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Medjugorje visionary Marija Lunetti poses in front of a painting of the Virgin Mary in the home of her host Terry Colafrancesco. Lunetti, who claims the Virgin Mary appears to her every day, plans to return to Caritas in Shelby County, where a shrine was built at the site of her previous visions. (Photo by Frank Couch/AL.com)
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World-famous Medjugoje visionary Marija Lunetti, who says she has been seeing daily apparitions of the Virgin Mary since she was 16 in 1981, is planning a return to the site of her outdoor visions in Alabama next month.
Lunetti, who lives in Medjugorje, in Bosnia-Herzogovina, was one of six children who said the Virgin Mary began appearing to them daily in 1981. Their claims of simultaneous visions from the mother of Jesus has drawn millions of religious pilgrims to the small village that was in the former Yugoslavia before the Bosnian War from 1992-95.
Lunetti plans a return visit to Caritas in Shelby County, said Caritas founder Terry Colafrancesco, who hosted Lunetti, then known as Marija Pavlovic, on her first visit to Alabama in 1988, when she donated a kidney at UAB Hospital for her brother, Andrija.
Lunetti will be staying at Caritas from July 1-5, Colafrancesco said.
Lunetti stayed at the Colafrancesco home in 1988 and on many return visits, continuing her daily visions there and in a nearby field. The property has since been turned into a shrine promoting the Medjugorje visions.
The Roman Catholic Church has neither affirmed nor condemned the visions, but has allowed pilgrims to continue to visit Medjugorje. In 2019, Pope Francis, who previously expressed skepticism about the visions, approved Catholic bishops visiting and leading groups there.
The Medjugorje visions have been compared to the visions at Lourdes, Frances in 1858 and Fatima, Portugal, in 1917, which have been approved by the Roman Catholic Church. Lunetti told AL.com on a previous visit she believes Medjugorje will one day be approved by the church, but not until she and the other visionaries have died because the messages are being monitored for possible heresy or statements against church teaching.
Colafrancesco said the Virgin Mary has told the Medjugorje visionaries their visions will be the last such apparitions. “These are the last apparitions on earth,” Colafrancesco said. “This is the grand finale.”
Although Medjugorje was shut down for pilgrims in 2020 during the pandemic, pilgrimage tours have resumed there, Colafrancesco said. Caritas, one of the leading tour organizers to Medjugorje, took three tour groups on pilgrimages there in 2022.
Caritas of Birmingham has led 295 pilgrimage trips to Medjugorje since it started taking tours there in 1986, taking a total of 15,000 pilgrims on the trips.
Colafrancesco plans to go to Medjugorje on June 20 and return by the end of the month, bringing Lunetti, her husband, Paolo, and their youngest son, Giovanni, back to Alabama.
Lunetti will stay at Caritas, which will welcome pilgrims from around the country for the visit. Notifications have been sent out to the Caritas mailing list of more than 150,000. Caritas is also advertising the event on its web site, Mej.com .
At least two tour buses from Canada will be bringing pilgrims, said Joan McDonald, a member of the Caritas staff.
Lunetti has not been to Alabama since before the pandemic, in the fall of 2019, when she attended the wedding of Colafrancesco’s daughter, Bridget. Her last public apparitions in the field at Caritas were in 2013. It’s not certain whether she will have one of her daily visions in the Shelby County field where she has previously done so, but crowds will be allowed to gather there for prayer, including for a “patriotic rosary” on July 4. Lunetti says the Virgin Mary tells her during each daily vision at what time and where she will appear the next day. When Lunetti has a vision, she looks into the air and appears to be listening and speaking with someone hovering above her that cannot be seen by others. She receives “messages” that are usually asking people to pray.
In 2015, Pope Francis warned Catholics not to be reliant for their faith on visionaries reporting visits from the Virgin Mary.
Being Christian is not looking for those who always have something new to reveal, saying, “‘Where are the seers who will tell us today about the letter that Our Lady will send at four o’clock in the afternoon?’ for example,” Pope Francis said today in his morning Mass on June 6, 2015.
The pope said Christians should not rely on visionaries that “tell you this or that: no, the last word of God is Jesus Christ, there is no other!”
At the time, some predicted Pope Francis would issue a report condemning the visions at Medjugorje. So far, that has not been the case.
Dozens of believers in the Medjugorje visions live at the Caritas farm in Alabama, raising cattle, chicken and other animals, and praying daily. It’s on Shelby County Highway 43 near Sterrett.
In 2022, Colafrancesco opened an outdoor dining area on U.S. 280 in Birmingham called Villagio Colafrancesco . It includes a coffee shop, charcuterie shop and a gelato shop licensed by Old Bridge Gelateria, which is just outside the Vatican in Rome and a favorite stop for visitors to Rome. Workers from Old Bridge in Rome came to Birmingham to train the Caritas workers how to make the gelato using the same ingredients, recipe and equipment as in Rome. The gelato shop garnered social media buzz due to its ground rules that include a dress code and no use of cell phones or laptop computers, which Colafrancesco said was to encourage people to talk instead of looking at their phones.
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Terry Colafrancesco, founder of Caritas of Birmingham, talks on June 9, 2023 about the upcoming visit of visionary Marija Lunetti, who will be in Shelby County for a public event July 1-4. (Photo by Greg Garrison/AL.com)
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Shrine to only approved U.S. Marian apparition gets ready for first solemnity
CHAMPION, Wis. (OSV News) — On Oct. 9, the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion celebrates the 164th anniversary of the Blessed Virgin Mary’s second and third apparitions to Adele Brise — the only approved Marian apparitions in the United States. While the observance has long been a yearly event, this is the first year the liturgy is marked as a solemnity.
“This is the first of what we are hoping will be an annual celebration of Our Lady of Champion on the grounds of the shrine,” said Bishop David L. Ricken of Green Bay, Wisc., who announced last April the annual Mass would be celebrated with the liturgical rank of solemnity.
Bishop Ricken said the Vatican Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments approved the Oct. 9 solemnity on Dec. 15, 2022.
“It is a long time in the making, as this is a privilege that the Holy See gives only after some years of practice and observation of the fruits of the life and practice of a shrine dedicated to Our Lady,” he told OSV News. “This solemnity will be celebrated only in one place at this time, at the Shrine of Our Lady of Champion.”
Bishop RIcken announced last April the national shrine would transition from Our Lady of Good Help to Our Lady of Champion. The name change would help people connect the Blessed Mother to the location and community in which she appeared to Adele Brise.
Brise, a Belgian immigrant, was 28 when the apparitions occurred some 18 miles northeast of Green Bay. The first took place while she was walking to a gristmill to grind grain. The last two took place a few days later while she was walking on the way to and from Sunday Mass.
