We are all grateful for this wonderful experience of celebrating Pentecost united with Mary. True, divine ecumenism means, namely, the leading of all religious communities, confessions and separated churches, nations, and peoples back to the Upper Room of Jerusalem. For that is where the Apostles gathered around their mother Mary as one heart and soul to implore the coming of the Holy Spirit.

"The Lady remained with her apostles until the Spirit came. In the same way the Lady will come to her apostles and all the nations, in order to bring them the Holy Spirit anew"
(May 31, 1954).

Today, it is Amsterdam, the city of the Eucharistic miracle, where Our Lady has invited and gathered us. In the twentieth century God has made this Eucharistic city, which is at the same time a Babylon, into a city of Mary. As the city of the Lady of All Nations, it will also become the Pentecostal city of the Holy Spirit and the city of the unity of peoples. Where the bride—Mary—is, there will also be the groom—the Holy Spirit.

"You must realize why I come as the Lady of All Nations. I come in order to gather all nations in the Spirit, in the Spirit of Truth" (Dec. 8, 1952)."Amsterdam will become the focal point of the Lady of All Nations" (May 10, 1953). "Her task is to bring her peoples to unity. She is sent to form her peoples into one great Community" (May 31, 1955).

I know that the seat of the United Nations is in New York; yet today, the truly united nations are here!

The Second Pentecost and the Messages of Amsterdam

In view of the new Pentecost, and in view of true ecumenism and the unity of peoples, one simply cannot overemphasize the central relevance of the Amsterdam messages. For Mary came specifically here to Amsterdam for fifteen years, sent by God to explain and to implore the proclamation of this last and greatest Marian dogma. It is only through this dogma that a renewed coming of the Holy Spirit can be granted.

"When the dogma, the last dogma in Marian history, has been proclaimed, the Lady of All Nations will give peace, true peace to the world" (May 31, 1954). "Know well that the Holy Spirit is nearer than ever. … In the name of the Lady of All Nations ask the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, who will come now more fully than ever" (May 31, 1955).

The Fight

However, this will not take place without toil and conflict. Already forty years ago, Our Lady described the intense fight which would flare up concerning the dogma. Now, at the end of the nineties, this fight has become even more evident. "The new dogma will be much disputed" (Dec. 8, 1952). "Others will surely attack you" (April 4, 1954). In dramatic words she prophesied, "It is a fight for life and death, but in the end the Spirit will conquer" (March 25, 1972).

The Peaceful World Action

Our Lady knew that her salvation-bringing dogma would be refused and strongly attacked. Therefore, since the content of this dogma concerns everyone without exception, our peace-loving mother wants to allow ALL of her children to participate in helping the new Marian dogma to come soon. How does she do this? She asks each person of good will to offer her picture, which is in our midst today so beautifully decorated and crowned, and her prayer as a gift to all brothers and sisters, whether they are believers or not. This great yet simple pastoral program is entirely peaceful and cannot be stopped by anyone—not by any power in the world!

"The spouse of the Lord was not sent to the earth for no reason. Make her known among the nations" (March 25, 1973). "Get to work with ardent zeal and you will see a miracle!" This is what Mary promised.

The World Action—The Key to the Dogma

Our Lady called the spreading of her prayer and picture the "World Action." She even spoke of a "work of peace and redemption." When the nations come to know Mary as their personal mother through the Amsterdam picture, and when they implore the coming of the Holy Spirit through her prayer, this Worldwide Action will certainly become our decisive contribution and the direct preparation and promotion of this dogma. This dogma, then, will bring the world the peace she so desires.

Yes, the key to the definitive triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is this new Marian dogma. The key to this dogma, however, is this World Action given by Mary herself.

A Marian Action Prepares for a Dogma

It happened once before that a Marian apparition and the spreading of a picture and a prayer were the decisive contribution of the faithful for the preparation and promotion of a dogma. In 1830, at Rue du Bac, France, Our Lady appeared to the twenty-one-year-old novice Catherine Laboure and requested the stamping of a medal of the Immaculata.

At the time of the visionary’s death, one billion medals had been distributed. Thus hundreds of millions of people were wearing it with trust and praying the prayer which had been unknown until then: "O Mary conceived without original sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee."

Remember well: only twenty-four years after Mary’s appearance in Rue du Bac, Pius IX proclaimed the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception (1854). I believe that now, at the high point of the Marian Epoch, God wants to do again what He did through the Miraculous Medal at the beginning of the Marian Epoch. This time, however, He will act even more powerfully, through the spreading of the picture and the prayer of the Lady of All Nations worldwide.

Although the serpent was still visible on the miraculous medal, it is no longer visible in the picture of the Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate. This has a deep meaning: when Mary triumphs through the threefold dogma, Satan is finally conquered.

We can be sure that the image of the Merciful Jesus given to Sr. Faustina and the image of the Lady of All Nations will become the most important for the turn of the millennium:

The Merciful Lord of all nations and the Lady of All Nations, the Redeemer of all and the Coredemptrix.

A New Prayer and a New Picture for a New Dogma,
Leading us into a New Epoch

Some of you may be thinking, "Spreading a new prayer and new picture?—do we need another new picture and prayer to give to people? Do we not already have enough prayers and pictures of Our Lady? Aren’t these enough?"

Let us pay close attention to the words by which Mary herself explains the importance of her picture, for her new picture shall precede her new dogma. "Tell them that I wish to be and shall be the Coredemptrix, Mediatrix and Advocate. This picture must first go forth; this picture should be spread" (Aug. 15, 1951).

