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The End of times:

La Salette, Knock and the Book of Truth (Part 2)

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Miracle at Knock, Ireland:

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It had been pouring rain all day on 21st August, 1879. In the evening, 15 local people saw the apparition of Mary, St Joseph, St John the Evangelist, and a lamb standing on an altar before a cross, in front of the parish church’s gable wall.

The vision was very clear. It stood out from the gable wall of the church, and was about 2 feet from the ground.  To the west of it appeared the Virgin Mary, St. Joseph, and St. John.

The vision lasted for about two to three hours and then faded.

https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/knock-virgin-mary

Knock, IrelandOur Lady was in the centre of the apparition and was the tallest of them all. She was wearing a large brilliant gold crown and was clothed in white garments. Her hands were raised in prayer and her eyes gazed toward heaven.

To her right was her spouse, St. Joseph, whose head was inclined toward her.

To her left was St. John the Evangelist, who was attired as a bishop wearing a mitre and was holding a book, (perhaps his book of the Apocalypse) in his left hand. His right hand was raised as if he were preaching.

To the left of St. John was an altar on which stood a cross and a lamb surrounded by angels.

Though it was raining, the ground beneath the vision was dry. The constant rain represented the sorrow and the tears relating to Our Lady, the Church and the world.

The enigma of the apparition at Knock was its silence.  There was no message given, unlike at other apparition sites.

The unspoken message was one of love and solidarity with the perseveringly faithful Irish in their time of suffering and sorrow. They had suffered famine and potato blight since 1847. https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2018/08/21/the-unspoken-message-of-heaven-at-knock/

What could all this mean?

  • It was the eve of the Feast of the Immaculate Heart – reminding us of the Seven Sorrows of our Lady.
  • It was to remind us that the Eucharist – the Mass – is the source and summit of the Christian life.
  • The angels are there, as they are at each Mass, around the Lamb, adoring and praising Him..
  • Mary, the tallest, with her gold crown and white garments, is the Queen of Our Lady of Knockheaven and earth. Mary is also Queen of the angels. She will crush the head of Satan.
  • The Cross and the Lamb also testify to the Eucharistic Sacrifice and to our Salvation by Jesus on the Cross. (Jesus is the Lamb of God).
  • Mary was in the centre, in front of the Cross and looking up to heaven with hands joined. She is praying and interceding for us – she is the Co-Redemptrix
  • St Joseph’s head was inclined to her – as if telling us to listen to our Mother and Co-Redemptrix.
  • St Joseph, the patriarch of the Church, is seen bowing in prayer –  praying for the Church as it goes through its crucifixion, and as patron saint of the Family, is interceding for us at this time when the definition of family is much under attack with same sex marriage legally accepted and on the rise, the evils of abortion and euthanasia becoming wider spread.
  • Mary, herself is the Mother of the Church.
  • There was Silence, which is the essence of prayer. At the foot of the Cross, Mary said nothing. The silence was a deep, contemplative silence.

It was a silence of prayer, of doing penance and of placing ourselves at the foot of the Cross and being in union with Christ’s sufferings.  It is to let us know that Jesus is with us in our times of suffering and sorrow.

La Salette  and Knock are connected

  • The apparition at Knock occurred at the very hour that the Basilica at La Salette was consecrated
  • For this reason, the sorrows which were part of Our Lady’s message at La Salette, are obviously connected to the apparition at Knock.
  • The ‘Hand of God” at La Salette and book of St John (the Apocalypse) are one and the same – i.e. lack of faith, sin and chastisement..

Knock and Book of Truth are connected and inter-related:

  • La Salette, Knock and the Book of Truth are about the times which are upon us – they concern “the mission of salvation”; a plea for penance and prayer – in order to save souls and to help us survive these times.
  • They point to sin and apostasy in the world; to the neglect of the Eucharist and the Mass; to Mary, our Mother, who intercedes and cries for her children (Co-Redemptrix).
  • St John the Evangelist (from the Knock vision, and preaching from his book), is also one of the saints in the Book of Truth, in which Jesus explains the events of the Book of Revelation/Apocalypse, which has been hidden until this time. Knock foretells the Apocalypse. In the Book of Truth, Jesus laments that His “sacred servants” have not prepared His children for His Second coming. They have not preached about the Book of Revelation. This is portrayed by St John in the Knock vision, holding the Book of Revelation in his hand and preaching from it, in his role as a Bishop.
  • The actual Church at Knock is the place where Maria received her first call to the Mission that God had selected for her (the Book of Truth): that is the ‘Mission of Salvation’ which encapsulates all of Our Lady’s church-approved appearances which prophesy these end times.(https://missionofsalvation.com/2018/03/18/thinking-of-ireland-on-st-patricks-day
  • The lamb on the altar, represents the Lamb of God. It is the Lamb, mentioned in Revelation Chapter 5, that is worthy to open the Seals. The Seals were mentioned in the Book of Daniel, who was told the Seals had to be kept sealed, until the time of the end. In the Book of Truth, Jesus, (the Lamb of God) opens the Seals and explains the events recorded in John’s book. He warns us of the events, which are happening today, and how we are to prepare, and what to expect. He interprets Revelations, as only the Lamb of God can do.

