The Marian Movement

In the Catholic Church, Mary is called “Madonna”, Latin word (my domina) what does it mean “my lady”.

Why the cult of the Virgin took such a development in the Roman church?

First of all, in the cult of the Madonna relives the pagan exaltation of the female prince, as creator and giver of life.

Furthermore, in the cult of the Madonna the pagan cult of Isis relives in a concrete way, which was there for two centuries “Holy Mother” of the ancient world.

Iside “who sees everything and can do everything, star of the sea, tiara of life, giver of law and redeemer” she was the deified woman (cult repeated also in other mythologies, see here). She was represented as a young woman, garlanded by the blue lotus of the crescent moon, with his son Horus in his arms. Not a few statues of Isis were
later transformed into images of the Madonna. Even the Druids (pagan priests) honored the wooden statue of a woman, representative in fertility.

Another reason is to be found in the heresies that denied the divinity of Jesus. To combat these heresies, the Church has emphasized the divinity of Jesus, and this over time led some to divinize the mother of Jesus as well.

But, mostly, the cult of the Madonna is the cult of the human creature in what it believes to have more noble. Through the cult of the Madonna, man says to God: “You, to act, you needed us. It is therefore not true that humanity is lost without remedy, if she was able to express a being as perfect as the Queen of Heaven, Madonna”. Jesus would therefore have died for us in vain.

The Catholic Church teaches to invoke Mary by calling her: Regina, Mother of mercy, Vita,
Sweetness, Our hope, my most holy Queen, Light of the soul, my Lawyer, My hope, my Protection, my Shelter, my Consolation and Happiness.

Ma la Mary of the Bible, the humble and blessed mother of the man Jesus, it is not Our Lady, divinity created later by the clergy on the basis of the figure of Mary.

The Marian Movement is overflowing with kind and upright people, che dethey truly seek peace on Earth. Many feel offended by the moral atrocities that plague our society and hope that God, through the Virgin Mary, put an end to horrors such as war, the genocide, abortion, euthanasia and moral degradation.

Numerous individuals within the Marian Movement are at the forefront of fighting those moral crimes that are destroying society and have an active faith fueled by prayer and ministry. When yes it is around many of the Marian Movement, there is enthusiasm and expectation in the air. They believe that God will move soon
powerfully through the Virgin Mary, to overcome evil and bring peace.

Jesus said the world would recognize His followers by their love and good fruit in their lives (Giovanni 13:35; Matteo 7:15-20).

Consequently, the followers of the Marian Movement often point to good fruits, to the love and the transformed lives of those who are within the movement, to prove that all of this comes from God. This is the biblical exam to recognize the followers of Christ, but it is not the biblical method of testing spirits.

The Bible commands us to try spirits, warning us that there is another Gospel, a false gospel:

"But even if we or an angel from heaven preach to you a different gospel from the one we have preached to you, be anathema ". (Galati 1:8).

therefore, if on the one hand it seems that there are many God-fearing individuals within the Marian Movement, on the other this does not necessarily mean that the apparitions come from God. It is necessary to prove the spirits with the Word of God.

Dear, do not believe every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God:; because many false prophets have arisen in the world. (1Giovanni 4:1)

Without a doubt, the apparition of Mary has always focused attention on Rome. For more than a thousand years, many Popes were devoted followers of the apparition of Mary. For example, Pope John XXII had an apparition that ordered him to make it known to all that on the Saturday after his death, it would have freed from purgatory all those who would have worn the Carmelite scapular. This was proclaimed in a papal bull and was confirmed in the following years by Alexander V, Pio V, Gregory XIII and Paul V. Since then millions of Catholics have worn the scapular.

The apparition of Mary assisted the papacy even in times of need. For example, when Pope Pius IX in 1854 he proclaimed the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, there was concern that this doctrine would not be received positively by many Catholics. however, in 1858, just four years after the declaration of the doctrine, the Our Lady of Lourdes appeared with the greeting

"I am the Immaculate Conception."

Until then no apparition had ever referred to itself in that way e, in this way, the Immaculate Virgin in "person" gave a supernatural confirmation to his declaration.

In the 1870, just before Pius IX introduced it the doctrine of Papal infallibility, he received confirmation from an apparition who told him to proceed with the proclamation of the dogma. She also assured him of her step-by-step assistance. Of course Pius IX is only one of a long list of Popes who are said to have been helped by the Queen of Heaven in times of difficulty.

In his encyclical entitled The Pilgrimage of Lourdes (The Lourdes pilgrimage), Pope Pius XII recognized the inextricable link between the Popes and the apparition of Mary. The 2 July 1957, this Pope declared:

“This century of Marian devotion also has, in a certain way, woven close links between the see of Peter and the sanctuary in the Pyrenees, bonds that we are happy to recognize ".

