Signs Of The Times
There are many Priests and theologians who believe that the messages given at Akita to Sister Agnes Sasagawa is connected to the messages given to the three young seer's at Fatima Portugal. One of the reasons being that in 1969 while Agnes was recovering from an illness in hospital a Priest heard Agnes say the Fatima prayer at the end of each Decade. This confused the Priest for though he recognised the origins of the prayer it had not yet been released to the people in Japan, Agnes told him that her Guardian Angel had instructed her to pray that particular prayer.
As this particular apparition has been written previously in our archives, let us take a closer look at the actual messages given through Sister Agnes to spread throughout the world.
Here Sister Agnes describes what she saw as she prayed in the chapel on the Feast of the Sacred Heart. "Suddenly, I saw a blinding light shining from the tabernacle. I immediately prostrated myself in adoration and when I lifted my eyes, I saw a soft light which enveloped the altar like a mist or a dense smoke in which appeared a cohort of angels turned towards the Blessed Sacrament whose pure and clear voices proclaimed "Holy, Holy, Holy". On my right I could hear a voice praying alongside my own: " Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, present in the Holy Eucharist, I consecrate my body and soul to be entirely one with Your Heart, being sacrificed at every instant on all the altars of the world and giving praise to the Father, pleading for the coming of His Kingdom. Please receive this humble offering of myself. Use me as you will for the glory of the Father and the salvation of souls. Most Holy Mother of God, never let me be separated from Your Divine Son. Please defend and protect me as Your special child. Amen."
Sister Agnes belonged to the Servants of the Holy Eucharist and her life was mainly spent in contemplative prayer, she was no different from any other of her fellow Sisters but God would touch Sister Agnes in profound ways and also to warn the world of coming chastisements if people did not amend their ways. This devout Sister would also receive the Stigmata which are the wounds of Christ given to chosen souls, the Stigmata has only been given to the most holy Saints in the Church.
As Sister Agnes was having her bandage changed on her hand which had begun bleeding with no due cause she heard the voice of an Angel say to her: " Do not fear. Pray with fervor not only because of your sins, but in reparation for those of all men. The world today wounds the most Sacred Heart of Our Lord by its ingratitude's and injuries. The wounds of Mary are much deeper and more sorrowful than yours. Let us go to pray together in the chapel." When Agnes turned to look at her Angel who she had not seen before she was stunned to see that it looked like her sister who had died before she was able to be baptized. The Angel though smiled and replied gently to Agnes that it was not her sister saying simply, "I am the one who is with you and watches over you."
Though a little disappointed Sister Agnes accompanied her Angel to the Chapel when suddenly as she knelt in prayer the statue of the Virgin Mary seem to come to life and was bathed in a brilliant light, Sister Agnes then fell to the ground in adoration as our Lady spoke to her, "My daughter, my novice, you have obeyed me well in abandoning all to follow me. Is the infirmity of your ears painful? The wound will be healed, be sure. Be patient. It is the last trial. Does the wound cause you to suffer? Pray in reparation for the sins of men. Each person in tis community is my irreplaceable daughter. Do you say well the prayer of the Handsmaid of the Eucharist? Then, let us pray it together." As Agnes prayed she said "Jesus present in the Eucharist" when our Lady interrupted her and said very gently "Truly Present" and once again Our Lady instructed that this form should be said, "From now on, you will add TRULY." After Sister Agnes had completed her prayers as our Lady requested she heard a voice from Heaven say, "Pray very much for the Pope, bishops and priests. Since your Baptism you have always prayed faithfully for them. Pray very much....very much. Tell your superior all that passed today and obey him in everything that he will tell you."
After hearing Sister Agnes pained increased as she lay prostrate on the floor, she then heard the voice of an Angel say to her, " Your sufferings will end today. Carefully engrave in the depth of your heart the thought of the blood of Mary. The blood she shed by Mary has profound meaning. This precious blood is shed to ask your conversion, to ask for peace, in reparation for the ingratitude and the outrages towards the Lord. As with devotion to the Sacred Heart, apply yourself to devotion to the most Precious Blood. Pray in reparation for all men." Sister Agnes knew that the blood the Angel was referring to was from the statue of Mary which miraculously had blood seeping from it. Sister Agnes had also been suffering from severe deafness as well as the holy Stigmata, but in all humbleness she accepted all pain in quiet and with no resentment.
