WHAT IS GARABANDAL?

An interview with Conchita.

2026-01-25T04:11:00.004-05:00

Garabandal y la Virgen del Carmen.

(Excerpt from an interview with Conchita. )
P. Did you "see" the Miracle or were told about it?
R. The Virgin told me and made me understand exactly what it will consist of.
P. Were you alone or with the other girls when Our Lady told you about the Miracle?
R. I don't remember. [Note from the editorial board: According to the notes of Father Valentin Marichalar, priest of Garabandal at that time, Conchita was alone when she received this message. ]
P. What will the Miracle be like?
R. Even if I tried to explain it, I couldn't get it right. It's better to wait and see.
P. Would you like to repeat the information relating to the months during which we can expect the Miracle to happen?
R. From March to May.
P. Some say that the way you will announce a Miracle will itself be a "Miracle". Could you explain it?
R. I think the way it will be announced will be another miracle, because it is a big responsibility for me and it will take me a miracle to say it.
P. If I am far from the village, in the mountains, but I can see the pine trees, will I clearly see the Miracle? If I'm sick, will I heal at that distance?
R. You will be able to witness the Miracle clearly, and God willing, you will be healed.
P. It has been said that elsewhere in the US. and Europe, other Marian sanctuaries can be visited and healed that day. What do you know about that?
R. The Virgin didn't tell us anything about this matter.
P. Those who firmly believe that the Miracle will occur but cannot attend due to their circumstances, for example, for being priests and religious of closing, will they receive any special grace on that day?
R. Personally, I don't know. It depends on the people, their desires, their faith, their sacrifice and obedience.
[Many years ago, Conchita's grandfather planted the pines on a slope that dominated the village of Garabandal. Our Lady told Conchita that after the Miracle, there would be a permanent and supernatural sign in the Pinar that could be seen, photographed and televised but not touched. ]

The Pines.

Conchita today.

Conchita's prayer for the new year

2026-01-08T01:54:00.004-05:00

From https://www.garabandal.it/en/

Conchita González, one of the Garabandal visionaries, wrote this prayer in her Diary on January 1, 1967. This simple prayer can also become our petition as the new year begins. There are so many things that we can ask Our Lord, but we also have so much to be thankful for.
Let us do the same as Conchita. May we have a grateful heart that asks for what it needs with trust. Notice that she prays for everyone that spreads the message. We cannot keep the message of Our Blessed Mother to ourselves. We have to spread it and make it known so that it may be lived.

Let us pray this prayer.

CONCHITA’S PRAYER—JANUARY 1, 1967

Mother, I pray that this new year
That I not be vain.
I ask you also for sincerity, gratitude and
Love for You.

Lord, this is what I ask of you this year:
Give me the spirit of sacrifice, of prayer.
Let me receive Communion with more fervor,
And visit the Blessed Sacrament more often.

Forgive me, Lord.
Thank you for all of the good that you have given us.
Thank you for all of the good that you have given my family and
Forgive us for not always doing what you ask.
Lord, thank you for this new year and forgive me for last year.

Lord, I pray for all those whom you have commended to me.
Above all for those who need you most.
Lord, I also pray for the souls in Purgatory.
I pray for all of the sick.
For those who spread the message;
And for those who don’t want to know anything about the message.
I pray for everyone.

I also pray for those who write to me now,
And for all who have written to me telling me about their needs.
Lord, I tell You about them,
Although I cannot tell you about all of them,
Lord, you already know.

Mother, listen to all of us,
Tell your Son
And help and give them what they pray for,
If it is for your greater glory and Jesus'
And for the good of our souls.

Lord, forgive those you have entrusted to me.
Lord, I pray so that your message will spread more and more
And that all who spread the message
Will do it for You.
Lord, thank you for them.
Glory be to the Father, to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
Hail, Mary Most Pure,
Conceived without sin.

Amen.

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2026-01-01T13:54:00.001-05:00

Don’t Fall Asleep!

2025-12-13T18:54:00.001-05:00

This Advent we offer you a word to listen to and to live: Wake up.

We are often asleep in our practice of faith, charity, and hope. We have nearly forgotten that the Lord told us to keep watch because we do not know the day nor the hour of his return. Advent arrives to remind us of this. Christ promised that He would return, but we do not know when. Meanwhile, He has told us to keep watch and pray. We can take seriously these words of Christ, and really make an effort to put them into practice and not waste time this Advent.

In Garabandal, we know that many times the girls, and all those who were with them, used to wait for the apparition late into the night. They stayed awake and waited for the Virgin Mary. Maria Jose Alvarez, witness of the apparitions, gives us this information: “After going from house to house where apparitions were going to take place, we sat on a bench in front of the window of Conchita’s house. The kitchen was full and the door open. The Rosary was being prayed and we answered from outside. At 6:00am the people who were in the kitchen decided to go outside so that we could go in case we were cold. Conchita and her mother were sitting at both sides of the fire. Aniceta was more awake of the two, and I said to her: “Why don’t they go to bed, knowing that the Virgen Mary won’t come until later?” Aniceta answered me, “Knowing that the Blessed Virgin is coming, the least we can do is stay up to wait for her.”

This is the attitude that we should have now and always before the Lord’s coming: remain interiorly awake, that is, be prepared.

“The exhortation to watch and pray so as to be ready to meet the Lord sounds as vibrant and timely as ever” (Homily of St. John Paul II, 1st Sunday of Advent, 1997).

The Lord is coming and hopes to find the doors open. When he comes to our heart, may what happened on the day of his birth not be repeated: “There was no room for them in the inn” (Luke 2:7). “Open the doors to Christ, your Savior” (St. John Paul II).

We ask the Virgin Mary for her aid. “Turn your gaze to Mary. Her whole life tells you that nothing is impossible for God. By imitating her and constantly invoking her, you will be able, like her, to bring joy and love” (St. John Paul II).

From https://www.garabandal.it/en/

Prayer for the Souls in Purgatory

2025-11-13T20:43:00.001-05:00

Here we offer you an old prayer to the souls in Purgatory that the now elderly at San Sebastian de Garabandal learned from the lips of their elders. Generation after generation has prayed to aid the souls of their relatives and friends suffering in Purgatory. Hopefully this prayer helps us to interiorize the important teaching that each one of our words, actions, and omissions has eternal consequences. No one enters heaven without having purified him or herself perfectly. Moreover, it is a spiritual work of mercy to pray for the souls in Purgatory. Let's spread this prayer. One day we might need others to pray it for us.

As in all the Catholic Church's tradition, at San Sebastian de Garabandal it was a very ingrained custom to pray for the souls in Purgatory. The Virgin Mary herself would take the girls to the cemetery to pray for the dead during the ecstasies. The witnesses remember very moving scenes, like the time when Conchita and Mari Loli walked upon the holy grounds and laid the crucifix they were carrying upon each tomb and then gave it the Virgin Mary to kiss. They also remember when Conchita put her cross through the iron gate giving the impression that she was offering the cross to be kissed by souls that only she could see. "The hardest hearts were moved," Maximina Gonzalez remembers.

The Spanish Civil Guard brigadier, Juan Alvarez Seco, notes in his memories of the Virgin Mary's apparitions at San Sebastian de Garabandal: “The inhabitants have very religious customs. They never forget, under any circumstances, to pray the Angelus as soon as the clock strikes noon. In the afternoon, they pray the holy rosary, led by the parish priest, or in his absence, by the schoolmistress or Maximina, a widow. Upon nightfall, Simon’s wife (Jacinta’s mother) goes out through the village with a lantern and rings a bell to remind everyone to say the last prayers of the day.”

Among these last prayers mentioned by the Brigadier, there was a very special memory for the souls in Purgatory in all of the homes. We have retrieved one of these prayers from the lips of Manolita Mazon. It is a truly beautiful catechesis about Purgatory and the very close connection we ought to have with the souls who dwell there. The ancient principle, "Lex orandi, lex credendi," is right. It means that what we pray is what we believe in, because prayer instills in us the eternal truths that our lips proclaim. "The Church believes how she prays," the Catechism of the Catholic Church says in number 1124.

Here we offer you an old prayer to the souls in Purgatory that the now elderly at San Sebastian de Garabandal learned from the lips of their elders. Generation after generation has prayed to aid the souls of their relatives and friends suffering in Purgatory. Hopefully this prayer helps us to interiorize the important teaching that each one of our words, actions, and omissions has eternal consequences. No one enters heaven without having purified him or herself perfectly. Moreover, it is a spiritual work of mercy to pray for the souls in Purgatory. Let's spread this prayer. One day we might need others to pray it for us.

Prayer for the Souls in Purgatory
Prayed at San Sebastian de Garabandal for many years.

Very dear spouses of the Lord,
enclosed in the prison of Purgatory,
you who suffer unspeakable pains while in want of God's presence
until purified, like gold in the crucible,
of the remains of your faults.
How rightfully do you cry out to your friends
from those voracious flames, begging for mercy!

I sympathize with your pain
and would like to supply enough [merits]
to satisfy for you before the Divine Justice.
Yet, being poorer than you,
I appeal to the piety of the just,
the prayers of the blessed,
the unfathomable treasure of the Church,
the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
and the infinite price of the Blood of Jesus Christ.
Grant, oh Lord, these poor souls
their longed for consolation and rest.

I also trust, grateful souls,
that I will have powerful intercessors in you,
who will obtain from the Lord [for me]
grace to detest my sins,
advance in virtue,
subdue my passions,
and reach the eternal beatitude
for all eternity. Amen.

