OUR LADY:

Raise all your objects; all will be blessed for the Day of Darkness…

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

MESSAGE OF 30th OF APRIL 1983

OUR LADY:

My child, I'm going to be straight, my child… (She speaks in an unknown language for a while).

Only you can understand it. What can you see? Tell them what you can see…

LUZ AMPARO:

(She cries while she describes what she sees)

I can see a mountain collapsing; everything is fire. Ah! There're a few people on this side, just a few…Ay! Where are you taking them? Where are you taking them? Ay, ay, ay! Everything is collapsing, everything! Take those on this side to the other side, take them, take them. Ay, don't take them there, not there. Ay…! That mark… so many have that mark! Ay…! What is that place? Ay! They can't go out from there. Ay! My God! Ay! Mother! Mother! This can't be true! Ay! So many are dead! All dead! All dead! Ay! They are all dead! Ay! And these? What happens to them? Ay…!

THE VIRGIN:

My child, these are in grace and they won't be affected at all. This will be horrible if you aren't in grace.

AMPARO:

Ay, ay, ay…this is terrible! Ay..! (several times)

THE VIRGIN:

Sacrifice, my children, sacrifice…pray for poor sinners… an unintelligible word) here, my children, those who get to the damned land, everything is here, my children. Love your neighbour, but don't be Pharisees, don't be whitewashed tombs, my children; you heart should consume, my children, with love for your neighbour. Don't attach to worldly matters. This horrible moment may happen soon. My children, if you don't love your neighbour, you don't love my Son. If you become attached to earthly matters, you will hardly get into the Kingdom of Heaven. Fortunate are those who have the spirit of the poor, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven, and fortunate are those who were rewarded with goods and were able to share them with the poor! If you have two tunics, keep one, my child, and give the other to your brethren who needs it more than you; but love your neighbour; if you don't love your neighbour, you don't love God. I'm talking, my children, about charity. This virtue is essential to get to Heaven. I ask you my children, to make sacrifices and offer them for your brethren; you are all brethren, my children. Love your neighbour and make sacrifices, my children, and offer them for poor inners. So many souls were condemned because nobody, my children, nobody said a prayer for them! Yes, my child, sacrifice is very important, together with humbleness and charity.

Kiss the ground, my child… for poor sinners, my child.

I wish, my child, I say it again, a third part of Humankind were saved. They are a few, my child, those want to be saved!

Ask my Immaculate Heart graces because I'll give them to those who ask me. My child, offer you as a victim to make amends for the world's sins. Don't be ungrateful, my children.

Keep on saying the Rosary and offer it, my children, for the conversion of poor sinners. You, my child, must be humble. I ask you, my children, to pray for the vicar of Christ; he's still in a great danger, my child.

You aren't going to drink the Chalice of Sorrow because it's almost over, my child, and when it's over, it will be horrible what will happen to Humankind. It'll be worse than forty earthquakes at the same time. Prayer; with prayer and sacrifice and sacrifice you will be saved, my children.

Write another name in the Book of Life, my child…

My child, lots of souls are being purified. Look at my Heart so full of thorns for consecrated souls. Take three away, my child…pull them, my child… don't touch it, my child, lots of souls are being purified.

I bless you, my children, as the Father blesses you, in the name of the Son and with the Holy Spirit.

Be humble, my child, humbleness is the most important thing.

I keep on warning you, my children, because I want you to be saved, listen to my warnings

Goodbye.

COMMENTARY UPON THE MESSAGES

April 30th 1983

Firstly, Luz Amparo describes what seems to be a time of tribulation Humankind will endure in the future.

Then, the Virgin invites us to practice charity and detach from earthly matters. She reminds us of the first of the Beautitudes explaining what the evangelical poverty is; She highlights the double dimension of charity: to God and our neighbour. She also says that it is essential to get to Heaven. Some biblical references related to this message are included in the footnotes; indeed, there are lots of quotations connecting the messages to the Sacred Scriptures:

"Love your neighbour, but don't be Pharisees, don't be whitewashed tombs[1], my children; you heart should consume, my children, with love for your neighbour. Don't attach to worldly matters. This horrible moment may happen soon. My children, if you don't love your neighbour, you don't love my Son[2]. If you become attached to earthly matters, you will hardly get into the Kingdom of Heaven, Fortunate are those who have the spirit of the poor, for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven[3], and fortunate are those who were rewarded with goods and were able to share them with the poor. If you have two tunics, take one, my child, and give the other to your brethren who needs it more than you[4]; but love your neighbour; if you don't love your neighbour, you don't love God[5]. I'm talking, my children, about charity. This virtue is essential to get to Heaven[6]."

