Social year 1993-1994

History of the apparitions

A detailed summary of all that took place, beginning on the 24th of October 1993, the date when everyone was given the opportunity to participate in the apparitions, up to the end of 1994.

A year has passed and again I take up the meek and respectful conversation with all those brothers and sisters who want to give me their attention and show me their affection.

Allow me to be sincere to the point of roughness and expound everything to you with frankness even to the extent of seeming intransigent.

I have too much respect for the truth not to accept compromise and I love you all too much to exclude you from our life, even if it is a life that has known much suffering presented under various guises but ones which make one tremble: jealousy, envy, malice, defamation, calumny, dishonesty, presumption and pride.

As you already know, the presumed apparitions were opened up to everyone on the 24th of October 1993, but prior to that the ecclesiastical authority had been informed. I think it is correct to say that this is the first time in the history of the Church that the ecclesiastical authority was informed openly at the start of public apparitions before anyone was admitted to them.

In fact I myself, on the 24th of September 1993, spoke at length and in some detail about these presumed apparitions to the Auxiliary Bishop H. E. Mons. Cesare Nosiglia.

Similarly I left the Bishop the manuscript of "The Cathechesis of God" messages. I invited him to read it and if necessary to inform me of his comments.

I also explained the programme we had drawn up to the Auxiliary Bishop: catechesis, prayer, apparition, Holy Mass and the style we had chosen: silence, recollection, listening, participation, in a climate devoid of fanaticism, sensation seeking and personality cult.

From the beginning our intention was to work in strict unity with and dependence on church authority, leaving to it any judgement on the supernatural origin of the presumed apparitions and this was frequently and publicly repeated.

We behaved as Mary and Joseph did after the birth of Jesus: they didn't tell anyone that Jesus was born but they didn't stop the shepherds spreading the news of his birth. We have never undertaken to propagate these presumed apparitions but neither have we prevented those who came, invited by members outside the community, from speaking about them and publicizing them.

We didn't look for the Abbé René Laurentin, who came on the 5th of December 1993 to share in the presumed apparitions and who wrote an article about them, in which he expressed no doubts, in his magazine "Stella Maris"; this article was then taken up by other catholic Italian magazines.

The presumed apparitions keep on taking place in our garden at 10:30 a.m. or 5:30 p.m. on the days stated by Our Lady.

On great liturgical feasts or in special and important circumstances Jesus, sweet Master, appears dressed in sacred vestments. He wears liturgical habits with the same colour, similar designs and identical tailoring as ours even if Marisa says: "They are more beautiful, much more beautiful and Jesus bears them sweetly and majestically." Instead when He comes to converse with us, to give us messages, to entrust us with missions or to give us advice He wears a white ivory tunic and sometimes a red mantle which falls elegantly from his shoulders to his feet.

Marisa was often asked: "What does Our Lady look like?" and she turned the question to Her: "What do you look like?".

And received this reply: "I am as you see Me".

I report textually what Marisa said: "Our Lady stands with open arms and uses little gestures when She talks. She kneels in profound adoration when Jesus or the Most Holy Trinity are there.

She is always more beautiful every time I see Her.

She stands on a snow-white cloud. She is very young, as far as my eyes can tell, She seems about 18-20 years old. Her face is well-proportioned, oval, with the natural colour of her country; She has red cheeks; her lips are normal, very beautiful, rose-coloured.

When She smiles She is even more beautiful because two little dimples form on her cheeks. Her eyes light up and are of a blue-black colour, very deep and wide. Her nose harmonizes with her face, She looks so beautiful.

Her eyebrows are dark like her eyelashes.

I see Our Lady's face and neck but not her ears. I also see her hair which is long and dark, spread evenly over her head and sides.

Her hands are pliant, her arms stretched out towards the heavens when She speaks of her Son Jesus and opened out towards me when speaking to us men.

She never joins her hands but are they crossed over her heart when She says the "Our Father", the "Glory be to the Father", the "Magnificat". When She recites the "Glory be to the Father" She bows her head as a sign of reverence.