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In the end, all of God’s prophecies (through His Mother and other chosen souls) will be fulfilled: Quito, La Salette, Leo XIII, Knock, Fatima and others.

These heavenly interventions are to guide us
and support us through these times.
They are a sign of God’s Love and Mercy!

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The Importance of the Eucharist: Part 1 – Our Lady’s Apparitions

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CCC on the Eucharist:

No. 1324: “The Eucharist is ‘the source and summit of the Christian life.’(Lumen Gentium 11) The other sacraments, and indeed all ecclesiastical ministeries and works of the apostolate, are bound up with the Eucharist and are oriented toward it. For in the blessed Eucharist is contained the whole spiritual good of the Church, namely Christ himself, our Pasch.”

Part 1:

Many of Our Lady’s apparitions have a Eucharistic component (as messages, healings, or events).

Garabandal  1961-1965

Messages:

  • Our Lady told them the children that they must visit the Blessed Sacrament frequently  and often led them there.
  • Our Lady told Conchita that it was a greater grace to receive Jesus (in Holy Communion) than to see her.
  • In the last apparition on 13th November (note the date is 13th) 1965 Our Lady said:

 “Conchita, why do you not visit my Son more often in the tabernacle? He waits for you there day and night.”

Signs and Miracles: 

  • Our Lady had promised Conchita a miracle to convince the people about the authenticity of the apparitions. It was in the end, it was a Eucharistic miracle.
  • The people often would see the children with their mouths open. They explained that they were receiving communion from St. Michael. The people of course did not see the Communion Host, except for the above occasion.
  • On one occasion, many people were gathered waiting for the promised miracle. Conchita had her mouth open (as usual) to receive Communion, when suddenly a white host materialised on her tongue. This event was filmed and photographed by the people which had gathered there to witness the promised miracle. Footage of it can be seen on videos explaining the story of Garabandal, and just recently in “Garabandal – Only God knows” and “Garabandal – Unstoppable Cascade”.
  • Our Lady promised that at a later date, there would be a great miracle. This would take place at the pines (the pine trees on top of the hill near the village, where many apparitions took place). It would be on the feast of a Eucharistic martyr and Conchita would announce it 8 days beforehand. People in Garabandal at the time, will be healed. It would take place within 12 months of the Warning .

Other Eucharistic influences:

  • The Garabandal visionaries are most active in promoting obedience to traditional Catholic teaching on marriage and on Eucharistic and Marian devotions,  than on future events.
  • The visionaries and the villagers have grown closer to God and lead their lives in strict orthodoxy.

Fatima 1917

Eucharistic influences:

  • The miracle of the sun is usually interpreted as a sign of the Eucharist.
  • During the third apparition, the Angel of Portugal appeared holding a chalice. The children were asked to say an Act of Faith in God. Into the chalice fell drops of blood, suspended above it.
  • The angel then left the chalice and Host suspended, and prostrated himself with the children repeating the prayer to the Trinity, requesting the salvation of souls and reparation through the merits of the Body and Blood of Jesus.
  • The angel took the chalice, gave the Host to Lucy, and the contents of the chalice to Jacinta and Francisco saying  “Take and drink the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, who is horribly insulted by ungrateful men. Make reparation for their crimes and console your God.”

Knock, Ireland   1879

This apparition on the 21st August was seen by 15 people over a period of a few hours. The age of the people ranged from 6 to 75, and included men and women. The public vision included Our Lady, St. Joseph, St. John the Evangelist (as a Bishop), and a Lamb on the altar, with a Cross behind it; angels hovering around it. No words were spoken

Eucharistic signs and events:

  • The Lamb on the altar and the Cross behind it was the central focus of the apparition. This symbolised the Sacrifice of Calvary taking place at each Mass. This was the brightest part of the apparition.
  • The angels hovering around the altar is a reminder that they are present at every Mass.
  • Our Lady, St Joseph and St. John were in an attitude of prayer, positioned on the side.
  • Archdeacon Kavanagh, the Parish priest, had been saying 100 Masses for the souls in purgatory. The apparition took place on the day of the last Mass.
  • The apparition took place on the gable wall of the parish church which points to the Eucharist.