The Oct. 9 anniversary is part of a three-day celebration that begins with the feast of the Holy Rosary on Oct. 7. On that day, an 11 a.m. Mass is followed by a rosary procession around the shrine grounds and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
Oct. 8 is the anniversary of the great Peshtigo Fire, which swept through northeast Wisconsin in 1871, claiming between 1,500 to 2,500 lives. Local farmers rushed to the shrine, where Adele Brise led a rosary procession around the grounds. Shortly after midnight, it began to rain and extinguish the fire.
The shrine was spared while the surrounding area suffered extensive fire damage.
To mark the occasion, pilgrims gather inside the shrine chapel Oct. 8 at 7 p.m. to hear the reading of “The Miracle of the Fire.” A candlelight procession around the shrine grounds, reenacting the miracle, follows. The day concludes with an all-night rosary and adoration.
On Oct. 9, Bishop Ricken celebrates the inaugural Mass of the Solemnity of Our Lady of Champion at 11 a.m.
According to Don Warden, chief operations officer, the shrine is preparing for 3,000 people at the solemnity Mass. He said most of Wisconsin’s bishops and between 50 and 100 priests will be in attendance. Due to the anticipated large crowd, the Mass is being celebrated outdoors behind the Apparition Chapel.
“One of the most difficult things for us to plan for, especially with this kind of event, is how many people are going to be here,” Warden told OSV News. “We’re estimating 3,000. We know we could be overshooting by 1,000 or we could be underestimating by 5,000. We have no idea.”
The shrine typically sees over 2,000 people during the annual Aug. 15 Mass marking the solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. More than 8,000 visited the shrine for this year’s Walk to Mary on May 6, said Warden.
Father of Mercy Joseph Aytona, rector of the shrine, believes the name change and solemnity will have very little impact on the shrine itself.
“I think most of the changes are operational,” he said. “Liturgically it’s going to be the same. … It’s a Marian Mass in honor of Our Lady of Champion, but it’s not like Our Lady of Fatima or Our Lady of Lourdes, like the proper feast day. It’s going to be a solemnity, so there will be a Gloria and the Creed.”
The shrine’s name change will make it easier for visitors to identify the apparition and the location, said Father Aytona.
“In terms of change, it’s more of a branding thing. It’s not like the apparitions have changed or the message of the apparition has changed.”
According to Warden, the publicity the shrine received following the name change and solemnity designation has resulted in increased traffic on the shrine’s website, championshrine.org.
“We’re about 40 percent ahead of last year” on unique visitors to the site, he said. This means new visitors want to know more about the shrine or that they are looking for information to plan a trip.
Warden said around 200,000 pilgrims have visited the shrine this year, exceeding the pre-COVID pandemic high of around 175,000.
Even though Oct. 9 marks the 164th anniversary of the apparitions, Our Lady of Champion wasn’t officially recognized as the first and only approved Marian apparition site in the United States until 2010.
People continue to be surprised they occurred in rural Wisconsin, said Warden.
“It’s a question that’s often asked: ‘Why, when this one happened a year after Lourdes, why did it take so long for the church to approve it?” he said. “Obviously, we don’t know the answer for sure, but I think it’s because that’s how heaven wanted it.”
“Although the apparition happened in 1859, it was believed by many for decades,” added Bishop Ricken. “In practice, it has been treated as authentic by the local people and frequented often, sometimes daily, by many of them.”
“This one was not approved right away because it wasn’t meant to be for another 150 years,” added Warden. “Just seeing the things that are happening now, in terms of how our Blessed Mother is making her apparition and message here in Champion made known, leads us to believe that this is playing a special role at this time in the life of the church, whatever that might be.”
He said, “Our Lady is placing opportunities in front of us that have us believe now is the time.”
According to historical accounts, the Blessed Mother’s message to Brise was twofold:
- “Make a general confession and offer Communion for the conversion of sinners.”
- -Gather the children in this wild country and teach them what they should know for salvation. Teach them their catechism, how to sign themselves with the Sign of the Cross and how to approach the sacraments.”
Father Aytona said he has asked himself, “Will this place ever be as big as Fatima or Lourdes or Guadalupe?”
“My guess is no, because the events aren’t as significant as what happened with Tepeyac Hill, with Our Lady appearing to Juan Diego with an image that they could literally see,” he said.
“There’s no water here for healing, per se, like in Lourdes. There is nothing tangible that we could touch or see,” he said, unless God has something else in store.
But the Champion shine offers pilgrims an environment for them to receive that gift of God that passes understanding. The priest said, “It’s going to be a continued quiet place for people to experience peace.”
More information on the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion can be found here: https://championshrine.org .
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The term "appearance" has been used in different apparitions within a wide range of contexts and experiences. And its use has been different with respect to Marian apparitions and visions of Jesus Christ.
In some apparitions such as Our Lady of Lourdes or Our Lady of Fatima an actual vision is reported, fully resembling that of a person being present. In some of these reports the viewers (at times children) do not initially report that they saw the Virgin Mary, but that they saw "a Lady" (often but not always dressed in white) and had a conversation with her. In these cases the viewers report experiences that resemble the visual and verbal interaction with a person present at the site of the apparition. In most cases, there are no clear indications as to the auditory nature of the experience, i.e. whether the viewers heard the voices via airwaves or an "interior" or subjective sense of communication. Yet, the 1973 messages of Our Lady of Akita, which were approved at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1988 by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) are due to Sister Agnes Katsuko Sasagawa who had been totally deaf before 1973 (and remained deaf until 1982 when she was cured during Sunday Mass as foretold in her messages), suggesting means of communication other than airwaves.
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In some apparitions just an image is reported, often with no verbal interaction, and no conversation. An example is the reported apparitions at Our Lady of Assiut in which many people reported a bright image atop a building, accompanied by photographs of the image. The photographs at times suggest the silhouette of a statue of the Virgin Mary but the images are usually subject to varying interpretations, and critics suggest that they may just be due to various visual effects of unknown origin. However, such image-like appearances are hardly ever reported for visions of Jesus and Mary. In most cases these involve some form of reported communication.
And apparitions should be distinguished from interior locutions in which no visual contact is claimed. In some cases of reported interior locutions such as those of Father Stefano Gobbi a large amount of text is produced, but no visual contact is claimed. Interior locutions usually do not include an auditory component, but consist of inner voices. Interior locutions are generally not classified as apparitions. Physical contact is hardly ever reported as part of Marian apparitions, unlike in cases of interaction with Jesus Christ. In rare cases a physical artifact is reported in apparitions. A well known example is the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe which is reported to have been miraculously imprinted on the cloak of Saint Juan Diego.
