estación 5

THE FIFTH STATION:

The Kissing and Blessing of Objects

It begins with a simple game...

the girls bring some pebbles to amuse the infant Jesus. 

Our Lady kisses these pebbles, and asks the seers to give them to the people in the crowd. 

When the people realize that the Virgin had kissed them... 

they begin to hand over rosaries, medals, rings, and the like to be kissed as well. 

Soon specific people in the crowd are singled out to receive these objects. 

Both a sweet odor and a luminosity has been observed from many of these kissed objects... 

even many years later.

At the final Garabandal apparition of November 13, 1965...

Our Lady tells Conchita, that Jesus will perform prodigies through the kissed objects... 

and that those who wear such objects with faith and confidence, will make their purgatory on earth... 

with suffering corresponding to that which they would have had in purgatory.

The Message: 

What began as an innocent intuition, with simple pebbles, grew into a phenomenon quite unique to Garabandal. Many criticize the seeming over-emphasis of religious objects as some sort of talisman or superstitious practice, but this criticism misses the point that these objects become symbols of faith and are not venerated themselves. 

Three observations can be made here. 

First, out of innocence (simple child's play) comes faith (that special graces can be and are derived from kissed objects). 

Second, God's Love, Mercy, and special Graces are found in the spontaneous innocent faith of children more than in the practiced, premeditated agendas of cynical adults.

Third, to live the Garabandal message, we must again become as children of faith, who believe that God can and will work through people and even objects, to demonstrate His endless Love, Mercy, and Power.

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