Miracles

  • Many miraculous cures have taken place at Knock. Marian Carroll was instantly cured of Multiple Sclerosis in 1989 after receiving Holy Communion during Mass, in the Basilica at Knock. She had been placed under Our Lady s statue. She could not walk, had partial use of only one hand, had partial sight in only one eye, her swallowing and speech was affected and she was doubly incontinent. After Communion, she could walk and speak and had full use of her arms. 

Father Gobbi: 1973 – 1997.

Messages to Father Gobbi (an Italian priest) occurred whilst on pilgrimage to Fatima;- while he was praying for priests who had given up their vocations and who were forming themselves into groups of rebellion against the Church’s authority.

Message:

  • Above all the cause of my weeping is the priests: those beloved sons, the apple of my eye, these consecrated sons of mine. Do you see how they no longer love me? How they no longer want me? Do you see how they no longer listen to the words of my Son? How they frequently betray him? How Jesus present in the Eucharist is ignored by many, left alone in the tabernacle; often sacrilegiously offended by them, with wanton negligence?

 

John Bosco (1815 – 1888)

His famous prophetic dream depicts a ship in a storm at sea. Enemy boats were trying to attack and sink the ship. The Captain dressed in white was first wounded then killed, while trying to steer the ship towards two pillars. On one of these stood Our Lady, and on the other a Eucharistic Host.

On top of one pillar is the Immaculate Virgin, with a placard at her feet which says  Mary, Help of Christians ; on the other pillar which is much higher and bigger, stands a Host of great proportions with the words: Salvation of believers.

Akita: 1973-1979

Eucharist influences:

  • In May 1973, she was transferred to a community where the Blessed Sacrament is adored in a spirit of atonement.
  • In June 1973, when Sr. Agnes approached the tabernacle, she saw brilliant rays of light emanating from it. Over the next two days it happened again.
  • On June 28, she said “Beside the light, all around the altar, countless angels were adoring the Holy Eucharist.”
  • Bishop Ho told her to be humble, at peace and to meditate well on the Blessed Sacrament.
  • On June 28, a cross-shaped wound (the stigmata) developed on her left hand, bleeding profusely on Friday, but by Sunday, it had disappeared.

Miracle Healing:

Sr. Agnes lost her hearing in March 1973, and was diagnosed with incurable deafness. On 30th May, 1982, Sr Agnes deafness was cured, after praying 3 Rosaries, as directed by her guardian angel. This occurred instantly and completely, during Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

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Our Lady and the Eucharist are inseparable. She herself was the Ark of the Covenant. She is always there with her Son. She is our Mother also, and guides us. In her apparitions, there is always Eucharistic influence, or events, or miracles.

Our Lady said to Conchita at Garabandal:

“Conchita, why do you not visit my Son more often in the tabernacle? He waits for you there day and night.”

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Read  “The Importance of the Eucharist: Part 2 – What did Vatican II do to Belief in the True Presence?“  in the next post.

The Book of Truth and the Apparition at Knock, Ireland: Looking back at an amazing seminar

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In October, 2017 on the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, there was a Jesus to Mankind seminar and prayer meeting at Milford, Auckland New Zealand. A few days later this same seminar was given in Australia – the  “land across the ditch” (as we affectionately describe each other). Crusader Chris, generously allowed me to post this on our site. (Note that the headings, the highlighting of the text and images have been added by me.)

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“As I mentioned in an email to (P… Prayer group leader) I am writing this five days later (12 October) and I am still buzzing from this meeting, and still synthesizing all that I learnt! I consider it was the most important weekend of my life (so far!)!

Extent of the Remnant Army

What was the most wonderful, was to gain a broader picture of what God is doing through His “Remnant Army” globally. Joseph is widely travelled as Maria Divine Mercy’s spokesman, so to hear that there are Crusade prayer groups scattered throughout Communist China, for instance, was quite a revelation! Recently when he visited Slovenia, a small nation of 2.5 million, he spoke to an audience of seven hundred people. In Portugal, the nation which Our Lady said would never lose the Faith, there are Crusade prayer groups “everywhere” and roughly 50 priests who believe in this Mission of Salvation which has been revealed through Maria Divine Mercy. This worldwide glimpse makes us realize we are not some freakish little bunch out on a limb!

