BLESSING OF
AT PRADO NUEVO OF EL ESCORIAL (MADRID)
Raise all your objects; all will be blessed
for the poor dying people…
I bless you, my children, as the Father
blesses you, through the Son and with the Holy Spirit.
COMMENTARY UPON MESSAGES
At the beginning of the message, it is said "At her house, while she is talking with
foreign people and some relatives, Luz Amparo gets stigmatized and receives the
following message"
Stigmatization
is a phenomena coming from Heaven; it is unexpected and may occur everywhere.
That time it happened at her house in San Lorenzo del Escorial, where she lived.
At the beginning of these events, it also happened at the bakery, on December
5th 1980, as the baker remembers, "she
asked for five bars of bread as she used to. Suddenly, she leant on the counter
and tried to cover the blood coming out of her forehead with her hand. Some
people there took her and we helped her sit on a chair. Then we realized blood
was coming out of her hands, knees and feet and when removing her hand from her
chest, it was also bleeding. Suddenly, it stopped. After a few seconds, it started
again. She was in ecstasy for two hours"[1].
Stigmata
are wounds appearing unpredictably, causing an intense suffering. They become
visible on hands, feet and chest; sometimes they also emerge on the head, like
the wounds produced by the thorns of the Saviour's crown. They not only remind
us of the sores of Jesus Christ's Passion but they are also signs of the
Redemption, as well as a proof of the Redemptor's infinite love. They are a privileged
way of sharing the sufferings of his Passion with these chosen souls,
fulfilling what saint Paul said, "I complete in my own flesh what is lacking
in the sufferings of Christ" ( Col 1, 24). Saving souls is the purpose of
these victim souls, like Luz Amparo; they endure sufferings for love to God and
their neighbours, which gets them closer to the Crucified, as the apostle says,
who thinks everything is nothing compared to the greatness of the knowledge of
Jesus Christ, "the power of his resurrection and share in his sufferings
and the become like him in his death and attain through this, God willing, the
resurrection from the death" ( Flp3, 8- 11)
Later,
on February 5th 1994, Our Lord talks about the situation of the world and he
teaches a very interesting doctrine: "
The world is , my child, it would not be worthy saving it except for that small
group of praying souls, consecrated souls in convents, only a few are fresh and
blooming. Thanks to these souls, Humankind…Humankind is still alive on Earth,
my child; the world would have been destroyed but God chooses his souls; if
there is a small number of souls who pray deeply and lovingly, God keeps on
giving graces to Humankind"
In
the message, heading this commentary Our Lady explains, " My child, my child, suffer, suffer for Humankind, for their
conversion. The Father's wrath is close. Pray, Sacrifice for sinners. The world
is in a great danger. Be Jesus Christ's apostles. Warn Humankind. My Son will
come on a cloud to judge all of you for your works".
She
encourages Luz Amparo to accept sufferings, which are a sign of predilection, according
to what is said before. She asks all of us to pray and sacrifice for sinners,
among whom we surely are; for this reason, we should do the same for own sins
though we try to give it a universal dimension, for all Humankind.
"The Father's wrath is close".
Some people, even ourselves, will find this statement weird for we may identify
it with human being's wrath, which is a deadly sin. This wrath, equivalent to
human anger or annoyance, is not possible in God; it is not a model to
understand God's wrath which, on the other side, is present in the Bible. Our
angers, especially those resulting in violence, are irrational, dominated by
passion; they damage us and those around us; they offend God. The irate shows a
mental instability caused by sin. However, divine wrath is not influenced by
sin and, therefore, it is under the domain of God's merciful love. Its purpose
is restoring the order inside the Creation.
There
are several Biblical quotations, in the Old Testament as well as in the New
Testament referring to this matter: "Yahweh is a God full of pity and mercy,
slow to anger and abounding in truth and loving- kindness" ( Ex 34, 6).
"You shall not hold anything from
this city, not even the smallest thing, in order to appease the wrath of
Yahweh, and that he may have mercy on you" ( Dt 13, 18). " Lord, Lord
God, Creator of all things, dreadful and strong, just and merciful, you alone
are good and are King" (
In
all these quotations, God is clearly behaving angrily. Nevertheless, His anger
is God's reaction against human injustice and it is not opposed to his divine
justice; that is why some texts seem to insinuate it is a necessary element of
it ( see Psalm 7, 7-12) . Sacred writers call "divine wrath" the
punishment over serious injustice. It is not a reflection of an angry nature but
it is the evidence of the incompatibility between God and injustice, which can only
disappear with the destruction of the wrong.
On
OUR LORD
"Think about a storm. When a storm throws
its lightnings and thunders at the Earth. God the Father's wrath will be like
that, worse than a storm.[2]
LUZ AMPARO
Then, I see…so great is his wrath? But we
should not be afraid.
OUR LORD
On the contrary, my children. Those who fulfil
the Commandments will be saved, my children, because everything is there, all
God established by means of Moses, my child"