Catalina Rivas, a housewife and grandmother from Cochabamba, Bolivia, who began receiving messages from Jesus and Mary in 1993 and who continues to receive messages. Below are some of the details of how the messages began…
In March 1993, Catalina Rivas, who at that time was living in Cochabamba, was dealing with a family tragedy and, as she opened herself to God’s Mercy, was profoundly moved onto a conversion journey back to God. Later in 1993, Catalina began to receive messages from Jesus and the Blessed Mother. In 1994, Catalina traveled to Conyers, Georgia for the October 13th apparition of Our Loving Mother, the Mother of God. Catalina describes some of the events that happened to her; “While kneeling on the Holy Hill, in front of the laCatalina Rivas, a housewife and grandmother from Cochabamba, Bolivia, who began receiving messages from Jesus and Mary in 1993 and who continues to receive messages. Below are some of the details of how the messages began…
In March 1993, Catalina Rivas, who at that time was living in Cochabamba, was dealing with a family tragedy and, as she opened herself to God’s Mercy, was profoundly moved onto a conversion journey back to God. Later in 1993, Catalina began to receive messages from Jesus and the Blessed Mother. In 1994, Catalina traveled to Conyers, Georgia for the October 13th apparition of Our Loving Mother, the Mother of God. Catalina describes some of the events that happened to her; “While kneeling on the Holy Hill, in front of the large Crucifix, I saw a light all around the Crucifix, a very strong light. Then I felt the necessity to offer my life to the Lord so that He can use it in whatever way He needed to use it and to give Him thanks for all that He did for me.” Afterwards Catalina went on to write many books containing the messages and teachings which the Lord and the Mother of God continued to dictate to her.
Dr. Ricardo Castanon, who had tested Catalina a number of times, tells us in 1998 that, “Catalina did not finish High School yet in less than three years she has written eight books. In two weeks, she had written by hand 900 pages. The content talks about the theologies, sociology, the human life and Divine Spirituality. When you see that she doesn’t have the background, she has never written anything and then she comes with notebooks of 200, 300, 400 pages and there is no theological mistake, you know something special is happening. Catalina says Jesus will dictate to her and her heart will begin to beat very fast during this time. She says always when Jesus will tell her something, she will have this feeling. When she begins to write, she does not stop. She writes continuously, all the time. She does not have a moment to stop. Normally when you write a letter to a friend, you take time to think about what you want to say or even stop and she doesn’t, She writes continuously, all the time. I will say that all together, she could write 4000 or 5000 pages, intelligent pages about theologies, sociology, the human life and Divine Spirituality and they are poetic pages So many words she does not understand and the written Spanish is very elegant.”
Catalina’s local Archbishop was kept informed of these matters. In early 1997 the Archbishop of Cochabamba selected Catalina as his Executive Secretary for the Sixth Eucharistic Marian Conference of the Boliviarian Countries, and, as a fruit of this conference, came the Apostolate of the New Evangelization, the ANE. In April 1998, the Archbishop gave his Imprimatur to all eight books of the messages received by Catalina as of that time. In the spring of 1999, the FOX TV Network investigated the events in Cochabamba, the bleeding statue of Christ and Catalina and found astonishing results from their independent medical testing of Catalina in a Mexico City medical facility concerning her claims of mystical experiences. In the summer of 1999, FOX broadcast their remarkable findings in North America, Australia and New Zealand in a 2-hour, prime time TV documentary titled: Signs from God – Science Tests Faith that was viewed by an estimate of over 27 million people.
Catalina presently volunteers her time in support of the Apostolate of the New Evangelization that was commissioned by her Archbishop in 1999. Her support includes giving talks worldwide, encouraging people to conversion, to renewal and to commit themselves totally to God and to support the Holy Father’s call to a New Evangelization.