Explaining the Faith - Best Marian Apparitions: Mexico and India

hi everybody i'm father chris aylar one of the marian fathers here at the national shrine of the divine mercy and welcome to another first saturday devotions and we are in a big one right now because it is the first of the year mary the mother of god and what fitting topic than to continue our discussions that we've been doing every saturday first saturday on marian apparitions especially those that you've never heard of and we have two for you today that are powerful one from mexico one from india that you've probably never heard of but you should and as the topic on the slide shows you these are the best marian apparitions again that so few have heard of but very powerful so let us start this new year and this talk by a prayer asking for our ladies intercession in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit amen heavenly father we ask that you send the holy spirit down upon us and the spouse of the paraclete mother mary mother of god on this her day the solemnity of the mother of god to wrap your mental mary around us and to protect us and bless us for a very merciful 2022 and we ask all this through christ our lord amen in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit amen well again i am pre-recording this talk this is not live today but we're broadcasting it live to you on our normal time saturday at 11 but i'm going to be joining you on chat so if you have any questions you say father i have no idea what you're talking about you are going to dial in and ask me the question and i'll answer now pending that something doesn't happen and i'm on an airplane or somewhere unfortunately so praise be to god that you're with us okay we're gonna do two apparitions today and then uh brother mark will end this live stream and then we want you to turn right around and join us for father kaz live he'll be leading us in the first saturday devotions so nothing has changed for you at home all right so let's get started now these apparitions the first one is our lady of o'cotlen and this is in mexico okay and this is a very powerful apparition let's show our slide as brother mark here's a sign there our lady of o'cotlan and this is a sign from bob and penny lord i don't know if some of you remember them from ewtn they were the most incredible elderly couple that looked like they never had a fight in their entire lives they were just so beautiful they were such a beautiful couple god rest their souls and we'll see a little clip from bob and penny here in a moment but this is um the first one i wanted to talk about today because very powerful now after the guadalupe apparition in 1531 and everybody's heard of guadalupe many indians became or natives in that area of mexico became ferv not just christians but fervent christians and one of these surprisingly was juan diego bernardino but not the juan diego you think of this is a different juan diego isn't that amazing like lord you gotta millions of people to choose from you have to pick two juan diego's so this is juan diego bernardino not the guadalupe visionary juan diego this was different he was one who worked for the friars because now the spanish priests and brothers had come in to this area of mexico so the friars were there established and because of this man's holiness and complete devotion to the blessed mother he served as sacristan for these friars these are the spanish friars now that had come from spain now they established a convent here in mexico so on february 27 1541 just 10 years after guadalupe the world changed again but we don't know this we've never heard this all right juan we'll just call him juan now was out fetching water for sick relatives all right kind of like with juan diego and guadalupe had a sick relative right so he's out fetching water and let's look at our next slide this is a picture of our lady appearing to him as he entered the forest he was startled and he saw a beautiful lady standing in front of him now she greeted him with a joyful smile and she said god be with you my son so look at that picture how beautiful is that and she says to him where are you going that's exactly what our lady said to juan diego at tepiak in guadalupe right so he said i'm fetching water to bring to the sick people of my village who are dying with no cure now the lady then said to him come with me i will give you a different water that will cure the sickness of your people now who's your people he's a native just like juan diego not only your relatives and friends will be healed but all others now juan followed the lady to where a fountain of water was gushing forth oh fount right like the um blood and water which gushed forth from the fount of mercy the the blood and water prayer from the divine mercy chaplet so anyway there is a fountain of water which gushed forth as he said and still exists today this is powerful so he was shocked because he had taken that path many times and he had never seen that fountain before so mary said to him my heart always desires to help those who are suffering my heart cannot bear to see so much pain and anguish among people without healing them drink as much water as you desire upon drinking just one drop the sick will not only be cured but they will receive perfect health all of a sudden juan realized incredibly that he was speaking with our lady the