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Hello, Dear Divine Will Family!
Fiat always! May His Kingdom Come quickly!!
I believe you all know that I have brain cancer and for this reason, I am either late getting things out, or forever getting it typed and together. For this, I truly apologize and ask for your patience! I cannot complain because God has been so very good to me during my illness. I have had no pain, no hair loss, no nausea in any way. The only suffering I can complain about is so tiny, that it seems ungrateful to even mention it. It is having to lay in bed for days (5-6) just waiting for the chemo to exit my body so I can go home for a while, usually a week. I cannot read, nor write so there is nothing for me to do but pray during these times, and I do a lot of that! In the early days of my illness, when I slept most of the time, I would hear Jesus talking to me. He was teaching me and most of what He was telling me was about how to love and forgive every soul on earth, past, present and future! He helped me understand the importance of going straight to Heaven through loving and forgiving everyone, which gives God so much glory and praise!! Keeping anger pent up in your heart can and will keep you in Purgatory for many, many years if you cannot let go of it. You must love and forgive with God's love and forgiveness. What can be more important than to go straight to Heaven? This glorifies God more than anything else we can do except to live perfectly in His Holy Will, which is the same thing! Who wants to be in Purgatory, even for one day? Not me!!
Well, enough of that! The only other thing that Jesus really tried to teach me during this time was trust! There's no one on earth we can truly trust without a doubt except Jesus!
Now, let's get on with the stories of Garabandal!
One story I like to tell the most is about a beautiful, elderly Priest who came to visit us at the House of Sanctification. He had been to many apparitions of Our Lady in Garabandal but this one was his favorite.
As long as the girls were praying, Our Lady would not leave them, so Conchita told the girls to continue to pray so Our Lady would not leave. Our Lady, knowing exactly what the girls were thinking, took Her crown off of Her head and dropped it on the ground. All the girls excitedly reached for the crown at the same time and when they looked up, Our Lady had disappeared! So, Our Lady did the same as many mothers do...distract the children so they can leave. They told the Priest that when they reached for the crown, it was like trying to hold onto a rainbow! How beautiful and good was Our Lady to the girls and to everyone!
Please know that we love each of you very much and keep all of you in our daily prayers. May the Fiat be in your heart, mind and soul always and constantly for the greater Glory of God and for our own sanctification!
Ann Ellison
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The following information about Our Lady of Garabandal is one of the most important you will read because it is all about the end times, and of what is expected to come upon all humanity. We can't say we were not warned because we were and have been told about these events since Jesus walked the earth and even in the Old Testament there are references to the coming Great Tribulation.
We are facing the end times, and it seems imperative for us to learn as much as we can and pray as hard as we can for the many who are ignorant of any of these facts and what humanity is about to face. So many souls will be lost due to ignorance and that saddens me the most!
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In the years between 1961 and 1965 the Mother of God appeared to four little girls in a small, mountain village in Spain. She made Herself known as Our Lady of Mt. Carmel and gave many, many personal messages but left us with two formal, public messages. The first of these formal messages, made known on October 18th, 1961, states:
“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 second message was received on June 1965, four short years after the first message, and six months before the end of Vatican II. Our Lady was so saddened by the second message that St. Michael was sent to tell the world the following:
“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 St. 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.”
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The full name of the little pueblo is San Sebastian de Garabandal. Many people get it confused with the large, coastal city of San Sebastian. But it is just a small village located in the rugged and beautiful mountains of northern Spain and simply called Garabandal. No more than 300 people lived there at that time and it was, and still is, a quiet and peaceful village. The villagers have chosen to keep it as un-commercialized as possible. There are only three religious shops. The village has no resident Priest, yet Fr. Rolando, who has 7 other Parishes, comes from several miles away every day to celebrate Mass. Most of the people are devout and love their faith. The holy Rosary has been prayed in the little village Church every evening for the past 500 years. This may explain the reason for the events which began to unfold in the late afternoon of Sunday, June 18th, 1961.
