BLESSING OF
AT PRADO NUEVO OF EL ESCORIAL (MADRID)
OUR
LADY:
Today the blessing will be for poor sinners… Raise all your objects...
I bless you, my children, as the Father blesses you, through the Son and with the
Holy Spirit.
COMMENTARY UPON MESSAGES
"They're so un grateful, my child!
I want you to sacrifice more every day; I wish your sacrifice would change
Humankind. Look at my Heart; It suffers because of men's
ungratefulness.
Talk to human beings. The Punishment is so close. Tell them they must
change their lives, time is close. My Son will go down on a white cloud[1]surrounded
by His angels. They must fulfil the Commandments of God's Law. Tell them God the
Father is merciful, but He's also very severe" (Our Lady)
At the beginning of this message, Our Lady regrets the ungratefulness of
men; immediately She talks about the Punishment, which is also mentioned in the
messages some other times, and She calls us to conversion ("they must change their lives, time is
close"); therefore, to avoid that foretold Punishment there must be a change
in Humankind, men must turn to God. This is conversion: standing up after having
fallen because of sin, coming back to God repented and walking the path of
salvation again. This is what "the parable of the prodigal son" teaches us: "How
many of my father's hired workers have food to spare, and here I am starving to
death! I will get up and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have
sinned against God and before you (…) with that thought he set off for his
father's house"[2]
This ungratefulness towards God is the reason of so many damages and is
reflected by Lactantio, a Christian writer who lived in the 4th century, " You
should understand that all crimes and injustices of men are due to the cult they
offer to gods, and all disgraces they suffer continuously are due to the
ungratefulness of having abandoned the only God to follow odd superstitions"[3].
If we think a little bit, these words could refer to the current situation of
We must not take part in those practices even when feeling curiosity, and
we must be grateful towards Our Lord and Our Lady for so many gifts and graces
we have received, taking into account her loving complaint: "Look at my Heart; It suffers because of
men's ungratefulness."
"How can I repay the Lord for all is goodness to me?" The psalmist
wonders[5].
How can we repay all the things He has given us? we would need an eternity;
indeed, we will worship him for all his mercies in Heaven; meanwhile, here,
during our temporary life, we can offer him lots of things as a constant action
of thankfulness ("you should get used to lift your heart towards God to thank him lots of
times everyday- for giving you this and that; for being despised; for not having
what you need or it; for having
made his Mother so beautiful, and being your mother too; for being created the
sun and the moon, and this animal and that plant; for having made that man so
eloquent and having made you so awkward[6])
Saint Theresa of Jesus in her Book of Life talks about the
benefits Our Lord gives us: "It is true that we love someone more when we
remember all the good things he does to us. Therefore, it is fair and good that
we have in our minds that God gave us life, he created us from nothing and He
supports us, and all the benefits of his death and works, He made all this for
those who exist now before we were created…"[7]
Then, the message- as well as others- refers to the Punishment; we cannot
guess the moment when these events will happen because it is in God's mind;
besides, prayer and penance can delay it. God's Mother, the begging omnipotence,
is also helping decisively. There are at least three messages that show it: "All should know that My Mother is delaying
that Punishment with her tears, with her sorrows" (Our Lord, 20- 11-
1981);" Look, my child, I'm leaning to
protect the world, my child; I'm holding my Son's arm. All this should have
already happened, but when there are souls praying, God delays the Punishment,
my child" ( Our Lady, 7- 12- 1985); "
My constant requests to the Divine Majesty of God, my children, are lengthening
a little bit the time to the Punishment, my children" ( Our Lady, 3-8-
1991).
As well as in the apocalyptic genre of the Bible, Prado Nuevo´s visions
are disturbing sometimes but there is always hope because Jesus Christ and the
Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph; some days after this message, Our Lady
will announce, "And at the end this
Immaculate Heart will triumph, my child. Ask this Heart; it is waiting for you
full of mercy and love and forgiveness, my children" (
Therefore, messages do not intend to frighten people when they reveal
these prophecies; instead, they want to move souls, they want men and women to
go out of that way far from the truth and salvation; for this reason, Our Lady
had no problem in showing the three shepherds of Fatima little children in Hell
although this vision was especially for those who would know it later. Can we
say Our Lady was not a good catechist? She knew perfectly what She was doing, as
She does now when She warns souls against the dangers threatening their
salvation.