BLESSING OF MARCH 4^TH     2006. FIRST SATURDAY OF MONTH.

AT PRADO NUEVO OF EL ESCORIAL (MADRID)

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.

November 21^st  1982

“…I’m Mother of Sorrows, my child. I bring you light, love and peace, my children. I want you to pray for everybody’s salvation, my children. The cup, my children, of mercy is full, my children; justice is coming; pray, do penance” (Our Lady)

This time The Virgin appears so beautifully as “Mother of Sorrows” and bearer of “light, love and peace”. She is truly that precious cup which, when she offered her son, brought light to this world in darkness, incarnated love to save men from hatred and coldness of heart, peace to a world full of wars, murders, quarrels…

She will complete this message some years later, “inside my womb Light came to earth, why do men want to make the Mother of God who brought light to the worl d for the good of Humankind (1) disappear?” ; Saint John says magnificently in his Gospel, “For the light was coming into the world, the true light that enlightens everyone.” (2) And Our Mother appears to give us that Light which is her Son Jesus Christ who referred to himself as “the Light of the world; the one who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have light and life” (3).

In his first Encyclical Letter Deus Caritas Est, Benedictus XVI joins two terms  that Our Lady, appearing as bearer of them, identifies (love and light). The Pope says, “Love is the light- and in the end, the only light- that can always illuminate a world grown dim and give us the courage we need to keep living and working” (n. 39).

The expression “the cup, my children, of mercy is full” means that God gives us all His Mercy, which is infinite, but men despise it and His Mother cannot do anymore to give us Her Son’s love and forgiveness; for this reason, the cup of justice “is coming immediately”; in other words, it is going to be applied although that nearness has the same meaning as certain biblical expressions: God’s time is not our time and it has different parameters. If we want to avoid this, we are offered two remedies that have appeased God’s just wrath (for example, Nineveh and the prophet Jonah (4)): prayer and penance.

“The Son of God, Christ, King of kings is about to come with his angels in a cloud with his great power and great majesty” (Or Lady).

These words remind us of some expressions in the Gospel; on the one hand, the title “King of kings” is given to the Son of God, Jesus, in the Revelation (5) as well as in saint Paul’s Letters (“Now, in the presence of God who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus who gave the good testimony before Pontius Pilate, I command you to keep the commandment. Keep yourself pure and blameless until the glorious coming of Christ Jesus, our Lord, which God will bring about at the proper time, he, the magnificent sovereign, King of kings and Lord of lords” (6) ) .On the other hand, saint Mathew says,  “Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in Heaven: as all the nations of the earth beat their breasts, they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of  Heaven with divine power and the fullness of Glory” (7).

“My Heart, my child, feels that bitterness for all of my children, my child; I don’t want them to be damned, I want to save at least a third part of Humankind” (Our Lady).

The reference to the third part of Humankind and its salvation appears in some messages of Prado Nuevo and it reminds us of the Book of Zechariah, “and in all the land, two thirds shall be destroyed and one third left. This third shall be cleansed by fire; I shall refine them as silver is refined; I shall test them as gold is tested” (8). Let us go to the Mother of God in this great mission of guiding souls to the Glory. It is true that the Only Saviour is Jesus but we know the subordinated mediation of Mary and we will address her confidently and sing to her the popular tune “Save me, Virgin Mary, Listen to me, I implore you faithfully. My heart trusts in you; Virgin Mary, save me; Virgin Mary, save me…Save me”

As we have already explained the other aspects  in previous commentaries, we are only going to focus on the following words, “Kiss the ground, my child…for my consecrated souls, my child. Stand up, my child. Kneel down, my child; it is an act of humbleness for the salvation of Humankind. Kiss the ground, my children…” (Our Lady).

Our Lord and Our Lady frequently ask Luz Amparo to kiss the ground; here this request extends to all those who are there. This act of voluntary humiliation will be judged as inadmissible by the world; even some, who regard themselves as catholic, will think it is a sign of fanaticism. However, humble souls think so differently! Mother Virgin explains the meaning of this action: it is an act of humbleness whose aim is the salvation of Humankind, with a special mention of consecrated souls. She is the same Lady who, in Lourdes, at the cave of Massabielle, on February 25^th 1858, asked Bernadette Soubirous to do something similar. After the apparition, the following dialogue was registered, “What did she tell you?” “Go to the water spring and drink and wash yourself” “And the grass you ate?” “She told me to do so too…” “What did she tell you?” “Eat that grass over there” “But animals eat grass!” “Why all this agitation today? Yesterday “Aquero” (Our Lady) asked me to kiss the ground as a penance for the sinners” “Do you know they’ll think you’re mad if you do those things?” “For the sinners…”

During all this, the girl kneels down and does what the Lady asks her and what she interprets she has to do; she has to scratch around for the water spring, so she gets dirty with mud and, consequently, she is humiliated in front of everybody and she is said to be mad; However, she is an example of simplicity and humbleness for all of us; she does not look for the reasons of the Virgin’s incomprehensible commandment but she obeys blindly and thoughtlessly impelled by her love. Likewise, Luz Amparo and all those who do not care about other’s criticism prefer pleasing God above all.(9)

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