Volume IV, Issue 22, October 20, 2007

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

- The Seven Sorrows of China, Part III by Mark Miravalle
- Heaven Speaks to Those who Fear Purgatory by "Anne," a Lay Apostle
- Mary's Power of Intercession by Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P.
- Private Revelation: Discerning with the Church by Mark Miravalle
- God the Father and Mary Co-creator in the Light of Theology of the Body by Sr. Mary Paul Friemel, O.S.F.
- Time's Full Bloom and the Lady of All Nations by The Lady of All Nations
- Rosarium Virginis Mariae, Part II by Pope John Paul II

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

- The Seven Sorrows of China, Part III by Mark Miravalle

The Third Sorrow: Abortion Without Conscience: The Indoctrination of a Nation

The individual accounts of the brutality of the one-child policy and its effects on the noble Chinese people are never-ending. One new Chinese convert recounts her terrifying fear while hiding under the bed as the Population Police were at the front door. Another young convert from a distant province testifies how her mother—while she was pregnant with her—jumped the wall of her backyard and fled from the Population Police.

A Catholic missionary describes more of the process of the one-child policy: A certificate of permission is required to have a baby in a Chinese hospital. The government tells you how many children you can have and when. In the city, married couples are limited to one child. In the farming regions a family, if the first child is a girl, can sometimes be permitted to try for a boy as a second child because of the need for boys on the farm. Even in this case, the government will control when they can try for the boy, with the requirement that it be at least five years after the first child. The Government also uses psychological pressure to keep the policy. If a couple in the country have only one child, then this child will probably be able to have two children. The policy varies from region to region.

A couple must go to the hospital with their permission certificate to deliver their child. If they arrive at the hospital without the permission certificate, hospital officials contact the Population Police. At this point, the Police decide, based on the circumstances of the family and the history of the couple, what is to be the fate of the family. The child will be injected with poison on the spot. Or the couple will be fined and their home burnt down. Or the couple could lose their jobs, and in some cases, cause the loss of their employees’ jobs (one teacher told me that if his wife didn’t abort her second child, he and the school principal would both lose their jobs). One Protestant woman refused to abort her second child and lost her own job at the hospital she worked at. Still another possibility is that the child does not receive official recognition that it exists and does not receive the "Chinese Social Security Card." The child therefore is not technically a citizen, nor can he or she go to school or participate in any right of a citizen. One remedy is to try to find a retired and sympathetic midwife who can deliver the child at home. This saves the baby’s life, but does not guarantee his registration.

http://www.motherofallpeoples.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=1159

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

- Heaven Speaks to Those who Fear Purgatory by "Anne," a Lay Apostle

December 21, 2006

Jesus

My beloved children harbor many fears. This is understandable. The fears of one can be transmitted to another and this is not good. During this time, fear spreads through the world quickly, almost instantaneously, through the media. Perhaps you rise on each day and look out and see that the sun is shining. It is a good moment for you. I am with you, you are fed, and My sun is shining. But this is not enough. You look to see what is happening in other parts of the world. Through communications that are often unnecessary for you, you learn that there is war, disaster and famine. You look out again but the joy you had taken in the sunshine is gone. How can you feel joy when in another place there is war, disaster and famine? You fear immediately that these things will come to you.

I want you to be aware of the needs of others and if a cross comes to you, I want you to carry it with dignity. But I want you to remain in your life, paying attention to your tasks. My friends, few are serving in the area where I have placed them. They are isolating themselves, listening to events from everywhere else in the world. In the meantime, events in their own areas pass unheeded and untended. It is true that I will use communications to further My renewal. I will use everything I can to save souls. But I want less time given over to the consideration of the crosses and challenges of others and more time given over to the crosses and challenges in front of each one of My children. My enemy is using these communications to inflate the fears of My children. Fear is not from Me. Because there is disaster in one area does not mean that you are assured of disaster in your area. Children, listen to Me. It is good to sympathize with others through constant prayer and concrete assistance. It is not good to be inundated with images of disaster. This is not from Me. In each situation of upheaval, there are holy men and women acting as apostles and helping Me. They are becoming saints through these situations. My angels are present, as well as My saints. I am present. I am sustaining many and reaping a harvest for heaven in every event that occurs in your world. When each soul completes their time on earth and comes to Me, there is justice. You do not see this on your televisions. You do not read this in your newspapers. I am barely represented in these communications so you must not look to these communications for truth. Look to Me, in prayer, and there you will find truth.

I make reference now to the fear harbored by many that they will suffer unbearably in purgatory. My friends, you see unjust and seemingly unbearable suffering on earth and you are fearful. You then transfer this fear to Me because if injustice is allowed on earth, surely injustice is allowed in the heavenly Kingdom. This is simply not true. There will be no injustice here and you will not suffer physical pain in purgatory.

