Akita and the coming Chastisement
(1973
- 1981)
Apparitions
Approved – An Urgent Message In 1984, just
before retiring at a venerable age, the diocesan Bishop of Niigata, Bishop
Hence
in
Only
a few Catholics know of Our Lady of Akita but the message, like that of
The
first message received by Sister Agnes Katsuko Sasagawa on June 6, 1973, was a call for prayer and
sacrifice for the glory of the Father and salvation of souls. The second
message, August 3, 1973, was for prayer, penance and courageous sacrifices to
soften the Father's anger.
The
third message on October 13, 1973, the actual anniversary of the final visions
and miracle of
"As I told you, if
men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible
punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge,
such as one will never have seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will
wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither
priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they
will envy the dead. The only arms which will remain for you will be the Rosary
and the Sign left by my Son. Each day, recite the prayers of the Rosary. With
the Rosary, pray for the Pope, the bishops and the priests. The work of the
devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see
cardinals opposing cardinals, and bishops against other bishops. The priests
who venerate me will be scorned and opposed by their Confreres. The Church and
altars will be vandalized. The Church will be full of those who accept
compromises and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to
leave the service of the Lord.
"The demon will
rage especially against souls consecrated to God. The thought of the loss of so
many souls is the cause of my sadness. If sins increase in number and gravity,
there will no longer be pardon for them."
In
his pastoral letter approving the events of
Consequently
I authorize that all of the diocese entrusted to me venerate the Holy Mother of
Concerning
the messages, His Excellency said: "As for the content of the messages
received, it is no way contrary to Catholic doctrine or to good morals.
When
one thinks of the actual state of the world, the warning seems to correspond to
it in many points." His Excellency explained that he had taken eight years
to give this judgment because of the importance and the responsibility in
question.
"The Congregation
of the Doctrine for the Faith has given me directives in this sense," the
Bishop said, "that only the bishop of the diocese in question has the
power to recognize an event of this kind."
The
events of
"I have prevented
the coming of calamities by offering to the Father, together with all the
victim souls who console Him, the sufferings endured by the Son on the Cross,
by His blood and by His very loving Soul. Prayer, penance, and courageous
sacrifices can appease the anger of the Father."
To
the little religious community where Our Lady gave the messages, she asked that
it "live in poverty, sanctify itself and pray in
reparation for the ingratitude and the outrages of so many men."
The
apparitions and events in
This
strong light also came from the tabernacle on the feast of
When
Sr. Sasagawa told the Bishop of Akita (who was
visiting the convent on the feast) of this, he advised her to keep it in her
heart. On the Vigil of the Feast of the Sacred Heart that same year, Sr. Sasagawa's guardian angel appeared to her and asked her to
pray the Fatima decade prayer* after each decade of the Rosary. In 1973 this
prayer was not well known in
On
the same occasion as the apparition of her guardian angel, a wound in the form
of a cross appeared in the hollow of Sr. Sasagawa's
left hand and began to bleed. The bleeding ended on the feast of the Immaculate
Heart of Mary. The following Friday, the wound bled and stopped the next day.
This continued for a month. Sister's guardian angel later spoke to her in
chapel. Although nearly deaf, she heard the angel saying: "Pray not only
for yourself, but for the people of all nations. The
world today is wounding the Sacred Heart of Jesus through so much sin and
ingratitude." After hearing this, Sister heard a voice come from the
statue in the chapel: "My daughter, you obeyed me very well; you have
renounced everything. This deafness is a great suffering for you. Have
patience; you will be healed. It is a trial. Pray in reparation for all people.
Pray
much for the Holy Father, for the bishops and the priests."
On
July 6, 1973, a bleeding wound appeared on the right hand of the statue of Our
Lady in the chapel. On other days, the face of the statue bled. Sister's
guardian angel told her: "This flowing of blood is significant. It will be
shed for the conversion of men and in reparation for sins. To the devotion to
the Sacred Heart add the devotion to the Precious Blood." Other messages
followed.
About
a month after seeing the wound in the right hand of Our Lady's statue, Sr. Sasagawa heard:
"My daughter, if you love Our Lord, listen to me. Many people in
the world grieve Our Lord. I ask for souls who will console Him, and who will
make reparation. The Heavenly Father is preparing a great punishment for the
world. Many times I have tried with my Son to soften the anger of the Father. I
presented to Him many atoning souls who make reparation by prayers and
sacrifices. That is what I ask of you. Honor poverty. Live poorly. You must
keep your vows, which are like three nails to nail you to the Cross – the nails of poverty,
chastity, and obedience."
Beginning
on September 20, 1973, the statue began to sweat from the face to the feet.
