Akita: Our Lady’s Urgent Warning to the Catholic Church

Our Lady of Akita: Verified Miracle, Marian Warning, Catholic Message

In the 1970s, at a convent in Akita, Japan, a wooden statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary began to weep human tears. Scientific testing confirmed the fluids were human tears, human sweat, and human blood. Across multiple years, the statue cried 101 times, witnessed by sisters, clergy, medical professionals, and investigators.

Sister Agnes Sasagawa, a member of the Handmaids of the Eucharist, received messages from Our Lady calling for prayer, penance, the Rosary, Eucharistic reparation, and fidelity to Catholic teaching. Her medically documented total deafness was instantly healed during Eucharistic adoration on October 13, the anniversary of the final Fatima apparition.

After examining scientific reports, witness testimony, theological studies, and documented healings, Bishop John Ito declared the events of Akita to be of supernatural origin and approved devotion to Our Lady of Akita.

Transcript

A wooden statue in a quiet Japanese convent begins to cry. Tears rolling down. Carved wooden cheeks, not once but 101 times. Witnesses freeze. Drops forming where no water should exist. Doctors rush in. Samples taken. Tests ordered. The results? Well, impossible. Human tears, human sweat, human blood, all from solid wood. So the church steps in, not to validate it, but to debunk it. A commission is appointed, skeptics assigned, natural explanations pushed forward. But each theory collapses, and the deeper they dig, the more the evidence pushes back, including a medical verified miracle that the local bishop just could not dismiss. Welcome to episode 7 of Advent Daily, where we are examining Marian apparitions in preparation for Christmas. Her name was Sister Agnes Sasagawa, a convert, a woman of deep faith, a woman whose body had endured more pain than most hearts could carry. Her childhood was marked by illness, her adulthood marked by sacrifice. And in early 1973 came her greatest trial. She received a phone call, heard it ring, lifted the receiver, and somewhere in that split second, her hearing vanished. Instant, total, irreversible. Doctors declared she was incurably deaf. She learned lipreing and returned to her small community, the Handmmaids of the Eucharist, in the mountains of Akida, Japan. Then another suffering. A sudden stabbing pain in her hand. She looked down and a crossshaped wound had appeared in her palm. Blood flowing from its center. Days later, that same wound appeared on the statue of Mary in their chapel. A statue carved from solid wood. No mechanism, no hidden cavity, but now a bleeding wound matching hers exactly. On July 6th, 1973, Sister Agnes was awakened at 3:00 a.m. by her guardian angel and led into the chapel. The statue of Mary was glowing, soft, warm light spreading through the room. And though she was deaf, she heard a voice within her soul, a mother's voice. My daughter, my novice, do you love the Lord? Sister Agnes answered yes. Your deafness will be healed. Be sure, be patient. Pray in reparation for the sins of men. Sister Agnes remained kneeling, absorbing every word, not fully understanding what was unfolding, only that heaven was closer than she could ever imagine. Then on August 3rd, 1973, one month later, Mary spoke again. Many men in this world afflict the Lord. I desire souls who will console him. And Mary spoke of a coming chastisement if men do not repent. Prayer, penance, and courageous sacrifices can soften the father's anger. Not fear-mongering, but a mother pleading for her children to come back. The date is important. October 13th, the anniversary of the final Fatima apparition. And the warning was the most severe. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity. The only arms that will remain will be the rosary and the sign left by my son. And then a prophecy about the church itself. Cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against bishops. A church divided, a world in danger, and only prayer capable of averting disaster. Then the most striking phenomenon began. January 4th, 1975. A sister notices droplets forming in the statue's eyes. Not condensation, not humanity, tears. They flowed down the cheeks, hesitated at the chin like little pearls, according to eyewitnesses, and fell to the pedestal. Samples were collected, sent to forensic labs. The verdict. Human tears, human sweat, human blood, but from a wooden statue with no internal moisture, and no possibility of natural flow. A formal investigation was launched, and it did not start in Sister Agnes' favor. The first commission, led by a skeptic, concluded that everything could be explained naturally. Theories included hallucinations, somnab bullism, and even psychic projection. All a verdict that the local bishop quietly set aside. Her angel had told her hearing would return for a time as a sign. And on October 13th, 1974, again, Fatima's anniversary, her hearing returned instantly during eukaristic adoration. Doctors at the Yakita Red Cross Hospital confirmed the complete instant healing of her hearing and they didn't have any explanation. In 1981, a woman in Korea, Teresa Chun, lay dying from a brain tumor. After prayers to Our Lady of Aikita, the tumor vanished completely. X-rays before, X-rays after, the difference was undeniable. And the Korean bishops reported this to Rome as a proven miracle. By 1982, the local bishop, Bishop Itto, had seen enough. He consulted Rome. He consulted theologians. He reviewed every medical file, every sample, every testimony. And Rome told him he was free to judge the case. And on April 22nd, 1984, he declared the events of Akita of supernatural origin. Not speculation, not rumor, a bishop's official judgment. No sensationalism, no publicity campaign, just a quiet, humble bishop affirming the tears, the wounds, and the healings he had witnessed with his own eyes. And after years of investigation, he made his final judgment. In my judgment, the events of Akita are of supernatural origin. With that, the bishop officially permitted devotion to our lady of Akita. And he left us with one final reflection. When God gives signs so clear, he expects us not just to observe them, but to respond.

