OUR LADY:

" Raise all your objects…all will be blessed with special blessings for homes, churches and convents…

I bless you, my children, as the Father blesses you, through the Son and with the Holy Spirit."

COMMENTARY UPON MESSAGES

May 12th 1983

"I ask you, my children, to make sacrifices, sacrifices and prayer. This message is going to be very short, my children; I've already said everything, my children. All those who haven't gone to the sacrament of Confession, my children, do it because the time is coming. I don't want you to be condemned. Sacrifices, my children, sacrifice I ask you. Pray for consecrated souls: I love them so much although they give me so little in return, my children. Help my Son carry the Cross, my children. He's carrying a very heavy Cross because of all the world's sins." (Our Lady)

It is not the first time Our Lady says "This message is going to be very short"; Indeed, She said more than once there would not be more messages although the last one was in 2002.This has been a matter of controversy; nevertheless, a date was never given and only the very same day of the last message Our Lord said clearly "There will not be more messages, but there will be very special blessings and marks that will be sealed on foreheads." (May 4th 2002)

Our Lady explained on April 7th 2001: " How many times have I said, my children that my messages are about to be over? But men don't change and how many times does a mother warn her children and say "I won't say it again" but seeing her child is in the way of perdition she warns her child against the danger threatening him? That's what I do, as a Mother of sinners: warning them and asking them to turn to God, because the world can't get better without God"

There are some biblical passages where God shows his "repentance", even for having created man (Gn 6, 6-7); along the history of Israel lots of rectifications are found because God forgave his people once and once again; In the Book of Tobit, after saying everything will be fulfilled, God shows his mercy: "Everything that the prophets sent by God pronounced about Assyria and Nineveh will happen. No word will be forgotten but it will all come to pass in due time (…) All that God has said will be fulfilled ( …) As a result the whole land of Israel will be deserted. Jerusalem and Samaria will be desolate. The House of God will be burned down and left in ruin for some time. But God will again take pity on his people and they will return to their land" (Tb 14, 4-5)

Benedict XVI took the Preaching of the Gospel of Saint Luke, written by Saint Ambrose, as a source for one of his catechesis; he talked about how God can sometimes change his mind: " Zechariah, John Baptist's father, was dumb because he had not believe in the angel's words; however, when God forgave him, He gave him the gift of prophesy in the Benedictus. He who was dumb before is now prophesizing- saint Ambrose says. One of God greatest graces is that those who denied him in the past recognize him now. Therefore, nobody should lose his confidence, nobody should despair of divine rewards, although he may feel remorse for his former sins. God can change his mind if you can make amends for your guilt"[1] . This is the clue: repentance and making amends; that is why Our Lady says in the message, All those who haven't gone to the sacrament of Confession, my children, do it".

What does a mother do when seeing her child falling down in the abyss of sin and vices? She tries to help him, to set him free, using all the means she has. Therefore, is it not logical thinking that She, who loves her children more and better, never stops worrying about us and helping us ? Any mother always says, "I won't say it again" but her heart takes pity on her children and repeats the same words once and once again". This is what Our Lady explains in the message we referred to above (April 4th, 2001).

Our Lady's motherly care and God's divine providence will not abandon Humankind in this significant and hard stage of history; as Saint Paul wrote in the Acts, love never turns its back to the beloved:" Be on the watch, therefore, remembering that for three years, night and day, I did not cease to warn everyone even with tears" (Acts 20, 31).

The apparitions of Our Lady along history are a sign of her love and motherly affection, as all the speeches in the International Marian Congress pointed out. It took place at Lourdes to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Apparitions at that place.

Although Holy Mary is in Heaven, She never forgets the pilgrim church. The Vatican Council II, in Lumen Gentium, said: "Taken up to Heaven she did not lay aside this salvific duty, but by her constant intercession continued to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation". In the same number it talks about the divine maternity of the Virgin: "By her maternal charity, she cares for the brethren of her Son, who still journey on Earth surrounded by dangers and cultics, until they are led into the happiness of their true home"

To conclude, the words of the Book of Tobit could be applied to the messages of Prado Nuevo to reinforce our confidence in the fulfilment of all the promises Our Lady made,": "Everything that the prophets sent by God pronounced about Assyria and Nineveh will happen. No word will be forgotten but it will all come to pass in due time (…) All that God has said will be fulfilled"(Tb 14, 4-5)