From www.garabandal.it

Hands Full, Not Empty

2025-11-13T20:35:00.002-05:00

Finding ourselves once again close to the date of the last apparition in Garabandal, we experience a new invitation to go deeper into its beautiful content. In her diary, Conchita relates that she, "had a great desire for that day to come, so that I could once again see the one who caused God's joy [to grow] within me!" A question arises: What is my desire to encounter God and Our Lady like? Is it great? Many times, we rejoice at vain and passing things that do not bring us true joy. Conchita speaks of God's happiness sown in her soul in this passage. Loving God and being loved by Him is where true happiness is found. We often seek happiness where we are not going to find it.
The entire narrative is worth reading, but today I invite you to focus on one detail, one word from Our Mother. "When you present yourself before God, you must show your hands full of good works done for your brethren and for the glory of God. Now your hands are empty." No comment is necessary because the Virgin Mary explained perfectly what we have to do. I say what we have to do, because although she was speaking to Conchita, Our Lady had said, "I come, not only for you, but for all of my children." Everything she says applies us because we are her children. Being Mary's child is yet another cause of joy, but it comes with a responsibility. What good child does not listen to the words his mother addresses to him? And how much more when the mother is this Mother in particular! Therefore, we must understand these words as if they were said to us and put them into practice.
They invite us to do works in favor of our brethren and for God's glory. The greatest good we can do for someone to help them draw close to God. That is giving glory to God, since God is glorified in man fully alive, the man who lives close to Him. In the end, we can say that it is an invitation to charity, to love. Our hands have to be full of love, love for God and for neighbor. We return to this great desire. If I truly desire to see God and the Virgin Mary, I will be willing to do everything they ask me to do. Today they ask that I love - just this - to love and let myself be loved by Them.
Today look upon the Virgin Mary. Ask Her to help you fill your hands with these works of charity, so that when you present yourself before God, you can show Him your hands full, not empty.

From www.garabandal.it

"What Our Lady Wants Is Our Holiness"

2025-10-18T13:33:00.001-04:00

The title of this article is taken from a report written by Fr. José María Alba Cereda, S.J. who stated: "According to the medical evaluation, a psychological or abnormal explanation is unthinkable; neither is it feasible to entertain the possibility of commercial, propaganda, or fraudulent interests on behalf of the family members or of the village as a whole." His report is a call to take a new look at the message given to us through these apparitions. He says that we are called to an "authentic reform of life," and that "what Our Lady wants is our holiness." He also states that "the message given to the girls by the Blessed Virgin Mary on October 18th has a very simple structure: sacrifice, penance, and visits to the Blessed Sacrament." And this is true. What Our Lady asks of us is nothing different from what the Church's teaching has taught us since the beginning of Christianity, a teaching that we must turn back to, remember, and truly live. There is a real urgency in our time, where laicism and the loss of awareness of sin are increasing, for "a rectification towards an authentic Christian life." How can we respond to this urgency? It really does begin with us. We have to evangelize, lead souls to the Lord, do apostolate… yes, the more the better. But we have to also work on that continuous interior conversion, being more and more faithful to the Lord, to His Word, and to what He asks of us. The Catechism of the Catholic Church says that, "The free gift of adoption [as children in the Son] demands on our part continual conversion and new life." (CCC 2784) We find the word "demands". Love in a certain way demands love. Seeing God's love towards us, and meditating on it, (especially on the Passion, like Our Lady asked us), the least we can do is respond with our love. The same thing happens when we see everything that took place in Garabandal. How can we not respond? The Virgin Mary comes as a Mother, not to tell us anything new or beyond what we already know, but to remind us what we have to do in order to reach Heaven, and what we can do so that others may know and love the Lord. The Virgin Mary asked Conchita once, "And you, will you respond?" She's asks us the same question and she's waiting for an answer, she's waiting for your answer.

From https://www.garabandal.it/en/

An Message not to be forgotten about

2025-10-18T13:24:00.003-04:00

It seems as though the first message of Garabandal was a disappointment for many people. One could ask why. We must remember that, many times, due to our lack of faith, we want to experience extraordinary, great, and extravagant things. Nonetheless, we have seen, time and time again, how God acts in silence, in the simple things, in a light breeze, not in a hurricane nor in thunder. This error of longing for something extravagant blinds us to God’s real and surprising way of acting. We should rather ask ourselves, “Who are we that Our Blessed Mother should come to us, speak to us, give us a message, and tell us what we should do? Do we perhaps deserve her visit?" A single word would already be a gift, and she has given us many. The simple fact that Our Lady has come to visit us is already something extraordinary and of such great value that we should not demand nor desire anything more. God's patience with us, His children, is astonishing. Just like the prodigal son's Father, He waits and longs for the return of His lost son, who has fallen into sin. He never tires of waiting. He never grows weary of forgiving, but we do often get tired and forget about this good Father who loves us, wants to receive us once again in His home, and give us the inheritance promised to His children. The Virgin Mary, Mother of God and Our Mother, came to remind us of this truth. She invites us to offer sacrifices and do penance. She urges us to visit the Most Blessed Sacrament often. In other words, she encourages us to revive our faith and our love for the Real Presence of Christ in the Most Holy Eucharist. On another occasion, Our Lady said to Conchita, “He waits for you day and night.” Yes, the Lord waits for us in the tabernacle. Many have forgotten about Him. Our Lady says that we have to be “very good.” This exhortation to be “very good” is a new call to conversion, to turn our hearts to God, to repent and to amend our lives. It is a call to holiness, to love God and our neighbor, and to purity of heart. Lastly, Our Lady announces that, if we do not change, a chastisement will come. The word “chastisement” should not scandalize us, given that it appears many times in the Bible. She tells us this to help us become aware of the graveness of sin. In the same way that those who love and do good will receive their reward, those who do evil and sin will be chastised, purified. God is not less merciful by being just. We should raise a hymn of thanksgiving in our hearts for this warning from God, for this call to conversion… We cannot excuse ourselves by saying, “I didn’t know,” because God Himself has told us, “Convert and believe in the Gospel.” He tells us this once again through His Mother, “If you do not change, there will come a chastisement.”
We must embrace this message wholeheartedly. We should not allow it to be abandoned. Our Lady loves us very much and desires our salvation. She feels a motherly concern for us and warns us. Let us renew our commitment every day to fulfil this beautiful message and to make it known, because it is the proof of Our Blessed Mother's love for her children, and of God's mercy and love towards us.

From https://www.garabandal.it/en/

Father Stefano Gobbi at Garabandal

2025-06-17T20:41:00.003-04:00

Here's a picture I found on Facebook of the Servant of God Fr. Gobbi of our Marian Movement of Priests at Garabandal, Spain. Notice the statue of Our Lady in the tree. Those are the pines where Mother Mary appeared to the 4 children and will be the site of the great Miracle to come after the Warning. There will also be left a Sign from God there to prove the existence of God for future generations. It will be like the Pillar of Fire that led Moses and the Israelites to freedom from Egypt. It can be seen and televised but not touched. There's a story in the Old Testament about a man who touched the Ark of the Covenant and immediately dropped dead!

And when they came to the floor of Chidon, Oza put forth his hand, to hold up the ark: for the ox being wanton had made it lean a little on one side.

And the Lord was angry with Oza, and struck him, because he had touched the ark; and he died there before the Lord. -

1 Chronicles 13: 9 - 10 Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

So, if you are at the Pines for the Miracle and Great Sign, Don't touch the Great Sign! 😇

The Sacred Heart at Garabandal

2025-06-06T11:56:00.000-04:00

The Sacred Heart

Of all the visions that Jacinta Gonzalez had in Garabandal, one stands out over all the rest — her vision of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
While the other three girls were in ecstasy seeing Saint Michael, Jacinta was seeing Jesus. He was about ten feet away standing on a small, white cloud slightly above the ground. He was incomparably beautiful; "the handsomest of men" as Jacinta said. He wore a white robe with a red outer garment that hung diagonally down across His body from the right shoulder. His heart, exposed off-center to His left, was a brilliant red with rays of both white and gold streaming from it.
With His left hand, he pointed to His heart and with His right, He beckoned the girl to come. His entire body gave off brilliant rays that surpassed in brightness the subsequent appearances of Our Lady. The vision was set against a cloud-like background.
What most impressed Jacinta was the infinite love that seemed to radiate from Jesus' gaze, penetrating her heart, and His gestures that seemed to invite her and all mankind to enter into His Sacred Heart.

Interview with Fr. Benac

On December 23, 1978, Jacinta was interviewed by Father Francis Benac, S.J., at her home in California. Here are excerpts from that interview:
Father Benac: We have read about your vision of the Sacred Heart. Please tell me about this experience.
Jacinta: I recall a day when the four of us went a little further up [in the lane] from where the angel had first appeared — no one from the village followed us — when suddenly the other three fell into ecstasy seeing the angel. I was a little behind and seeing them in ecstasy I said to myself: "But I don't see anything." Then suddenly like a flash, I saw the Sacred Heart of Jesus which made a deep impression on me. He did not speak to me, but His gaze penetrated deep into my heart.
Benac: What impressed you most?
Jacinta: His eyes, His look — a gaze that penetrated so deeply into me that I cannot explain it.
Benac: What were your thoughts at that moment?
Jacinta: Oh, Father, more than seeing Our Lady, this vision of the Sacred Heart had the greatest impact on me even though I did not see Him again. Whenever I see His image, I have an intense feeling of suddenly seeing someone very dear.
Benac: Do you still feel this?
Jacinta: Oh yes. Whenever I see His image or talk about Him just as we're doing now, I feel within me something I cannot explain.
Benac: When you passed through the period of the doubts, did you also doubt this vision?
Jacinta: No Father. This vision has always remained vivid in my mind. I remember telling my mother that I may have doubted seeing Our Lady or the angel, but regarding this vision of the Sacred Heart even if I were to die, I would insist on its truth. It is something I have never doubted.
Benac: Did this particular vision lead you to a greater love of God? Did you think that He wanted something special from you?
Jacinta: I can't answer that since He didn't speak to me. But my heart did grow much closer to His.

https://www.garabandal.it/en/live-garabandal/spirituality/376-sacred-heart

What Sacrifice Does She Desire?

2025-05-12T13:54:00.001-04:00

On November 4, 1961, barely fifteen days after the First Message's publication, the Virgin Mary gives the girls the new task of waking up early and praying the Rosary at sunrise in the "Calleja."

