Juan's visit to Ave Maria Shrine, Prairie Ronde & Immaculate Conception Church, Washington Louisiana, April 21-22, 2007

She thanked everyone for building the Ave Maria Shrine in Prairie Ronde and Our Lady said, "This shrine is also built in heaven. She said, "Many blessing and healings will take place here."  She said, "She will come to this Shrine every month.  She will be present in body and soul from 6:00 p.m. to 6:05 p.m.on the First Saturday of every month and she will be taking all our petitions to heaven!

"Tell all of my children I am the Mother of all, black, white, rich and poor, believers and non-believers." Juan said, " These experiences are not just for myself but for us all.  She gives a call to sacrifice.  The principal call is to conversion!   To live a good life, a life of sanctity."

Juan was born into a very religious Catholic family that was very devoted to Our Lady.  He would pray very often in front of a 400 year old picture of Our Lady of Mount Carmel at his church.   From the time that he was very young Juan would have different dreams of Our Lady.  Our Lady began to talked to him in his dreams and she did tell him that his parents would separate and that he would have to suffer much because of it. He had to live out on his own as a young teenager with no place to live and not much to eat.  At the age of 17 he began to see her and 6 months before he saw her, Our Lady told him in a dream that he would see her. The day he saw Our Lady for the first time Juan had gone to confession that morning and at the time of Holy Communion he thought for some reason he shouldn't be fasting before Communion and did not think he should receive but then thought it would be okay because he was really hungry.  At the time he did not know his faith very well or  he did not know about the Eucharist like he does now.  Then he got angry with himself because he thought he hadn't done what Our Lady wanted.  So he went off by himself.  He then saw a woman that he thought looked like Our Lady but she looked real; she was of flesh.  She was dressed very, very different from the women today, very refine, very elegant.  She was dressed like Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal.  Her veil was white, a blue mantel and  her dress was beige.  Her eyes impressed him the most because they were so penetrating as if they came into him and then back to her.  Her face was beautiful.  The most extraordinary thing was that her feet were not on the ground, they were elevated. Everything else looked very natural.  Her hair was medium brown.  Everything was very human, no rays of light like in the dreams and then when he saw her eyes he realized it must be Our Lady.  He  saw her for fifteen minutes.  He spoke to her and said, "Holy Mother, I will become a priest as long as you don't leave me alone. " So at that moment she smiled.  So he knelt and prayed to her.  When he got up she started to fade away.  He thought that if he saw the Mother of God there must be a God.  He thought it was noon time and he was not sleeping.  At the time he was living with a Jehovah Witness family and they put many doubts in his head about the Catholic Faith.  When he saw Our Lady all the doubts went away.  He went home and and said to them, "Nobody can take away my faith in Jesus and Our Lady."  The woman in the home was said, "Why?"   Juan said, "Because I saw Her(The Blessed Mother)."  The woman said, "No, that was the devil."  Eight days later during a lot of self doubt, he did a lot of crying because he thought he was not the best person Our Lady could appear to, he did not even know the Rosary.  So he told his friends and they started to pray the Rosary.  She appeared during the Rosary and she did not say anything.  After eight more days she appeared to him after he said the rosary. She then spoke to him and said, "My son continue to seek me"  He was very emotional and moved in seeing her and that he was also able to hear her and it was a very beautiful voice.  Very profound and she has continued to appear to him.  He sees her as different vocations, Our Lady of Lourdes, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Our Lady of Guadelupe, etc. Mostly she is dressed in white, similarly dressed like Our Lady of Fatima.  Her dress is white and she has a white sash around her waist.  The forth time he saw her, she said, " My son I am here to prepare you for a mission from my Son to prepare the world with regard to prayer the Holy Mass and to explain to me  the meaning of prayer. " After that within one year he saw her in his own apartment early in the morning.  He was not living with Jehovah Witnesses.  He had only seen her in a church.  On Sept 7th she appeared as Our Lady of Fatima.   He couldn't believe she was in his own apartment.  He could not see her face so he said, " Holy Mary, Mother of God, if you are the Mother of God let me see your face. " He saw her smiling and he saw her face and still he had doubts.  She said. "My son why can't you believe it is me? Is it that you can't believe that my Celestial Father has chosen many children around the world to see me and I will continue to appear to you in many places and I will promise that you will find yourself  in a group one day and all those present will see me!"  That has not happened yet!  She said, " Now my son I will show you what the sin of disobedience is." And at that moment he was blinded.  He said, "Mother give me back my sight."  He made it to the bathroom and then he was able to see. Then she said, "Now my son I will show you that in your path you will find many souls that are full of leprosy of sin."  So for about a minute or so, Juan was able to see his own soul full of leprosy.  He did not know if it was better to be blind or full of leprosy.  So it finally went away and she said, " My son don't worry I am with you."  He thought he was being punished because of the doubt he had.  Today because of many things Our Lady has said that it is a message she intends to give to all of humanity because when we disobey this happens to us.  It leaves us in the darkness. The world continues to walk in darkness and because we can't see we fall.  We alienate what our Church is trying to teach us for 2000 years. We disobey and fall into darkness and sin. Sin fills our soul with leprosy. Many mystics say that they see many souls with light and clothed in white in heaven,  no leprosy.  