mother of god what a fitting aberration to talk about today when he said those words that i realized i was speaking he didn't say mary he said our lady mother of god which we celebrate on january 1st so he quickly filled his jug with this miraculous water and raced to the village with this amazing news now he soon became aware of something though he himself was cured he had the sensation and it seemed like this big burden that he had been carrying was now lifted and he ran when he wasn't really healthy he now had a bounce to his step when he was mainly burdened before this so our lady had also given juan a message to deliver to the franciscan friars at the monastery that we just talked about and she said tell the monks that in this place they shall find an image of me which not only will represent my perfection but also through it i will bring forth my mercy and blessings i want the image to be placed in the chapel of saint lawrence now this is where it gets good because the franciscans decided to investigate this astonishing news that they were being told by this peasant they compared or i should say they i guess i'm not sure but i would think that they would be comparing guadalupe now thinking whoa you know is this connected but they went with him they went with juan to the forest to find this miraculous fountain and when they got to the forest they saw fire this is all documented by all the monks who were there and i don't think a bunch of monks are going to lie especially about god and so they saw fire now they noticed a strange phenomena because this tree was only one tree it was the tallest tree in the forest and there were woods all around it there were trees all around it but only that tree burned it defied all scientific explanation they said because the trees were all sandwiched in there you know how dense forests are especially in the new world before any of it was cut down and this one big tallest tree is a blaze and the fire is shooting out the sides and none of the other trees burned so that was the first thing the monks noticed and so they said this is defying science well anyway it was getting really really late and they decided to come back the next morning so the friars now the next morning with half the town right returned in the morning when the fire had stopped but they didn't know where it was because it was dark the night out before and so this mysterious set of signs actually directed them back to where they had seen the fire the night before so the friars did what this guy said that our lady promised this juan told them that she was going to leave an image so he told him to take the axe and they took the axe and they split that tree open the tree that was ablaze but didn't burn they split it open and let's take a look at your screen right now it's kind of hard to see but do you see that image that is the tree and inside the tree the trunk of the fallen tree was a statue of the blessed mother can you imagine you're a monk and this guy tells you this and they take the ax and they chop the tree and it splits open and there's a statue of our blessed mother and we have that statue today it exists it still exists and so this trunk here is the picture or the image of the mother of god just like she said now all of the monks fell to their knees and this magnificent five-foot statue was carried in procession to the church where it resides today above the main altar in the basilica of our lady of okotlin in the city of telexcala and that's the place i'm going to show you on the screen this is where in mexico it is you can see it's kind of south central kind of on the east eastern side of the nation of mexico so if you are ever in that part of mexico go see this miraculous incredible statue that they actually still have now it's considered by many church historians to be the most beautiful in all of mexico but yet everybody goes to mexico just for guadalupe and they should but journey on down a little bit farther now i'm going to get into something very interesting because there's a connection with guadalupe but before i say that you know our lady of okotlin comes from the word that means the oak tree that burned five popes have granted approval to this apparition and the statue of our lady of o'cotlan has been pontifically crowned in 1906 now although this is well known in mexico it's virtually unknown in the rest of the world virtually almost unheard of in the rest of the world it seems to be completely overshadowed by guadalupe and as i said well that's kind of understandable but yet there are so many parallels this is what makes it so amazing to me now first of all it happened only 10 years later guadalupe was 1531 this happened in 1541 and both visionaries were named juan diego now get a load of this the last name of the uncle in guadalupe juan diego's uncle remember when he was trying to avoid our lady and he was running away and she's like where are you going his uncle's last name was bernardino the same last name as juan diego here in this apparition apparition of o'cottlin the second one diego his last name was bernadina even though they were not related very incredible right so both were converted indians juan diego was their christian name their spanish name they were actually indians but they were both devoted to our lady most in their entire region that's who our lady uses our lady and their