(PART 12)
Below is a story of a HOLY COMMUNION MIRACLE.
The vision of Fatima
bring to mind, one of the mystical experience of a dying Nigerian stated below
at pages show that Lord Jesus is present in Holy Communion.In respect of the
role of the Queen Virgin Mother of God in rescuing souls at judgement, during
the hour of death. In this case again repentance was also reflected.
For the Nigerian had
just received the sacrament of the sick,which comprises the sacrament of
reconciliation, Holy Communion and anointing of the sick.
MYSTICISM AND RELIGION
We have spoken of
mystical experiences of people outside Nigeria, in respect of apparitions of
Queen Virgin Mother Mary at Fatima in Portugal.
Below is a true life
experience of a certain dying Nigerian woman narrated when she was granted the
grace of Restoration of life in respect of the Virgin Mother Mary role during
judgement at the hour of death.
STAGE ONE
She states;
Before receiving the Last
Sacrament, I was afraid of dying and leaving behind those I loved. My state was
so serious that the Rev. Father had to force my lips open to massage the Holy communion
on my tongue, softening it with drops of Holy Water, because I was no longer in
a position to swallow anything not even water.
Immediately after
receiving the sacrament I began to fill like a balloon filled with air. I felt
so light as if I was floating and my entire being was porous so that air could
pass through me making me fill as part and parcel of the entire cosmos.
But a feeling of
discomfort filled my entire being gradually draining towards my chest, making me
feel as if I needed to cough. Surprisingly instead of coughing words,
(confessing the sin I had not known was guilt and so had never on my
own confessed them at the sacrament of reconciliation), were forced out of my mouth
and below are the words;
(see James Chapter 5
verses 14 to 18)
“OH LORD I HAVE
FORGIVEN... 1ST PERSON'S NAME”
“OH LORD I HAVE
FORGIVEN 2ND PERSON'S NAME”
The surprising thing
was that my lips had sealed up but through the mystical experience it was able
to pronounce the above word.
At this stage the Rev.
Father intervened, saying;
“Call your God by name
for some people regard & worship other things as their god but you served
the true God; call Him by name, so that He, and He alone will come around to receive
you”
Then I began to shout
out, with an increase feeling of aesthetes is the following
Words;
"My Jesus, I Love
You'"
"Mary My Mother, I
Love You"
All these earlier
experiences occurred at the sacristy of the Church.
STAGE THREE EXPERIENCE
At home at the passing
away hour, my ears were the last to fail me and I could hear those around me
crying that I was dead and they began to send away pregnant women from the room
where I was laid. I could hear them say;
“SHE IS COMPLETELY DEAD
HER BODY IS ALREADY COLD ALL OVER”
Then they left a youth
to sleep in the room while others went off to their apartments.All these
happened after eight years of protracted ill health: She experienced a number of
things but for the purpose of this discourse I shall narrate only the followings:
“When I finally passed
away, I saw a Hydra Headed Monstrous
Creature so large that
one cannot escape its grip, trying to grab me. I then, saw someone by a Scale,
a man whose face portrayed Justice that is neither having a smiling nor angry
look, standing by the scale. The scale was made of glass through which uncountable
quantity of very fine sand was filtering through to the other end. No human can
be counted guiltiness, through such a process. Through all these experiences, I
was no longer in a position to act for myself or even pray.
STAGE FOUR EXPERIENCE
Suddenly prayers began
to be echoed, one from within me saying;
“Jesus, Mary, Joseph I give
you my Heart and my Soul. Jesus, Mary, Joseph assist me in my last agony. Jesus,
Mary, Joseph may I bring forth my Soul in peace with you”
And this prayer
continued to be repeated
The second prayer was
the Canticle of Mary in Luke Chapter One verses 46 to 55 which is enclosed at page
28 of this discourse. As soon as Mary’s Canticle began to be recited, the prayer
itself became fire that surrounded me as well as supplied life to me. My
experience at this time was exactly like that of a premature baby in an
incubator. In other words I was living inside Fire which was also my Source of
Life and this fire was the prayer of the Queen Virgin Mother Mary Canticle: A
prayer she
Recited in the Holy
Bible when she visited Saint Elizabeth and her words said the unborn baby, St
John the Baptist in his Mother’s womb as confirmed in Luke Chapter 1 verse 41.