Tears began to flow down the face. Also, a very pleasant odor was felt in the
chapel. This happened many times in the presence of others, including the
Bishop. In all, the statue wept a total of 101 times. On October 13, 1973, Our
Lady gave Sister Sasagawa this serious message:
"As I said before if mankind does not repent, the Heavenly
Father will inflict a very serious punishment on the whole world; a punishment
the likes of which has never happened before. Many people will perish. Pray the
Rosary often. Only I can prevent the
disaster. Whoever entrusts themselves to me will be saved."
The
statue continued to weep and other messages followed. Pilgrims came and many
received answers to their prayers. Then, in 1981,
This
healing was well documented by Fr. Joseph Oh of
In
his pastoral letter, Bishop Ito said that it would have been difficult to
believe in a message from Our Lady that is so terrible, unless there was
overwhelming proof that it was indeed from Her. But he
points out that the terrible chastisement of which Our Lady speaks is on the
condition: "If men do not repent and do not better themselves . . ."
The Bishop added it is a serious warning, while at the same time one perceives
in it the maternal love of Our Lady. In Her message warning the world of the
annihilation of a great part of humanity, She said:
"The thought of the loss of numerous souls makes me sad."
Repentance:
How
do we repent and better ourselves? Repentance is a "sorrow of heart and
detestation for sin committed with the resolution not to sin again."
(Trent.sess.xiv,chap.4). Once mortal sin has been committed, an act of
contrition must be genuine, must comprise all mortal sins committed, must
spring from a motive that has reference to God and include a hatred of sin as
the greatest of evils (this is the common teaching of theologians). Contrition
is termed perfect when it arises from the pure love of God; by perfect
contrition, sin is forgiven even before it is manifested in the sacrament of
Penance, though the obligation of confession remains.
What
are the sins most prevalent today which are calling down God's wrath upon us?
We see wholesale violations of the first three Commandments.
The
first Commandment: I am the Lord Thy God, thou shalt not have strange Gods before me". In summary, we
find in the Catechism of the Council of Trent, The Catechism of Pope St. Pius X
and the Baltimore Catechism, that the First Commandment forbids idolatry,
superstition, spiritism, tempting God, sacrilege and
sins against Faith by apostasy, heresy, indifferentism and by taking part in
non-Catholic worship." By taking part in non-Catholic worship! This,
indeed, is a powerful indictment against the present ecumenical practice that
has swept through and disfigured the Church since the Second Vatican Council.
The
Second Commandment forbids using the Lord's Name in vain (blasphemy). If we
consult the Catechism of the Council of Trent's treatment of the Second
Commandment, it teaches that those who support heresy, and "distort the
Sacred Scriptures from their genuine and true meaning," are guilty of sins
against the Second Commandment. Thus, those who distort the message of
Scripture, namely Protestants, are in the objective order, guilty of this sin,
because their perversion of Sacred Scripture is irreverence to the Holy Word of
God.
The
Third Commandment deals with keeping holy the Sabbath Day. It is evident for
all to see that Sunday has become a day of business as usual. People doing
unnecessary work, places of business opened with people shopping without any
regard to the Third Commandment which strictly forbids all unnecessary work and
doing business on Sunday.
The
Fifth Commandment: Thou shalt not kill. We see a
blatant disregard for this Commandment in the slaughter of over 3500 babies
every day by abortion with very, very few doing anything to bring about an end
to this human carnage.
The
Sixth Commandment, which violation causes more souls to go to Hell than any of
the other Ten Commandments. The Sixth Commandment is
transgressed in some of the following ways: fornication, homosexuality or
sodomy (Rom. 1:27) (2nd Peter 2:6) (
This
impending chastisement can be averted if enough people pray the Rosary daily
and do penance which Our Lady requested at
After
you have read this urgent message please pass it on to others.
Most Sacred Heart of
Jesus, truly present in the Holy Eucharist, I consecrate my body and soul to be
entirely one with Thy Heart, being sacrificed at every instant on all the altars
of the world and giving praise to the Father pleading for the coming of his
Kingdom. Please receive this humble offering of myself.
Use me as Thou wilt for
the glory of the Glory of the Father and salvation of souls. Most Holy Mother
of God, never let me be separated from Thine Divine Son.
Please defend and
protect me as Thy special child. Amen
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Some Related
Prophesies of the Chastisement
One of just two
or arguably three living seers in the world who have full Church approbation
associated with a major site of apparitions has issued sobering warnings to do
with the future of mankind.
The visionary
is Anathalie Mukamazimpaka
of Kibeho in the small, poor, central African nation of
The
implications for other nations and the world as a whole have not yet
materialized, but indications are that serious events still loom, if it is an
equally accurate prophecy. "I saw mountains crashing into each
other," said Anathalie. "Stones
coming out of the earth, nearly as if they were angry. I saw storms
crashing against each other and fire coming from them. I don't know what this
means. I was told that people are causing this and that it is coming."
