William Oddie has brought out the significance of the revelations for our own time in an article for the Catholic Herald website. Our Lady spoke of moral decadence that would happen after the middle of the 20th century and said that her message would not become generally known until the 20th century.
Here is a link to a good Q&A on the apparitions by Maria Horvat. The story of Mother Mariana is mindblowing as is the accuracy of the revelations.
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There does seem to be some unresolved problems over this. The text apparently deplores the influence of the masons. Written in about 1600 this precedes the hostility between Church and masonry by over a century. Apparently the oldest copy of this text dates from 1790 which may explain the references to masonry. I would like to know more about its authenticity.
Fr. Tim,
I don't think the references to masonry pose an insuperable problem as far as the Quito messages are concerned. At Fatima, Our Lady warned about Russia just before the outbreak of the Russian revolution. But the Fatima visionaries didn't understand what the word "Russia" meant and Lucia, I think, thought it was a woman's name. Sister Mariana could have heard the word "masonic" and simply thought Our Lady was referring, in some mysterious way, to builders. Its meaning has become clear down the centuries.
This is a false apparation never approved by the Church...a priest in the late eighteenth century received alleged apparations from the nun. It is being used by a virulently anti Vatican Two grouping.There is a good expose on the Catholic Answers web site.
The apparitions of Our Lady of Good Success was approved by the Bishop of Quito, read the Canonical Coronation of the Statue of Our Lady of Good Success & Decree of Marian Sanctuary:
http://gudsuccess.blogspot.com/p/canonical-coronation-of-the.html
On August 8, 1986, Mother Mariana was declared "Venerable" by the Church, the Archbishop of Quito, Antonio J. Gonzalez by issuing an Episcopal decree & opening her Beatification Cause: http://gudsuccess.blogspot.com/p/beatification-cause-of-venerable.html
http://gudsuccess.blogspot.com
But the ultra-traditionalists are using it.
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