Catholic belief
According to the doctrine of the Catholic Church, the era of public revelation ended with the death of the last living Apostle. A Marian apparition, if deemed genuine by Church authority, is treated as private revelation that may emphasize some facet of the received public revelation for a specific purpose, but it can never add anything new to the deposit of faith. The Church will confirm an apparition as worthy of belief, but belief is never required by divine faith. The Holy See has officially confirmed the apparitions at Guadalupe, Saint-Etienne-le-Laus, Paris (Rue du Bac, Miraculous Medal), La Salette, Lourdes, Fatima, Portugal, Pontmain, Beauraing, and Banneux.
As a historical pattern, Vatican approval of apparitions seems to have followed general acceptance of a vision by well over a century in most cases. According to Father Salvatore M. Perrella of the Marianum Pontifical Institute in Rome, of the 295 reported apparitions studied by the Holy See through the centuries only 12 have been approved, the latest being the May 2008 approval of the 17th- and 18th-century apparitions of Our Lady of Laus.
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Other apparitions continue to be approved at the local level, e.g. the December, 2010 local approval of the 19th-century apparitions of Our Lady of Good Help, the first recognized apparition in the United States.
An authentic apparition is believed not to be a subjective experience, but a real and objective intervention of divine power. The purpose of such apparitions is to recall and emphasize some aspect of the Christian message. The church states that cures and other miraculous events are not the purpose of Marian apparitions, but exist primarily to validate and draw attention to the message. Apparitions of Mary are held to be evidence of her continuing active presence in the life of the church, through which she "cares for the brethren of her son who still journey on earth".
Not all claims of visitations are dealt with favourably by the Roman Catholic Church. For example, claimed apparitions of Our Lady, under the title of "Our Lady of the Roses, Mary, Help of Mother's", Jesus Christ and various saints at Bayside, New York have not been condoned or sanctioned in any way, nor those at the Necedah Shrine in Necedah, Wisconsin. The behavior of Ms Veronica Lueken and Mary Ann Van Hoof, who claimed these heavenly favors, was deemed not to compare favorably with the "quiet pragmatism" of St. Bernadette Soubirous - Church authorities are said to use Bernadette as a model by which to judge all who purport to have visitations. Indeed, both women seriously criticized the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy, allegedly even harshly, and Mrs. Van Hoof is said to have subsequently left Roman Catholicism for an independent local Old Catholic Church.
Possibly the best-known apparition sites are Lourdes and Fatima Over sixty spontaneous healings, out of thousands reported at the Lourdes Spring, have been classified as "inexplicable" by the physicians of the Lourdes Bureau, a medical centre set up by the Church in association with local medical institutes to assess possible miracles. The Three Secrets of Fatima received a great deal of attention in the Catholic and secular press.
Apparitions and statues
Marian apparitions are sometimes reported along with weeping statuesof the Virgin Mary. However, to date only one single example of acombined weeping statue and apparition (namely Our Lady of Akita) has been approved by the Vatican and the rest have usually been dismissed as hoaxes.
Discerning Apparitions and Private Revelation
An Apparition is an appearance. In that sense, there have been reports of apparitions since the earliest history of the Church. I have always found St. Matthews account of the crucifixion to be one of the most fascinating. After the Lord Jesus surrenders Himself in Love for our redemption we read this account:
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"But Jesus cried out again in a loud voice, and gave up his spirit. And behold, the veil of the sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth quaked, rocks were split, tombs were opened, and the bodies of many saints who had fallen asleep were raised. And coming forth from their tombs after his resurrection, they entered the holy city and appeared to many. The centurion and the men with him who were keeping watch over Jesus feared greatly when they saw the earthquake and all that was happening, and they said, "Truly, this was the Son of God!"" (Matt. 27: 50 -54)
"Our Sunday Visitor's Catholic Encyclopedia," gives us some helpful distinctions concerning the language used when discussing purported heavenly appearances, private revelations and the messages associated with them. Here is a summary:
Apparition : The name given to various kinds of supernatural visions of heavenly beings and is frequently applied to the visions associated with Mary.
Private revelation : This comes from a vision and communication from Mary or other heavenly beings. "Revelation" is the body of truths found in the Scriptures and Sacred Tradition of the Church. "Private revelations" are not dogmas of faith and are open for selective acceptance and devotion of the faithful.
Messages : Often in an apparition, a message is given to the seer (the person who beholds the vision). It may be a warning about the need for prayer and penance to avert a coming war or disaster. After apparitions at Fatima, Portugal, Our Lady of Fatima told Sister Lucia de Santos that a pope would be shot. This prophecy was verified on May 13, 1981, when Pope John Paul II was shot in Rome.
Messages may also include a request that a church be built to honor Mary at the apparition site with the promise of blessing to all who come to pray there. For example, the basilicas in Lourdes, France, and Guadalupe, Mexico, were built in response to Mary's request and are visited by millions of pilgrims annually.
How Do we Discern Apparitions and Private Revelations?
The Catechism of the Catholic Church sets the standard by which the faithful should approach any claimed Apparition, private revelation or message associated with them:
"The Christian economy, therefore, since it is the new and definitive Covenant, will never pass away; and no new public revelation is to be expected before the glorious manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ." Yet even if Revelation is already complete, it has not been made completely explicit; it remains for Christian faith gradually to grasp its full significance over the course of the centuries.
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"Throughout the ages, there have been so-called "private" revelations, some of which have been recognized by the authority of the Church. They do not belong, however, to the deposit of faith. It is not their role to improve or complete Christ's definitive Revelation, but to help live more fully by it in a certain period of history. Guided by the Magisterium of the Church, the sensus fidelium knows how to discern and welcome in these revelations whatever constitutes an authentic call of Christ or his saints to the Church.
"Christian faith cannot accept "revelations" that claim to surpass or correct the Revelation of which Christ is the fulfillment, as is the case in certain non-Christian religions and also in certain recent sects which base themselves on such "revelations." (CCC #65-67)
Norms and Process for Judging Private Revelations
The following material is from the University of Dayton in Ohio which houses the International Marian Institute and the largest Marian library in the world. They have done a thorough job in offering assistance to the faithful on whether Apparitions are reliable and how we can approach them with the mind of the Church:
During the past several years, the number of reported apparitions has been greatly increasing. While concentrating on Marian apparitions, our purpose here is to view all popular piety in the context of the total picture of Catholic faith, devotion, and discipleship. Our approach is to strike a happy medium between vain credulity and sterile skepticism. Perhaps we could label our position as one of critical or moderate realism.
Authentic Visions
Visionaries or seers behold an object not naturally visible to other persons. An authentic supernatural vision or apparition is different from illusions or hallucinations that result from pathological conditions or even diabolical intervention. An authentic vision is a charism -- gratia gratis data -- given to an individual or group for the spiritual good of others and/or for the Church as a whole.
The Church's Voice
On February 25, 1978, the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) issued "Norms of the Congregation for Proceeding in Judging Alleged Apparitions and Revelations." Pope Paul VI had approved these norms the preceding day.