Towards the end of the world, tyrants and hostile mobs
will rob the Church and the clergy of all their possessions and will afflict
and martyr them. Those who heap the most abuse upon them will be held in high
esteem. At that time, the Pope with his
cardinals will have to flee
Venerable Bartholomew Holzhauser (17th Century)
The fifth period of the Church, which began
circa 1520, will end with the arrival of the holy Pope and of the powerful
Monarch who is called "Help from God" because he will restore
everything. The fifth period is one of affliction, desolation, humiliation, and
poverty for the Church. Jesus Christ will purify His people through cruel wars,
famines, plagues, epidemics, and other horrible calamities. He will also
afflict and weaken the Latin Church with many heresies. It is a period of
defections, calamities and exterminations. Those
Christians, who survive the sword, plague and famines will be few on earth.
�During this period, many
men will abuse of the freedom of
conscience conceded to them. It is of such men that Jude the Apostle spoke
when he said, "These men blaspheme whatever they do not understand; and
they corrupt whatever they know naturally as irrational animals do." They
will ridicule Christian simplicity; they will call it folly and nonsense, but
they will have the highest regard for advanced knowledge, and for the skill by
which the axioms of law, the precepts of morality, the Holy Canons and
religious dogmas are clouded by senseless questions and elaborate arguments.
These are the evil
times, a century full of dangers and calamities. Heresy is everywhere, and the
followers of heresy are in power almost everywhere, but God will permit a great
evil against His Church: Heretics and tyrants will come suddenly and unexpectedly;
they will break into the Church. They will enter
At that time the Pope, with the cardinals will have to
flee
Abbot Werdin D'Orante
(12th Century)
The great
monarch and the great Pope will precede Antichrist. The nations
will be at war for four years and a great part of the world will be destroyed.
The Pope will go over the sea carrying the sign of Redemption on his forehead.
The great Monarch will come to restore peace and the Pope will share in the
victory.
Merlin, the Berd (
Before the comet comes, many nations, the good excepted, will be scourged by want and
famine. The great nation in the ocean
that is inhabited by people of different tribes and descent will be devastated
by earthquake, storm, and tidal wave. It will be divided and, in great part,
submerged. That nation will also have many misfortunes at sea and lose its
colonies. [
[After the]
great Comet, the great nation will be devastated by earthquakes, storms, and great
waves of water, causing much want and plagues. The ocean will also flood many other countries, so
that all coastal cities will live in fear, with many destroyed.
All sea coast cities will be fearful, and many of them
will be destroyed by tidal waves, and most living creatures will be killed, and
even those who escape will die from a horrible disease. For in none of those
cities does a person live according to the Laws of God.
A powerful
wind will rise in the North, carrying heavy fog and the densest dust, and it
will fill their throats and eyes so that they will cease their butchery and be
stricken with a great fear.
Johannes Friede (1204-1257)
When the great time will come, in
which mankind will face its last, hard trial, it will be foreshadowed by
striking changes in nature. The alteration between cold and heat will
become more intensive, storms will have more catastrophic effects, earthquakes
will destroy great regions, and the seas will overflow many lowlands. Not
all of it will be the result of natural causes, but mankind will penetrate into
the bowels of the earth and will reach into the clouds, gambling with its own
existence. Before the powers of destruction will succeed in their design, the
universe will be thrown into disorder, and the age of iron will plunge into
nothingness.
St. Anna Maria Taigi (d. 1837, recently canonized by Pope
There shall come over all the earth an intense darkness lasting three days and
three nights. Nothing will be visible and the earth will be laden with
pestilence, which will claim principally but not exclusively the enemies of
religion. During this darkness artificial light will be impossible. Only
blessed candles can be lighted and will afford illumination. He who out of
curiosity opens his window to look out or leaves his house will fall dead on
the spot. During these three days the people should remain in their homes, pray
the Rosary and beg God for mercy.
On this terrible occasion so many of these wicked men,
enemies of His Church, and of God, shall be killed by this divine scourge, that
their corpses round Rome will be as numerous as the fish, which a recent
inundation of the Tiber had carries into the city. All the enemies of the Church, secret as well as known, will perish
over the earth during that universal darkness, with the exception of a few,
whom God will soon convert. The air shall be infected by demons, who will appear under all sorts of visible forms.
Pope Pius IX (1878)
Since the whole world is against God and His Church,
it is evident that He has reserved the victory over His enemies to Himself.
This will be more obvious when it is considered that the root of all our
present evils is to be found in the fact that those with talents and vigor
crave earthly pleasures, and not only desert God but repudiate Him altogether.
Thus it appears they cannot be brought back in any other way except through an
act that cannot be ascribed to any secondary agency, and thus all will be
forced to look to the supernatural... There
will come a great wonder, which will fill the world
with astonishment. This wonder will be preceded by the triumph of revolution.
The church will suffer exceedingly. Her servants and her chieftain will be
mocked, scourged, and martyred.
Pope St. Pius X (d.1914)
I saw one of my successors by name fleeing over the
corpses of his brethren. He will flee to a place where he is unknown, but he
himself will die a cruel death.