Since the death of Benedict XVI, some people are of the opinion that the prophecies of Garabandal are close to fulfilment. The prophecies refer to a Warning, a Miracle and a possible Chastisement on a global scale (for a summary of the content of the prophecies and an objective assessment of the reliability of the apparitions, see here).
The statement by Conchita that the Miracle would occur on a Thursday in April that coincides with the feast of a male martyr of the Eucharist has caused many people to surmise that the date of the Miracle will be April 13 this year (which falls on a Thursday). Hermengild, a Spanish saint, was beheaded by order of the king on April 13, 585, for refusing to accept the Eucharist from a heretical Arian bishop.
Could 2023 be the year? The visionaries made a number of statements about world events that would coincide with the Warning and the Miracle. Even though certain of these statements seemed extremely implausible a few years ago, in our days they appear to be coming true in striking ways. As such, these events may constitute a “pre-warning” for the Warning itself and the subsequent Miracle.
First pre-warning of the Warning – the Synod on Synodality
Our Lady told Conchita that the prophecies would come to pass at a time when an important synod was being held in the Church. Over the years, many people have been perplexed by this prophecy. Since 1965, the synod of bishops established by Pope Paul VI has met every few years. Seeing that synods have become so commonplace, people wondered how one of these gatherings could be so different that our Lady would use it as a marker to point to the Warning. Evidently, Our Lady could not have been referring to one of these regular gatherings of the synod, but to something more exceptional or unique. What could that be? Suddenly, lo and behold, in these very days, we find ourselves in the midst of a synod of extraordinary character. The Synod on Synodality is the first time that the synod has had a worldwide dimension, with a level of consultation and dialogue never seen before in the history of the Church. The process is already ongoing and will come to an end in the Fall of 2024. Since 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” for the major events foretold in Garabandal.
Second pre-warning – the death of Benedict XVI
On June 3, 1963, as Conchita made her way to the church to pray for Pope John XXIII who had just died, she heard the voice of Our Lady said, “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 short 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 last pope in the series (Benedict XVI), the end of times will begin.
Regarding the meaning of “end of times”, Fr. José Luis Saavedra remarks that we have no reason to think 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.
As long as Benedict XVI was alive, we could suppose that the fulfilment of the prophecies still remained at some point in the future. The end times would begin after he was gone. While he was still with us, we could safely assume that the events were some time away. To some people, his death on the very last day of 2022 has taken on an ominous significance. Conchita had heard, “After this pope, then it will be the end of times.” Does Benedict’s demise on the last day of 2022 mean that the “end of times” will begin in 2023? As with prophecies of this sort in general, we have no way of knowing the exact meaning of the words that are used. “Then” might allow for a period of months, or perhaps more than a year, before the events begin. The death of Benedict XVI, however, means that one of the most decisive markers regarding the date of the Warning has already been passed.
Third pre-warning – World Tribulation
The visionaries have stated that the events would occur after a period of world tribulation. Mari-Loli reported that Our Lady had revealed to her 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. The sudden invasion of Ukraine last year, as well as threats to other parts of Europe, have brought this prediction to unexpected fulfilment.
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. Thus, the prediction of the girls constitutes in a sense a two-fold prophecy: firstly, that communism will first go away, and, secondly, that it will return. From our point of view in 2023, this 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. This marked a huge blow to the fortunes of global Marxism. However, in the intervening decades, cultural Marxism has made huge inroads into Western society. This is manifested especially by critical race theory, gender ideology and radical feminism. 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 and enacted it in their laws. In a sense, then, it is accurate to say that communism went away to some extent, but has now returned to global prominence in the guise of neo-Marxism.
Other pre-warnings
Other statements by the visionaries include the claim that something would happen before the Warning to cause many people to lose faith in the authenticity of the apparitions at Garabandal. Such an event has already come to pass. On June 18, 2014, the great apostle of Garabandal, Joey Lomagino, died. Even though the day of his death was providentially the exact anniversary of the first apparition in Garabandal in 1961, the fact that he died before the Miracle caused many people to lose faith in the apparitions (for more details on this question, and for possible answers to sceptics, see here).
