A number of world events are coinciding in these times that seem to confirm that the fulfilment of the prophecies of Garabandal is at hand. In short, the prophecies refer to a period of tribulation for the world during which a Warning will be given to all of mankind simultaneously. Within a year of the Warning, a Miracle will occur in Garabandal which will leave a visible sign for all to see. Following the Miracle, if humanity still fails to turn to the Lord, there will be a fearful Chastisement on a global scale.
In a moment, we will look at some pointers which indicate that the fulfilment of these prophecies is imminent. One of the most ominous of these is a statement by visionary, Mari-Loli, who said that Our Lady had revealed that the Warning would occur at a time when “Russia will suddenly and unexpectedly overrun a great part of the free world”. After the fall of the USSR in 1991, many people thought that such a prediction had become farfetched. Yet, as we watch, Russia has launched an unprovoked invasion on one of the largest countries in Europe, almost precipitating a global disaster with their reckless bombing of an enormous nuclear reactor on the night of March 3rd.
The Visions of Garabandal, 1961-65
Between 1961 and 1965, four girls in the hamlet of Garabandal in northern Spain claimed to have seen Our Lady thousands of times. Though the apparitions were never formally approved by the Church, the visions were accompanied by a vast number of phenomena that defy natural explanation. These include levitations, ecstatic marches, reading of thoughts, insensitivity to pain, locutions, healings, and supernatural knowledge. Medical professionals, including doctors and psychiatrists, witnessed an enormous multitude of such events and testified to them in writing.
While it seemed very clear to the onlookers in Garabandal that something other-worldly was happening, the local diocese of Santander took a very negative approach to the events. Fr. Jose Luis Saavedra, a priest of the order of the Home of the Mother, has done his doctoral dissertation on the apparitions in Garabandal. He found that the investigation of the visions carried out by the local diocese did not follow standard norms of impartiality. The original “investigation” seemed intent on discrediting the visions out of fear of possible negative repercussions for the Church. Then, sensationally, in May 1983, Dr. Luis Morales Noriega, the medical expert for the diocesan investigation, retracted his previously negative opinion and acknowledged the authenticity of the apparitions. To everyone’s surprise, after years of negativity from the local ecclesiastical authorities, Dr Morales stated that his new positive declaration was made with the permission of the bishop of Santander.
Messages of Garabandal
Unlike Medjugorje, the messages of Garabandal are very few in number. The first message was read aloud by the girls on October 18, 1961: “We must make many sacrifices, perform much penance, and visit the Blessed Sacrament frequently. But first, we must lead good lives. If we do not, a chastisement will befall us. The cup is already filling up, and if we do not change, a very great chastisement will come upon us.”
The second message from Our Lady, announced on June 18, 1965, was received by Conchita González alone: “As my Message of the 18th of October has not been complied with, and as it has not been made known to the world, I am telling you that this is the last one. Previously, the Cup was filling; now, it is brimming over. Many cardinals, bishops, and priests are following the road to perdition, and with them, they are taking many more souls. Even less importance is being given to the Holy Eucharist. We should turn the wrath of God away from us by our own efforts. If you ask His forgiveness with a sincere heart, He will pardon you.”
Many people at the time rejected this second message as being entirely implausible. How could Our Lady, of all people, claim that cardinals, bishops, and priests were on the road to damnation? From our perspective of sixty years later, however, we can see that this message contained a prophetic truth that would never have been suspected in the 1960s. The Church has been rocked in recent decades by the revelations of the evil abuses perpetrated by bishops and priests alike. No one foresaw this possibility in 1965, leading many to dismiss Conchita’s announcement as a human fabrication.
The Prophecies of Garabandal
According to the visionaries, after a period of tribulation, the Warning and Miracle will occur in the same year. Conchita has described the Warning as a “correction of conscience” during which everyone in the world will be given a revelation of the state of their souls before God. We will see the consequences of our sins and will feel sorrow for them. The Warning will be a moment of great grace for mankind, a true penetration of the Holy Spirit into our inmost hearts, but it will be a traumatic event when we recognize the gravity of our sins and our distance from God.
The Miracle will take place in Garabandal within a year of the Warning. Our Lady has revealed the date to Conchita, who will announce it eight days in advance. In 1971, while talking to a group of Americans, she offered this revealing information: “It will take place on or between the eighth and sixteenth of March, April or May. It will not happen in February or June. It will be on a Thursday at 8:30 p.m. It will coincide with a great ecclesiastical event in the Church. It will be on the Feast-day of a young martyred saint of the Eucharist.”