In obedience to God the Father, She even recites the "Hail Mary" with us. When She is giving a message Our Lady looks at me.

When She comes with the Holy Eucharist She wears a white veil on her head and a blue mantle that falls from her shoulders to repose on the white cloud.

Her white ivory garment falls loosely to the cloud.

When She comes without the Holy Eucharist She doesn't wear the white veil and her mantle reaches from her head to the cloud.

It is impossible to describe Our Lady's beauty and sweetness".

Our Lady has appeared to Marisa on paths in the woods, on mountains in the Dolomites, the Western Alps and the Gran Sasso, by the sea, in a catholic radio station's premises, in people's houses, in cars and elsewhere.

She even appeared in places where She had appeared in the past: Lourdes and Fatima. Our Lady Herself gave the explanation for all these multiple apparitions in such different places: "When a soul called by God goes from one place to another, I continue appearing everywhere the soul called by God goes, I am a Mummy and I have to protect her always and cover her with my mantle". (1)

Our Lady continued transmitting messages and as She says, "The messages aren't mine, they come from God". (2)

Between these new messages and those already published, "The Catechesis of God", there is unity, continuity and development. The Mother of the Eucharist affirms: "If you don't put "The Catechesis of God" into practice, you cannot understand the subsequent messages which are greater, more valuable, more important and which, with the Theophany of the One and Trine God and with the Triumph of the Eucharist, close history". (3)

Our Lady calls her sons not "to look at something impressive", (4) but comes "into our midst to ask for conversions". (5)

The Mother teaches her children how to live the apparition experience: "It isn't a sin not to believe in the apparition, you are not obliged to believe in the apparition because it isn't a dogma of faith". (6)

"You must respect the place, you must respect the people God has chosen". (7)

"No, you musn't put the apparition in first place, that is wrong". (8)

"First of all be reconciled to God and with your neighbour, go to Holy Mass, go to Holy Communion, learn to know my Son Jesus by taking part in biblical gatherings, say the Rosary and then come to the apparition". (9)

Our Lady puts us on our guard against fanaticism: "I don't want fanaticism". (10)

In relating the messages we have decided to leave intact the vivacity, the spontaneity and the simplicity with which Marisa has been addressing Our Lady for many years now. To understand how this relationship between Mother and daughter is lived, can do good to us all and urge us on to have recourse to Our Lady, seeing in Her not the powerful and distant Queen but the Mother who shares in her children's lives.

During the apparition Our Lady is neither heard nor felt but one can hear Our Lady's communication through Marisa's voice.

The Mother of the Eucharist speaks in Aramaic to Marisa who, during the ecstasy alone, is given the gift of understanding this language and at the same time she translates what Our Lady is saying in Aramaic.

All those present can, through Marisa, hear the message and at times the dialogue between Our Lady and Marisa, between Jesus and Marisa.

Sometimes Our Lady has personal messages or secrets to give which must be told only to those concerned or at another time by every one. At these times only Marisa hears what Our Lady is saying in the most complete silence.

The visionary writes in a shorthand taught her by Our Lady which no one is able to decipher.

These messages are subsequently transcribed into Italian and consigned to the priest who keeps them and relates them to those concerned, if they agree.

Once these personal messages have been handed over, Marisa forgets them, because it is for the priest alone to know the secrets of souls in order to guide them.

Visionaries cannot give spiritual counsel, it isn't their duty, they cannot bless, they have no authority to do so, and even less can they replace the priest in his responsibilities.

We mustn't consider visionaries as other than what they are: our brothers and sisters to whom Our Lord gives a specific charisma: to relate what they see and hear during an apparition or vision with humility and sincerity even if it cannot all be told at once, for our spiritual edification. Our Lady said: "Apparitions, signs and messages can help one to walk towards holiness". (11)

Only secrets are clearly present in Marisa's mind and in her mind alone, not even the priest is aware of them to this day.

It is a waste of time asking if they are the same or different from secrets given to other visionaries, they are secrets and any discussion is useless.

