#74 THE CRUCIFIX

ALL ENTRANCES
"I must reveal, My children, to the world again, that you are to keep a crucifix on your front door and your back door. All entrances to your home must be guarded by the crucifix. There has not been one home on Long island that had a crucifix on its door that did fall to any evil [Hurricane Gloria]. " -Jesus, October 5, 1985

GREAT POWER*
"Remember, keep your sacramentals constantly upon you: your brown Scapular, your St. Benedict medal, the Miraculous Medal, and also the medal of Our Lady of the Roses. You must keep them upon you, with a crucifix. We demand a crucifix, because demons-many of the highest ones in the realms of hell cannot stand the sight of a crucifix. They will not approach your door. I give you this knowledge, My children, though it is not common knowledge upon earth, that the crucifix has great power against Satan." -Jesus, June 18, 1987

*See also Sacramentals, Directives, No. 9.

WEAR WITH PRIDE
"Wear your crucifix about your neck with pride. Are you ashamed to make it known that you are with My Son?" -Our Lady, October 6, 1974

ANY SIZE
"Wear any crucifix that you can find. It does not have to be big or small, but an image of My Son. "
-Our Lady, September 7, 1985

WEAR AT ANY COST
"My child and My children, I have given you-1 should say My Son and, the Eternal Father have given you your armor. You must keep about you at all times-at no cost must you remove from your bodies your crucifix, the St. Benedict medal, and your Scapular. I say this for reason. " -Our Lady, October 6, 1992

KISSING
Now Our Lady is kissing-very beautiful! Oh, so lovingly-the crucifix of Her Rosary. -Veronica, May 20, 1978

SATANIC CULTS
"They can do nothing, My child, while there is a crucifix upon your doors. I would suggest also, My child, that you go back to your previous habit and plan to keep a St. Benedict medal on each window sill of your home.... Then you will not be tormented at night by their weird chantings that have kept you awake many nights. "
-Our Lady, November 1, 1985

EARTHQUAKE
"This is called a tribulation what will come upon you next. It will be of an earth force again. However, with your prayers, and your guarding of your homes, as We have always told you to, with the crucifixes, you can escape with little damage, or none at all. it will be as though the angel of death has passed by your home."
-Jesus, November 1, 1985

COASTLINES
"Those living along the coastlines, We caution them to keep a sacramental and a crucifix upon their doors, for the angel of death shall not enter your home." -Jesus, July 1, 1985

CHILDREN'S PLAGUE*
"It will be the death of the children. Tell the parents that the angel of death will enter their homes. They will try to use human reason but will not find the cause. " -Our Lady in locution,- March 22, 1994

*On March 21, 1994 Our Lady appeared to Veronica and said: "You will hear of the dearth [scarcity; lack] of children. It will be to save their souls." The importanctbf the crucifixes were particularly impressed upon Veronica. She understood that the angel of death would bypass those homes that had the crucifixes on their front and back door, drawing a parallel with the incident reported in the Bible. We read that the angel of death smote every first-born thing in the land of Egypt, man and beast alike except in the houses of the Israelites who, under the instructions of the Eternal Father, sprinkled the blood of the lamb on their cloorpost (Exodus, see above). See also Rose Notes, No. 15, "Plague to strike children. " -A verbal communication from Heaven to the ear or directly to the intellect.

CARNAGE
"There will be carnage within your areas, and this will pass you by if you keep your crucifix upon your doors. " -Jesus, June 30, 1984

CHASTISING COMET*
There's a large map, and beside it a globe of the world.... I see islands, and then I see very large waves.... But now on top of the water there are people floating, and there are pieces of wood, and there are people, bodies. Oh! Oh! ... As it grows dark, the people are running in every direction. They don't seem to know where to run. I see closed doors and people knocking on the doors. The doors are closed. But the doors now are painted with a large red cross on the door. The cross, though, the cross is like being made in blood. The cross on the door is like blood on the door. The blood of the cross! There are lights, candle lights through the windows of the doors with the cross.

And I see the people lying out beyond the doors. They seem to be falling over. Somewhere in the air, there is something that is cutting off their breathing, because they're clutching at their throats. And they're falling forward on their faces.... The explosion-it's like, almost like a bomb being dropped.... It's a hall. It's a fiery hall, and it's spinning and going about the globe. -Veronica, August 14, 1973

*See also The Great Chastisement series, Directives, Nos. 57-62.

SPARED
"All who keep a crucifix on the front and rear door will not suffer the effects of the Chastisement. "
-Our Lady in locution, February 7, 1994

THE CRUCIFIXION*
I see now Jesus upon the cross! ... His hands with the nails through His palms, and the skin-like ropes holding onto His wrist, onto the wood. [Veronica sighs plaintively as though in pain.] The blood is carrying through the na-a-ail! Ah-h-h! Ah-h-h! His feet are crossed on the wood, the right foot over the left. [Veronica sighs heavily again.] There's a big spike through His instep, through His feet onto the wood. Ah-h-h! [Veronica cries out in pain.] I can see His arms. Ah-h-h! His arms are straining. Ah-h-h!"  -Veronica, September 7, 1979

*Every year during Lent since 1971, Veronica sees in vision the Passion, the sufferings of Jesus from the agony in the garden to the crucifixion. She actually physically feels the crucifixion even despite the excruciating pain and horror that it entails. See also The Passion of Christ, Directives, Nos. 66-67.

SPECIAL SHRINE CRUCIFIX*
"Extend, My child, the crucifix that you recovered in the church of Saint Robert's. I bless you, My child, and this cross discarded with sorrow in Our hearts. It will bring immeasurable joy to your heart. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Now, My child, you shall have two crosses, but this one you will take with you, so you will always be close to My sacred grounds. Many graces have been given for the return to the Sacraments of Our wandering sheep. Bless them, My child, on every occasion with this crucifix. . . . " -Veronica-Our Lady now is coming very far down to kiss the crucifix."  -Our Lady, November 1, 1975

*As directed by Our Lady, Veronica brings this to every vigil, where the Blessed Virgin always venerates it with a kiss. During her ecstasy, Veronica devoutly holds this crucifix to her heart, and later upon Heaven's instructions uses this wooden crucifix, graced with the power of cure and conversion, to impart the Immaculate Conception Blessing upon the infirm and the sick.

PRAYER BEFORE A CRUCIFIX

Behold, 0 kind and most sweet Jesus,
I cast myself upon my knees in Thy sight,
And with the most fervent desire of my soul I pray and beseech Thee
That Thou wouldst impress upon my heart lively sentiments
of Faith, Hope, and Charity,
With true repentance for my
sins, and a firm desire of amendment,
Whilst with deep affection and
grief of soul I ponder within myself
And mentally contemplate
Thy five most precious wounds,
Having before my eyes that
which David spoke in prophecy of Thee,
0 good Jesus: "They have pierced
my hands and feet;
they have numbered all my bones. "