WHAT IS GARABANDAL?: Blessed Mother Teresa and Jacinta:

Monday, December 9, 2013

Blessed Mother Teresa and Jacinta:

Mother Teresa and Jacinta

Reprinted with kind permission from GARABANDAL JOURNAL November-December 2005
Excerpted from Los MILAGROS o FAVORES DE NUESTRA MADRE DE GARABANDAL by Maria Josefa Villa de Gallego
Translated from Spanish by Dr. Edward Serrano

Conversation

Mother Teresa: Jacinta, how happy you must feel for all the graces that the Virgin has granted you.

Jacinta: You are right, but I don't know if I'll be able to correspond to all the favors received.

Mother Teresa: You are a chosen soul. Before I make an important decision, I always invoke the Sacred Heart of Jesus."

Commentary: This reference to the Sacred Heart of Jesus was made by Mother Teresa because she knew about Jacinta's impressive vision of the Sacred Heart.

* * * We'd been in the village several lovely days, and Jacinta, who spends the most time there [of all the visionaries], told us that when Mother Teresa of Calcutta was so deathly ill, she called Conchita Gonzalez at her home in [New York] asking her to call Jacinta [who lives in California] and ask her to come to the clinic where Mother was [in Mexico].

Jacinta arranged the trip and entered the room where Mother Teresa was. Mother extended her arms to her and, holding Jacinta's hands, clasped them to her heart while she spoke to her, all the time looking her straight in the eyes. Several times she asked how could a person travel to Garabandal from Madrid and how long did it take.

They were there a long time, then Mother suddenly said, "I'm better now," and then she told Jacinta that when she was so ill she saw a light out of which came an angel who pointed to her with his finger and said, "Teresa, get up and continue your mission." The doctor said she was delirious because she was so sick, but she returned to work with the same energy as before.

Josefa Gallego
September 18,1992

Reprinted with kind permission from GARABANDAL JOURNAL ( to order) November-December 2005
see also article: Blessed Mother Teresa and Garabandal

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UPDATE: THE CHURCH"S POSITION ON GARABANDAL

The magazine "Garabandal Journal" has updated some information regarding the village of Garabandal, the current Bishop and Pastor.
For many years, while never being condemned, the Garabandal events were under a dark cloud as some of the first bishops (but not all) opposed the events. But the tide started to change with Bishop Juan Antonio del Val Gallo (1971-1991). While he at first did not believe in the apparitions he took a more open position. In 1981, he became a believer and during his reign, he lifted the ban on priests going up to the village and allowed them to celebrate Mass in the village church with the permission of the village pastor. The next bishop, Jose Vilaplana Blasco, was a non-believer, but left in place the positive changes made by Bishop del Val. In 2006, he was transferred to another diocese in southern Spain and Archbishop of Oviedo, Carlos Osoro Sierra, was made Apostolic Administrator of Santander. The Archbishop, building on the positive measures taken by Bishop Del Val, allowed priests visiting Garabandal to celebrate Mass in the village church even if the pastor was not there (he ministered to a number of other villages and was not always in Garabandal). The Archbishop also gave visiting priests faculties to hear confessions.
In 2007, Ed Kelly from the United States, wrote to the Archbishop requesting the current status of Garabandal and received a letter from the prelate, under his own stationary and signed by him dated May 7, 2007, in which he said: "I respect the apparitions and have known of authentic conversions. In light of these events, how can we not always feel the need to open our heart to our mother Mary to tell her that we need her protection, help, spirit, desire, hope and love! I encourage you to continue maintaining this devotion to our Mother."
In 2011, two 50th anniversaries were celebrated in Garabandal (1) for the first appearance of St. Michael on June 18, 1961, and (2) the first vision of Our Lady on July 2, 1961. The celebrations were conducted under the auspices of the Santander Diocese represented by the village pastor Fr. Rolando Cabeza (also dean of the area). During the celebrations, another ban was lifted when Fr. Cabeza, spoke of the apparitions from the pulpit, and read the two formal Messages of Our Lady at Garabandal.
On May 6, 2012, current Bishop of Santander, Vecente Jimenez Zamora (installed in 2007) celebrated a Mass in Garabandal in commemoration of the completion of a restoration project of the village church. In a refreshments period after Mass, he was open and most cordial with all the villagers and visitors. On May1, 2013, the Bishop again celebrated Mass in the village church of Garabandal and prior to the Mass, kissed a crucifix belonging to villager David Toribio that was kissed by the Blessed Virgin at Garabandal. We don't know if the Bishop knew that but we suspect he did.
Bishop Jimenez's Masses in Garabandal were firsts, since no Bishop of Santander had ever said Mass in the village church from the time the apparitions began in 1961.
Deacon John

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