Thursday, February 8, 2024

"RETREAT IN SAN SEBASTIAN DE GARABANDAL!"

Dear Divine Will Family,
I pray all are at peace with the happenings of Luisa and her writings. If we are not at peace, then you know that God cannot continue His Life in your soul! And His Life in your soul is so extremely precious to Him, let's never deny Him the gift of our little will to Him and the peace He needs to reign there!!

We are having retreats and conferences!! Yea! The knowledge of the doctrine of Luisa continues to live and it always will!

Our wonderful retreats in San Sebastian de Garabandal, May 14 - 21, 2024 are continuing and the May retreat we have some extraordinary speakers and teachers!! Please get in touch with Totally Yours Pilgrimages who flyers are below to arrange to come. You are welcome to stay at the Mary's House, this is the most beautiful retreat House that Guy Murphy built in honor of Our Heavenly Mother, or at the Divine Will Institute and Retreat Center (formally known as the House of Sanctification), as long as there are rooms available. The speakers are phenomenal. They are:

Mother Gabrielle Marie of the Benedictine Daughters of the Divine Will will be our keynote speaker. We are so excited to have her! What a gift from God and a true benefit for all the souls who will be there to learn from her!

We will also have Fr. Robert Hurd, S. J. who will teach us about the St. Ignatius mediations. These meditations are so important to our life in the Divine Will, so don't discount them. We had a lady last year who was so disappointed that the entire retreat was not solely on Divine Will, but by the time the retreat had ended she came to me and thanked me over and over again for the teachings on St. Ignatius mediations. She couldn't get over how much it helped her now when reading and mediating on Luisa's writings. It made a "world of difference!" Guy Murphy will be joining in on these lessons as well. Guy is a fantastic teacher and will enhance any talks or teachings you are in.

And Michael O'Brian will be back! What a joy he is!! Michael will certainly keep the place clapping and jumping with such awesome spiritual songs of Our Lady and Our Lord! He was so much fun last year, and you can feel the love he has for Our Lady in his songs!!

I will be giving a talk or two, as God Wills it. But mostly, I hope to be with everyone else learning more and more from the fabulous teachers and guides that we will enjoy at the retreat in San Sebastian de Garabandal, Spain....the village of Our Lady!!

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Friday, February 2, 2024

Rare Video: Mari Loli, The Only Person to Know the Date of 'The Warning' Said This Will Happen First

When A Garabandal Seer Was Interviewed On The ‘Warning’

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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Thursday, February 8, 2024

"RETREAT IN SAN SEBASTIAN DE GARABANDAL!"

Friday, February 2, 2024

Rare Video: Mari Loli, The Only Person to Know the Date of 'The Warning' Said This Will Happen First

When A Garabandal Seer Was Interviewed On The ‘Warning’

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