Other indications that the events are at hand include the prediction by the visionaries that they would occur when churches would be attacked and closed, and the faithful would be prevented from receiving the sacraments. This is something that happened for the first time in history on a global level because of the pandemic. The number of attacks on churches in Western countries such as France and the U.S. has been increasing exponentially in recent years.
Other considerations
Other considerations make people think that the events are still some time in the future. Mari-Loli is reported to have said that the Warning will take place in a year that is an even number, ruling out 2023. In addition, German author, Albrecht Weber, quoted Conchita as saying that the Pope will go to Moscow, and when he returns to the Vatican, hostilities will break out in different parts of Europe as a prelude to the Warning. Given that Pope Francis has not yet travelled to Moscow, the prophesied events may still be some way in the future.
Sometimes, however, in response to human free will, prophecies do not unfold as originally formulated. In December 2021, Pope Francis announced that he intended to visit Moscow in the near future. Preliminary talks to advance that visit were held in the Vatican at the end of 2021 with Bishop Hilarion, the head of the Russian church’s department for external relations. Then, in February 2022, Russian invaded Ukraine. Since then, repeated attempts by the Vatican to resurrect the idea of a papal visit to Moscow have run aground. Could the visionaries’ prophecy regarding Russia’s invasion of parts of Europe after a papal visit be already fulfilled by the fact that Pope Francis was single-mindedly determined to visit Moscow before the onset of hostilities in February 2022? That visit would surely have taken place but for the fact that Patriarch Kirill opposed it. Sometimes the outcome of genuine prophecies is indeed foiled or modified by human free will.
Why these prophecies and why this speculation?
Many people who were once firm adherents to the apparitions in Garabandal have lost faith in recent decades. The delay in the occurrence of the events, the death of Joey Lomangino, and the endless speculation about the date of the Miracle have led to doubt and frustration. Why did Our Lady give so many “clues” about when the events would occur? Or were Conchita and Mari-Loli simply indiscreet when they “spilled the beans” about these details? Has the endless speculation about dates damaged Garabandal?
Perhaps, though, there is a very definite heavenly plan behind these tantalising shreds of evidence. We can be sure that Conchita and Mari-Loli were being obedient instruments of Our Lady in allowing these clues to emerge. The death of Benedict XVI, the ongoing extraordinary synod, the return of communism, the unprecedented hostility to the faith in the West, the warmongering of Russia, the return of communism in the guise of neo-Marxism – all these show clearly that the time of the events is upon us. The remarkable lining up of those very things predicted by the visionaries seemed far-fetched just a few years ago. Whether the events occur in 2023, 2024 or in the coming years, we can be confident that our time of preparation is now relatively short. This gives us precious motivation to prepare for the Warning with the very tools that have been central to the message of Garabandal since the 1960s: increased personal prayer, Eucharistic devotion and recourse to the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
90 thoughts on “Garabandal: Is 2023 the Year?”
Does anyone think the warning could happen before the 13th of April 2023?
@SOAP, please react to our questions!
@soap I really believed it was the 13th April this year for so many reasons. i have tickets booked to go over but Conchita hasnt announced the miracle what do you think?
5 decades a day is what the virgin of Fatima required and observing the five first
Saturdays, not 15 daily.
When the blind man died he regained his sight that VERY day. It talks about signs and
wonders in the sky which would fool even the elite among you and you will have been
deceived Matthew’s Gospel
I just learned about the Garabandal messages and their relation to other recent Marian apparitions. Regarding the possible dates for the Warning and Miracle and the timeframe between them… would it be reasonable to consider Thursday April 13, 2023 as the date of the Warning and then nearly a year later Thursday April 11, 2024 as the date of the Miracle (which is the date of the feast of St. Stanislaw, also a martyr of the Eucharist)? That would certainly provide more time for the global situation to deteriorate, necessitating God’s intervention.
