Our Lady announces Her first visit to
Sacred Grounds (see text in column on right)
Love draws Our Lady to come to Bayside
Pray unceasingly.
St. Theresa's poetic message
So many souls will be lost.
The Rosary: pearls of prayer.
If only one request had been heeded...
Much work to do.
Vigils kept on Feast Days.
Lighted candles to herald the new feast day.
April 7, 1970
Veronica received a locution from
Our Lady--words heard in the intellect, but without actually seeing Her--announcing
that She would come to Her chosen sacred grounds at the old Saint Robert
Bellarmine
Church on the eve of all feast days, and directed that a sanctuary be built
there, to be called Our Lady of the Roses, Mary Help of Mothers. Veronica
was given directives for its construction, and was told she should speak
with the clergy and ask them to prepare for Our Lady's first visit to Her
sacred grounds, which would occur on June 18, 1970.
June 18, 1970
First visit of Our Lady at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Roses, Mary Help of Mothers.Our Lady spoke to Veronica in locution, and said:
Our Lady --"My tears fall on you." [At this point Veronica broke into tears.]
"Pray, My children. So many souls will be lost. It is because I love you that I come."
"You will have to suffer, My child. Cry with Me, My child, for I have never stopped crying."
[Veronica continued crying.]
"Pray; pray always, because so many souls will be lost. I have come to save you. Turn back! Turn back!
"So many souls will be lost. Listen to Me! Pray, please pray! There is hope in prayer."
"The darkness grows deeper. I carry the light.... Much to suffer. Listen to Me!"
[Our Lady wept bitterly.]
"Pray! Pray! Pray! Love Him. Love My Son; do not hate My Son."
Our Lady then asked Veronica to repeat the poetic message given to her by Saint Theresa in 1969:
All hearts must ascend in true supplication
To avoid the sad fate of divine devastation.
Dear Holy Mother, our Mother of love,
Does beg us to heed these dire words from above:
His heart is torn by careless surrender
Of too many souls that don't try to remember
The Father, the Son, the Spirit of life,
Smite in the heart with the human knife
Of hate, greed, avarice, vanity
All indications that sin is insanity!
What more must we do but place the full load
Of saving all souls on the few who are bold,
Who'll stand up and fight for all Heaven's glory,
And meet with Pope Paul at the end of life's story!
Our Lady - "Everyone has to care.... Not enough who care. So many will be lost!"
"I love you, My children. I love you, My children. I will come soon."
Speaking of the Rosary, Our Lady said:
Our Lady- "These are
the pearls of Heaven, pearls of prayer. These are My pearls of prayer to
Heaven.
"I am your Mother of love. Blessed is he who extends his love to his brothers and gives his heart to Me.
"I love you all, My children; but you must pray more. I love you all, My children. My arms are filled with roses.
"My heart is sad. My Rosary has been discarded in many places, and neglected here."
Our Lady did not appear, because Her requests and directives given to Veronica for the clergy had been ignored. If only one, just one request had been heeded...but no one listened.
Veronica served only as the messenger and the intermediary of Our Lady's messages, in childlike obedience to Our Lady.
June 19, 1970
Locution from Our Lady to Veronica:
"Be patient. We have much work to do. Your work is just beginning."
June 20, 1970
Locution from Our Lady to Veronica:
"Many Rosaries must be said. There must be vigils kept on feast days at the Shrine. The first Vigil will take place on July 1, 1970, at 9 P.M. [This is the Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus and the eve of of the Feast of the Visitation of Our Lady to Saint Elizabeth.]
"Candles must be carried at all vigils, to be lighted at the time of twelve to herald the new day of the Feast. As candles are lighted, this invocation is to be repeated:
Mary, Light of the World, pray for us!
Our Lady of the Roses, pray for us!
Mary, Help of Mothers, pray for us!"