In 2009, the cardinal not only gave the Imprimatur to The Spiritual Diary, but recognized Elizabeths mystical locutions and writings as authentic, a gift to the Church. In addition, he gave his episcopal approval of the Flame of Love movement, which has formally operated within the Church for over twenty years. In 1992, Marco Ferrari began meeting with friends to pray the Rosary on Saturday evenings. Yet there is additional video evidence of solar phenomena in the presence of multiple witnesses during prayer at the apparition site, similar to the phenomena of the Dancing Sun in Fatima in 1917 or attested by Pope Pius XII in the Vatican Gardens immediately preceding the proclamation of the Dogma of the Assumption in 1950. It was Fr. These meetings, at which Valeria delivered her messages, were first held twice monthly on Wednesdays, then weekly at the request of Jesus, whom she says that shesawat the church of SantIgnazio in connection with a meeting with the American Jesuit, Fr. Additionally, the juridical actions undertaken by the CDF only restrict 1) official Liturgical promotion of Edsons messages, 2) wider dissemination of his messages by Edson himself or his Association in Itapiranga, and 3) the promotion of the messages within the Prelature of Itacoatiara. The first apparition of the Mother of Love as a 15-16 year-old girl, occurred in July 1994; the following year, Marco was entrusted with private messages for Pope John Paul II and the Bishop of Brescia, which he duly transmitted. That mission can be bestowed upon you only if you also want it out of your free will. In the message to Gisella recently, Our Lady speaks of "the beauty of the house admired afterwards" after the short reign of Antichrist. 252-253: Father Stefano Gobbi was born in Dongo, Italy, north of Milan in 1930 and died in 2011. The Marian Movement of Priests must be my work alone. Since their appearance in 2015, they have become best-sellers among Polish Catholics and are frequently quoted in public by clergy both for their penetrating insights into the spiritual life and their revelations concerning the contemporary world. She was also active in evangelizing and organizing pilgrimages to Italy, the Holy Land, and Medjugorje. Stefano Gobbi have now begun. It is the realization of the Our Father prayer in the soul, that Gods Will be done in you just as it is done by the saints in Heaven. Yet there is additional video evidence of solar phenomena in the presence of multiple witnesses during prayer at the apparition site, similar to the phenomena of the Dancing Sun in Fatima in 1917 or attested by Pope Pius XII in the Vatican Gardens immediately preceding the proclamation of the Dogma of the Assumption in 1950. But we know that the Spirit blows where and when He wills, and so with great humility and acknowledging that without Him we can do nothing, we dispose ourselves to listen to the Word, Who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life., (1913-1985)Wife, Mother, Mystic, and Founder of The Flame of Love Movement, The Warning: Testimonies and Prophecies of the Illumination of Conscience, http://www.heartofmaryarabic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/The-Blue-Book.pdf, https://www.ewtn.com/expert/answers/MMP.htm, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkZ3LUxx-8E. On February 12, 1988 he had his first vision of the Virgin, seeing her as if in a rose-filled grotto, holding a snake with her foot. Our Lady showed heaven, hell and purgatory to Edson, and along with her Son, gave various teachings for families to Maria do Carmo. Those who have not yet heard a proper introduction to the revelations on the Gift of Living in the Divine Will, which Jesus entrusted to Luisa are sometimes perplexed by the zeal harbored by those who have had this introduction: Why so much emphasis on the message of this lowly lay woman from Italy who died over 70 years ago?. It is estimated that around 8000 witnesses were present, including TV journalists, because Our Lady of Anguera had promised the previous day to give a sign to skeptics. On their way home from Sunday Mass, four children were talking about going to pray by a local cross in Dobra Voda when one of them saw the sun spin and change colour. This led them to repent of their living situation and enter a sacramental marriage. They have gained considerable attention in recent months due to a long message received by the seer in Heede, Germany in 2015, the site of apparitions to four children just prior to World War II. On July 13, 1960, Elizabeth started a diary at the Lords request. See above and www.MarysMantleConsecration.com. Stefano Gobbi) and considers the coming of an Era of Peace a heretical view. On March 8, 1985, Alicjas life changed radically when she encountered Jesus standing before her after receiving Holy Communion. The visionaries and their apparitions, therefore, are therefore subject to intense scrutiny, and to our knowledge, there have been no allegations of malpractice. In November of 1993, the MMP in the United States, based in St. Francis, Maine, received