Marian appearances at Akita
I haven’t posted for a while, because I didn’t want to detract from the importance of the health care post immediately below. PLEASE make sure to contact your representative to vote NO on the health care bill, especially if you live in the district of a moderate Democrat. Moderate Democrats will be the ones to determine the fate of the bill. The vote is scheduled to take place tomorrow.
Now on to the subject at hand… A little known apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which was approved both by the local bishop and by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (then headed by Cardinal Ratzinger), took place in Akita, Japan in 1973. 1973, of course, was the year in which abortion was legalized in the United States, and also a time when abortion laws were liberalizing around the world.
A statue of Mary wept 101 times there, and Sister Agnes Sasagawa received some very serious messages. It is quite enlightening, as we consider the dangers of our times, that such frightening messages were approved by the Vatican. Please read this approved message (which occurred on October 13th, also the date of the last apparition at Fatima) and let it inspire you to greater prayer for our country, for the unborn and other lives at risk, and for the whole world:
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
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 priests.The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in
such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops
against bishops. The priests who venerate me will be scorned and
opposed by their confreres…churches and altars sacked; 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.The demon will be especially implacable against souls consecrated
to God. The thought of the loss of so many souls is the cause of
my sadness. If sins increase in number and gravity, there will be
no longer pardon for them.Pray very much the prayers of the Rosary. I alone am able still
to save you from the calamites which approach. Those who place
their confidence in me will be saved.