Jesus said: "Every good tree produces good fruit" (Mt. 7:17); I must admit quite simply that these apparitions have given good spiritual fruit: conversions, family reunions, birth of priestly vocations, recovery of consecrated souls in crisis, new surge of priestly commitment and above all many young people who have rediscovered the beauty of the life of grace.

Our Lady as well as those messages that have been published, has given messages for priests, nuns and for visionaries. Currently they are all secret and only the first of the messages for priests, which Our Lady called "Priests' Ten Commandments", has by her order been published, because it contains ten wonderful motherly appeals.

Some volumes on Our Lady's life have been completed. It is Our Lady Herself who has dictated and Who continues dictating her life to Marisa. At the start of the book I will clarify the manner in which it was composed and I will also relate the various stages of this composition.

Pilgrims from Rome, from outside Rome, from Italy, from Africa and from Latin America have come to take part in the presumed apparitions.

We have attended prayer meetings followed by apparitions of Our Lady and at times of Jesus as well in the dioceses of Genoa, Chiavari, Bologna and L'Aquila. I always informed the local Bishop in person or in writing of the presumed apparitions that were taking place in his diocese. It is our habit to show the required homage to the Bishops into whose dioceses we are invited.

We have had to renounce going to other dioceses for serious reasons of health or because of some other impediment not determined by our will.

Our Lady has said: "When God the Father so decrees, you will resume travelling for the apostolate, but you will have to give preference to poor countries. Visionaries musn't travel to become rich, to enhance their own reputation or for other human motives".

During the presumed apparitions or outside them other diverse mystical phenomena and supernatural experiences have been verified, but for now it is better to extend a veil of silence and discretion over everything. Both will be referred to elsewhere, on another occasion.

Here I only want to refer to one supernatural experience Marisa benefited from: a theophany.

Our Lady said: "God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, God One and Trine was revealed to you, little Marisa (It: "Marisella"). No visionary has ever seen God One and Trine". (12)

Marisa's account of this extraordinary experience is included in this book because Our Lord wanted it to be known by every one.

One is not obliged to believe, it is not a sin to disbelieve, I ask only for respect, because to fail in respect is a sin.

Our Lady is always accompanied by Angels who sing and several times She has been surrounded by saints: St. Peter, St. Paul, St. John the Baptist, St. John the Evangelist, St. Luke, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Clare, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Luigi Gonzaga, St. Gabriel of the Sorrowful Mother, St. Bernadette, St. John Bosco, St. Pius X and by so many others.

Even some souls who are already in Paradise have acted as her crown, some of whom even we know: Fatina, Granny Speranza, my nephew Stefano, young Giovanni and Fabrizio and others.

Even Padre Pio accompanied Our Lady on various occasions, as also have Pius XII, John XXIII, Paul VI and John Paul I.

However to make a complete list of the saints and of those souls that are already in Paradise, uncanonized saints, who have surrounded Our Lady in various occurrences, is impossible because it would take too long.

Our Lady invited us to have Holy Masses celebrated for the souls in Paradise too because as She explained: "It is the greatest, the most beautiful, the most appreciated gift you can give them".

I must add that God also wanted Marisa to see souls in Purgatory next to Our Lady on occasions. The Mother of the Eucharist speaking of them, said: "They are saved souls; look, one can be saved even while in Purgatory. I invite you to pray and have Holy Mass celebrated for these souls, so that they may joyously and happily reach the presence of God". (13)

The saint who accompanied Our Lady most frequently and who gave some messages too is St. Joseph.

Our Lady in dictating her life, also revealed the great love She has always had for her beloved spouse.

Several times in the apparitions Our Lady preceded her Son Jesus.

When Jesus comes Our Lady welcomes Him with a deep bow and then kneels down. Jesus takes Our Lady by her hand and invites Her to stand up and take her place near Him: "Come, near Me, dear Mummy", He says to Her.

At Christmas and on other occasions Our Lady appears holding Baby Jesus, Whom we simply call "the Kiddie", in her arms and hands Him to Marisa who cuddles Him and clasps Him to her heart.

