A COLLECTION OF CONCHITA’S THOUGHTS ON THESE TOPICS. Living the Message The Blessed Sacrament The Priesthood Daily Duty & Sacrifice Obedience to the Pope https://www.garabandal.us/pdfs/talk_world.pdf
MEMOIRS OF A SPANISH COUNTRY PRIEST http://www.stjosephpublications.com/download/PDF/Memoirs_of_a_Spanish_Country_Priest.pdf
MARY LOLI ON THE “WARNING “ SAME YEAR ! July 27, 1975 Q. You have said that you know the year of the Warning. Can you tell us if it will occur in the next few years or is it still in the distant future? A. No. I can't say anything. Q. Did the Blessed Mother tell you not to speak about the Warning? A. No, she didn't , but, because the Warning and the Miracle are within the same year, I feel it inside not to say anything. Q. How do you know the Warning and the Miracle are within the same year" A. During an apparition-I don't remember just when- the Blessed Virgin told me. (1975 "NEEDLES" Warning interview with Mari Loli ) Reprinted with kind permission from GARABANDAL International October-December 2004
CONCHITA’S DIARY (in English ) http://www.stjosephpublications.com/book_manuscripts_pages/Conchitas_Diary_eng.htm
Glenn, do you have a prediction based on all this info as to what year it will take place? By surmising from these interviews and details?
I'll tell you a little story. Many years ago I was having lunch with Conchita, and most of our conversations are about what's going on in our lives and families, not about Garabandal. On this one day, I almost choked on my food , because she actually asked me if I thought I knew the " Miracle date". In all the years I've know her (since 1993 ), this never came up,or would I have the nerve to ever ask her about the date ( real friends don't do that with her). So after gaining my composure, I explained to her my vast research methods, books read, searching the internet for saints feast days, and I gave her my date prediction. With a great "poker face",and dead pan look, she glanced at me then turned her head away. I knew no words had to be spoken, I WAS WRONG ! We talked about " living the message" as opposed to " guessing the dates", and from that day forward, I stopped searching for the saint & the date. “To guess at dates regarding the [prophesied] Miracle shows a lack of faith in the Blessed Virgin .Indeed, the energies expended on this are so much better spent on living the Message! “-Conchita
that's awesome, I love it! Yes , you are so correct. It just seems like the times are unraveling in such a way it seems to be somewhat imminent. But good thoughts!
TODAY IN GARABANDAL HISTORY: JULY 28, AND JULY 29, 1961: "TWO EVENINGS OF TEARS" As was promised, the Blessed Virgin, since July 4, was gradually explaining to the children the Message she had revealed to them. This catechesis was absolutely necessary, considering their young age and the small amount of religious knowledge they had. What, indeed, did the words "sacrifice," "penance," mean to them, and how, in practice, were they "to be very good"? The ecstasies of July 28 and 29, 1961, were to represent a kind of particularly intensive course in which only Jacinta and Mari-Loli took part. For the first time Our Lady showed them "the Cup filling up with the wine of the Wrath of God." She spoke to them of the trials the sins of humanity would eventually cause, in a time we may call "time of the Pre-Warning" (or Pre-Aviso). Mary was also to reveal to them later, the unique and inescapable event of the future Warning, a stupendous phenomenon and experience called "Aviso," of both cosmic and moral-spiritual (interior) dimensions, that would affect the whole of mankind. We could die from the effect of the emotion aroused by it. It would place us before our conscience thus "scanned" in the light of God revealing to us the evil we had done and of the good we had not done, in our lives. Through its frightening physical dimension and its prodigious divine interior action, we would know that the Warning really came to us from God, but also that it will still be a "warning of grace and mercy!" Finally, the Blessed Virgin recalled the final Chastisement of which mankind would be the object . . . should it persist in refusing to amend its ways. The first of the two "Nights of tears" occurred at the cuadro, and the second at the Pines. Sari and Mari-Carmen, mandated by Our Lady, were the only ones authorized to stay by the visionaries. The crowd, kept at a distance, could see the terrified girls crying . . . [Excerpted from 'Garabandal' Book, page 71.]
