BLESSING OF MARCH 3RD 2007. 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.

 

COMMENTARY UPON MESSAGES

January 22nd 1983

 

            "The Vicar of Jesus Christ is in a great danger (…). He will be a great martyr, my child; I'll be with him till his last moment" (Our Lady)

 

            These first lines clearly refer to the Pope, Vicar of Jesus Christ on Earth; but, which of them? John Paul who was the Pontiff when these messages were said and was on Peter's Chair on 1983? If we understand martyrdom as dying because of faith, John Paul II was not a martyr for he was called to the Father's womb dying of natural causes on April 2nd 2005, first Saturday of month, eve of Mercy Sunday. If we understand martyrdom in a wider sense, John Paul II the Great was undoubtedly a real martyr who immolated his life for the Church and Humankind till his last breath. Indeed, Our Lord said in other message, "The Vicar of Jesus Christ is a martyr of the Church; it is not necessary that he dies to know he is a martyr" ( October 4th 1997). We cannot forget John Paul II shed his blood in Saint Peter Square ( Rome) on May 13th 1981 when Alí Agca tried to kill him; fortunately, he did not succeed because of the miraculous intercession of the Virgin of Fatima. However, his name is not specified so another Peter's successor may suffer a bloody martyrdom in a later moment of history.

 

            "You, my child, offer yourself as victim for the salvation of poor sinners; you will suffer very hard trials, my child. Don't let anybody touch you, don't let anybody hospitalize you, my child; they're trying to destroy all this" ( Our Lady)

 

            From the beginning, Our Lord's words fulfilled in Luz Amparo: "A student is not above his teacher, or a slave above his master. If He head of the family, has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of the family!"[1]. She has had to suffer different kinds of offences: mockeries, slanders, insults…this reality is shown in several messages; for example, on January 2nd 1999: "They are not against you, they are against me, my child. That's why I ask you: be humble, my child, and I tell you again that the student is not more than his master. If they called me Beezcebul and so many other perverse words, my child! Why are you going to be more than the Master?"

            Likewise, Prado Nuevo's Work has been a sign of contradiction and has had enemies suffering different kinds of persecutions. Firstly, some members of the Church; then, some public entities and, finally, when the Asociación Pública de Fieles was founded,  some relatives of some members of this association. More recently, since the end of 2005, a short number of people shows a great hostility towards the Work of El Escorial because they do not accept their relatives' free and voluntary decision of entering this Work of the Catholic Church although they are of age. Anyway, this is not the place to analize these facts; we only mention them as a proof of what the messages say.

 

            "And all those who have received any testimony, I would be very pleased if they made it public because they are candles, as I said other times, that can save lots of souls" ( Our Lady)

 

            Indeed, lots of pilgrims who come to Prado Nuevo have changed their lives completely; they are attracted to this spirituality that has enriched their christian life or has encouraged them to come back to the Church. Conversions and vocations born in this place are never ending; even, there have been healings, as some testimonies show, although this will have its great fruits when the chapel Our Lady asked for will be built. Meanwhile, pilgrims and devout people come to this place of blessings, answering Our Lady's messages' callings.

 

             Written testimonies of lots of people who received graces in Prado Nuevo are kept in archives created on this purpose. However, this is not the only message encouraging us to give testimony of the graces we have received; On April 4th The Virgin said, "My child, I want them to be grateful and give testimony of so many, many graces they are receiving. I promised I would pour lots of graces over this place; I am pouring them, but souls are turning dumb and deaf. Give testimony, my children, your Mother is asking you"  

 

The following paragraphs include teachings commented other times before:

 

            "Lots of people laugh at my words, my child, but when they will be at the Celestial Father's presence, my child, I will be there too as Mediator for the salvation of Humankind. I want, my child, all my children to save their souls" (The Virgin)

 

            Several times, El Escorial's messages use the title " Mediator" for Our Lady. The Constitution Lumen Gentium of the Vatican Council II talks of " Mary Mediatrix" in number 62 and it reminds us of the fact that "the Blessed Virgin is invoked by the Church under the titles of Advocate, Auxiliatrix, Adjutrix, and Mediatrix. This, however, is to be so understood that it neither takes away from nor adds anything to the dignity and effectiveness of Christ the one Mediator." Therefore, we can invoke Mary because She will surely intercede for us "that we may be made worthy
of the promises of Christ.",as we say “in Hail Holy Queen”.

 

            Finally, this sentence from the message deserves to be marked:

 

            "Prayer, I want, my child, but prayer must be accompanied by sacrifice, my children" (Our Lady)

 

Several messages, especially those in 1983 and 1984, insist on the fact that prayer must be joined to sacrifice[2]. Father Alonso Rodríguez , S. I., explains in his work Ejercicio de Perfección y Virtudes Cristianas: " These two things must always walk together and one must help the other; mortification is necessary for prayer and by means of prayer we get to perfect mortification"[3]