Thursday, November 7, 1996

Message from Our Lady Queen of Peace to Edson Glauber in Itapiranga, AM, Brazil

Peace be with you!

Dear children, I am the Queen of Peace. Pray, pray, pray. Be in Peace, be with peace, and bring peace to all your brothers.

I give you my Mother's love and pour my graces over all of you. Convert yourselves. To the men here present I wish to tell them to pray; not to be lazy or ashamed to pray, for if you do so you will receive many heavenly graces from me. Pray for the whole world. (*)The world is black because of its innumerable crimes and sins...

At this moment I saw Our Lady holding a blackened globe in her right hand. It seemed to weigh a lot, for Our Lady could hardly hold it in the palm of her hand. Immediately she said:

Stay with my love and with my Peace. Pray, pray, pray. I bless you all: in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit Amen. See you soon!

(*) Mortal sin destroys charity in the heart of man by a grave infraction of God's law; it diverts man from God, who is his ultimate end and his beatitude, preferring an inferior good. Venial sin allows charity to subsist, although it offends and injures it. Mortal sin, attacking in us the vital principle that is charity, demands a new initiative of God's mercy and a conversion of the heart, which is normally accomplished in the sacrament of reconciliation.

Sin creates a propensity to sin: it generates vice by repetition of the same acts. From this result perverse inclinations that darken the conscience and corrupt the concrete evaluation of good and evil. Thus sin tends to reproduce and reinforce itself, but it fails to destroy the moral sense to the root.

Vices can be classified according to the virtues they counteract, or further linked to the capital sins that Christian experience has distinguished following St. John Cassian and St. Gregory the Great. They are called capital sins because they generate other sins, other vices. They are pride, avarice, envy, anger, impurity, gluttony, sloth or acedia.

Catechetical tradition also reminds us that there are "sins that shout to heaven." They cry out to heaven: the blood of Abel (abortion), the sin of the sodomites (homosexuality and fornication); the cry of the oppressed people in Egypt (evil corrupt politicians, thieves and murderers); the complaint of the stranger, the widow and the orphan; injustice to the wage earner.

Sin is a personal act. Moreover, we bear responsibility for the sins committed by others, when we cooperate in them:

-participating in them directly and willingly;

-commanding, counseling, praising, or approving of these sins; -not revealing them or not preventing them, when we are obliged to do so; -protecting those who do evil.

Thus sin makes men accomplices to one another, makes concupiscence, violence, and injustice reign among them. Sins cause social situations and institutions contrary to divine goodness. The "structures of sin" are the expression and effect of personal sins. They induce their victims to commit evil in turn. In an analogical sense they constitute a "social sin."

(Catechism of the Catholic Church - the gravity of sin: mortal and venial sin, p. 487, n.1855,1856; 1865 to 1869)