Although this document uses the term supernaturalitas, we believe that what is meant is something supernatural in the mode in which it has occurred rather than supernatural in its essence or substance.
The Bishop's Role
When an allegedly supernatural event has occurred, it is the responsibility of the local bishop to conduct an investigation, usually through a committee of experts.
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Theologically and canonically, the bishop is entrusted with the role of "oversight" of the diocese. This role of "oversight" is based on the bishop's responsibility both for public worship and for the religious teaching which occurs in the diocese.
Norms for Discernment
1) The first norm for evaluating miraculous events is that there be moral certainty, or at least great probability, that something miraculous has occurred. The commission may interview the visionaries, call other witnesses, visit the site of the events.
2) The second norm deals with the personal qualities of the subjects who claim to have had the apparition; they must be mentally sound, honest, sincere, of upright conduct, obedient to ecclesiastical authorities, able to return to the normal practices of the faith (such as participation in communal worship, reception of the sacraments).
3) A third category deals with the content of the revelation or message: it must be theologically acceptable and morally sound and free of error.
4) The fourth positive criterion is that the apparition must result in positive spiritual assets which endure (prayer, conversion, increase of charity).
These four criteria may also be restated in a negative way. There must be no doubt that what is occurring is truly exceptional and beyond human explanation. There must be no doctrinal error attributed to God or to the Blessed Virgin Mary or some other saint. The third negative criterion is that there must be no hint of financial advantage to anyone connected with the apparitions, nor must any of the visionaries be accused of serious moral improprieties at the time when the visions were being received, nor may there be evidence of mental illness or psychopathic tendencies.
At the end of the investigative process, the committee may submit to the bishop(s) one of the following verdicts or conjectural judgements: constat de supernaturalitate (the event shows all the signs of being an authentic or a truly miraculous intervention from heaven); constat de non supernaturalitate (the alleged apparition is clearly not miraculous or there are not sufficient signs manifesting it to be so); non constat de supernaturalitate (it is not evident whether or not the alleged apparition is authentic).
The Bishop's decision regarding alleged apparitions usually does not attempt to interpret or give the spiritual significance of the events, nor to interpret the messages or identify the heavenly persons who may have appeared.
Public Worship
All such investigations are conducted by the bishop to determine whether public worship should continue to be held in those places. It could happen that the investigative committee could conclude that at this time it is able neither to make a clearly positive nor a clearly negative judgment. If the matter is still being investigated, the bishop could permit public worship, while at the same time continuing to be vigilant that the devotions do not wander into deviant directions.
Our Responsibility
As the bishops are entrusted with these responsibilities stemming from the nature of their office, so there are fundamental responsibilities on the part of the members of the diocese. First, they are to obey their bishops when the latter act as Christ's representatives (canon 212), that is, when they teach formally or establish binding discipline as pastors of a particular church. This obedience owed to the bishops in their capacity as leaders of particular churches is intended to promote the common good. Canon 753 also speaks of the "religious assent" owed to the bishops' teaching authority, which means a special quality of respect and gratitude, along with critical awareness and good will. Hence, there should be intelligent obedience to ecclesiastical authority in the matter of alleged apparitions.
Publications
A new era opened in the canonical regulations dealing with apparitions occurred in 1969. In that year, Pope Paul VI deleted certain canons of the Code of Canon Law (1917). These canons had specifically forbidden the publication of all books or pamphlets about new apparitions, revelations, visions, prophecies, and miracles, or which introduce new devotions, even though justified as private. Such prohibitions are not part of the Code of Canon Law (1983). So the many reports of Marian apparitions may in part be due to the new freedom to discuss freely and to report such occurrences to the media, without first submitting them to ecclesiastical approbation.
The Foundations of Our Faith
Our faith cannot rest on private revelations and apparitions. Even with properly approved apparitions, we must maintain a proper perspective -- viewing them as an assistance to nourish our faith in the central dogmas of the Incarnation, the Trinity and the Eucharist. In their 1973 pastoral letter, Behold Your Mother: Woman of Faith, the American bishops called authenticated appearances of Mary "providential happenings [which] serve as reminders of basic Christian themes: such as prayer, penance, and the necessity of the sacraments." (# 100).
This text is based on "Discerning the Miraculous: Norms for Judging Apparitions and Private Revelations" by Frederick Jelly, O.P. (1993); and "Canonical Considerations regarding Alleged Apparitions" by Fr. Michael Smith Foster, JCD (1995). It was abridged, combined and rearranged by Fr. Johann G. Roten, S.M.
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Mary as model, mary in the scriptures.
Christian Scripture calls the "more excellent way", the way of Love. Mary understands this Way and walked on it with extraordinary humility. Follow her in journey through the Scriptures. Read More
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To understand Mary in the Tradition of the Church we have to understand what is meant by the word "Tradition" - and why it matters. In his second letter to the Thessalonians the Apostle Paul... Read More
Mary and the Councils
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Mary and the Early Fathers
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Mary and the Saints
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Mary as Disciple
We were made to give ourselves away to the Lord and, in Him, for others. Mary's choice, her response to the invitation of a God, is a singularly extraordinary event in all of human history. Read More
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"I am the handmaiden (servant) of the Lord; let it be to me according to your Word." (Luke 1:38) When Mary spoke those few words, human history was forever changed. Read More
Model of Holiness
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First Disciple
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Way of mary, the message of mary.
And Mary said, "Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word." And the angel departed from her. (The Gospel of Luke 2:34-37) Read More
The Meaning of Mary
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The Prayer of Mary
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The Song of Mary
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The Titles of Mary
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Mary and the eucharist.
In a beautiful apostolic exhortation entitled the Sacrament of Love, issued in 1997, Pope Benedict XVI wrote these words under a section entitled The Eucharist and the Virgin Mary... Read More
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The Path of Mary
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The First And Only Approved Marian Apparition In The United States: Our Lady Of Good Help
by Leslie Rodriguez Catholic Church , Mary - The Blessed Mother
Who is Our Lady of Good Help? Listen to the story in this video from Champion Shrine in Wisconsin. Our Lady of Good Help is the United States’ first and only approved Marian Apparition Site. In 1859, our Blessed Mother appeared to a young woman named Adele Brise, introducing herself as the “Queen of Heaven who prays for the conversion of sinners.” Learn more in the video below.
The Message Of Our Lady Of Help
What more can I do, dear Lady? – Adele Brise
“In America, The National Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help at Champion covers the peace-filled holy ground deemed ‘worthy of belief’ by authority of the Catholic Church, that Mary, the mother of Jesus, appeared. Identifying herself as ‘The Queen of Heaven who prays for the conversion of sinners,’ Mary appeared in October 1859 to a Belgian immigrant woman, Adele Brise, on the grounds of Champion Shrine, when the town was known as Robinsonville.” ( ChampionShrine.org )
6 Things Our Lady Of Good Help Asked Us To Do
- Make a general confession .