They have never church approved.
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To Ed Benet,
Are you going to go this year?
Can you please get intouch with me as I am hoping to bring my family and wanted to ask you some questions…. [email protected]
I do believe it is this year too.
Please God it is, the world needs God now more then ever in my lifetime.
God Bless you
Ann, Ireland
I studied Garabandal apparitions extensively, read many books on the apparitions, I don’t ever recall Conchita González saying the “Great Miracle” will happen on an even year!
btw: St. Padre Pio and St. Mother Teresa said the Blessed Mother appearing to four girls in Garabandal 1961-1965 are real… †
This.
Mark,
What do you think of my friend, Ed Benet’s translation of Conchita’s “and del fin de los tiempos”? I have spend years attempting to correct Benet’s and others’ translation. Conchita spoke of the beginning of a period of time not the end of a period. Do you know anything about the source of the bad translation? It is in various English versions of Spanish books. Among them are Pesquera’s “Se Fue con Prisas a la Montana and R. Perez’s El PUeblo Habla. Help! I have written a number of times of how this bad translation is an obstacle to the spreading of the Garabandal messages.
Conchita had heard, “After this pope, then it will be the end of times.” Does Benedict’s demise on the last day of 2022 mean that the “end of times” will begin in 2023? As with prophecies of this sort in general, we have no way of knowing the exact meaning of the words that are used.
St Padre Pio,
He was noncommittal on these apparitions. It said -why not-.
I am not sure where the idea that John Paul I’s short reign was separate from the three remaining prophesied popes after John XXIII came from.
That was not and had not been the understanding of that prophecy for decades afterward (and for evidence, I would refer you to any number of articles on the topic from Garabandal magazine, when it was still being printed–the one published by Joey Lomangino’s group, who would be in a position to know if anyone was).
John Paul II was the last pope of the prophecies. The prophesied events should have begun during Benedict’s reign, and the fact that they didn’t is a major black mark against the apparitions.
Creio que até 2024 já terá acontecido do Aviso.
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There is no modified communism in Norway. They are a capitalist country with social programs. That’s all. It works for them, although, not perfectly because they are a small and organized country. Crony capitalism is a form of a “modified communism” and that’s what we have today in the USA, unfortunately. It’s a socialist endeavor to keep only a small elite in power under a system that still has businesses. But for how long? The Biden administrations socialist moves with their crazy regulations, and totalitarian censoring may finally destroy the few small businesses left in America. And they are the backbone of America. Without them we are the Soviet Union. So stop with your communist nonsense. There isn’t a communist alive who isn’t thrilled with your analysis. You are their typical useful idiot.
Pray the rosary a little more and you won’t be so easily fooled by all this Garabandal and Medjugorje nonsense.
Garabandal is not nonsense!
Read and study about it some more…
The girls all went on to live “quiet” and devout lives.
I believe it’s a continuation of the requests from Our Lady at Fatima which were not properly heeded.
People need to do their homework to know more.. afterthewarningto2038.com
How about all those who do pray the rosary ‘a little more’ like a number a day..then how do you respond…all this nonsense may put egg on your face, then again perhaps I will wear, it at any rate I need no reason to deeply pray every day.
Many folks were puzzled by the passing of Joey Lomangino may mean Garabandal apparitions are not real… Always remember with the slight of beat of God’s will on the day of the “Great Miracle”, God can call to Joey and say, Joey wake-up, time to get new eyes…
Se o Aviso for num ano par temos a possibilidade de acontecer em 2024 , 2028 e 2030, onde haverá festa de um santo mártir da Eucaristia numa 5a.feira de abril.
@soap answer? Nothing happened til now.
CaptCrisis,
I think you were a little mean in your comments.
