CBCP PASTORAL INSTRUCTION ON THE DEVOTION TO OUR LADY, MEDIATRIX OF GRACE, ON LIPA AND LOCAL INTERPRETATIONS

As a result of the complaints and confusion caused by the demonic accusations against Lipa Apparition, the visionary Teresita Castillo, and the image of Mary, Mediatrix of All Grace by some exorcist priests in Manila Archdiocese, Cardinal Orlando B. Quevedo issued this pastoral decree on July 7, 2018. This CBCP decree somehow called the attention of the exorcist priests in giving out their statements on the matters of Lipa Apparition and interpreting PROT.N. 226/1949. However, although the said decree was helpful to halt the demonic accusations, it somehow admonishes the devotees to separate the devotion to Mediatrix of All Grace from the Lipa Apparition phenomenon, that is, to separate their devotion from the very source of their devotion. Confusing it with the centuries-old devotion based on the teachings of the Church Fathers and Saints on Mary as the mediatrix of all graces.