Signs of the Times  

    OUR LADY emphasized the importance of the Sacrament of Penance and the improtant role of priests: "See and contemplate the grandeur of this restoring and life-giving Sacrament of Penance, so forgotten and even scorned by ungrateful men, who in their foolish madness, do not realize that it is the only sure means of salvation after one has lost his baptismal innocence.  What is most grievous is that even the ministers of My Most Holy Son do not give it the value that they should, viewing with cold indifference this valuable and precious treasure, which has been placed in their hands for the restoration of souls redeemed by the Blood of the Redeemer.  There are those who consider hearing confession as a loss of time and a futile thing.  O, alas!  If priests were given to see directly that which you are now contemplating and were enlightened with the Light that now illuminates you, they would then recognize this gift!


      OUR LORD:  "For in all times I have need of valiant souls to save My Church and the prevaricating world."  Our Lord also made Mother Mariana understand more clearly than ever before that devotion to the PASSION, TO THE BLESSED SACRAMENT AND TO OUR LADY constitutes the support and mainstay of religious communities.
        "Know, moreover, that Divine Justice releases terrible chastisements on entire nations, not only for the sins of the people, but for the priests and religious persons.  For the latter are called, by the perfection of their state, to be the salt of the earth, the masters of truth, and the deflectors of Divine Wrath.  Straying from their divine mission, they degrade themselves in such a way that, before theyes of God, they quicken the rigor of the punishments..." (Note: During the 41 years of St. John Vianney's ministry at Ars, France, no damage was ever done by storms.)
      He also assured Mother Mariana that He was greatly pleased by those souls who take upon themselves the sublime task of suffering for the sanctificationof the Clergy by means of their prayers, sacrifices and penances, and promised such souls a special glory in Heaven.  The ingratitude and betrayal of religious souls, so dear to His Heart, would compel Him "to let My Justice fall upon My beloved cloisters--and even over cities--when those so near to Me who belong to Me reject My spirit, abandoning Me alone in Tabernacles, rarely remembering that I live there especially for love of them, even more than for the rest of the faithful."  Imprudent admissions and internal abuses permitted by superiors are the ruin of communities.  "Such communities can only be preserved--while they exist--at the cost of much penance, humiliations and daily and solid practice of the religious who are good.  WOE to these corrupt members during those times of calamity!  Weep for them, beloved spouse, and implore that the time of so much suffering will be shortened."   HE warned her that the Chastisement would be severe for those religious who squandered the many graces with their prise and vainglory to secure positions of power and rank and He especially condemened the lukewarm religious..  MOther Mariana saw that the greatest interior torments of the Sacred Heart (FEASTDAY OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS IS THIS FRIDAY, JUNE 19TH) were the ingratitude and indifference of those souls who, chosen among millions to be His spouses and ministeres, left Him in the most absolute solitude.  And this, despite the fact that in the Holy Sacrament, He woul live under the same roof with His spouses and come into the hand of His priests at the simple call of their voices at the most solemn moment of the Consecration.



    NOW THE PROPHECIES......(CON'T)