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But such shortness  does not arise, absolutely,  the true, authentic and complete message dictated by heaven, with divine clarity, depth and beauty, draws up an ample program for us of spiritual life, apostolate and heroic reparation..

The criticism of those that impugn Dominguez attack the Rosary of the Our Fathers, the scapular, the sacred images in which is contained the pious practices that are usually  considered either out of fashion, unpleasant without importance and effectiveness, of an old fashioned, permitted and superstitious popular devotion.

But this sufficiency ridicules specially the scapular that in  Palmar is worn externally, by order of the Lord, dictated by means of Clemente Domínguez. To those who obey this order are designated by them contemptuously "those of the scapular", "the acolytes of the scapular", and also: "the gang", and "the Clementine group".

The defense of the scapular we are not going into   because the Lord did so already, day 12 of February of 1971. That day, in effect, He appeared bleeding in all his wounds and said what follows:

"Children of mine: today I bleed by all my wounds, because I see, in these groups that come here to pray, people who despise my words, that consider ridiculous my mandates. examine: It is a ridiculous situation that you have in your handbags and your houses the picture of your parents? You have them on the walls and it does not concern you the opinion of anybody.

"I ask  you: perhaps I am not your Father ? why do you not give testimony of Me '? Perhaps it is a ridiculous situation that you wear the scapular externally giving testimony of your faith? Perhaps Satan can insist so many times that you wear this Holy Scapular when indeed this scapular is for expelling  Satan… My Children : they are innumerable those that are in Heaven because of the Crusades. Saints all of them carried flags with my sign and some of the Most Holy Virgin, and they faced the enemies without considering that they were going to be killed corporally.

"the   moment has arrived to have courage and to serve as a joke, if it is necessary, in my defence. You see that it is My Face, My Sacred Heart and the one of My Most Holy Mother. In these three reparations  is the salvation of the world.

"All those that come here have proofs, more than sufficient, of the authenticity of these messages in which it says that there is to wear this Holy Scapular externally. You observe how  my other Seers, Antonio and Jose, we have been to them requesting the scapulars,  that we have blessed ourselves, not a single time, but many. Is it that it is not a sufficient proofs? Why do you want more proofs… It is necessary to be made young again to understand the divine mysteries. In order to understand Me it is not necessary study: only humility, and the grace of the Holy Spirit will come on him. Ay to him who will be scandalized by this escapulario! Poor man "

With this ample and patient explanation of the Lord on the adoration of the Holy Face as one of the conditions to which the salvation of the world is subject, it is, then, clarified and weakened the first objection.

The Church always has admitted and taught that God usually ties to certain conditions and pious practices the concession of special graces, according to the necessities of the times. And it is evident that the Lord can bind to the use of the scapular of the Holy Face and other conditions settled in the message, the concession of the those most special graces that the world today needs to be saved and the very serious punishments that it deserves and are already  announced.

He is absurd to see, in those conditions of salvation, shortness of sight nor exaltation of the accessory, as they try to formulate the first objection. The Lord has deigned to explain the reasons for which he requested an increase in the adoration to Holy Face and until he had the goodness to indicate to us the decisive test of the authenticity of this message when he reminded us that the other two seers, Antonio and Jose,  agree with Clemente Domínguez with respect to the Holy Face. Argument that is valid also for those that do not have faith in the messages, because the coincidence of two serious, precise and trustworthy testimonies, always has been , in all the times,  sufficient test of the reality of a fact.

It lacks, then, a foundation the first objection.

Second objection

One talks about  the message of the 15 th December  1969 that the objectors presented in the following terms:

"In truth, in truth I say to you: the one that  does not love my Mother, does not love to me Me nor the Father; therefore, I will not consider him on the day of the judgment." (Holy Face.)

And the criticism is the same one: shortness of sight and Maximum exaltation of the accessory ".

The reader judges if they the objectors  have remained short  sighted, very short sighted, when transcribing the message, because the true and authentic text unfolds the magnificent amplitude of its thought in the following terms:

"15 of December 1969 The Holy Face: In truth, in truth I say to you: the one that  does not love my Mother does not love me  nor the Father. Therefore, I will not consider  him on the day of the judgment. Everything must come by means of my Mother. Those who profane my Mother,  Me  they profane also and  the Father, and the punishment will be divine."

