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L'opuscolo d'informazione in lingua olandese della Fondazione della Signora di tutti i Popoli ha pubblicato nel Bollettino n. 9 – Maggio 2003, due articoli: quello sottostante tratta del Significato e dell' Attualità della Signora di tutti i Popoli, l'altro documento Posizione della Chiesa (aprire il documento) è stato emesso il 25 ottobre 2002 dalla commissione d’accompagnamento diocesana.
Il Bollettino n. 9 è disponibile in lingua inglese e tedesca.

LA SIGNORA DI TUTTI I POPOLI
SIGNIFICATO E ATTUALITÀ

la traduzione in italiano purtroppo ancora non è disponibile.

THE LADY OF ALL NATIONS
MEANING AND TOPICAL INTEREST

In the years 1945 - 1959 the Holy Virgin Mary appeared several times as 'The Lady of All Nations' to Ida Peerdeman, a woman living in Amsterdam. She shows herself standing before the Cross, clothed with the sun. Her feet are planted on the globe. From her hands three rays are coming - Grace, Redemption and Peace - which God grants her to hand out to humanity. She addresses herself to the Church and the world with warnings and admonitions, yet her words are also full of hope and bring the promise of salvation. After more than 50 years, on 31 May 2002, the appearances received ecclesiastical recognition. This contribution wishes to be an aid to understand the profound and topical meaning of these appearances.

Realize the seriousness of this time

The appearances took place in the postwar years when optimism ruled the world, particularly Europe, and the Church in general still felt strong and safe, the period that is called in Holland the 'Rich Roman Life'. Yet Mary saw the great dangers that threathened Church and world and warns in urgent language: "Realize the seriousness of this time…You do not know how great the danger is that is threathening you…Understand this time, understand the fight… Be aware that the spirit is fighting… do not let yourselves be carried to the wrong spirit act… work..."

The messages depict a world that is on the verge of sliding down to "degeneration, disaster and war", and a Church that is heading towards a "heavy fight" and an unprecedented "decline of faith". They announce a time in which "the fight for the spirit", the fight between the Lady and "the enemy of the Lord" will reach its height. But it will also be a time in which the Holy Spirit "shall come more than ever" and "the Kingdom of God will be nearer than ever..."

Concrete prophecies

Particularly the first messages, from the years 1945-1950, contain concrete prophecies and warnings. Many of these have already been fulfilled, or are taking place before our eyes ("the signs are in my words"). Others are still hidden in the future.
In the world: the first landing on the moon… the downfall of communism…the Balkan war… struggle in the Middle-East, in which the whole world will be involved and "shall as it were divide the world in two…", danger of chemical and biological warfare… struggle in Korea that will resurge "at intervals" and will be the "start of great misery"… Discord between America and Europe: "economic warfare, boycotting, currency crises, disasters" uprisal in Manchuria… changes in nature… meteors… etc.
In the Church: decline of faith… internal discord...heavy clouds above the Vatican…"celibacy, endangered from within… false doctrines, particularly concerning the Eucharist…" appeal to a stronger social engagement of the Church: "Encyclicals, that is the right way…" appeal to make changes in the Church of the fifties, to prepare her for what is coming, "but good, with the good Spirit…" Through images the visionary is already shown the Second Vatican Council and eight months in advance the death of pope Pius XII is predicted to her…
Provisional: depending on the praying and the works of humanity and the Church, the Lady either speaks of a world catastrophe or world peace.

The mission of the Lady

The Lady has come for this tragical time. She is permitted to help humanity and point out to her the ways of salvation. After the proclamation of the dogma of the Assumption in 1950 the messages take a new turn.
For the first time the Lady presents herself standing before the Cross with which she is linked as the suffering and sacrificing Mother, and she presents herself with her new title:
"I am the Lady, Mary, Mother of All Nations… I stand as the Lady before the Cross, as the Mother before my Son, who came in Me through the Father…"
Now, she prophecies, the mission the Lord Jesus Christ had given her from the Cross, will be accomplished: "At the departure of the Lord Jesus Christ, He gave Miriam, or Mary, to the nations in one act, giving her as 'The Lady of All Nations'…Now the Father and the Son wish to send the Lady through the whole world. After all, she went in former times before the Son and followed him, too…"
The time has come in which Mary wishes to be known as the universal Mother of all nations and all peoples, "no matter who or what you are…" Her motherly mission is to "bring all peoples together in the spirit, the true Holy Spirit." Time after time she points to Christ and his Cross: "through the Lady of All Nations to the Lord of All Nations…"
The plan of salvation developed in the messages contains three central themes:

A new prayer

The Lady speaks several times about the great value of the prayer of the Rosary. In addition, she gives on 11 February 1951 a new prayer, addressed to the Lord Jesus. The visionary records:
"Suddenly, I see the Lady become even more beautiful than she already was… Her figure grows even more translucent and so beautiful that I look at it in rapture. Then the Lady says, Pray before the Cross… Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Father, send now Your Spirit over the earth. Let the Holy Spirit live in the hearts of all nations, that they may be preserved from degeneration, disaster and war. May the Lady of All Nations, who once was Mary, be our Advocate. Amen… The Lady says this prayer so beautifully and impressively-no one in the world could do it as she did. She stresses the word 'now' and 'all… I see it written now in big letters".
The title Lady refers to the name the Lord has used for her himself when speaking of her mission as the new Eve (Cana... Golgotha...). Here, too, the vision of John in the book of Revelation is heard. The line who once was Mary indicates the novelty of her mission for this time, but shows at the same time that it is indeed the Virgin Mary from the Holy Scripture and Tradition who is speaking here.
She shows "how great and eminent this prayer is with God…", and promises that all who will call upon her as "Mary, the Lady of All Nations", she shall "give grace for soul and body-according to the Son's will…"

She also gives a special message to the pope:

"Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ, teach your peoples this simple yet profound prayer. It is Mary, the Lady of All Nations, who asks this of you. You are the shepherd of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Tend your sheep. Know well, great threats are hanging over the Church, are hanging over the world. Now the moment has come for you to speak of Mary as Coredemptrix, Mediatrix and Advocate, under the title 'The Lady of All Nations'. Why is Mary asking this of you? Because she has been sent by her Lord and Creator so that, under this title and through this prayer, she may deliver the world from a great world catastrophe…"

A new Marian dogma

She asks for the dogma of "Mary Coredemptrix, Mediatrix and Advocate" to come, so that her mediating role for the Church and world can be developed in full scope. "The Lady of All Nations wishes for unity in the true Holy Spirit. The world is covered by a false spirit, by Satan. Once the dogma, the final dogma in Marian history, has been proclaimed, the Lady of All Nations will grant peace, true peace, to the world. The nations, however, must pray my prayer, together with the Church...The divine Trinity will rule over the world once again. The Lady stands here as the Advocate. It is the Creator that matters, not the Lady. Tell this to your theologians…"
The messages speak elaborately of the new dogma, its meaning and origin: Mary, they stress, is "the Immaculate Conception and therefore Coredemptrix, Mediatrix and Advocate."

New attention for the Holy Eucharist

Repeatedly, the Lady emphasizes the great importance of the Holy Eucharist for this time. "Bring your children back to the Sacrifice… lead your peoples back to the Sacrifice… He gave you the great Mystery, the great Miracle for every day, every hour, every minute… He gave Himself… No, peoples, not a thought!…" Saying this, she shook her head fiercely.
She points to Amsterdam as the place of her choice: "It is also the place of the Sacrament.* Understand this well… In Amsterdam, the Miracle-city, will also come the Lady of All Nations…"

*The Lady refers here to an eucharistic miracle that happened on 16 March 1345 in Amsterdam: A holy Host, thrown up by a sick person and cast into the fire, floats for a considerable time above the flames in the sight of a number of people. The bishop starts an investigation and confirms the facts. Emperor Maximilian of Austria makes a pilgrimage to Amsterdam and renders the city the right to use the imperial crown from that moment on in the city arms. Partly because of this, the city flourishes. Up to now, every year in March thousands of people walk in a silent procession through Amsterdam in remembrance of the Miracle.

It will come true through the years

If the Church will act in this spirit and will follow the plan of God, then, the Lady prophecies, the nations "after 54 will give a sigh of relief", then humanity will be granted a time of peace. To which time is the Lady referring?
The messages give a veiled time indication. Time after time the years 50 to 54 are cited as a period that precedes. 53 is mentioned as the year in which "great world events and world catastrophes will threaten to happen and will take place", but also as "the year of the Lady of All Nations". At first everyone thought spontaneously of the years 1950 to 1954. However, the dates were - except for one - given explicitly as bare dates, without prefix, and were sometimes mentioned when most of the concerning year already passed by. It became more and more obvious that there was a double meaning: one the one hand they are concerned with the historical period, on the other hand they point prophetically towards a second period.
"It will come true through the years", the Lady says.

Here we find the deepest meaning of this devotion: She wants to gather the Church and the nations around Christ in the Holy Eucharist and around Mary, the Lady of All Nations, to prepare the way for a renewed coming of the Holy Spirit in our time, new life for the Church and the world.

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