"Jacinta and Mari Cruz used to go at six o'clock in the morning. During Holy Week, [Our Lady] told me to go at five o'clock in the morning, and so I did, because the Virgin Mary always wishes that we do penance." (Conchita's Diary)

It would be frequent from now on in Garabandal for the girls (not in ecstasy) to have an intense prayer life marked by the penance of early hours and inclement weather. In spite of the fact that it truly was a sacrifice, they persevered in fulfilling the Virgin Mary's desire. In a letter she wrote on January 3, 1962, Jacinta revealed what the Virgin Mary's petition entailed, "At this moment, Mari Cruz and I have just arrived from praying the Rosary to the Virgin Mary. We had very bad [weather] yesterday morning. A river of water came down [the Calleja] and we could barely kneel down... Now, as long as it does not snow, everything is fine."

The words of the First Message, dated October 18, were palpable during these Rosaries, "We must make many sacrifices, do much penance." Notwithstanding, the Virgin Mary teaches the girls that penance is not the most important lesson in her visits. Conchita tells us about this lesson that they learned, "One day, during an apparition of the Virgin Mary, we were wearing the cilicio, although very loosely, and we would touch it every once in a while so that She could see that we were wearing it (it was on our waist). Finally, She said, "Yes, I know that you are wearing it. But that is not precisely what I ask of you, nor that which most pleases me, but rather your faithfulness in daily life."

Here the Virgin Mary teaches us that while She had asked them to make sacrifices and always do penance, these do not constitute the end that God expects of them. They are just a means to dispose the soul to be faithful, to love, and to be humble. If sacrifices do not produce humility but instead vainglory, they no longer please Her. What She expects from us is faithfulness in our daily duties and in the little things in order to be faithful in greater matters.

This is an important lesson to know: we have to do penance and sacrifices, but if they do not proceed from love and humility, they will not help us grow because they are not what God desires and nor what the Virgin Mary asks of us.

From https://www.garabandal.it/en/

THE STORY OF OUR LADY'S VISIT TO SAN SEBASTIAN DE GARABANDAL

2025-04-05T18:45:00.001-04:00

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Hello, Dear Divine Will Family!
Fiat always! May His Kingdom Come quickly!!
I believe you all know that I have brain cancer and for this reason, I am either late getting things out, or forever getting it typed and together. For this, I truly apologize and ask for your patience! I cannot complain because God has been so very good to me during my illness. I have had no pain, no hair loss, no nausea in any way. The only suffering I can complain about is so tiny, that it seems ungrateful to even mention it. It is having to lay in bed for days (5-6) just waiting for the chemo to exit my body so I can go home for a while, usually a week. I cannot read, nor write so there is nothing for me to do but pray during these times, and I do a lot of that! In the early days of my illness, when I slept most of the time, I would hear Jesus talking to me. He was teaching me and most of what He was telling me was about how to love and forgive every soul on earth, past, present and future! He helped me understand the importance of going straight to Heaven through loving and forgiving everyone, which gives God so much glory and praise!! Keeping anger pent up in your heart can and will keep you in Purgatory for many, many years if you cannot let go of it. You must love and forgive with God's love and forgiveness. What can be more important than to go straight to Heaven? This glorifies God more than anything else we can do except to live perfectly in His Holy Will, which is the same thing! Who wants to be in Purgatory, even for one day? Not me!!
Well, enough of that! The only other thing that Jesus really tried to teach me during this time was trust! There's no one on earth we can truly trust without a doubt except Jesus!
Now, let's get on with the stories of Garabandal!
One story I like to tell the most is about a beautiful, elderly Priest who came to visit us at the House of Sanctification. He had been to many apparitions of Our Lady in Garabandal but this one was his favorite.

As long as the girls were praying, Our Lady would not leave them, so Conchita told the girls to continue to pray so Our Lady would not leave. Our Lady, knowing exactly what the girls were thinking, took Her crown off of Her head and dropped it on the ground. All the girls excitedly reached for the crown at the same time and when they looked up, Our Lady had disappeared! So, Our Lady did the same as many mothers do...distract the children so they can leave. They told the Priest that when they reached for the crown, it was like trying to hold onto a rainbow! How beautiful and good was Our Lady to the girls and to everyone!

Please know that we love each of you very much and keep all of you in our daily prayers. May the Fiat be in your heart, mind and soul always and constantly for the greater Glory of God and for our own sanctification!
Ann Ellison

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The following information about Our Lady of Garabandal is one of the most important you will read because it is all about the end times, and of what is expected to come upon all humanity. We can't say we were not warned because we were and have been told about these events since Jesus walked the earth and even in the Old Testament there are references to the coming Great Tribulation.
We are facing the end times, and it seems imperative for us to learn as much as we can and pray as hard as we can for the many who are ignorant of any of these facts and what humanity is about to face. So many souls will be lost due to ignorance and that saddens me the most!

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In the years between 1961 and 1965 the Mother of God appeared to four little girls in a small, mountain village in Spain. She made Herself known as Our Lady of Mt. Carmel and gave many, many personal messages but left us with two formal, public messages. The first of these formal messages, made known on October 18^th, 1961, states:

“We must make many sacrifices, perform much penance, and visit the Blessed Sacrament frequently. But first, we must lead good lives. If we do not, a chastisement will befall us. The cup is already filling up, and if we do not change, a very great chastisement will come upon us.”

The second message was received on June 1965, four short years after the first message, and six months before the end of Vatican II. Our Lady was so saddened by the second message that St. Michael was sent to tell the world the following:

“As my message of October 18 has not been complied with and has not been made known to the world, I am advising you that this is the last one. Before, the cup was filling up. Now it is flowing over. Many Cardinals, many Bishops, and many Priests are on the road to perdition and are taking many souls with them. Less and less importance is being given to the Eucharist. You should turn the wrath of God away from yourselves by your efforts. If you ask His forgiveness with sincere hearts, He will pardon you. I, your Mother, through the intercession of St. Michael the Archangel, ask you to amend your lives. You are now receiving the last warnings. I love you very much and do not want your condemnation. Pray to us with sincerity and we will grant your requests. You should make more sacrifices. Think about the Passion of Jesus.”

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The full name of the little pueblo is San Sebastian de Garabandal. Many people get it confused with the large, coastal city of San Sebastian. But it is just a small village located in the rugged and beautiful mountains of northern Spain and simply called Garabandal. No more than 300 people lived there at that time and it was, and still is, a quiet and peaceful village. The villagers have chosen to keep it as un-commercialized as possible. There are only three religious shops. The village has no resident Priest, yet Fr. Rolando, who has 7 other Parishes, comes from several miles away every day to celebrate Mass. Most of the people are devout and love their faith. The holy Rosary has been prayed in the little village Church every evening for the past 500 years. This may explain the reason for the events which began to unfold in the late afternoon of Sunday, June 18^th, 1961.

Four young girls were playing on the outskirts of Garabandal. They were Conchita Gonzalez, Mari-Loli Mazon, Jacinta Gonzalez and Mari Cruz Gonzalez. Mari Cruz was eleven and the other girls were twelve. None were related, but all were from the little pueblo of Garabandal.

Suddenly they heard a loud noise, like thunder, and Conchita fell on her knees, her head snapped backwards. The other girls were startled and started to run for their mothers, when they found themselves in the same position. All were seeing a beautiful Angel before them, looking like a young boy wearing a white gown with rose-colored wings and holding a sign with a message that the girls could not read. He did not say a word. For the next several days the Angel appeared to them without speaking, but always carrying the same sign. Towards the end of June, he finally spoke to the girls and told them that on July 2^nd, they would be visited by the Mother of God, which in 1961 was the Feast of the Visitation. Thus began the events of over 2000 appearances of Our Lady to this tiny village of northern Spain.

The news spread quickly through the region and on Sunday, July 2^nd, the little village was very crowded with all types of people. At six in the evening the girls went to the place where St. Michael had appeared to them and in an instant the girls were in ecstasy. Our Lady appeared to them accompanied by an Angel on either side of Her. One being St. Michael, the other Angel was unknown. It was during this first visit that Our Lady told the girls what the sign said that St. Michael was holding. It was Our Lady’s first public message, but the girls were not allowed to reveal the message until October 18^th. Conchita described the Blessed Mother as follows:

Our Lady “……was dressed in a white robe with a blue mantle and a crown of golden stars. Her hands are slender. There was a brown scapular on her right arm. Her hair, a deep nut-brown color, is parted in the middle. Her face is long, with a fine nose. Her mouth is very pretty.... She looks like a girl of eighteen. She is tall. There is no voice like hers. No woman is just like her, either in the voice or the face or anything else.”

At times the girls could see the wind rustling her waist-length hair. The girls spoke to her with complete naturalness telling her about their everyday happenings and of the duties that they had accomplished. She would smile at them, and she showed great interest in every detail of their day. Her maternal attitude gave them great confidence to speak to her in the same manner as they spoke to their earthly mothers.

In 1961 and 62, Our Lady appeared many times each week, at different times of the day and night. When the girls were awake during the night for apparitions, sometimes lasting several hours, they could still easily get up the next morning, go to school and attend to their duties without showing any signs of fatigue.

During the apparitions many things happened that were extraordinary. The girls levitated, had ‘ecstatic falls’ in which the girls fell together in ecstasy forming beautiful sculpture-like figures, always in a modest manner. Allow me to list several other external wonders which happened during these apparitions!

1/ When an apparition occurred, the girls would fall instantaneously on their knees, striking the sharp rocks, making cracking sounds. People within hearing distance would wince with the imaginary pain they thought the girls were experiencing, yet the girls were never injured. Their heads would snap back to a position which looked impossible to hold for any length of time and yet they stayed in these positions for hours. One doctor said it seemed very difficult to him for the girls to be able to breathe with their heads tilted-back so far, especially Conchita.

2/ The girls said they knew when the Virgin was going to appear to them because they received three interior feelings which were referred to as the ‘Three calls of Joy.’ These feelings, or calls, would become stronger the closer the time came for the apparition. No matter where the girls were, if they were together or apart, each knew exactly where to go and the time to meet for the apparition. Many times, they were seen running from different parts of the village and coming all together they would go into ecstasy. Their look became extraordinarily beautiful, sweet, and profoundly mystical. Their whole demeanor would change in an instant, and their faces seemed to glow with love and joy. At the end of the ecstasies, they never showed any signs of excitement or nervousness, but only deep profound peace and joy.