Perhaps this does not comfort you. Perhaps you understand how sinfully you have behaved and you fear just punishment. If you feel this way, you have not spent enough time resting in My companionship. You do not know Me. You do not understand heaven or its many kingdoms. I do not hold this against you. It is for this reason I am giving you these words. Do not be afraid of the process of purification that awaits some of you after your death and before your entrance into heaven. There is nothing to fear. You will find that I am all compassion and mercy. I do not seek to condemn you, but to save you. I am your friend and I love you. Even if you are not My friend now, at this time, I have hope that you will change your mind and become My friend later, at the time of your death. A friend does not prepare pain for a loved one coming in front a long journey. A friend prepares a time of recovery if it is necessary and that is what I have prepared for you. Think of time in purgatory, as time for recovery. You will recover and grow in purgatory if, together, you and I find that you need this. I will take care of you always.

http://www.motherofallpeoples.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=1160

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

- Mary's Power of Intercession by Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P.

Mary’s mediation in heaven which she has exercised since the Assumption has as purpose to obtain for us the application at the appropriate time of Jesus’ merits and hers, acquired during their life on earth and especially on Calvary. …

Mary’s Power of Intercession

Even during her life on earth, Mary appears in the gospels as distributing graces. Jesus sanctifies the precursor through her when she comes to visit her cousin Elisabeth. Through her he confirms the faith of his disciples at Cana by performing the miracle for which she asked. Through her he confirms John’s faith on Calvary, saying: "Son, behold thy mother." Through her finally the Holy Spirit gave himself to the Apostles, for we read in the Acts (Acts 1:14) that she prayed with them in the Cenacle while they prepared themselves for the apostolate and for the light and strength and graces of Pentecost.

With still greater reason is Mary powerful in her intercession now that she has entered heaven and has been lifted up above the choirs of the angels. The Christian sense of the faithful assures us that a mother in heaven knows the spiritual needs of the children she has left behind her on earth, and that she prays for their salvation. It is a universal for the faithful to recommend themselves to the prayers of the saints in heaven. As St. Thomas says (1), when the saints were on earth, their charity led them to pray for their neighbor. With still greater reason do we say that in heaven they pray for their neighbor since when their charity is inflamed by the beatific vision it is greater than it was on earth: Their charity in heaven is uninterrupted in its acts and proceeds from a fuller realization of human needs and the value of life eternal.

http://www.motherofallpeoples.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=1158

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

- Private Revelation: Discerning with the Church by Mark Miravalle

Within the past two hundred years, there have been more reported private revelations that have received some form of ecclesiastical approval than in any other period of the Church’s history. The examination of the nature of private revelation, its purpose, its fundamental message, and the criteria used by the Church in the discernment of authenticity has become increasingly relevant for today’s bishop, parish priest, religious, or lay leader. This issue has merited renewed attention in an era that also has experienced proliferating manifestations of occult activities, the "New Age" movements and the preternatural phenomena that are sometimes evident in their midst, and other forms of false prophecy. In short, contrary to what one might expect in an Age of Materialism, "mysticism" in general has increased, rather than decreased. Thus, prudent discernment is now needed more than ever before.

When considering the confusing array of reported private revelation in the contemporary world, it is tempting for some to regard the entire genre of Christian mystical phenomena with suspicion, indeed to dispense with it altogether as too risky, too riddled with human imagination and self-deception, as well as the potential for spiritual deception by our adversary the devil. That is one danger. The alternate danger is to so unreservedly embrace any reported message that seems to come from the supernatural realm that proper discernment is lacking, which can lead to the acceptance of serious errors of faith and life outside of the Church’s wisdom and protection. According to the mind of Christ, that is, the mind of the Church, neither of these alternative approaches—wholesale rejection, on the one hand, and undiscerning acceptance on the other—is healthy. Rather, the authentic Christian approach to prophetic graces should always follow the dual Apostolic exhortations, in the words of St. Paul: "Do not quench the Spirit; do not despise prophecy," and, "Test every spirit; retain what is good" (1 Thess. 5:19-21).

