Marian apparition in Cuapa, Nicaragua: “If you don't change, you will hasten the arrival of the Third World War” (II)

Then the Blessed Mother asked Bernardo (1) to look at the sky. Bernardo later recalled that he saw “something like a movie” during which he felt “transported” and saw different groups of people including those from the early Christian communities now in Heaven. They included those who first received the Holy Rosary and the huge number of people who were later also devoted to praying the Holy Rosary.

Then the Blessed Mother told Bernardo: “I have shown you the Glory of Our Lord, and you people will acquire this if you are obedient to Our Lord, to the Lord's Word; if you persevere in praying the Holy Rosary and put into practice the Lord's Word.”

On July 8, this time in a dream, the Blessed Mother told Bernardo to “pray for Nicaragua and for the whole world because serious dangers threaten it.”

On September 8, the Blessed Mother appeared anew to Bernardo and said: “Restore the sacred temple of the Lord [meaning ourselves]. In you is the gratification for the Lord. She added: Love each other. Love one another. Forgive each other. Make peace. Don't first ask for it. Make peace!”

On October 13, in the same year, marking the anniversary of the Fatima apparitions, the Blessed Mother appeared again to Bernardo and again extended her hands from which emanated rays that reached each of the persons in the crowd that had gathered around Bernardo.

Bernardo then related what happened next: “She raised her hands to her breast in a similar position to the statue of Our Lady of Sorrows ... her face turned pale, her mantle changed to a gray color, her face became sad, and she cried. I cried too. I trembled to see her like that.”

He asked why she was crying. The Blessed Mother replied: “It saddens me to see the hardness of those persons' hearts. But you will have to pray for them so that they will change.”

During several months, the Blessed Mother said to Bernardo:

“Pray the Rosary, meditate on the mysteries.

Listen to the Word of God spoken in them. Love one another. Love each other.

Forgive each other. Make peace. Don't ask for peace without making peace; because if you don't make it, it does no good to ask for it. Fulfill your obligations.

Put into practice the Word of God. Seek ways to please God. Serve your neighbor as that way you will please him.

Ask for faith in order to have the strength so that each can carry his own cross. The sufferings of this world cannot be removed. Sufferings are the cross which you must carry. That is the way life is. There are problems with the husband, with the wife, with the children, with the brothers. Talk, converse so that problems will be resolved in peace. Do not turn to violence. Never turn to violence. Pray for faith in order that you will have patience.

Do not be grieved. I am with all of you even though you do not see me. I am the Mother of all of you, sinners. Love one another. Forgive each other.

Make peace, because if you don't make it there will be no peace. Do not turn to violence. Never turn to violence.”

Ding Cervantes, January 20, 2022

(1) In 1994, the Nicaraguan bishop Bosco M. Vivas Robelo of the diocese of Leon approved the Marian apparitions of Cuapa to Bernardo Martinez in 1980. Bernardo is now a priest

Adapted from sunstar.com