3/ In a 1980 interview with BBC, Conchita said that Our Lady would come to them in a light so bright that it would eclipse everything else around them and they could not see anything other than Our Lady and the light. They would become so completely absorbed in their vision that they did not react to pricks, burns, or blows. Powerful beams of light were focused on their faces yet their eyes did not even flicker, blink or show any signs of discomfort. In fact, their eyes remained wide open, expressing a look of intense joy.

4/ Weather had no effect on the girls during their ecstasies. There were times they were even barefoot in the snow for hours, with no pain or damage to their limbs.

5/ There were times when people would give the girls various sacramentals, such as Missals, Bibles, Rosaries, Medals, wedding rings, etc., for our Lady to kiss. During the ecstasy Our Lady would kiss these objects and then guide the girls to the rightful owners, sometimes through thick crowds. Most of these objects belonged to people the girls had never met, and some people who were skeptical would try to trick the girls by giving them their sacramentals through a friend. These objects kissed by Our Lady have brought special favors to many owners, occasionally emitting a scent of Roses. Our Lady told Conchita that her Son would work miracles and prodigies through these kissed objects. Also, those who carried or wore them with faith and confidence, would suffer their purgatory on earth.

6/ Each girl always carried a crucifix in her hand kissed by Our Lady and the Blessed Mother would direct them to extend it for observers to kiss, blessing them with it at the same time. Sometimes when just seeing the girls approaching them with the Crucifix visitors experienced such a tremendous spiritual awakening, that it produced a profound interior emotion in them.

7/ Soon after the apparitions started, the ecstatic walks began. The girls went throughout the entire village – up and down stairways, in and out of homes, at all hours of the day and night, avoiding obstacles without faltering, guided solely by the vision. They ran at great speeds down steep and rugged terrain, even running backwards, and running so fast that it was impossible for the people to keep up with them. Their bodies did not seem to be subject to the laws of gravity but had a beautiful and awe-inspiring spiritual agility. The four girls were seen by many as they walked over a bridge arm in arm that was only wide enough for two. The other two girls walked across on air.

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What I have just described are some of the external manifestations that were witnessed during the many apparitions of Our Lady at Garbandal. These sights were incredible to behold, much less to try to comprehend for the thousands of witnesses who came to see and experience what was going on in this tiny, mountain village! Our Lady told Conchita that God allowed these manifestations because it was so important for the Church to get involved in what She had come to tell the world! As much as we enjoy the sensational external miracles, the most important aspect of any apparition is what happens in our souls! The exterior is only to get our attention. It is the interior fruits that will help us understand if it is from God or not! It is the interior (our souls), not the exterior, that will bear holy fruit from a true apparition!

So, with this in mind, I would like to discuss an aspect of the apparitions of Garabandal to which no one, not even the Church can deny it is from God, and this phenomenon is called the ‘Reading of Hearts’! Allow me to quote from the Garabandal Journal, a magazine published by Barry Hanratty, dated November/December 2003.

“Of all 19 types of mystical phenomena listed in the Catholic Encyclopedia, ranging from ‘apparitions’ to ‘bodily incorruptibility,’ there is only one that is exempt from the possibility of either diabolic activity or natural occult powers and that is the ‘Reading of Hearts’, or some call it ‘Reading of Souls.’

“The clear definition of this gift is as follows: ‘It is the knowledge of the secret thoughts of others or of their internal state without communication.’ The certain knowledge of the secret thoughts of others is truly supernatural since the devil has no access to the spiritual faculties of men and no human being can know the mind of another unless it is in some way communicated." (Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 7, pp 173-179)

Maximo Forschler, of Germany, was a dear friend of the Andreu family. The Andreu family held a very prominent place in God’s plan during the apparitions of Garabandal. Maximo, an engineer and a devout Protestant, came to Garabandal only because of the influence of the Andreu family. He had made several visits there, but it was from the reading of his soul on this particular day in Garabandal that he found the true Faith. I will quote him on his experience.

“One day, after Mari-Loli had come out of ecstasy, she called me aside and told me what the Blessed Virgin had said about me. She told me about my life, what I had done, and what had happened to me from my early youth until the present date. Absolutely no one in the village could have known all those details (not even my wife!), and many of them I was able to recall after hearing them from the girl. In spite of the timidity that the girls had and though they were only 12 years of age at the time, Mari-Loli talked a long time to me with the greatest naturalness.” End of Quote

From this experience Maximo became a very devout Catholic!

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Then there is the story of a young woman from South America who was an Atheist, and an exotic dancer in Paris. She was estranged from her family because of her beliefs and behavior. She told Dr. Ricardo Puncerneau, a very respected, internationally known Neuropsychiatrist, that she had come to the village purely out of curiosity, that she didn’t believe at all. She had met the good Doctor that evening in Ceferino’s tavern. Ceferino is the father of Mari-Loli. They walked outside to watch the girls in ecstasy praying the Rosary. They were leaning up against the wall and was hidden in the shadows. Suddenly Conchita broke away from the other girls and rushing, came over and with great strength put the Crucifix up to the young woman’s lips three times for her to kiss. Conchita then went back to the other girls, still in ecstasy. When Dr. Ricardo turned to the young women, she was crying uncontrollably. He took her over to a bench for her to sit and calm down. She related to the Doctor, and to a crowd that had gathered, that she had mentally thought,

“If it is true that the Virgin is appearing, then let one of the girls come and give me a sign. Hardly had I thought this when Conchita came running toward me to give me the crucifix to kiss. I didn’t want to kiss it, and I held her hand back. But with exceptional strength she forced the crucifix against my lips and I had no other choice but to kiss it once, twice, and a third time.”

She continued, “I, the unbeliever, the atheist, who believed in nothing. This shook me intensely.”

Later when Dr. Ricardo saw this young women on a train going to Bilbao, she told him she was going back to South America to unite with her family!

A statement was made by the girls which said that “The Virgin likes Priests, and also people without faith, to come.” It seems to me that this statement was made by Our Lady because communicating to the girls the hearts of Priests, and people without faith, many conversions occurred, and hearts were changed. Many, many vocations were saved and realized through the reading of hearts!

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Another reason Our Lady came so often and so many times to Garabandal was because, as a Mother, She had many things to teach Her children. Among the most important are the teachings on the Sacrament of Marriage, the Priesthood, and the Holy Eucharist!

Concerning marriage, Our Lady took the girls all over the village, up and down every street. But She also took them into every house and into every room of every house, blessing them. She took the girls into the bedrooms teaching the girls the importance of the Sacrament of Marriage and that the marriage bed would soon be desecrated by many types of sin! She indicated that this Sacrament would become less and less important to many Catholics!

The Eucharist!

Our Lady’s teachings on the Priesthood and the Eucharist were given the most attention during the five years She came to Garabandal. The Eucharist seems to have been Her main focus. In both Her messages to the world She emphasized the Eucharist. In the first She encouraged us by stating: “We must visit the Blessed Sacrament frequently…” In the second message, She warned us saying: “Less and less importance is being given to the Eucharist.”

Our Lady demonstrated these facts, also, by sending St. Michael, appointed by our Holy Mother Church to be the ‘Guardian of the Eucharist,’ to teach the girls the proper reverence and manner with which to receive Our Lord in Holy Communion. He taught them the St. Ignatius prayer, the ‘Anima Christi.’ The girls started receiving Invisible Communion from St. Michael soon after the apparitions started. He obtained the Consecrated Hosts from Tabernacles all around the world. The simple villagers did not believe the girls were receiving Holy Communion because it was invisible, and they could not see it. They didn’t seem to realize that the only time St. Michael would bring the girls Holy Communion was when the Parish Priest could not come. This was to demonstrate the importance of receiving the Eucharist daily, as our food and our strength.

On May 2, 1962, St. Michael told Conchita that God would perform a Miracle so that the people would believe. He told her that on July 18^th, people would be able to view the Host that St. Michael would Communicate to Conchita. On that date, the little village was full of people when Conchita went into Ecstasy in her home. She was led out into the street where she suddenly dropped to her knees. When she put out her tongue there was nothing, then suddenly a pure white Host appeared. A businessman from Barcelona was the only one able to get some extraordinary film of the Miracle. People were crowding around so tightly to see the visible Host that no one else was able to capture anything on film. Pepe Diez, from the village, and Don Benjamin Gomez, a farmer from Potes, witnessed the Miracle at close range. Both described it about the same way. I will quote Don Gomez,

“I was standing at less than an arm’s length from the girl. I saw very well that her tongue was completely clean of anything. The girl did not move. Suddenly there appeared on it the Sacred Host. It was white, shining and resplendent. It reminded one of the snow when the sun strikes it with its brilliant rays. The girl’s face was beautifully transformed into heavenly ecstasy. Her face was angelic. I can certify that she was there motionless, moving neither hands nor tongue. In this motionless position she received the Sacred Host. We had enough time to contemplate this marvelous phenomenon without any undue haste, and we were many who saw it. I was an unbeliever until that day.”

The Blessed Mother also led the girls to the Church many, many times, even when it was not open to them because Our Lady was teaching the girls the importance of visiting the Eucharist often, and, also, as Conchita said, “The Virgin always likes to be near where Jesus is….”

One time, some people, who were gathered for an apparition, were putting their Sacramentals on a table for the girls to give to Our Lady to kiss, when one of the visitors put an old compact used to carry face powder on the table. Some people commented on this because Our Lady had told the girls one time that She only wanted to kiss Sacramentals. But the visitor did not remove the compact. When Our Lady came it was the first thing She asked the girls to hand Her to kiss and even the girls were in wonder! They asked Our Lady why She would kiss a compact? She said because during the time of the Spanish Civil War, it was use as a Pyx to carry Her Son.

The Priesthood

Jacinta made it very clear that although Our Lady was very much a Mother to them, they knew clearly that She had come for the Church and the world, putting the emphases on Priests and the Eucharist!

