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Mary's Touch #3 MARYS TOUCH 3 THROUGH MARY TO JESUS self in Lourdes, totally free from anything that AN OUTLINE Our Lords Words through Julia in Naju on July 1, 1996 is evil or unholy. God created this Mother of God the Son in order to reveal His infinite When you make Me known, follow Me, and make My Mother known, Goodness and Love for us. By Gods Will and OF you may experience pains. But you must lighten the dark world by by the merits of her Divine Son, she is the hurriedly propagating to everyone the salvation that has been won only one who can turn the tide of evil which is OUR LADY’S through My immeasurable pains on the Cross. currently enwrapping and pressing down heavily upon the entire world. Thus, what is at stake is the salvation of MESSAGES IN each one of us as well as the status of the Church and the fate of our world. Our Lady is bringing to us the message of hope that God NAJU wills to rescue us from our current spiritual and moral crisis. In order to help this to hap- I. THE IMPORTANCE OF pen, we must make a drastic rearrangement of our priorities and begin living Our Lords THE MESSAGES teachings faithfully as explained in the Gos- Our Lady gave us the following messages pels and as taught by His Church. By means through Julia Kim in Naju, Korea: of her detailed messages in Naju and else- where, Our Lady is repeating and explaining Tears are important. But the contents of to us the Lords teachings in the most loving the messages are more important. You and persuasive manner as our Mother and as must spread my messages fast. (Oct. 19, the final attempt by Heaven to change us. So, 1987) when Our Lady says that we should under- stand, practice and spread her messages, she Those who practice my messages are ac- is actually asking us to return to the original cepting me and, therefore, will experience teachings by Our Lord entrusted to His Church a renewal of their souls. (Jan. 30, 1988) and to evangelize the whole world with these As my messages are founded on love, teachings. We should never treat the true mes- mercy will overflow into any soul who re- sages from Our Lady like the daily newspa- pents and practices the messages. (Feb. pers, which we read and, then, throw away. 4, 1988) Gods truth is eternally beautiful and life-giv- ing. He entrusted this precious, awesome truth My messages of love will be the brake that to His Catholic Church for us and is now re- suppresses disorder. All the children in freshening our faith by means of Our Ladys the world must hurriedly understand my messages and signs. messages of love and accept them. (Feb. 2, 1995) II. “The Truth Will Set You Our Lord also gave us the following message Free” immediately after the 11th Eucharistic miracle through Julia on September 22, 1995: The foundation for our life as Christians is Because My Mothers loving and kind our faith in the truths that Christ revealed and words for the past several centuries have entrusted to His Church. So, we profess the been ignored, sin has reached a satura- Creed and accept as truth all the official teach- tion point, even within the Church. ings by the Magisterium. Because we believe that Christ is our Savior and the Truth Itself Two thousand years ago, in the small town of and also because He promised that the Holy Nazareth, Our Lady humbly consented to Gods Spirit will guide and protect His Church (John Plan of Human Salvation, opening the door 14:26), we accept that the official teachings of to the Incarnation and Redemptive Work by the Church on matters of faith and morals God the Son in our human world. About thirty- are totally free from errors. If there are any three years later, she was standing under the errors in what we believe, we will be misled Cross participating in her Divine Sons suffer- and will mislead others, too. In order to attain ings and offering up His and her own sorrows salvation and eternal life, we need firm, abso- and pains to God the Father for our salvation. lute truths that will remain true for all eter- Even after her Assumption into Heaven, she Hundreds of thousands of people have pels but remain spiritually blind and deaf to nity. Because our salvation primarily involves has been constantly praying for us, her poor visited Naju since the beginning of the miracle the contents. Invaluable spiritual treasures are supernatural dimensions, human brains and children on earth, and channeling Gods graces in 1985. Many of them have personally wit- always available to us through the Church, but efforts alone will never find all the truths nec- to us. nessed miraculous signs such as tears and we often