What are your honest feelings about various Marian apparitions?

Question

Do you believe they are possibly messages to us, definitely messages to us, false messages to us, or nonsense?
I believe in them personally but am curious to hear others opinions. Every Marian apparition approved by the Catholic Church has been one where Mary asks us to get back to Christ. Never does she ask for anything else.

I am speeking of Fatima, Lourdes, and such.

Answer 1

I believe them as fact. I also am amazed at the heroics of the people she talked to, against humanity. Out here in California - many Mexicans can tell you the story of Mary's visit to Villa Guadalupe, Mexico.
The bigger problem for me is visits after 1990 - as the media takes over, and the church is unable to react quickly enough, so I do not know what is real or media hype/false.

Answer 2

Oh I am a believer, I love to read about Fatima, Lourdes and the Songs of Bernadette, am not sure if that is how it is spelled, but either way yes I am very much a believer, the stories about them both are really great. I am not sure I believe in all of the new sitings, but these 2 are the tops in my opinion..These 2 I believe is messages, I would have to check the others out these are the 2 that has touched me..

Answer 3

My opinion is that of the Church: we could desire to apply great discernment interior the undertaking of supernatural activities. no one is obligated to have faith in inner maximum revelations, even those approved with the help of the Church. Apparitions of our woman at Fatima, Lourdes, LaSallette, and Knock -- between others -- have won the Church's approval. we are able to in stable judgment of right and incorrect settle for them as valid appearances of the Blessed Virgin. Others like Bayside. manhattan and Necedah, Wisconsin have been condemned as being delusions or fake apparitions, and we could desire to stay faraway from their messages. And contained while it comes to Medjugorje, the Church has no longer yet governed one way or the different. this is as quickly as we could desire to ascertain the alleged messages heavily and enable the Holy Spirit instruction manual us. as much as i could choose to have faith that each and all and sundry apparitions of our Blessed mom are valid, historic previous has shown in any different case. warning is our terrific wager till the Church provides her ruling.

Answer 4

I believe that Fatima, Lourdes,Medjugorje, and Guadalupe, and Tre Fontane all happened among many other apparitions.

http://members.chello.nl/~l.de.bondt/TreFontaneEnglish.htm

http://members.chello.nl/~l.de.bondt/MedjugorjeEng.htm

http://www.sancta.org/intro.html

Answer 5

I believe some of the are true,especially Fatima,Lourdes and knock.
A lot of people reckon medjigouri could be real but i dont know the story there.
I never believed ballinaspittle.
.

Answer 6

I personally think that people can see anything they wish. I do not personally believe that Mary is anything but a woman..... think about it ..... the religion is Christianity not Maryanity. even if the stories are true, why do catholics see Mary and not Jesus? isn't he the one y'all worship, isn't he the one who is supposed to be god on earth? This whole worshiping Mary thing confuses me ... especially making a shadow on a tree, a streak left from washing the window, the pattern of toasted bread or tortilla be the apparition of her ........
Actually my favorite Catholic apparition isn't of Mary but of the pope....... a raw piece of chicken where the paprika fell on it making a pattern...........
I'll give you credit........Christians and catholics have great imaginations!!!! (either that or you are all extremely desperate and insecure)

Answer 7

Mariam (Mary) is at rest waiting for the 1st Resurrection along with all the rest of the prophets and apostles

And she certainly would want you to worship Yahweh (not her) like she did.



Ecc 9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know nothing!

Show me in scriptures where Mariam is in heaven


Jhn 3:13 And no man (or woman) hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, [even] the Son of man which is in heaven.



Rev 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This [is] the first resurrection.


Rev 20:6 Blessed and holy [is] he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of Yahweh and the Messiah (Yahshua), and shall reign with him a thousand years.

Satan is deceiving the world into worshiping her.

COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE!

http://www.outcrybookreview.com/BHawkins.htm

Answer 8

Since I'm not a 100 percent sure what you are talking about I'm going with what I think you are. lol

I think when religious people see stuff, like the madonna crying etc.... Since some people don't see it. I feel it is more for the folks that see it. You know a message for them.

Answer 9

Isn't it interesting how all apparitions are always specific to the believer no matter which religion they follow?

Hindus see Hindu apparitions.

Muslims see Muslim apparitions.

The Catholic Church sees Catholic apparations.

Answer 10

There are apparitions that appear in most religions. It is a bit pompous to beleive that only the Mary apparition is real and the Vishnu apparition isn't.