BLESSING OF DECEMBER 3rd  2011, FIRST SATURDAY OF MONTH.

AT PRADO NUEVO, IN EL ESCORIAL (MADRID)

 

OUR LADY:

 

            A very special blessing for all those who have come today, I want them to receive a very especial blessing…

            I bless you, my children, as the Father blesses you, through the Son and with the Holy Spirit.

            This blessing is for all those who have come to this Prado, for those who suffer an incurable disease; may the Lord help them and protect them in all their diseases…

 

MESSAGE OF JANUARY 7TH 1983. FIRST SATURDAY OF MONTH

AT PRADO NUEVO DE EL ESCORIAL (MADRID)

 

THE LADY:

My children, I’ve come to advise you to have peace and love among you. Without peace and love you won’t get to Heaven, my children. I also ask you sacrifice and penance.

            Yes, my child, you have to suffer a lot to save souls; that’s why I ask you humbleness; humbleness, my child. Humbleness is worthy to get to this, my child.

LUZ AMPARO:

I want to stay here, I want to stay here, leave me here.

OUR LADY:

No, my child, you still have to suffer to get to this dwelling.

LUZ AMPARO:

I can see a dwelling, it’s all yellow; even the grass and the rocks are green, with sparkles as if they were made of gold. The people in this dwelling are surrounded by a halo of yellow light. Some of them have very long hair, almost to their waist.

OUR LADY:

Kiss the ground, my child; kiss the ground as an act of humbleness. This act of humbleness, my child, is to make amends for the world’s sins. Yes, my child, if you’re faithful to my Son, you’ll get this.

            I bless you, my children, as the Father blesses you, through the Son and with the Holy Spirit.

            Raise all your objects…my child, all objects have been blessed.

            Be humble, my children, without humbleness you won’t get to heaven.

            Bye, my children, bye.

 

COMMENTARY UPON MESSAGES

January 7th 1984

 

“My children, I’ve come to advise you to have peace and love among you. Without peace and love you won’t get to Heaven, my children. I also ask you sacrifice and penance.

            Yes, my child, you have to suffer a lot to save souls; that’s why I ask you humbleness; humbleness, my child. Humbleness is worthy to get to this, my child.” (Our Lady)

 

            Our Lady talks about the relationship between peace and love; it is beautifully explained by Saint Beda the Venerable, Doctor of the Church. Curiously, he also joins them to the hope of getting to heaven, as Our Lady does in this message: “without peace and love you won’t get to Heaven”. Saint Beda says: “ The only true peace of souls in this world consists in being so full of love for God and being so encouraged by the hope of Heaven that we consider worldly success or failure as nothing (…) those who think peace is enjoying this world’s goods and wealth are wrong. Earthly frequent troubles and the end of this world should convince any man who built his peace on sand” (1).

            “I can see a dwelling, it’s all yellow; even the grass and the rocks are green, with sparkles as if they were made of gold. The people in this dwelling are surrounded by a halo of yellow light.”

 

At that moment Luz Amparo had a vision of one of the celestial dwellings, which she identifies with the yellow colour, “with sparkles as if they were made of gold” she says. Here we are before a mystery far beyond us, so we could say together with Saint Paul, “…What no eye has seen and no ear has heard, what the mind of man cannot visualize; all that God has prepared for those who love him” (2). In several messages, there is a classification of dwellings depending on their colour, which refers to the different stages of Glory in Heaven.  In May 6th 1984, Our Lady talked about this mystery as She encouraged pilgrims to rise their eyes to contemplate beautiful colours in the horizon:

           

“Look up, my children. Look and give testimony… (Sounds of admiration can be heard among people), my child. All you can see up is beautiful, my children. Such beautiful colours! Each colour belongs to a dwelling, my children. It’s wonderful! I’m doing wonders in this place, my children. Correspond to these graces I’m giving you: miracles in souls, miracles in bodies (…) what beautiful colours! Keep on looking, my children, don’t stop looking till this colour disappear, my children. My Heart is doing so many wonders in this meadow! My child!”

 

            With this visual show, Luz Amparo got worried and said, “Mother! Some shouldn’t see it, only some of them, because others will say it was all in their minds. Some shouldn’t see it”. Although this seems strange, sometimes these wonders were not seen by all or in the same way, which, indeed, excluded the possibility of a collective invention. Besides, these marvels can only be made by God. For this reason, Our Lady added,

           

“Keep on looking these wonderful colours.  The movement of the Sun, my children! Who can perform these things but God? No human being can do these wonders…!”

           

            On the different stages of Glory, represented by that variety of colours, Saint Thomas of Aquina, referring to the Gospel of Saint John, wrote, “It is written (John 14:2): "In My Father's house there are many mansions"; which, according to Augustine (Tract. lxvii in Joan.) signify "the diverse dignities of merits in the one eternal life." But the dignity of eternal life which is given according to merit, is Happiness itself. Therefore there are diverse degrees of Happiness, and Happiness is not equally in all.” (4)

            The last lines of our commentary will be dedicated to encourage our heart to hope for that future awaiting us, if we persevere in good deeds and we try to live in grace. Saint Augustine may help us when he describes it so beautifully and accurately: “There are two states of life, therefore, preached and commended to herself from heaven, that are known to the Church, whereof the one is in faith, the other in sight; one in the temporal sojourn in a foreign land, the other in the eternity of the [heavenly] abode; one in labor, the other in repose; one on the way, the other in the fatherland; one in active work, the other in the wages of contemplation” (5)

            The Imitation of Crist helps us meditate upon eternal truths and walk the path of virtue to get to that definitive dwelling: “Who will remember you when you are dead? Who will pray for you? Do now, beloved, what you can, because you do not know when you will die, nor what your fate will be after death. Gather for yourself the riches of immortality while you have time. Think of nothing but your salvation. Care only for the things of God. Make friends for yourself now by honoring the saints of God, by imitating their actions, so that when you depart this life they may receive you into everlasting dwellings.” (6)

 

 

[1][1] Hom. 12, Pentecost.

[2][2] 1 Co 2, 9.

[3][3] Cf. Jn 14, 2.

[4][4] Summa Theologica, I-II, q. 5, a. 2, 3.

[5][5] Treaty on Gospel. S. John, 124.

[6][6] Book I, chap. XXIII, 7.