In 1984, just before retiring at a venerable age, the diocesan Bishop of Niigata, Bishop John Shojiro Ito, in consultation with the Holy See, wrote a pastoral letter in which he recognized at being authentically of the Mother of God, the extraordinary series of events that had taken place from 1973-1981 in a little lay convent within his diocese, at Akita, Japan. Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, in June 1988, approved the Akita events as "reliable and worthy of belief." In fact the Philippine ambassador to the Vatican, in 1998 spoke to Cardinal Ratzinger about Akita and the Cardinal "personally confirmed to me that these messages of Fatima and Akita are essentially the same." Hence in Akita we are dealing with a Church approved intervention of the Blessed Virgin Mary, as sure in this respect as Lourdes, La Salette, or Fatima.
Only a few Catholics know of Our Lady of Akita but the message, like that of Fatima, is a specific warning of worldwide chastisement. The chastisement threatened is truly terrible--far worse than the possibility of annihilation of several nations prophesied at Fatima.
The first message received by Sister Agnes Katsuko Sasagawa on June 6, 1973, was a call for prayer and sacrifice for the glory of the Father and salvation of souls. The second message, August 3, 1973, was for prayer, penance and courageous sacrifices to soften the Father's anger.
The third message on October 13, 1973, the actual anniversary of the final visions and miracle of Fatima is as follows:
"As I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one will never have seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead. The only arms which will remain for you will be the Rosary and the Sign left by my Son. Each day, recite the prayers of the Rosary. With the Rosary, pray for the Pope, the bishops and the priests. The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, and bishops against other bishops. The priests who venerate me will be scorned and opposed by their Confreres. The Church and altars will be vandalized. The Church will be full of those who accept compromises and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord.
Th demon will rage especially against souls consecrated to God. The thought of the loss of so many souls is the cause of my sadness. If sins increase in number and gravity, there will no longer be pardon for them."
This impending chastisement can be averted if enough people pray the Rosary daily and do penance which Our Lady requested at Fatima, in 1917,
Akita Prayer
Most Sacred Hear of Jesus, truly present in the Holy Eucharist, I consecrate my body and soul to be entirely one with Thy Heart, being sacrificed at every instant on all the altars of the world and giving praise to the Father pleading for the coming of His Kingdom. Please receive this humble offering of myself. Use me as Thou wilt for the glory of the Father and the salvation of souls. Most Holy Mother of God, never let me be separated from Thine Divine Son. Please defend me and protect me as Thy special child. Amen.
---A Terrible Warning, The Message of Our Lady of Akita (1973-81). Our Lady of the Rosary Library www.olrl.org
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
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Cenacles of Prayer...
January 22, 1980
"Pray more and more.
Pray together with me, through the recitation of the holy rosary.
Pray and do penance that the times be shortened, and that the greatest possible number of my children may be eternally saved.
Pray that suffering may serve to convert all those who have strayed far from God.
Pray that you may never doubt the love of the Father, who always watches over you and provides for you, and makes use of suffering as a means of healing you from sickness of corruption, of infidelity, of rebellion, of impurity, of atheism.
I now ask you for more prayer.
Multiply your cenacles of prayer.
Multiply your rosaries, recited well and in union with me. Offer me also your suffering and your penance.
I ask you for prayer and penance for the conversion of sinners, that even my most rebellious and most distant children may return to God, who awaits them with the merciful eagerness of a Father.
And then, together we will form a great net of love that will envelop and save the whole world.
Thus my motherly and supreme intervention can be extended everywhere, for the salvation of all who have gone astray."
--Our Lady Speaks to Her Beloved Priests (1987, p.274).
"Pray more and more.
Pray together with me, through the recitation of the holy rosary.
Pray and do penance that the times be shortened, and that the greatest possible number of my children may be eternally saved.
Pray that suffering may serve to convert all those who have strayed far from God.
Pray that you may never doubt the love of the Father, who always watches over you and provides for you, and makes use of suffering as a means of healing you from sickness of corruption, of infidelity, of rebellion, of impurity, of atheism.
I now ask you for more prayer.
Multiply your cenacles of prayer.
Multiply your rosaries, recited well and in union with me. Offer me also your suffering and your penance.
I ask you for prayer and penance for the conversion of sinners, that even my most rebellious and most distant children may return to God, who awaits them with the merciful eagerness of a Father.
And then, together we will form a great net of love that will envelop and save the whole world.
Thus my motherly and supreme intervention can be extended everywhere, for the salvation of all who have gone astray."
--Our Lady Speaks to Her Beloved Priests (1987, p.274).
Sunday, June 13, 2010
The Gospel of Life...part 2
"The moral gravity of procured abortion is apparent in all its truth if we recognize that we are dealing with murder and, in particular, when we consider the specific elements involved. The one eliminated is a human being at the very beginning of life. No one more absolutely innocentcould be imagined. In no way could this human being ever be considered an aggressor, much less an unjust aggressor! He or she is weak,defenseless, even to the point of lacking that minimal form of defense consisting in the poignant power of a newborn baby's cries and tears. The unborn child is totally entrusted to the protection and care of the woman carrying him or her in the womb. And yet sometimes it is precisely the mother herself who makes the decision and asks for the child to be eliminated, and who then goes about having it done.
It is true that the decision to have an abortion is often tragic and painful for the mother, insofar as the decision to rid herself of the fruit of conception is not made for purely selfish reasons or out of convenience, but out of a desire to protect certain important values such as her own health or a decent standard of living for the other members of the family. Sometimes it is feared that the child to be born would live in such conditions that it would be better if the birth did not take place. Nevertheless, these reasons and others like them, however serious and tragic can never justify the deliberate killing of an innocent human being."
--Evangelium Vitae [The Gospel of Life], Pope John Paul II (1995, pp.95-99).
The Apostolic Constitution ca. 380 AD
"Thou shalt not slay thy child by causing abortion, nor kill that which is begotten. For everything that is shaped, and has received a soul from God, if slain, it shall be avenged, as being unjustly destroyed."
--Apostolic Constitutions, 7:3 (The Early Church Speaks for Life).
Prayer
"Lord, You have blessed human conscience with the ability to perceive that killing children is wrong. Increase the moral strength of Your people, that this evil may end."
Pro-life Reflections for Every Day, p. 89.
Fr. Frank Pavone (2009)
www.priestsforlife.org
It is true that the decision to have an abortion is often tragic and painful for the mother, insofar as the decision to rid herself of the fruit of conception is not made for purely selfish reasons or out of convenience, but out of a desire to protect certain important values such as her own health or a decent standard of living for the other members of the family. Sometimes it is feared that the child to be born would live in such conditions that it would be better if the birth did not take place. Nevertheless, these reasons and others like them, however serious and tragic can never justify the deliberate killing of an innocent human being."
--Evangelium Vitae [The Gospel of Life], Pope John Paul II (1995, pp.95-99).
The Apostolic Constitution ca. 380 AD
"Thou shalt not slay thy child by causing abortion, nor kill that which is begotten. For everything that is shaped, and has received a soul from God, if slain, it shall be avenged, as being unjustly destroyed."
--Apostolic Constitutions, 7:3 (The Early Church Speaks for Life).
Prayer
"Lord, You have blessed human conscience with the ability to perceive that killing children is wrong. Increase the moral strength of Your people, that this evil may end."
Pro-life Reflections for Every Day, p. 89.
Fr. Frank Pavone (2009)
www.priestsforlife.org
We are dust...
"God is compassionate and filled with gentleness, slow to punish, and abundant in mercy for He knows our frailty, He remembers we are dust."
--St. Therese of Lisieux
--St. Therese of Lisieux
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