Four young girls were playing on the outskirts of Garabandal. They were Conchita Gonzalez, Mari-Loli Mazon, Jacinta Gonzalez and Mari Cruz Gonzalez. Mari Cruz was eleven and the other girls were twelve. None were related, but all were from the little pueblo of Garabandal.
Suddenly they heard a loud noise, like thunder, and Conchita fell on her knees, her head snapped backwards. The other girls were startled and started to run for their mothers, when they found themselves in the same position. All were seeing a beautiful Angel before them, looking like a young boy wearing a white gown with rose-colored wings and holding a sign with a message that the girls could not read. He did not say a word. For the next several days the Angel appeared to them without speaking, but always carrying the same sign. Towards the end of June, he finally spoke to the girls and told them that on July 2nd, they would be visited by the Mother of God, which in 1961 was the Feast of the Visitation. Thus began the events of over 2000 appearances of Our Lady to this tiny village of northern Spain.
The news spread quickly through the region and on Sunday, July 2nd, the little village was very crowded with all types of people. At six in the evening the girls went to the place where St. Michael had appeared to them and in an instant the girls were in ecstasy. Our Lady appeared to them accompanied by an Angel on either side of Her. One being St. Michael, the other Angel was unknown. It was during this first visit that Our Lady told the girls what the sign said that St. Michael was holding. It was Our Lady’s first public message, but the girls were not allowed to reveal the message until October 18th. Conchita described the Blessed Mother as follows:
Our Lady “……was dressed in a white robe with a blue mantle and a crown of golden stars. Her hands are slender. There was a brown scapular on her right arm. Her hair, a deep nut-brown color, is parted in the middle. Her face is long, with a fine nose. Her mouth is very pretty.... She looks like a girl of eighteen. She is tall. There is no voice like hers. No woman is just like her, either in the voice or the face or anything else.”
At times the girls could see the wind rustling her waist-length hair. The girls spoke to her with complete naturalness telling her about their everyday happenings and of the duties that they had accomplished. She would smile at them, and she showed great interest in every detail of their day. Her maternal attitude gave them great confidence to speak to her in the same manner as they spoke to their earthly mothers.
In 1961 and 62, Our Lady appeared many times each week, at different times of the day and night. When the girls were awake during the night for apparitions, sometimes lasting several hours, they could still easily get up the next morning, go to school and attend to their duties without showing any signs of fatigue.
During the apparitions many things happened that were extraordinary. The girls levitated, had ‘ecstatic falls’ in which the girls fell together in ecstasy forming beautiful sculpture-like figures, always in a modest manner. Allow me to list several other external wonders which happened during these apparitions!
1/ When an apparition occurred, the girls would fall instantaneously on their knees, striking the sharp rocks, making cracking sounds. People within hearing distance would wince with the imaginary pain they thought the girls were experiencing, yet the girls were never injured. Their heads would snap back to a position which looked impossible to hold for any length of time and yet they stayed in these positions for hours. One doctor said it seemed very difficult to him for the girls to be able to breathe with their heads tilted-back so far, especially Conchita.
2/ The girls said they knew when the Virgin was going to appear to them because they received three interior feelings which were referred to as the ‘Three calls of Joy.’ These feelings, or calls, would become stronger the closer the time came for the apparition. No matter where the girls were, if they were together or apart, each knew exactly where to go and the time to meet for the apparition. Many times, they were seen running from different parts of the village and coming all together they would go into ecstasy. Their look became extraordinarily beautiful, sweet, and profoundly mystical. Their whole demeanor would change in an instant, and their faces seemed to glow with love and joy. At the end of the ecstasies, they never showed any signs of excitement or nervousness, but only deep profound peace and joy.
