Maria Divine Mercy's Problematic Medal of Salvation

By PocketSketch

Mary McGovern has attempted a justification for the two swords of salvation on her medal, in lieu of the traditional one sword Catholics are familiar with. According to her:

“The Swords of Salvation will have a dual purpose. The First Sword will slay the Beast and I have been given the authority to do this on the Final Day. The other sword will pierce the heart of the most hardened sinners and will be the Sword by which their souls will be saved.”

The first sword is all wrong as it directly contradicts the book of Revelation on three points.

1. Our Blessed Mother has been given authority to slay the Beast? with a sword, no less? This is not only ridiculous it heralds another glaring contradiction with the Bible. According to Genesis 3:15, God’s promise was that her heel, not a sword, would crush the skull of the Serpent. 

Doubtless, some will argue she never said that. Oh, yes she did. Here is the direct quotation from the Warning Second Coming website:

“My image is to be created and a Medal struck where, on one side, I am to be placed with the sun behind my head and where twelve stars woven into a crown of thorns sits on my head. On the reverse side I wish to depict the Sacred Heart of my Son with the Two Swords of Salvation, which are to be crossed on either side.”

Everyone knows this is Our Lady as described in Revelation 12. Read what she said again, 

“The First Sword will slay the Beast and I have been given the authority to do this on the Final Day.”

2. Still some may argue, the “seer” means another sword. O.K. Perhaps she was alluding to the sword in McGovern’s favorite book? Revelation. No. There the sword of Our Saviour is described as coming “out of His mouth.” (Rev.19: 15) Therefore it is not a sword for slaying as much as it is a symbol. According to Pope Benedict XVI the double-edged sword of the Lord is a symbol for the penetrating power of God’s Word.

3. MDMer’s remain unconvinced. Jesus or His mother will surely “slay the Beast”just as their prophet has promised. Wrong again. What does Sacred Scripture really say? The beast and the false prophet will be captured and “thrown ALIVE into the fiery pool burning with sulphur.” (Rev.19:20) Doesn’t look like either one will “slay the Beast.”

All the confusion about who is going to slay whom matters not. The truth is what Pope Benedict has already taught: the sword is a symbol for penetrating power of the Word of God. As there is only one Word of God that went forth from the Father, His only Son, it follows, that there should only be only one Sword of Salvation.

Now to address the second Sword of Salvation which promises to pierce the hearts of hardened sinners. “By the power of these medals, souls are inexplicably compelled to run towards God.” [Jan.21/14] That promise, directly contradicts public Divine revelation on two points.

1. During the presentation of Jesus in the Temple, Simeon told Our Blessed Mother, “Behold, this child is destined for the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be contradicted (and you yourself a sword will pierce) so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.” (Lk.2:34-35) It is Mary’s heart which was pierced every time her Son was rejected during His public ministry and, most especially, when she witnessed the piercing of His Sacred Heart on the Cross. Here again, it was one strike at His Heart, not two.

2. At Mount Sinai, in Exodus 17, God commanded Moses to strike the rock from which life giving waters would flow to quench the thirst the Israelites. This miracle of the rock prefigured the Passion of Our Saviour on the Cross where He was struck to bring forth fountains of living waters for the People of the New Covenant. The command again was to strike once the rock. St. Paul would identify the Rock as Christ in 1 Corinthians 10:4. 

Let’s face it. There simply is no precedence, either in the Old or the New Testaments, for two swords of salvation. Incontrovertibly, it is not the hearts of sinners that will be pierced by a sword, as McGovern has said but it happened just as Simeon had prophesied. Our Lord’s heart and thereby His mother’s, was pierced by one sword. 

Finally, we move from Scripture to protest her doctrinal error. “The other sword will pierce the heart of the most hardened sinners and will be the Sword by which their souls will be saved.” It is by grace we are saved not by these invented “swords of salvation.” Our Saviour decreed the Church to be the ordinary means of salvation and He isn’t about to replace His divine institution with a trinket. A trinket which bears the stamp of the sworn enemies of the Church: Freemasonry. A talisman which bears more resemblance to a Tarot card* than traditional Catholic iconography. 

In conclusion, a reminder from the Council of Trent: “Faith is the beginning of man's salvation, the foundation and root of all justification, without which it is impossible to please God and attain to the fellowship of His children.” Whenever Catholics allow their faith to be corroded and replaced with the secret knowledge of Mary McGovern’s mysteries, they recklessly endanger their gift of faith. 

McGovern doesn’t offer a new beginning of salvation; just the opposite, her faithful followers will come to a bitter end. Maria Divine Mercy is nothing more than a self-appointed high priestess. Do not make the mistake of accepting her medal. Do not take a viper to your breast.

* The “two of swords” is from the Rider-Waite Tarot deck. It features a woman, seated and holding two crossed swords. The Rider-Waite tarot deck is one of the most popular Tarot decks in use today in the English speaking world. Arthur Edward Waite, the co-creator was a British mystic who wrote extensively on the occult, divination, Freemasonry, Kabbalah and ceremonial magic. He was a Freemason too. For further reading find article on “Two of Swords” at Wikipedia.