What does leading light Traditional Catholic Bishop Richard Williamson think of Garabandal in 2022?
At the risk of laying before a number of readers a matter of which they are already well aware, let these “Comments” present the Warning of Garabandal, because of the high probability that that Warning is authentic, and that it is therefore going to affect every human being alive, whether they know it or not, whether they like it or not, with a decisive effect upon their eternal salvation or damnation. Firstly, a brief account of the events of Garabandal. Secondly, the reason why the Church authorities have not yet given to those events their official approval. And thirdly, why those events fit our present situation like a key fits a lock. The Warning is of such a nature that when it happens, readers could be complaining, “If you knew about this, how in Heaven’s name could you never have told us about it ?” So here it is –
Garabandal is a small village in the mountains of Northern Spain about one hour in a car south of the city of Santander, halfway across Spain from East to West. In this village between 1961 and 1965 Our Lady appeared some 2000 times to four mountain girls, who had little to no knowledge or experience of anything going on in world or Church outside their own village. This unprecedented number of apparitions alone suggests that they were of a special importance. They included two solemn Messages, from 1961 and 1965, and three major prophecies, of a great Warning, a great Miracle and a great Chastisement. One of the four original girls knows the exact date of the Miracle, and will make it public one week beforehand, otherwise the dates of these three events are unknown.
As described by the leader of the four girls, Conchita, from what Our Lady told her, The Warning will be an entirely supernatural event, coming directly from God, to fill consciences of all people alive with light to show them how their souls stand before God, with all their sins. Given the godless state of the world, the experience will be “felt like fire” for most people, but it will not last long. Some people will die of it, but not many, and everybody will be prepared by it to take notice of the great Miracle to follow. In fact the Warning will be a great mercy of God, because when normally souls learn of their standing before God at their Particular Judgment, following immediately on death, they have no further chance of changing that Judgment. On the contrary, after the Garabandal Warning, few will die and everyone else will be free to change their lives. This Warning makes sense in our world overwhelmed by confusion and lies, because it will be pure truth from God, consoling good people, and taking away all ignorance.
However, the Church authorities have still to give to the Garabandal apparitions of Our Lady their official approval because of the events’ timing and their content. Vatican II (1962-1965) was a gigantic betrayal of Truth, of the Faith, of the Catholic Church. Garabandal (1961-1965) was a gigantic affirmation of Catholic Truth, of the Faith, of the Church. In Her first solemn Message, of 1961, Our Lady warned that “the cup is filling up”. In Her longer solemn Message of 1965, She said amongst other things that “the cup is flowing over”, and that “Many cardinals, bishops and priests are on the road to perdition, and they are taking many souls with them.” Could there be a more accurate summary of what was happening at Vatican II ? But one can understand that the clergy did not like what She was saying ! She was taking 2000 apparitions to warn Church and world that the clergy’s Vatican II was a huge mistake.
Finally, Garabandal fits our modern world like a key fits a lock. Respecting the churchmen’s free-will, Almighty God allows them to go horribly wrong as the end of the world approaches. But the shepherds’ going astray generates huge confusion among the sheep, Catholic and non-catholic alike. To all of them He offers an extraordinary event, freeing them from all confusion, before they have to answer at death for how they will have spent their lives. What a grace ! And it will be confirmed by the great Miracle, due to take place in Garabandal itself, and exceeding the miracle of the sun spinning, in 1917, at Fatima.
Kyrie eleison.
Almighty God is good, and plans to tell,
Once more, how to avoid our self-made Hell.
Source: WORLDWIDE WARNING
See also "Private revelation and the message of Garabandal" - 8 May 1992