TODAY IN GARABADNAL HISTORY: JULY 28,1962 : Dr. Enrique Valcarce Alfayate Records events , of which he was an eye witness. "The phenomena as a whole were for me something tremendous and amazing. The fast walk over really rough terrain, almost inaccessible, strewn with the worst obstacles . . . running at times at incredible speeds, both forwards and backwards, as if the girls had wings on their feet . . . with their heads tilted sharply backwards, with their eyes unblinking and fixed constantly on the alleged vision ." More here on this page ( make sure to click on the " English " button in upper right hand corner). https://mensagemdegarabandal.webnode.pt/products/testimonio-de-d-enrique-valcarce-alfayate/
Hi, Glenn. Your encounter with Conchita makes perfect sense to me and here’s why I say this: All the specified parameters of months and dates, etc., will primarily serve as verifications for AFTER the events actually take place and the prophesies are fulfilled. I believe that is the best application for all the details we have been given—as Heavenly tools for validation. At that point, the Church will have what She needs to definitively declare the Garabandal apparitions as being of supernatural origin and design. Of course, knowing of all these things ahead of time can serve to open our eyes to reading the signs of the times as the Good Lord speaks of in Scripture. Our Lady has revealed to us key content and a sequence of events. That should truly be enough for us to prepare our hearts. Then, may it all transpire however and whenever it does. Faith always includes the mysterious and it should not be expected to be any different here. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel of Garabandal, please pray for us!~AN
TODAY IN GARABANDAL HISTORY : JULY 30 On Sunday, July 28th, there came to Garabandal for the first time, an illustrious priest from Madrid: Father Enrique Valcarce Alfayate. ( A Cardinal for many years in the diocese of Madrid with important functions and duties there ), He made a digest of his observations in a report that he wrote later in Comillas and that bears the date of July 30th, 1962. In it he describes a most remarkable experience: his own participation in one of the girls' ecstatic marches: «After the rosary, I remained praying for a while in the church. Suddenly Dr. Ortiz came in and told me to go outside if I wanted to see the girls in ecstasy. I went out immediately. They were walking with the people behind them. I pushed my way through and managed to join Mari Loli and Conchita, who were walking together, holding arms. Later I was told that the other two, Jacinta and Mari Cruz, were going in the same way with another group of people down a different street. The phenomena as a whole were for me something tremendous and amazing. The fast walk over really rough terrain, almost inaccessible, strewn with the worst obstacles . . . running at times at incredible speeds, both forwards and backwards, as if the girls had wings on their feet . . . with their heads tilted sharply backwards, with their eyes unblinking and fixed constantly on the alleged vision . . . FOR THE WHOLE STORY, SCROLL DOWN TO PAGE 52 https://ourlady.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Garabandal_Book3.pdf
Thank you for this, Glenn! Do you know when it was written? I skimmed through the document and could not find a date but I might have inadvertently skipped over it. Thanks.~AN
That’s OK, Glenn. As I started reading it, I saw that it came out right around the time or shortly there after the first movie on Garabandal was released. Thanks for checking anyway. ~AN
The Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in San Sebastián de Garabandal Chapter 158 A picture of the Virgin of Garabandal travels to the Moon. Neil Armstrong fulfilling the wishes of his wife, (very devoted to the Virgin of Carmen de Garabandal) , and those of Father Ramón and those of another Carmelite religious, deposited a picture of the Virgin of Garabandal on the Moon. Father Ramón María Andréu, a Jesuit, (brother of Fr. Luis Andreau) an exceptional witness to numerous ecstasy of the girls in Garabandal, has a great friendship with Neil Armstrong. Armstrong was thus able to deposit the image of the Blessed Virgin of Garabandal and then undertake the assigned tasks of collecting dust and stones, measuring seismic activity, installing a laser beam reflector and the stars and stripes flag. His wife had given him the image of the Virgin of Carmel de Garabandal, not only to deposit it there, but also to accompany him, since she could not do it. This was the first news we received, which filled us with joy, thinking that on the floor of the moon there is also something that represents our beloved Mother of Garabandal. This information appeared on the site: http://www.virgendegarabandal.net/ (First time I've ever heard of it, so I can't confirm it, but it is interesting to say the least.)
TODAY IN GARABANDAL HISTORY : JULY 31,1961 For the first time, the Visionaries in ecstasy move about on their knees. They recite the Rosary without having learned it, without prayer beads, without counting on their fingers and without making any mistakes regarding the mysteries, as well as the number of “Ave Marias”. “The Village Speaks”, pg 23 Here is the audio of the rosary http://www.garabandalvideos.com/conchita_rosary.mp3
AUGUST 1963: "THE FUTURE VERY GREAT CHURCH EVENT WILL BE THE SECOND ONLY OF ITS KIND IN CHURCH HISTORY!" The visionary explained to Dr. Jean Caux, the well-known witness of the Garabandal events that "it will be possible to film and even televise the great Miracle!" She also added that "the happy and future great Church event of "D" day will be the second only of its kind in Church history," though, of course, much more important than the first one! Conchita was at this time, achieving the writing of her precious Diary: some forty handwritten simple, yet priceless pages. The vivid style sometimes rises to a real level of poetry. The description of the portraits of Our Lady, of the Child Jesus and of the Angel, is charming and the details are exquisite; Conchita's spelling is . . . pleasantly outrageous and is matched only by the "revolutionary expressions" of her syntax! The account covers, quickly and very concisely, the period of the apparitions, and stops after the beginning of the locution phase. The brief testimony "from within" is nevertheless an irreplaceable document. [From 'Garabandal' Book, Serre & Caux. page 177] [Photo] Doctor Jean-Baptist Caux with Conchita.
Fr. Ramon Andreu Testimony AUGUST 1, 1961 "Many people have seen the girls hit their knees hard when they fall and they have always observed that they show no feeling of pain. I have seen them stay on their knees for over an hour on many occasions without complaining of exhaustion or pain. I have witnessed how they fall on their knees many times, including from one or two stairs high, and they do not show the slightest sign of pain. The most spectacular thing in this sense was when María Dolores was on her knees one night and fell forwards, hitting her neck very hard against the edge of the stairs. It made a very loud noise, and her head resisted; the girl ended up sitting on the floor. An exclamation went through everyone who was there, and there was fear in their faces. The girl laughed once she was sitting on the floor and she continued talking about an object with the vision as she had been doing before the fall." “In those postures, more or less invariable, but always on their knees (except Jacinta who on one or two occasions was as we have described), staying there for an hour and twenty-five minutes. The one who wrote this, although he was almost sitting, needed to change his posture at least twice in this same amount of time. Upon finishing the trance, they prayed the rosary without moving from the place or giving any sign of fatigue. The ground of the road was full of rocks as roads are in mountain villages; with natural rocks, that are well-traveled (that have unequal surfaces that cause the inexperienced to trip). Mari Cruz had a wedge of rock about 5 centimeters wide under her left knee. Towards the end of the apparition, the girls made a visor with their hands, as though they were contemplating something that was becoming brighter and brighter. Fr. Ramon Andreu, notebook #1 August 1,1961
