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In Memorial of Requiem Pace of Pope Benedict XVI, the 265th Pope

In Memorial of Requiem Pace of Pope Benedict XVI, the 265th Pope

 Praise be to Jesus! Praise be to the Blessed Mother!


His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI had returned to our beloved Lord and rest unto His arms at the age of 95 on December 31st at 9:34 am, the eve of the New Year 2023. He was the other Pope besides St. Pope John Paul II who had accepted the truth of Naju and had loved the Blessed Mother of Naju deeply to the extent of sending a letter of consolation and encouragement to Mama Julia to persevere in witnessing and announcing to the World the great Apparition, Miracles and Messages of repentance as our Lord and Blessed Mother implored to this world to listen and follow before it’s too late.



He relentlessly defended the Authenticity of the Catholic faith, and was appointed as the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith by St. Pope John Paul II after being ordained as a Cardinal. Pope Benedict XVI was in unity with St. Pope John Paul II, who witnessed the Eucharistic Miracle through Mama Julia, and the Holy Father knew about the Blessed Mother of Naju better than anyone else was in full concurrence with St Pope John Paul II.


Cardinal Ivan Dias, the former Prefect of the Congregation of the Evangelization of Peoples, who was handed over the Miraculous Eucharist that shed Precious Blood in Mama Julia's residence on October 16, 2006, had an audience with Pope Benedict XVI around mid-March 2010 and delivered this Miraculous Eucharist to the Holy Father with this Message of Love from Jesus.


“You are suffering an extreme persecution in the wounded and divided Church, and even the Eucharist, which is My Substance, is being disregarded through theories and reasoning infected with errors and heresies, but I always live together with you in you, who are offering up these hours of death agony well, and will encourage and help you.  Therefore, have no fear but with trust make Me, Who have externally shown My Love by moving alive and breathing and bleeding in the Eucharist, as known to the Pope, my Vicar, chosen as the eldest son of the Church and the successor of Peter.” (Message from Jesus on Oct 16, 2006)




After looking closely at the Miraculous Eucharist, the Holy Father asked his staff to preserve It with utmost care and devotion. Pope Benedict XVI received many reports about Naju from Cardinal Ivan Dias. In particular, when the Holy Father listened to the Cardinal’s report on the amazing miracle that the Eucharist received by Mama Julia changed into visible Flesh and Blood during the Holy Mass celebrated by Archbishop Giovanni Bulaitis, the Apostolic Pro-nuncio to Korea, in the Vatican on February 28, 2010, the Holy Father mentioned about Naju in Italian language at the concluding part of his audience with the Cardinal.


In English translation meant “I am favorable of Naju.” or “I support Naju.” This is undoubtedly an indication of the Holy Father’s official position as the supreme Head of the Catholic Church. It meant that Pope Benedict XVI himself turned on the green light for the official recognition of Naju. Given the Holy Father's support positively on Naju, we are awaiting official approval on Naju.

On October 19, 2006, three days after the Miracle of the Eucharist, in which the Precious Blood shed and which was delivered to Pope Benedict XVI, the Blessed Mother made an earnest and urgent request to the Holy Father through Her Message of Love.

“He (Pope Benedict XVI) has become a parent to all the people as the Lord’s Vicar and has suffered many kinds of pains while personally looking after my children.  However, he has been the faithful first son of the Church who has comforted My Son Jesus and me by completely entrusting his pains to the Lord and graciously offering up his ceaseless sacrifices, reparations, and self-renunciations.  That is why I am making this request to him. Inform him without fail that God the Father, who has seen this world which has offended and contradicted the infinitely holy and dignified God and thus reached the state of eternal destruction, wishes that, before He sends down the Great Disaster, he, the Head of the Church, recognize Naju, Korea, without delay, and the glorious light of the Lord thus radiate upon the whole world through him.”


This Message of Love containing the Blessed Mother’s urgent and desperate request was also reported to Pope Benedict XVI. We believe that the Holy Father had already made countless efforts that we are not aware of all to approve Naju.
As a part of his efforts, Pope Benedict XVI ordered Bishop Peter B. Wells of the Secretariat of the Holy See to issue an official letter addressed to Mrs. Cäcilia Pohl, a Korean living in Germany, for the purpose of consoling and encouraging Julia Kim of Naju, Korea. In the letter, Bishop Wells wrote according to the Pope’s instruction: “I hereby confirm to you the receipt of the letter of November 7, in which you reported to the Holy Father about Mrs. Julia Kim’s suffering. Pope Benedict XVI charged me with assuring you that he will be spiritually close to Mrs. Kim and pray for her in this time of her illness.” (N. 16.670)



Through this message personally instructed to deliver by Pope Benedict XVI, that he will be spiritually close to Mama Julia and pray for her, we can see that Pope Benedict XVI had already fully accepted Naju, acknowledged Mama Julia's redemptive suffering, been afflicted at her suffering, and prayed for her.




Naju pilgrims who were given great hope for the approval of Naju through Pope Benedict XVI’s personal letter for Mama Julia, however, received the news of Pope Benedict XVI’s sudden voluntary resignation three months later, on February 11, 2013 of the following year.


The world was saddened by the sudden resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, who had been on the throne for just eight years, but the news of the Holy Father's resignation was a great grievous news for the Naju pilgrims. Because they were well aware that His Holiness even sent an intimate letter to Mama Julia, and especially even said that he is favorable of Naju. Pope Benedict XVI was the first pontiff in 600 years to resign.

“In order that the Church, that has become extremely corrupt, may be reformed through the Pope, who is a most beloved son of mine and the eldest son of the Church whom I love so much that I can put him in my eyes without feeling any pain, I have been keeping him under my mantle in order to protect him from dangers and nurture him.  In this extremely dangerous age, he has recognized my voice and has been praying and making efforts day and night to defend the Gospel of Jesus, my Son, and the authentic Catholic doctrines of the only Church that has the Apostolic foundation, which have been severely distorted by those who are infected with errors. However, the operations of freemasons, which have penetrated deeply into the heart of the Church, have been so persistent and tenacious that the Pope is strenuously fighting a lonely and extremely difficult and dangerous battle with little help from others.  Therefore, offer up your sufferings of double deaths, which are even comforting God Himself, for the sake of the Pope.” (Message of Love from the Blessed Mother on June 30, 2007)




Pope Benedict XVI who valiantly defended the Authentic doctrines of the Catholic faith accepted and supported the unprecedented Signs and Messages of Naju, where the Lord and the Blessed Mother personally work. However, the Holy Father's sudden resignation allows us to guess the endless agony of the Pope who must have been strenuously fighting a lonely and extremely difficult and dangerous battle with little help from others due to the persistent and tenacious operations of freemasons, which have penetrated deeply into the heart of the Church.



Dear all pilgrims who love the Naju Shrine at home and abroad, in order that the love and the light of mercy from Jesus of Mercy in Glory and the Blessed Mother of Naju may spread to the whole world,  and that our Church may be renewed and all the clergy may be sanctified to lead sheep to Heaven, let us all be united with the little soul Mama Julia and do our best to practice the Five Spiritualities every moment by wearing the Armor of the Five Spiritualities.


In particular, let us all gather our hearts and offer sincere prayers so that His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI may quickly ascend to the ranks of saints and become a powerful intercessor for the approval of Naju. Amen.
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