BLESSING OF SEPTEMBER 3rd 2005. FIRST SATURDAY OF MONTH.
AT PRADO NUEVO OF EL ESCORIAL (MADRID)
Raise all your objects; all will be blessed against the cunnings of the enemy.
I bless you as the Father blesses you, through the Son and with the Holy Spirit.
August 15th 1982
(The Assumption of Our Lady)
This short message was received by Luz Amparo just after midnight August 14th , while the vigil of the Assumption was taking place; therefore, it was August 15th.
“My children, my children- Our Lady says shortly after the beginning of the message- go and visit the Blessed Sacrament, my Son is very sad and lonely”
It still surprises us- although it has been repeated in the messages- the comfort Jesus feels when He is visited in the Holy Sacrament, in the Tabernacle. We may ask ourselves, “Is it possible, Our Lord, that you beg for the crumbs of our love that is so deficient, so poor…? What mystery of infinite love makes you shout to souls the terrible and unaccountable loneliness of God who always hopes patiently to be visited by poor sinners?” We know God values men’s good will and their true wishes of love, in spite of their wretchedness; if it were not so, what would it be of us?
It is true: we hardly visit Jesus Christ in the Eucharist! Although currently lots of churches are closed a great part of the day, which does not help this devotional practice situation) we are not going to analyze the reasons that have led to this, (do we really want to go? Do we not really work out worldly obstacles if we want? Anyway, it is a matter of finding solutions Indeed, San Alfonso María de Ligorio reproved at that time, “Lots of Christians, putting themselves in danger and suffering lots of fatigues, start out long journeys to visit the places in the Holy Land where Our Lord was born, where He suffered and died. However, how these holy excesses show our neglect and our ungratefulness because we give up visiting Our Lord who remains in the churches, so close to our homes...!”
John Paul II in one of his journeys to Spain referred to Don Manuel Gonzalez, the bishop of the abandoned sacrariums, He pointed out, “He tried to remind all of us about the presence of Jesus in the sacrarium, so often forgotten. With his word and example, he did not stop repeating that the sacrarium of every church is a lighthouse that can light our lives and make them change”
Similarly in one of her written thoughts, Luz Amparo says similarly “Lord, men strive to go to the Holy Land. They go so far away to seek You when You are in Body, Soul and Divinity abandoned in sacrariums!”
Finally, Our lady insists on prayer and penance, She expresses some warnings about the future of Humankind the possible consequences upon the nature and the Punishment She also gives us a message of hope “If Humankind doesn’t change, my children, I’ll have to let my Son’s arm fall (…) the Church is in great danger; do penance and pray, my children. The world is in great danger. They leave my words aside. How ungrateful all my children are! The punishment will be horrible, my children (…) I hope that at least one third of Humankind will be saved. Do penance and pray, my children”
Our Lady’s wish of saving at least a third of Humankind appears several times in the messages of Prado Nuevo and it deals with the following passage of Zachary’s prophecy, “And in 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. They shall call upon my name and I will hear them. I will say, “They are my people”, and they shall say, “Yahweh is my God” (Zach 13, 8-9)
August 19th 1982
As the other message, it is also short. Luz Amparo received it in Alicante where she was passing through. She started to endure the Passion Of Jesus Christ suffering deep pains, she received a message that started with Our Lady‘s words who said the Hail Mary twice, the typical marian prayer, so powerful to avoid lots of dangers in these dreadful times.
Some of her words give courage and hope when Our Lady refers to prayer and- specially, to the Rosary, which she prefers among all as She has shown in the messages lots of times; likewise, it was also our beloved Pope John Paul II’s favourite prayer , “Prayer, prayer and penance, my daughter, but this prayer must be said from the bottom of your hearts; I’m going to repeat how I like the Rosary; by means of the Rosary most of the Humankind will be saved. Ask My Immaculate Heart that maychange the world, My Heart will save you, do penance and pray”
“ I’m going to repeat to you, my daughter – Our Lady says almost at the end of the message- how I wish you to pray, “ Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed are thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus” How happy I am every time I hear the Hail Mary!”
What happens with the Hail Mary that can make so many wonders? The blessed Alano de la Rupe explains it beautifully, “By means of the angelical greeting God was made man, a virgin became Mother of God, the souls of the Just were set free from the Limbo, the ruins of Heaven were re-built, the empty thrones were occupied again, sin was forgiven, we were given the grace back, illnesses were healed, dead people were resurrected, the exiled were called, The holy Trinity was appeased and men were given the eternal life. Finally, the angelical greeting is the rainbow, the signal of mercy and grace given to men by God”
Therefore, let us pray lots of Hail Maries, and let us do it with devotion, deeply said from the bottom of our hearts, as the message points out, and let us braid them to make a crown of roses that forms the Rosary.