was too bright. I was compelled to bow my head and look at Her feet. At the same moment, these words came into my head. It is not considerate of you to stare at your Mother like that.
As I look back on it, Her gentle reprimand was a confirmation of who She was and an effort on Her part to calm me down. She continued to look at me and repeat the message, be considerate, for what seemed like a minute or two. Eventually, She succeeded and I was content to watch Her from a distance. Then She once again turned to face the cross. At first, She simply resumed Her gesture of feeding the scene.
I was then compelled to look at the two young girls across from me. Another set of lips was superimposed over theirs. Although I heard no words Mary was telling me that I was seeing Her lips over theirs. She was speaking through Her visionaries. After another few moments, She walked back up the hill to the edge of the trail, turned and looked directly at the sun.
There was an intimate interchange as She seemed to merge with the light in the sky. She rocked gently back and forth, basking in the rays. She began to glow with it. It was a visual representation of Her love of the Father. I hoped She would eventually continue down the trail toward the nun. Instead, as if to read my mind, She quickly turned in the opposite direction, walking out of sight over the edge of the trail.
After Mary disappeared over the ridge, it took me a couple minutes to come to my senses. The man to my left got up, walked over and kissed the cross, then walked away down the most commonly used trail. Only then was I able to move. I immediately went to look for Mary where She had disappeared over the hill. I found a trail leading straight down the mountain. Because of the incline, there was a clear view of what was below, especially where the trail ended. I did not see Her in any direction.
Later I learned that this path was where the Medjugorje visionaries had run up to see Her. It was very steep and filled with brambles. Almost no one used this way to get to the Apparition site because of the difficultly of the climb. Yet, when the She summoned the children, they literally flew up over the rocks and through the thorny brush to where She was.
I followed the trail down the hill. I kept looking for Her to come out at the bottom. About half-way down, I heard the two young girls who were opposite me talking in Croatian. Their voices were coming from my right. After a few words, I heard a loud bang on the rocks to my left. What came from them were Her words and Her voice. It was as if the voices were coming from the Earth itself. The loud thump I heard on the rocks was the Chastisement. Mary would announce the coming of Her Son. She would do this through Her visionaries at Medjugorje.
Continuing on down the trail, I saw the two girls as they emerged at the bottom. I was surprised because they were still at the top when I started down. They had passed me and appeared at the bottom about the time I would have expected to see Mary there. I hurried on down to see if I could discover where they went, but they disappeared as well.
On my way back to the hostel, I couldn’t help but ponder the significance of what I had witnessed. What was Mary trying to show me? The nun in front of the cross could have represented Sister Lucia from Fatima. Lucia has continued to be a devoted nun, but has only received a few more personal messages. From what I could tell, Mary regarded Lucia as the perfect sister, but she had sunk into the confusion of the Church.
The two young girls across from me must have been two of the visionaries currently seeing Mary at Medjugorje. Mary would be speaking through them up until the Chastisement. Only two girls of the original six visionaries are currently seeing Her on a regular basis. The two girls across from me must have represented these two visionaries.
I stopped by the church. I couldn’t get in. In fact, I couldn’t seem to do anything; my mind was like mush. I went back to the hostel and went to bed. The next thing I remember was being awakened by a loud rumbling sound. It was as if a large vehicle was driving down the main street in front of the boarding house at a high rate of speed, but this would have been impossible. The street was too narrow. It could have been a train, but I couldn’t recall seeing any railroad tracks in the vicinity of the town.
Just after the rumbling started, my bed began to shake. The ground movement was particularly disorienting. It was as if the Earth was turning into jelly. In the middle of it, I heard the words, this is your Final Warning. I was convinced that the Final Warning was happening right then and there. When the shaking stopped, I got up and turned my radio to the BBC. There was no news about any explosions or major earthquakes. I wondered if anyone else had felt it. Even through the hostel was full, it remained quiet. The next day I forgot to ask anyone if they had felt it too.
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