One final but very important matter concerning the apparitions.

On those occasions when the day of apparition coincides with one of those days when there is Eucharistic adoration of Jesus solemnly exposed in our chapel, Our Lady doesn't appear and the explanation She gave for this was: "My Son Jesus is exposed in your chapel. You should go and adore my Son Jesus. I cannot distract you with my presence from adoring the Eucharist, my Son Jesus. I too am kneeling in adoration in your chapel before my Son. I await you to adore, love, praise and thank my Son Jesus with you".

Our Lady entrusted a series of secrets to Marisa which concern the future of the world, of the Church and of Italy; She taught us not to be afraid of secrets, but to fear not living in grace: "Secrets are hard only for those who are not in grace. The one who is with my Son Jesus should fear nothing". (14)

These apparitions were defined by Jesus and Our Lady as "the most difficult, the most contested and the most fought against". (15) They are the most difficult, Jesus said, because "they are occurring in a dechristianized city". (16)

On the 23rd of June 1994 Cardinal Camillo Ruini, Vicar General of the Pope in Rome affirmed: "Rome is no longer Christian. It looks like a city invaded by a reality and mentality that are post Christian, that in large measure are no longer Christian".

They are the most difficult because they encounter such a strong opposition from priests that Our Lady was compelled to ask the following question: "Why are the priests afraid of the supernatural?". (17)

Several nuns as well from various communities joined the priests in demolishing and harshly opposing these apparitions.

It is sad to have to point out that although both have never participated in the apparitions nor learnt about the messages, yet they have emitted judgments contrary to the truth and to charity.

Faced with such obstinacy and severity we try to behave as Our Lady taught us: "There are people who continue to make you suffer, but you, lift up your eyes to God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit and give glory to the most Holy Trinity". (18)

Besides these two, there is a third reason whose delicacy imposes on me the strictest silence. This reason is alluded to by Our Lady in those messages which are secret for the time being.

Again I willingly let Our Lady speak, She can explain better than I can with greater authority and clarity why "these apparitions are the most faught against": "Your suffering will always increase, because men do not change, they keep on harming each other and when I say men, I also mean priests". (19)

"The people's battle against the priest continues, but I and you dear young ones, will protect our priests, as also will my spouse Joseph". (20)

"God's works are always contradicted, but men can destroy neither God nor the Church". (21)

"Pray for your priest so that God the Father may give him the strength to accept everything that men who don't love my Son Jesus try to say and do to defeat him, because - so they think - in that way everything will collapse". (22)

"Read again slowly the messages of God, God's catechesis which men want to destroy, whereas God's works go forward, despite everything and everybody. Pray for the Triumph of the Eucharist. There will be much dissension before this triumph". (23) "Don't be afraid, all apparitions are contradicted. Don't be afraid. The Church will go on". (24) "Man can crucify man but not God". (25)

"You musn't get discouraged. The battle is always engaged, those who don't love my Son Jesus continue aiming at my sons, those whom God has chosen. The Eucharist will triumph but at the cost of the blood of my sons. The circle around them is growing narrower, because the great men do not understand God's designs and don't want, they say, "to get mixed up in certain things". (26)

"The Eucharist will triumph but first there will be so much suffering, bitterness and so many disappointments". (27)

Finally they are the "most important apparitions" because they announce, anticipate and prepare the "Triumph of the Eucharist".

The principal nucleus of these messages consists precisely in this constantly repeated prophetic announcement: "Yes, the Eucharist will triumph". (28)

The prophet is one who announces God's will to the people; this announcement always meets with refusal and opposition. Our Lady prophetically announces God's will: the Triumph of the Eucharist. We are little, weak, poor creatures who by God's will, are limited to lending our voice, mind and heart to Our Lady to let the divine will be known.

Consequently we share with Our Lady the refusal and opposition this announcement provokes.

Our Lady gave us a masterly teaching that progressed to the great prophetic announcement: the Triumph of the Eucharist.