"I have said this picture is to prepare the way. This picture must be spread all over the world. It is the illustration of the new dogma. This is why I have personally given this picture to the nations" (Dec. 8, 1952).

Mary also explains why she gave a new prayer: "It was given to implore the true Spirit to come over the world" (Sept. 20, 1951). "The Lady will save the world by means of this prayer" (May 10, 1953). "You do not know what great value and power this prayer boasts before God! He will grant the requests of His Mother…" (May 31, 1955).

This prayer will also tie a band of love which only the Holy Spirit, God’s love, can tie. Our Mother promises, "This simple prayer will create one community" (Feb. 17, 1952). "The Lady of All Nations… will bring them back into one fold. Into one fold" (March 19, 1952). See, dear friends, this is God’s ecumenism through the Lady of All Nations.

Thus God has given us, in Amsterdam, a new picture and a new prayer for a new Marian dogma that will lead us into a new time, into a new era. For this reason, therefore, if one is working for the new dogma, one should not conceal Amsterdam!

The Events of Akita—
An Irrefutable Proof of Amsterdam

In Akita, Japan, Mary shows how much she wants her coming to Amsterdam not to be hidden. This morning Ambassador Dee explained quite impressively the profound connection between Fatima, Amsterdam, and Akita.

The wonderful events of Akita began very inconspicuously through a single little prayer card of the Lady of All Nations. Akita, therefore, is a fruit of the World Action. I tell you this, dear friends, as an encouragement.

In the sixties, a German priest gave a Japanese version of the prayer card to a little convent in northern Japan. Following the miraculous healing of the novice mistress through the prayer of the Lady of All Nations, the superior of the cloister wished to express her thankfulness. She commissioned a Buddhist sculptor to carve an exact replica of the Amsterdam image. This statue of the Lady of All Nations, the Coredemptrix, wept tears more than one hundred times, perspired a fragrant perfume, and bled from the wound of the right hand.

Bishop Ito, having witnessed this with his own eyes, discussed the situation with Cardinal Ratzinger. Following careful examinations, the bishop confirmed the supernatural nature of the Akito messages.

Ten years ago, on June 24, 1988, Bishop Ito made a pilgrimage to the chapel of the Lady of All Nations in Amsterdam where he celebrated Holy Mass in the presence of the visionary and her sisters.

The Dogma will be a Fruit of Prayer and Silent, Offered Suffering

It is certain that the dogma will be a fruit of prayer, and that it will come forth from the hearts of the those who suffer. It is a dogma for which we must suffer. The most powerful intercessors for the dogma of the Coredemptrix, therefore, are those who suffer, the so-called "coredeemers"—as here for instance, the great French mystic Marthe Robin. The Lord promised a new Pentecost of love to her also. If suffering with one another creates solidarity and mutual affection, then true unity is first achieved through suffering for one another.

The Ecumenism of the Martyrs and Saints

Yes, God’s ecumenism through the Lady of All Nations, the Coredemptrix, will also be an ecumenism of coredeemers. The Holy Father has spoken about this too:

"The Church of the first millennium came forth from the blood of the martyrs. ... At the end of the second millennium the Church has again become a church of martyrs. ... Witnessing to Christ to the point of shedding blood has become the common inheritance of Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Anglicans, and Protestants alike."

Catholic nuns suffered in concentration and labor camps for decades during the cruel communist persecution in Czechoslovakia. In a similar manner, the Protestant pastor Richard Wurmbrand, while captive in Romanian prisons, suffered unspeakably for the sake of Christ. In Russia alone more than fifty thousand cathedrals and churches of all different Christian confessions were destroyed or plundered. Millions of the faithful suffered martyrdom. Ivan Moiseyev, the great and prayerful Moldavian martyr of the Baptist Church, was strengthened by his heart prayer, "Joy in the Lord is my strength." He repeated this prayer ceaselessly while, as a soldier in the Red Army, he endured unimaginable tortures. Similar persecutions were endured by millions of martyrs of the Orthodox Church, such as the faithful woman pictured here from the persecuted Albanian Church. Mikel Cardinal Koliqi, as a priest and later as a bishop, suffered in different Albanian labor camps and prisons for forty-four years! Five years ago, following his release, he was appointed cardinal by the Pope.

Now we better understand why the Holy Father says, "The ecumenism of the saints, the martyrs, is perhaps the most convincing one."

With Pope John Paul II
Towards a New Pentecost of Love

To conclude, let us consciously unite ourselves with Mother Teresa in heaven, for she too, within the framework of the Vox Populi Movement, asked Pope John Paul II to proclaim the Dogma of the Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate. In this picture we see her at her last meeting with the Holy Father in St. Peter’s, shortly before her death. What might she have entrusted to him as her last will and testament? She who once wrote to him, "The Papal definition of Mary as Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate will bring great graces to the Church." Let us not only pray, but also be ready to give our lives that the Pope may resolutely prepare the dogma founded upon the Gospel and the teachings of the Church, and that, encouraged by the unique prophetic and apocalyptic messages of the Lady of All Nations, he may proclaim it at the God-given moment. Thereby the Holy Father will guide us into a new epoch through a new Pentecost of love.

On the feast of the apostles Peter and Paul, June 29,1997, Mother Teresa met with Pope John Paul II for the last time in St. Peter’s Cathedral. She died a few months later on September 5, 1997.