Our Lady told the girls that they should pray for Priests. Conchita and Mari-Loli were told that they would suffer much throughout their lives for the Priesthood. Our Lady told the girls that Vatican II was a good council, it was Her council, but that much confusion would follow it. She knew that the Church, the Priests and the Religious would pass through a time of confusion and great suffering, and She had come to Garabandal to help.

Fr. Ramon Andreu

As an example, there is the story of a wonderful Jesuit Priest, named Fr. Ramon Andreu, who eventually became the pastor of a Spanish parish in Los Angeles, California, until his death last November 11th. Fr. Ramon related this story to the French publisher of the book, “She went in Haste to the Mountain.” I have personally met Fr. Ramon and have heard this story from him myself.

Fr. Ramon had come to Garabandal for the first public message from Our Lady on October 18, 1961. Going up to the Pines, he felt very elated and happy, but after the message, going down to the village, a great depression, disbelief and desolation came over him. It was a great suffering for him because he had come to love Garabandal and the girls. This desolation, which he felt, made him want to leave everything and get away and never come back to this “backward village” again. He was going through this trial of great disbelief in the apparitions, when Mari-Loli found him and told him,

“The Virgin told us, ‘Father doubts everything, and suffers much. Call him and tell him not to doubt anymore, that it is really I, the Virgin, who is appearing here. And in order for him to believe better, tell him: When you went up, you went up happy, when you came down, you came down sad.’”

Mari-Loli told Father that the Virgin had told Conchita many things about him. Father Ramon was so surprised and rushed over to Conchita’s house. Conchita told Father everything he had been thinking and where he was standing or sitting at the time he was thinking these things. She told him that the Virgin told her to tell Father this so that in the future when he remembers it, he will never doubt again.

Here is a direct quote from Fr. Ramon about that time in Garabandal,

“At the time when I felt myself the most alone in all my life, I was in fact totally known, even to my most hidden thoughts; all of my thoughts had been very easily known to the girls by means of the mysterious person they claimed to see.”

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Many Priests went to Garabandal dressed in street clothes, thinking of giving up their vocations, and all received help from their Heavenly Mother. Many souls recognized their vocations in Garabandal with the help of Our Lady.

On July 20, 1963, Conchita had a locution from Our Lord in the little village Church. Concerning Priests, Jesus told Conchita to pray very much for them so that they would be holy, perform their duties well and make others better. He also expressed this desire to the teenager: “May they make Me known to those who do not know Me, and may they make Me loved by those who know Me but do not love Me.”

Even back then, Our Lady told the world in her last message, “There are many Priests, Cardinals, and Bishops on the road to perdition and taking many souls with them!” I understand many Bishops and Cardinals had a hard time with this sentence, but how easily it is to see this truth now!

In the fifth century, this same thing was foretold by St. Nilus. Speaking about the middle of the twentieth century he stated: “Christian pastors, bishops, and priests will become vile men, completely failing to distinguish the right-hand way from the left.”

Fr. Alfred Comb, a zealous leader of the French Garabandal movement, editor of a newsletter for Garabandal, and lecturer on this subject, on the 50^th anniversary of his Priesthood, answered the question: “Has your Priesthood been affected by Garabandal?” with this answer:

“Enormously. …….I have seen many spiritual fruits (conversions, vocations, healings, etc.) all of which are classic forms of apostolate. And that has always been a solid comfort to me.

…..(And) my very being, my interior life, by a permanent contact with the message of Garabandal, has been impregnated with Eucharistic devotion, Marian devotion, and a profound fidelity to the Church, crystalized above all by a total filial obedience to the Pope. And I know other Priests, “friends of Garabandal,” who can tell the same thing.”

The Prophecies of Garabandal

If I had time, I could spend hours talking about the events surrounding the Eucharist and the Priesthood, but now we must move on to another very importance aspect of the Apparitions of Garabandal. And that is the extraordinary Prophecies of Garabandal, which are most pertinent for these times in which we are now living!

FIRST let's clear up this matter of the ‘Three Popes!’ Did Our Lady seem to say that Pope John Paul II was the last Pope? No, She did not. What Our Lady told Conchita was this: “There will be three more Popes, THEN will come the end of the times!” What Our Lady was saying is that after the Late, Great, Saint Pope John Paul II there would come the end of times ‘as we know them.’ She was not talking about the Popes at all, but about the times! Times are coming that we are not going to be accustomed to! Many of the prophecies that came from Our Lady we thought would be for the Late, Great, Saint Pope John Paul II! But as we can see, they are going to be for this present Pope, Benedict XVI. Let me explain by telling you another prophecy that was given at Garabandal!

The Sudden and Unexpected Takeover of Communism!

As we have been reading in the news lately, the Russian Roman Catholics have been to visit Pope Benedict, and they are very enthusiastic about him coming to Moscow. Even the Russian Orthodox are willing for him to come to talk about the relationship between the two Churches. (After, of course, a number of issues between the two Churches have been resolved and agreed upon.) There contains a statement attributed to Conchita in a book called “Garabandal, the Finger of God,” written by Albrecht Weber, a German who has been involved with Garabandal since the early years, which states, “The Pope will go to Russia, to Moscow. As soon as he returns to the Vatican, hostilities will break out in different parts of Europe.” (Garabandal Journal November/December 2003) On June 19,1962, in a vision, the girls of Garabandal saw these hostilities and screamed for 50 minutes. They asked Our Lady what this tribulation was and Our Lady answered that it was Communism, led by Russia, and that it would suddenly and unexpectedly take over most of the free world, causing a great tribulation, at which time the Church will seemingly disappear and all the rights of Christians would be taken away, and there could be many Martyrs! At the height of this tribulation, God is going to send a great Warning to the entire world!

The Warning

The whole world will experience a ‘Warning,’ a correction of conscience. St. Faustina wrote about it in her diary, as well as other Saints and holy persons.

And Conchita wrote this: “The Warning comes directly from God and will be visible to the whole world and from any place where anyone may happen to be. It will be like the revelation of our sins and it will be seen and felt by everyone, believer and unbeliever alike irrespective of whatever religion he may belong to. It will be seen and felt in all parts of the world and by every person.”

St. Faustina predicted a day when we would witness Our Lord Crucified in the sky. Mari-Loli also said something will happen in the sky! No one can prevent it from happening. We will even prefer to be dead rather than to pass through this Warning, although it will not kill us. It will be a “correction” of our conscience. It will cause great fear and will make us reflect within ourselves on the consequences of our own personal sins. It will be like a warning of the punishment to come. In this way the world will be offered a means of purification to prepare itself for the extraordinary grace of the Great Miracle.

Jacinta was told by Our Blessed Mother that, “the warning would come when conditions were at their worst.” The date was not revealed to the visionaries, however Mari-Loli does know the year; and she said that the Great Miracle will happen within twelve months following the Warning!

(It seems to me, dear people, that it would be very prudent to prepare ourselves for this Warning by frequent confessions and the realization that this Warning is a great Mercy of God for all of us to be able to love Him more perfectly!)

The Great Future Miracle

To be more precise about this Great Miracle, I will quote a special edition of the Garabandal Magazine. It quotes Conchita saying this,

“I am the only one the Blessed Virgin spoke to about the Miracle. She told me I could not say what it will consist of. I can’t announce the date either until eight days before it is due to occur. What I can reveal is that it will coincide with a [very special and happy] event in the Church** and with the feast of a saint, a martyr of the Eucharist; that it will take place at 8:30 on a Thursday evening; that it will be visible to all those who are in the village and surrounding mountains; that the sick who are present will be cured and the incredulous will believe. It will be the greatest miracle that Jesus will have performed for the world. There won’t be the slightest doubt that it comes from God and that it is for the good of mankind....” [**Conchita has stated that this event in the Church would be a unique event which has never happened since her birth.]

At another time, concerning the great Miracle, she added that,

“It would last about 15 minutes.”

On August 10, 1971, while talking to a group of Americans, she offered this revealing information:

“It will take place on or between the eighth and sixteenth of March, April or May. It will not happen in February or June.”

The Permanent Sign

Our Lady also revealed to Conchita about a permanent sign that would be left above the Pines after the Miracle that would last until the end of the world!

Conchita states:

“A sign of the Miracle, which it will be possible to film and televise, will remain forever at the pines.”

On September 14, 1965, Conchita said:

“The sign which will remain forever at the pines is something we will be able to photograph, televise and see, but not touch. It will be evident that it is not a thing of this world but from God.”

There are those that believe that people from all nations will come to see this sign from God and there will be many, many conversions!

Eight days in advance of the Miracle Conchita will give notice to the world about its coming. Prior to the eight-day notice, God will send a Warning to the entire world to purify it for the great Miracle. So, the world will receive two advance notices – the Warning and the eight-day notice.

Jesus told Conchita in a locution in 1965 that the Great Miracle was to convert the whole world. Conchita asked Him if that meant Russia also, and Jesus responded with these words, “Yes, the whole world will be converted and will love Our Two Hearts.”

So, after the Miracle, will it be the Era of Peace that everyone is waiting for, prophesied by Our Lady of Fatima? For a short time, maybe.

The Chastisement

Our Lady showed Conchita, Mari Loli and Jacinta in July of 1962, a vision of the impending Great Chastisement. The visionaries screamed in terror for three hours upon seeing this vision and begged Our Lady for God to spare the children. Mari-Loli was talking mainly about her younger brothers who were several years younger than she and Our Lady told her that the Great Chastisement would not happen until the children were adults! What does this tell us about when the Chastisement will happen? These children are now in their late 50’s and early 60’s!

The Blessed Virgin told the girls the Chastisement was conditional on whether or not mankind would heed her Messages given during the apparitions. We see, however, that not only has Her messages not been heeded by mankind, but mankind has become much, much worse!!

The Chastisement is mentioned again only briefly by Conchita when she describes it as something “very, very great, in keeping with what we deserve. If it should take place, I know what it will consist of because the Blessed Virgin told me about it, but I am not permitted to say what it is. Moreover, I have seen the Chastisement. I can assure you that if it comes, it is worse than being enveloped in fire, worse than having fire above and beneath you. I do not know how much time will elapse between the Miracle and the Chastisement.”

