BLESSING OF JUNE 4 TH , 2005. 1ST SATURDAY OF MONTH
AT PRADO NUEVO. EL ESCORIAL (MADRID).
Our Lady:
Raise all your objects; all will be blessed with a especial blessing of my Divine Heart... and the Immaculate Heart of Mary; two Hearts in one.
I bless you, my children, as the Father blesses you, through the Son and with the Holy Spirit.
COMMENTARY UPON MESSAGES
April 9th , 1982
In this message, as many other times, Luz Amparo contemplates the Passion of Our Lord,
" Yes, my daughter, I’ve accepted this torment because I love all Humankind; for I love humans, I’ve accepted mockerings, slaps, spits, slanders...; these sufferings hit my body everyday because of men’s wickedness" ( Our Lord)
What great love is Jesus Christ’s! God is submitted to men’s contempts and wickedness. The Lord of the Universe, the King of kings... The Almighty is offended by his creatures who give him evil in return for his goodness, hatred for his love, treason for his loyalty, etc. It is Jesus’s Heart complaining this way; the One that showed Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque the called " great revelation"; in one of his apparitions, He said with grief and sweetness to the saint who was praying before the Blessed Sacrament, " Here this Heart is. It has loved men so much that It has not forgiven anything before of exhausting itself and consuming itself show its love; however, It only receives ungratefulness from most of them, irreverences and sacrilegies, wickedness and contempt for It in this Sacrament of love. Nevertheless, what hurts me more is those hearts, consecrated to Me, behaviouring this way"(1) ( June 1675, during the octave of "Corpus Christi").
Let us be true disciples of Christ, friends of the" Friend who never fails", because He is " the Faithful and the True" ( cf. Rev 19,11) and let us show him everyday a renewed faithfulness and a burning love for his Divine Heart in return for his charity and his sacrifice, let us show it through mercy works towards our neighbours.
April 16th, 1982
Luz Amparo wonders at a vision of angels, " What a beautiful thing! My God!What angels! What a light! My God! What a beautiful thing! My God! What angels!"
Afterwards, holy archangel Michael manifests himself and speaks as Our Lord’ spokesman, " Receive this message. This is the last message I‘m going to give to Humans, but tell all of them that all these messages will be fulfilled form the first to the last, and God the Fasther’s wrath will pour over Humankind, over the hypocrites, the pretenders of my Church, the impure (...) and tell them they must change their lives, they must fulfill the Commandments of God’s Law (...). They’ ll be persecuted but they have to go on; my disciples were also persecuted but it’s worth preaching and receiving the eternal reward"
Holy archangel Michael appears only once more ( March 19th, 1982), he is mentioned eight times in the messages of Prado Nuevo, and Luz Amparo sees him twice more. In January 29th 1982 he manifested himself together with the other two archangels, Gabriel and Raphael; since there was no message, it has not been included in the compilation of the messages of Prado nuevo; Luz Amparo asks Our Lady about an angel that calls her attention ( " Who’s that angel?" Our Lady answers, " Don’t you know him? He’ s holy Michael" ), then she sees a choir of angels singing and, behind it, there were the three best known archangels: Michael had a sword in his right hand; Raphael had a very bright rectangular plate which hung over his chest and had God the Father’s countenance, a dove in the middle, and the resplendent Son ; Gabriel had a beautiful book in his hands with a picture of Our blessed Virgin on its cover... It is a very beautiful description that confirms the existence of a supernatural world which, although we cannot see it, is as real as this physical life surrounding us, daily perceived by the flesh eyes: the world of angels.
According to our Catholic faith, angels undoubtedly exist; Firstly, Saint Gregory the Great says hyperbolicly, "In almost every page of the Sacred Scriptures, the existence of angels is implied", what is actually true: for example, two angels warn Lot against the danger and the punishment and compels him and his family to leave Sodom ( cf. Gn 19, 12); an angel assists Hagar and her son when they are wandering thirstily through the desert; an angel helps Elijah and gives him some bread and water when he is fleeing from Jezebel’s pursuit ( cf. 1 K 19, 5.7); holy archangel Raphael goes with Tobit and showers him and his family with blessings ( Tb 11, 11) In the New Testament, the Angel of the Lord delivers Saint Peter from the chains and opens the gate of the prison; an angel from Heaven appears to relieve Jesus when he was in agony in Gethsemane. To finish with, the Book of Revelation often mentions angels who act under God’s orders; they are ministers of the Almighty and they glorify him.
Secondly, saint Thomas of Aquina, also known as "the Angelic Doctor" for his accurate doctrine on these spiritual beings, wrote Treatise on the Angels,(2) which is very interesting; If we want to read about the hierarchy of angels, The Celestial Hierarchy,(3) written by saint Dennis the Areopagite, is a basic reference
Thirdly, Our beloved Pope John Paul II said in a catechesis, " The Church, illuminated by the light that comes from the Sacred Scriptures, has always professed the truth about the existence of angels as completely spiritual beings, created by God. It has been doing so from the beginning with the Nicene constantinapolitan symbol and it has confirmed it in the Lateran Council IV ( 1215) whose teaching about the creation was taken by the First and Second Vatican Council". ( August 6th, 1986)
Finally, The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches, " The existence of spiritual, non- corporeal beings that Sacred Scripture usually calls "angels" is a truth of faith. The evidence of Scripture is as clear as the unanimity of Tradition".(4)
1 - Vida y Obras Principales de Santa Margarita María de Alacoque, Jose Mª Sáenz de Tejada. Madrid (1977), p.28.
2 - Summa Theologica, I qq. 50-64 ( See Treatise on the Divine Government included in Summa Theologica I qq. 106-114).
3 - Obras Completas del Pseudo Dionisio Areopagita, Madrid (1995) pp 119-186.
4 - Catechism of the Catholic Church n. 328