BLESSING OF NOVEMBER 5TH 2011, FIRST SATURDAY OF MOTH.

AT PRADO NUEVO, IN EL ESCORIAL (MADRID)

 

OUR LADY:

 

     A very special blessing for all dying people…

     In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

 

MESSAGE OF DECEMBER 24th 1983. FIRST SATURDAY OF MONTH

AT PRADO NUEVO DE EL ESCORIAL (MADRID)

OUR LADY:

My children, I had to bless you this day. I bless you, my child, as the Father blesses you, through the Son and with the Holy Spirit.

     My child, you’re going to see where Jesus Christ was born. You must imitate Him in his poverty, my children; He wanted poverty.

LUZ AMPARO:

Who are they? Who are they?

OUR LADY:

The shepherds.

LUZ AMPARO:

Oh poor little baby…He’s naked, poor little baby!

OUR LADY:

My children, you must imitate Jesus Christ, you must imitate him in his poverty, and humbleness, my children; you won’t be saved, my children, without these two things, my children.

     Now I will draw a cross on the forehead of all those here, my child; the cross my Son carries on his shoulders every day; don’t reject it, my children. It’s a privilege.

     You all have been marked with a cross on your foreheads; that mark, my children, isn’t the enemy’s mark, but the chosen’s. However, you should follow that cross, because if you have that cross but you don’t fulfill God’s Law, you won’t be saved, my child.

     My child, you’ll also have the privilege of kissing my feet…

     Suffer, my child, suffer...I also suffer for all sinners. Never say “I can’t bear this anymore”; my Son choses victims like you and others for the salvation of the world; don’t disappoint him, my child; be strong. Be strong till the end.

     Prayer and penance, my children; I’ve been saying this on and on for ages.

     Bye, my children. Bye!

 

COMMENTARY UPON MESSAGES

December 24th  1983

 

“My children, I had to bless you this day. I bless you, my child, as the Father blesses you, through the Son and with the Holy Spirit.

     My child, you’re going to see where Jesus Christ was born. You must imitate Him in his poverty, my children; He wanted poverty.” (Our Lady)

 

Just before Christmas Eve, Our Lady appears with this message, and She starts with a blessing. Immediately She shows Luz Amparo the place where God’s Son was born; that is to say, a stable in Bethlehem. She wants to stress the virtue of poverty: contemplating God’s Son, Creator of Heavens and Earth, will encourage us to imitate him.

     Admitting that the Messiah is a poor and needy child has always been a gift for the humble because “God opposes the proud but he accords his favour to the humble“(1). Pride does not let us see the greatness of God; in fact, the humiliation of the Messiah, “Who, being in the form of God, did not count equality with God, is something to be grasped”, as saint Paul says, “But he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming as human beings are; and being in every way like a human being, he was humbler yet, even to accepting death, death on a cross”. (2). In the second century, the heretic Marcion said “Take away those shameful clothes and that manger, which is unworthy of the God I adore” (3).

In a vision Luz Amparo had had, the words supposedly uttered by the demon that was confused by the mystery of the Birth of God’s Son called our attention: “keep watch, God’s Son hasn’t been born yet. A woman has given birth but she isn’t God’s Mother because he has born in a manger, among straws. And if God is Creator and rich, He won’t let his Son be born in a manger (…). Herod thinks the maiden’s son is the Messiah, but the Messiah can’t be born among that poverty. You must keep on searching for Him in rich palaces: the King of Heavens will be born in a palace” (4).

Imitating Jesus Christ involves his material poverty (that of a man who has nowhere to lay his head (5))and his evangelic poverty as well; this last is praised in the Beatitudes: ”How blessed are the poor in spirit: the kingdom of Heaven is theirs”. (6)Poverty of spirit is virtue that has two sides: the destruction of pride (7) and the disdain of temporary things, despising earthly goods, honors and richness. Owning things and taking care of them usually get in our way to perfection. For this reason, saint Augustine says, “For he loves Thee too little who loves aught with Thee, which he loves not for Thee, “(8)

 

“Now I will draw a cross on the forehead of all those here, my child; the cross my Son carries on his shoulders every day; don’t reject it, my children. It’s a privilege.

     You all have been marked with a cross on your foreheads; that mark, my children, isn’t the enemy’s mark, but the chosen’s. However, you should follow that cross, because if you have that cross but you don’t fulfill God’s Law, you won’t be saved, my child.” (Our Lady)

 

     Christ’s true disciples accept the cross as a sign of Jesus’ predilection and not as something shameful or humiliating, “If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross every day and follow me “(9).

     “You have all been marked with a cross on your foreheads”. This mark with the cross has been mentioned by the Virgin in several messages at Prado Nuevo; it is a protection for the soul. A kind of similar seal is referred to by The Book of Revelation (“Wait before you do any damage on land or at sea or to the trees, until we have put the seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God” (10)). It shows that the soul belongs to God. However, if we do not care for our spiritual life and live in sin we will lose it. This cross on our foreheads is a sign of protection and is specifically mentioned in the Book of Ezekiel, “and Yahweh said to him, 'Go all through the city, all through Jerusalem, and mark a cross on the foreheads of all who grieve and lament over all the loathsome practices in it. I heard him say to the others, 'Follow him through the city and strike (…) But do not touch anyone with a cross on his forehead “(11)

On the contrary, “the enemy’s sign” is a means through which the enemy tries to  take possession of souls and control them. In the last Book of the Bible, it is referred to several times: “It compelled everyone - small and great alike, rich and poor, slave and citizen - to be branded on the right hand or on the forehead, and made it illegal for anyone to buy or sell anything unless he had been branded with the name of the beast or with the number of its name. “ (12)

 

 

 

[1][1] Jm 4, 6.

[2][2] Flp 2, 7-8.

[3][3] Cf. Martín Descalzo, J. L., Vida y misterio de Jesús de Nazaret (Salamanca, 1990) p. 133.

[4][4] 25th-11-1984.

[5][5] Mt 8, 20; Lc 9, 58.

[6][6] Mt 5, 3.

[7][7] Cf. S. Agustín, De sermone Domini in monte, lib. I, chap. 4.

[8][8] Confesiones, lib. X, chap. 29.

[9][9] LK 9, 23; cf. Mc 8, 34; Mt 10, 38.

[10][10] Rv 7, 3; cf. Rv 7, 4; 9, 4.

[11][11] Ez 9, 4-6.

[12][12] Rv 13, 16-17; cf. Rv 14, 9. 11; 16, 2; 19, 20; 20, 4.