But there is hope! Our Lady of Garabandal is our hope! There is always hope when Our Lady is involved in an apparition. Our hope is in the Warning, the Miracle and the Chastisement. These things are very necessary to cleanse and purify the world for the coming of an ‘Era of Peace’ of which the world has never experienced before!

The Warning, the Miracle, and the Chastisement will be of such a magnitude that they will be unique in the history of mankind! So, it will be the same with the Era of Peace! Yes! There is an immense light at the end of the tunnel – the Light of Christ within all mankind, radiating peace, love and harmony in all the world through those fortunate souls who will live in this Great Era of Peace, and this will finally be the culmination of the messages of Garabandal.

ADDITIONAL STORIES AND INFORMATION!

1. Saint Mother Theresa of Calcutta is the God-Mother of one of Conchita’s children.

2. Through a brother Priest of St. Padre Pio, Conchita received word that St. Pio did see the Miracle before his death and this same Priest brought Conchita St. Pio’s veil that covered his face during his wake. This gift was at the request of St. Pio.

3. It was Conchita’s paternal grandfather, when he was mayor of Garabandal, who planted the nine pines trees in honor of the nine First Communicants of the village. The nine children helped plant the pine trees. All the First Communicants processed to the Pines and prayed and sang a poem written by a lady in the village, who just passed away last year.

House of Sanctification

The House of Sanctification (HOS) is now called the "Divine Will Institue and Retreat Center." Thomas Fahy, founder of the Luisa Piccarreta Center for the Divine Will, alone with the ‘John Paul II Institute of Christian Spirituality,’ which the Divine Will Institute and Retreat Center is under always wanted the House of Sanctification to be known as an institute because he wanted it to be a serious place to teach about the incredible gift of Living in the Divine Will!
The Institute was Consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and to the Holy Trinity on August 15, 1998. Their principal address is PO Bo 415, Jacksboro, Tennessee, 37757, USA. The Institute was founded because it saw a great need to study the ‘new and divine’ holiness realized in certain twentieth century holy souls, such as St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Saint Faustina Kowalska, Blessed Dina Belanger, Venerable Conchita Cabrera de Armida, plus others who have been recognized by Holy Mother Church. Since we have been studying these privilege souls, we are beginning to understand more about the unity God so greatly desires with His children. It is our privilege now to disseminate and teach the “’new and divine’ holiness" with which the Holy Spirit wishes to enrich Christians at the dawn of the Third Millennium, in order to make Christ the Heart of the World.” *(Late, Great Pope Saint John Paul II in the L’Osservatore Romano, July 9, 1997)

Where are we?

We are in San Sebastian de Garabandal nestled in the Cantabrian Mountains in northern Spain about an hour southwest of Santander, or 40 minutes south of San Vicente de la Barquera, located on the coast of the Cantabra Sea. We are the last little village going up a winding mountain road, about 2000 feet above sea level in a most beautiful setting.

What is our spirituality?

By studying the holy souls chosen by the Institute we have found that they describe a union with God more intimate, perfect, and sublime than anything seen prior to our times. This same unity, already realized in Mary, tends toward and fulfills the ideal God had for Adam and Eve. God greatly desires for His children to return to the original ‘State of Justice’ for which He created us!

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What Sacrifice Does She Desire?

2025-04-05T11:25:00.003-04:00

From https://www.garabandal.it/en/

On November 4, 1961, barely fifteen days after the First Message's publication, the Virgin Mary gives the girls the new task of waking up early and praying the Rosary at sunrise in the "Calleja."

"Jacinta and Mari Cruz used to go at six o'clock in the morning. During Holy Week, [Our Lady] told me to go at five o'clock in the morning, and so I did, because the Virgin Mary always wishes that we do penance." (Conchita's Diary)

GUESS WHO IS COMING TO GARABANDAL?

2025-04-02T13:02:00.000-04:00

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Hello, Dear Divine Will Family!
Guess who is coming to Garabandal, Spain...the town of Our Lady!! The beautiful and very holy town where Our Lady visited more than 2000 times! The most famous town where Our Lady did many, many miracles, explained the end times to us, and taught us the love and care She has for each of Her children! She walked and blessed each house in that village, She blessed each bed in each house, explaining that soon the marriage bed would be desecrated! She knew in the 60s that sin would run amok by so many souls. We have our Holy Mother to thank for loving us so much as to come and warn us about what was coming. She taught us about the End Tims and what to expect and how to prepare! Many of you already know what Garabandal is about and what Our Lady did for us there, but for those who do not know but would like to know more, please send me an email and I will be most happy to share what Our Lady taught us at Grabandal!

But of course, that isn't the reason I am writing! I am writing to share with you about a most important and holy Priest who is coming to Garabandal!

His name is Father Theophile Hostia:

Father Theophile Hostia has become a beloved priest son of the Luisa Piccarreta Center for the Divine Will ever since his first Conference in Garabandal at the Divine Will Retreat House in May 2024. He has shared beautifully of his love of Luisa and Our Lady, and it will be a treat to be with him for the Retreat in July 2025 in Our Lady’s Village! Time is of the essence to savor and enter more fully into God’s Adorable Divine Will! Falling in love with Father Theophile is easy for his love of the Most Holy Trinity, Our Lady and Luisa is very special! He has a very special understanding of the Divine Will and loves sharing his insights with everyone. Everyone seems to be amazed by his knowledge of God and His ways. I have been studying the Divine Will and the Person of God for over 40 years and Fr. Theophile brings ever new knowledge and love of God with every talk! You definitely will not be disappointed in his talks!
Father Theophile was introduced to the Divine Will on Christ the King Feast Day in 2018 when a woman on a train in Italy asked him if he was a priest, and when he responded yes, she handed him the Hours of the Passion Book. Though Father Theophile only opened the book again on Christ the King Feast Day in 2019 (one year later), he knew immediately it was to be his life-long mission and has since spread the marvelous and holy knowledge of the Divine Will to his native country of the Democratic Republic of Congo to over 67 priests there, and in Tanzania as well. He has distributed over 37,000 copies of the Passion Book in the Congo free through the generous contributions of donors as well as opening the Fiat House in Congo to be a Spiritual Center for the Divine Will. How hungry Africa is for the Divine Will! Father Theophile is currently living in Rome at the Convent of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Sisters where he is the chaplain while studying and working on his PHD in Sacred Liturgies and gives multiple Divine Will Conference throughout Italy, Spain and elsewhere. He is the 8th of 10 children and is so grateful to Almighty God for having chosen him to make known the Divine Will in Africa…and throughout the world! What a Divine Will blessing Father Theophile Hostia is to everyone who listens to his understanding of the Divine Will. I truly believe that God has given this very special Priest knowledge very rarely given to many souls!

I pray you will be able to come and join us on this extremely special Divine Will Retreat and pilgrimage with Fr. Theophile!

For information and for any questions, please send an email to Anna Weigel at: annarhdwgarabandal@gmail.com. She will be able to answer all of your questions! However, be sure to sign up for this special Jubilee celebration on the 25th anniversary of the House of Sanctification as soon as possible. The attached flyer has the information necessary as the registration will be closing shortly.

Remember we love you all so very much and send you blessings beyond compare in the Holy Will! And always remember the 'fiat'!! It gives God so much glory and gives us so many graces! God loves to give and share with us all that He is!
With you in God always,
Ann

Just heard that the pilgrimage is filling up fast, so be sure and reserve your spot as soon as possible!! You don't want to miss this one. Besides, the pilgrimage will be small and intimate....only 40 people are invited to come. And like I said...it is filling up fast!

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The Spectre of Global Communism

2025-01-11T13:14:00.000-05:00

The Spectre of Global Communism

markmallett.com/blog/the-spectre-of-global-communism/

MarkJanuary 9, 2025

There is a stunning prophecy that I have been reflecting on over the holidays and now, as 2025 unfolds. A sobering reality is washing over me daily as I “watch and pray” in light of the “signs of the times.” It is also the “now word” at the beginning of this new year — that we are facing the spectre of global Communism…

When Communism Comes Again

This word was announced to the children of the apparition site in Garabandal, Spain in 1961 as a follow-up of sorts to the warning at Fatima, Portugal in 1917. Our Lady had warned then that, if Russia was not consecrated to her Immaculate Heart, and the world did not respond with penance, that Russia would “spread her errors”. What errors? The philosophies of socialism, Marxism, and atheism, which found their practical expression in Communism. The Blessed Mother’s message was crystal clear:

If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred; the Holy Father will have much to suffer; various nations will be annihilated. —Message of Fatima, vatican.va

At the time of Our Lady’s appearances in Garabandal,^[1]the Church holds a neutral position on the apparitions Communism held in its icy grip several nations spanning eleven time zones. The “errors of Russia” were not only prevalent throughout the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R) but they also poisoned Spain, China, Cuba, Vietnam and other nations, leaving nothing but death and oppression in their wake. Most alarmingly, Communism was beginning to wend its way into Western thought through the young.^[2]“Thus the Communist ideal wins over many of the better-minded members of the community. These in turn become the apostles of the movement among the younger intelligentsia who are still too immature to recognize the intrinsic errors of the system.” —POPE PIUS XI, Divini Redemptoris, n. 15

Which is why Our Lady’s message to Garabandal seer, Conchita Gonzalez (age 12 at the time), was so stunning. The so-called “Warning, miracle, and chastisements” foretold in part at Fatima would come when Communism returns. But wait — it hadn’t even left it!

“When Communism comes again everything will happen.” (Conchita)

The author responded: “What do you mean by comes again?”

“Yes, when it newly comes again,” she replied.

“Does that mean that Communism will go away before that?”