I don’t know about Garabandal. When I visited there about 20 years ago, it was so desolate. I thought at the time that it should be streaming with tourists. But it was barren.
I also question the body positions of the visionaries whose necks were so contorted and bodies in very strange positions. It also was strange when they ran backwards.
This being said, only time will tell.
As for running backwards, I hear it explained that it was because they wouldn’t take their eyes off Mary as they left the site.
The reason they walked backwards was so as never to turn themselves from facing toward the church(’s) Jesus in the tabernacle!
I got envolved in Marian apparitions in 1988. A Dayton Ohio prayer group met every wednesday evening. Eposition of Blessed Sacrament,confessions 15 decades rosary & Chaplet + MASS.I would provide videos and bibles,books, rosaries etc.display miracoulous photos.
Joseph, pls connect with me Reg what photos you saw and experienced about Mother Mary or Jesus Christ in your reply above.Thx
This post reminds me of people trying to fit the prophecies of Nostradamus into the events of the Eisenhower Administration. Castro taking over Cuba, anyone?
I used to be all over these apparition sites, going back to a Wayne Weible newsletter about Medjugorie back in the early 80’s, which hooked me. But other than the miracle of the sun, which fulfilled the promised “sign” at Fatima, it seems like we’re always hammering square events into round prophecies, trying to make them fit.
2023 cannot be the year of the Warning, as it comes on an even numbered year, as per Glenn Hudson, who runs the Garabandal center and is in contact with Conchita on occasion. His information is most reliable as he has put decades into his work at the Garbandal center in NY. The Warning comes in April on a even numbered year. 2024 is the earliest it can come at this point.
“The Warning comes in April on a even numbered year. 2024 is the earliest it can come at this point.”
2024 is right around the corner. Accept it is the Miracle that occurs on even numbered year and in April. The Warning is to occur before the Miracle and also in the same year as the Miracle. This means the Warning can happen between January 1 and the Miracle in April which in 2024 will be April 11. At this point things can easily escalate during the next 9-10 months to set up the Warning and Miracle in the beginning of 2024.
Not the warning in April, the permanent sign.everything else is correct. Warning, miracle, permanent sign. Conchita Will speak/forewarn 8 days ahead of the miracle.
That is not correct or is at least very, very suspect.
There is no record that I can find of Conchita saying anything like this. On the contrary, other sites claim that Mari-Loli is the source of this information.
Either way, as I say, there is no independent source confirming either.
Personally I doubt it was ever said.
The year of the Warning is more likely to be 2028 and the Great Miracle in the same year on the feast of St. Hermengild 13 April. (Holy Thursday).
At present the conditions are not yet in place for either the warning or the Great Miracle, because the Third World War is still incubating in various regions, such as Russia, Ukraine, the South China Sea, and the Middle East.
The situation in the world has to get so bad that communism has to return and overruns Europe and shuts down the Catholic Church through persecution.
The global financial hierarchical system has to unite all the currencies into one currency and go totally digital and be linked into a global system of surveillance, control and suppression, similar to the system already in place in communist China.
It will take at least 5 more years for all these situations to fully evolve into maturity.
The return of communism will be linked to the collapse of the global economy.
Those are my thoughts on the subject. I don’t claim to have a telephone line to the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in the Imperial City, Beijing. But I bet they are already planing how to defeat the USA in the coming takeover of Taiwan, with preemptive missile strikes aimed to hit many targets simultaneously. With America knocked out the world belongs to China.
It has been expressly said that the Warning will NOT take place on Holy Thursday.
April 13th this year (2023) is also a Thursday.
The Warning is to take place at 8:30pm – that is sunset in Garabandal on April 13th.
The Miracle will occur, then, at the very end of the day.
What else ends that very day?????……????…… the Feast of Passover.
Evening of Wed, Apr 5, 2023 – Evening of Thu, Apr 13, 2023
AFAIK there are NO other occurances of April 13th and Passover ending up to 2040. So, unless you think Conchita will live to be 100-ish, this year is the most likely.
