This is part III in the series on the approved apparitions of Our Lady of America.Supernatural appearances of Jesus and Mary are an integral part of our Church's history.
In times of great need, heaven comes to us.
Reminding us of their love.
Demonstrating they are with us still.
Renewing our faith, challenging us and equipping us with God's grace and Our Blessed Mother's prayers.
Jesus is not a remote and far off God unconcerned by the loss of our souls and the evil that threatens us.
Instead, Heaven reaches down to earth again and again echoing His Word throughout all time:
Just as Jesus came to St. Margaret Mary and St. Faustina, He came also to America. Jesus' words prepare us to receive our Blessed Mother particular warnings, messages and calls for all who live in the United States of America.
"Repent and believe in the Gospel. The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand"
These words begin Sister Mildred Neuzil's diary:
OUR LADY OF AMERICA
"Our Lord often spoke to me in the past, and already in the early 1940's it was made known to me interiorly that my mission was to converge towards the sanctification of the family. I was not further enlightened at that time as to how this was to be accomplished.
In the year 1954, however, Our Lord addressed the following words to me. As they coincided in every way with Our Lady's message concerning the spiritual renewal of souls, I have placed them at the beginning of this manuscript.
Our Lord’s words, May 22, 1954:
"My little white dove, if the world is dying, it is because it will not let Me give it life.
"I am the resurrection and the life, and unless souls seek their life in Me, they will find only death and destruction.
"They fear man-made destroyers of life, yet destruction is in themselves. Man destroys himself through the evil that is in himself.
"Implements of war kill only that which is without. Man kills that within himself which none but he can kill.
"God is light, man is darkness, and unless he comes into the light, he will be forever darkness.
"The Voice of My Heart is the Voice of Mercy. If man will not listen, there is no more I can do, for he ties My hands."
May 29, 1954:
“My Heart beats with compassion for the sorrows of man. Oh, how gladly would I help him bear the weight of his terrible cross, fashioned, for the most part, by his own guilt! But alas, he will have none of My help. So I am forced to stand by the side of the road and watch him struggle hopelessly in his agony.
"O man, what have I done to you that you should refuse My aid?
My little white dove, do you know what I find most lacking in the world today? It is FAITH. There are so few souls that believe in Me and My love. They profess their belief and their love, but they do not live this belief. Their hearts are cold, for without faith there can be no love.
“Pray and sacrifice yourself, My child, that faith may once again find entrance into the hearts of men.”
July 11, 1954:
"My daughter, I am not loved in the homes of men. And because I am not loved, the Divine Trinity refuses to dwell therein.
"Children are not taught to love Me, because those who have charge over them have no time or patience to do so.
"My Heart grieves over My children in the world. Their hearts are being drawn farther and farther away from Me. They will not even listen to My Mother, because they have never been taught to listen.
“I am a Beggar for love, but how few give to Me the means by which to satisfy My divine hunger. I hunger for the love of My own, and I receive only the crumbs no other would accept.
"My Father is angry. If My children will not listen to My Heart, which is a Voice of mercy and instruction, punishment will come swiftly and none shall be able to stay it. The pleadings of My Heart have held back the divine justice about to descend on an ungrateful and sinful generation.
“Woe to parents who set a bad example to their children! Terrible will be their judgment. I will demand a strict account of every soul entrusted to their care.
“Woe to parents who teach their children how to gain materially in this world and neglect to prepare them for the next!
"Woe to children who disobey and show disrespect towards their parents!
"’Honor thy father and thy mother.’ On this shall they be judged most severely."
July 12, 13, 14, 1954:
"Blessed are the homes that honor My Name and the Name of My Father. "Blessed are the homes where I am loved, for there the Holy Trinity dwells.
“Blessed are the parents and children who have made a home for God in their hearts.
"Little secretary of My Heart, write these instructions for the sanctification of My people.
“My Father’s house is a house of prayer, and you have made it a den of thieves.
"My children, every home and every soul is My Father's house, for He made them and they are His. But many of them are no longer sanctified by His Presence. Thieves have entered in and stolen from Him His temples of prayer. It is you, My children, who have let them in. If, My children, you will cleanse your temples, My Father will return and We will come and make our abode with you.
"Return, My people, for My Heart hungers and thirsts for your love. If you will not return, the just anger of My Father will descend upon you. What would you--My love or My Father's anger? Choose, and as you choose, so shall it be done. I will not force your free will, for that is yours to use as you desire." [Emphasis mine]
Each word of Jesus' is profound...
powerful...
Each word pierces the heart
as He foretells of the destruction of the family
and His Father's House a den of thieves.
As He calls us to choose.
I only emphasized certain words to help bring out the great love, the great pain and the great calling Jesus has for us to return to Him and His love.
"For such a time as this"... knowing full well the extent impurity would destroy our souls and our nation from within,
Jesus and Mary came to warn and save us
to inspire us to pray and sanctify our families
to spiritually renew our souls
--for we are meant for so much more than these tragic realities that they hoped to save us from:
The Sexual Revolution
Contraception
Roe v. Wade
Abortion
(mult-billion dollar business worldwide)
Destruction of Marriage
Break down of the Family
Fatherless homes
Motherless homes - forced or choosing to work
Radical Militant Feminism
Godless homes - media and cultural taught children
God's Children Losing their Identity
Homosexuality and the Militant Homosexual Agenda
Gay Marriage
Gender Fluidity that is attacking even the youngest child
Pornography
(mult-billion dollar business worldwide)
Human sex trafficking - including child sex trafficking
(mult-billion dollar business worldwide)
(I love that God gives supernatural wisdom and Truth to His Holy Catholic Church, evidenced in the fact that these tragic consequences were prophesied by Pope Paul VI in Humanae Vitae 50 years ago in 1968).
While sin demeans and diminishes us, Jesus' love and Truth fulfills and transforms us:
"It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal." -Pope St. John Paul II
Our Lady of America pray for us.
"By thy Holy and Immaculate Conception, O Mary, Deliver Us from Evil.”
We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
See Part I of the series on Our Lady of America here: What Does Our Lady of America Ask of Us?
See Part II here: “By thy Holy and Immaculate Conception, O Mary, Deliver Us from Evil.”
Cardinal Burke affirmed the Church's approval of Our Lady of America in a letter written to the U.S. Catholic Bishops in 2007, in which he stated:
"... the devotion was both approved by Archbishop Leibold and, what is more, was actively promoted by him. In addition, over the years, other Bishops have approved the devotion and have participated in public devotion to the Mother of God, under the title of Our Lady of America."
You can read the full letter here:
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