3/ In a 1980 interview with BBC, Conchita said that Our Lady would come to them in a light so bright that it would eclipse everything else around them and they could not see anything other than Our Lady and the light. They would become so completely absorbed in their vision that they did not react to pricks, burns, or blows. Powerful beams of light were focused on their faces yet their eyes did not even flicker, blink or show any signs of discomfort. In fact, their eyes remained wide open, expressing a look of intense joy.
4/ Weather had no effect on the girls during their ecstasies. There were times they were even barefoot in the snow for hours, with no pain or damage to their limbs.
5/ There were times when people would give the girls various sacramentals, such as Missals, Bibles, Rosaries, Medals, wedding rings, etc., for our Lady to kiss. During the ecstasy Our Lady would kiss these objects and then guide the girls to the rightful owners, sometimes through thick crowds. Most of these objects belonged to people the girls had never met, and some people who were skeptical would try to trick the girls by giving them their sacramentals through a friend. These objects kissed by Our Lady have brought special favors to many owners, occasionally emitting a scent of Roses. Our Lady told Conchita that her Son would work miracles and prodigies through these kissed objects. Also, those who carried or wore them with faith and confidence, would suffer their purgatory on earth.
6/ Each girl always carried a crucifix in her hand kissed by Our Lady and the Blessed Mother would direct them to extend it for observers to kiss, blessing them with it at the same time. Sometimes when just seeing the girls approaching them with the Crucifix visitors experienced such a tremendous spiritual awakening, that it produced a profound interior emotion in them.
7/ Soon after the apparitions started, the ecstatic walks began. The girls went throughout the entire village – up and down stairways, in and out of homes, at all hours of the day and night, avoiding obstacles without faltering, guided solely by the vision. They ran at great speeds down steep and rugged terrain, even running backwards, and running so fast that it was impossible for the people to keep up with them. Their bodies did not seem to be subject to the laws of gravity but had a beautiful and awe-inspiring spiritual agility. The four girls were seen by many as they walked over a bridge arm in arm that was only wide enough for two. The other two girls walked across on air.
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What I have just described are some of the external manifestations that were witnessed during the many apparitions of Our Lady at Garbandal. These sights were incredible to behold, much less to try to comprehend for the thousands of witnesses who came to see and experience what was going on in this tiny, mountain village! Our Lady told Conchita that God allowed these manifestations because it was so important for the Church to get involved in what She had come to tell the world! As much as we enjoy the sensational external miracles, the most important aspect of any apparition is what happens in our souls! The exterior is only to get our attention. It is the interior fruits that will help us understand if it is from God or not! It is the interior (our souls), not the exterior, that will bear holy fruit from a true apparition!
So, with this in mind, I would like to discuss an aspect of the apparitions of Garabandal to which no one, not even the Church can deny it is from God, and this phenomenon is called the ‘Reading of Hearts’! Allow me to quote from the Garabandal Journal, a magazine published by Barry Hanratty, dated November/December 2003.
“Of all 19 types of mystical phenomena listed in the Catholic Encyclopedia, ranging from ‘apparitions’ to ‘bodily incorruptibility,’ there is only one that is exempt from the possibility of either diabolic activity or natural occult powers and that is the ‘Reading of Hearts’, or some call it ‘Reading of Souls.’
“The clear definition of this gift is as follows: ‘It is the knowledge of the secret thoughts of others or of their internal state without communication.’ The certain knowledge of the secret thoughts of others is truly supernatural since the devil has no access to the spiritual faculties of men and no human being can know the mind of another unless it is in some way communicated." (Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 7, pp 173-179)
Maximo Forschler, of Germany, was a dear friend of the Andreu family. The Andreu family held a very prominent place in God’s plan during the apparitions of Garabandal. Maximo, an engineer and a devout Protestant, came to Garabandal only because of the influence of the Andreu family. He had made several visits there, but it was from the reading of his soul on this particular day in Garabandal that he found the true Faith. I will quote him on his experience.