For five months Our Lady slowly and ever more thoroughly prepared us to welcome the great announcement. She invites us to return to God by confessing our sins, to have a pure and serene heart with which to receive Jesus Eucharist and to live in a state of grace. The first and most important undertaking of the Christian is to live united to Jesus, like the shoot to the vine (Jn. 15:4); from this profound union spring the obligations of bearing witness and of the apostolate.

The difficulties of this life are overcome by the Sacraments; prayer and the struggle to strengthen ourselves in virtue must be constant.

It is indispensable to know the Gospel because "there is everything in it". (29)

To love is the characteristic of the true child of God.

On the 25th of March we celebrate the day of the Annunciation of the Incarnation of the Son of God.

The 25th of March 1994 is the day on which Our Lady solemnly announced : "The Eucharist will triumph". On the same date, the 25th of March, two announcements, by providential circumstance, are celebrated: the announcement of the Incarnation and the announcement of the Triumph of the Eucharist.

The Annunciation of the Incarnation took place according to God's way of doing things, with discretion, humility and hidden and yet it dominated history and changed the world.

The annunciation of the triumph of the Eucharist has the same characteristics: discretion, obscurity, humility, but it also contains the same energy able to impose itself and the same capacity to transform because it possesses God as its source. The Eucharist which today is not loved, which is refused, forgotten, devalued, opposed, fought against, will become the Heart of the Church and of the world. In the end man will love because he will receive love from the Eucharist, he will hope because he will receive hope from the Eucharist and he will believe because he will receive faith from the Eucharist. Man will live in a state of grace because he will agree to receive life from God, man will return to God and will be united with God.

Once this union between man and God is achieved, individuals and families, the communities, the Church and the world will draw wonderful benefits from it. Everything will revolve around the Eucharist and from the Eucharist everything will receive light, strength and warmth.

For the Incarnation to bear its benefits we had to wait for the passion and death of the Son of God; for the Eucharist to triumph we must, by God's will, assist in the passion and in some cases in the immolation of the life of the children of God.

The 25th of March then is the day of the annunciation of the triumph of the Eucharist. From the 25th of March onwards there were innumerable announcements of the triumph of the Eucharist.

In concluding what I have explained so far, I report the words of Our Lady: "These are the apparitions God the Father wanted, in this small place, for the triumph of my Son Jesus". (30)

At this point allow me to put forward a personal opinion of my own; I say it in a subdued voice, without wanting to impose myself on any one, because I realize I have neither the authority nor the stature necessary to do so.

I read in various texts that report messages from other private revelations, expressions such as: "Jesus' return is imminent. Jesus will come again". I am convinced that such expressions are not to be interpreted in the sense of the Lord's physical return as an intermediate coming of Jesus to the earth. Jesus came in humility when He was born and He will return in glory in the parousia; in my opinion, having but a modest understanding of Holy Scripture, it is not possible to speak of an intermediate physical coming. How can such expressions as "Jesus' return" and "Jesus' new coming" be interpreted?

I believe that these expressions can be interpreted and identified with "The triumph of the Eucharist".

Man has turned his back from God, he has departed from God, he has betrayed his love. He has foolishly pretended to affirm his own autonomy, by refusing God; this refusal has signalled his own ruin.

God continues to watch over man and has intervened in many ways in order to convert him and will keep on doing so.

He has sent his Mother to every corner of the world to call back his exhausted, wandering and desperate children.

The period of purification that began years ago will become even harsher, because man shows himself insensitive and even hostile to the salvific interventions of God. But finally mankind purified will return to God as a prodigal son. God, One and Trine will be loved, praised and adored.

Man will again encounter God and live with Him in a stable, strong and wonderful relationship.

All this will happen when man, the new creation, will once more believe in the Eucharist, adore the Eucharist, love the Eucharist and share in the Eucharist.

The Eucharist is God One and Trine.

Man will understand that there is nothing without the Eucharist.

