[Our Lady spoke to Veronica in locution:]

SLAUGHTERED INNOCENTS

Our Lady: "This should be a most joyous occasion, My children, but We look down and see thousands of slaughtered innocents. We cry tears of anguish. The Father demands punishment!

"We beg penance and reparation of you all. All loving hearts must bear the burden of this sorrow, to pray for those lost on the road to perdition, forever to be lost to Heaven. Pray, My children; never cease in your prayers. For many are at the brink of eternity, on the road to eternal damnation.

"Thou shalt not destroy a creation of the Most High. Repent! Repent now, while there is still time!

"Look, My child, on the punishment to be. The Chastisement will be metered in measure of the extensive infested nature of man's sin and his disregard of all urgent admonitions and requests for immediate reparation.

"Look, My child."

VISION OF CHASTISEMENT

(Here is, in detail, the vision given to Veronica of what is to be:)

Veronica: I saw men, women, children, all rushing panic-stricken along a road, fleeing some devastation of horror. It was very evident on the petrified faces, the fright and shock of the people in flight on foot. Women pulling children along with them, unable to keep up with the fast pace. To flee, to flee . . . shielding the children's faces from a sight so awful!

Along the roadways I saw blackened bodies, charred bodies! I screamed, "No! No! Save us, Mother of God! Please save us!"

I retched, my stomach sickened . . . the sight so awful.

Our Lady: "My voice cries a Mother's constant plea to make sacrifices and atonement now, for the time will come when this will be denied you.

"Visit My Son often, for He is lonely."

At this time Jesus, Our Lady, Saint Joseph, and Saint Theresa appeared to Veronica. Jesus and Our Lady were dressed in white, Joseph in a tan robe, Theresa in Carmelite brown with a white cape. Saint Theresa looked down and cried out:

NUNS' HABITS

St. Theresa: "My garments—what are they doing to my garments?"

(It was the change she saw in the habits of nuns that upset her. Nuns wearing these new habits are most disapproved of in Heaven; they are described as "half-hearted vocations," with vanity and much worldly attachments in mind.)

[Our Lady spoke to Veronica:]

Our Lady: "Build a wall, My children, a wall of prayer to protect you from the contamination. Wear My Rosary. Never let it be far from your hand. Satan will seek to discard this chain. It is the chain to salvation. It is your link to the Kingdom.

PRAY TO ST. JOSEPH

"Saint Joseph has been forgotten. Love him; pray to Saint Joseph, for he will guide you on the path.

"The enemy is within holy Church. Satan will find many to create heresy, with the loss of the true Faith. Resist the knife that seeks to cut holy Church asunder, for My Immaculate Heart will triumph over all evil. The present strife is but a symptom of the underlying sickness, the loss of soul. Prayer is your beacon in the dark world.

"Sadly I say, My children, this glorious land has fallen to the enemy of God, weakened by lusts of the flesh bought by the love of material gain. O sorrow of sorrows for the fall of man!

"I will always be with you, to save you. I bless you all, My children."