Following the Miracle, humanity will have the opportunity to amend its ways and return to the Lord. If humanity continues to pursue the godless materialism that we are currently pursuing, then a terrible Chastisement will fall on the world.
Indications that the events are at hand
Apart from the specific indications given by Conchita regarding the date of the Miracle, the visionaries made a number of other statements about the fulfilment of the prophecies (details can be found online at various websites such as www.garabandal.org and http://www.garabandal.ie/our-ladys-prophesies/).
The prophecies will be fulfilled at the time of an important Synod
Our Lady told Conchita that the prophecies would come to pass at a time when an important Synod was being held in the Church. This fact has been transmitted reliably to us by Mother Nieves Garcia, head of Conchita’s boarding school in the aftermath of the visions. In an interview, Mother Nieves Garcia stated that the Virgin told Conchita that an important Synod will be held just before the events take place. When Conchita confided the story to her aunt about 1962, the aunt asked, “Do you refer to a council?” (the Vatican Council was just beginning at this time). Conchita replied, “No, the Virgin didn’t say the council, she said Synod, and I think Synod is a small council.” As Mother Nieves Garcia remarked, nobody had even heard of a Synod in the early 1960s; it seems impossible that a twelve-year-old girl could talk about something so new in the life of the Church; in addition, Conchita defined the Synod quite accurately as a “small council”.
Pope Paul VI established the Synod of Bishops in September 1965, just two months before the final apparition in Garabandal. Since that time, the Synod has met every few years. Evidently, Our Lady was not referring to one of these regular gatherings of the Synod. After all, a revelation that a prophecy will come to pass on a year in which a regularly scheduled event occurs is hardly a revelation at all. But Conchita was told that the Synod in question would be an “important” one, and the current Synod on Synodality is certainly that. For the first time ever, it will be a Synod with a worldwide dimension. Every diocese is inviting its faithful to participate. The level of consultation and dialogue will be on a scale never seen before in the history of the Church. The process has already begun, will continue during various phases over the coming months, and culminate next year in Rome. Since the Synod of Bishops was instituted in 1965, there has been no other more likely candidate for the “important Synod” that – in the words of Mother Nieves Garcia – would constitute a “pre-Warning”.
After the Pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI
On June 3, 1963, as Conchita made her way to the church to pray for the soul of Pope John XXIII who had just died, she heard the voice of Our Lady saying, “After this pope, there are only three left. Then it will be the end of times.” Soon after, the Virgin Mary specified to Conchita that there would also be a fourth pope who would “govern the Church for a very short time”. This last prediction is remarkable because it was fulfilled in the thirty-three-day papacy of John Paul I, thus supporting the reliability of the rest of the prophecy of the popes from Our Lady. In fact, the short pontificate of John Paul I can be taken as a sign that the first affirmation of Our Lady is also true: that after the third pope (Benecict XVI), the end of times will begin.
Many commentators have discussed the meaning of “end of times”. As Fr. José Luis Saavedra remarks, we have no reason to think that the world will cease to exist, or that there will be no more popes after this time. Rather, the Church will enter the decisive period of her history in which the Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph, as foretold at Fatima.
The Warning: After World Tribulation
The visionaries describe this period of tribulation in various ways. As stated earlier, Russia will unexpectedly invade part of the free world. In a number of statements, the girls describe the tribulation as involving the “return” of communism. In the 1960s, there was no sign of communism going away anytime soon. In fact, at that point, it was attaining its greatest level of global influence. For the girls to say that the tribulation would involve the “return” of communism indicates that they had been told of future events that would take place after communism had in some sense “gone away”. From our point of view in 2022, that all makes perfect sense. The collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s marked the demise of the global leader of communism, the entity that had spread its errors throughout the entire world.
The attack by Russia on Ukraine could be interpreted as a manifestation of this “return” of communism. Putin, as an official of the KGB, was no mere functionary of the old communist regime. His boss, Yuri Andropov, ordered the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II, and Putin has continued to protect the KGB since taking autocratic rule in Russia. From his public statements, it is clear that Putin hankers after the power once exercised by Russia over the countries of the old Soviet Union.
In a real sense, communism “returns” with the megalomaniac behaviour of Vladimir Putin. However, there is a broader sense in which communism has begun to figure once again prominently in world affairs. Cultural Marxism, as manifested especially by critical race theory, gender ideology and radical feminism, has Western culture in its death grip. In recent decades, countries like Ireland have rejected the moral principles of the bible that were once enshrined in their Christian heritage. In their place, they have wholeheartedly embraced the worldview of cultural Marxism, enacting laws that allow permissive abortion and “marriage” between people of the same sex.