- Offer Communion for the conversion of sinners.
- “Gather the Children in this wild country and teach them what they need to know for salvation.” – Our Lady of Good Help
- Teach children the catechism .
- Teach children how to make the Sign of the Cross .
- Teach children how to approach the Sacraments .
The Queen of Heaven promises her help to those who will commit to doing these things, “Go and fear nothing. I will help you.”
How To Visit Visit Champion Shrine
For more than 160 years, pilgrims have been coming to The National Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help (once known as the Chapel at Robinsonville) to experience the peace of this holy place of grace in rural Champion, Wis. where The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared. The first step in planning a pilgrimage to Champion Shrine is to determine the date on which you and/or your group can travel. Next, contact the Pilgrimmage Coordinator to ensure that the Shrine is able to serve your group. Then visit the Pilgrimage Resources Page for information that will help you plan your pilgrimage. Helpful publications available for direct download from that page include the Pilgrimage Planning Guide , liturgical guide, sample itineraries, brochures, and travel info. Visit the Champion Shrine website for more details.
Our Lady Of Good Help Prayer
O Dear Lady of Good Help, you revealed yourself as the Queen of Heaven to your servant Adele. You gave her a mission to pray for the conversion of sinners, to bring the Good News of Jesus Christ to others, and to prepare the children for the reception of the sacraments. I trust that as you called Adele to holiness, you are calling me, in my station in life, to live a holy life, devoted to Jesus Christ with the help of your maternal love. I bring before you now my worries and anxieties. I abandon my attachments to them and place them at your feet. I ask you to hear the deepest longings of my heart as I pray most earnestly for ( your intention ). Dear Lady, you told Adele and you say to all of us, “Do not be afraid; I will help you.” Help me now as I place this intention with complete confidence and trust. Amen. Our Father…, Hail Mary…, Glory Be… Our Lady of Good Help, pray for us. – Most Reverend David L. Ricken, D.D., J.C.L., Bishop of Green Bay, Wisconsin
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On October 9, 1859, Sr. Adele Brise saw a lady “dressed in white,” who later revealed herself to be the “ Queen of Heaven .” This Marian apparition had many miracles associated with it , but wasn’t officially approved by the local bishop until 2010.
Most recently the shrine located at the apparition site was able to get Vatican approval for a new solemnity on the anniversary of the apparition.
The official website of the shrine explains the approval as well as its plans for the special celebration.
Earlier this year, the National Shrine received word from the Holy See’s Dicastery of Divine Worship in Rome, confirming the Shrine’s ability to celebrate a S olemnity Mass of Our Lady of Champion on the grounds of the Shrine every year. This Mass with the rank of Solemnity will take place every year on the established anniversary day of the Blessed Virgin Mary’s 2nd and 3rd apparitions to Adele Brise. Join the National Shrine, here on the grounds where the Queen of Heaven appeared, for the Inaugural Solemnity Mass of Our Lady of Champion this October 9, 2023. It will be a historic day for Our Lady of Champion, the National Shrine, and everyone in attendance!
Currently this solemnity is only observed at the shrine itself, and has not been extended to any other locations in the United States.
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As important as the place and the time is the situation of the world. At that moment the First World War raged in Europe, introducing mankind to the most savage forms of warfare seen to that date. In far off Moscow Lenin prepared the revolution that would overturn the Russian social order in November 1917 and eventually engulf almost half the peoples of the earth. It was in that context that heaven condescending to earth to provide the antidote to the moral and social evils of the world - the message of Fátima.
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Pontiff appears to reference a woman who drew pilgrims to a statue near Rome she claimed shed tears of blood
Apparitions of the Virgin Mary are “not always real”, Pope Francis has said, in what appears to be an indirect reference to a woman who drew thousands of pilgrims to a town near Rome to pray before a statue that she claimed shed tears of blood.
“Don’t look there,” the pontiff said during an interview with Rai 1 on Sunday when asked about apparitions of the Virgin Mary. “There are images of the Madonna that are real, but the Madonna has never drawn [attention] to herself,” he said. “I like to see her with her finger pointing up to Jesus. When Marian devotion is too self-centred, it’s not good. Both in the devotion and in the people who carry it forward.”
The interview was aired a few days after residents in Trevignano called on Francis to intervene against Maria Giuseppe Scarpulla, who has been nicknamed “the Saint” and “clairvoyant”. For five years she has organised monthly ceremonies in a park overlooking Lake Bracciano where a statue of the Virgin Mary sits in a glass case.
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Marco Salvi, a local bishop, last week urged pilgrims to stop flocking to the site on the third of each month while his diocese investigates the phenomena surrounding the statue. Many people prayed before the statue in search of cures for serious illnesses.
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“I won’t budge an inch because I’m in the house of God and have the Madonna on my side,” she said.
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My dear and beloved children,
Today, holding all of you in My lap, I invite you to continue praying and adoring the Eucharistic Body of Jesus, so that here the time foreseen in the Plans of the Father may be fulfilled.
Through the Monastery of the Door of Mercy, I would like you, in this new cycle of the Light-Nucleus, to open that door of Mercy for those who need it most; but mainly that you, My beloved children, learn at this stage to open the door of the heart so that all may have a place in you, just as God, the Creator, has a favorite place for His Children.
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Where have been our greatest victories? Who really loves you? Who will take care of you if you but reach out and ask for help? If you want to know how much Our Lady loves you, and is there for you, read the chapters of this book. Meditate on them. Think about what your needs are. Ask for them. Don't just think about them; get down on your knees and plead for them! Mother Mary is there for you. She listens to you. She has great Friends in high places. If anyone can do it, She can. If anyone will do it, She will.
What we have been saying is simply, when Her children are in danger, Mother Mary, great and loving Mother that She is, comes to give us hope, to protect us from the enemy, to save us. Study the Marian Apparitions of Our Lady and you will see Mother Mary comes at the most crucial times in our lives.
For example in Mexico City (Tepeyac Hill), in 1531, Our Lady of Guadalupe came, averted holocaust, stopped the merciless sacrifices of innocents to a blood-thirsty pagan god, and created Family.
Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal - In Paris, in 1830, She came to a little postulant and gave her and us hope for the world - "Come to the foot of the Altar, great graces will be poured out to those who ask for them."
Our Lady of La Salette , in 1846, She wept and prophesied what disaster would come to pass if we did not convert.
Our Lady of Lourdes In Lourdes, in 1858, Mother Mary came and introduced Herself as the Immaculate Conception, affirming Her son - Blessed Pope Pius IX - and his dogma of the Immaculate Conception, which dispelled the heresy of Pantheism.