So we have to stay in vigilance because heaven will not take us in the state of leporsy. She has told Juan it is  important to know the Ten Commandments of God. She told me it was so important to know the commandments and to live them.  Our church is brought together with those laws but how are we going to do that if we do not know the commandments. In Orlando, while Juan was doing a retreat with the religious he asked them who knows all the commandments.  They put their heads down and said we know them but not it any special order.  We need to know them and we need to live them.  This is law that God has given us from the very beginning of our salvation. Because of the law of Moses, Jesus and Our Lady say this is the order we need to follow for our salvation in Christ.  So after those intense eight months Juan stopped seeing Our Lady for two years and she told him it would be necessary to have the dryness and he said, Why? She said, " Later I would understand."  She said, " If I needed her in any desperate situation to invoke her and she would come."  One year he saw her quickly and the second year two times very quickly.  In Bogota Columbia in prayer group he was talking about Our Lady and she appeared with an angel and she said, "My son I will never ever leave you again. You will see me every Saturday and this angel you find here next to me you will see him daily because he will help you to block the path of satan.  He will help you discover God's mysteries.  The experiences have been extraordinary.  In the beginning when he would pray and she would appear and even if he did not pray but usually when he prayed she would appear.  She would say, "My son let us go and take the presence of my son in many different places."  She has talked about a lot different topics with regard to the Church, with regard to the youth and the children, with regard to the old. We are  all her children and she has talked much about the importance of the Holy Eucharist.   She has said that her Son is truly present in the Eucharist.  In the Philippines Juan was in Adoration and Our Lady of Mount Carmel appeared without the Baby Jesus.   She then went to the Blessed Sacrament  picked up the Blessed Sacrament and when she picked up the Blessed Sacrament  it transformed into the child, Jesus.  We look for Jesus in many different places and we don't look for him in the Blessed Sacrament. Our Lady said," He is my boy that is there."  The angel has explained the mysteries of God are so great that he is transformed and into millions of host throughout the world and we are so so special to receive him;  and often we go very indifferent to receive him.  Our mind is on other things, such as it is almost time to go.  It's at that moment that we should recognized his presence.  Our Lady  has appeared to Juan kneeling before the Blessed Sacrament.  She and the angel have said if you want to live a true conversion it is important to go to confession every eight days.  In Orlando he was talking about going to confession every eight days and one of the ladies said, "What am I going to confess every eight days?  I go to daily Mass, I say the rosary.  I do all I can do.  What will I confess?"  Juan was amazed at her question.  So he asked Our Lady and she said, "The woman doesn't have the consciences of her sins and that happens."  If we examine the life of the saints we would see that they went often to confession.  St. Bridget would go twice  day.  It is a way to live a true conversion to purify us; for the souls that want to live that ongoing conversion.   Our Lady has explained that the Sacrament of Confession was instituted by her Son, Jesus.  It was instituted when he said,
 " Those sins you say are forgiven they are forgiven and those you hold retained the are retained. " So it was Jesus who instituted the sacrament of confession.  It wasn't the Pope it was Jesus, God.  Sometimes people say that priest is a bigger sinner than they are.  How can we go to him for confession?  That priest has to give credit to God.  But that priest has what we don't have and that is the grace to forgive sins.  God has given us testimony of this sacrament.  St. Padre Pio, a priest of God, has shown  the great mysteries in the sacrament and if God would have wanted this done privately he would have said so.  He wanted it to be through a priest to receive that grace of forgiveness.  When we fast and pray we will be able to revert the laws of nature.  Our Lady has asked us to fast on bread and water from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., no butter etc.  In the beginning she said to fast on Fridays now she wants us to fast on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.  If someone can't fast they should offer their pains and sufferings without complaints. Sometimes it is more difficult. Fasting should be united with prayer and it will help you to not be hungry.  Jesus gave us many examples of fasting and he did this for 40 days himself.  So she is petitioning us to fast one to three days. It is through fasting you will streghthen your soul.  Through prayer and fasting we will have discernment.  Often times we are confused about many things that happen in life and we have to rely on fasting and prayer.  She has also said to not judge, to be kind.  To respect each other, our creeds and our races and truly loving each other as brothers and sisters. She has asked us to pray for the Church and the Pope.  She has spoken about the Holy Rosary and she said that every time we say the Rosary we are offering her a crown of 50 roses, which are the Hail Mary's. We should say it slow and with love.  The angle said that the prayer should come from the heart not from the mind.  The heart is what God will hear.  We should pray with our heart the Holy Mass and the Holy Rosary, all prayers.  One time she said it is enough for one Hail Mary said with love and she would come to us.  If you want to live in my presence we need to pray the Holy Rosary.  We need to be that example and pray from the heart, slowly.  You will attract people.  When you were in love.  Your partner likes to hear that you love them, so it is with the Rosary.  Padre Pio would say 20 rosaries a day because he discovered that supernatural mysteries.  She is asking for at least one a day.  If you want to have peace in your heart, convert your family pray the Holy Rosary with your heart.  The greatest experience is the one you could create with the Rosary.
