THE UNKNOWN MIRACLE

In 1959 Pope John XXIII mobilized the whole Church (maybe the whole Christian world) in the great cause of Christian Unity. He announced the opening of the Ecumenical Council to aid in his dream of re-uniting the Christian Churches. He invited representatives from the Orthodox and Protestant Churches to attend the Council. They were asked to give whatever advice they could that would aid in uniting the Churches.

The Council implemented many of the changes asked of them by the separated brethren. The rule of thumb seemed to be that if these changes did not compromise faith, make them. Make them out of love. Do whatever could be done for unity. Pope John XXIII then opened a new department in the Vatican called The Secretariat for the Promotion of Christian Unity. He appointed Augustin Cardinal Bea as its head.

It has been fifty years now since Pope John XXIII had the grace to dream of unity, but there has not been one single success in those fifty years. Instead of moving towards unity, divisions within the Church have (popped up). Vocations are falling off. Conversions are at an all-time low. Instead of unity, more divisions. Before Cardinal Bea's death, he was asked what was the main point that kept Christians separated. To the surprise of many, he did not say that it was Filoque or Purgatory or Mary or even a single pope. It was not the Immaculate Conception or Apostolic Succession or married priests. The main thing that separated Christians, said Cardinal Bea, was the concept "Church".

"If Christians could agree on what Christ meant by the term "Church" all the other points of separation would come tumbling down."

Twenty-two years after Pope John had the grace to dream of unity, Our Mother was sent to Damascus to give him a

helping hand. In 1982 She appeared in four apparitions to a young girl named "Mirna" and said that Her mission was to

teach the meaning of the word "Church". Since then Mirna has had a continuous array of ecstasies and messages. The essence of these messages have been about unity.

"THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN ON EARTH IS THE CHURCH. THOSE WHO DIVIDED IT HAVE SINNED. THOSE WHO ARE HAPPY IN THESE DIVISIONS CONTINUE TO SIN.

JESUS ESTABLISHED IT. IT WAS VERY SMALL. WHEN IT EXPANDED IT BECAME DIVIDED. WHOEVER DIVIDED IT HAS NO LOVE.

BE UNITED.

MY CHILDREN, BE UNITED. MY HEART IS WOUNDED. DO NOT ALLOW MY HEART TO BE DIVIDED BECAUSE OF YOUR DIVISIONS.

TELL MY CHILDREN, IT IS FROM THEM I AM SEEKING UNITY. I WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH THOSE WHO ARE PUTTING ON AN ACT, PRETENDING TO WORK FOR UNITY.

Concerning faith, the divisions of the Church had many causes, but two doctrines stand out: the Trinity and The

Mother of God. This is what has been said at the Miracle of Damascus about these two doctrines. The first of these two messages was on the feast of Mary's birth.

"I AM THE CREATOR. I CREATED HER TO GIVE ME LIFE. REJOICE FOR HEAVEN IS REJOICING, BECAUSE THE DAUGHTER OF THE FATHER, THE MOTHER OF THE SON, AND THE BRIDE OF THE SPIRIT IS BORN."

"MY DAUGHTER, SHE IS MY MOTHER FROM WHOM I WAS BORN, HE WHO HONORS HER HONORS ME. HE WHO DENIES HER DENIES ME. AND HE WHO ASKS FROM HER RECEIVES, BECAUSE SHE IS MY MOTHER."

To draw attention to these messages and to bring about the unity of the Churches, God is performing almost daily

miracles in Damascus. A small four inch Icon of the Virgin Mary and the Christ child has poured out over 60 pounds of

pure olive oil since 1982. Copies of this Icon are being sent allover the world and over 10,000 of these copies have

also poured out oil. Out of Mirna's hands (and sometimes her face) has poured an unknown quantity of pure olive oil. This oil has caused the blind to see, the lame to walk, the deaf to hear and the dead to rise. Chemical labs have analyzed it to be 100% pure olive oil, the oil of the sacraments of the Church. It sometimes even has the smell of Holy Myran (sacramental oil).

Five times since 1982 Mirna has received the stigmata (the wounds of Christ). This happens during Holy Week of the

;" years when the Roman Catholic and the Greek Orthodox Churches celebrate Easter on the same day. Priests and

faithful have watched the wounds appear and then, after six hours, disappear right before their eyes. Each time the

stigmata gets worse. The first time Mirna received them they were just marks on her hands and feet. The next time they

bled. Then she received the wound on her side. Then she received one wound on her forehead. In 1990 she received

five wounds from the crown of thorns and the pain from the shoulder wound and the scourging.