Communism rears its head not only in the affairs of nations, however. Bishops and theologians have become utterly contaminated as well. The chairman of the German Bishop’s Conference, Bishop Georg Bätzing, stated recently that Church teaching was wrong regarding the inadmissibility of sex outside of marriage or between homosexuals. He claimed that sexual activity of this sort was perfectly fine from a moral point of view if carried out responsibly. In January, Cardinal Hollerich, the man that Pope Francis has placed in charge of the Synod on Synodality, stated that Church teaching on homosexuality is “false”. These are shocking examples of senior figures in the Church who have abandoned biblical anthropology and replaced it with a viewpoint that is based purely on the atheistic mores of contemporary culture.
Final Words
There are other indications that the events are at hand. The visionaries stated that they would occur when churches would be closed and the faithful would be prevented from receiving the sacraments, which is something that has happened for the first time in history on a global level because of the pandemic.
If the prophecies of Garabandal are indeed at the point of fulfilment, what should we do? Well one thing we shouldn’t do is waste time trying to work out in detail the exact date of the Miracle. Much effort has been wasted on this task during the past sixty years. It is sufficient to be aware that the events will occur during the lifetimes of many of us. After all, Conchita is already seventy-two years old and she has been entrusted with announcing the date to the world. Our primary response, surely, should be to heed the messages entrusted to the girls: that our days be centred on prayer, penance, and the Eucharist, and that we live uprightly. If we do this, then we can play our part in protecting the world from the Chastisement.
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Garabandal is not approved and never will be. The blind gentleman (Lomagino) who was to regain his eyesight as prophesied by Conchita died. It’s probably a fraud or of demonic origin.
Neither a fraud nor of demonic origin. Even in La Salette substance was correct, dates were not.
There has been a lot of damage done by the American representation of affairs. And those things only Conchita received in a non direct manner, that is it was processed by her brain, before writing it down.
Whose to say that Joey doesn’t regain his sight in Heaven at the time of the miracle.
About the return of comunism. A good way to judge this is the short video accompanying the Russian national anthem on New Year’s Eve and for how long the red star is shown. In my opinion we are not there yet, but Russia is inexorably on its way back to becoming a Soviet state again. But when that transition has been made the signs will be there for all to see. That is not yet the case in my opinion.
Good article but the Russian invasion of Ukraine is not the return of Communism. They invaded to stop the genocide of Russian speaking Ukrainians, the Bio-labs, the neo-Nazis, and the encroachment of NATO on their borders. This is an existential threat to Russia. The West pushes regime change everywhere, and in Ukraine by Obama, Biden.
Communism is rising but is here in the radical Left in the US, they are the neo-Marxists, following the Globalist plan for world-wide Communism.
BINGO!!!!
….the “globe trotting” JP2 did not actually “trot”. You may recall that JP2 labored heavily to move any part of his body suppressed by the devastation of Parkinsonism. Should Our Lord visit Parkinson’s Disease on you, let’s see how well you “trot”. May your flippancy be tempered by Life’s lessons. God love you.
Let us not get political about it ? Your entire response is political. You cannot serve two masters.
April 13th fits the criteria for the Great Miracle and eight days before that is Holy Thursday which is when Conchita would announce that the Great Miracle will occur on the 13th
“Do not despise prophetic utterances. Test everything; retain what is good.” (1 Thes 5:20-21)
This apparition may very well be of God, but we should not get political about it. If we look at the sins of liberals and ignore the major sins of conservatives such as greed, which our Lord Jesus himself called the greatest sin and he knows more than any of us; Nor should we minimize racism which is mortally sinful so let’s not reject critical race theory because it tells the truth. And what about treason like our former president engaged in or his lies about everything like saying he was the most pro-life president then he let hundreds of thousands of mostly seniors die of Covid because he was worried the truth might hurt the stock market for Trump? Both parties share in sin!
Does CRT tell the ‘truth’, though? To reject CRT is not tantamount to claiming that racism doesn’t exist or is not a sin.
Very interesting when we turn to the truth everywhere we look inside us and outside reality of people and their stand on opinions. its right to say: “let’s be critical about ourselves, then Let God do the rest, continuing to move us through the clouds of truth”, because as we hold the truth and hold on to it, the world cannot deny it. Humanity cannot argue against God. God inscribed the laws of nature in its creation, and there is a natural order with a supernatural finality, God. From the beginning with God gave us life and life itself from its very tiny beginning to old age or whenever the body is able to handle it. conception to natural death God gives us his spirit of life, It can never be denied. Natural law is based on divine law, what the created was intended to be. we are from God, we return to God. All for God’s glory, but first we need to live in truth, the love God calls us to live, and compassion. Amen.