Get to Confession, and good luck.
This is also why Conchita said she would give 8 days warning; She will warn – and was hinting at – the beginning of Passover.
read Exodus 12:23-36
For the LORD will pass through the land to strike down the Egyptians. But when he sees the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe, the LORD will pass over your home……Remember, these instructions are a permanent law that you and your descendants must observe forever…….And that night at midnight, the LORD struck down all the firstborn sons in the land of Egypt…….
I think you are right. Excellent reasoning. But extremely sad.
*******Apologies, my previous answer was garbled as I was interrupted by the kids while posting. I’ll write it again. ******
@Edward Von Offenbacher – It has been expressly said that the Warning will not take place on Holy Thursday. This rules out 2028.
These are the ONLY times April 13th occurs on a Thursday between 1960 and 2040
Thursday, April 13, 1978 – Holy Thursday was March 23rd.
Thursday, April 13, 2017 – This is Holy Thursday, so it is ruled out.
Thursday, April 13, 2023 – This is the one!
Thursday, April 13, 2028 – This is Holy Thursday, so it is ruled out.
Thursday, April 13, 2039 – Holy Thursday is April 22nd Conchita aged 90 years.
Thursday, April 13, 2050 – Holy Thursday is April 7th and Conchita aged 101 years.
Assuming we are all correct in selecting St Hermenegild as the Martyr in question then this year 2023 is the only time the criteria is met until 2039.
Secondly, we know the Warning is to take place at 8:30pm – that is sunset in Garabandal on April 13th 2023.
The Miracle will occur, then, at the very end of the day; but what does this symbolise?
Conchita said she would give 8 days warning. Why 8 days? Why not 7 or 11? What does that symbolise?
I contend that the ‘8 days’ warning, the year and the time are all clues to the year.
The Jewish feast of passover (like most Jewish feasts) runs from Sunset to Sunset – not weekday to weekday. So a week long festival of 7 days is spread across 8 actual calendar days. It begins at sundown on Wednesday, 5 April 2023 and ends at nightfall on Thursday, 13 April 2023. This is 8:30pm in Garabandal.
So I contend that Conchita will warn us on April 5th – before sunset.
(This date is the Feast of St Vincent Ferrer, who attempted to fix the Great Western Schism and the Avignon Papacy – google for more!)
I suggest that Heremegild was 23 when he died but more importantly he died for refusing to partake in the Arian heresy. This is the subtext of the warning – the Church is partaking in Heresy. Now we see the German church agreeing to bless gay relationships https://www.wsj.com/articles/german-catholic-bishops-back-blessing-of-gay-relationships-defying-pope-francis-71398482
I contend that this is the Heresy that will split the Church and this what the warning is about.
Considering I’m excluding 2039 because it does not coincide with Passover;
These conditions have never been met before and will not be met again until 2050 when Conchita will be 101.
I have more to say, but that is enough for now.
Get to Confession now because when people realise what is happening the Priests will be overwhelmed and you will have to face the ‘Aviso’ with the full weight of your sin intact.
I would wish that on no one.
God bless you all,
Ps – read Exodus 12:23-36
For the LORD will pass through the land to strike down the Egyptians. But when he sees the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe, the LORD will pass over your home……Remember, these instructions are a permanent law that you and your descendants must observe forever…….And that night at midnight, the LORD struck down all the firstborn sons in the land of Egypt…….
@SOAP Nice try, tho!
Mr. Benet, would you kindly explain the antecedent of the demonstrative pronoun “this” as found in the phrase, “After this pope…etc.”?
Jesus: the good and faithful servant traded his 2 talents and made 2 more, the master said you were good in small matters, I will give you great responsibilities.
Marxist: I have your talent, if you want it back.
Church: 3800 years ago, Joseph recognized the boom and bust of agricultural commodities, such as cattle and ears of grain, and planned accordingly because he recognized natural law forbids coveting neighbor’s good (which of course implies the right to own property).