Our Lady of Pontmain - In Pontmain, in 1871, She came and ended the Franco-Prussian War; She gave us hope. In Knock, in 1879, although She said nothing, She spoke volumes: Protect the Eucharist. If you destroy the Eucharist; you destroy the Church. Protect the Word, which is in danger. If you destroy the Word, you destroy the Church. Protect the family; if you destroy the family, you destroy the Church, you destroy the world.
Our Lady of Fatima - In Fatima, in 1917, Our Lady warned that unless we convert, Russia would take over the world. And but for Her precious son, Pope John Paul II, this growling bear would have done just that. In Fatima, She warned us that unless we change, many souls would be lost; and that unless we pray and sacrifice many would go to hell. Did we listen?
Our Lady of Beauraing - In Beauraing, Belgium, in 1932, Mary asked the children, "Do you love my Son?" To which they responded "Yes!" She then asked, "Do you love Me?" Again they responded "Yes!" She turned to them and said, "Then sacrifice yourself for Me." Our Lady was telling us to sacrifice, because She knew that it is only through prayer, fasting and sacrifice can we overcome the onslaught of the devil and his cohorts. Twelve days after Our Lady said good-bye to the children in Beauraing, Our Lady came to Banneux, fifty miles from where She appeared to the children in Beauraing. Our Lady came and pleaded: "Believe in Me and I will believe in you." Our Lady, 16 years after Fatima, appeared in Belgium and again warned us. Did we listen? Do we listen? Mother Mary went to Belgium and warned us; and in less than a month, the path to total world domination was paved. The world had not listened to Mother Mary and the table of contents of the devil's book to hell was getting near full. Hitler became chancellor to Germany and began his conquest or scorch campaign. World War I was supposed to be the war to end all wars, and here it was, and another World War was on the horizon. World War II was upon us, before we knew it. Everything moved so fast. People were not praying, not yet. They thought the answer was accommodation and compromise. Powerful countries compromised smaller nations. After all, it was not them. The enemy was not threatening them. All of a sudden, it was their turn. Did we then go down on our knees?
When the Lord comes, people will be so busy running to the malls, trying to buy up happiness, they will miss Him and His salvation completely. Is that why Mother Mary keeps on appearing? These Marian Apparitions of Our Lady continue to weave a pattern of salvation if heeded or destruction if not. We do no listen!
Will you study the Marian Apparitions of Our Lady? Will you listen and respond? Pray the Rosary!
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Pilgrims gather in Trevignano Romano, Italy, Aug. 3, 2020, for an alleged apparition of Mary to Gisella Cardia, who claims Mary appears to her on the third of every month. (CNS photo/Robert Duncan)
By Robert Duncan • Catholic News Service • Posted August 7, 2020
TREVIGNANO ROMANO, Italy (CNS) — An Italian woman who claims to regularly experience supernatural visions said Mary told her in September 2019 that a new disease would soon emerge from China.
“Pray for China, because new diseases will come from there, all ready to infect the air by unknown bacteria,” wrote Gisella Cardia in a message she alleges came from Mary.
On the third of every month, hundreds of Italians flock to Trevignano Romano, a small town 30 miles from Rome, to pray the rosary with Cardia. The gathering takes place in an open field atop a cliff overlooking Lake Bracciano. A blue cross and large, encased statue of Mary are the focal points of an array of lawn chairs and benches to accommodate pilgrims.
During the rosary Aug. 3, shortly after 3 o’clock in the afternoon, Cardia knelt and looked skyward. She briefly wrote in a notebook and, at the conclusion of the rosary, shared with the crowd the message she claims to have received in ecstasy.
Some pilgrims took photos and videos of the sun, which they said was moving and pulsating.
Cardia says she receives messages not only on the third of the month, but regularly throughout each day. Hundreds of the supposed messages, which Cardia claims she had been receiving directly from Mary or Jesus since April 2016, are published on the website of the Association of Our Lady of Trevignano Romano.
The 121-word message that Cardia says refers to the coronavirus was dated Sept. 28, 2019. Catholic News Service was unable to verify that the message was actually posted on that date.
Mary spoke in September about an “unknown bacteria,” or, as Cardia now says, a “‘virus that would arrive from China’ — after a few months it arrived. It’s never long before what (Mary) says comes to pass.”
Gisella Cardia kneels and looks skyward Aug. 3, 2020, in the moment devotees claim Mary appeared to her and revealed a message. The alleged apparitions take place in Trevignano Romano, Italy. (CNS photo/Robert Duncan)
Many of Cardia’s messages underline the imminence of the End Times and predict earthquakes, pestilences and wars. She says that the messages are intended to heighten awareness of the reality of evil and sin and to call for the conversion of sinners, primarily through the recitation of the rosary.
Capuchin Father Flavio Ubodi, author of “I Will Dry Your Tears,” a compendium of the messages to Cardia, identifies same-sex marriage and abortion among the present-day evils for which humanity must repent.
“The messages are always asking for conversion and prayer; they are not different from those of Fatima or Lourdes or other places,” Cardia told CNS.
Judging the credibility of an apparition is the task of the local bishop, according to norms published by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
(See a related story: Church uses caution with claims of Marian apparitions )
Since Trevignano Romano is located within the Diocese of Civita Castellana, the job of determining the credibility of the apparitions to Cardia falls to Bishop Romano Rossi.
“The Holy Roman Inquisition hasn’t been set in motion yet,” Bishop Rossi, laughing, told CNS July 31.
Bishop Romano Rossi of Civita Castellana speaks to a reporter July 31, 2020, outside a church in Anguillara Sabazia, Italy. The bishop said that though he has not yet set up a formal commission to evaluate the credibility of the apparitions to Gisella Cardia, he is following the alleged supernatural messages and evaluating both their content and spirit. (CNS photo/Robert Duncan)
“I’m not going to make myself the Torquemada of the situation,” he said, referring to Tomas de Torquemada, the Spanish Inquisition’s first chief inquisitor. “We need time. If it comes from men, it will end; if it comes from God, it will grow. We’ll see.”
“Obviously, I’m in touch with my superiors in Rome about these things,” he added.
Gaining the church’s approval can take a long time; visionaries and witnesses must be questioned, and the fruits of the apparitions — such as conversions, miracles and healings — must be examined. The church may even wait more than 100 years before judging an apparition as being “worthy of belief.”
According to the norms, the local bishop should set up a commission of experts, including theologians, canonists, psychologists and doctors, to help him determine the facts, the mental, moral and spiritual wholesomeness and seriousness of the visionary, and whether the message and testimony are free from theological and doctrinal error.
“Conformity to dogma is not simply about not saying heresy,” Bishop Rossi said. “The heart of doctrinal conformity is the proclamation of grace, the proclamation of mercy, the new creation.”
“I am studying the spirit of the messages,” Bishop Rossi said, adding that he is looking for “the proclamation of grace and not of judgment.”
