Pedro Regis, himself, was also unaware of the meaning of some of the theological terms employed in the message. How accurate was the information in the magazine? https://www.ildispariquotidiano.it/it/zaro-20-anni-di-apparizioni-fiaccolata-rosario-e-nuovo-messaggio/, Video documentary (Italian) including archival 1995 footage of the seers (among them Ciro Vespoli): She grew up in a very religious home with great devotion to the Eucharist, and as a child, experienced heavenly visits from her guardian angel and the Blessed mother, whom she considered her companions and confidants. . Don Ciro, himself, has pointed out that he could not have been ordained by Msgr. 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.. This is part of the mystery of the incarnation. As my old pastor used to say, "Theology is a wonderful thing, but it can't save anyone's soul." Gobbi: At the coming of Jesus in glory, there will be the first resurrection of only those particular believers who had died as martyrs. Roux says the actions of those who express doubts about the locutions are ferocious attacks that our Lady predicted would be made on her movement. In 1992, Marco Ferrari began meeting with friends to pray the Rosary on Saturday evenings. Your example of contraception and "on the basis of personal opinion" is not what I was talking about, unless you define "opinion" as a reasonable position based on consideration of all relevant sources of knowledge. Message 532 says in part: I [Mary] confirm to you that, by the great jubilee of the year two thousand, there will take place the triumph of my Immaculate Heart, of which I foretold you at Fatima, and this will come to pass with the return of Jesus in glory, to establish his Reign in the world. . 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?. The older priest who is currently living with me (he's semi-retired), preaches very long homilies which, by what I hear, are very disjointed. Several other scientifically unexplained phenomena have also been observed in Paratico, including the lacrimation of an image of the Mother of Love in the presence of 18 witnesses in 1999, as well as two eucharistic miracles in 2005 and 2007, the second taking place on the apparition hill with over 100 people present. Secondly, several of the overtly prophetic messages would appear to have been fulfilled: we notably find a request in September 2019 to pray for China as the source of new airborne diseases. [Message #389] The messages of Our Lady of Good Success also mention that some of these events will occur in "the twentieth century. So what explains this discrepancy in the worlds timeline? (Trevignano Romano miracolo del sole 3 gennaio 2020/Trevignano Romanos miracle of the sun, January 3, 2020). However, it should be said that the position of Msgr. There are three translations (or versions) on the Holy Scriptures approved for use in public worship in the dioceses of the United States: The New American Bible; the Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition; and The Jerusalem Bible. The second consideration is, I think, more important. Jesus immediately granted her request by allowing her body to assume an immobile, rigid-like state that appeared almost as if she were dead. Further information: http://mammadellamore.it/inglese.htm 22h. In 2021, Edson passed away from a short terminal illness. I don't know a lay person who has complained about money talks from the pulpit who's attitude would not change if he spent one month as a pastor. An educated conscience is one's first guide to moral decisions. Fr. But those who are uncomfortable with the idea of the meditations as actual interior locutions from Mary can nevertheless find much value in them as meditations on the Church in our time. IRONDALE, Ala. ( ChurchMilitant.com) - In a surprise move, the head of EWTN News is resigning his post. Stefano Gobbi, were published in the book, To the Priests, Our Ladys Beloved Sons, which has received the Imprimatur of three cardinals and many archbishops and bishops worldwide. Gobbi, this will occur prior to, and without need of, the final judgment. The messages were passed to Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, John Paul IIs personal secretary. See the pictures taken from her apparition website https://www.lareginadelrosario.com/, which say Siate testimoni (be witnesses), Abbiate fede (have faith), Maria santissima (Mary most holy), Popolo mio (My people), and Amore (Love). The new edition of the NAB has included some elements of "inclusive language," but it is not proper for a lector, priest, or anyone else to change what he finds in the text on his own authority. Walter agreed. But what about the imprimatur given to Fr. . In the following year, Jesus began to speak interiorly to her especially after receiving Holy Communion. 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. Roux also quotes the [former] apostolic pro-nuncio to the United States [Archbishop Agostino Cacciavillan], who wrote these words to the corresponding secretary of the World Apostolate of Fatima: Concerning your inquiry, I can inform you that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has advised that the writings of Fr. Through your weakness, I will manifest my strength; through your nothingness, I will manifest my power (message of July 16, 1973). Discern how best to use your God-given talents and inspired passions to share the . Fr. The most influential preachers in the history of the Church have been the saints, not the orators or theologians. 