{"id":24296,"date":"2014-09-16T11:28:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T17:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/?p=24296"},"modified":"2014-12-18T11:29:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T18:29:23","slug":"our-sorrowful-mother-ndi-nyina-wa-jambo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2014\/09\/our-sorrowful-mother-ndi-nyina-wa-jambo\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Sorrowful Mother: Ndi Nyina wa Jambo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ndi Nyina wa Jambo <\/em>\u2014 I am the Mother of the Word<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today is the memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows.<\/p>\n

I remember years ago, a constituent of mine, a Hispanic gentleman of great faith, talking to me about all the visitations Our Lady had graced the world with in the past century.<\/p>\n

Something\u2019s going to happen. <\/em>He told me.<\/p>\n

I nodded and pretended to understand, but, in truth, I didn\u2019t. It was only later, when I went to Fatima<\/a>, that the great hidden truth of Our Lord sending His mother to warn and instruct us began to take hold in my thinking.<\/p>\n

At that time, I was unaware that Our Mother had visited her children in Egypt<\/a>, Syria<\/a> and elsewhere<\/a> in the Middle<\/a> East. I had never heard of her prophecy of the Rwandan genocide. But she had visited Rwanda and she did warn them. Our Lady spoke to the people of Rwanda 13 years before the genocide.<\/a> This is from If Only We Had\u00a0Listened<\/em><\/a>, by Immaculee Ilibagiza:<\/p>\n

\u2026 in 1982, all the visionaries reported horrid visions of unspeakable violence, bloodshed, torture, destruction, and thousands of dismembered corpses littering the landscape \u2014 it was a prophetic warning from the Virgin Mary that if Rwandans did not cleanse their hearts of hatred and fill their souls with God\u2019s love, evil would win out and a genocide would sweep across the land. Sadly, the Virgin\u2019s warning became reality: The terrible Rwandan genocide unfolded exactly as she prophesied. \u2026 In 2001, after a twenty-year investigation into the events of Kibeho, the Vatican formally recognized the original three visionaries: Alphonsine, Marie-Claire, and Anathalie. Kibeho has now become the only Vatican-approved Marian site on the African continent, placing the humble village on the same spiritual level \u2026 with \u2026 Lourdes and Fatima.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I didn\u2019t know of this when my constituent talked to me about these things. Later, I only knew about Fatima, and what I knew about that was mostly from my personal experience. I knew that the place was God-soaked, and I knew that God had spoken to me there. From that vague nothing-much of an understanding, I began to learn.<\/p>\n

What I learned was that Jesus repeatedly sent His mother to warn her children of the coming conflagrations of the 20th century. In each of these warnings, she spoke of the horrors of hell and of the great numbers of people who were going to end up there. She encouraged prayer for the conversion of these people.<\/p>\n

Then, she gave what I tend to think of as political warnings: Of the fall of Russia into Communism, of the genocide in Rwanda. Along with the warning, she also provided a solution. Each time, this solution centered on prayer.<\/p>\n

Pray the Rosary, she said at Fatima. Consecrate Russia to my Immaculate Heart, she instructed. She added a call to pray the Rosary of the Seven Sorrows<\/a> at Kibeho. Turn to God and cleanse your hearts of hatred, she instructed Rwanda.<\/p>\n

It is interesting \u2014 and powerful \u2014 that Our Lady spoke of the Divine Mercy when she spoke at Kibeho. The Divine Mercy comes to us through an obscure Polish nun named Faustina Kowalska. Sister \u2014 now Saint \u2014 Faustina was visited, not by Our Lady, but by Jesus Himself.<\/p>\n

He dictated another Rosary to pray to her: The Chaplet of Divine Mercy<\/a>. He also asked for a Divine Mercy<\/a> feast day, which St John Paul II established.<\/p>\n

The one who turns to God in this world, and lives according to God\u2019s will, can, through Divine Mercy, shorten and even avoid his time in purgatory,<\/em>\u00a0Our Lady said at Kibeho.<\/p>\n

Repentance, prayer, love and mercy: Can these things really be the answer to our miseries in this life? Mary said this at Kibeho:<\/p>\n

When I visit someone and speak to them, I am openly addressing all people. If I am now turning to the parish at Kibeho, it does not mean that I am concerned only for Kibeho or for the diocese of Butare, or for Rwanda, or for the whole of Africa. I am concerned with and turning to the entire world. \u2026 Repent! Repent! Repent! \u2026 I am speaking this appeal to the whole world. Today man empties all things of their true value. Those who are continually committing sins are doing so without ever accepting that what they are doing is wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The things Our Mother tells us do not change one word of the Gospels of her Son. They do not add to His teachings. They apply His teaching in a direct way to the challenges of our times. I think of them as the best sermons, the greatest Christian teaching, available to us in this world today.<\/p>\n

Christ has sent us His own mother to teach us how to follow Him in these challenging times when, as the Anchoress<\/a> said yesterday, the \u201ccenter does not hold.\u201d I both agree and disagree with what Elizabeth Scalia, aka, the Anchoress, said in that post.<\/p>\n

Yes, we are flinging ourselves off into chaos, destroying our civilization with the glee of an angry child, knocking over a tower of blocks it took him all afternoon to build. But the center itself is unchanged by this. The center is Christ, and He is holding. We are simply refusing to take the outstretched hand of our Savior and be saved. We would rather thrash around in our self-centeredness and drown for eternity in the final and bitter desserts of our own caprice.<\/p>\n

Repent! Repent! Repent!<\/em> Our Lady tells us.<\/p>\n

Devote yourselves to my Immaculate Heart, pray the Rosary, pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet, pray the Rosary of the Seven Sorrows. Cleanse your hearts of hatred. Fill your souls with God\u2019s love. In other words, chose life, not death.<\/p>\n

Because, Something\u2019s going to happen.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

My constituent told me that, and I nodded in agreement without understanding what he was saying. Now I can answer him more honestly.<\/p>\n

Something\u2019s going to happen.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Yes. It is. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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