The
Spirits Around Us,by Michael H. Brown, a brand new book
on the supernatural realities around us -- around every person. Read of
current encounters on deathbeds, in hospitals, in everyday life, in 'haunted'
settings that finally get a Catholic explanation (as even St. Augustine spoke of
their effect, and saints like Padre Pio saw them). Demons, angels, spirits of
the deceased, purgatorial souls, often affecting us in unseen, unsuspected ways
and dispelled through deep prayer in the Name of Jesus when we know how to do
so and approach them with Catholic faith, prayer, and love!
CLICK HERE
SPIRIT DAILY JOURNEY INTO DEEPEST AFRICA IS UNDERWAY TO PROBE MYSTERIOUS
KIBEHO EVENT
By Michael H. Brown
I would appreciate your prayers,
for I am
currently in deepest Africa on a spiritual as well as journalistic
mission. If there are some issues and we are out of contact with the
internet for a period of time, there is a backup team in place for the
website.
Never mind access to the internet: The place
where I am headed -- Kibeho, in Rwanda (between the Congo and Tanzania) -- just recently got
electricity. I seek to pray as well as research the
incredible, Church-approved apparitions that began on November 28, 1981,
here to several Catholic schoolgirls (with more seers eventually saying
they too were having apparitions).
There were seven key visionaries who are most
widely
known to have experienced Mary in the first few months of the events. Thus far, three
of them (Alphonsine Mumureke, Anathalie
Mukamazimpaka, and Marie-Clare Mukangango) are included in the official
Church approval of this fascinating apparition, which was announced at the
Vatican in June of 2001.
I am here with an incredible woman named
Immaculee Ilibagiza,
who survived the terrific massacres in Rwanda during 1994, at one point by
hiding in a bathroom with seven other woman for 91 harrowing days.
Immaculee survived by constantly praying the Rosary
as rival tribesmen tried to hunt her down and killed most of her family (as well as 800,000 others in this poor
nation). She came out
of the ordeal a deeply spiritual person who now speaks around the world
about the apparitions and her own ordeal during the war -- which logged
the fastest pace of killing in history. Incredibly, she personally
forgave some of those who killed members of her family! One of her books
is an astonishing look at the apparitions called
Our Lady of Kibeho.
As it happens, the Blessed Mother predicted
the war, as well as afflictions that allegedly face the world in the
future. She foresaw people decapitated with machetes (which indeed
occurred en masse) and a "river of blood." Major killing
occurred right there where Mary first appeared with her warnings.
We plan to stay at a retreat center run by a
fabulous priest who has worked hard at maintaining a shrine dedicated to
the apparitions and also bringing some of the modern world here, by way of
medicines, food, and at least some electrical power. I will be spending
the week in prayer as well as meetings with those involved in the
events. God-willing, I will report on it when I return.
The Kibeho apparitions
(which stopped, for
most of the seers, by the time of the war -- which took two of their lives), are
among just a handful of fully-approved revelations in the past hundred years
such as Fatima, Banneaux in Belgium, Betania in Venezuela,
and Cuapa in Nicaragua, among a few others. The seers said
Mary, coming as "Mother of the Word," was "bathed in white";
her skin
shone like polished ivory but wasn't white as in pictures. She wasn't
black either. It was a color, a tint, a texture that could not be put into
words. Her attire looked "seamless, as if "made by angels."
There were prophecies granted, including ones
that seemed to pertain to the subsequent horror of war and others to do
with coming chastisements for the world, and even the Second Coming, for
our considered evaluation. The seers were also taken on incredible
"journeys" to the afterlife, during which their bodies were in a comatose
state.
Later, the site of the Kibeho
slaughter would return to a pilgrim spot where now healings and other
miracles are reported as the faithful pray in a chapel. A major request from
Mary was that we go back to an old practice known as the "Rosary of the Seven Sorrows."
"My child, you must pray, for
the world is in a horrible way," said Mary. "People have turned from God and
the love of my Son, Jesus.
"No one goes to Heaven
without suffering. And as a child of Mary, you may never put down the Cross
you bear."
At one point the Blessed
Mother reportedly asked the seer Alphonsine to sing a song, repeating
two lines of a verse seven times each: First:"There
will be fire that will come from beneath the earth and consume everything on
earth... And then: "The day will come to take those who have served
you, God, we beg you to have mercy on us."
The
Spirits Around Us, by Michael H. Brown, a brand new book
on the supernatural realities around us -- around every person. Read of
current encounters on deathbeds, in hospitals, in everyday life, in 'haunted'
settings that finally get a Catholic explanation (as even St. Augustine spoke of
their effect, and saints like Padre Pio saw them). Demons, angels, spirits of
the deceased, purgatorial souls, often affecting us in unseen, unsuspected ways
and dispelled through deep prayer in the Name of Jesus when we know how to do
so and approach them with Catholic faith, prayer, and love!
CLICK HERE
I would appreciate your prayers,
for I am
currently in deepest Africa on a spiritual as well as journalistic
mission. If there are some issues and we are out of contact with the
internet for a period of time, there is a backup team in place for the
website.
Immaculee survived by constantly praying the Rosary
as rival tribesmen tried to hunt her down and killed most of her family (as well as 800,000 others in this poor
nation). She came out
of the ordeal a deeply spiritual person who now speaks around the world
about the apparitions and her own ordeal during the war -- which logged
the fastest pace of killing in history. Incredibly, she personally
forgave some of those who killed members of her family! One of her books
is an astonishing look at the apparitions called
There were prophecies granted, including ones
that seemed to pertain to the subsequent horror of war and others to do
with coming chastisements for the world, and even the Second Coming, for
our considered evaluation. The seers were also taken on incredible
"journeys" to the afterlife, during which their bodies were in a comatose
state. 