In 2019, her guardian angel appeared once more and told her, "Put on ashes and pray the rosary in reparation, a simple reminder of the same message heaven had entrusted to her in 1973."

So, this is the first apparition that we've covered in our series where our lady comes with um a very distinct warning, a little bit more than the other ones. And so I thought it might be useful just to go to one section of what she says to sister Agnes and read it in full for you. The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against bishops. The priests who venerate me will be scorned and opposed by their confrs, churches and altars sacked. The church will be full of those who accept compromises and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord. Our Lady says, "The priests who venerate me will be scorned and opposed by their confrs." Um, who are the priests that I tend to trust? Well, those who love our lady because those who love our lady will also love Jesus and love his church. Uh I tend not to trust priests who don't speak of our lady with great tenderness. And so that's just something that I take to heart and I just offer to you. Who are the voices that you listen to? And what are they saying about our lady? The church will be full of those who accept compromises. Um is that true of today? Well, I think it's true probably of most ages within the church, but I think it's true today. If you look within the church, we have um I would say maybe not the church changing her teachings, but she there's definitely a movement within the church of how teaching is communicated. For example, you know, people are now welcome to come forward to receive blessings who are in unnatural relationships without any instruction of the natural order of things or re an encouragement to repentance. That's unusual. Uh that's not how the church has operated in the past. That's for sure. That's a little bit novel. I think we also have compromises in our liturgy. there's a lot of novelties that seem to be introduced. Now, it's hard to make a just a general blanket statement like this, but for from somebody who has traveled as a speaker doing parish missions for 20 years, I've been in a lot of different settings and I would say that there is few places that have a great seriousness about how liturgy is done. In general, every place is going to say, "Yeah, we take our lit liturgy seriously." No priest is going to say I don't take it seriously. But then if we look at the practices they're really all over the board. So there is this I think a sense of compromise within the church when it comes to liturgy. And then also I think there's a great uh compromise in church discipline. If you just look in Canada for example, the instruction that we've been given from our bishops regarding Fridays is that it's a day of fasting and penance. But traditionally we used to have no meat on Friday. In Canada we don't do that anymore. And I know in a lot of other countries that's the same way. So what we have done Canada's again not the only place. I think what what we've done is we've lowered the bar. we've allowed compromise because we think well people can't rise to that standard that we've had for a long time. Let's make it easier. Uh I think this does a great disservice to people's faith. People don't grow in faith when the bar is lowered. People will grow when the bar is raised. People will respond to a challenge. And I don't see right now people being challenged in doctrinal issues. I don't see people being challenged in excellent liturgy and I don't see people being challenged in church discipline. So it is my opinion that yes, we are experiencing a great compromise right now within the church and really as late Catholics we we can't do much. um to the greater extent you know affecting the church except that we live our life well. We seek Jesus. We live a holy life. Uh we conform our life to what the church teaches. We pick up those disciplines that have been maybe gone lax. We we seek to participate in excellent liturgy to glorify God and to pass the faith on to our children. We as lay people can't do much, right? But that's what we can do. we don't get caught up in worrying about all the other stuff, but be faithful to where the Lord has has us. And and I know some people are going to hear these Marian warnings from Akira and get worried. Uh my intention, our intention is not to scare you, but I think what these warnings can do is cause a greater devotion to our lady, a greater devotion to the rosary, a greater devotion to Jesus. And I think that's the the great value. There's not a great value in trying to speculate. When is that fire coming? What does that look like? How is it going to happen? I don't know. And we won't know until it happens. Until that day happens. And if it happens, well, let's just be faithful. So with that, our lady of Aikita, pray for us.