Pro. N. 226/1949 PRESUMED APPARITIONS OF THE BVM AT THE CARMELITE CONVENT IN LIPA, PHILIPPINES

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excerpts of the decree:

5. The main reason for this determination is the revelation the Prioress made in a series ofletters, in which she confessed her own role in the “deception” of Lipa. The Prioress confessed to having lied about certain aspects of the events. Specifically, she mentioned that, while she had previously claimed to have heard the voice of “the Mother”, she had, in fact, never heard any such voice. Rather, the messages she received were given to her in the form of written notes allegedly from the Blessed Virgin. One of these messages ordered her to re-write the notes she received and then to destroy the originals, and another told her to destroy the petal-less rose stems. The Prioress wrote, ''About the strange written notes allegedly from Our Lady herself, I have never made any of them. They were not always in the same penmanship, sometime (sic) like the one written on the picture 1 gave to the Very Reverend Father, the Apostolic Visitor; sometimes exactly like Sister Teresa's, sometimes like a little child's..." She confessed to having manipulated rose petals so that they would appear to have sacred images imbedded in them. The Prioress also confessed that one of these messages encouraged the Sisters to tell the same story to the experts sent by the Vatican to investigate the phenomenon. In one of these letters, she sought the forgiveness of the Holy Father for the damage caused to the Church by the “apparitions.” Other aspects were also considered by the Congregation in its determination: the fact that the messages regard exclusively relations between the prioress and Teresa, and among the prioress and the other sisters; the fact that some of the sisters testified that they had seen deliveries of roses to the convent and, subsequently, had received orders from the Prioress to burn rose stems without petals; the fact that there was evidence that Teresa was often under the influence of pain medication, which she took due to regular, intense physical pain. 

 

I personally find it hard to believe that Mother Mary Cecilia can do this:

1. where did she get any money to buy boxes and boxes of roses, they are in the middle of finishing the Carmel.

2. how can anyone drop and spread those petals from very high places except when someone uses airplaines or helicopter?  Nobody sees any during that time.

3. Also, the novice Teresing in her statement, wrote that she was forced by a Dominican Friar to sign a statement saying that the event is not true.  She refused to sign anything.  She was taken to University of Santo Tomas for investigation.

4. Mother Cecilia was also brought to Santo Tomas for investigation.  She and Teresing stayed in UST at the same time and both were not aware that their rooms is just next to each other.  They only met for 30 minutes when Mother was brought to Teresings room by a Prelate.  The following day, Mother left UST.    It is possible that she "wrote" these alleged letters during this period. Mother Cecilia was banished to Jaro Carmel.