His official encyclical was issued in Rome, from San Pietro, during the feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin. During Pius XII himself he explained how the apparitions in Lourdes played a crucial role in confirming Catholic dogma:

The fiftieth anniversary of the definition of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin gave Saint Pius X the opportunity to testify in a solemn document of the historical connection between that act of the Magisterium and the apparitions in Lourdes. – “Pius IX” – he wrote – “he had just defined as part of the Catholic faith the fact that Mary coughed from her origins free from sin, when the Virgin herself began to perform miracles in Lourdes " . The Virgin Mary herself desired this bond: “What the Sovereign Pontiff defined in Rome through his Infallible Magisterium, it seems that the immaculate Virgin Mother of God, blessed among women, he wanted to confirm it with the proposing words when, soon after, it manifested itself at the cave of Massabielle…

Pius IX, Pius X and Pius XII are among those, in the long list of Popes, who report the importance of the apparitions of the Queen of Heaven and how these supernatural manifestations have helped the Roman Catholic Church through the centuries.

The Catholic priest and seer Father Stefano Gobbi she received several messages from Mary confirming her manifestations worldwide, Here is an example (message 31 December 1984):

“With the extraordinary signs that I am giving in every part of the world, through my messages and with my frequent appearances, I'm showing everyone the approach of the great day of the Lord "

Although the messages during the apparitions are given in every part of the world, it is not surprising that these messages are received essentially by Catholic visionaries: in fact, it is the Church of Rome that has been guided through the centuries by the apparition of Mary.

While the Queen of Heaven makes it very clear that she has come for ALL her children, not just for Catholics, non-Catholics who skeptically visit the places of the apparitions often discover that they too have been touched by the Queen of Rome. This caused many non-Catholics to convert to the Roman Catholic faith.

So, when the Queen promotes unity, it means unity under his Church. Considerate
the following message received from Father Gobbi, head of the Marian Priestly Movement. This message was distributed to beyond 100.000 member priests, to numerous bishops, archbishops and cardinals and millions of lay followers around the world. The message also carries the Imprimatur (Message given in Melbourne 27 October 1980):

A true reunification of Christians is not possible, unless it happens in the perfection of truth. And the truth has been kept intact only in the Catholic Church, who must preserve it, defend it and proclaim it to everyone without fear.

But the apparition of Our Lady is not only present in the Catholic Church, as she wants to make people believe in the apparitions, but also in Islam, in the New Age, in Buddhism and Hinduism (see here) and under various names and aspects. It is not surprising in fact that we have MANY MADONNAS, also in our country, many appearances under different aspects, and they all incite people to pray to her, to build shrines for her, to trust in her who gives salvation and gives grace, and its purpose is to REUNIFY ALL THE FAITHFUL UNDER HIS NAME, as it says in this message to Akita:

ONLY I can still save you from the approaching calamities. Those who put their trust in me, will be saved.

But what does the Bible say about it?

The Lord is my rock, my fortress, my deliverer; my God, my cliff where I take refuge, my shield, MY POWERFUL SAVIOR, my high shelter. O my Savior, you save me from violence! I called upon the Lord who is worthy of all praise and was saved from my enemies (2 Samuele 22:2-4).

For those with a minimum of biblical knowledge, finally, it is useless to post all the parts of the Bible where God condemns praying to other people and contact with the dead, Jesus is our only intermediary:

In fact there is only one God and also one mediator between God and men, Jesus Christ man (1 Timoteo 2:5)

Jesus Christ is the one who died and, even more, is resurrected, he is at the right hand of God and also intercedes for us. (Romans 8:34)

God sent his only son to save humanity once and for all:

“Jesus, after bidding one sacrifice for sins, and forever, he sat on the right hand of God, and he waits only for his enemies to be placed as a footstool. Now, where there is forgiveness of these things, THERE IS NOT’ MORE NEED OFFER FOR SIN (Jews 10:12-14, 18).

Marian messages go against the Word of the Lord, is as if the sacrifice on the cross of Jesus our Savior, it hadn't helped:

How does this apparition allow itself to go against the Word of God? E’ It is obvious that Mary, mother of Jesus, is not hidden behind it, his humble servant who never declared herself a goddess in the Gospel, it is obvious that behind it there is a demonic entity aimed at driving away the faithful (even the elect as it is doing with the Catholics).

Who goes ahead and does not remain in the teaching of Christ, has not God. He who abides in the doctrine, He has the Father and the Son. (2Giovanni 9)