If a modern Marian apparition miracle occurred, would people listen to her?

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Let’s say that on October 13th of this year a miracle performed by Mary was performed, I don’t know, in a farming town in Missouri, in front of several people, and captured on video, and she told us to pray the rosary and do penance to avoid WW3, do you think people would follow her directions, or would we faithlessly ignore her?
 
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Wasn’t that the same question as with any of her appearances? Just because it’s AD 2019 doesn’t mean that we are any different from people in the preceding 2000 years. Some will believe and others won’t.
 
People wonder that in every age. Jesus wondered about it Himself, “But when the Son of Man returns, will He find faith upon the earth?”

Fatima had an outright miracle associated with it which occurred not only within the memory of people who ‘knew people who were there’ --it has only been 102 years; many of us had parents who were teens or young adults at the time --but which was seen and reported by ‘modern’ news media, etc. Still there were and are many skeptics.

Of course you have people believing in things like Medjugore (or not). If that is true, you have a lot of really ‘good’ people who don’t believe; conversely if it is not true, you have also lots of good people who have ‘fallen for it’.

By their fruits. . .and the fruits have to be pretty specific. Things like ‘increased piety’ might look like ‘good fruit’ but if the supposed piety also comes with a heapin’ helpin’ of disobedience to those in authority and a spirit of disobedience to authentic Catholic doctrine, then there’s a problem.

Contrary to popular opinion I wasn’t around in the Arian wars, but from the writings of the period, the people who believed in the heresy were often gifted, ‘godly’ people. They were so sure of their godliness they just knew that the petty rules they didn’t like were made to be broken. Faith ‘must be proven’. Etc. Some of the people who spoke out against the heresy weren’t well thought of. Some of them had pretty shady pasts, they weren’t all lily white and pure. . .but in this, they were right and they prevailed.

I believe God and His Mother won’t let us fall into error so long as we pray for guidance and we carefully test to be sure that ALL about an apparition is in line with authentic teaching, and as long as we ‘don’t get too cocky’ and assume that we can do all the judging ‘on our own’. That’s when Satan moves in to assure us that since we are so gifted in our discernment, we can ignore things that look a little ‘off’ and ‘focus on the big picture’ and not get all bogged down in petty things.
 
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she told us to pray the rosary and do penance to avoid WW3, do you think people would follow her directions, or would we faithlessly ignore her?
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Most people would ignore her.
Rosaries and walking the straight and narrow is hard.
Sin is easy and fun and makes you popular.

And then the disaster would strike and folks would be all “whuu happened?”

Rinse and repeat.
 
First, this apparition would be investigated by the local Ordinary. This is not a quick process.

We would not assume anything until the Bishop approved the apparition and messages. After that, it would reside as a private revelation, not binding on the faithful. Those who choose to believe in an approved apparition may do so, there is no sin if a person chooses not to follow it.

This is an excellent book explaining private revelations

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B05XAGA/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
 
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Let’s say that on October 13th of this year a miracle performed by Mary was performed, I don’t know, in a farming town in Missouri, in front of several people, and captured on video, and she told us to pray the rosary and do penance to avoid WW3, do you think people would follow her directions, or would we faithlessly ignore her?
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Simple.

I will hear first what the Church has to say. That starts with the local bishop of the place.
 
I know a person who received a medical miracle and their spouse was not moved.

It seems there’s 2 responses to a miracle. One is that no one understands what happened, I think maybe God was behind it. The other is that no one understands what happened but I know for sure it isn’t God. Science just hasn’t developed enough to explain it.

I know a number of people who did not have faith and when they heard and read the story of what happened at Fatima, God’s light came on. They realized God was not far away but here today. It was received as the good news that it is. Praise God.
 
Some people claim this is currently happening in Medjugorje.
 
The good news is that our Church has a solid process in place for investigating and confirming miracles.
 
Even if someone would rise from the dead, they would not believe.
 
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Some people claim this is currently happening in Medjugorje.
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And guess what. The local bishop has said nay.

Regardless of the veracity of the apparition or the message, it’s always the appropriate ecclesiastical authority that carries the day, not the apparition.
 
Because it is a private revelation and not binding on anyone else. The Church is very clear that we are not required to believe in them.
 
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Let’s say that on October 13th of this year a miracle performed by Mary was performed, I don’t know, in a farming town in Missouri, in front of several people, and captured on video, and she told us to pray the rosary and do penance to avoid WW3, do you think people would follow her directions, or would we faithlessly ignore her?
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The most recent Marian apparitions in Kibeho, Rwanda, which began in 1981, were approved in 2001 by Bishop Augustin Misago of Gikongoro as worthy of belief.
http://www.miraclehunter.com/marian_apparitions/statements/index.html#kibeho
 
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Although they have not approved the apparitions, it is good that people are going to Mass and receiving the Sacraments.
 
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Let’s say that on October 13th of this year a miracle performed by Mary was performed, I don’t know, in a farming town in Missouri, in front of several people, and captured on video, and she told us to pray the rosary and do penance to avoid WW3, do you think people would follow her directions, or would we faithlessly ignore her?
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It would probably get bogged down in Protestant anti Mary rhetoric in the US. Remember also that it took such a long time for St Faustina to be accepted because the things that she dictated were not liked by certain types of clergy. It took the credibility of Pope JPII’s holy discernment to finally allow her prophesies to feed our faith.
 
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