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. Does the church or bishops approve of his writings? The Nicene Creed: He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead.. Fr. Am I heading in the correct direction? This important teachingthat the ordinary magisterium, as well as the extra-ordinary, exercises infallibility in certain conditions, is not new. The Church has rejected even modified forms of this falsification of the kingdom to come under the name of millenarianism (676). Given that the apparitions are no longer formally approved (but not formally condemned), it may legitimately be asked why we have nonetheless chosen to feature material received by Edson Glauber on this website. This extraordinary charism is called locutions. This involves interior words that come, not from the mind in the form of thoughts, but from the heart, as if a voice spoke them from within. And in the fine catechismThe Teaching of Christ: A Catholic Catechism for Adults(Bishop Donald W. Wuerl, R. Lawler, OFM Cap., and Thomas Lawler, eds., Our Sunday Visitor [1991]), we read, Some people have mistakenly come to expect a Messianic kingdom in which Christ together with the saints would rule a temporal kingdom on earth for a thousand years (hence the term millenarianism) before the final entrance into heaven. Do you have an opinion? It is only through invincible ignorance that a person's conscience can excuse from guilt in deviating from the moral order. Joseph Iannuzzi, and other sources, please allow us, in just a few sentences, to strive to put an end to the perplexity. Having struggled through the changing theological terrain of Protestantism, neither of us wanted to stray from the sure footing of truthi.e., the teaching and leadership of the Catholic Church. They describe it as a final cosmic upheaval of the passing world (CCC 677) in which the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and the works that are upon it will be burned up (1 Pet. Some of the Doctors and Fathers argue from her virginity, that as her body was preserved in spotless chastity, it should not be subject to natural dissolution after death. Gabriele Amorth who encouragedValeria to diffuse her messages outside the prayer cenacle. There she heard a voice that she identified as her guardian angel, telling her to get up. Fr. Marco continues to receive messages on the fourth Sunday of each month, the content of which is strongly convergent with many other credible prophetic sources. . Stephano Gobbis locutions, which were messages from Mary. But that does not make the act right, nor make the conscience infallible. .). There are several reasons for this, which can be summarized as follows: The Imprimatur of the Catholic Church, granted by Bishop Juan Abelardo Mata Guevara of Esteril in 2017 to Luz de Marias writings after 2009, together with a personal statement affirming his belief in their supernatural origin. On the 8th of May, 1972, Don Stefano Gobbi ("Don" being the common way of addressing priests in Italy), was taking part in a pilgrimage to Fatima and was praying in the little Chapel of the Apparitions for some priests he knew of who had left the priesthood and were forming themselves into an organization in rebellion against the Church's authority, when he seemed to hear an interior voice urging him to have confidence in the Immaculate Heart of Mary. His message given on October 13, 1987 along with Pope Leo the XIII vision on October 13 1884, implies that the Warning experience will probably occur in the year 2017. Here in our own parish we have twice had to ask the teachers in our parish school to survive without their monthly pay because there was simply no money left with which to pay them (and our tuition is already far above what many in our working-class parish are able to afford). The most fundamental was her freedom from sin. Fr Gobbi is of course not the only person to have ever received 'interior locutions'; they have been received by many of the Church's great mystics. And you continue, ". The two current visionaries, Simona Patalano and Angela Fabiani, receive messages on the 8th and 26th of each month, and Don Ciro Vespoli, who provides spiritual guidance to them, was himself one of a group of seers during the initial phase of the apparitions, before he became a priest. The commission overwhelminglyvoted infavorof recognizing the supernatural nature of the first seven apparitions. Thanks Fr. It would be the role of the CDF, after serious examination, to make an official declaration concerning the messages and the Marian Movement of Priests. So neither the movement nor the messages had been approved. Whether or not the conscience can do this is determined by whether is it really knows the truth. One must use one's God-given-gift of reason to assess the truth of even a teaching of the Church; and if one determines conscientiously that a teaching is erroneous, one must not follow it. They began in 2016 following her visit to Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and purchase of a statuette of Our Lady, which subsequently began to weep blood. The existence of a considerable number of ongoing mystical phenomena accompanying Luz de Maria (stigmatization, crucifixes bleeding in her presence, religious images exuding oil). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkZ3LUxx-8E. In proclaiming the dogma, Pius XII gave credence to an understanding of tradition that had been gaining momentum since the early 18th century. Fr. In December of that year, Pope Frances lifted a moratorium ondiocesan organized pilgrimages, essentially elevatingMedjugorjeto shrine status. Gobbi claims that the fire that prepares the way for the new heavens and the new earth is merely a spiritual fire, i.e., a second Pentecost. 