catholic faith meant everything to these two juan diego's now here's what's interesting in both apparitions our lady gave motherly messages and basically said the same thing remember at guadalupe our lady said am i not here who am your mother what do you need that was basically the message here too at o'cotland our lady fulfilled and extended the promises she made at guadalupe because she said my heart cannot bear to see so much pain and anguish among the people without healing them so at guadalupe in 1531 she asked what do you need and in 1541 she sees the suffering and she says i'm here to help this is amazing now both apparitions exhibited wondrous and miraculous images of our lady not made of human hands at guadalupe it was a painting well we call that a painting but actually it doesn't have the characteristics it's not man-made and here we have the image as a statue at o'cottland at oh kotlin so let's watch a quick video i mentioned bob for uh bob and penny uh lord here's a quick little one minute video of bob lord telling us about our lady of o'cottlin a lady is encased on a silver pedestal in a glass case and in the same year when carranza's troops came in actually on june 24th 1915 they decided to shoot the lady and so they shot right into the case but all they did was shatter the case nothing ever happened to our lady it reminds us of what happened to our lady of guadalupe when they decided to kill the lady by dynamiting the altar at the basilica of our lady and the crucifix bent over backwards and the candlestick was completely warped but nothing happened to the image of our lady you see the enemy has always known that the way to defeat a people is to take jesus and mary away from them and so when they could not destroy the spirit of the mexican people they went after always the image of our blessed mother this image of our lady has very interesting qualities priests and bishops have testified to having seen the color of her face change to from rose to a pale gray at different times during celebrations uh at sad times her face would turn gray and this is as recently as 1987 a bishop has testified to that all right so that's a really good quick little clip you know both images survived attacks and i think that's a very powerful connection so anyway the sisters at the basilica said that healings of all kinds and all kinds of blessings are ongoing at the shrine so now that kovid has been such a problem and perhaps we need to turn to our lady of oak cotland make her well known around the world and to pray for the ceiling because her message was of healing healing so let's ask for her intercession so just a couple last words let's look at our next slide of brother mark and show in 1746 the shrine of our lady of oak cotland was raised to the statue of a stature of a basilica that had a holy door remember the holy doors in the year of mercy and so benedict the 14th in grant granted a lot of indulgences and privileges and apostolic indulge to those who venerate the image of our lady of o'cotlin this is really powerful so anyway let's go with the final slide of this apparition here's a picture of her and the description of her is this it is carved so let's keep the image on the screen it is carved as she's wearing a long tunic and a mantle the tunic you can see is gold with red trim the red's not real clear there but it has red trim and the mantle was blue at one time kind of looks more white now because the paint has faded and there's some gold beneath it but anyway the statue stands erect looking straight ahead and her hands are folded in front of the chest you don't see that very often with our lady and so it's normally this statue is dressed in a cape and she has a large crown if we can keep that screen up there i think she's up um there's a large crown and that is one of the largest crowns i've ever seen our lady wear and that one was that particular one was put on the statue in 1975. anyway she has a lot of rings on her fingers and a silver crescent moon at her feet hmm what does that sound like guadalupe right so the faithful are still drawing water from the miraculous spring which is now a well and they are believing in this the apparition is remembered every year in february with the faithful taking the statue on procession so good stuff all right let's finish now with something that i think is also fascinating and this is our lady of good health let's take a look at our next slide this is our lady of good i'm sorry health not help i don't want to confuse you with the our lady in champion wisconsin the only mary apparition in the united states is called our lady of good help this is our lady of good health right in via kani india velankani india and this is our lady of good health again not good help good health and there's a big difference now this is a devotion from india that is perfect for our times right now now let's take a look at our next slide the town of valanconi in india you could see there is in the southern part that's the more the catholic part was a small fishing village off that south central east coast of india now three major events happened here in the 16th and 17th century these stories are amazing let's look at our first one if we can look at the slide now to me that looks like a girl but it's not it's a little boy holding that jar and in 1550 this was a shepherd boy named tamil and he