turn our eyes elsewhere, following essary for our salvation. We need revelations At about the same time the devil was tears of blood from Our Ladys statue, fragrant erroneous ideas and pursuing vain goals. It is and graces from God and also a safe preser- wreaking havoc in Europe by spreading the oil from the same statue, the Stigmata on Julia, because of our such spiritual complacency, vation and authoritative interpretation of these Protestant errors, Our Lady appeared in and Eucharistic miracles (thirteen times so far). apathy and unreliability that God has been revelations. In providing us with the neces- Guadalupe, Mexico, in 1531, giving us mes- Physical healings have also occurred on nu- prodding, encouraging and warning us by sary revelations and preserving them for us, sages and a miraculous image to remind us of merous occasions during Julias prayers and sending us the Mother of the Savior, who is God has never failed. It has been the humans, her deep motherly love for us and her con- in connection with the water from the miracu- also our true spiritual Mother. Our Lady is who have become proud and lost faith in Gods stant presence and powerful protection for us. lous spring on the mountain near Naju. Count- the ultimate reflection of Gods Love and Mercy. revelations, His Power and His Covenant. As About three hundred years later (1858), in less people have experienced spiritual conver- God filled her with such an abundance of His people began reasserting their egos their own Lourdes, France, she repeated the Gospel mes- sion, repenting their sins and returning to the Love, Mercy and Goodness that she could iden- sage that we should do penance for our sins Sacraments, regaining peace and love in their tify herself as the Immaculate Conception It- Continued on Page 2 and also identified herself as THE IMMACU- families, and, most of all, recovering humility LATE CONCEPTION, who, by virtue of the full- and love in their hearts. ness of Gods graces in her from the moment In concerning ourselves with the Marian of her conception, can and will be totally tri- messages and signs, it is important that we go umphant over the devil. In Fatima, Portugal, deeper than what we can see and hear exter- in 1917, she asked us to consecrate ourselves nally and try to understand the motives in the to her Immaculate Heart and to fervently pray Hearts of Our Lord and Our Lady for giving and offer penance for the conversion of sin- us such messages and signs. Undoubtedly, ners. At other apparition sites also, she re- Our Lord is giving us supernatural signs not peated her pleas for our prayers, penance and to satisfy our curiosity but to induce some im- consecration to her Heart. Now, in the small portant changes in our hearts and in our lives, city of Naju in Korea, she has been giving us as He changed water into wine at the wedding a synthesis of all her messages (accord- in Cana. ing to Monsignor Matthias Peres Merino in The nature of the changes God desires in Vatican who visited Naju in September of us was already explained in the Gospels. The 1990), supported by a great number of most Church that Our Lord established has been amazing miracles. guiding, healing and nurturing the faithful in their efforts to live Our Lords teachings for the past two thousand years. The Saints have “If you love God, draw all to been the living examples of how we must con- the love of God.” duct our lives. But human minds are weak and unsteady and easily get distracted and St. Augustine The Apostolic Pro Nuncio in Korea (second from right) explains the seventh Eucharistic misled. Frequently, we read and hear the Gos- miracle to other priests. The Chapel in Naju, November 24, 1994 2 MARYS TOUCH Continued from Page 1: but also play a positive and yet supportive role AN OUTLINE of facilitating and reinforcing our understand- ing and implementation of the teachings of ideas, preferences, and judgment even on spiri- the Church. Good examples are the Blessed tual and moral matters, throwing away what Mothers apparitions to Sister Catherine they had been receiving from God through His Labouré in 1830 giving us the Miraculous Church, the moral standards in the world were Medal, which confirmed the doctrine of Our crumbling down, the spiritual dimension of hu- Ladys Immaculate Conception prior to the man life and culture was being replaced by official declaration of this doctrine in 1854; materialistic and hedonistic vanities, and hu- and also Our Ladys apparitions in Lourdes in man dignity was being trampled upon at all 1858, which confirmed the same doctrine af- phases of the life.
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