The Immaculate Conception: “ My Divine Son has said to you that He who requested my mediation,  will receive it. And I say to you that He who will not adore the Face of my Divine Son, I will not hear him'

We let the Christian sensitivity of the reader appreciate and savour the depth and the beauty of these words in which one does not know if to admire more: the doctrinal depth, the persuasive force, or the divine one and the transparent beauty of the form.

It is this "shortness of sight and exaltation of the accessory"?

This message is singularly defended, by its own content. Its divine origin shines by its overwhelming truth, by its immense goodness, its great beauty that affects and astonishes  us.

How the reason can be seen "shortness of sight" nor "exaltation of the accessory" in this huge panel where, the theology, metaphysics, the logic, the traditional doctrine of the Church and the completed sobriety of the expression connect admirably and concur in an all harmony and hierarchy one where each part occupies its due place: the Mother of the Lord, Mediator of all graces, the Divine Face of the Lord, his Sacred Heart, his Divine Body, his Divine Person and her Eternal Father?

Throughout a full order of splendour shines in the assembly. And as so admirable a content obviously exceeds the capacity of Clemente Domínguez, a person lacking university or theological superior studies, this same disproportion demonstrates that Domínguez is not the cause, but only instrumental in the messages, which confirms the authenticity of the apparitions.

Third objection

"The Cardinal has prohibited the celebration of Mass in the Lentisco; so, it is the Lord does not want that it be celebrated."

Thus they argue, between , some Catholics disoriented by the adverse campaign against Clemente Domínguez.

If that conclusion were true, it would be that all the messages of the Lord, that repeatedly request the celebration of Masses in El Palmar, and all the Masses that are celebrated there, would displease him deeply.

But the truth is I oppose it. Thus they prove the facts.

In effect, after the prohibition of the. Cardinal of Seville, published  18 of May of 1970 and reiterated the 18 of March of 1972, the Masses have continued being celebrated in El Palmar. But also they have continued following one another appearances and messages, wonderful treatments and conversions, solar ecstasies and prodigies and extraordinary facts. And they have not only continued, but  have increased the fervour, the oration and the penance.

However: if they continue and increase the unequivocal signs of the intervention of heaven, it demonstrates that the Lord approves the Masses that are celebrated there in spite of the prohibition of the Cardinal.

The Seers and their followers have fulfilled, then, their inexcusable duty they have to lend obedience to God before that to men. From the date of the prohibition, an increasing cloud of reparation, oration and penance continued rising to heaven from the top of the  Mount of Christ King, where the one who sends is  clearly  - Christ King… and also the Cardinal of Seville, when he is in comunión with his beloved Vicar, PaulVI

Such are the facts. And the facts are not discussed. And these facts weigh on the correct, because the prohibition of the. Cardinal has fallen in evident disuse with the tacit consent of himself, during the three years that have passed from their last prohibition. In effect the laws expire by their general breach, prolonged and left by the  authority that dictated them.

On the other hand, the prohibitions of the Cardinal have a character with sentence of first instance, that denies the authenticity of the appearances and messages of  Palmar. But such sentence has been opportune and formally resorted by those same persons those who the prohibitions affect and dishonour. Therefore, the decision of the Church is now in the hands of the Holy Father, Pope Paul VI and anyone understands that if the Holy Father, really, recognized tomorrow the authenticity of the messages of Palmar  it would do irreparable  damage to the  Cardinal  unjustly prejudiced today, , made in an all critical moment a prohibition, as if should be definitive.

Irreparable was the damage caused to Santa Joan of Arc by the Bishop of Beauvais , Monsignor Píerre Cauchon, when he wrongly estimated the authenticity of her appearances and messages, and signed the sentence that sent her to burn  in the Seat of the Market of Rouen, without waiting for the definitive sentence of Holy See, to whom the  mother of the heroic seer had appealed.

With respect to the case of Seville, already we have mentioned in chapter III the vigorous plea signed by 342 eyewitnesses, who emphasize the extraordinary facts of the Palmar and declare that no signer and no seer were called to lend a declaration before the Archbishop of Seville, that the sentence had been dictated without hearing of the defendant and by which, therefore, the sentence is legally null.

The energetic memorial presented before the. Archbishop of Seville founded on the resource of an impressive enumeration of extraordinary facts happened in  Palmar with the intervention of the Seers Maria Luisa Vila, Maria Marín, Rosario Arenillos and Clemente Domínguez and gives specific dates, hours, and other circumstances of visible  mystical comuniones, stigmatisations, sangraciones, coronations of thorns and ecstasy with its precious fruits of revelations, sacrifices, penances, apostolate and conversions.