an official papal blessing from Pope John Paul II, who maintained a close relationship with Fr. It is none other than the very holiness of Eden itselfthe holiness that Mary, too, enjoyed in a far more perfect way than even Adam and Eveand it is now available for the asking. As a layman, he managed an insurance agency, and then following a call to the priesthood, he went on to receive a doctorate in sacred theology from the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome. The principal themes of the messages from Dechtice, which continue to this day, are essentially the same as those received at other credible apparition sites in recent decades. He then presented her to Our Lady, who said, You will be my cenaclea term she only understood years later when a priest used it in the context of theprayer group she started in home city of Rome, Italy. Cardinal Pter Erd of Esztergom-Budapest, Primate of Hungary, established a commission to study The Spiritual Diary and the various recognitions that local bishops around the world had given to The Flame of Love movement, as a private association of the faithful. In each revelation given to Luz de Mara, Our Lord Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary guide the steps, the work, and the actions of the people of God in these times in which humanity needs to return to the teachings contained in Holy Scripture. Mark Mallett has also provided answers to 24objections to the apparitions. At age five, her father died, and at ten, Elizabeth was sent to Willisau, Switzerland to live with a well-to-do family. But Jesus has also told Luisa that He is not content with merely a few souls here and there living this new sanctity. The alleged Marian apparitions in Zaro di Ischia (an island near Naples in Italy) have been ongoing since 1994. Their message is so mind-boggling that doubt in them would be quite tempting, but for the fact that simply no reasonable grounds remain for such doubt. In all the places where I have already appeared and continue to appear, I always confirm my apparitions so that there will be no doubts, and here in Itapiranga, my Heavenly manifestations will be confirmed. Nothing and no one can stop it. She returned to Budapest temporarily at age eleven to be with and care for her mom who was seriously ill and confined to bed. A Nihil obstatwas recently granted by an Archbishop for the Polish translation of the second of these,In Cammino con Maria(On the way with Mary) published byEdizioni Segno, containing the story of the apparitions and the associated messages up until 2018. . Together with her brother, she started participating in the meetings of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in 1984 following the death of their mother. In 1994, apparitions of Jesus, Our Lady, and St. Joseph to Edson Glauber, age twenty-two, and his mother, Maria do Carmo. The Diocesan Administrator contacted the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and obtained a statement in 2017 to the effect that the CDF did not consider the apparitions supernatural in origin, a position also maintained by the Archdiocese of Manaus. Jennifer is a young American mother and housewife (her last name is withheld at her spiritual directors request in order to respect the privacy of her husband and family.) An hour later, he walked back into Aarons office with a smile on his face and said, I did it!. She also requested that a chapel be built that still stands. At the womans next appearance, the children sprinkled the mysterious figure with blessed water, thinking it might be a demon, but the woman did not disappear. (1913-1985)Wife, Mother, Mystic, and Founder of The Flame of Love Movement. As regards the often sobering content of the messages,** there is a striking convergence between them and other serious sources, with notheological errors. [11] It was indescribable pain, although I know that however painful it may be, it is not the totality of the pain that Christ continues to suffer for humanity. ((Revelamos Quen Es la Vidente Luz de Mara, Foros de la Virgen Mara, accessed July 13, 2019, https://forosdelavirgen.org/118869/luz-de-maria-reportaje)), It was on March 19 of 1992, that the Blessed Mother began to speak regularly to Luz de Mara. The following is adapted, in part, from the book, THE WARNING: Testimonies and Prophecies of the Illumination of Conscience, pp. They will have lost the occasion to be saved. His letter began: Estel, Nicaragua, Year of Our Lord, March 19 of 2017. Initially, the thing at which I marveled the most was this clean writing without deletions or corrections, more perfect and more exact than an ordinary dictation, without any fatigue on my part; all comes out smoothly. Visionary of Our Lady of Anguera. See above and www.MarysMantleConsecration.com. Thirdly, the messages have frequently been accompanied by visible phenomena, photographic evidence found inIn Cammino con Maria, which cannot be the fruit of subjective imagination, notably the presence of the stigmata on Giselles body and and the appearance of crosses or religious texts inbloodon