had the job of going door to door selling milk all right now when he finished and there right there he is with the blessed mother when he finished he would take his milk and the pot back to his master now he lived he lived in like the next town now tamil was very tired one day this is back in 1550 and one morning he was very tired and he after he did his route of selling the milk he stopped to get some water and he sat down under a tree and fell asleep and when he opened his eyes he was startled to see a most beautiful lady holding a child in her arms so maybe we could put that last picture back up if brother mark can show up because this is what he would have seen with the beautiful gold our lady holding the child now the lady asked for some milk for her baby so she's holding the child and she asked this little tamil who's a milk seller for some milk for her child now to meal the boy revenue offered it to her then he realized that was the last bit of milk in the pot now remember god will never be outdone in generosity so it was the last bit of milk in the pot and our lady thanked him and it looked like she left she thanks mary drink the last bit of my milk and take off well that's what appeared to happen because he gave her the last bit of milk out of his generosity she took it and she left so she thanked the lady thanked him and then was gone now tamil was worried about this because you know he he owed his master an explanation and so he worried that all the milk was gone and he arrived back to his master at the workplace and his master of course didn't believe the story so he got really angry and went to strike little to meal but mary's not gonna let this happen so as he got super angry little tamil's holding the empty pot and all of a sudden this guy's getting angry because he's got an empty pot he has no explanation for why he doesn't have some milk left but when the master looked at the pot again milk started to fill it and so all of a sudden this milk started to begin to fill not only to the top it began to overflow and spill onto the ground this master who is this grumpy grouchy guy all of a sudden is like whoa what's going on here no one could understand where the milk was coming from because it kept he's just holding a pot and it's overflowing from the pot and his master and the other people then wanted to know exactly where this lady came from and where this lady had appeared so tamil took them there and the people began to believe his story now the people started calling that place of apparition matakulam which means our lady's tank or our lady's pond very interesting right well it didn't stop there there was another apparition now this was also in the 16th century a poor widow had a disabled son and every day the boy would limp to a place called nadu titu which is where he would sell buttermilk to travelers now listen to this one day a beautiful lady appeared to him holding the same thing a splendid child now the lady asked the boy for a cup of milk same exact thing for her son so this lady appears holding this beautiful baby and asks this boy whose mom is a widow who sells buttermilk and this lady appears and asks for some milk for her son now she asked the boy then he gave it to her and she asked the boy to take a message to a catholic man in the next town named naga patanam nagapatanam and she said i have a message i want you to take notice our lady uses us as messengers now the boy told her that he couldn't really walk because if you remember this poor widow had a disabled son so he was basically disabled and the boy told her that he really couldn't walk but she told him to stand up she said stand up and i want you to deliver this message so what happened he stood up and he was shocked to find out not only that he could stand right up but he could even jump and hop and jump up and down and even ran so this boy who had been lame his entire life suddenly was cured now the reason we believe it isn't because this boy just said by himself that there was a healing everybody knew this boy everybody knew this boy had been lame his whole life and so he said i'm cured and he ran to deliver the message now the townspeople saw him running and were shocked it's kind of like forrest gump remember forrest gump when he was uh and people the towns used to have the braces on his legs all of a sudden he starts running and people are like whoa look at this boy well instead of being a movie this was real and this is documented so the townspeople were shocked they all knew this guy this boy to have been disabled and now he's running so anyway when he reached naga patanam he told him that the lady wanted to give him a message and she said she wanted a chapel built on the site seems to be the theme of our lady right and he believed the boy because he knew that he had been lame his entire life well anyway it confirmed a dream that he had had in which the blessed virgin mary asked him to build a chapel on the same spot so this guy knew this was a true message now this nagapattanam he did as was asked and he built the first chapel on that site of the apparition this is usually now remember we talked about approved marian apparitions i'm still back centuries ago there was no formal vatican process so you don't need to send a letter saying father why are you talking about these were not formally approved by the vatican the vatican