MORNING OFFERING PRAYER Our Blessed Mother said in Garabandal on October 18th, 1961, "We must make many sacrifices, perform much penance, and visit the Blessed Sacrament frequently. But first, we must lead good lives. " In 1945 Jesus told Lucia, the seer of Fatima, "The sacrifice and penance I now seek and require is the fulfillment of your state in life and the observance of my laws." Whatever your state in life may be you can sanctify all your daily actions if upon arising you recite sincerely the morning offering prayer. Through the "Morning Offering of Reparation" every act you do becomes a sacrifice. The word "sacrifice" means to make "holy." Once you have made your morning offering you make "holy" every act you do throughout the day. Whatever trial God permits to pass your way during the day becomes a penance — whether it be work, bad weather, rebellious children, sickness in the family, tight economic conditions or misunderstandings by relatives or friends. All these sacrifices and penances obtain graces the Blessed Virgin needs for the conversion of sinners. Padre Pio said it best, "If you knew the value of suffering, you wouldn't give it up."
The Blessed Mother speaks of Abortion at Garabandal Among the fulfilled prophecies of Garabandal was one that only came to light with the publication of a German book [Garabandal — Der Zeigefinger Gottes.] on Garabandal in 1992. The author, Albrecht Weber, was in Garabandal on the day after Conchita's last apparition at Garabandal on November 13,1965, and had a long conversation with the visionary. The following excerpt from his book deals with some of what the visionary told him: She [Conchita] spoke quite openly about the developments by which men in the near future would rebel against God. On the day after Our Lady's last appearance at Garabandal, Conchita asked the author, "Can you imagine how somebody could kill children in the womb without thereby killing the mother?" The author spontaneously answered, "No! What gave you that idea, Conchita?" "Well, the Blessed Mother spoke about this and she let me know that this will happen with the overflowing of the chalice." [In her second Message of June 18,1965, the Virgin said, "Before, the cup was filling up. Now it is flowing over."] Conchita said this tremblingly without being able to visualize what it really implied. She said further that it disturbed her very much but that she felt ridiculous because she hadn't understood at all how this killing could be effected. The Blessed Virgin had not explained it to her and up until that moment, nobody had been able to make her understand it at all. Conchita would learn soon enough when abortion became legalized, even in her native country. The Blessed Virgin had spoken about this unfortunate practice to the visionary, in terms that had left her stunned. Indeed, at the time, Conchita did not understand "how it was possible to kill a child in his (or hers) mother's womb without killing the mother at the same time . . .!" [Excerpted from 'Garabandal' Book, page 203]
https://www.americamagazine.org/pope-francis-putin-july-meeting This article is about the Pope and Putin meeting in July. At the very end of the article, it mentions that Putin would like the Pope to visit Russia.
WHEN WILL THE WARNING HAPPEN ? We were not given the exact time / date ,but we were given 3 clues as to when the Warning is approaching soon. The three clues were a Synod, “when Communism comes again “and the global effects of Communism, especially religious persecution, and lastly the Pope returning from a visit to Moscow, Russia (and hostilities breaking out in Europe ).
RUSSIA /COMMUNISM Mari-Loli & Padre Pio on Russia/Communism Of all the visionaries, Mari Loli has revealed the most of what Our Lady said about communism. Would the persecution just be in Europe? When Loli was asked that question she responded that the way she saw it, she thought it would be more than that. Conchita's Aunt Antonia testified to having heard the visionaries say in ecstasy that "if we don't amend our ways, Russia will take possession of the whole world." If that be the case, then the persecution will in all likelihood go beyond the confines of Europe. But it appears that Europe will feel the brunt of it as the following excerpt from Garabandal-Der Zeigefinger Gottes by Albrecht Weber indicates: Conchita mentioned that Padre Pio, during her visit with him, said to her "The great wonder of God [Miracle] must be paid for with much blood throughout Europe." Mr. Weber confirmed the source. He responded that Conchita mentioned it in the presence of his mother, Eloise Deguia and himself, and that his mother wrote it down word for word . On July 20,1963 Conchita left the Church saying that she had had an intimate conversation with Our Lord. Priest asked her to relate the circumstances in writing. Then the girl took a piece of paper and a pencil, and wrote these lines spontaneously with great ease. I was making my thanksgiving and praying for things. He answered me… And I said to Him: “Why is the miracle coming? To convert many people? “ He answered: “To convert the whole world.” “Will Russia be converted? “{ ” It also will be converted, and so everyone will love Our Hearts. “ Locution on July 20,1963 “Conchita;s Diary-7
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GLENN’S GARABANDAL VIDEO COLLECTION I have started a collection of Garabandal related videos. I will continue to update this as I find additional information. Now 70 videos ! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaWF_fGdEsxfNenhnBkCyxOr-0qunZ3Af