The definitive study of private revelation within the Church is generally accepted to be the five volume work by Pope Benedict XIV, De Servorum Dei Beatificatione et de Beatorum Canonizatione (1734-1738), written while he was Cardinal Prospero Lambertini. Drawing extensively from Pope Benedict’s work and its three volume English synthesis, On Heroic Virtue, we first examine the fundamental principles which should govern the discernment of all reported private revelation, and second, the nature of Marian private revelation. In the former we learn the principles, and in the latter we see the principles enfleshed, for the ecclesiastically approved apparitions of the Mother of God during the past two hundred years have exemplified the truth that God has exercised his prerogative to send the human family messages through She who is the Mediatrix of all graces (1). As the Preface to Benedict’s XIV’s On Heroic Virtue reminds us:

The Church began with miracles and divine gifts, and being one she continues the same. As the ancient dispensation began with Moses, and was inaugurated with miracles, so it continues from age to age, to the pond of Probatica (cf. Jn 5:2). The dispensation of the Gospel is more glorious than that of the law (2 Cor 3:9), and is fulfilled in measure beyond the capacity of its predecessor. … If the miracles of the law ceased not at the death of Moses, and if the record of them is not confined to the Pentateuch, but is continued through the history of kings and prophets, much more are we to expect a similar result in the history of Holy Church. The Acts of the Apostles do but carry on the miraculous record of the four gospels; and is there any reason that we should suppose that marvellous gifts, graces, and miracles ceased with the apostolic age? This would be the reasoning of the Sadducees, who confined themselves to the five books of Moses, and disowned the prophets. They had closed their hearts against the perpetual evidence of their Temple, and refused to believe in the interference of God, and his dealings with that economy under which they were living (2).

http://www.motherofallpeoples.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=1157

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

- God the Father and Mary Co-creator in the Light of Theology of the Body by Sr. Mary Paul Friemel, O.S.F.

We call Mary our Mother by many different titles, all relating to some aspect of her holy Motherhood in relation to the most Holy Trinity. She is Mother of God, the Immaculate Conception, the Spouse of the Spirit, and the Daughter of the Father. We invoke her as Co-redemptrix, Mediatrix of all Grace, and Advocate. We address her as "Our Lady" in relation to the myriads of places that have been graced by her maternal presence. She is the perfect creation, the Crown of Creation, the Perpetual Virgin, and the one who was assumed body and soul into heaven.

The purpose of this present work is to explore her relationship with God the Father. The Father, who is the principle of creation, in a unique way, shares his creative power through his Son, in the power of the Holy Spirit with Mary. Just as spouses share in the creative power of God the Father, so too does Mary share in that power. By virtue of the fact that she is "full of grace," the Immaculate Conception can even more rightly be called a co-creator. We will begin by looking at Mary, our Mother, in the new light of the Theology of the Body.

http://www.motherofallpeoples.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=1156

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

- Time's Full Bloom and the Lady of All Nations by The Lady of All Nations

During her March 25, 1977, Eucharistic Experience (ecclesiastical approval, May 31, 2002, see "Church Approves Apparitions of the Lady of All Nations" article), Our Lord takes visionary Ida Peerdeman on a journey through time. She is led into a field to see the Lady of All Nations, surrounded by grape-filled vines and the numbers 1-9-5-9. Time is in full bloom, she hears inwardly. – 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.

http://www.motherofallpeoples.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=1155

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

- Rosarium Virginis Mariae, Part II by Pope John Paul II

The first part of Pope John Paul II’s Rosarium Virginis Mariae appeared in the previous Mother of All Peoples Bi-Monthly Issue.

CHAPTER II – MYSTERIES OF CHRIST—MYSTERIES OF HIS MOTHER

The Rosary, "a compendium of the Gospel"

18. The only way to approach the contemplation of Christ’s face is by listening in the Spirit to the Father’s voice, since "no one knows the Son except the Father" (Mt 11:27). In the region of Caesarea Philippi, Jesus responded to Peter’s confession of faith by indicating the source of that clear intuition of his identity: "Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven" (Mt 16:17). What is needed, then, is a revelation from above. In order to receive that revelation, attentive listening is indispensable: "Only the experience of silence and prayer offers the proper setting for the growth and development of a true, faithful and consistent knowledge of that mystery" (27).

The Rosary is one of the traditional paths of Christian prayer directed to the contemplation of Christ’s face. Pope Paul VI described it in these words: "As a Gospel prayer, centered on the mystery of the redemptive Incarnation, the Rosary is a prayer with a clearly Christological orientation. Its most characteristic element, in fact, the litany-like succession of Hail Marys, becomes in itself an unceasing praise of Christ, who is the ultimate object both of the Angel’s announcement and of the greeting of the Mother of John the Baptist: ‘Blessed is the fruit of your womb’ (Lk 1:42). We would go further and say that the succession of Hail Marys constitutes the warp on which is woven the contemplation of the mysteries. The Jesus that each Hail Mary recalls is the same Jesus whom the succession of mysteries proposes to us now as the Son of God, now as the Son of the Virgin" (28).

http://www.motherofallpeoples.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=1154