didn't have a formal approval process then you know what the number one indicator that an apparition was true is if they built a basilica on the spot because that just doesn't happen at a whim that can only happen by the grace of god and so this is what they saw they saw this building of this new church and so they believed it so he and his fellow workers dedicated the church under the title of our lady of good health because it was these people that didn't have good health that were now being helped all right so final example of this same apparition in india was later in the next century a portuguese ship was caught in a vicious storm and this is where we're going to end the talk today in the bay of bengal right and and here i'm telling you guys to put your cell phones off and i didn't so in the bay of bengal there was this vicious storm and the crew members began imploring the blessed virgin mary as the blessed mother star of the sea to save them so they're asking mary star of the sea to save them during this storm and they promised her to build a church to honor her if she would help well the seas right after that combed completely down again we have the whole testimony of the ship all the sailors and the crew landed guess where on the shores of alankani and so it's the exact same place so they landed on these shores and guess what the date was september the 8th which was the feast of the nativity of mary but you know what else september 8th is the feast of our lady of good health so they landed on the exact date in the exact location of our lady of good health amazing so the sailors did as they promised and they rebuilt the thatched chapel into a stone church right now they came back later on their next visit and they decorated the altar with porcelain plates they illustrated biblical themes they just made the church beautiful they reinforced it and these plates that give testimony to the thanksgiving to our lady are there today they're still there today they're seen today around the throne of the miraculous statue of our lady of good health which is over the main altar of the basilica so if you're ever in india that's the place to go now i'm going to show you the last slide because here's a picture of it john the 23rd elevated the church in valencia to a basilica in 1962. look at that place it's incredible only the best for god it's so beautiful and today they call it the lords of the east so very powerful that nobody knows about it you know today there's almost 30 churches dedicated to our lady of good health again different from our lady of good help in champion wisconsin the one and only marian apparition in the united states but anyway these churches three of them are shrines and one is a basilica so we want to finish by saying our lady of good health watch over us and protect us as this pandemic continues get rid of all lies deceit virus and sickness get rid of this effect of the evil one many many miracles have been reported at this basilica of our lady of good health so if you ever get there please visit yes it's not formally approved as we said but it's improved in tradition because traditionally approved by the fact that a basilica was built there so praise be to god and before we go and father kaz will be shortly brother mark's going to shut down this particular live stream and then we're going to come back on live with father kaz who's going to lead us through the saturday devotions but i want to just uh show you on our screen become a marian helper this is such a powerful amount of grace you know all these stories of miriam apparitions are based on grace and here we see one of the most awesome ways you can get grace it doesn't cost anything it doesn't take any time visit micprayers.org and there simple just takes a couple seconds you can become a marian helper no cost and i've said before it doesn't matter if you donate a dime that's not what this is about what this is about is to get you a lot of grace for you and your family you're going to enroll your whole family this is a beautiful grace because when you become a marian helper you share in all the graces of our prayers penances rosaries chaplets just like you were a marian of the immaculate conception that's a true member of our family and the promise from the holy see the decree of the holy see not from us says that you will receive the same grace that i get as a marian priest simply by being a marian helper that's the beautiful part of a spiritual benefit society again father i can't donate anything that's fine god will put on the heart those who can take care of us and if you're not one of them that's okay but all of us need grace so please consider that now last couple slides is i have a cd or excuse me a dvd out called explaining the faith this is a series of talks that we've been doing this is my 13 first 13 talks you can get it at shopmercy.org or by calling 800-462-7426 get it on dvd help spread the message especially be apostle of divine mercy and finally my last two books shopmercy.org also has my new book understanding divine mercy this explains everything you need to know a beautiful beautiful gift that the lord has given us in his mercy is explained in that book and finally if you know anybody who's struggling from suffering not just suicide but any kind of 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Published: Sat Jan 01 2022