All of this phenomenon has been documented on video: the oil from the Icon, the oil from Mirna, the stigmata, and

the cures. There are hundreds of written testimonials. Hundreds of priests, and thousands of the faithful from every type of Church have prayed in this little house. All the Bishops and Patriarchs of Damascus (there are many) have given positive testimony. The complete story is in the book called "The Miracle of Damascus" and has the Imprimatur from the Catholic Bishop of Damascus.

Mirna has traveled to Lebanon, Jordan, Los Angeles, San Jose, San Diego, Detroit, France, Egypt, Holland and Belgium. When Mirna travels oil comes from her hands or an icon almost every time she prays. In Los Angeles she twice had an ecstasy. In Belgium she had an ecstasy right in the Church. Thousands have seen these things and hundreds of thousands have seen them on film. Books have been published in France, Germany, Lebanon and the United States.

In spite of all the cures, the miracles, the approval of the Church and the thousands of Christians from all over

the world who have seen Mirna, the Miracle of Damascus is almost completely unknown. Why?

The answer is variable. Those who believe in Mirna and in Miracles do not have the discernment to know the true

from the false. They believe in Mirna but they also believe in every other un-approved miracle in the world. Satan has

played on their lack of caution.

Just like in Lourdes where over 50 children claimed to see the Virgin in the same year that Bernadette saw the real

Mother of God, in Damascus another woman claimed to have oil from her hands and her icon in imitation of (or what the Church calls "aping") the Miracle of Soufanieh. She started having messages. The mystic is false but even one of the

priests closest to Mirna believed in her for a time. In Jordan another woman began having the same oil and visions and many followed her. After Mirna left Los Angeles there arose out of Hell nine people claiming to have visions of the Virgin. One of these people claims to have oil coming .from all the statues in her house. She claims to have the stigmata and the Virgin appears to her in her bedroom, on the screens of her windows, in pictures, and even as birds. Most of those (who would otherwise be working for Our Lady of Soufanieh) are now following this un-approved mystic. In France a man claimed oil from his hands and had a big following, but is now in jail for theft.

Then, there are the promoters, writers, newspapers, television. If they are willing to talk about miracles at all, they talk about them (ALL) AS IF THEY WERE ALL TRUE. And of course, every false mystic in the world wants to tie him or herself to Mirna or Our Lady of Fatima in order to make the false messages seem true by association with the true. The "Pebble" of Australia has written to Mirna asking for her support. Father Rene Laurantene of France tried to get her to go to Medjugorje. The promoters of Garabandal tried to get her to go on a tour of the world with another (and un-approved) mystic, Vassula. They then tried to tie her up with three other mystics at a conference in January of 1993 in Sacramento. They have tried to bribe her. They have threatened her. They accused her of being false if she doesn't go. They had Father Rene Laurantene write to her.

They even tricked Father Maloui into talking to Father Rene Laurantene on the phone. Mirna has the grace from God not to let Our Lady of Soufanieh be mixed up with the psychotic, the false and/or the Demonic, but her followers do not. Father Rene Laurantene of France wrote about Mirna but compared her to the un-approved apparitions he has been promoting for years, and making the messages to Mirna a jumbled confusion. He even tried to get her to meet with his un-approved mystics. She would not.

Every article that has been written about Mirna has mixed her up with one or more of the over seventy un-approved apparitions going on in the world today. Book stores will not handle books written about Mirna unless they include other apparitions. The Daughters of St. Paul handle a book written about Mirna and Medjugorje (a book condemned

by Mirna's priest and the Nuncio to the Vatican in Damascus), but refuse to handle the only book with an Imprimatur because it does not allow the promotion of unapproved mystics. On the list of twelve types of forbidden books by the basic law of the Church is listed number five, which states that no book is permitted about visions or messages from Heaven without Church approval.