It was the Blessed Virgin who got political both in Fatima and in Garabandal, not the seers.
I don’t see any comments about what Our Lady asks of us: “We must make many sacrifices, perform much penance, and visit the Blessed Sacrament frequently. But first, we must lead good lives. If we do not, a chastisement will befall us.” Perhaps we would do well if each of us takes this request personally. This message is consistent across many apparitions, and at Garabandal, it was the FIRST message.
That is one of the main problems with English language sites about Garabandal. What is important about that apparition, is ignored and unhinged speculations are made about the future. The Spanish speaking platforms have a totally different approac,h concentrating on the spirit of the messages, the history of the apparitions. eyewitness reports, the healing of bodies and souls that still take place.
Many important books on the apparitions are not even known in the US, because they have never been translated.
You spoil your otherwise commendable article by your poor grasp of geopolitical reality — and that goes for your knowledge of facts, as well as your ‘political analysis’ (such as it is) of Russia, or rather, of Putin. Unbelievable also is your identification of the centres of “cultural marxism” with Germany (Oy vey!), and not with the United States, where “critical race theory, gender ideology and radical feminism,” etc, are nothing if not the leitmotif of the “Biden” administration! To say nothing of the elephant in the room, communist China. Communism is indeed come. But you’re blind to its major manifestations; at least geopolitically-speaking.
It does not appear that this article attempted political analysis, in this very limited space, by alluding to nations where Marxism has been historically prominent. Are you somehow defending Putin here? This man appears to be an unconscionable murderer and liar whose motive is pure evil. Look at his history. Look “into” his eyes. As even Bush 43 noted “He has no soul”. Biden, on the other hand, has emerged as a member of the triumvirate of evil, Xi, Putin, and Biden ( and his administration which includes Obama, Obama holdovers Valerie Jarrett, Susan Rice, who else?) who are obviously educated but who have chosen hatred with all of its sequelae and resultant destruction of the human spirit. So this is where we are. We are allowing these forces of evil to direct our destiny. We desperately need to listen to the promptings of the Holy Spirit which we all have and to return to the Love of God and reject the hatred of our current leaders.
The center of cultural marxism is German because it originated with a group of German communist Jews who were professors in Frankfurt Germany in the 1930s. They migrated to the US to escape the Nazis who were hunting down the communists who were mostly Jews. This group of Jews became known as the Frankfurt School and they infiltrated our Universities, especially Columbia University, with their marxist ideologies. They had taken up the ideas of the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci that the class struggle must be replaced with slow cultural infiltration and degradation. This ideology really took hold in the 60s after the Catholic Church was infiltrated by communists and gays all the way up to the Cardinals as testified to by Bella Dodd before the US Congress in the 50s. We are in the end game of their infiltration plan and the noose is pulled tight now. The Democrat party is now the defacto communist party and the Republicans do not really offer any true resistance to their poison. Both sides are completely compromised. Every Church denomination has been corrupted. Every public school since John Dewey is totally socialist….we are toast. Look up the Dodd Report to the Reece Congressional Committee from 1954. You can find interviews with Norman Dodd on youtube detailing how the tax-free foundations have been utilized by the oligarchs to manipulate US society to become socialist. We are living out conspiracy fact not theories. The past 3 years should be proof enough of that for the blindest fool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SByy_qikgpQ
Agreed but “cultural marxism” has its roots in 1930s Germany, I believe.
All the topics under that umbrella (CRE, trans agenda, etc.) are intended to stir up people minus any critical thinking. This has led to over emotional, sometimes hysterical, reactions but based on very shaky foundations. The end aim is to divide us further + further until we can be conquered. So far, so good. Protests every day, disruption, rage, threats. Meanwhile extraordinary activities that ought to be widely reported and stopped, are not. May God move before all this bears its intended fruit.
I have to agree with Tom from middle England. Writing on the wall.. my mother and father would have been classified as rabbits by the present Pope also.. for same on this pope and his contradictory statements as well as his unclear and silent way of affirming many clerics and bishops and cardinals who are very much in jeopardy of losing their souls.. defying their oath of office and leading faithful people either abandoned or astray..
