Raise all your objects; all will be blessed for the protection of homes and for poor sinners.

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

This message starts with Our Lady’s words: "My children, I bring peace to the Earth, I wish there was peace on Earth. I wish you loved one another, this way you could get the kingdom of Heaven. Pray a lot for the world’s salvation"

Our Mother, Queen of Peace, wishes this precious gift of peace for Humankind although men do not seek it according to God’s plan. Jesus said "Peace be with you; I give you my peace. Not as the world gives peace do I give it to you" (Jn 14, 27). That is to say, the real peace we are talking about is not only an external peace but it is actually a messianic peace coming from Christ’s Redemption. Thus, the Gospel is "the good news of peace" (Acts 10,36), and those who carry peace in their hearts and spread it to others – the peaceful- are named "children of God" (Mt 5, 9) in the Beatitudes. Besides, when He rises from the dead, Our Lord tells the apostles " peace to you" (Lk 24, 36)

Saint Beda explains clearly the real sense of this heavenly gift, " The true and only peace of souls in this world consists of being full of God’s love and encouraged by the hope of Heaven to the extent of regarding temporal success or failure as unimportant (…) those who think peace can be achieved by enjoying worldly goods and riches are wrong"(1)

Therefore, we can get such aS longing peace by means of joining us with Jesus Christ, accepting the divine will, and practising charity. We have just pointed out three concepts that have appeared together in several messages; somehow, they make up a slogan for those who are trying to live the spirit flowing from this place of graces and blessings: LOVE, UNION, AND PEACE.

This close relation among these terms is reflected by Saint Paul in some of his epistles; for example, he writes in his Letter to the Ephesians " Therefore I, the prisoner of Christ, invite you to live the vocation you have received. Be humble, kind, patient, and bear with one another in love. Make every effort to keep among you the unity of Spirit through bonds of peace".(2)

As it is said above, these three words have appeared in Prado Nuevo’s messages several times; here there are some quotations:

• " So I ask you: love, union, and peace among you" (Our Lord, October 5^th, 1985)
• " Pray, my children; create big communities where love, union, and peace reign." (Our Lady, February 3^rd, 1990)
• " These are times for love, union and peace, my children. Fulfil my Commandments" (Our Lord, February 2^nd, 1991)
• "I ask you for humbleness and the name Union, love and peace for your Foundation" (Our Lady, June 6^th, 1992)

Apart from insisting on this aspect ("My daughter, tell my children that I have come to bring them peace"), once more She asks for the chapel as well as She points out one of its functions: " I want a chapel in honour of my name for retreats and spiritual practices". What a powerful help for our souls’ improvement these two practices are! The Church frequently recommends them to consecrated souls and laics. Indeed, Saint Ignatius of Loyola’s highly inspired book, Spiritual Practices, has yielded great effects on souls since it was written; he earnestly encourages a priest with these words: "being this not only the best thing I – Saint Ignatius says- could think, feel and understand but also the best way men could spiritually advance, yield virtues, help and make others improve"(3). There are many documents, based on this topic, written by Popes, including John Paul II; Leon XII said in one of his letters: "those practices produce great effects to change our lives, to persevere in good, and to give a new strength to our souls who are among dangers and so many distractions offered by the world"(4). If we mix that efficiency of spiritual practices and retreats and the power flowing from Prado Nuevo as a source of spirituality, we can foretell excellent results, when these experiences could take place in the demanded chapel and its privileged roundabouts.

Finally, in the rest of paragraphs, Our Lady refers to known contents that have been explained in other "commentaries". Before finishing her message, She says to Luz Amparo "My daughter, to get to Heaven you must follow the path of sorrow, it is worth suffering on Earth to receive the award in Heaven". How much courage you get when you think about the other life! Not to avoid your temporal duties but to face joyfully your daily tasks. The true Christian assumes happily and firmly what he must fulfil depending on his vocation inside the Church and the social environment where he lives. He lives in the world but he does not belong to it; Thus, he is encouraged by the hope of Heaven that is the final destination of his soul, created in the image of God. Along this path of salvation, it is essential the presence of Our Lady, Our Mother: " ‘The motherhood of Mary in the order of grace’, as the Second Vatican explains, ‘lasts without interruption from the consent which she faithfully gave at the annunciation and which she sustained without hesitation under the cross, until the eternal fulfilment of all the elect. In fact, being assumed into Heaven has not laid aside this office of salvation but by her manifold intercession she continues to obtain for us the graces of eternal salvation. By her maternal charity, she takes care of the brethren of her son who still journey on Earth surrounded by dangers and difficulties, until they are led into their blessed home"(5).

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1 - “Hom. 12 para la Vigilia de Pentecostés”.

2 - Ef 4, 1-3. Cf. 2 Cor 13, 11; Col 3, 14-15; 2 Tim 2, 22.

3 - “Monumenta Ignatiana”, 1, 1, 111-113.

4 - “Inter. multas”, 18-12-1889.

5 - Juan Pablo II, “Dives in misericordia”, 9.