Should parents be afraid for their children amid prophecies?

Many of those who choose to ignore apocalyptic prophecies because of fear for their families, particularly their children, are not left without counsel… .from the Blessed Virgin Mary herself.

Possessing full knowledge of dire prophecies revealed to them by the Blessed Mother, the visionaries of Medjugorje could have opted for celibacy and entered convents and seminaries and there do nothing but pray that most would be saved from eternal damnation in the face of apocalyptic times.

Yet, while they were too young for marriage when they first encountered the Blessed Mother in 1981, all the Medjugorje visionaries later married and now have grownup children.

Indeed, Mirjana, one of the visionaries, once advised people “not to be afraid to have children.” Nay, she said that people would be mistaken not to have children for fear of prophesied tribulations and that to have more children would be a good option.

Mirjana disclosed this in an interview by Sr. Emmanuel Maillard, the French nun who has lived in Medjugorje since 1989, saying this was what she learned from the Blessed Mother herself.

Like other mystics I have so far quoted in this column, the Medjugorje visionaries are also aware of what is to unfold in the coming many years past the tribulations- that which is the only prophecy during the Marian Fatima apparitions that has yet to be fulfilled: the triumph of the Blessed Mother Immaculate Hear t .

“When the secrets are revealed, people will understand why it was so important for them to have many children. We are all waiting for the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary,” Mirjana told Sr. Maillard.

Fr. Jozo Zovko, the parish priest of Medjugorje during the first years of the apparitions of the Blessed Mother, was aware of what Mirjana was talking about.

On April 23, 1992 he referred to the era of the triumph of the Immaculate Heart when he told Sr. Maillard: Hereendsagreat war which in Europe began with the arrival of Communism.

Here, the prophecy of Fatima, with respect to the conversion of the world and of the debacle of the atheistic communist regime is justified, is carried out.”

More, Fr. Jozo said: “And here where Communism and evil were perhaps the most deeply rooted, here where the

introduction of alien species. Human activity is the main reason for the species population decline.

Mount Arayat itself has already experienced a decline in species. Wild animals are no longer as abundant as before. It’s a good thing it has been declared a protected area, but we cannot leave its protection solely to government. The public must also share in this responsibility.