Marxist: Karl Marx was the first to recognize boom and bust and deserves to have tons of awards and accolades heaped upon him like a Margaret Sanger Award and a Pulitzer prize for fiction.
On-the-ground decisions by the producer of goods is not capitalism.
Now — if Joseph was backed by investors, who could trade their shares, that would be closer to what Marx was talking about. Boom-and-bust cycles (speculation followed by profit taking, cornering the market, etc.) are often independent of supply and demand. The Great Depression, for example, was not caused by any supply and demand problems in the years leading up to 1929.
Church: Man made in God’s image in likeness.
Marxist: Man made to identify as a victim.
Church: By original sin, man made a mess of creation.
Marxist: The mess is due to the oppressor.
Church: Man toils to help God and neighbor because we are all children of God.
Marxist: Man alone can create utopia of equality which really only includes those of victim’s identity.
Church: Liberation comes by obeying God, and even loving our enemies, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, housing the widows, orphans, and resident aliens. Visiting the sick and the prisoners…
Marxist: Liberation comes by canceling oppressors or killing them.
Does this make the connection, Capt?
Sorry, our redeemer JESUS is the source of our reconciliation and hope…not our own works (as it seems to imply above). Either way, the Marxist would disagree.
To: CAPTCRISIS
As a 20-year public high school history teacher, I can tell you unequivocally that critical race theory (as well as gender ideology and radical feminism) is more closely tied to Marxism than you might realize. It doesn’t take too much effort to look up what happened during Mao’s cultural revolution in China during the 1960’s to see the parallels with what is going on in the Western World today. The problem is that too many people have no idea about history (American and European, let alone the rest of the world) and so are doomed to repeat it, as the saying goes. But I have a felling that you know that, right?
To equate the modern-day American left wing with the horrors of the “Cultural Revolution” is nuts. Allowing gay people to marry is not the same as jailing and torturing people because they were insufficientI hope you don’t tell this stuff to your students.
Can you even explain what critical race theory is? Or even Marxism? I haven’t seen anyone make the connection, apart from right-wing culture warriors who have little idea of what those things mean. If you ask them, they will give ridiculously uninformed answers.
To see how an actual Marxist discusses the (lack of) connection, see
https://www.midwesternmarx.com/articles/why-critical-race-theory-is-not-marxism-by-paul-so
My same point stands as to “gender theory” and “radical feminism” — do you know even what those things mean?
“However, in the intervening decades, cultural Marxism has made huge inroads into Western society. This is manifested especially by critical race theory, gender ideology and radical feminism.”
Critical race theory? Really??
There is no subject so immense and all-important, that this site can’t trivialize by using it for small-minded potshots at present-day liberals.
Marx was the most influential economic theorist of the 19th century. He was the first to demonstrate the boom-and-bust tendency of capitalism, and its tendency to concentrate wealth in fewer and fewer hands. Nobody disputes those points now. His “proletarian revolution” never happened because the industrialized nations realized how correct he was and took steps to prevent it. Social security, antitrust law, the welfare state — all these were put in place by capitalists and they succeeded in smoothing out capitalism’s rough edges so that it survived.
The Russian Revolution called itself Marxist but in fact was not in any sense what Marx had predicted, that the proletarian revolution would happen at the end stage of capitalism. In Russia, a backward country which had abolished feudalism only in 1861, capitalism had barely gotten started.
The idea of government ownership of the means of production was given a bad name by Lenin and Stalin but in fact has turned out to be successful (and even necessary) in countries with a democratic tradition. Today the happiest, wealthiest countries on the planet practice a kind of modified communism in the context of parliamentary democracy. Norway is the prime example, though there are others. The Church condemned Marxism before it had even been practiced anywhere, because it was in bed with (sometimes literally) the entrenched aristocracy which Marxism threatened. But the Church is o.k. with these modern systems.