With the emphasis of those who have seen the truth with their own eyes, the signers show that to deny so abundant and  public, credited with innumerable proofs, it would be an absurd  act of "and crazy skepticism, similar to the negations of the Pharisees, with respect to the works and miracles of the Lord that saw, but they repudiated, with cynicism saying that the Lord acted by art and power of the demon. The present enemies do not go far behind their predecessors, contemporaries of the Divine Saviour, to deny the supernatural facts that has been called on to  present  and to admire and which  are humanly inexplicable…

We reiterated that the document is transcribed completely, after the present prologue and like an integral part of the same, in quality as documentary evidence.

The resource to the Holy Father, against the prohibition of the Cardinal, was carried to Rome and given personally into the hands of the Pontiff Paul VI, by the same Seer, Clemente Domínguez, on the day 16 of April 1972, that is, within the 30 days of the date of the resorted resolution. In fact it constitutes an appeal that places the subject in papal instance. Later, Domínguez had returned several times to Rome to give the Holy Father, in his own hands, and by means of high prelates of the Vatican, like Cardinal Ottaviani, diverse information on the new extraordinary events and messages received in El Palmar.

The last one of these presentations is well-known to us,  and has been dated 8 of December of 1974,  receives individual importance because it demonstrates the humble and filial feelings of submission to the Pope that the travelling seers, apostles of Palmar reveal: because they evidence that the Holy Father continues informed in everything precisely what  happens on the Sacred Mount of Christ the King, in order that he can give, in its moment, the definitive sentence; and because it adds a valuable summary that summarizes all the content of the messages dictated throughout seven years. Given the importance of the presentation, its text transcribes the integral part and documentary evidence of the present prologue. (Document Nº 3.)

The prohibition of the Cardinal caused much sorrow to Clemente  Domínguez, and was seen in a conflict of obediences, then, on the one hand, the Lord ordered the celebration of Masses and the. Cardinal prohibited them. Confused and perplexed, the Seer, with simplicity, flood of filial confidence whereupon usually goes with the Lord, he consulted  him, day 1 of January of 1971, in the following terms:

"Lord… and to the bishops, who the majority fights… what do I say to them "

"Remember - the Lord answered examine the history of the Church and there have been bishops whom  have defamed  the Seers, that have slandered them and they have taken them to the bonfire and, later, the Church has canonized  these Seers .i.e. Joan of Arc.. That they admit that they can be mistaken, they should request light and I will give it. And you, son of mine, hold hard to the Pope,  he will not condemn  you, and when you have doubts and  you say to yourselves: ' This must be a lie because the Cardinal has said to me that it is lie '… But the Vicar of Christ, has not yet  spoken; there you rest. If you got to speak, consult with me.

"In addition, do not make an effort to understand the theologians and the bishops because, whilst they do not have humility, they will not understand anything.

"Remember to them that they observe how there are children who live in misery, where culture has not arrived , that are illiterate and accept my word because they have simplicity and humility. But always it will be fulfilled: To the powerful the demolition of their thrones and to the humble ones I praise them. How easy is everything when there is humility! I bless to you."

We reiterated that this message is of 1st of January 1971.It is previous, then, to the second prohibition of the Archbishop, and has been dated 18 of March of 1972. But immediately after the prohibition the second - one would say that the same answer on the same day 25 of March 1972 the Eternal Father, by means of  Clemente Domínguez, said:

" My Children:  I am greatly angered with the Shepherd who guides the flock of Seville. He has not built wisely. He has condemned, without studying seriously and with a humble spirit, the blessed happenings the supernatural phenomena in this sacred place of the Palmar of Troy. My  arm of justice will be dropped on this Shepherd. I cannot allow that  the humanity ignore my supernatural facts, my prodigies, my graces, distributed for all those that want to take refuge.

"Until now a true study has not been made of this sacred place. Where are they  here the great theologians, the scholars? Some have been  sent, and they have been informed badly.

"my hour is arriving for justice. Or he is with the  Son Jesus Christ or one is against You walk with care. Blind obedience can be schism and deflection. The rock is in the Pope, Paul VI , and in the bishops who are with him in true communion . When a bishop, in fundamental subjects, separates from  Papal Teaching, my Son Jesus retires the entrusted ewes to him .