"You live by the Eucharist. Without the Eucharist, there is no love, no sincerity, no honesty, no simplicity". (31)

This will be the triumph of the Eucharist predicted by the Mother of the Eucharist. The triumph of the Eucharist is Jesus' second coming, the intermediate coming of Jesus on Earth.

The Eucharist is not only remembrance, sign, but also reality of presence and sacrifice. The Eucharist is sacrament, thus symbol and reality.

Christ is really present in the Eucharist in body, blood, soul and divinity.

When man welcomes the Eucharist, he welcomes the real presence of Christ.

Christ will return to the world when man returns to the Eucharist.

It is enlightening to recall Our Lady' lament at this point: "All the messages God gives Me and which I communicate to each visionary speaks of the triumph of the Eucharist". (32)

"In every apparition I speak of the triumph of the Eucharist. I speak to all visionaries of the triumph of the Eucharist, but nowhere do I find an indication of this triumph". (33)

"I speak to all visionaries of the triumph of the Eucharist, but nowhere is it written down. Why?". (34)

Why don't all the visionaries speak of the triumph of the Eucharist? I only find these answers: out of human prudence, from fear, because of human calculation, because of mediocre spiritual guidance; from these and other causes comes the urge to be silent, not to speak of the triumph of the Eucharist.

I relate a few excerpts from messages that haven't been published yet and which confirm and lend authority to what has been said about the causes that induce visionaries to say nothing about the triumph of the Eucharist.

"God doesn't call people to get them to live in luxury, to run from one part of the world to another, God calls because He asks for sufferings to convert the world". (35)

"Certain visionaries profit from their mission to become famous, to become rich, to appear acceptable in the eyes of the world. Pray for visionaries, pray for false visionaries.

Those who make me suffer are the real visionaries. They try to be great and even say things that aren't true in order to be great". (36)

"Visionaries can do nothing without a priest; the priest must have the gift of discernment and insight". (37)

"Everything must pass through the priest, who was chosen by every visionary". (38)

"Let visionaries be docile, submissive and obedient to their spiritual director; God wants them to be obedient. I always obeyed, those who are called must obey. If there is pride, haughtiness, the world will not convert". (39)

Our superiors who are informed by the undersigned of everything, have instructed a prudent priest to oversee the apparitions.

I know for certain that the Pope has been informed in detail about these presumed apparitions, I know what his personal opinion is but confidentiality stops me from adding more.

This first year of the apparitions in public has been tiring and tough, I have suffered much. Vulgarities and calumny have been thrown at us and we have been on the receiving end of ferocious criticisms and harsh judgements. We were on the point of giving up the struggle also because grave problems of health caused us varying anxieties.

But with the grace of God, and with the help of members of the community and of so many brothers and sisters we overcame weariness, delusion, discouragement and the fear of suffering.

We followed Our Lady's advice: "When you are truly prostrate, under trial, stretch out your arms, lift up your eyes to heaven and cry out: Our Father..". (40)

We found protection, guidance, strength and support in the Eucharist; we squeezed together like little chicks under the Mother of the Eucharist's mantle.

Humanly speaking we are conscious of the superiority of those who are hostile to us as we also understand our weakness and littleness, but in our hearts resound the prophetic words of the Mother of the Eucharist: "Fight the bitter fight, the long battle and then there will be the triumph of the Eucharist which will be your triumph too". (41)

I transcribe this part of the message with embarrassment because I am afraid that it will be misinterpreted.

Our Lady means that with the triumph of he Eucharist will come the triumph of the truth and the persistence and merit of those who will have persevered in the truth will be recognized.

Christ alone must triumph, we men can, with the inhabitants of Jerusalem, make up the escort of his triumph.

Our Lady desires to be invoked as "Mother of the Eucharist" : "My dear children, I have been given so many titles, all of them beautiful, all of them wonderful, but the greatest and most beautiful one that embraces all of them is: Mother of the Eucharist". (42)

"Let this name be known, it is important, very important to let it be known". (43)

The Mother of the Eucharist made a series of prophetic announcements regarding this title which I value greatly.

