Have to wonder how we often forget the Holy Sacrifice is not mentioned in so many modern so called Apparition since Fatima. I hope many realize LATIN is the Official Church Language and not Vernacular !
Wherever Our Lady has appeared in our world she has given her words to the people in their own language. At Fatima, it was in Portuguese and entirely comprehensible to the shepherd children who understood her perfectly well.
In Mexico City, 1531, she appeared to Juan Diego and spoke to him in Nahuatl, the indigenous Aztec language which Juan Diego spoke from childhood, his "mother's tongue."
At Rue de Bac, France and at Lourdes, and at La Salette, she spoke French.
I have a hard time taking Akita seriously. If Our Lady was going to speak with Novus Ordo nuns in a Novus Ordo chapel, would she not be telling them to get out of the Novus Ordo? Instead this has her legitimatizing this condemned rite and leaving these women in it - and getting "pilgrims" to come, etc. etc. For such a seeming "blessing from Our Lady" on the condemned New Mass - the devil would speak a few words of seeming truth akin to Fatima.
I thought that at first also. But then I wondered how many Catholic Churches exist in Japan, and if ANY of them offer the TLM. If one has no choice, one is not responsible for not choosing wisely. As far as Our Blessed Mother is concerned, she appears to whomever she chooses, even if it is in a part of the world that suffers from the lack of the TLM.
In all of Japan for many years now there has been one priest offering the TLM, Fr. Nariai, and he has very few faithful assisting, many times he is alone saying his Mass.
You won't find any sedevacantists interested in Akita for this very reason, and that reason is that Our Lady of Akita respected the local Ordinary, Bishop Ito, who was a Novus Ordo bishop. Don't forget that at Lourdes, when she told Bernadette, "I am the Immaculate Conception,"
it was AFTER the Pope had defined the Immaculate Conception as a dogma of the faith only 4 years previously.
Effectively, the Blessed Virgin Mary waits for the Pope, her Son's Vicar on earth.
Likewise, today, she waits for the Pope to command his bishops to consecrate Russia together with him as she has requested.
In 1945, the two cities where there were more Catholic Japanese than anywhere else were destroyed by atomic bombs. They were Heroshima and Nagasaki. This is why the words of Our Lady (in Japanese, to a deaf woman!) 30 years later at Akita were all the more meaningful, when she foretold fire falling from the sky. In Japan they know all too well what that is all about. She was speaking their language in more ways than one!
We ought to be cautious presuming to judge apparitions based on our own expectations. If we are aware of the danger to our faith that the Newmass and Novus Ordo trappings pose, we should count ourselves fortunate. But we can't reasonably presume to impose that awareness on others like Sister Sasagawa who are under obedience in their orders. It isn't too different from our situation regarding the Orthodox like in Russia, which is germane to the Fatima message. In the end, it will be an act of God, through His Blessed Mother, to convert Russia, and we can expect that it won't be to the Novus Ordo Newmass that she will be converting them, but to the immortal Catholic Faith of Tradition. In that regard, it is WE who are keeping that Tradition alive, since Rome is aggressively busy forgetting it.
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Topic: AKITA and the FATIMA SECRET (Read 1793 times)