Volume IV, Issue 7, March 24, 2007

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- The Mother Speaks to Bishops, Priests, Religious by "Anne," a Lay Apostle
- Sister Lucia of Fatima: You Shall Not Commit Adultery by Sister Lucia of Fatima
- The Annunciation and Good Friday by Fr. John Saward
- Mother of the Redeemer by Pope John Paul II
- "Watch What She Has Been Sent For" by The Lady of All Nations
- The Wisdom of Mary by Fr. Maximilian Mary Dean, F.I.
- Stabat Mater, Hymn to the Co-redemptrix by Church Liturgical Tradition

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The Mother Speaks to Bishops, Priests, Religious by "Anne," a Lay Apostle

Anne, a visionary from Ireland, has received permission from her local ordinary, Bishop Leo O'Reilly, for the distribution of messages which she receives from Jesus, God the Father, Our Blessed Mother, the angels and saints (see article, "Discernment of Lay Apostolate of Jesus Christ the Returning King," Marian Private Revelation section). The following messages from Our Blessed Mother are directed to bishops, priests and religious throughout the world. – Ed.

August 8, 2003

The Blessed Mother

I want to give you a glimpse of your future. I hope to prepare you so that when the time for change comes, you will move smoothly into the new order. My children are aware that the world is changing. Worldly souls think that they are orchestrating these changes, but in reality, God is in charge. He is taking their evil intentions and using them to implement His own order. Holy souls need have no fear. The plans of the evil one will go nowhere. Be confident and fearless in the face of information that would cause you alarm. You must remember that God is in charge because God has always been in charge, God will always be in charge, and I, your mother, am telling you this now.

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Sister Lucia of Fatima: You Shall Not Commit Adultery by Sister Lucia of Fatima

"You shall not commit adultery" (Deut 5:18).

In these days when society seems to want to make a law of this sin, Sacred Scripture continues to repeat the commandment of God: "You shall not commit adultery." It is the word of God, and the word of God does not change, nor does his Law: "It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one dot of the law to become void" (Lk 16:17).

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The Annunciation and Good Friday by Fr. John Saward

In the following article by Fr. John Saward from his text The Mysteries of March: Hans Urs von Balthasar on the Incarnation and Easter, the author underscores the patristic tradition of the Annunciation and Good Friday both taking place on March 25th, and the theological and liturgical complementarity of these two great liturgical events. Indeed, Mary's "fiat" at the Annunciation is also the yes which leads to the Redemption of the world and to her role as Co-redemptrix at the foot of the Cross on that "Good" Friday. – Ed.

There are years when, by date, the Annunciation falls during Holy Week, even on Easter Sunday; in 1989, for example, the twenty-fifth of March was Holy Saturday. In the Latin Church the problem of such double booking is solved by transferring the feast to a day outside the privileged Paschal period. However, in the Churches of the Byzantine rite, the solemnity of the Incarnation Stands its ground alongside the commemoration of the Lord's Passion and Resurrection. If the Annunciation coincides with "Great Friday" or "Great Saturday," these cease to be the two days of the year when the Eucharist is not celebrated; the divine liturgy is served in honor of the Incarnation, and there is a hectic duplication of offices.

This custom may look like just another example of oriental delight in complication, but it is much more than that. First, it reflects a tradition going back at least as far as Tertullian, according to which Our Lord died on the Cross on the eighth day before the Calends of April, that is to say, the twenty-fifth of March, the very day on which, by a later reckoning, he had been conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin. (1) Secondly, both the eastern liturgical practice and the calendrical tradition upon which it is based express an intuition of faith, the Church's sense that the "mysteries of March"—the Incarnation, the Cross, and the Resurrection—are inseparably connected. Christian poets have always loved to entwine them. For example, St Ephrem, the fourth century Syriac writer, speaks of the new and everlasting springtime inaugurated by the coincidences of the month to which he gives the Semitic name of "Nisan."

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Mother of the Redeemer by Pope John Paul II

In special honor of the Feast of the Annunciation, we are happy to present John Paul II’s monumental Marian encyclical, Redemptoris Mater, which celebrates its 20th anniversary on March 25. – Ed.

1. The Mother of the Redeemer has a precise place in the plan of salvation, for "when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, 'Abba! Father!'" (Gal. 4:4-6).

With these words of the Apostle Paul, which the Second Vatican Council takes up at the beginning of its treatment of the Blessed Virgin Mary, (1) I too wish to begin my reflection on the role of Mary in the mystery of Christ and on her active and exemplary presence in the life of the Church. For they are words which celebrate together the love of the Father, the mission of the Son, the gift of the Spirit, the role of the woman from whom the Redeemer was born, and our own divine filiation, in the mystery of the "fullness of time." (2)

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"Watch What She Has Been Sent For" by The Lady of All Nations

On March 25, 1977, Ida Peerdeman had the following Eucharistic Experience (ecclesiastical approval, May 31, 2002, see "Church Approves Apparitions of the Lady of All Nations" article), in which she is once again shown the terrible state the Church has been reduced to and is told that it is precisely for this reason that the Lady of All Nations has been sent: "Watch what She has been sent for." – Asst. Ed.

During Holy Mass at the Offertory, "the Light" came over all of us, and I heard:

"May the heavenly 'Light' come down upon all of you."

At the Preface I saw the Painting of "the Lady of All Nations" suffused with Light. At the Consecration, "the Light" was shining only over the altar and the priest, but as the Consecration was over, it spread again over all those present.

On receiving "Our Lord" I had a heavenly vision.

I heard "the Voice" say:

"You, human being, come and follow Me, watch and understand all this well."

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The Wisdom of Mary by Fr. Maximilian Mary Dean, F.I.

The Virgin Mary possessed wisdom in superabundance. The divine wisdom possessed by all the Apostles, Church Fathers and Doctors put together remain but a dim reflection of the fullness of resplendent wisdom residing in the Immaculate Heart of our dearest Mother and Teacher, Mary.

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Stabat Mater, Hymn to the Co-redemptrix by Church Liturgical Tradition

As we approach Holy Week and the Easter Triduum, we provide this classic hymn to the Mother Co-redemptrix, one of the most beautiful ever written, for your Lenten meditation. – Ed.

At the Cross her station keeping,
Stood the mournful Mother weeping,
Close to Jesus to the last.

Through her Heart, His sorrow sharing,
All His bitter anguish bearing,
Now at length the sword has passed.

O how sad and sore distressed
Was that Mother highly blessed
Of the sole-begotten One!

Christ above in torment hangs,
She beneath beholds the pangs
Of her dying, glorious Son.

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