“I don’t know,” she said in reply, “the Blessed Virgin simply said ‘when Communism comes again’.” —interview Garabandal – Der Zeigefinger Gottes (Garabandal – The Finger of God), Albrecht Weber

The War Against the Church

Many will point to the fall of the Berlin Wall and demise of the Soviet Union in 1991^[3]cf. Wikipedia.org as the “collapse” of Communism. But Communism continued to exist in its ugly pre-Cold War state in North Korea, and remained the dominant philosophy in China. It never left there. So what does Our Lady mean “when Communism comes again”?

To understand, we have to recognize the underlying purpose of Communism and its philosophical foundations, rooted in Freemasonry.^[4]“Communism, which so many believed to be an invention of Marx, had been fully hatched in the mind of the Illuminists long before he was put on the payroll.” —Stephen Mahowald,She Shall Crush Thy Head, p. 101 Communism is not just another political ideology but the ideology intended to supplant the Catholic Church. Russia was not the goal but the experiment.

Russia [was considered] the best-prepared field for experimenting with a plan elaborated decades ago, and who from there continue to spread it from one end of the world to the other. —POPE PIUS XI, Divini Redemptoris, n. 24; www.vatican.va

This is why pope after pope condemned Freemasonry and/or Communism.^[5]“How important is the threat posed by speculative Freemasonry? Well, eight popes in seventeen official documents condemned it… over two hundred Papal condemnations issued by the Church either formally or informally… in less than three hundred years.” —Stephen, Mahowald, She Shall Crush Thy Head, MMR Publishing Company, p. 73 It was seen as the primary existential threat to Christendom:

At this period, however, the partisans of evil seems to be combining together, and to be struggling with united vehemence, led on or assisted by that strongly organized and widespread association called the Freemasons. No longer making any secret of their purposes, they are now boldly rising up against God Himself …that which is their ultimate purpose forces itself into view—namely, the utter overthrow of that whole religious and political order of the world which the Christian teaching has produced, and the substitution of a new state of things in accordance with their ideas, of which the foundations and laws shall be drawn from mere naturalism. —POPE LEO XIII, Humanum Genus, Encyclical on Freemasonry, n.10, Apri 20th, 1884

So, to answer our question of what does Our Lady mean by “when Communism comes again,” it seems clear that she is referring to when Communism once again threatens Christendom — traditionally understood as Western civilization. In fact, one cannot underestimate the prophetic implications of the present collapse of the West. The Early Church Fathers actually understood the Roman Empire’s dissolution as the chief harbinger that lifts the retrainer holding back the Antichrist and a global poltical system St. John called the “beast” (cf. Revelation 13:1-10).

I grant that as Rome, according to the prophet Daniel’s vision, succeeded Greece, so Antichrist succeeds Rome, and our Savior Christ succeeds Antichrist. But it does not hence follow that Antichrist is come; for I do not grant that the Roman empire is gone. Far from it: the Roman empire remains even to this day… And as the horns, or kingdoms, still exist, as a matter of fact, consequently we have not yet seen the end of the Roman empire. —St. John Henry Newman (1801-1890), The Times of Antichrist, Sermon 1

This revolt or falling off is generally understood, by the ancient Fathers, of a revolt from the Roman empire, which was first to be destroyed, before the coming of Antichrist. It may, perhaps, be understood also of a revolt of many nations from the Catholic Church which has, in part, happened already, by the means of Mahomet, Luther, etc. and it may be supposed, will be more general in the days of the Antichrist. —footnote on 2 Thess 2:3, Douay-Rheims Holy Bible, Baronius Press Limited, 2003; p. 235

But today, St. John Henry Newman would easily agree with Benedict XVI who, in 2010, compared the present state of the West to the collapse of the ancient Roman Empire.

For all its new hopes and possibilities, our world is at the same time troubled by the sense that moral consensus is collapsing, consensus without which juridical and political structures cannot function… This fundamental consensus derived from the Christian heritage is at risk… In reality, this makes reason blind to what is essential. To resist this eclipse of reason and to preserve its capacity for seeing the essential, for seeing God and man, for seeing what is good and what is true, is the common interest that must unite all people of good will. The very future of the world is at stake.—POPE BENEDICT XVI, Address to the Roman Curia, December 20th, 2010; catholicherald.co.uk

If we are now in the final stage of collapse of this “Roman Empire” in its remnant form, it is precisely because Communism has begun its return:

Communism, then, is coming back again on the Western world, because something died in the Western world — namely, the strong faith of men in the God that made them. —Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen, “Communism in America”, cf. youtube.com

Venerable Sheen’s prophetic insight was puncutated if not sealed decades later by Cardinal Robert Sarah in a crucial critque of the spiritual collapse of the Western World:

The spiritual crisis involves the entire world. But its source is in Europe. People in the West are guilty of rejecting God… The spiritual collapse thus has a very Western character… Because [Western man] refuses to acknowledge himself as an heir [of spiritual and cultural patrimony], man is condemned to the hell of liberal globalization in which individual interests confront one another without any law to govern them besides profit at any price. —Catholic Herald, April 5th, 2019

This “liberal globalization” is nothing other than the so-called “Great Reset” — a transhumanist revolution blending capitalism and communist principles^[6]cf. The New Beast Rising to raise up a global beast with total control and surveillance over every aspect of our lives (see The Final Revolution). The primary two “levers” of control by the global elite are “pandemics” and “climate change”:

Convincing the public to give up steaks and property rights is annoying, so the excuse of ‘climate emergency’ was created as a non-negotiable reason to dismantle the free market and democratic governance… A pattern is emerging. International bureaucracies use Net Zero to force governments to destroy their agricultural sectors. Wealth immediately vanishes from the middle and working classes, triggering serious civil unrest. A crisis is declared, one that can only be escaped if the public accept handouts and a permanently reduced quality of life beholden to the generosity of the State. The nation is ‘reset’ with a significant transfer of wealth and rights. —Flat White, July 11, 2022, The Spectator

What is remarkable, so stunningly deceptive, is that many believe that the mandated “healthcare” and “climate” measures are being taken “for the common good.” In truth, they are being used to introduce a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), digital ID’s, vaccine passports, and austerity measures that will ultimately usher in a neo-Communist regime over the entire globe. When?

When we have cast ourselves upon the world and depend for protection upon it, and have given up our independence and our strength, then [Antichrist] may burst upon us in fury as far as God allows him. Then suddenly the Roman Empire may break up, and Antichrist appear as a persecutor, and the barbarous nations around break in. —Blessed John Henry Newman, Sermon IV: The Persecution of Antichrist

Right now, Satan is no longer hiding himself. His character is on full display: “A murderer from the beginning… and the father of lies.” ^[7]John 8:44 Yes, that was Jesus’ prophecy of Communism in full bloom!^[8]see The Labor Pains: Depopulation?

The Final Confrontation

With the collapse of the Berlin Wall, St. John Paul II understood exactly what the world and the Church had just gone through… but also, what she was facing.

We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide circles of the American society or wide circles of the Christian community realize this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel and the anti-Gospel of Christ versus the anti-Christ… It is a trial… of 2,000 years of culture and Christian civilization, with all of its consequences for human dignity, individual rights, human rights and the rights of nations. —Cardinal Karol Wojtyla (JOHN PAUL II ), at the Eucharistic Congress, Philadelphia, PA; August 13, 1976; cf. Catholic Online (quote confirmed by Deacon Keith Fournier who was in attendance)

I am convinced that the terrifying beast that the prophet Daniel foresaw^[9]cf. Daniel 7:19 and that St. John detailed in Revelation 13, and that now rises in our midst, is essentially what the Woman clothed in the Sun warned at Fatima: the rise of Communism. It is the battle between the ancient serpent, the dragon — Satan — against the Woman and her offspring: Jesus and His Church (Cf. Genesis 3:15). This is why Our Lady’s apparitions around the globe have exploded exponentially in the last century. This is why icons and statues of Our Lady and Lord have been weeping throughout the world.^[10]see She Weeps All Over the World This is why God has poured out a spirit of prophecy in these last days… for the appearance of the Antichrist signals the imminence of the “Day of the Lord“:

‘It will come to pass in the last days,’ God says, ‘that I will pour out a portion of my spirit upon all flesh. Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams. Indeed, upon my servants and my handmaids I will pour out a portion of my spirit in those days, and they shall prophesy. And I will work wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below: blood, fire, and a cloud of smoke. The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and splendid day of the Lord,and it shall be that everyone shall be saved who calls on the name of the Lord.’ (Acts 2:17-22 )

In other words, as Our Lady said at Garabandal: “When Communism comes again everything will happen….”

Communism has not waned, it resurfaces in the midst of this great confusion on Earth and great spiritual distress. —Our Lady to Luz de Maria Bonnila, April 20, 2018; with bishop’s Imprimatur

We see how the power of the Antichrist is expanding, and we can only pray that the Lord will give us strong shepherds who will defend His Church in this hour of need from the power of evil. —POPE BENEDICT XVI, The American Conservative, January 10th, 2023

Accomplish My will and you will find My love

2025-01-04T10:32:00.001-05:00

Accomplish My will and you will find My love

In 1966, Conchita received a locution from Jesus. (To find out more about locutions, click here.)

“Conchita, you come here to the convent school to prepare yourself to be My spouse and, you say, to follow Me. Do you not say, Conchita, that you seek to do My will? Well, now you are seeking to do yours. Will it be this way all your life? I chose you in the world so that you would remain in it, experiencing the many difficulties that you would encounter because of Me. I want all of this for your sanctification and so that you may offer it for the salvation of the world. You must talk to the world about Mary. Remember, in June, you asked me if you would be a nun. I replied that wherever you were, the cross and suffering would be your lot. I repeat this to you now. Conchita, did you ever hear Me calling you to be My spouse? No, because I have never called you.”  I asked Him, “But how does one hear Your call to be a nun?”  He replied, “Don't worry about that. You will not hear it.”  I said to Him, “Then, you don't love me, Jesus?”  He answered: “Conchita, you ask Me that? Who redeemed you? Accomplish My will and you will find My love. Examine yourself well. Think more about souls. Do not be concerned about temptations. If you remain faithful to My love, you will overcome numerous temptations that await you. Understand intelligently what I have said to you, intelligently in a spiritual way. Do not close the eyes of your soul. Do not let yourself be deceived by anyone. Love humility, simplicity. Never think that what you have done is much. Consider what you have to do, not to gain heaven but for the world, so that people may accomplish My divine will. Every soul that prepares itself, that remains disposed to hear Me, shall know what My will is.”  