The moment the prayer
of the Canticle of Mary began to be recited, the scale and the man beside the
scale disappeared from the scene. The most comforting scene was that the hydra
headed monstrous creature could not get at me for the Fire of the Prayer which
surrounded me and supplied Life to me, continued to burn any part of it that it
reached out in attempt to grab me.”
Very many more scenes
were shown to her during the vision but this is the relevant one to this
discourse.
God bless us all. Amen
When she finally came
to, that is back to life, her neighbours began to jokingly call her ‘A
Magician’, for they could not understand the episode that is how she came back
to life. The next day, she narrated her experience to the Rev. Father
who administered the Sacrament of the Sick to her, explaining to him that
there were no members of the Roman Catholic faith in her neighbourhood and
expressed surprise at the prayer of Mary's Canticle.
It was then that the
Rev. Father explained to her that it was the Heavenly army of the Legion of Mary
that has Lord Jesus as the head of the army, St Michael the Archangel and all the
Angels and Saints in Heaven that did the battle.
This Nigerian woman’s mystical
experience is in line with the Holy Bible. For in Genesis 3:15 God declared Mary
the Enemy of Satan and her son Lord Jesus, the conqueror of Satan who crushed
the serpent head. Hence, once the Queen Virgin Mother appears in battle to
contend with Satan,the Head of the army, Lord Jesus Himself crushes the
serpents head on His Mother's behalf.
Again, these the Queen
Virgin Mother's ensured victory over the evil one (Satan) is revealed in
Revelation Chapter 12 which shows us the battle, the support and protection of
Mother Mary whom Satan cannot get to her domain and also revealing Satan's
fruitless attempt to attack her and all those who do the will of god and profess
Lord Jesus Christ.
“And the dragon was
enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the remnant of her seed,
who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ”
(Rev.12:17).
The remnant of her seed
here means all genuine believers (i.e. the body of Christ).
Please read revelation
chapter 12 from verses one to the end that is verse 17.
Her mystical experience
is also in line with the Holy Scriptures in respect of the Sacrament of the Sick
as directed in the passage below taken from James Chapter 5 verses 14 to 18.
“Is anyone among
you sick? Let him call for the elders of the Church,and let them pray over him,
anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will
save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up.”
And
if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Therefore confess your sins to
one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed.
“The
effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
Elijah
was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not
rain; and it did not rain on the land or three years and six months. And he
prayed again, and the heaven gave rain,and the earth produced its fruit”.
(James 5: 14-18)
Her
experience of a glimpse of the reality and the gift of Eternal Life is also in
keeping with the Holy Scriptures for Lord Jesus Himself has said;
“I
am the living bread which came down from heaven.If anyone eats of this bread,
he will live forever;and the bread that I shall give is my flesh, which I shall
give for the life of the world”
(John 6:51).
Her
mystical experience also confirm the reality of hell fire and the evil one who
tries to claim souls at the hour of death as he thought he could claim that
of Moses for the Holy Bible passage below confirms this;
‘Yet
Michael the Archangel, in contending with the devil when he disputed about the
body of Moses, dares not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, “The
Lord Rebuke You”’
(Jude 9)
May Lord Jesus and Mother Mary be
our guide and receive us at the hour of transition from this mortal life to
Immortality of Eternal Life.
May we understand when said, that
man changes his state of being at death or departure of man from this mortal
body.
‘But concerning the dead,
that they rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the burning bush
passage, how God spoke to him, saying, “I am the God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac and the God of Jacob”?
He
is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. You are therefore greatly
mistaken.’(Mark 12:26-27)
And St. Paul says;
“We are confident, yes,
well pleased rather to be absent from the body and ‘o present with the Lord”
(2nd
Corinthians 5:8)
Next week, we will look at the opinions of great scientists on creation, the nature of man and their conclusion.
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