“One day, after Mari-Loli had come out of ecstasy, she called me aside and told me what the Blessed Virgin had said about me. She told me about my life, what I had done, and what had happened to me from my early youth until the present date. Absolutely no one in the village could have known all those details (not even my wife!), and many of them I was able to recall after hearing them from the girl. In spite of the timidity that the girls had and though they were only 12 years of age at the time, Mari-Loli talked a long time to me with the greatest naturalness.” End of Quote
From this experience Maximo became a very devout Catholic!
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Then there is the story of a young woman from South America who was an Atheist, and an exotic dancer in Paris. She was estranged from her family because of her beliefs and behavior. She told Dr. Ricardo Puncerneau, a very respected, internationally known Neuropsychiatrist, that she had come to the village purely out of curiosity, that she didn’t believe at all. She had met the good Doctor that evening in Ceferino’s tavern. Ceferino is the father of Mari-Loli. They walked outside to watch the girls in ecstasy praying the Rosary. They were leaning up against the wall and was hidden in the shadows. Suddenly Conchita broke away from the other girls and rushing, came over and with great strength put the Crucifix up to the young woman’s lips three times for her to kiss. Conchita then went back to the other girls, still in ecstasy. When Dr. Ricardo turned to the young women, she was crying uncontrollably. He took her over to a bench for her to sit and calm down. She related to the Doctor, and to a crowd that had gathered, that she had mentally thought,
“If it is true that the Virgin is appearing, then let one of the girls come and give me a sign. Hardly had I thought this when Conchita came running toward me to give me the crucifix to kiss. I didn’t want to kiss it, and I held her hand back. But with exceptional strength she forced the crucifix against my lips and I had no other choice but to kiss it once, twice, and a third time.”
She continued, “I, the unbeliever, the atheist, who believed in nothing. This shook me intensely.”
Later when Dr. Ricardo saw this young women on a train going to Bilbao, she told him she was going back to South America to unite with her family!
A statement was made by the girls which said that “The Virgin likes Priests, and also people without faith, to come.” It seems to me that this statement was made by Our Lady because communicating to the girls the hearts of Priests, and people without faith, many conversions occurred, and hearts were changed. Many, many vocations were saved and realized through the reading of hearts!
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Another reason Our Lady came so often and so many times to Garabandal was because, as a Mother, She had many things to teach Her children. Among the most important are the teachings on the Sacrament of Marriage, the Priesthood, and the Holy Eucharist!
Concerning marriage, Our Lady took the girls all over the village, up and down every street. But She also took them into every house and into every room of every house, blessing them. She took the girls into the bedrooms teaching the girls the importance of the Sacrament of Marriage and that the marriage bed would soon be desecrated by many types of sin! She indicated that this Sacrament would become less and less important to many Catholics!
The Eucharist!
Our Lady’s teachings on the Priesthood and the Eucharist were given the most attention during the five years She came to Garabandal. The Eucharist seems to have been Her main focus. In both Her messages to the world She emphasized the Eucharist. In the first She encouraged us by stating: “We must visit the Blessed Sacrament frequently…” In the second message, She warned us saying: “Less and less importance is being given to the Eucharist.”
Our Lady demonstrated these facts, also, by sending St. Michael, appointed by our Holy Mother Church to be the ‘Guardian of the Eucharist,’ to teach the girls the proper reverence and manner with which to receive Our Lord in Holy Communion. He taught them the St. Ignatius prayer, the ‘Anima Christi.’ The girls started receiving Invisible Communion from St. Michael soon after the apparitions started. He obtained the Consecrated Hosts from Tabernacles all around the world. The simple villagers did not believe the girls were receiving Holy Communion because it was invisible, and they could not see it. They didn’t seem to realize that the only time St. Michael would bring the girls Holy Communion was when the Parish Priest could not come. This was to demonstrate the importance of receiving the Eucharist daily, as our food and our strength.