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I definitely believe in these apparitions. The warning has been mentioned by many people including St. Faustina when Jesus appeared to her. All of what Conchita has said makes perfect sense, maybe not in 1961-65, but looking back from now, how can anyone doubt?!? I am so ready for Jesus to return and set everything straight! We just need to be prepared and ready to see our Lord!
Don’t confuse the coming of Christ with the supposed apparitions of garabandal. In no messages does it state the coming of Christ. I no longer believe in any of what these girls stated as truth. Conchita even admitted to stealing the host from a tabernacle for the photo later passed on as real.
I can’t wait for the coming of Christ to stop all these charlatans.
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To the editors: I left a lengthy comment to the poster named “JUST ME” well below. But your software program just butchered its formatting and makes it impossible to know when I am quoting the poster “Just Me” and when I am responding. Kind of dismaying, to say the least. I hope he can at least figure it out. (thanks)
I could care less about anything, because the Virgin Mary shared a secret with me when I was 21 years old. I did not understand it in its entirety at the time, but the confusion allowed certain things to play out so to speak. It is what it is, and although not expressly forbidden to reveal it, I don’t want to, and I don’t have to. Having said that, it is obtainable in the peripheries, and more or less has already been revealed in other facets. I just don’t think there is anybody brilliant enough to put the pieces together. All I will say in regard to the matter is… Que Bella.
I would not waste time dealing with, or even thinking about, alleged prophesies accompanying apparitions which have not been approved by the church. Period.
Your position i certainly a safe one. But do not disparage others who feel differently. The people of Portugal were warned by the Bishops not to go to Fatima. I f everyone thought as you do, no one would have been witness to the great miracle!!
I agree, Larry. I do not understand the fascination of so many regarding UNapproved apparitions. What is the draw to them? Are they chasing after ‘signs and wonders?’ Spiritual gluttony perhaps? The lastest trend? To see the ‘sun dance?’ To have a rosary turn gold? We are not to chase after those things or even positive ‘good feelings’ such as I constantly hear about Medj. The late Fr. Robert Fox, talking with Mother Angelica on TV about 20 years ago, said and I quote “Stick with the approved Marian apparitions!* That’s it. Simple enough and he was wise, holy, humble and a very good priest. If only more would do that but I guess the titilation of all the ‘hoopla’ is just too intriguing. I think it is dangerous and really spiritually dangerous to tout about any apparition or ‘force’ it on people, or promoting it when it is not approved. Dangerous. No thanks. Not for me. Not gonna do it. Wouldn’t be prudent.
When one considers the millions who thronged to see the globe trotting JP2 it brings to mind the notion that a glorified appearance of the Beloved One would draw the entire world to Himself with only the incorrigibly evil self excluded.
Is it the sense that the prophecies are about to be fulfilled, or the sense that time is running out for these prophecies to come true?
I would note that Russian trolls are appearing everywhere these days. Getting rather tiresome and take up a lot of digital space.
Putin is, by any real definition and comparison with past dictators, a fascist. His supporting cronies come with great wealth and very nice yachts, those that have not yet been seized, of course.
As for prophesy. The Church is quite correct in taking as close to a non-position as possible. We all know that human institutions, countries, rulers and even Churches can be changed as a result of their own misguided actions. There is certainly plenty of grounds to believe that the next Pope, and even the structure of the Church, will be quite different from today. One need only look at the scandals of the last few decades to discern clerics who, by their own actions, have placed themselves on Faustian final trip. With all due respect to the visionaries, it is quite possible to see future disasters coming even absent supernatural verification.
Odd, or not so odd, that any suggestion that Putin is not the next H that ” opinion formers” dictate we must believe, and one is immediately classed as a troll.
Being a working class Scot who lives in middle England with enough kids to be classed by Pope Francis as a rabbit I almost consider it a complement.
I’m more and more convinced that what has happened in my country and the US is a living illustration of the prophecies of Fatima and Garrabandal. I don’t have to look elsewhere.
That a certain poor soul and his even more unfortunate son are wondering the highest corridors of power, and that the dishonesty, electronic and otherwise, that ensured his rise has not been addressed and therefore he is almost certain to be re-elected is chastisement enough, and that the somewhat ironically named Speaker has a better stock trading record than Mr Buffet, and is received with open arms in certain Church quarters, whilst soaked in more innocent blood than Lady Macbeth is a double chastisement.
Excuse my grammar please, I’m in the pub watching the Notts Forest game.
The church will not change in it’s mission or teechings. The church has four marks, if you don’t see them the church is not there anymore, look elsewhere