Song: Our Lady of Garabandal [Spanish Video]

From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsoYnwV6qpQ&feature=player_detailpage

New Garabandal Book

http://www.amazon.com/Queen-Prophets-Garabandal-Events-Times/dp/145656207X/ref=cm_cmu_up_add_glance

I just about finished reading this wonderful book (I'm a slow reader with not much time for reading). I think it is a great book that should be read by all Catholics. I especially liked the first half where it details all the different apparitions of Our Lady over the years. I learned alot from those pages. Of course the Garabandal writings were from many sources that I already have read over the last 50 years with a few quotes that were new to me. All in all, I enjoyed the book and do recommend it to everyone. 
Deacon John

Product Description

Of Queen and Prophets - The Garabandal Events and The End of The Times presents Mary as a prophetic voice in the contemporary Church, fulfilling her role, as did the prophets of the Old Testament, in the “spirit and power” of Elijah. She comes directly to a confused and persecuted Church in our day, offering us a “way out” of the present quagmire. And that “way out,” of course, is reminding us that it is only through Her Son. The author also discusses Mary’s place in Catholic eschatology. Several recognized Marian visitations from the 17th through the 20th centuries prior to 1960 are also examined, which then brings us to the alleged presence of Our Lady at San Sebastian de Garabandal, Spain, 1961-1965, a small village in which she visited over two thousand times in the course of four years. It is not an exaggeration to say that Mary ‘lived’ in Garabandal for that length of time. Through the seers, she visited every home and family at one time or another including the church and cemetery. If what was revealed at Garabandal proves true, the following events will soon shake the world: a worldwide tribulation caused by Communism resulting in a great trial for the Church; a Divine Warning that will bring the tribulation to an end and that will be experienced by every living person in the world where we shall be shown all of the wrongs we have committed; a Great Miracle worked at Garabandal for the conversion of the world out of God’s Mercy and Love for us, and a conditional Chastisement if humanity does not change. It is a clarion call to prayer and penance for the good of our souls and our eternal destiny in Christ.

[Video] The Children of Garabandal:

A Letter from Thomas Fahy, President of the Center for the Divine Will

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[Edited]

1.    Today, June 18, 2011, marks the 50th Anniversary of the Apparition of St. Michael the Archangel at the village of San Sebastian de Garabandal.  He appeared to the four young girls 10 times to prepare the way for the visitation of the Queen of Heaven on July 2, 1961, which at that time the Church celebrated the Feast of the Visitation. She came dressed as Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, holding the Baby Jesus in her arms.  She would make another 2000 visits until November 13, 1965.  I have written about this very great drama and the mission of Our Lady to spare the souls of so many of her very wayward children, who are running rapidly along the road to eternal perdition. But She has also obtained the permission of God to remind us of the means to save ourselves and for Him to give us extraordinary, divine interventions, when things have arrived at their worst. These interventions will dispose many, many of those living at that time to welcome the knowledge of the Kingdom of the Divine Will, so that those fortunate souls in all parts of the earth will beg for the Father's Will to reign in their souls, thus fulfilling the Prayer that Jesus taught us, which is to fulfill God's purpose in the creation of mankind. This will bring a marvelous and most happy new era into the history of mankind—an era void of all evil as we ask in the last petition of the Lord's Prayer.

2. "But at that time shall Michael rise up, the great prince,
    who standeth for the children of thy people: and a time
    shall come such as never was from the time that nations
    began even until that time. And at that time shall thy
    people be saved, every one that shall be found written in
    the book." (Prophecy of Daniel, Chapter 12, verse 1)

    In honor of St. Michael, who appeared at San Sebastian de Garabandal, some missionary Priests who study Luisa's writings and are stationed in Korea, have asked me to share with you a simple Novena beginning on June 23, 2011 and ending on July 1, 2011, in preparation for making a consecration to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel de Garabandal on the 50th anniversary of her first appearance there on July 2.

   

    The simple novena is to say the "Holy Holy Queen" prayer which people usually say at the end of the Rosary. This lovely prayer is to be said on the days of June 23 -July 1.  The Priests gave no instructions for making the consecration to Our Lady on July 2, but left that up to our own discretion. They mentioned that the idea of consecrating ourselves to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel de Garabandal came from St. Padre Pio, when he was still alive.

3.    I want to thank those of you who responded to our request for some economic support in the last Letters of Gold.

4.    We had a very good, nine-day Divine Will retreat at the House of Sanctification at Garabandal in the latter part of April this year, with some beautiful graces that Our Lady dispensed during that retreat.  After the retreat, Ann Ellison and Felicia Murray stayed for several weeks accomplishing many chores and seeing to the maintenance of the House, including hiring a painter to paint the considerable woodwork, and another contractor to renew the general landscape. They also had our little car, which we obtained in 2002, repaired, given maintenance and inspected by the Cantabrian authorities. Plus a whole lot more.  The painting, landscaping renewal, car expenses, insurance on the car and the House amount to a few thousand dollars in expenses.

        The House of Sanctification opened in 2000 and has been a place of great diffusion of the knowledge of the Kingdom of the Divine Will, and it is our purpose that it will be a place of extraordinary diffusion of this knowledge in the future, after the Warning and the Great Miracle in which we will see the Glory of God, followed by the conversion of Russia and many other nations.  Our Lady at Garabandal also said that there will come the much longed-for Unification of the Churches and various non-Catholic Confessions into the Catholic Church.  So you can see that following the Great Miracle of Garabandal there will be a tremendous evangelization on behalf of Church and the Gospel, and also a tremendous evangelization for the Reign of the Divine Will on earth as in Heaven.