On May 2, 1962, St. Michael told Conchita that God would perform a Miracle so that the people would believe. He told her that on July 18th, people would be able to view the Host that St. Michael would Communicate to Conchita. On that date, the little village was full of people when Conchita went into Ecstasy in her home. She was led out into the street where she suddenly dropped to her knees. When she put out her tongue there was nothing, then suddenly a pure white Host appeared. A businessman from Barcelona was the only one able to get some extraordinary film of the Miracle. People were crowding around so tightly to see the visible Host that no one else was able to capture anything on film. Pepe Diez, from the village, and Don Benjamin Gomez, a farmer from Potes, witnessed the Miracle at close range. Both described it about the same way. I will quote Don Gomez, 
“I was standing at less than an arm’s length from the girl. I saw very well that her tongue was completely clean of anything. The girl did not move. Suddenly there appeared on it the Sacred Host. It was white, shining and resplendent. It reminded one of the snow when the sun strikes it with its brilliant rays. The girl’s face was beautifully transformed into heavenly ecstasy. Her face was angelic. I can certify that she was there motionless, moving neither hands nor tongue. In this motionless position she received the Sacred Host. We had enough time to contemplate this marvelous phenomenon without any undue haste, and we were many who saw it. I was an unbeliever until that day.”
The Blessed Mother also led the girls to the Church many, many times, even when it was not open to them because Our Lady was teaching the girls the importance of visiting the Eucharist often, and, also, as Conchita said, “The Virgin always likes to be near where Jesus is….”
One time, some people, who were gathered for an apparition, were putting their Sacramentals on a table for the girls to give to Our Lady to kiss, when one of the visitors put an old compact used to carry face powder on the table. Some people commented on this because Our Lady had told the girls one time that She only wanted to kiss Sacramentals. But the visitor did not remove the compact. When Our Lady came it was the first thing She asked the girls to hand Her to kiss and even the girls were in wonder! They asked Our Lady why She would kiss a compact? She said because during the time of the Spanish Civil War, it was use as a Pyx to carry Her Son.
The Priesthood
Jacinta made it very clear that although Our Lady was very much a Mother to them, they knew clearly that She had come for the Church and the world, putting the emphases on Priests and the Eucharist!
Our Lady told the girls that they should pray for Priests. Conchita and Mari-Loli were told that they would suffer much throughout their lives for the Priesthood. Our Lady told the girls that Vatican II was a good council, it was Her council, but that much confusion would follow it. She knew that the Church, the Priests and the Religious would pass through a time of confusion and great suffering, and She had come to Garabandal to help.
Fr. Ramon Andreu
As an example, there is the story of a wonderful Jesuit Priest, named Fr. Ramon Andreu, who eventually became the pastor of a Spanish parish in Los Angeles, California, until his death last November 11th. Fr. Ramon related this story to the French publisher of the book, “She went in Haste to the Mountain.” I have personally met Fr. Ramon and have heard this story from him myself.
Fr. Ramon had come to Garabandal for the first public message from Our Lady on October 18, 1961. Going up to the Pines, he felt very elated and happy, but after the message, going down to the village, a great depression, disbelief and desolation came over him. It was a great suffering for him because he had come to love Garabandal and the girls. This desolation, which he felt, made him want to leave everything and get away and never come back to this “backward village” again. He was going through this trial of great disbelief in the apparitions, when Mari-Loli found him and told him,
“The Virgin told us, ‘Father doubts everything, and suffers much. Call him and tell him not to doubt anymore, that it is really I, the Virgin, who is appearing here. And in order for him to believe better, tell him: When you went up, you went up happy, when you came down, you came down sad.’”
Mari-Loli told Father that the Virgin had told Conchita many things about him. Father Ramon was so surprised and rushed over to Conchita’s house. Conchita told Father everything he had been thinking and where he was standing or sitting at the time he was thinking these things. She told him that the Virgin told her to tell Father this so that in the future when he remembers it, he will never doubt again.
