The priests Antonio María Domenech and Álvaro Cárdenas ask for greater pastoral care of Garabandal – where the Virgin could have appeared between 1961 and 1965 – on the day when 60 years of the second message are turned.
On June 18, 1965, the Virgin Mary would have addressed Conchita González, one of the four seers, with these words:
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“As it has not been fulfilled and my message has not been announced much on October 18, 1961, I will tell you that this is the last. Before, the Cup was filling, now, it is overflowing. Many cardinals, bishops and priests go along the path of perdition, and with them they lead many more souls. The Eucharist is increasingly given less importance. You should avoid the anger of God. If you apologize with sincere soul, he will forgive you.
For more than half a century, the judgment of the Church on the events that occurred in Spain was that “supernaturality did not consist. After the publication in May 2024 of the new Rules to proceed in the discernment of alleged supernatural phenomenaCardinal Víctor Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the doctrine of faith, presented last September that “Garabandal, such as El Escorial (NDD alleged Marian appearances not approved by the Church, initiated in June 1981) and other cases, has received a It is not agreedit is not a constant no —constant that is not supernatural – but a It is not agreedthat is, there are no elements to get to this conclusion. ”
To this, he added: “The non constant It was given in other times, it could now correspond to various determinations that are described in the new standards. It can be a total prohibition or may be, for example, what is called curator¸ which means that public cult is not allowed. ”
Cardinal Fernández said that “nothing is allowed that has a relationship between messages and appearances, but there may be a private cult”, so that “it is admitted that people go to the place to pray and then go to Mass in a parish.”
“They have not taken care of things”
In statements to ACI Press, Fr. Álvaro Cárdenas, presbyter of the Diocese of Getafe and Devoto of the Virgin of Garabandal, regrets that, from the pastoral point of view, in Garabandal “they have not taken care of things”, so that “there are very pious, very faithful people” and, at the same time, “sedevacantist people or the new era.” In his opinion, this carelessness has facilitated that “the devil has sneaked around.”
Thus, the precautions of the Church when qualifying what happened would refer to “external things that have been added to the phenomenon of Garabandal, but not to the facts of Garabandal, or to the message.”
In this sense, the priest adds that “with a pastoral care of the Church and with adequate pastoral care and with adequate preaching incorporating the message, as all that could be avoided, as has happened in Medjugorje”, where pilgrim frequently.
“The Franciscans have taken care of it very well, they have protected it very well, they have avoided excesses and deviations. You are going to medjugorje and receive the message with a purity. This is what you have to do,” he emphasizes.
Fr. Antonio María Domenech, incardinated in the Diocese of Cuenca and known for his SOCIAL NETWORK ACTIVITYjust published Garabandal, before it’s too late: testimony and hope (For sale In Latin America and the United States y In Spain).
It is a kind of simple manual that tries to publicize this devotion “with a informative, but well -founded” language, so that it allows “understanding the message and history of the Virgin’s appearances,” he explains to ACI Press.
Regarding the pastoral care of the place, Fr. Domenech agrees to point out that, “as a doctor in canon law, the behavior of the diocese (of Santander) in respect of this issue should not have been as it is”, but prefers not more abound in the issue by not belonging to that ecclesiastical demarcation.
Notice, miracle and punishment
The notice, the miracle and the punishment, are three of the most notable elements of the messages that would have received the four girls between 10 and 12 years in San Sebastián de Garabandal, a remote village of the Santander mountain, in northern Spain.
Very summarized, Fr. Domenech states that “there are three announced events, one that refers to the consciousness of each one, which is the warning, that we will all know that we have all had it and that it will have come from heaven, and it will not be possible to explain if it is not like something supernatural.”
After that notice, “in less than twelve months, there will be a miracle in ‘Los Pinos’ (main place of the appearances) that everyone can see and that will be announced eight days before by Conchita.”
Thus, “after a prudential conversion time, if the world does not change, a punishment will come” that will be avoidable, as the one announced to Nineveh after the preaching of the prophet Jonah.
Fr. Cárdenas states that this punishment is a consequence of God “respecting the freedom of man: if you want to continue separating you from me, that I am the source of life, you have to drink the chalice of death that is the consequence of sin.”
As with the original sin in paradise, it would not be “an extrinsic punishment of God, but the suffering of human” because “if man already in the last chance and offer of his mercy rejects it, then God has to respect the freedom of man and let him drink the chalice that man has chosen, which is the chalice of suffering and destruction.”
“The ‘Ven Lord Jesus’ has to happen soon,” says Father Domenech
An essential detail about this sequence of events allegedly announced by the Virgin in Garabandal, is that Conchita, who is today 76, will have to warn a week in advance of the day of the miracle.
Given the longevity of life in Spain, there is a question about whether that final notice and miracle will happen in the next twenty years, approximately.
In the opinion of Father Domenech, “the events of the world accelerate more than what lasts the life of Conchita. The situation of the world is urgently urgently urgently urged, but not because Conchita is going to die, but because everything is after the street.
The presbyter recalls that it is something is asked at the Mass every day when the phrase is pronounced “we announce your death, we proclaim your resurrection, see Lord Jesus”, and that “it is not a spiritual way of speaking.”
Nicolás de Cárdenas
Born in 1980, I am a Spanish and journalist’s husband and father with more than 20 years of experience in print and digital media, specialized in socio -political and religious information. I have worked more than 10 years in defense of human rights and I have accreditations in journalism and comprehensive communication. Since July 2022, I am a correspondent for ACI Press and Ewtn News in Spain, covering international events of the Catholic Church.