Juan also gave a retreat at the Ave Maria Shrine in Prairie Ronde the day before and she appeared to him there.  She thanked everyone for building the Ave Maria Shrine and she said that this shrine is also built in heaven.  She said, "Many blessing and healings will take place there.  She said she will be present in body and soul. 6:00 p,m, 6:05 on the first Saturday of every month and she will be taking all our petitions to heaven. When Juan first arrived in Louisiana the angel said, "Go to the next Church you see."
So Jaun saw St. Genevieve Catholic Church.  When he got to the Church  he saw Our Lady standing at the front door of the church.  She said, "Tell my  children that I bless this state and at that very moment underneath her feet was a map of Louisiana and she took off her mantle and extended it over the state. Our Lady said, "She would protect the state of Louisiana and the people with her mantle."  In the Philippines she appeared as Our Lady of Guadelupe and she did the same thing then that same year the tsunami happened.  It was confirmed that the tsunami was headed to the Philippines and it changed directions suddenly and since many had heard the message, even many Bishops they said it was Our Lady who protected them.  Juan has only seen Our Lady touch the ground four times in all the years that he has seen her.  Maracaibo, Georgia the Philippines and the Ave Maria Shrine in Prairie Ronde.  At the Ave Maria Shrine she blessed everyone and she touched the ground.  She turned and walked into the house and she walked into the statue of Our Lady.  When she stands on the ground all these different colors radiate from her.   Juan also said Our Lady has talked a lot about abortions and she said God is very unhappy and often Juan has seen her crying over all the abortions.  We need to support all the pro-life institutions. Many women have come to Juan and told him that after the abortions they couldn't have any children. He has to intercede on their behalf  to Our Lady.   Abortion is such an injustice to a woman. In Portugal they were trying to pass abortion and Our Lady said,  "Don't worry, my angels will fight and Juan was given a vision of a map of Portugal and months later they were able to repeal  abortion but the fight goes on.   Our Lady said man has lost his conscious. Prayer we will begin to deminish violence in the world.  When we loose our spiritual values, violence will reign because society has lost all its morals.  Our Lady said to pray for the families because that is the birth of our society. If we have good  families we will have a good society.  So everything that is happening in our society is due to all the marriages falling apart because it seems likes there is a big epidemic and that it is the cradle of all evil in our society. The violence the prostitutions. It is necessaries to pray for our families.  Our Lady has also said and she has asked me to pray for the unity of Christians because we will be the Christians that will be able to save the world from violence.  Jesus said, "That the Father has asked  that all of us will be one, so the world would know that he has sent me." So that is why we need to be united.  We need unity with our brothers and sisters that have separated.  What John Paul II worked so hard for.  Juan was in Ephesis and she said, "Tell my children that it is so important to pray for the unity of Christians, even in our Church because in a five year period the Church is going to undergo a tremendous confusion due to the immorality.  It is already here but in five years it is going to be worse.  That is the need for prayer and to unite.  Our unity is our stregthen.  If we want to overcome all these immoralities in our Church we must unite because evil is great and it is attacking our children, and our society.   To overcome all evil we need to continue to pray the Rosary,  go to the Eucharist,  Mass and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament as often as possible.  We can liberate our cities and countries with the Rosary.  She has never referred negatively about any country or person. We need to pray for each other.  We must give our enemies our love!
 
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First Saturday of the Month Schedule:
3:00 p.m. Procession of Our Lady,Way of the Cross begins,                        followed by the
20 Decade Rosary, and
6:00 p.m. 6:05 p.m. Our Lady promised to come "Body and Soul"