Joseph also conveyed a message from Maria that Jesus has told her He is “very happy with His Remnant Army! They are saving thousands of souls!” This just reminds us of the power invested in these tailor-made prayers from Heaven – it is promised that their effect, when prayed, will bring “thirty fold” results. These prayers rank alongside the Holy Rosary and the Divine Mercy Chaplet in their effectiveness against the enemy and conversion of souls. In accompaniment with the Crusade Prayers, the Seal of the Living God is “the greatest gift from the Father since He gave humanity the gift of life”!!!

Maria’s Story and Knock, Ireland

To hear from Joseph some of the more personal aspects and background information on his involvement and Maria’s beginnings has, for me, fleshed out the bones of this Mission. Joseph is directed by Maria where he must go and talk, and she, in turn, is directed by the Lord.

Maria’s story really began at the apparition site of Knock in County Mayo, Ireland, in 2010. It was there that Our Blessed Mother appeared to her, weeping copiously, for fifteen minutes, which brought Maria to her knees, also in tears. Joseph impressed upon us the strategic significance of Knock’s famous vision of 1879.

Going back to 1846, the Blessed Mother appeared at La Salette in France where she was then seen weeping as well. It was there she revealed the apocalyptic times ahead, culminating in the antichrist taking his seat in Rome.

The Significance of Ireland being chosen

In the following decade the Irish people went through terrible suffering during the potato famine, millions martyred for their faith (an historical fact I was unaware of). After the Protestant Reformation which swept Europe from 31 October 1517, when Luther posted his “95 Theses”, Ireland never waived from the Catholic Faith and sent out its priests and religious to carry the Faith to many nations including New Zealand. Joseph believes that Ireland’s faithfulness is the reason it was chosen for this final Mission.

La Salette and Knock

33 years after La Salette we were given the symbolic tableau at Knock. It was a silent announcement that the final book of Holy Scripture was about to be opened. The four elements of the vision were the areas which were about to be under a concerted attack in the last great battle for souls:

St Joseph, representing the Church, marriage and the family;

Our Lady symbolizing motherhood and femininity, also Marian devotion;

St John with the Holy Book open (possibly the Book of Truth, but certainly Revelations) standing for the Word of God to be undermined and diluted, even changed;

and the Lamb on the Altar as the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Blessed sacrament, to be desecrated and abolished.

So Knock is a precursor of the final mission, which is the very place where Maria Divine Mercy’s revelations commenced.

Knock Apparition leads to apparition of Pope LeoXIII and to Fatima

It is interesting (my little side note here!) that five years after Knock, in 1884, Pope Leo XIII had his famous supernatural experience where he overheard Satan boasting to the Lord that he would destroy His Church. The Lord gave him one hundred years and Pope Leo gave the Church the prayer of St Michael. Another period of 33 years passed and the extraordinary events at Fatima unfolded with the greatest public miracle ever in Church history.

Maria – the 7th Messenger, Revelation and Book of Truth

Jesus told Maria that she was the 7th messenger, the seventh angel, and Joseph pointed out this is mentioned in Revelations chapter 10, which also speaks of a “small book” which no doubt is the Book of Truth which Daniel was told would remain sealed until the end times. Also in Revelations chapter 7 verse 2 there is reference to the Seal of the Living God.

A Seminar that had us spellbound

For four or five hours Joseph held us spellbound with an extensive and intensive coverage of a variety of topics … the feminization of the western world and Church, which has led to the emasculation of society, with its ultimate aim of destroying our understanding of fatherhood and God the Father Himself…. the 500 year legacy of Lutherism and its deadly toll…. the desecration of churches, holy ground and the sacraments in readiness for the antichrist… the state of the priesthood and the neo-paganism inside the Catholic Church which is already in schism.

Another inspiring and encouraging aspect of the seminar was to hear (… many ) voices in unison praying the Crusade Prayers together and to meet like-minded fellow Crusaders, which helps us in the formation of a nationwide Remnant network.

Jesus is happy with His Remnant Army

There are four things I have carried away with me from last Saturday:

(1) confirmation of all that I have believed for the past 5 years through the Book of Truth messages;

(2) the understanding that while the messages are important in deepening our awareness of what is unfolding around us, and while talking and sharing are also essential, the most important thing of all is THE PRAYERS;

(3) the words of Jesus Himself that He is “very happy with His remnant army, they are saving thousands of souls!”;

(4) and throughout his talk, Joseph’s constant reiteration,

“Don’t you know WHO you are?!

You are powerful!

You are going to defeat the Beast!

Don’t you KNOW who you are!!”

Finally, ingrained on my mind now forever is the heart-breaking image of God the Father, as Maria once saw Him, His Face bathed with tears as He told her He was so distressed at losing so many souls….”

Crusader Chris