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. [Message #389] The messages of Our Lady of Good Success also mention that some of these events will occur in the twentieth century. So what explains this discrepancy in the worlds timeline? Edsons father, who was a violent alcoholic converted due to the influence of the apparitions was shortly to be found on his knees praying the Rosary in the early hours of the morning, and Our Lady said of a large piece of land that he owned belonged to her and to God. In the event that Big Tech shuts us down, and youd like to stay connected, please also add your address, which will never be shared. There . I will obey anything they say. It will be like a judgment in miniature and each one will see himself in the light of the very Truth of God. After graduating from the fundamentalist Bob Jones University with a degree in Speech and English, I went to study theology at Oxford University. During the cenacles, and on other occasions, this man would see in the air in front of him the numbers of messages from the so-called Blue Book, the collection of the revelations Our Lady gave to Fr. . This message, viewed over 3 million times on YouTube, seems to have predicted the present global health crisis. Without judging individuals, we must measure all teaching against the doctrine of the Church, our faithful Mother. With regard to the first consideration, it seems to me that any method of prayer can be compatible with the interior life of a Christian provided that it is truly centered on Christ and not on oneself. Gobbi traveled on pilgrimage to Fatima, Portugal. Salvation and sanctification: the two ultimate desires God has for His dear children. A question of great importance and controversy. . Thy Will be done. Mary appears in these apparitions as Rosa Mystica, a title under which she appeared to nurse Pierina Gilli in Montichiari-Fontanelle (1947), an event to which the Brazilian apparitions to Eduardo and Junior refer repeatedly. But now, it seems, God delays no further. January 21st, 1984;To the Priests, Our Ladys Beloved Sons. . He replied that, after all, I prepared my homilies. I found the movements insistence on proclaiming the authenticity of the locutionsin the face of this specific request to do otherwiseunsettling. 20:1115; 21:15). . EWTN. 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. Visionary of Our Lady of Anguera. Gods triumph over the revolt of evil will take the form of the Last Judgment after the final cosmic upheaval of the passing world (677). Thank you for having . In this time of grace, Satan wants to seduce you; but you, little children, keep looking at my Son and follow Him towards Calvary in renunciation and fasting. Jesus, I trust in You. The wife had been prompted interiorly to start a rosary group after experiencing her first Divine Mercy novena. The messages in these volumes are a treatise of spirituality, divine wisdom, and morality for those who welcome them with faith and humility, so I recommend them for you to read, meditate upon, and put into practice. Today the movement cites membership of over 400 Catholic cardinals and bishops, more than 100,000 Catholic priests, and millions of lay Catholics around the world, with cenacles of prayer and fraternal sharing among priests and lay faithful in every part of the world. Longenecker Dwight Longenecker 2020-10-13T13:05:13-04:00. " 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). The Marian Movement of Priests (MMP) is a private association of Catholic clergy and lay associate members founded by Italian priest Fr. Elizabeth Kindelmann Howeverand this is importantFather Gobbi does not require any priest in the movement to accept these meditations as authentic messages from Our Blessed Mother, and leaves that judgment up to the authority of the Church, which, so far, has not chosen to rule on the question. Close your eyes and say to me with faith: 'Thy will be done, You take care of it.' Gobbi himself says, "No locution, not even such as are gathered together in this book, could take the place of, or be put on a par with, an official public statement of the faith of the Church, from which the complete physiognomy of Mary and her mission will become apparent. This is, in fact, the Catholic notion of predestination: that all of us are called by Christ to glory, but that whether or not that call is fulfilled in us depends on our acceptance of it and our cooperation with grace. I am reading a book that quotes him often. The message of The Divine Mercy is simple: God loves us - all of us. In the introduction of the de facto handbook of the MMP: To the Priests, Our Lady's Beloved Sons, it says of the movement: It is a work of love which the Immaculate Heart of Mary is stirring up in the Church today to help all her children to live, with trust and filial hope, the painful moments of the purification. Do we have free will on our choices, or is everything we do preordained by God? Every week I absolve the sins of people who are much less sinful than myself. Conscience, making its judgment, is only able to use the knowledge the intellect as at hand. From 1995 to 2005, Marco had visible stigmata during Lent and relived the Lords Passion on Good Friday. I ask the Virgin Mary, Mother of God and Our Mother, to intercede for us so that the will of God be fulfilled, . Another English translation can be found at her English site here:http://keepwatchwithme.org/?p=22. Scripture: At the last trumpet. For the scripture says to Pharaoh, 'I have raised you up for the very purpose of showing my power in you, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.' In the messages, Jesus and Mary express their profound sadness over mans disobedience of the Divine law, which has led him to align with evil and act against God. Together, they had six children, and after sixteen years of marriage, her husband died. Fr. Seraphim Michalenko, vice-postulator of St. Faustinas canonization, translated Jennifers messages into Polish. . 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