“ LIVE THE MESSAGE “ & THE ROSARY At age 16 Conchita was already was spiritually wise: "There is no point in our believing in the apparitions if we do not heed the message." “To guess at dates regarding the [prophesied] Miracle shows a lack of faith in the Blessed Virgin .Indeed, the energies expended on this are so much better spent on living the Message! “ March 2013 Glenn’s conversation with Conchita With all of the arguing over which of the different visionary’s is right, predicting dates, the future of our new Pope, the direction of the church, I've learned one thing, its all distracting, and detracting from our spiritual goals. The best advice I ever got was from Conchita ( when I asked her about the direction of all these things) ,she talked about maintaining your spiritual life (Confession, penance ,mass, communion, the rosary, etc. ) and she said " I surround my self with good people, pray and don't worry " . ( Sounds like she took the advice of her friend Padre Pio ) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE ROSARY If people wonder why God chose this place for the apparitions, here’s an interesting fact. I have posted the story that God and our Blessed Mother consider Garabandal “Sacred Ground”. It is a confirmed fact that the Rosary has been said there on a nightly basis for over 500 years ! When Mary first appeared at Garabandal, the first thing she taught the girls, was the Rosary. She actually took the time to teach them all the words and especially to emphasize saying it slowly. She taught the children to recite the rosary each time they saw her and that they actually did recite it during every apparition . Conchita, diary, jp89: "The rosary is a very important part of the Blessed Virgin's message"..." Mary also emphasized the importance of the daily rosary not only for our personal needs each day, but also she reminded the girls of the importance to pray for the dead, and especially her priests. I always thought it was interesting that of all the people in the world who supported and believed in Garabandal , the most influential was Padre Pio. He was known to have a great affection for our Blessed Mother, and coincidently, the rosary. He would do up to 30 rosaries a day ! Many years ago when I started promoting the apparitions ,while having a conversation with Conchita, she asked me " Do you do the rosary everyday ? " I said " well, ...not everyday, I'm busy,I have several jobs". She said " Don't promote the messages ,unless you are going to live the messages". Wow, that kind of knocked me for a loop, but she's right ! It is amazing that when you make the time to do those things , it seems like there is plenty of time to do them. God is funny that way. One of the most powerful weapons we all have, is sitting right in our homes everyday, waiting to be used, USE IT !
TESTIMONY FROM SERAFIN GONZALEZ ( CONCHITA’S BROTHER ) " Everything will come in due time ". ( April 1993 ) https://www.garabandal.it/en/documentation/witnesses/serafin-gonzalez
SACRED GROUND The Virgin Mary referred to “the Pines“ : "God loves this place very much. This place is sacred." GARABANDAL- “The Pines - Sacred ground “ . We all know about the special area of Garabandal called "The Pines" (the 9 Pine trees where the Blessed Mother appeared, and foretold of the great Miracle that will take place there),but there are some other facts that have been forgotten about over time. Mary called this place "sacred". Conchita 's Grandfather Serafin, in his younger years when he was the mayor of the village, had the idea that every child, in commemoration of his or her First Holy Communion would plant a pine tree on the heights above the village as a symbol for his or her life. Of those planted, nine survived and grew into massive trees, at the place to which the Virgin Mary referred ' saying: "God loves this place very much. This place is sacred." Today they are called "los pinos" and we await the great Miracle announced by the visionary children. Mary said "It will be the greatest miracle that my Son, Jesus, will have ever performed for mankind. It will also be the last one before the end”. Recently I have confirmed that Garabandal has a history of doing a nightly Rosary for over 500 years ! It’s no wonder why “God loves this place very much,this place is sacred !”
The most important words spoken by Mary at Garabandal: "But above all, we must lead good lives". https://www.garabandal.us/zips/pdf/bo_above_all.pdf
Recollections of Benjamin Gómez A man who witnessed several miracles at Garabandal. He tried to lift the girls in ecstasy and couldn’t He saw a man in Purgatory He was cured when near death He saw Mary at the foot of his death bed He taped the girls saying the rosary and heard Mary’s voice He saw the Host appear on Conchita’s tongue “the Little Miracle “ https://ourlady.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Eyewitness-Benjamin-Gomez.pdf
The "URGENCY OF GARABANDAL " My one hour internet interview on Feb. 23,2014 has been edited down into a 32 minute You tube video by the late Margret Schaut . * Note : I am not responsible for the picture content of this video, since I did not make it. ** At the time of the interview I was researching the "3 days of Darkness letter” ,supposedly written by Padre Pio, I thought it was authentic. Several Padre Pio groups have shown me proof that in fact he did not write that letter. The prophecy of the "Three Days of Darkness" is correctly attributed to the late mystic, Blessed Anna Maria Taigi. Unfortunately this was not edited out of this video before Margret passed away. At the very end, that is not my facebook address, it was never corrected.
Great article by Barry Hanratty : Garabandal prophecy about Communism . http://www.garabandal.com/the-prophecies/prophecy-about-communism
Conchita’s reaction to being robbed. When Conchita first came to America she was working as a medical assistant to Dr. Dominguez in the Bronx. Everyday after attending morning mass, she would stop and pick up some coffee and also offer coffee to the homeless there, then proceed to work. One day while in the elevator, going up to her office, a man in there with her, stopped the elevator in between floors and pulled a knife on her. Not realizing that Conchita did not speak English well yet, finally yelled “ Money ! ” Conchita only had $20 on her, gave it to the robber, but then she did the unthinkable ! She told him do not use this for drugs, only to buy food and then she pulled out of her purse a Scapular, and also gave it to the robber ! A Saint among us.
"Frequent" confession is such a subjective reference. If Margaret Schaut is not the interviewer, who is?
View attachment 10306 Recently I visited Garabandal for the first time. All of you were remembered before Our Lady at Los Pinos.
THE WARNING AND MIRACLE INTERVIEWS WITH THE SEERS Reprinted with kind permission from GARABANDAL International October-December 2004 Compiled by the staff of GARABANDAL https://ourlady.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-Warning-and-Miracle-Seers.pdf