Then, She insists: "So many souls are condemned because nobody, my children, nobody said a prayer for them! Yes, my child, sacrifice is very important, together with humbleness and charity." (Our Lady)

Our Lady of Fatima, clothed in white, also told the three shepherds, Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta (the last two have already been beatified): " pray, pray a lot and make lots of sacrifices for sinners because lots of souls go to Hell because nobody sacrificed and prayed for them" ( 19- 8- 1917) These words make us think of the sad reality of those souls who can get lost eternally if they reject God. Moreover, the Pope Pius XII says in his apostolic letter Mystici Corporis: "This is a deep mystery, and an inexhaustible subject of meditation, that the salvation of many depends on the prayers and voluntary penances which the members of the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ offer for this intention and on the cooperation of pastors of souls and of the faithful, especially of fathers and mothers of families, a cooperation which they must offer to our Divine Savior as though they were His associates." ( n.44)

In some of the messages received by Luz Amparo Charity and humbleness appear together. Humbleness is the basis of charity because only those who know their lowliness look for the treasures of God, who is Love and builds the house of spiritual life on stone.

In the message of August 15th 1986, solemnity of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Luz Amparo saw Our Lady in one of the moments before her departure to Heaven; similarly to what Amparo describes, She encourages the apostles to persevere in the practice of these two primary virtues in priestly and Christian life: " I also say: persevere in charity and persevere in humbleness" (August 15th 1986).

Saint Ambrose pointed out: "these two virtues, in other words, humbleness and charity, cannot be separated; indeed, if you achieve one of them, you will necessarily own the other because humbleness is a part of charity and charity is a part of humbleness"[7]. Theophanes the Recluse refers to another interesting relationship: "You say you are not humble or charitable. While these virtues are absent, everything spiritual is absent too for the spirit is born when they are born and it grows when they grow. They are for the soul what flesh is for the body. Humbleness is acquired by acts of humbleness, charity by acts of charity"[8].

Likewise, Benedict XVI said both virtues were necessary for priests calling attention to the fact that their lives require "a serious commitment of personal sanctification and practice of virtues, especially humbleness and charity"[9]

In another paragraph, The Virgin asks: "Keep on saying the Rosary and offer it, my children, for the conversion of poor sinners. You, my child, must be humble. I ask you, my children, to pray for the Vicar of Christ; he's still in a great danger, my child."

Several messages say the Vicar of Christ is in a "great danger". On April 2^nd 2005, the Pope John Paul II” passed from this temporary life to the everlasting one; among the amount of news released because of his death, we were reminded of the more than twenty frustrated plans to put an end to his life. Moreover, these may have been more, and perhaps they will never be known; the others, starting by the attempt on his life of Ali Agca, show John Paul II as probably the most threatened Pope in the History of the Church. Our Lord and Our Lady knew so well the danger in which he was![10] Did The Virgin in La Salette refer to John Paul when She foretold: "The Holy Father will suffer a lot. I will be with him till the end to receive his sacrifice. The wicked will try to kill him lots of times, but they will not succeed"?[11]

[6] " Now we have faith, hope and love, these three, but the greatest is love" ( 1 Co 13, 13); " Love cannot do the neighbour any harm; so love fulfills the whole Law" ( Rm 13, 10)

[8] Consejos a los Ascetas ( Buenos Aires, 1979) p. 133

[9] Speech to the Commnity of " Almo Colegio Capránica" January 20th, 2006

[10] ABC April 3rd 2005, p.85; El Mundo ( Documentos) April 3rd 2005, p. 9

[11] Abate Gouin, Prophecies of Our Lady of La Salette