Gisellas arms. That developed into the mystical phenomenon whereby Luisa began to live on the Eucharist alone as her daily bread. Whenever she was forced under obedience by her confessor to eat, she was never able to digest the food, which came out minutes later, intact and fresh, as if it had never been eaten. .). From 1995 to 2005, Marco had visible stigmata during Lent and relived the Lords Passion on Good Friday. They underscore Satans attempt to destroy the Church and the whole world and the remedy given by Heaven: the sacraments, the Rosary, fasting and reparation for offenses committed against the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, refuge and ark for the faithful in our troubled times. At the womans next appearance, the children sprinkled the mysterious figure with blessed water, thinking it might be a demon, but the woman did not disappear. And the message is this: after 4,000 years of preparation within salvation history and 2,000 years of even more explosive preparation within Church history, the Church is finally ready to receive her crown; she is ready to receive that which the Holy Spirit has been guiding Her toward the entire time. The Diocesan Administrator contacted the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and obtained a statement in 2017 to the effect that the CDF did not consider the apparitions supernatural in origin, a position also maintained by the Archdiocese of Manaus. Only thus will the Our Father prayer truly be fulfilled; and this prayer, the greatest prayer ever prayed, is a sure prophecy uttered by the lips of the Son of God. ReadMedjugorjethe Smoking Guns. Thy Will be done. Walter would hear her voice through interior locutionsin words as clear to him as his ownand she began to guide, shape, and teach him. This "house" is the Kingdom of the Divine Will that will reign in the hearts of the "small company" (or Little Rabble) that has prepared their hearts for it. Apparitions subsequently occurred almost daily until January 1, 1996, two months after the first message from Jesus in a hospital where Eduardo was working as a nurse. I am prolonging the time of mercy for the sake of sinners. The messages have been gathered into a book entitled, Thy Kingdom Come, and on March 19, 2017, Juan Abelardo Mata Guevara, SDB, Titular Bishop of Estel, Nicaragua, granted them the Imprimatur of the Church. Stefano Gobbi. On August 15, 1995, the woman identified herself as Mary, Queen of Help. Michel Rodrigue and the visionaries in Heede, Germany during the time of the Third Reich). Fr. This is perhaps best explained by the fact that, during Dom Carillo Grittis lifetime, the Itapiranga apparitions enjoyed an unusual degree of approval. They warn the world of coming tribulations: communism and its coming peak; war and the use of nuclear weapons; pollution, famine, and plagues; revolution, social unrest, and moral depravity; a schism in the Church; the fall of the world economy; the public appearance and world domination of the antichrist; the fulfillment of the Warning, the Miracle, and the chastisements; the fall of an asteroid, and the change of terrestrial geography, among other messages. Gobbi founded the Marian Movement of Priests (MMP). . Message for Poland: Sometimes these are in the presence of witnesses for which we have video evidence (see here). Leading Mariologist, Dr. Mark Miravalle of Steubenville University devoted a book to them, called The Three Hearts: Apparitions of Jesus, Mark, and Joseph from the Amazon. While it is true that Dr. Miravalle withdrew his book after learning of the CDF document, it is also worth noting that several websites around the world featuring alleged prophetic material that are known for their faithfulness to Church teaching have nonetheless decided to continue publishing translations of the Itapiranga messages. On October 12, 1987, four days after his first communion, Eduardo and his sister Eliete were praying in front of this image when Eduardo saw a blue light emerging from it and illuminating the room. He is going to bring about its reign over the entire world in the imminent Glorious Era of Universal Peace. A North-American man, who wishes to remain anonymous, and whom we will call Walter, was obnoxiously loud, braggadocious, and who mocked the Catholic faith, even to the point of ripping his mothers rosary beads out of her praying hands and scattering them across the floor, went through a profound conversion. She booked a ticket to Rome and, against all odds, found herself and her companions in the inner corridors of the Vatican. . However, this is only possible if you remain totally selfless, renouncing yourself. Given our knowledge through the testimony of exorcists as to how the fallen angels detest and fear Mary to the point of refusing to name her, the chances that one would spontaneously induce the production of the words Mary most holy (Maria santissima) in blood on the seers body would appear to be next to nil. Elizabeth Kindelmann During that period in her life, she suffered no physical illness (until she succumbed to