I am the Mother of the Eucharist and little by little all will come to know me by this name. I am the Mother of the Eucharist but not every one will accept this name, name which closes all history. Envy and jealousies will arise and because of these you will suffer, but men cannot stop God realizing his plans". (44)

We feel a particular attraction for Lourdes; it is here that I placed my priesthood under Our Lady's protection, here it was, in the blessed grotto, that Marisa was cured, and that we received from Our Lady in that far off 1973 the invitation to prepare ourselves "for the great mission" to which God was calling us and which today is a pulsating reality.

Marisa has a particular spiritual affinity and association of physical diseases with Saint Bernadette, with whom she has engaged on various occasions in intimate colloquy. Our Lady calls our little garden where She appears "the little Lourdes". "A thanks departs from my heart for your coming here, to this little oasis of peace that I have called "little Lourdes". (45)

There is an union, dependence and development between the apparitions of Lourdes and those of Rome. Our Lady witnessed to all this when She said: "Think of it, my children, from the Immaculate Conception to the Mother of the Eucharist". (46)

To confirm this, in the apparition of the 17th July 1994, Marisa saw "two Madonnas, the Immaculate of Lourdes and the Mother of the Eucharist. The Immaculate opens history and the Mother of the Eucharist closes it".

On another occasion we will go into this in more depth and we will ask for a contribution of study, of research and of work from all those who will desire to give of their time.

Reading these messages there emerges a great and immense love of Our Lady for the Church. There is a recurring, pressing, motherly invitation to prayer "for the peace of the Church".

Anyone who knows the actual situation of the Church is well aware that this invitation of Our Lady's is not an exaggeration.

She recommends "obedience to the Church, unfortunately there are priests and visionaries who are not docile to the Church". (47)

"To obey makes you more happy, more content; this applies especially to my beloved priests". (48)

"Obey the Church, obey the Pope, your superiors, your equals, your inferiors and you are on the cross with my Son Jesus". (49)

The Church founded by Christ rests on the living stone: the Pope; on innumerable occasions, Our Lady repeats: "Pray for my and your Pope", as She often repeats: "Pray for priests". By the word 'priests' Our Lady understands all those in Holy Orders: Pope, bishops, priests. She unites all the members of those in Holy Orders with the same word "priests because one is the Supreme and Eternal Priest, one is the sacred order even in the diversity of sacerdotal fullness, and one should be the spirit of unity, of hierarchical submission, of intention, of reciprocal love.

Our Lady recommends to all her sons: "You must respect priests, the priest is first of all a man and should be respected as man, then he is to be respected for the great gift that God has given him: the priesthood". (50)

"Love your bishop because he is a Bishop and because he is a man". (51)

Show love and solicitude for the parishes: "I desire that you do something for your parish, for the bible groups, for the prayer groups". (52)

Ask priests to "speak of the Eucharist, they must make creatures understand the importance of the Eucharist". (53)

She says to everybody: "Give good example, one can help other souls who do not believe by good example, often they are good souls, they don't believe in God because no one has spoken to them about God". (54)

The list of persons, categories and situations for which She asks for prayer is interminable: visionaries, the suffering, peace in Italy, peace in the Church, peace in the world. With her soul full of suffering She asks: "Pray for the children who are continually being aborted". (55)

Can one show indifference, criticize, reprove a Mother whose yearning is to bring her children to her Son, to help men meet each other, to reunite creatures to their Creator? The Mother of the Eucharist calls all men to love, praise and adore together with Her, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, God One and Trine, One in nature, Equal in divinity, Trine in persons, present in the Eucharist.

Let us kneel down behind the Mother of the Eucharist, and like Her, prostrate with our head on the earth let us cry out: "God I love You, God I love You, God I love You". (56)

Don Claudio Gatti

Rome, 8th December 1994.

Feast of the Immaculate Conception.A detailed summary of all that took place, beginning on the 24th of October 1993, the date when everyone was given the opportunity to participate in the apparitions, up to the end of 1994.