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The Church is doing very good to do as it is doing. Prudence. I say prudence not because the demon can show himself as an angel of light – we know this, saint Paul told us already. I say for another reason. I will give you a little example A process. A process can be very along. The judge has to hear all the voices: those who say one thing, those who contradict, who accuse one, who accuse another… Here, it is not the case of a process, but it is a comparison. The judge must listen. When all have finished, I pronounce the sentence. In Fatima, the extraordinary facts of the apparitions have happened in 1917, but the Church has given definitely the green light only in 1942. After 25 years. People went to pray, there was a spiritual, religious movement, but the Church has not pronounced itself before. This has not impeached a spiritual profit. Therefore, when we go to see and to ask: “These apparitions, these phenomena, are they of divine origin or not?”, it is a comprehensible curiosity. I do not at all condemn this way, but I say: Where it is the main thing? The main thing is another: the fruits that derive from it. The fruits. If I go in an orchard full of trees with beautiful, mature fruit, I do not go to see if the roots are all right or worm-eaten, ill. I see the beautiful fruit, I take it, I eat it, I offer it. If the fruits are good, the roots will also be good, says Jesus. When we say, “I do not believe”, I understand it, it is a human attitude, cannot be condemned because the Church leaves us freedom. Only the Creed we must accept for faith. The rest is private things. You do not have to go so much to the roots. Look at the fruits, the fruits of conversion, the invitation and the content of the messages. They are all evangelical contents. You cannot throw away the Gospel, even if it comes to you chewed in form of baby food, because we are like children, and Our Lady is giving us the baby food. We have become children, we are to be re-evangelised. Our Lady says it in a simple way like a mother, in small but precious portions, in order to make us digest the Gospel that we have forgotten. This is important. Let the Church go slowly, study, make commissions, examine for and against, whatever it wants. We say that the Church “should approve”. What is this “Church”? And what are we? We are Church, we have already approved! The responsible hierarchy is prudent, in order to avoid errors, in order to confirm all the good that is made. When I go to eat, I do
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