pneumonia at the end) and she never experienced bedsores, despite being confined to her little bed for sixty-four years. Walter agreed. While I am not worthy of this, I accept with great fear and responsibility this great gift, handing myself over totally to His Divine Will. Colin B. Donovan, STL, Marian Movement of Priests, EWTN Expert Answers, accessed July 4, 2019, https://www.ewtn.com/expert/answers/MMP.htm. A third factor in favor of taking the Zaro apparitions/messages seriously is the clear evidence that in 1995, the visionaries had what appears to have been a precognitive vision (published in the magazineEpoca) of the 2001 destruction of the Twin Towers* in New York. It was Fr. . Michel Rodrigue, Fr. It wasnt until she became a Daughter of Mary that the nightmares finally ceased at the age of eleven. Jennifer is a young American mother and housewife (her last name is withheld at her spiritual directors request in order to respect the privacy of her husband and family.) Gobbi and celebrated Mass with him in his private Vatican chapel annually for years. Running to more than 1000 printed pages, Alicjas two-volume spiritual journal (Testimony (1985-1989) and Exhortations (1989-2010) was published posthumously, thanks to the efforts of the Archbishop of Szczecin, Andrzej Dziga, who established a theological commission for the evaluation of her writings, which were granted the Imprimatur by Bishop Henryk Wejman. on Earth as it is in heaven (Mt, 6:10).. It should be obvious that the content of these messages cannot have a demonic origin because of their strict theological orthodoxy. . In 1992, Marco Ferrari began meeting with friends to pray the Rosary on Saturday evenings. Tasks are assigned for each day of the week, which involve prayer, fasting, and night vigils, with beautiful promises attached to them, laced with special graces for priests and the souls in purgatory. They warn the world of coming tribulations: communism and its coming peak; war and the use of nuclear weapons; pollution, famine, and plagues; revolution, social unrest, and moral depravity; a schism in the Church; the fall of the world economy; the public appearance and world domination of the antichrist; the fulfillment of the Warning, the Miracle, and the chastisements; the fall of an asteroid, and the change of terrestrial geography, among other messages. The close and detailed convergence, without a hint of plagiarism, with messages from other serious sources of which Luz de Maria seems to have been personally unaware (such as Fr. The two boys began evangelizing together but faced considerable opposition, with Eduardo receiving death threats, including from members of his family. My children, thank you for having responded to my call in your hearts. Adam Skwarczynski, the diaries of Bruno Cornacchiola. Walter agreed. Stefano Gobbi) and considers the coming of an Era of Peace a heretical view. (It was this that attracted the attention of the national press to Zaro). Through what became The Spiritual Diary, Jesus and Mary taught Elizabeth, and they continue to instruct the faithful in the divine art of suffering for the salvation of souls. In the Blessed Mothers messages to Fr. Pedro Regis, himself, was also unaware of the meaning of some of the theological terms employed in the message. It is the realization of the Our Father prayer in the soul, that Gods Will be done in you just as it is done by the saints in Heaven. But Jesus has also told Luisa that He is not content with merely a few souls here and there living this new sanctity. Children, the t. As he was praying at the shrine of Our Lady for certain priests who had renounced their vocations and were attempting to form themselves into associations in rebellion against the Catholic Church, he heard Our Ladys voice urge him to gather other priests who would be willing to consecrate themselves to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and be strongly united with the Pope and the Church. (It was this that attracted the attention of the national press to Zaro). thus I have again succeeded in postponing the time of the chastisement decreed by divine justice for a humanity which has become worse than at the time of the flood.(#576). But, through Luisa, Jesus is begging all of us to be the ones to proclaim this Kingdom; to learn more about the Will of God (as He has revealed Its very depths to Luisa); to live in His will ourselves and thus prepare the ground for its universal reign; to give Him our wills so that He may give us His own. Through your weakness, I will manifest my strength; through your nothingness, I will manifest my power (message of July 16, 1973). On August 15, 1995, the woman identified herself as Mary, Queen of Help. Thus began an adventure with God and Our Lady that Walter could never have dreamed of. March 3, 2023 My children, thank you for listening to my call in your hearts and for bending your knees. A great number of miraculous healings have been reported, positively assessed by doctors, and were forwarded to the Apostolic Prefecture of the Archdiocese of Itacoatiara.