It has not been enough for the promoters of un-approved mystics to try to mix Mirna or Fatima up with their mystics

but they have even gone so far as to attack the only organization in the world that has tried to keep the Miracle pure and obedient to the Church, "The Messengers of Unity" in Glendale. They have attacked the Imprimatur, claiming it

had to be false and even condemned by Rome. With the help of the Vatican Ambassador, the Pro Nuncio, Luigi Cardinal Accogli; Mirna; and the priests of Damascus a second approval was given to the book, "The Miracle of Damascus, and to "The Messengers of Unity", and written approval for "The Messengers of Unity" to bring Mirna to the United States at the invitation of Father Robert Fox. They tried every trick in the bag of Hell to stop Father Robert Fox from printing his review of the book and video "The Miracle of Damascus" in his "Fatima Family Messenger" magazine of July-Sept.. They organized a phone campaign and had over fifty people from all over the United States call Mirna and complain about the book, the author, and even about Father Fox himself. Mirna had never read the Book. Only her bishop had read it. Mirna (supposedly) wrote that she did not agree with what was in it, based on what was told her. When she found out the truth, she (supposedly) retracted her condemnation in writing and said that devils caused her to write against the book.

What is all this about? In 1882 the stigmatic Marie Julie Mahenny had a message from Christ. He said,

"DURING THE TIME OF THE APPROACH OF THE PUNISHMENTS ANNOUNCED AT LA SALETTE, AN UNLIMITED AMOUNT OF FALSE REVELATIONS WILL ARISE FROM HELL LIKE A SWARM OF FLIES;

A LAST ATTEMPT OF SATAN TO CHOKE AND DESTROY THE BELIEF IN THE TRUE REVELATIONS BY FALSE ONES."

To make matters worse, those who have not fallen for the false mystics, want nothing to do with any miracle, because of the Gnostic heresy of the first century that placed private revelation over the sacred deposit of faith. Private revelation does not and never will create doctrine. No true Christian can ever place his belief in a doctrine of faith based on an apparition. for this reason many priests and ~shops shy away from any apparition. This is not a proper attitude. Throughout history God has performed millions of miracles (not to teach a new faith) but to support the teachings of the Church. This happened at Lourdes, supporting the teaching of the Church five years earlier on the Immaculate Conception. It happened later at Fatima supporting the doctrine of Puis X on modernism. The Church will never teach doctrine based on private revelation and never should; however, they can and should inform the faithful about private revelation. For without the guidance of the Church the sheep will follow every self appointed mystic in the world.

In the case of Mirna, God has placed His Signature, and His Signature is miracles; and the Church has made its

investigation and found her to be an instrument of God. God has come to support the faith and dreams of John XXIII. God is warning all the Christians of the world that He founded one Church and only one, and there must be only one, and that if we do not bring about this unity, He will do it Himself, and we will not like His method.

But no one is listening. Instead they are listening to all the false mystics of the world or not listening at all. When Christians of the world should be promoting the approved apparitions of Nicaragua, Faustina, Japan, Egypt, Damascus, Padre Pio, and Fatima; they are instead promoting every self appointed mystic in the world. Lucia of Fatima said that Christ wanted the consecration of Russia done in a very particular way so that the world would have no doubt that Our Lady of Fatima converted Russia. The consecration was done and immediately after religious freedom was instituted in Russia, freedom of the press was realized within a year of the consecration, the Baltic countries were freed, the Berlin wall came tumbling down, and within seven years of the consecration Communism was laid to rest on Christmas day.

But where are the Christians who are thanking our Lady of Fatima for the conversion of Russia? Where are the Christians who are giving Her the Honor She deserves? Someday there will be an Anti-Christ, who many will think is the real Christ. Right now there are many Anti-Marys and the results of diffusion are self evident. The National Catholic Register puts out a supplement called, "Mary's People" and lists over 160 organizations that promote mystics.

But think, my Catholic friends, think about those organizations that are not included as Mary's people: Soul Magazine, The Fatima Family Messenger by Father Robert Fox, Father Patrick Peyton's Family Rosary Crusade, The Blue Army of Fatima, The Messengers of Unity, Tan Publishing Co., The Voice of Padre Pio, and on and on. Does that mean that these are not Mary's people?

Four Hundred and Sixty-one years ago Our Lady appeared to Juan Diego in Mexico and called Herself "Coatlazopeuh", the Aztec word for "She, who will crush the serpent". She appeared in exactly the same year that Luther led 5,000,000 Catholics out of the Church. She brought in 9,000,000 Aztec Indians to replace them. Guadalupe started the battle between Our Lady and Satan.

But now it is at it's peak. Mirna has touched the foot that will crush Satan's head, and he is angry. All the furry of Hell is out to stop the miracle of Damascus. So far Satan has been very successful. Not one so-called "Catholic" book store in America has carried Her book, "The Miracle of Damascus". If Our Lady of Soufanieh fails to bring about the unity of the Churches, it will be because of the Anti-Marys.

Rick Salbato (The Publican)