The bishop also said that while he was pleased to let the pilgrims use a church for their recitation of the rosary, he would be happier if more of the pilgrims came to Sunday Mass. “It would be a completion — not just saying, ‘We are a group that requests a meeting place,’ but ‘We are children of God who want to sit at the table with our other brothers and sisters.'”
Cardia says her life has been transformed since the apparitions began in 2016. She no longer works but stays at home 24 hours a day, in part because her claims have been rejected by the local townspeople.
“The locals are against me,” Cardia told CNS. “I feel sorry for them.”
Mornings are for housework, but in the afternoon, Cardia receives guests who come for spiritual guidance and hope for a personal message from Mary delivered through the alleged visionary.
The Association of Our Lady of Trevignano Romano is run by Cardia’s husband, Gianni, who has believed in the veracity of his wife’s visions from the beginning.
The association accepts donations for the maintenance of the field it owns and where the apparitions allegedly occur. During the coronavirus lockdown, a large gate and fence were added to supplement a video surveillance system, which Cardia said is necessary to prevent vandalism. The field is open regularly, however, for anyone who would like to visit and pray.
On Aug. 3, Cardia and her husband unveiled an artist’s rendering of a large sanctuary structure she said Mary would like to be built on the field, along with a promise that a source of miraculous healing water would be revealed later, for which a well would be needed.
The projects, however, are on hold because of local building restrictions.
Michele Fiore said he has been coming to Trevignano Romano from southern Rome for years both for the deep experience of prayer and because the apocalyptic themes of the messages help him make sense of current events in the world.
“If (Mary) were not with us,” Fiore said, “I would feel really not only abandoned but really scared because of what is happening now.”
A woman who identified herself as a hermit named Sister Patrizia said she learned of the apparitions to Cardia while suffering an illness in her Tuscan hermitage.
“I discovered that truly in these latter times the Mother of God comes to us personally,” she said Aug. 3 in Trevignano Romano. “The Mother of God and the Lord speak and prepare us for extraordinary events.”
Cardia said Mary has revealed to her that the COVID-19 pandemic will flare up strongly in the fall, that the current low rates of infection in Italy are a “momentary illusion” and that “everything will come back worse than before; it’s just a pause.”
Asked about that prediction, Bishop Rossi said: “One would have a 50% chance of guessing correctly.”
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A year later, Blessed Stanley Rother shrine offering worship, fellowship in spectacular setting
T housands of pilgrims, along with Catholic leaders from around the world, state and civic officials attended the much-anticipated 2023 dedication of a religious shrine in south Oklahoma City.
One year later, the Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine 's first anniversary will be observed at the 12:15 p.m. Mass on Feb. 17 and Masses later in the day ― without the pomp and pageantry of last year's dedication ceremony, but special nonetheless, said the Rev. Don Wolf, pastor of the shrine church, Sacred Heart, and Miguel Mireles, the shrine's executive director.
The two leaders said the early afternoon Mass on Saturdays has drawn large crowds throughout the year and they don't expect the shrine anniversary to be any different. The shrine, they said, has a way of drawing people from all walks of life, geographic regions and faith traditions — 120,000 in its first year.
The Catholic faithful have flocked to the $50 million shrine at 700 SE 89, hoping to learn more about the life and legacy of the late Blessed Stanley Rother, the Okarche native and Oklahoma priest who is on the path to Catholic sainthood. Through a major fundraising effort, the Oklahoma Catholic faith community transformed property that once included a former golf course into the huge shrine named in Rother's honor. Visible from Interstate 35 and SE 89, the shrine complex includes a pilgrim center and a large, Spanish colonial style shrine church ― fashioned in a style similar to the Guatemalan church where Rother served as a missionary.
The house of worship, Sacred Heart Church at the Rother Shrine, is the largest Catholic church in Oklahoma, with seating for roughly 2,000 people.
Mireles, the shrine's executive director since June 2023, said people are often curious about the Catholic shrine they see while driving along the interstate or SE 89, and it draws people from many faith traditions and those with none.
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"The beauty of coming in this winding drive is you kind of escape the noise of the city, you come to a very sacred place and people understand that, even though they may not be Catholic," he said.
"Once they come in, they're kind of in awe, and I think they feel the presence of something special here. When they leave, they leave a little different, a little changed, a little bit more open to the idea of understanding Blessed Stanley's life and his witness, and what it is we were trying to do, which is to welcome all and to be kind and humble servants of the Lord."
Year of transitions, special occasions
Wolf said what stands out to him most from the past year is that the shrine quickly became filled with crowds soon after its dedication. The priest said that was because the first special occasion after the shrine opened was Ash Wednesday. He said Ash Wednesday Masses are always packed, and people were excited to attend the first Ash Wednesday Masses in the shrine church. Easter and Christmas Masses were just as packed, Wolf said, as people made time to come together for joyous holidays in the new sacred space.
Mireles said the replica of Tepeyac Hill on the shrine grounds also been a drawer of big crowds of people who are familiar with Our Lady of Guadalupe, but also others who want to walk up the hill. In its first year, flowers planted on Tepeyac Hill have blossomed, making it especially pleasant.
"The spring and summer was so beautiful with all the roses and flowers in bloom," Mireles said. "It's just really a nice place to go and reflect and pray."
Tepeyac Hill is the site in Mexico where, according to tradition, the Aztec peasant Juan Diego (declared a saint by Pope John Paul II in 2002) is said to have seen an apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe , a brown-skinned and pregnant version of the Virgin Mary, on Dec. 12, 1531.
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According to accounts, the apparition told Diego to tell Roman Catholic Church leaders to build a cathedral for her in the mountains. When a clergyman demanded proof of the encounter, the apparition told Diego to gather roses on the side of a mountain — in the middle of December. When Diego appeared at the church with the miraculous roses, the shocked bishop believed him and a church was built just as Our Lady requested. An imprint of the apparition appeared on Diego's tilma, or cape, in which he'd carried the roses.
The faithful, particularly those of Hispanic heritage, pay homage to Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patron saint of the Americas, by leaving roses and other flowers on the original Tepeyac Hill in Mexico City, where they go to pray on and around her feast day of Dec. 12.
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Wolf said he also has been pleased to see how his blended Sacred Heart Church congregation has come together. The shrine church congregation is made up of joined congregations from Holy Angels Catholic Church, which formerly gathered for Mass near downtown Oklahoma City, and Sacred Heart Catholic Church in south Oklahoma City.
The men said pilgrims from at least 30 states have visited the shrine. Wolf and Mireles said they noticed that many people from Kansas, Texas and Arkansas have visited the site.
Mireles said he thinks more and more people will begin to associate the shrine and Oklahoma City.
"When you mention Oklahoma City to folks outside of Oklahoma, what comes to mind is the bombing memorial, the Oklahoma City bombing that happened, and now we have the Oklahoma City Thunder, we have Scissortail Park and some other things," he said.