" I am very  angered with the Spanish Episcopate. It follows without taking  seriously the document from the Sacred Congregation in Rome. You know well that if this Episcopal Conference does not adhere to the call of the Holy See , exhorting them to correct errors, this Conference will be seen failing, and will not find the light, and when the schism comes, many of these bishops will follow their tracks…

"It is necessary and urgent that the Traditional Mass is restored everywhere in the world, because to follow these innovations in the Holy Church, the confusion will be greater. I bless to you."

Two days later, the 27th March 1972 (after it had been  celebrated the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, according to the Tridentine rite, by  Father Jose of the Poor Souls), the Lord said:

" Cry out  that the greater number of entreaties is sent, to ask my Beloved Vicar that it is restored the Tridentine Mass, in Latin, of San Pius V. He  wishes to restore it, but there are many enemies around Him. Request often so that he supports the terrible cross that weighs on his shoulders and that the same children have loaded on his shoulders. He is on the verge of presenting important documents, but the enemies are pressing  him so that they do not come to light. Pray for him, your Earthly father, the martyr of the Vatican. I bless you, to Spain and the world."

The conclusion is obvious: the Cardinal of Seville has prohibited the Mass in the Lentisco of the Palmar of Troy. But God commands that the Mass is celebrated there and, indeed, the one of San Pius V, and not another one. The option between both mandates does not offer, for an instructed Christian, any sort of doubt.

It is not doubtful either that God wants that the Traditional Mass is restored everywhere in the world, Tridentine, Latin, of San Pius V. the option  offers no difficulty for a true catholic.

The reader will be surprised, perhaps, if we say that to the voice of the Lord it has been united, privately, the one of the Holy Father, Pope Paul VI ; it is thus. The news was published the 23 of November of 1974 in number 549 of the Spanish weekly magazine "What happens", directed by Don Joaquin Perez Madrigal, in the following form:

"Cardinal-Archbishop of Seville, in a visit to Rome to inform the Pope on subjects of the Diocese, successfully obtained the advice of Paul VI  on the pastoral conduct to follow in the cases of the Mimbral and El Palmar. I say  thinking, perhaps, in that the Pope would grant, naturally, his conformity with  the disavowal stuck by him '.

"But the Pope, that has in these and other cases of charismatic type an information by other conduits, that possibly, the Cardinal of Seville more or less did not suspect, gave to the hispalense shepherd an answer  ' diplomatic in these terms: ' Leave them  develop the events while everything goes pacifically. Remember what Gamaliel said to Sanhedrin when they  wanted to deprive of authority, to prohibit and to condemn the preaching of the Apostles: " leave these men… because if this is advice or comes of men…it will  dissolve '; but if it comes from God, you will not be able to dissolve it, and perhaps someday you find you have waged  war on God. (Act. 5, 38-39)"

"Then from what sleeve have I removed this information? The same Cardinal of Seville talked about it to a priest of the same country and a friend mine, of whose lips I have heard it."

We are, then, before a collision of obediences and it is known that in such cases it is  to be obeyed the most superior.

Then: between the prohibition of the Cardinal of Seville and the clear order, final and opposite of the Lord, confirmed with the prudent, respectful and permissive attitude of the Holy Father Paul VI, the priests and seculars of El Palmar choose, as  is natural and right, to obey the most superior and continue going calmly to El Palmar there, celebrating and attending the Masses Latin  Tridentine  Rite of San Pius V.

And now, at the end of this long reasoning, that you have followed with attention, it will be  seen better what powerful reasons by which the Cardinal-Archbishop of Seville, Monsignor Jose Maria Bueno and Monreal,  allowed, in fact, that, after its prohibition, it was continued celebrating Masses in El Palmar, just like before.

Because, in effect, the continuation of the prodigies after the prohibition and in spite of the apparent disobedience; the natural right of legitimate defense  invoked judgment about those who had reached and affected by the archiepiscopal prohibition; the powerful arguments of the memorial of the 15 of April of 1972; the evident invalidity of a process that did not give rise to the legitimate defense of the defendant; inherent the suspension effect to the resource interposed before the Holy See; the well-known evidence of the supernatural in El Palmar; most concrete and direct warnings of the Lord in a  most clear and explicit message of the 1st January of 1971 and of the message of the 25 of March of 1972; and, finally, the precise instructions of the Pope Paul VI published in the weekly magazine "What happens", they are reasons that are more than sufficient to explain why the. Cardinal of Seville allowed just like before what he had prohibited. And it is necessary to recognize that the present prudent, obliging and permissive attitude of the Cardinal, leans on most solid foundations.

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