The M+G+R Foundation
The Supernatural
Manifestations in Garabandal
A Warning About Conflicting
Information Circulating Around
Part II
Originally Published in June
18, 2008
INTRODUCTION and BACKGROUND
Our initial document
- A Warning from The M+G+R Foundation
(1) - was
triggered by the
insistence from, what used to be the Flagship of the Garabandal
Movement, the Workers
of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Inc. that Mary had clearly
stated that there would not be a third world war (2). In a note added at the
end of said document we stated:
We have had the opportunity to review a
series of articles in various issues the Garabandal Journal (3).
Specifically those covering the Warning, the Sign, the Miracle and the
Chastisement.
The articles are well written and the references used
clearly indicated. The problem lies in the fact that there is far too
much hearsay information about Garabandal in said references;
references enveloped with an aura
of authenticity. Testimonials such as: "...while at Ceferino's kitchen
we heard Conchita
say..."; or "...the mother of Fifi wrote to her third cousin Bea that
Loli
said...."; or "...Conchita said that the Virgin said..." (when it
really should be "...understood that the Virgin said..."); etc., etc.
drown the key messages and the urgency they convey.
If one takes the time to review all of those statements, quotations,
testimonials, etc. one will see that the contradictions are more
frequent than the agreements and, precisely, in here lies the problem -
the Garabandal Smorgasbord or the Garabandal Cafeteria. The reader
picks and chooses what he/she wants to believe, then, becomes an
"expert" and leads others astray. Just what the Church Administrators
have done with the Holy Scriptures since the Church went
Imperial. (4)
What this achieves, under the watchful and guiding eyes of satan, is to
confuse the
issue beyond belief.... "beyond belief" literally because the average
Faithful will throw his/her hands up and erroneously conclude that the whole
thing is just another scam for
which the Church Administration is well known. (5)
There are far too many instances of contradictions for us to list them;
besides, we are not here
to echo Garabandal. Therefore, we categorically state, utilizing
Garabandal language, that:
Step No. 1
(6) will
take place as humanity heads straight into the
Chastisement which will serve
to
remove the chaff from the wheat.
All humanity can do now - as we keep repeating (7) over and
over again in
the hopes that the Blind and the Deaf (8)
wake up to this reality - is to
cushion the blows that awaits it through prayers (9) and
acts of reparation. (10) The only "conditional" that exists now is the
adjusting of the level (11) of suffering that awaits humanity - nothing
else. Period!
DETAILS
Precisely because what else
we have read in the same Journal (1) , this time the May-June
2007 issue, is the reason for which we must issue Part II of this
warning.
In an article
titled "Recollections - Part 2", where the intimate conversations
Conchita had with Sister Maria Nieves Garcia, the director of the
school Conchita attended in 1966-1967 in Burgos, we read:
November 17
Conchita had
heard that there was a danger of war because of the situation in
Gibraltar. She was worried, thinking of her brother Miguel, and she
spoke to the Sister as soon as she saw her:
How afraid I
am of war! Will it happen? In
1962, when they were speaking of the threat of a war, I asked the
Virgin, "Will there be a war?" She simply answered, "God does not want
war for His children." That says a lot, doesn't it?
Now, there is a very great difference between "God
does not want war for His children." and “Don't be afraid
because there will never be a world war.” This type of contradictions is precisely what
we are
warning one and all about.
The first statement would move the
faithful to prayer so that war is averted while the second conveys the
message of: "Party time! Let's shop
'til we drop - after all - we do not have to worry about a war no matter what we do!"
Of course, what we read from Sister Maria Nieves Garcia notes is the
correct version.
But there is more....
In the same issue of the Garabandal
Journal, in
an article titled "Our Lady and Original Sin", we read about how Mary
was confirming the reality of the original sin - something that we
certainly believe in and understand well. The problem in the article
arises when we start connecting the salient points of the article:
1. In 2007 Benedict XVI cancels the "limbo
concept", being limbo where children who die without being baptized go.
2. The "limbo concept" - according to
theologians - as reported in said article, tells us that "...children
enjoy a state of perfect natural happiness, ...., but without being in
communion with God." [We ask: Perfect
natural happiness? Without God?
We may then be told: "We speak of
'perfect natural happiness' and not
"perfect supernatural happiness". To which we would respond: "There is
only one 'state of perfection' and that is when a soul is united with
God; thus perfect
natural happiness
does not exist."]
3. Next, the article rightly exposes the
errors of
Indiferentism; a principle which claims that one Christian religion is
as good as
other. There we read about a Protestant German engineer Maximo
Föerschler who was married to a Spanish Catholic lady. Because of
events at Garabandal he sought conversion to Catholicism and was then
baptized.
Wait a moment! Wasn't that gentleman
baptized
in his Protestant Faith? He had to have been baptized to marry a
practicing Catholic lady - otherwise theirs was a civil union and, in
accordance to her faith frame of reference, they were living - intimate
cohabitation - in sin (something which we are sure was not the case).