Here is a direct quote from Fr. Ramon about that time in Garabandal,
“At the time when I felt myself the most alone in all my life, I was in fact totally known, even to my most hidden thoughts; all of my thoughts had been very easily known to the girls by means of the mysterious person they claimed to see.”
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Many Priests went to Garabandal dressed in street clothes, thinking of giving up their vocations, and all received help from their Heavenly Mother. Many souls recognized their vocations in Garabandal with the help of Our Lady.
On July 20, 1963, Conchita had a locution from Our Lord in the little village Church. Concerning Priests, Jesus told Conchita to pray very much for them so that they would be holy, perform their duties well and make others better. He also expressed this desire to the teenager: “May they make Me known to those who do not know Me, and may they make Me loved by those who know Me but do not love Me.”
Even back then, Our Lady told the world in her last message, “There are many Priests, Cardinals, and Bishops on the road to perdition and taking many souls with them!” I understand many Bishops and Cardinals had a hard time with this sentence, but how easily it is to see this truth now!
In the fifth century, this same thing was foretold by St. Nilus. Speaking about the middle of the twentieth century he stated: “Christian pastors, bishops, and priests will become vile men, completely failing to distinguish the right-hand way from the left.”
Fr. Alfred Comb, a zealous leader of the French Garabandal movement, editor of a newsletter for Garabandal, and lecturer on this subject, on the 50th anniversary of his Priesthood, answered the question: “Has your Priesthood been affected by Garabandal?” with this answer:
“Enormously. …….I have seen many spiritual fruits (conversions, vocations, healings, etc.) all of which are classic forms of apostolate. And that has always been a solid comfort to me.
…..(And) my very being, my interior life, by a permanent contact with the message of Garabandal, has been impregnated with Eucharistic devotion, Marian devotion, and a profound fidelity to the Church, crystalized above all by a total filial obedience to the Pope. And I know other Priests, “friends of Garabandal,” who can tell the same thing.”
The Prophecies of Garabandal
If I had time, I could spend hours talking about the events surrounding the Eucharist and the Priesthood, but now we must move on to another very importance aspect of the Apparitions of Garabandal. And that is the extraordinary Prophecies of Garabandal, which are most pertinent for these times in which we are now living!
FIRST let's clear up this matter of the ‘Three Popes!’ Did Our Lady seem to say that Pope John Paul II was the last Pope? No, She did not. What Our Lady told Conchita was this: “There will be three more Popes, THEN will come the end of the times!” What Our Lady was saying is that after the Late, Great, Saint Pope John Paul II there would come the end of times ‘as we know them.’ She was not talking about the Popes at all, but about the times! Times are coming that we are not going to be accustomed to! Many of the prophecies that came from Our Lady we thought would be for the Late, Great, Saint Pope John Paul II! But as we can see, they are going to be for this present Pope, Benedict XVI. Let me explain by telling you another prophecy that was given at Garabandal!
The Sudden and Unexpected Takeover of Communism!
As we have been reading in the news lately, the Russian Roman Catholics have been to visit Pope Benedict, and they are very enthusiastic about him coming to Moscow. Even the Russian Orthodox are willing for him to come to talk about the relationship between the two Churches. (After, of course, a number of issues between the two Churches have been resolved and agreed upon.) There contains a statement attributed to Conchita in a book called “Garabandal, the Finger of God,” written by Albrecht Weber, a German who has been involved with Garabandal since the early years, which states, “The Pope will go to Russia, to Moscow. As soon as he returns to the Vatican, hostilities will break out in different parts of Europe.” (Garabandal Journal November/December 2003) On June 19,1962, in a vision, the girls of Garabandal saw these hostilities and screamed for 50 minutes. They asked Our Lady what this tribulation was and Our Lady answered that it was Communism, led by Russia, and that it would suddenly and unexpectedly take over most of the free world, causing a great tribulation, at which time the Church will seemingly disappear and all the rights of Christians would be taken away, and there could be many Martyrs! At the height of this tribulation, God is going to send a great Warning to the entire world!