        Therefore, it is reasonable for us to keep up the maintainence of the House of Sanctification and pay the necessary taxes and other expenses for that coming Glorious time with God Himself intervenes is such an extraordinary way to redirect the present ways mankind in preparation for the Glorious Reign of the Divine Will.

5.    People are already contacting us about attending a retreat at the House of Sanctification next year.  We really don't know for sure if there will be one next year. We can only tentatively make plans due to the rapidly changing world conditions. We probably won't be able to commit to a retreat there until next January-February time period. Tentatively, we are considering mid-March 2012, but as I said, such plans are only tentative at this time.

6.    We have also has inquiries as to whether or not we will have our regular, annual Divine Will Conference this year. for a variety of reasons we have not commited to such a Conference yet. It seems that we will know by July 15, if we will.  In my last Letters of Gold, I brought up the idea that it would be good if some of the Readers of Letters of Gold might be willing to undertake the general responsibility for such a Conference this year and we would provide the speakers.

7.    The Center for the Divine Will will be closed from June 23 - June 30.  I ask your prayers for me during that time, as I have something to do, which requires the spiritual support of our brothers and sisters in the Divine Will.

May God draw all of us more rapidly and deeply into the Divine Life of the Father's Will,

Thomas Fahy, President

The Luisa Picarreta Center for the Divine Will, Inc.

Note: Correspondence to our tax-exempt organization can be addressed simply to:

Center for the Divine Will

P.O. Box 340

Caryville, TN  37714

Marian Apparitions in Garabandal, Spain [Video]

Taken from the amazing video "Marian Apparitions of the 20th Century"

A Tour of San Sebastian de Garabandal [Video]

Fifty Years of Garabandal: The Angel Appears

June 18, 2011 Dear Friends, Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the commencement of the apparitions at Garabandal by the appearance of the Archangel Saint Michael to the four seers on this date in 1961. Saint Michael came to announce the appearance of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary which was to follow on July 2. We would like to honor this day by spreading devotion to Saint Michael as Our Lady recommended throughout the course of the apparitions. Our treatment of the devotion which we sent via email on September 29 of last year is entitled The Angel of Garabandal and is located on the Joey's Message page of www.garabandal.us. The response to the article drew over one thousand requests for Saint Michael Chaplets from around the world. We have but a few cord chaplets left but would like to offer them at this time gratis to email subscribers who wish to increase their devotion to Saint Michael. Please send an email with  CHAPLET in the subject line to joey@garabandalny.org with your complete mailing address. This offer remains open as long as our supply lasts. These are times of crisis and with so much violence and catastrophe around us we do well to heed Our Lady's request to increase our devotion to the Prince of the Holy Angels and secure for ourselves and our families the assistance and protection of all the angels that we may be delivered from the evil of this age. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- With her permission, we reprint a brief note from Conchita to the present pastor of the village of Garabandal, Padre Rolando, to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary. AVE MARIA May 17, 2011 Dear Father Rolando, I join with you in the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the events of Garabandal. It is for me fifty years of contemplating the most beautiful thing in the world. I give thanks to God for having been a part of those experiences, impossible to describe adequately, but which have pressed upon my soul the secure assurance of faith and hope. I thank you, Father Rolando, for granting me the opportunity to recite the Message of Our Mother in the village yet again. [ October 18,1961-We must make many sacrifices, perform much penance, and visit the Blessed Sacrament frequently. But first, we must lead good lives. If we do not, a chastisement will befall us. The cup is already filling up, and if we do not change, a very great chastisement will come upon us.] The Angel said: As my message of October 18 has not been complied with and has not been made known to the world, I am advising you that this is the last one. Before, the cup was filling up. Now it is flowing over. Many cardinals, many bishops and many priests are on the road to perdition and are taking many souls with them. Less and less importance is being given to the Eucharist. You should turn the wrath of God away from yourselves by your efforts. If you ask His forgiveness with sincere hearts, He will pardon you. I, your mother, through the intercession of Saint Michael the Archangel, ask you to amend your lives. You are now receiving the last warnings. I love you very much and do not want your condemnation. Pray to us with sincerity and we will grant your requests. You should make more sacrifices. Think about the passion of Jesus. Father Rolando, there is nothing of greater importance that I can speak about than this Message of Our Mother. In Union of Prayer, Conchita --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the days to come, we want to share with you our reflections on the meaning of this anniversary via email and on www.garabandal.us. We are pleased to report, fifty years after the events began, that the promotion of the Message continues to advance in 165 countries at a steady pace. We thank all those who take Our Lady's Message forward into new places and we remain united in prayer with all those who undertake the promotion. To commemorate these days in grand style we would like to make available gratis to our email subscribers and their families our final reserve of medals containing a piece of missal kissed by Our Lady at Garabandal. Please send an email with MEDAL in the subject line to joey@garabandalny.org with your complete mailing address. The offer remains open until June 18, 2012 or until our reserve is exhausted. If you are a Garabandal promoter operating in a community in which the following languages are predominantly spoken: German, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovak, Lithuanian, Korean, and Vietnamese, we have a holdover supply of holy cards for distribution containing an accurate translation of the Message and an image of Our Lady of Mount Carmel which we can ship gratis. Please send us an email with CARD in the subject line and specify your language for distribution an estimate of quantity and include your complete mailing address. We will be back with you again in a few days. The Workers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel de Garabandal Lindenhurst, NY USA

P.O. Box 606, Lindenhurst, NY 11757-0606 Garabandal