The Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Sr. Agnes Sasagawa of Akita, Japan

June, 1988—Vatican City—Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, gives definitive judgement on the Akita events and messages as reliable and worthy of belief

The Messages

Here are the three messages of Our Lady of Akita to Sr. Agnes:
http://www.ewtn.com/library/mary/akita.htm

Thanks for sharing

The main prophecies of this woman were during the Cold War. My mother during this time was part of the Blue Army( Christians praying the Rosary). She would get the magazine too.

They had ten million prayers according to the magazine proably because of each parish that would endorse the prayers at church and home.

I can not think but that these faithful Christians and untold millions more prevented World War Three at that Time. Think of the prayers especially during the missiles of october with Kennedy. It was good he made it public. If people did not know to pray would we be here today in USA. I do not think so.

I remember at the Rosary Rallies( several thousand christians at a time)back then in the sixties and seventies( my last one was 1974?) there was always some layperson handing these magazines out. They truly believed in the importance of pray.

How much more for today. There is a big national prayer rally this October coming up.

19 Sept 1846: Our Lady of La Salette

Posted on 19 September 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Today is anniversary of the apparition of Our Lady of La Salette. Other bloggers will surely present the history. Suffice it that on 19 September 1846 Mary appeared to two shepherd children on a mountain in France and gave them a message for the world.

Here are two parts of the message of Our Lady of La Salette (my emphasis):

God is going to strike in an unprecedented manner. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth! God is going to exhaust His wrath, and no one will be able to resist so many concerted woes… Many will abandon the faith, and the number of priests and religious who will dissociate themselves from the true religion will be great… Many religious institutes will lose the faith entirely and will cause the loss of many souls. The Church will pass through a frightful crisis… The Holy Father will suffer greatly. I will be with him to the end to receive his sacrifice… For a time God will not remember France or Italy because the Gospel of Jesus Christ is no longer known… [But the] prayers, penance and tears of the just will ascend to heaven, and the entire people of God will beg for pardon and mercy and will ask My assistance and My intercession. Then Jesus Christ, by an act of His justice and His great mercy toward the just [will intervene and] then there will be peace, the reconciliation of God with men… Charity will flourish everywhere.. The Gospel will be preached everywhere, and men will make great progress in the faith, because there will be unity among the workers of Jesus Christ and men will live in the fear of God.

This sounds very much like what is going on today.

Rome will lose the faith and will become the seat of Antichrist. … I summon the true disciples of God who lives and reigns in heaven; I summon the true imitators of Christ made man, the one true Saviour of men; I summon My children, My true devotees, those who have given themselves to Me so that I might lead them to My divine Son, those whom I carry, so to speak, in My arms, those who have lived according to My spirit; finally, I summon the Apostles of the Latter Times, the faithful disciples of Jesus Christ who have lived in scorn of the world and of themselves, in poverty and in humility, in contempt and in silence, in prayer and in mortification, in chastity and in union with God, in suffering and unknown to the world. It is time for them to arise and come forth to enlighten the earth.

I don’t know what all of this means, of course, but I find it pretty ominous.