The Warning
The whole world will experience a ‘Warning,’ a correction of conscience. St. Faustina wrote about it in her diary, as well as other Saints and holy persons.
And Conchita wrote this: “The Warning comes directly from God and will be visible to the whole world and from any place where anyone may happen to be. It will be like the revelation of our sins and it will be seen and felt by everyone, believer and unbeliever alike irrespective of whatever religion he may belong to. It will be seen and felt in all parts of the world and by every person.”
St. Faustina predicted a day when we would witness Our Lord Crucified in the sky. Mari-Loli also said something will happen in the sky! No one can prevent it from happening. We will even prefer to be dead rather than to pass through this Warning, although it will not kill us. It will be a “correction” of our conscience. It will cause great fear and will make us reflect within ourselves on the consequences of our own personal sins. It will be like a warning of the punishment to come. In this way the world will be offered a means of purification to prepare itself for the extraordinary grace of the Great Miracle.
Jacinta was told by Our Blessed Mother that, “the warning would come when conditions were at their worst.” The date was not revealed to the visionaries, however Mari-Loli does know the year; and she said that the Great Miracle will happen within twelve months following the Warning!
(It seems to me, dear people, that it would be very prudent to prepare ourselves for this Warning by frequent confessions and the realization that this Warning is a great Mercy of God for all of us to be able to love Him more perfectly!)
The Great Future Miracle
To be more precise about this Great Miracle, I will quote a special edition of the Garabandal Magazine. It quotes Conchita saying this,
“I am the only one the Blessed Virgin spoke to about the Miracle. She told me I could not say what it will consist of. I can’t announce the date either until eight days before it is due to occur. What I can reveal is that it will coincide with a [very special and happy] event in the Church** and with the feast of a saint, a martyr of the Eucharist; that it will take place at 8:30 on a Thursday evening; that it will be visible to all those who are in the village and surrounding mountains; that the sick who are present will be cured and the incredulous will believe. It will be the greatest miracle that Jesus will have performed for the world. There won’t be the slightest doubt that it comes from God and that it is for the good of mankind....” [**Conchita has stated that this event in the Church would be a unique event which has never happened since her birth.]
At another time, concerning the great Miracle, she added that,
“It would last about 15 minutes.”
On August 10, 1971, while talking to a group of Americans, she offered this revealing information:
“It will take place on or between the eighth and sixteenth of March, April or May. It will not happen in February or June.”
The Permanent Sign
Our Lady also revealed to Conchita about a permanent sign that would be left above the Pines after the Miracle that would last until the end of the world!
Conchita states:
“A sign of the Miracle, which it will be possible to film and televise, will remain forever at the pines.”
On September 14, 1965, Conchita said:
“The sign which will remain forever at the pines is something we will be able to photograph, televise and see, but not touch. It will be evident that it is not a thing of this world but from God.”
There are those that believe that people from all nations will come to see this sign from God and there will be many, many conversions!
Eight days in advance of the Miracle Conchita will give notice to the world about its coming. Prior to the eight-day notice, God will send a Warning to the entire world to purify it for the great Miracle. So, the world will receive two advance notices – the Warning and the eight-day notice.
Jesus told Conchita in a locution in 1965 that the Great Miracle was to convert the whole world. Conchita asked Him if that meant Russia also, and Jesus responded with these words, “Yes, the whole world will be converted and will love Our Two Hearts.”
So, after the Miracle, will it be the Era of Peace that everyone is waiting for, prophesied by Our Lady of Fatima? For a short time, maybe.
The Chastisement
Our Lady showed Conchita, Mari Loli and Jacinta in July of 1962, a vision of the impending Great Chastisement. The visionaries screamed in terror for three hours upon seeing this vision and begged Our Lady for God to spare the children. Mari-Loli was talking mainly about her younger brothers who were several years younger than she and Our Lady told her that the Great Chastisement would not happen until the children were adults! What does this tell us about when the Chastisement will happen? These children are now in their late 50’s and early 60’s!
