OUR LADY OF EMMITSBURG RESUMES PUBLIC MESSAGES FOR THE WORLD


(Press Release by Tom Fitzsimmons; Information
Director for Drs. Gianna and Michael Sullivan)

On September 7, 2000, the final Thursday Evening
Marian Prayer Group and public message from Our Lady
of Emmitsburg through Gianna Sullivan was held at St.
Joseph’s Catholic Church in Emmitsburg, MD.  These
had been occurring weekly since November, 1993.  The
following day, September 8, 2000, the feast of the
Birth of Our Lady, the Archdiocese of Baltimore asked
that the prayer group be halted at that time.  On
June 12, 2001, the Archdiocese began a formal
investigative commission into the authenticity of the
alleged apparitions of Our Lady to Gianna Sullivan as
well as the fruits of such apparitions, a commission
which is still in progress.  At no time either before
the commission or during the ongoing commission have
there ever been any restrictions placed on either
Gianna Sullivan or her husband Dr. Michael Sullivan
in regard to discussing the content of the printed
messages, their personal testimonies, or the
distribution of such by either private individuals or
national publishing houses.  There were also no
restrictions placed on the release to the public of
any new public messages from Our Lady of Emmitsburg.  
However, in accord with Our Lady’s wishes, the
Sullivans have maintained a period of silence, not
establishing another prayer group in some other
location, not abandoning but actually expanding their
works for the poor , and not releasing any new public
messages from Our Lady.

Since September 2000, Our Lady has continued to
appear privately nearly every day except Fridays to
Gianna, usually during periods of family prayer. Last
week on July 30, 2002, Our Lady privately reaffirmed
to Gianna Sullivan her continued presence as Our Lady
of Emmitsburg and the unique role this area has in
God’s salvific plan as the “Center of her Immaculate
Heart.”  Our Lady once again implored all her
children to return here to Emmitsburg, not to any one
location or building per se, but to the Center of Her
Immaculate Heart, for it is a time of abundant graces
of enlightenment and strength.  Events in this
nation, in the world and even in the Church over this
last year have brought the world to a point of
urgency.  In conjunction with this Our Lady has now
instructed Gianna to release to the public on August
5 the first new public message for the world since
September 7, 2000. Others may follow.  This new
message has been reviewed by Gianna’s priest-
spiritual director.



The text of the prior September 7, 2000 message will
precede the most recent new message for August 5,
2002:


Our Lady's Message
of September 7, 2000
through Gianna Talone Sullivan




 My dear little children, praise be Jesus!

Little ones, remain in the peace of My Son.

My Son will not betray you even though darkness and
betrayal led Him to the threshold of His passion.
Give yourself to My Son in an act of pure and total
love.
Offer your strengths and weaknesses to Him at the
foot of His cross.
Place everything at His feet; the little feet of My
Son as the Child Jesus, who in His gentleness and
purity gave Himself unreservedly and ever so sweetly
to the last steps He walked without any regrets as
the Son of Man, the Man of Sorrows.
Do not be afraid, children, for Jesus is your victory.
Do not be afraid to step into the darkness of His
passion because this is where your victory and glory
in My Son are fulfilled.
This is where you will be able to identify with Him,
in your trial of faith; and this is how you become
beautiful and are transformed into His love.
All that matters is LOVE, children.
All that matters is LOVE.
Have a heart of a grateful child.
Peace to you.
I take your petitions in My arms and will present
them to My Son who is all sweetness.
Your confidence in Him should have no bounds.
Thank you for responding to My call.



Our Lady’s Message
for August 5, 2002
through Gianna Talone Sullivan



My dear little children, praise be Jesus!

Little children, darkness can be overcome only through
the Light of Love.
There is no other way to silence evil and defeat it
except through
 the Light of Love.
There are two choices in life and they are to either
love or not to love.
When each soul goes before the Father, it will be
asked the same question,
“how have you loved?”
Peace can exist even though the violence of crime,
dissension,
and hatred seem so prevalent.
Peace can exist, but it can only exist through the
love of neighbor.
To “love” and to “like” someone are two different
entities.
You are all called to love one another even though
 you may not like someone.
My Son is Love.
He loves each one of you and He desires you to live
in a world of
peace and unity.
He desires each one of you to live in eternal peace
with Him in glory.
The choice is yours.  
It is best not to try to defend your reasons for
avoiding one another and not loving.
The only way to know yourself and God is to
 love yourself and your neighbor.
Peace can exist and darkness can be overcome through
the rays of
the Light of Love.
I love you, little ones, as your heavenly Mother who
seeks to
intercede on your behalf to Jesus.
Thank you for responding to my call.


(This message represents the resumption of Our Lady’s
public messages through Gianna which Our Lady  had
withheld since September 8, 2000, when the weekly
Marian Prayer Group at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
in Emmitsburg, Maryland, had been halted.)