A Book on Apparitions
of the Virgin Mary
by The M+G+R
Foundation
CHAPTER 9
Marian Apparitions Over the Centuries
Overall Conclusions
If we stand back and take a broad view at all credible Marian
Apparitions since the ones of Our Lady of Guadalupe to date, we
immediately see a common thread.
1.
We have failed to live the Gospel and find ourselves in a most serious
situation, heading for much suffering and near annihilation;
2. Our Lord Jesus Christ, in
His infinite Mercy, sends to us His and our Mother to help us find the
path back to Him;
3. The complaints from the
Virgin Mary are always the same... "You have drifted away from My Son
and His Gospel and you are heading for worse times if you continue this
Godless path";
4. The requests are always the
same...
a.
Prayer, specifically the Rosary;
b. Avail yourselves to the
Sacraments, most especially the Sacraments of Reconciliation and the
Eucharist;
c. Perform acts of Penance and
Reparation; and
d. Place God first in living
your lives [Matthew 6:24-34] by living the Gospel; if
not...
5. God, for our own good,
will allow punishment to befall us
and bring us to our senses and realize that the path that we have
chosen is not good for His creation, thus for us! We already have had a
horrendous sample of this
(1).
Would God bring harm upon His children? No! Of course not! What happens
is that we drift away from Him through our inordinate preoccupation
with worldly matters, then something else must fill the space that He
occupied.
That something else is evil, the multifaceted manifestation of Satan.
So it is really Satan that is inflicting the suffering on us, not God.
God
allows
it because we drifted away from Him and out of the protection of "the
shadow of His wing"
(Psalm 91). His laws are immutable
and the fulfillment of His promises
are always conditional to
our response to His call.
For example. In the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the proclamation is
made: "Glory to God in the highest and PEACE TO HIS PEOPLE on earth"
(the original Latin is: "Glory to God in the highest and on earth PEACE
TO ALL OF GOOD WILL."). However, very little peace exists in the world.
Why? His "PEACE" is for "HIS PEOPLE", people of "GOOD WILL", not for
others. "HIS PEOPLE" and "GOOD WILL" were well defined when He said:
"For whosoever shall do the will of God, he is my brother, and my
sister, and mother." [Mk 3:35]. It is amazingly simple!
When catastrophe befalls humanity, with our usual stiff-necked
attitude, we try to explain it in every possible way
except that it was an act allowed by
God "as a disciplinary action" for our own good. We must remember that
life continues after the human body dies. God is looking at the overall
plan as He acts in accordance to our eternal good.
Viewing this through a worldly and common example: When an individual,
of the world, (not of God) repeatedly gets discharged from his jobs for
sheer incompetence, he turns around and claim that: (a) It was
discrimination; or (b) The boss favored his replacement; (c) He was too
good and his boss feared him; etc.
Every reason except the right one: "Sheer incompetence". Will he
improve? Not until he realizes that: (a) He is simply incompetent and
needs to learn the trade better; and (b) The bosses are doing him a
favor and their organizations a favor.
If the incompetent employee doesn't learn this, one day he will no
longer be able to obtain a job and he will face a worse crisis.
Man has had nearly 2,000 years to learn, implement and live the Gospel.
Yet, we have turned the magnificent creation of God into a waste land.
We have repeatedly placed man before God. Just because we have made
some technological advances in astro physics and bio chemistry, to name
two, we think that "we are creators" and that we do not need God. "This
is the 21st Century" many will say as a reason to deny God.
In our awesome arrogance we think that because we can measure the
distance from Earth to the center of Galaxy X with tremendous accuracy,
or we can prevent a pregnancy with a pill or we can understand some of
the workings of the genes or have an
elementary understanding of
the theory of relativity, we can play "God".
If man thinks that he is really Godlike, then he should try the
following:
1.
Stop a hurricane and/or a tornado or change its course.
2. Stop an earthquake.
3. Create a simple creature -
say an amoeba?
4. Change the orbit of the
earth in a manner that physical life would be better than it is now.
5. Regulate the Sun so that we
have perfect climate control.
Better yet. Let us try to achieve peace in our hearts, in our families,
in our neighborhoods and in the world , without God...
Impossible! Peace comes from love, and God's manifestation is love
itself. It is simply a metaphysical and mathematical impossibility :
Without God, there is no love. Without love, there is no justice, and
without justice there is no peace. Again, utter simplicity.
This man-made peace is what the famous Universal System promoters are
telling us that can be achieved through its implementation. We cannot
even achieve peace in our own homes, much less our own countries and,
now, we are going to believe that man can achieve peace worldwide
without God? This is a cruel joke and people are falling for it!
The same ancient story: "Eat the fruit of the forbidden tree and you
will be like God" = "Follow man's way, not God's way, and you will do
better".
My dear ones, the only way to approach being like God is to attain a
high degree of holiness through LOVE
(2).
The Overall Conclusion from
this Work is quite simple:
We have been told that:
a. These are the last
warnings from Heaven;
b. A chastisement
worse than the flood of Noah's time will befall us; and
c. We must follow
all the much repeated recommendations from Heaven to reduce the severity of the
Chastisement and to minimize the suffering of souls.
Let us balance the forecasting precision of "that lady that keeps
showing up" with the promises made by men and which are seldom
fulfilled.
This writer, as a scientist, yet a romantic, can see God's Creation,
and it is (was) very good!
This writer can also see man's creation, to which he himself
contributed heavily, as a scientist and a businessman, and it is mostly
an abomination!
Obviously - This writer recommends taking the chances with "the lady
that keeps appearing" and who "might just be" be the Mother of the
Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity
(3) and who is calling all
back to God.
And you? What will your choice be?
