Rosa Mystica, Akita, Mother All-Merciful, No to Assasinations!

09-22-2024Weekly ReflectionFr. Leonard F. Villa

In a flurry of approvals the Holy See through the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) has given approvals to two additional apparitions of our Lady and with the death of Sr. Agnes Saragawa age 93, the apparition of our Lady at Akita Japan also should be recalled. The two additional apparitions are referred to as Our Lady of the Rock, Rosa Mystica and Our Lady of Mercy the first in Italy, the second in France.

Rosa Mystica

-In a letter approved by Pope Francis and sent to the bishop of Brescia on July 5, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández indicated that the “spiritual proposal that emerges from the experiences narrated by Pierina Gilli in relation to María Rosa Mystica does not contain theological or moral elements contrary to the doctrine of the Church.”

-Serving as a nurse and postulant for the Handmaids of Charity in Montichiari, Gilli first encountered the Blessed Virgin privately while praying in a hospital chapel in the spring of 1947. As Gilli described in her diary, the Virgin Mary appeared wearing a violet dress and white veil with an expression of sorrow and tears in her eyes. Showing her heart pierced with three swords, Our Lady asked for prayer, penance, and sacrifice. Appearing again to Gilli on July 13, 1947, the Blessed Virgin Mary was dressed in white and instead of having three swords in her breast, she had three roses: a white one, a red one, and a yellow one that symbolized the spirits of prayer, sacrifice, and penance. When asked by Gilli who she was, Our Lady responded: “I am the mother of Jesus and the mother of all of you. Our Lord sends me to bring a new Marian devotion to all religious orders and institutes, male and female, and to the priests of this world.” According to Gilli, Our Lady continued on in wishing that “the 13th of July be celebrated every year in honor of the Mystical Rose.” Gilli would later translate this term as meaning that “Mary is the master teacher of the innermost mystical life and the mother of the mystical body of Christ — the mother of the Church.” See https://www.ncregister.com/cna/cna-july-8-2024-mysticalrose

Akita

Saturday, Oct. 13, 1973, Our Lady appeared to Sister Agnes in Akita, Japan, while she was at Eucharistic adoration with her superior and reciting the Rosary. “As I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one will never have seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead. The only arms which will remain for you will be the Rosary and the Sign left by My Son.” At Fatima, when the Miracle of the Sun was happening, people thought the sun was heading toward the Earth, as if “fire” were falling from the sky. Our Lady continued at Akita: “The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against bishops.

The priests who venerate me will be scorned and opposed by their confreres ... churches and altars sacked; the Church will be full of those who accept compromises and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord.” Fatima’s core instructions are Akita’s core instructions. They are very simple: First, pray the prayers of the Rosary. In every appearance at Fatima, Our Lady said to pray the Rosary “every day in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary, in order to obtain the peace of the world and the end of the war, because only she can obtain it.” In Akita on Oct. 13, she again stressed the Rosary four times in that one message, instructing, “Pray very much the prayers of the Rosary. I alone am able still to save you from the calamities which approach. Those who place their confidence in me will be saved.” And again, “Each day recite the prayers of the Rosary. With the Rosary, pray for the Pope, the bishops and priests.” Our Lady said at Fatima: “If you do what I tell you, many souls will be saved, and there will be peace.” See https://www.ncregister.com/features/akita-s-fatimaconnection

Mother All-Merciful On Aug. 22, the Holy See issued a nihil obstat (no objection) to the miraculous visions and physical healing of a French woman Estelle Faguette following the request of Archbishop Jérôme Daniel Beau of Bourges, France, for the decree. “Estelle’s accounts are striking for their simplicity, clarity, and humility. Faguette said she was often visited and consoled through Our Lady’s presence, “serene gaze” and “words of mercy,” particularly during times of spiritual anguish at the thought of her parents being left in a state of poverty and missing her, if she died from her illness. Faguette’s “generous dedication to others” is what touched the motherly heart of Mary. Following her healing that “surpassed all natural explanations,” Faguette emphasized that it was not by her own merits that she obtained the miracle from the Son of God through Mary’s intercession.

“When Estelle says that she would rather die, the Virgin responds with a smile: ‘O, you of little gratitude! If my Son gives you life, it is because you need it. What has he given to man on earth that is more precious than life?’” the letter reads. Other messages the Blessed Mother conveyed to Faguette during her apparitions include the desire to bring peace in the Church, as “there is not that calm I desire,” and to lead people toward the heart of Christ particularly through the devotion of wearing the scapular — which shows the open heart of Jesus. “The treasures of my Son have been open for a long time ... I love this devotion [of the scapular],” Our Lady shared with Faguette. According to the DDF, the All-Merciful Mother also expressed to the visionary her sorrow for “the lack of love for Christ reflected in those who receive the Eucharist coldly or distractedly.” (END) https://www.ncregister.com/cna/vatican-grants-nihil-obstat-toour-lady-of-mercy-shrine-in-france

Pray to the Immaculate Conception for Our Country

Our country is at a cross-road. Two assassination attempts have taken place against Donald Trump, both unsuccessful, but nevertheless tragic and wrong. Neither Donald Trump nor any political candidate should be the victim of assassination and we should pray for his safety and for the safety of all running for public office. The tool for opposing or supporting any candidate is providing fair and free elections for citizens, not violence and/or underhanded attempts to eliminate the opposition or cook election results. There are serious questions about the efficacy of the Secret Service protection and other government agencies in both assassination-attempts.

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