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MaryCast Specials #75 ( 10min) Play – Dr. Mark Miravalle explains how the message of the Fatima apparition is the ‘Grandmother’ of Marian messages since all earlier apparitions look forward to Fatima and all subsequent ones look back to it.  He focuses on the quintessential message of Fatima that was given to Lucia on July 13th where Our Lady asks for prayers and reparation to save souls from Hell. The apparition continues with a vision of Hell and the suffering of souls there and then a prophecy of the end of World War I, then the Russian Revolution, the spread of Communism, World War II and the annihilation of whole nations. The apparition ends with her request to consecrate Russia to her Heart, do the 1st Saturday devotions and to say the Fatima Prayer at the end of each decade of the Rosary:

O my Jesus,
Forgive us ours sins,
save us from the fires of Hell,
lead all souls to Heaven,
especially those most in need of thy mercy.

Dr. Mark stresses that not all of these prophecies have come to past yet, especially the annihilation of nations. The best way to prevent this is to encourage more people to head her requests and to ask for the declaration of the 5th Marian Dogma.

To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: marycast@airmaria.com

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Kibeho is a small town in South Rwanda, in the current administrative district of Nyaruguru, 162 km from the country’s capital city, Kigali. Kibeho is also the name given to one of the parishes in the diocese of Gikongoro, founded in 1934 and dedicated to Mary, Mother of God. Today, Kibeho is best known as a place of pilgrimages and Marian apparitions, which have been recognized by the Church.

The apparitions of Kibeho began on November 28th, 1981, and came to an end on November 28th, 1989. Our Lady first appeared to Alphonsine Mumureke, a 16-year-old girl, while she was still in high school. Teachers and students found it difficult to believe her and many mocked her. However, some time later other young students also claimed to have had visions: Natalie Mukamazimpaka, a 17-year-old girl who saw the Our Lady for almost two years, beginning in January 1982; and 21-year-old Marie-Claire Mukamgango, to whom the Mary appeared from March to September 1982, giving her the mission of spreading the Rosary of the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin Mary throughout the Church. Four other people claim to have witnessed the apparitions; however, they have not been officially recognized by the Church.
In 1983, the apparitions were interrupted, and only Alphonsine continued to see the Our Lady each year on the 28th of November, until the year 1989.
To all these visionaries, Mary presented herself as the “Mother of the Word” (In the local language: “Nyina Wa Jambo”).

The message that Mary delivered in Kibeho is an urgent appeal to the world, a call for repentance and the conversion of hearts, for sincere prayer, a call to love and to live the faith intensely. But it is above all a call for reconciliation: Mary requests that sin be renounced; she deplores all forms of idolatry, lack of respect, materialism, hypocrisy and sexual immorality.

Mary calls on the world to change while there is still time, advising it against the serious consequences of its current moral state. On October 15th, 1982, the visions were frightful: flowing blood, people killing each other, abandoned dead bodies with no one to attend to the burial. These visions proved to be prophetic in view of the human dramas that took place in Rwanda and the Great Lakes Region between 1994 and 1995 during the civil and ethnic wars between the Hutus and Tutsis. Within only a few months, the genocide claimed 800,000 lives in Rwanda, among whom were 3 bishops and more than 400 priests and religious. Marie-Claire, one the visionaries, was also killed during the massacre.

On August 15th, 1988, Bishop Jean Baptiste Gahamanyi of the Diocese of Butare allowed public worship at the Marian Shrine of Kibeho, and named it “Our Lady of Sorrows”. On June 21st, 2001, the Holy See gave its approval.
Prayer to Our Lady of Sorrows

Holy Mary, Mother of Sorrows, teach us to understand the value of the Cross in our lives, so that we may complete in our bodies that which is lacking in the Passion of Christ, in benefit of His Mystical Body, …

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This devotion to the Our Sorrowful Mother was originated in the Thirteenth century. It recalls the Sorrows the Virgin Mother of God endured in compassion for the suffering and death of her Divine Son.

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This devotion to the Our Sorrowful Mother was originated in the Thirteenth century. It recalls the Sorrows the Virgin Mother of God endured in compassion for the suffering and death of her Divine Son.

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THE CRUCIFIXION

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The Fourth Sorrowful Mystery:   THE CARRYING OF THE CROSS

• One condemned to death by crucifixion is forced to carry the cross to the place of execution.
• The suffering of Jesus is intense as the cross is laid on His bruised and wounded back and shoulders.
• Weak and exhausted from loss of blood, lack of food and rest, Jesus falls three times under the cross.
• Jesus meets His afflicted Mother causing untold anguish in the Hearts of Son and Mother.
• The countenance of Jesus is disfigured with blood and sweat, with dust and spittle.
• Veronica wipes His face, leaving on her towel the image of His countenance.
• Fearing that Jesus might die on the way, the soldiers force Simeon of Cyrene to carry the cross behind Jesus.
• Jesus speaks to weeping women; “Weep not for Me, but for yourselves and your children.”
• “If anyone is to be My disciple, let him take up his cross and follow Me.”
• Father, by the merits of this painful journey to Calvary, have mercy on us and on the whole world.

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THE CROWNING WITH THORNS

• Pilate asks, “Are You a king?” Jesus answers: “I am a King, but My kingdom is not of this world.”
• In the praetorium, the soldiers place an old purple robe on Jesus in mockery of His claim to be a king.
• They fashion a crown out of thorns, and forcefully press it down upon His head.
• In His bound hands they place a reed, as a sceptre, in mockery of His kingship.
• Kneeling before Him in derision, they spit on Him, and cry out: “Hail, King of the Jews!”
• Taking the reed from His hand they strike Him on the head, driving the thorns more deeply into His scalp.
• Pilate brings Jesus before the people, hoping His pitiful sight will soften them: “Behold the man!”
• Their response: “Crucify Him! Crucify Him!”
• Our Blessed Lord submitted to this terrible humiliation to make reparation for our pride.
• Father, by the merits of this painful humiliation, have mercy on us and on the whole world.

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THE SCOURGING AT THE PILLAR

• Jesus is taken before the High Priest where He is falsely accused, buffeted and insulted.
• The Jewish leaders take Jesus before Pilate, for only he can impose the death penalty.
• The robber, Barabbas, is preferred to Jesus.
• Pilate can “find no cause in Him”, yet to appease the Jews, he orders Jesus to be scourged.
• The scourge is made of leather thongs to which are attached small sharp bones.
• Jesus is bound to a pillar and cruelly scourged until His whole body is covered with deep wounds.
• The Lamb of God offers His suffering for the sins of mankind.
• Jesus suffers so much in His sacred flesh to satisfy, especially, for sins of the flesh.
• The prophesy of Isiah is fulfilled: “He was wounded for our iniquities, He was bruised for our sins.”
• Father, by the merits of Jesus in this painful scourging, have mercy on us and on the whole world.

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Homily #091007 ( 08min) Play – Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary – Our Lady gave the Rosary to the Church as a weapon for spiritual combat that has lead to many spiritual and even physical victories.
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