The Blessed Virgin told the girls the Chastisement was conditional on whether or not mankind would heed her Messages given during the apparitions. We see, however, that not only has Her messages not been heeded by mankind, but mankind has become much, much worse!!
The Chastisement is mentioned again only briefly by Conchita when she describes it as something “very, very great, in keeping with what we deserve. If it should take place, I know what it will consist of because the Blessed Virgin told me about it, but I am not permitted to say what it is. Moreover, I have seen the Chastisement. I can assure you that if it comes, it is worse than being enveloped in fire, worse than having fire above and beneath you. I do not know how much time will elapse between the Miracle and the Chastisement.”
But there is hope! Our Lady of Garabandal is our hope! There is always hope when Our Lady is involved in an apparition. Our hope is in the Warning, the Miracle and the Chastisement. These things are very necessary to cleanse and purify the world for the coming of an ‘Era of Peace’ of which the world has never experienced before!
The Warning, the Miracle, and the Chastisement will be of such a magnitude that they will be unique in the history of mankind! So, it will be the same with the Era of Peace! Yes! There is an immense light at the end of the tunnel – the Light of Christ within all mankind, radiating peace, love and harmony in all the world through those fortunate souls who will live in this Great Era of Peace, and this will finally be the culmination of the messages of Garabandal.
ADDITIONAL STORIES AND INFORMATION!
1. Saint Mother Theresa of Calcutta is the God-Mother of one of Conchita’s children.
2. Through a brother Priest of St. Padre Pio, Conchita received word that St. Pio did see the Miracle before his death and this same Priest brought Conchita St. Pio’s veil that covered his face during his wake. This gift was at the request of St. Pio.
3. It was Conchita’s paternal grandfather, when he was mayor of Garabandal, who planted the nine pines trees in honor of the nine First Communicants of the village. The nine children helped plant the pine trees. All the First Communicants processed to the Pines and prayed and sang a poem written by a lady in the village, who just passed away last year.
House of Sanctification
The House of Sanctification (HOS) is now called the "Divine Will Institue and Retreat Center." Thomas Fahy, founder of the Luisa Piccarreta Center for the Divine Will, alone with the ‘John Paul II Institute of Christian Spirituality,’ which the Divine Will Institute and Retreat Center is under always wanted the House of Sanctification to be known as an institute because he wanted it to be a serious place to teach about the incredible gift of Living in the Divine Will!
The Institute was Consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and to the Holy Trinity on August 15, 1998. Their principal address is PO Bo 415, Jacksboro, Tennessee, 37757, USA. The Institute was founded because it saw a great need to study the ‘new and divine’ holiness realized in certain twentieth century holy souls, such as St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Saint Faustina Kowalska, Blessed Dina Belanger, Venerable Conchita Cabrera de Armida, plus others who have been recognized by Holy Mother Church. Since we have been studying these privilege souls, we are beginning to understand more about the unity God so greatly desires with His children. It is our privilege now to disseminate and teach the “’new and divine’ holiness" with which the Holy Spirit wishes to enrich Christians at the dawn of the Third Millennium, in order to make Christ the Heart of the World.” *(Late, Great Pope Saint John Paul II in the L’Osservatore Romano, July 9, 1997)
Where are we?
We are in San Sebastian de Garabandal nestled in the Cantabrian Mountains in northern Spain about an hour southwest of Santander, or 40 minutes south of San Vicente de la Barquera, located on the coast of the Cantabra Sea. We are the last little village going up a winding mountain road, about 2000 feet above sea level in a most beautiful setting.
What is our spirituality?
By studying the holy souls chosen by the Institute we have found that they describe a union with God more intimate, perfect, and sublime than anything seen prior to our times. This same unity, already realized in Mary, tends toward and fulfills the ideal God had for Adam and Eve. God greatly desires for His children to return to the original ‘State of Justice’ for which He created us!
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