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"I want us to get to the point to where when people say Oklahoma City, they're like, 'Oh, that's where they have that shrine to Blessed Stanley Rother. He was a farmer from this small town and he gave his life for the Lord. And it's an amazing place and an amazing story.'"
By the numbers
- 120,000 shrine pilgrims
- 3,979, monthly average of Pilgrim Center visitors (excluding shrine church/Tepeyac Hill)
- 5,000 average Mass attendance per weekend
- 80-90 average attendance at a12:15 p.m. daily Mass
- 30 number of states represented by visiting pilgrims
Who is Blessed Stanley Rother?
Blessed Stanley Rother was an Oklahoma priest serving as a missionary in Guatemala when he was shot and killed by unknown assailants in the rectory of his parish church in July 1981. He was 46. Pope Francis proclaimed him a martyr for the faith in 2016. He is the first recognized martyr from the United States and the first U.S.-born priest to be beatified by the Catholic Church. Rother has been given the distinction of being called "blessed" to signify that he has been beatified and is one step away from sainthood.
This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: A year later, Blessed Stanley Rother shrine offering worship, fellowship in spectacular setting
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Full Text of the Third Secret of Fatima not revealed?
In a 1980 interview for the German magazine Stimme des Glaubens published in October 1981, John Paul II was asked explicitly to speak about the third secret. He said: " Because of the seriousness of its contents, in order not to encourage the world wide power of Communism to carry out certain coups, my predecessors in the chair of Peter have diplomatically preferred to withhold its publication. On the other hand, it should be sufficient for all Christians to know this much: if there is a message in which it is said that the oceans will flood entire sections of the earth; that, from one moment to the other, millions of people will perish... there is no longer any point in really wanting to publish this secret message. Many want to know merely out of curiosity, or because of their taste for sensationalism, but they forget that 'to know' implies for them a responsibility. It is dangerous to want to satisfy one's curiosity only, if one is convinced that we can do nothing against a catastrophe that has been predicted." He held up his rosary and stated "Here is the remedy against this evil. Pray, pray and ask for nothing else. Put everything in the hands of the Mother of God." Asked what would happen in the Church, he said: "We must be prepared to undergo great trials in the not-too-distant future; trials that will require us to be ready to give up even our lives, and a total gift of self to Christ and for Christ. Through your prayers and mine, it is possible to alleviate this tribulation, but it is no longer possible to avert it, because it is only in this way that the Church can be effectively renewed. How many times, indeed, has the renewal of the Church been effected in blood? This time, again, it will not be otherwise. We must be strong, we must prepare ourselves, we must entrust ourselves to Christ and to His holy Mother, and we must be attentive, very attentive, to the prayer of the Rosary.
Lúcia herself is reported to have explicitly stated that the Third Secret contains Apocalyptic content. According to one source, when Lúcia was asked about the Third Secret, she said it was "in the Gospels and in the Apocalypse" , and at one point she had even specified Apocalypse chapters 8 to 13, a range that includes Apocalypse 12:4, the chapter and verse cited by Pope John Paul II in his homily in Fatima on 13 May 2000.
A news article quoted former Philippine ambassador to the Vatican, Howard Dee, as saying that Cardinal Ratzinger had personally confirmed to him that the messages of Akita and Fatima are "essentially the same."
A TERRIBLE WARNING - THE MESSAGE OF OUR LADY OF AKITA, JAPAN: 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.
From Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Vatican
Text of The Third Secret of Fatima:
COMPLETE TRANSLATION OF ORIGINAL TEXT
VATICAN CITY, JUN 26, 2000 (VIS) - Given below is the complete translation of the original Portuguese text of the third part of the secret of Fatima, revealed to the three shepherd children at Cova da Iria-Fatima on July 13, 1917, and committed to paper by Sr. Lucia on January 3, 1944:
"I write in obedience to you, my God, who command me to do so through his Excellency the Bishop of Leiria and through your Most Holy Mother and mine.
"After the two parts which I have already explained, at the left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendor that Our Lady radiated towards him from her right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice: 'Penance, Penance, Penance!'. And we saw in an immense light that is God: 'something similar to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it' a Bishop dressed in White 'we had the impression that it was the Holy Father'. Other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark; before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way; having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way there died one after another the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and various lay people of different ranks and positions. Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a crystal aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God."
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It has been a matter of history that the most disastrous periods for the Church were times when the Papal throne was vacant or when anti-popes contended with the legitimate head of the Church. Thus shall it be in those evil days to come
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The Medjugorje Web is the very first web site created in 1995 about Medjugorje, and is still the largest, most comprehensive, and visited Medjugorje web site on the internet.Since 1981, in a small village called Medjugorje, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Blessed Virgin Mary has been appearing and giving messages to the world. And that these years She is spending with us are a time of special Grace ...
Marian apparitions are reported supernatural appearances by Mary, the mother of Jesus.Below is a list of alleged events concerning notable Marian apparitions, which have either been approved by a major Christian church, or which retain a significant following despite the absence of official approval or despite an official determination of inauthenticity.
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The term "apparition" refers to an appearance of a holy figure, usually the Virgin Mary, to a faithful person. Apparitions are considered private revelations. Only a small number of alleged apparitions have been approved by the Church as authentic.
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Bryan J. Walsh. During the twentieth century, a number of purported apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary have been reported throughout the Americas. While the Catholic Church has investigated the authenticity of a number of these apparitions, it has approved of none of them at this time. Apparitions such as these are considered private ...
The only approved Marian apparition shrine in the United States will celebrate its first solemnity on October 9, 2023. ... the established anniversary day of the Blessed Virgin Mary's 2nd and ...
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1917 Apparitions Of The Blessed Virgin Mary The Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin (May 13 - October 13, 1917) Lucia was now ten years old, Francisco would be nine in June and Jacinta had just turned seven in March, when on May 13th, 1917, they chose to pasture their sheep in a hilly depression owned by Lúcia's father and known as the Cova da ...
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The House of the Light on the Hill shall always be the refuge of those who feel discarded and forsaken. In the name of My Son, I thank all My brave servers of the House of the Light on the Hill for giving of themselves to those who need the most. I thank you for responding to My call! Your Mother, the Virgin Mary, Rose of Peace and Lady of the ...
Our Lady of Lourdes In Lourdes, in 1858, Mother Mary came and introduced Herself as the Immaculate Conception, affirming Her son - Blessed Pope Pius IX - and his dogma of the Immaculate Conception, which dispelled the heresy of Pantheism. Our Lady of Pontmain - In Pontmain, in 1871, She came and ended the Franco-Prussian War; She gave us hope.
Pilgrims gather in Trevignano Romano, Italy, Aug. 3, 2020, for an alleged apparition of Mary to Gisella Cardia, who claims Mary appears to her on the third of every month. (CNS photo/Robert Duncan)
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