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***I am not trying to change your mind but I do hope that you will note that no Catholic is required to believe in any of the apparitions of Mary.***

I fully understand and appreciate what you are saying.

My concern is that these events are, by nature, supernatural events. They must therefore be subject to the highest scrutiny. Paul warned us of supernatural messengers when he said...

"But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed."

And this is the heart of my concern. The Gospel is that we can come to God through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ alone.

This apparition is telling people that now God wants them to come another way - through her! She (or it!) says...

"My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the road that will conduct you to God."

But Jesus said HE was the way! And that no one could come to the Father except through him.

"I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

To me this sounds like a different gospel and if it is then whatever or whoever is delivering it is accursed according to Paul. He did warn us that...

"Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light."

I know that the Church does not officially sanction or require belief in this. But the fact that unofficially is is accepted and promoted is chilling.

This is not an opportunity for Protestants to attempt to hijack a Caholic thread to instruct Catholics as to what Protestants imagine Catholics ought to believe. I don't tell you how to practice your faith. I don't need to be told how to practice mine.

I don't doubt that you are trying to share with Catholics what is most precious to you: your non-Catholic faith. Our common beliefs are far more numerous than our differences but, unless you convert to the Church of our ancestors (the RCC), our differences are still going to be our differences.

May God bless you and yours.