Hello Everyone,
A special hello to our last week's visitors from France and the Ukraine.
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Our next Eucharistic miracles occurred in Italy, one in 1050 AD and the other in 1732:
In the first miracle, in the year 1050 AD "A sorceress asked a woman to bring her a consecrated Host. The woman went to Mass and during Communion she managed to hide a Host in her handkerchief. The priest noticed what happened and ran after the woman and ordered her to show him what she was hiding. The woman opened the handkerchief, and to their surprise they saw that half of the stolen Particle had been transformed into Flesh and the other half looked like the Host."
In the second miracle, "In 1732 for more than three consecutive months there appeared signs of our Lord’s Passion in the consecrated Hosts. This marvelous event took place during exposition of the Most Holy Sacrament in the monastery of the Most Holy Redeemer of Scala in the presence of numerous testimonies, among whom was St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori, the great Doctor of the Church."
See http://www.therealpresence.org/eucharst/mir/english_pdf/Damian-Scala.pdf. Reproduction of this information is perfect for parish bulletins and similarly distributed materials. Reproduction is permissible if you give credit to therealpresence.org.
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FATIMA - THE THIRD APPARITION - July 13, 1917. By now may people had heard about the apparitions. There were many believers and skeptics alike. As the children went to the Cova on July 13, "crowds of people...jammed the roads...." All gathered at the Cova and prayed the Rosary.
"When the rosary was finished, Lucia stood up, looked towards the East and cried out, 'Close the umbrellas...Our Lady is coming!'" "The Lady engulfed the three [children] in Her immense light and rested Her loving eyes on Lucia."
"Lucia...her eyes filled with loving devotion, asked 'What do You want of me?'"
Our Lady replied, "'I want you to return here on the thirteenth of next month. Continue to say the Rosary every day in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary to obtain peace for the world and the end of the war; for only She can help you.'"
"Wishing to clear up the doubts of people" Lucia asked, "'Will You please tell us who You are and perform a miracle so that everyone will believe that You really appear to us?'"
Mary replied, "'Continue to come here every month. In October, I will say who I am and what I desire and I will perform a miracle all shall see, so that they believe."
More conversation took place between Lucia and Our Lady regarding the petitions of some of the people.
"Then, to remind the children of their special vocation and to inspire them to greater fervor and courage for the future, the Lady said: 'Sacrifice yourselves for sinners; and say often, especially when you make some sacrifice: "O my Jesus, it is for love of Thee, for the conversion of sinners and in reparation for sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary I offer this sacrifice to Thee."'
THE IMAGES OF HELL. "'As Our Lady said these words,' Lucia later described the scenes, 'She opened Her hands again as She had done the two previous months. The light reflecting from them seemed to penetrate into the earth, and we saw as if into a sea of fire, and immersed in that fire were devils and souls with human form, as if they were transparent black or bronze embers floating in the fire and swayed by the flames that issued from within themselves along with great clouds of smoke, falling upon every side just like the falling of sparks in great fires, without weight or equilibrium, amidst wailing and cries of pain and despair that horrified and shook us with terror. We could distinguish the devils by their horrible and repulsive figures of frightful and unknown animals, but transparent as the black coals in a fire.'
Frightened, deathly pale, the little ones raised their eyes to Our Lady for help as Lucia cried out. 'Oh...Our Lady!'
Our Lady explained: 'You have seen Hell - where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them God wills to establish throughout the world the devotion to My Immaculate Heart.
If people will do what I tell you, many souls will be saved, and there will be peace. The war is going to end.
But if they do not stop offending God, another and worse war will break out in the reign of Pius XI. When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that it is the great sign that God gives you, that He is going to punish the world for its crimes by means of war, hunger, persecution of the Church and of the Holy Father.
To forestall this, I shall come to ask for the Consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart and the Communion of Reparation on the First Saturdays.
If they heed My requests, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace. If not, she shall spread her errors throughout the world, promoting wars and persecutions of the Church; the good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated; in the end, My Immaculate Heart shall triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to Me, which will be converted, and some time of peace will be given to the world.
In Portugal, the dogma of the faith will always be preserved etc.
Do not tell this to anyone. To Francisco [who could not hear what was being said],yes, you may tell it.'
Lucia asked, 'Don't You want anything else from me?'
[Our Lady answered], 'No; today I desire nothing else from you.'
At this point something like thunder was heard.... 'There She goes,' [Lucia] shouted, pointing up to Heaven. 'There She goes.' Then a few moments later, 'She's gone!'"
Source: The True Story of Fatima, a Complete Account of the Fatima Apparitions. By John de Marchi, I.M.C. Published by The Fatima Center, Constable, NY, U.S.A.
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God bless you.