Our Lady also had warnings for the world which would be given to us through Sister Agnes, as the statue of Mary kept weeping blood from both the eyes and hands. Our Lady said to Sister Agnes these words, "Many men in the world, afflict the Lord. I desire souls to console Him, to soften the anger of the Heavenly Father. I wish, with my Son, for souls who will repair by their suffering and their poverty for the sinners and ungrateful ones." These words are important to reflect on as modernism and other old heresies enter through the back door of our Glorious Church. Our Lady continued on the same theme, "In order that the world might know His anger, the Heavenly father is preparing to inflict a great chastisement on all mankind. With my son, I have intervened so many times to appease the wrath of the Father. I have prevented the coming of calamities by offering the sufferings of the Son on the Cross. His Precious Blood, and beloved souls who console Him forming a cohort of victim souls. Prayer, penance, and courageous sacrifices can soften the Father's anger...Let each one endeavor, according to capacity to offer oneself entirely to the Lord."
On the anniversary of the completion of the apparitions at Fatima Our Lady once again spoke to Agnes with these prophetic words, "As I told you , if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible chastisement on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one has never seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead. The only arms which will remain for you will be the Rosary and the Sign left by my Son. Each day recite the prayers of the Rosary, with the rosary, Pray for the Pope, the bishops and the priests. The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against other bishops. The priests who venerate Me will be scorned and opposed by their confreres... churches and altars sacked: the Church will be full of those who accept compromises and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord. The demon will be especially implacable against souls consecrated to God. The thought of the loss of so many souls is the cause of my sadness. If sins increase in number and gravity, there will no longer be pardon for them..."
When reading the above and contemplating its sincere and grave warning to the world one is also reminded of Scripture, "As he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples approached him privately and said, "Tell us, when will this happen, and what sign will there be of your coming, and of the end of the age?" Jesus said to them in reply, "See that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Messiah,' and they will deceive many. You will hear of wars and reports of wars; see that you are not alarmed, for these things must happen, but it will not yet be the end. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be famines and earthquakes from place to place. All these are the beginning of the labor pains. Then they will hand you over to persecution, and they will kill you. You will be hated by all nations because of my name. And then many will be led into sin; they will betray and hate one another. Many false prophets will arise and deceive many; and because of the increase of evildoing, the love of many will grow cold. But the one who perseveres to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the world as a witness to all nations, and then the end will come. "When you see the desolating abomination spoken of through Daniel the prophet standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee to the mountains, a person on the housetop must not go down to get things out of his house, a person in the field must not return to get his cloak. Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days....for at that time there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will be. And if those days had not been shortened, no one would be saved; but for the sake of the elect they will be shortened. If anyone says to you then, 'Look, here is the Messiah!' or, 'There he is' do not believe it. False messiahs and false prophets will arise, and they will perform signs and wonders so great as to deceive, if that were possible, even the elect. Behold, I have told it to you beforehand..."Immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming upon the clouds of heaven with power and great glory...Amen, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. "But of that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone."
As we watch in horror the terrible catastrophes which are inflicted upon the world let us not forget the true evil that is abortion which happens every second of every day somewhere in the world as more and more countries legalize this brutal evil upon the innocents, our unborn babies. When not even Mothers will protect their child, and may try and ignore its existence, God does NOT!
Let us also remain aware of the movement to legalize same sex marriages which is again legalizing SIN as if it were proper and normal behaviour this is NOT what the Church teaches us nor what Scripture instructs us!
Where men and women work hard to earn a decent living for their families in the most poverty stricken countries as the more wealthy corporations pay meager wages to what is becoming a slave trade. Where children as young as 5 are made to work at sewing machines so the more wealthy in society may wear designer labels at what cost to the worker?
Also within our Church which is being attacked outside and also within by the error of modernism and our world becomes more and more secularized, even to banning the reading of the Bible in some countries!
Like Sister Agnes let us also join in prayers of reparation for the sins of men who have little or no conscience for if the Christian refuses to pray and make reparation who will?
I encourage all to read and learn more about the meaning of Akita.
Peace of Christ to ALL
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