BLESSING OF
AT PRADO NUEVO OF EL ESCORIAL (MADRID)
OUR LADY
"Rise all your
objects… all have been blessed for all those who come to this place and their
disabled relatives.
I bless you, my children, as the
Father blesses you, through the Son and with the Holy Spirit."
COMMENTARY
ON MESSAGES
"Confess
your sins, my children; the Eternal Father is sad and angry because many of you
have not come to this sacrament, my children! Do not get into the depth of the
world`s pleasures, the world will lead you to your own condemnation. Yes, my
child, your suffering and other victim souls’is good for the salvation of
Humankind"(Our Lady).
If you read these comments every month, you will see
that each message is not fully analized because quite a few topics have already
been discussed previously and we avoid repetition this way.
The first
paragraph we are introducing today invites once again to go to the sacrament of
Penance or Reconciliation, also called “Confession”. This sacrament is so
beautiful and it is not valued properly! How many people do not confess or do
it carelessly? How many souls receive Communion in mortal sin without firstly
going to the confessional? Only God knows. St. Bernard, Doctor of the Church, explains:
"Only He is pure and only He can clean who was conceived in sin.
Furthermore, He instituted the remedy of confession for our sins, as this
Sacrament cleans everything”(1).
And Pope Paul VI taught very clearly: "The precept 'let a man examine
himself' (I Cor.
Some are
surprised and do not accept that God may show his anger or divine wrath. They
certainly do not know the Word of God, where there are lots of anthropomorphic
expressions of this type. That is to say, in order to show his will, the Lord
adapts himself to man using human expressions. In this sense, we can offer,
among others, the following biblical passages:
• "Moses tried to pacify Yahweh his God.'Yahweh,'
he said, 'why should your anger blaze at
your people, whom you have brought out of Egypt by your
great power and mighty hand?"(Ex 32, 11).
• " So wait for me -- declares Yahweh -- for
the day when I rise as accuser, for I am determined to gather the nations, to
assemble the kingdoms, and on you to vent my fury, the whole heat of my anger (for the
whole Earth will be
devoured by the fire of my jealousy). " (Zep 3, 8).
• "Anyone who believes in the Son has eternal life, but anyone who
refuses to believe in the Son will never see
life: God's retribution hangs over him.'" (Jn 3, 36).
• "Your stubborn refusal to repent is only storing up retribution for
yourself on that Day of retribution when God's just verdicts will be made
known." (Rm 2, 5).
Let us
quote now St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, whose revelations about the Lord helped
foster the spirituality of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. With respect to the issue
we are commenting on now, during the third main revelation she received in 1674
she said, "My beloved Lord, Jesus Christ, appeared before me, all
resplendent with glory, with five wounds shining like five suns, and giving off
beams of light from his sacred humanity but especially from his lovely chest
that looked like a lit furnace”. Then He demanded from her several things to
calm the holy wrath of God: "... asking for mercy for sinners both in
order to calm the wrath of God and to soften the bitterness I felt when I was
abandoned by my apostles “(3).
"Do not get into the depth of the world`s
pleasures, the world will lead you to your own condemnation "Then Our
Lady warns in the message. And it is true that this life’s pleasures are short-
lived. In spite of the fact that not all pleasures are sins (for example, a
sunset, the perfume of a rose, an interesting reading and so on), every sin involves a pleasure, though
it is mixed with a bitterness caused by it. The book of the Ecclesiasticus says,
" The rich for ever toils, piling up money, and then, leaving off, he is
gorged with luxuries” (Ecc 31, 3). This is what the parable of the sower
represents: "As for the part that fell into thorns, this is people who
have heard, but as they go on their way they are choked by the worries and
riches and pleasures of life and
never produce any crops." (Lk 8, 14 ).
In
one of the few speeches of his pontificate, John Paul I taught this: what
matters is God, the rest is perishable and does not provide full happiness, the
Pope said," God is too great, he deserves too much from us for us
to be able to throw to him, as to a poor Lazarus, a few crumbs of our time and
our heart. He is infinite good and will be our eternal happiness: money,
pleasure, the fortunes of this world, compared with him, are just fragments of
good and fleeting moments of happiness. It would not be wise to give so much of
ourselves to these things and little of ourselves to Jesus. "(4).