These words of Jesus can also shed light on what our attitude should be concerning His will.

Thy Will Be Done

 There are many times that we want to do our own will and not God’s. What we want is not always bad. We can want something that is good but that God does not want for us. It is important for us to want what God wants. In reality, this should not surprise us because it is no different than what Jesus Himself taught us. In the Our Father prayer, he taught us to pray: “Our Father…Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.” He also taught us in the Garden of Gethsemane to say, “Yet, not My will, but Yours be done” (Lk 22:42). Sometimes, it can be painful to accept the will of God, but it will always be to our advantage, because everything that God wants and permits is for our good. As St. Paul says, “Everything works for the good of those who love God” (Romans 8:28). Jesus has revealed to us the reason behind why we should do His will: “I want all of this for your sanctification and so that you may offer it for the salvation of the world.” It also should not surprise us that Jesus said to Conchita that everywhere the Cross would be her lot. In the Gospel, the Lord told us, “Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be My disciple” (Lk 14:27).

Who Redeemed You? 

When Conchita asked Jesus whether or not He loved her, Jesus asked her, “Conchita, you ask Me that? Who redeemed you?” When we feel the weight of the cross or are confused about what God is asking of us, we may find ourselves asking, “Has God abandoned me? Does He not love me anymore?” It is enough for us to lift up our gaze to the Cross in order to understand that this is not so. He has loved us to the extreme and His love is faithful. We cannot doubt His love because He has said to us, “I have loved you with an everlasting love” (Jeremiah 31:3).

What Can I Do?

 Jesus told Conchita concrete things that she could do. We can also examine ourselves in these things and make them our resolutions.  
- Think more about souls
 - Do not be concerned about temptations
 - Do not close the eyes of your soul
 - Do not let yourself be deceived by anyone
 - Love humility and simplicity 
- Never think that what you have done is much

If You Remain Faithful to My Love, You Will Overcome 

This promise of Jesus to Conchita is beautiful. We know that our fidelity is a grace from Him and we know that He is, and always will be, faithful. St. Josemaría once said while speaking about interior struggles, “Be faithful and you will overcome.” That is, if you are faithful to My words, to what I ask of you, you will reach the end. You will reach Heaven.

From https://www.garabandal.it/en/

Don't fall asleep

2024-12-04T10:36:00.001-05:00

Don't fall asleep

We are often asleep in our practice of faith, charity, and hope. We have nearly forgotten that the Lord told us to keep watch because we do not know the day nor the hour of his return. Read more

Much Better Than Candy

2024-12-04T10:31:00.001-05:00

Much Better Than Candy

The third call came, and we left the candy in the street... Read more

Bring Him Down!

2024-12-04T10:06:00.000-05:00

Bring Him down!

I did not manage to catch what they were saying, but I did catch what they began to say afterwards: “Bring him down...! Bring him down...!” Read more

The Garabandal Messages

2024-11-22T09:29:00.001-05:00

The Garabandal Messages

18 October 1961

We must make many sacrifices, perform much penance, and visit the Blessed Sacrament frequently. But first, we must lead good lives. If we do not, a chastisement will befall us. The cup is already filling up, if we do not change, a very great chastisement will come upon us.

18 June 1965

As my message of October l8th has not been complied with and has not been made known to the world, I am advising you that this is the last one. Before, the cup was filling up. Now it is flowing over. Many cardinals, many bishops, and many priests are on the road to perdition and are taking many souls with them. Less and less importance is being given to the Eucharist. You should turn the wrath of God away from yourselves by your efforts. If you ask His forgiveness with sincere hearts, He will pardon you. I, your mother, through the intercession of Saint Michael the archangel, ask you to amend your lives. You are now receiving the last warnings. I love you very much and do not want your condemnation. Pray to us with sincerity and we will grant your requests. You should make more sacrifices. Think about the passion of Jesus.

Garabandal and prayer for the souls in Purgatory

2024-11-03T14:15:00.001-05:00

Here we offer you an old prayer to the souls in Purgatory that the now elderly at San Sebastian de Garabandal learned from the lips of their elders. Generation after generation has prayed to aid the souls of their relatives and friends suffering in Purgatory. Read more

Reflections from the First International Congress of Our Lady of Garabandal: A Call to Conversion and Faith

2024-10-23T22:33:00.002-04:00

Albert Cortina highlights the importance of human values and Christian virtues in times of change, inviting us to find refuge in the spiritual motherhood of Mary and to live the messages of hope of Garabandal

Rocio Ramo Grajera

Read this article here: https://www.exaudi.org/reflections-from-the-first-international-congress-of-our-lady-of-garabandal-a-call-to-conversion-and-faith/

New Article about Garabandal

2024-10-03T22:20:00.003-04:00

The current situation of Garabandal and the position of the Catholic Church

An analysis of Marian apparitions and the ecclesiastical response to more than 60 years of controversy and devotion

Read this article here: https://www.exaudi.org/the-current-situation-of-garabandal-and-the-position-of-the-catholic-church/

UP DATE FROM GARABANDAL, SPAIN

2024-07-12T11:25:00.002-04:00

Compiled by Ann Ellison

July 11, 2024

HELLO FROM GARABANDAL!
The Village of Our Lady!

Dear Family,

I have no idea where to begin to tell all of you what all has been happening in the last couple of months! It has been a whirlwind of events and I am not sure I have really kept up! Exhaustion is not even in the equation…its much deeper than that, and yet full of joy, love, and encouragement of which I don’t think I have ever experienced before.

We continue to be thrilled with the many pilgrims and multiple retreats and conferences our DWIRC has been hosting and overseeing in Garabandal this Spring! To just recap a bit: Triumph Pilgrimages Debbie Womack from St. Augustine, brought Father Stan Fortuna, O.F.M. and a wonderful group of pilgrims in early April; Laurena Rafferty from Ireland brought a delightful and large group in late April; our marvelous Guy Murphy of Totally Yours Pilgrimage, with Mother Gabrielle Marie brought dozens of beautiful pilgrims along with a magnificent new Divine Will priest that we are absolutely in love with: Father Theophile Hostia (who is from Congo and is finishing his PHD in Sacred Liturgies in Rome soon) for an awesome Retreat in May; our amazing Greg Dunne brought multitudes of Divine Will pilgrims from Ireland and America in June; Nisha Cook brought a lovely group from London also in June and we have more Retreats and Pilgrims scheduled for this year and next as well!

Our Blessed Mother is obviously calling many of Her dear children to Her Village and to enter more deeply and powerfully into this Gift of Gifts: Their Adorable Divine Will! Along those lines, I am so grateful to Our Lady for arranging Anne and Marc Weigel to move to Garabandal 3 years ago! They are doing an awesome job of overseeing, encouraging and coordinating the myriad of details involved with all these groups, retreats and pilgrims that desire to come to our beloved Garabandal and stay at our lovely DWIRC. Please contact Anne if you desire to visit at her email: annarhdwgarabandal@gmail.com.

We are excited to share with you the next wonderful Divine Will Retreat and Spiritual Exercises Conference in Garabandal that will be from September 19-26, 2024! The dynamic speakers and organizers include Derek Williams, Anne Weigel and Father Theophile along with Guy and the great Totally Yours Pilgrimage Staff! It is not too late to sign up. There are still places available! Below is a flyer and schedule as well as a link to contact Totally Yours Pilgrimage for further information: www.MEDJ1.com phone number 630-279-8424. We would love to have you, like so many other pilgrims, participate in an unforgettable experience and one to bring you ever closer to God and Our Lady! Be sure to watch the 5 minutes inspiring testimony video from pilgrims on the recent Retreat in May on the Totally Yours Pilgrimage Website.

Additionally, we are exploring the possibility of a Divine Will pilgrimage to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Opening of the Divine Will Institute and Retreat Center (DWIRC) in Garabandal which will be next June 1, 2025! It might consist of an approximate 2-week tour that would include Garabandal of course and other interesting and nearby Marian Shrines in France, etc. How does that sound to you? Also, we hope to have a Divine Will Conference in Florida again next Fall, 2025. We are so docile to Our Lady’s promptings as this window of opportunity to gather is still available to us! How powerful it is for the Body of Christ to come together in person!

Garabandal and Divine Will continue to be ground zero right now in the world. The prophecies of Garabandal have been spreading like nothing you have ever seen! There will even be the first of its kind a “Congress on Our Lady of Garabandal” this October 17-19, 2024 with hundreds of pilgrims from all over the world participating! The knowledge of the Divine Will, the Greatest Gift that God can give to His beloved creatures combined with these amazing presence of Our Lady in Garabandal as our Queen and Mother are exactly what is needed at this time in human history!

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Always remember we love you all so very much and keep each of you in our daily prayers! Please keep us in yours especially as Felicia and I travel back home to Canada and the States respectively next week. Fiat always!

The denials of the visionary girls of Garabandal 04/19/2024 by Dr. Elsa Martí

2024-04-19T13:04:00.000-04:00

The denials of the visionary girls of Garabandal

Juan Hervás

April 19

by Dr. Elsa Martí International Initiative Spain with Garabandal, Athenaeum of Santander March 19th 2024 "The fact that the girls denied is a reality! A reality used by many to not believe, and yet, for those of us who do believe, it reaffirms even more the credibility, evidence, and certainty in these Apparitions. Credibility because […]

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"Jacinta and Mari Cruz used to go at six o'clock in the morning. During Holy Week, [Our Lady] told me to go at five o'clock in the morning, and so I did, because the Virgin Mary always wishes that we do penance." (Conchita's Diary)

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The Warning

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"Jacinta and Mari Cruz used to go at six o'clock in the morning. During Holy Week, [Our Lady] told me to go at five o'clock in the morning, and so I did, because the Virgin Mary always wishes that we do penance." (Conchita's Diary)

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