A SHORT illustrated HISTORY OF THE FLAME OF

A SHORT illustrated HISTORY OF THE FLAME OF LOVE PART 2 : THE BIRTH OF THE MOVEMENT Father Edilberto García Rodríguez Coatepec, Mexico October 2005 1

• PART 1 : The author of the Spiritual Diary • PART 2 : Birth of the Movement of the Flame of Love Hungary, Ecuador and Mexico • PARTS 3 -4 -5 : The National and international congresses • PART 6 : The Movement spreads to many countries Pilgrimages to the Basilica of Guadalupe and the Metropolitan Catedral, in Mexico. 2

HUNGARY Europe Hungary Center of Europe Population: 10, 045, 407 h Surface : 93. 030 Km 2 Capital : Budapest Currency : Florin Language : Hungarian Religion : 67% catholics 3

SAINT STEPHEN was crowned king of Hungary in 1000 He lost his son and heir in 1031. Before his own death, in 1038, the king entrusted his kingdom to Mary the Most Holy Virgin 4

Short history of Hungary With World War I (1914 -1918), Hungary lost 2/3 of its territory. Then came World War II. The soviet army occupied Hungary until the first years of 1990. Communism settled down in the whole country. In spite of the soviet occupation and of communism, Hungary never lost its faith. In those years of 1961 -1985, Elizabeth received the FLAME OF LOVE: this great gift that Mary gives us through Elizabeth. 5

The Flame of Love is the means obtained by the Holy Virgin from the Most Holy Trinity, through the merits of the Wounds of her Most Holy Son, to blind Satan and save souls. 6

“Hurry up, my little one! The moment when My Flame of Love will take fire is already near, and at this moment Satan will become blind…” “…Because it will take fire not only in the nations entrusted to Me, but ALL AROUND THE EARTH, and will spread throughout the world, even in the most inaccessible places” Diary, page 79 7

“With this Flame plenty of graces, that I give you from my heart, light up all hearts in the whole country, handing it from heart to heart” Diary, page 38 8

From Hungary… to Ecuador… and to Mexico “SEND THE MESSAGE TO THE OTHER SEASIDE” Diary, page 99 9

ECUADOR, SOUTH AMERICA COUNTRY CONSECRATED TO MARY ECUADOR There Father Rona translated the Diary in the years 1983 -89 The Statutes were done there in 1995. PERU 10

Cardinal BERNARDINO ECHEVERRÍA RUIZ As Archbishop of Guayaquil, Ecuador, he authorized the printing of the “Diario Espiritual”, “Nuevo Pentecostés” and the “Statutes”. Become Cardinal, he asked Rome to authorize the Movement of the FLAME OF LOVE 11

FIRST National Congress of the Flame of Love in Ecuador, held in Quito on january 18, 1990. 12

The first complete edition of the Spiritual Diary was made in Spanish in Ecuador, and also the Statutes, New Pentecost and the Novena 13

MEXICO MARIAN COUNTRY ABOVE ALL. MARY IS OUR LOVING MOTHER 14

In 1983, Ana María de Moreno, receives at home a 16 page booklet of the “Flame of love” edited in Spain 15

Ana María felt the call of Our Mother very strongly in her heart and she answered generously She then began her great apostolate of spreading the FLAME OF LOVE in Mexico and in the Americas From 1983 to 1990, Ana María does not take a rest. She comes into contact with Father Gabriel Rona, who lived in Ecuador, and does not cease encouraging him to carry out his project to translate the Spiritual Diary in Spanish 16

First Cenacle of prayer in Mexico, D. F. , in Ana María de Moreno’s house 17

From 1990 to 1999, Ana María, indefatigable, looks for means of extending what is now known as the “Movement of the Flame of Love”, not only in Mexico, but also in other countries of Latin America, in the United States and in Canada Thanks to the collaboration of Brother Abdías, the first booklets and books, which make the duty to spread the message of Our Mother easier, were edited in his printing-house 18

Ana María wrote “Spiritual Progress” to help making the message of the FLAME OF LOVE known and alive. At the same time, the Diary was edited in booklets, as the translated texts reached her from Ecuador 19

The booklet “Burn, America” shows the growth of the Movement in the countries of Spanish language, in Canada, in Brazil and in the United States. Finaly, the whole Diary was edited 20

“When crossing yourself, never be inattentive. Always think of the Three Divine Persons… Cross yourself five times in a row thinking of my Holy Wounds. Look unceasingly at my eyes, suffused with Blood, by so many blows that I received from you” Diary, pages 32 et 38 21

The INVOCATION of the “Flame of Love” is represented by the Immaculate Heart of Mary or by the burst of light 22

EMBLEM of the MOVEMENT OF THE FLAME OF LOVE It is the Most Holy Trinity itself. The loving Father puts his arms round the whole humanity, in spreading the gifts of the Holy Spirit, with the sorrowful Hearts of Jesus and Mary who, by their sorrows, redeem us. They form the great FLAME OF LOVE, our salvation. 23

The jaculatory prayer: …flood the whole humanity with the blessings of your Flame of Love, now and at the hour. . . “This is not a new form of prayer, it must be a constant petition so that by its action the whole mankind become converted” 24 Diary, page 132

END OF THE PART 2 TO BE CONTINUED THANKS! MAY THE FLAME OF LOVE BURN FOR EVER IN YOUR HEART 25