Oh, that he was baptized? Then why the
Catholic Baptism? What he needed, upon joining the Catholic Faith
was the Sacrament of Confirmation of his Catholic Faith.
4. In the same article, we then read a
quotation from the book She Went in
Haste to the Mountain. According to the
testimony of a lawyer:
"I have
been informed of a .... very meaningful episode that occurred.
Loli's newest little brother had just been born. One day she fell into
ecstasy near him and was heard to speak about him, showing astonishment
at one time: 'What? So little and already in mortal sin?' She didn't
put the crucifix on his lips until he was baptized.
For the reader's reference - according to the Catechism of the
Catholic
Church:
1861
Mortal sin is a radical possibility of human freedom, as is love
itself. It
results in the loss of charity and the privation of sanctifying grace,
that is,
of the state of grace. If it
is not redeemed by repentance and God's
forgiveness, it causes exclusion from Christ's kingdom and the eternal
death of
hell, for our freedom has the
power to make choices for ever,
with no turning
back. However, although we can judge that an act is in itself a grave
offense,
we must entrust judgment of persons to the justice and mercy of God.
A related matter of interest... we
have read elsewhere that Loli was amazed at was how large the original
sin of her little brother was. Now,
we know that such statement
could also be be true since the original sin is not always the same in
type or
size. That is dependent on the unique soul is attached to and perfectly
tailored to it by a principle uttered by John XXIII :
Every
one of us must have his own
cross to bear; otherwise,
tempted by selfishness or cruelty, we should sooner or later fall by
the
roadside
CONCLUSION
As the reader may see, the consequences that such mixture of
incoherent information would have on an already disoriented faithful
can be many and grave.
This is why we continue to repeat that: Without the guidance of the
Holy
Spirit of God - on permanent residence in the heart of the faithful -
the faithful is lost.
We do not care if he/she is a cradle Catholic or, as many people say as
a qualifier of sanctity, "...his sister is a nun or his uncle is a
priest".
Either your spiritual GPS (Global Positioner System) is the Holy Spirit
of God or you are going to be in for a hellish ride through the End of
These Times
even if
you are destined for Heaven.
Remember - Pain is the Megaphone that God uses for the deaf and blind
faction, amongst His Elect, to hear and see. If one are destined for
Heaven, he/she will make it, however, the condition he/she will be in
by the
time he/she gets to the proverbial "Pearly Gates" depends on how well
and how quickly he/she
"saw" and "heard". In the inky darkness the world is submerged
now, to be able to "see" and "hear" can be equated to when a pilot
approaches an airport for landing with zero visibility - he does it
with instruments.
Our "instrument" is the Holy Spirit of God.
Some of the disoriented faithful may not know miguel's face but it
behooves
them to be able to "read his virtual lips" now - before is too late!
NO THIRD WORLD WAR
Our Lady Said at Garabandal:
Of primary concern to the people of today is the impending threat of a
nuclear holocaust with the major superpowers (and lesser powers!) in
possession of weapons that can turn the world's centers of civilization
into piles of rubble within a matter of minutes. Heads of State and
Church leaders have labored under the burden of how to deal with the
problem. But we know from what Our Lady said at Garabandal concerning
another world war, that there is nothing to worry about. It will never
happen.
On at least three occasions, Conchita has addressed herself to this
question.
The first source of reference is Joey Lomangino who has known the
visionary since 1963. Joey vividly recalls Conchita telling him that
the Virgin said there would not be a third world war. According to
Joey, there may be skirmishes or limited wars between countries but not
a global conflict.
A second source of reference is Anne Mequeli from Brentwood, New York.
Anne, a dedicated worker for the New York Center Scapular Committee, is
a good friend of Conchita’s and frequently attends the visionary's
weekly holy hour to ‘pray for priests’. She gives the following
testimony:
One night in Conchita’s house, everyone was talking about the ‘Cuban
Crisis’ when Conchita said to me, “At that time in my village, all the
people feared a third world war and everyone had radios close to their
ears waiting to hear of such a war. But I had an apparition at the time
and the Blessed Virgin told me, ‘No World War Three.”
A third source of reference is a taped conversation between Conchita
and Bishop Francisco Garmendia, Auxillary Bishop of New York, on August
27, 1981. In answer to the Bishop's question about the ‘end of times,’
Conchita responded:
The Virgin told me that before the Miracle, there will be only three
popes (Paul VI, John Paul I and John Paul II). That same day—I don't
know if you remember but in France they were saying that in 1962 world
war would break out—she (The Virgin) told us that there would never be
another world war. Everybody, in fact, was frightened that day,
including me, when the Virgin appeared and said, “Don't be afraid
because there will never be a world war.”
Published on June
18th, 2008 - 43rd Anniversary of the Final Message of Garabandal -
European Union
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