BLESSING OF MAY 2nd
2009. FIRST SATURDAY OF MONTH.
AT PRADO NUEVO OF EL ESCORIAL (MADRID)
OUR LADY:
"Rise all your
objects… all will be blessed and a blessing for all Mother’s Day
I bless you, my children, as the
Father blesses you, through the Son and with the Holy Spirit."
MESSAGE OF JULY 8TH 1983
(At Saint
Ecstacy and Luz Amparo
stigmatization at the Convent of the minor Capuchin Friars of San Giovanni
Rotondo (Italy), where Saint Pio of Pietrelcina was stigmatized for the first
time and where she received the following message; indeed, religious canticles
sung by the friars at the temple can be heard in the recording.
THE VIRGIN:
My child, I want you to imitate, my child, this
consecrated soul; you are going to suffer a lot, but he also suffered, my
child, for the salvation of souls. It is
necessary, my child, to choose souls as victims for the salvation of the
others. Imitate him, my child, imitate him,
but you have to be strong because you are going to suffer harder trials,
my child; imitate this consecrated soul, my child, for a third of Humankind
will be saved by means of this soul and many others, my child.
You have to be strong, you have to
be strong because human beings, my child, will hurt you so much, my child.
Kiss the floor, my child, kiss the
floor... for consecrated souls, my child, for these souls, so that they imitate
this victim soul my Son chose; he is enjoying His presence now, my child. Your time has not come yet; you have to be
strong, you are going to suffer, but suffering is necessary to achieve the
Glory, my child.
LUZ AMPARO:
Oh. ..!
(Pause of silence). Father!
(Subsequently, Luz
Amparo explained, " I saw young
father Pio, without beard, dressed with a white robe, without sores, shining,
with a chalice surrounded by light. He took a Sacred Form from this chalice and
gave it to me. I couldn’t have said
father Pio had given me the Communion, if Archangel Saint Gabriel hadn’t
revealed it to me").
THE
VIRGIN:
Look, my child, the place where this victim
soul is, this victim to make ammends
(Luz Amparo says in other moment: "I saw an abode full of white light; I
saw other shining souls dressed in white").
This place is for all those my Son chooses, my
child. It is worth while, my child, it is
worth while to suffer... (Luz Amparo utters a long lament).
You have not fullfilled you mission yet, my
child. Be strong, fear nobody. My Son is
with you and, if My Son is with you, who can you fear, my child? Imitate this
soul; you have seen this consecrated soul, my child; he suffered a lot too, he
suffered a lot to save souls... (Luz
Amparo mourns for a few seconds).
I bless you, my children, as the Father blesses
you with the Son and with the Holy Ghost.
Be humble, my child, humbleness is the base to
get to Heaven.
Good-bye, my child. Good-bye!
COMMENT UPON THE
MESSAGES
July 8th 1983
This message is one of the few
received by Luz Amparo out of El Escorial and included in a series of little
books titled ¿Continua Dios manifestandose a los humildes?[1]
published in the first years of the apparitions. The chronicle of that day says: "Ecstacy and Luz Amparo’s stigmatization
at the Convent of the minor Capuchin Friars of San Giovanni Rotondo (Italy),
where St. Pio of Pietrelcina was stigmatized for the first time and where she
received the following message; indeed, religious canticles sung by the friars
at the temple can be heard in the recording.”
Afterwards, Luz Amparo explained that she had seen young father Pio,
without beard, dressed with a white robe, without sores, shining, with a
chalice surrounded by light. He had taken a Sacred Form from this chalice and
given it to her. She couldn’t have said
father Pio had given her the Communion, if Archangel Saint Gabriel hadn’t
revealed it to her.
“...imitate, my child, this consecrated soul; you are going to suffer a
lot, but he also suffered (...) for the salvation of souls. It is necessary, my child, to choose souls as
victims for the salvation of the others. Imitate him, my child, imitate him but
you have to be strong because you are going to suffer harder trials, my child;
imitate this consecrated soul (...) for a third of the Humankind will be saved
by means of this soul and many others, my child.”(The Virgin).
The cross does not abandon all those
who want to be good Christians; indeed, He said in the Gospel: " If anyone wants to be a follower of
mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross and follow me. Anyone who
wants to save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my sake will find it" (Mt 16, 24-25). St. Thomas
of Aquino also wrote: “But also note that Christ by His Passion arrived at
glory: “Ought not Christ to have suffered these things and so to enter into His
glory?” [Lk 24:26]. And this is to teach us how we also may arrive at glory:
“Through many tribulations we must enter into the
Our Lord wants to share his Cross
with us and He invites every Christian to take part in it; however, He chooses,
in his plans of salvation, some souls to share with in a special way that
mystery of sorrow. They are called "victim souls" and by means
of their sacrifices and merits, they contribute to make efficient the effects
of Redemption. They are generous souls
(if they accept God’s plans) who have been favoured with a divine election;
they are capable of immolating and devoting themselves to respond to that
predilection of Heaven; for example, St. Catherine of Sienna, St. Margarite Mary
of Alacoque, St. Gemma Galgani, Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, etc. The first of the above-mentioned saints once
said: "The only cause of my death
is my zeal for the
The Virgin invites Luz Amparo to
imitate St. Pio of Pietrelcina; she had the grace to see him during this
ecstacy at St. Giovanni Rotondo, and to receive the communion from his hands: “imitate
this consecrated soul, my child, for a third of the Humankind will be saved by
means of these souls and many others, my child.” Up to this moment,
Amparo’s life resembles somehow that of this wounded friar, beatified and
canonized by John Paul II, who talked of him in one of his speeches this way: "Totally absorbed in God,
always bearing the marks of Jesus' Passion in his body, he was bread broken for
men and women starving for God the Father's forgiveness. His stigmata, like
those of Francis of Assisi, were the work and sign of divine mercy, which
redeemed the world by the Cross of Jesus Christ. Those open, bleeding wounds
spoke of God's love for everyone, especially for those sick in body and spirit" (May 3th 1999). God also used Luz Amparo’s wounds to lead lots
of souls to God, reminding them of the Passion of Christ and the great love of
God for souls.
The "third part"
above-mentioned in the message is a characteristic measure that appears in the
Bible; it is repeated, for example, several times in chapter 8 of the
Revelation, when angels play the four first trumpets: "The first blew his trumpet and, with
that, hail and fire, mixed with blood, were hurled on the earth: a third of the
earth was burnt up, and a third of all trees, and every blade of grass was burnt.
The second angel blew his trumpet, and it was as
though a great mountain blazing with fire was hurled into the sea: a third of
the sea turned into blood.” (Rev 8,
7-12; cf. Rev 9, 15. 18).
It is also written in the Book of Zechariah: "So it will be, throughout the country-
declares Yahweh Sabaoth- two-thirds in it will be cut off (be killed) and the
other third will be left. I shall pass this third through
the fire, refine them as silver is refined, test them as gold is tested. He will call on my name and I shall answer
him; I shall say, 'He is my people,' and he will say, 'Yahweh is my God!' "(Za
13, 8-9).