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Quotes from Akita: The Tears and Message of Mary (Part 4)

This is the forth and final part of our special series of excerpts from the definitive book on Akita. In this part, the miracles of Akita go under the scrutiny of faithless opposition, the miracles of the tears are captured by a camera crew and broadcast on television, the statue weeps for the last time, […]

Quotes from Akita: The Tears and Message of Mary (Part 3)

The third installment of excerpts from the timely book Akita: The Tears and Message of Mary by Fr. Teiji Yasuda

Quotes from Akita: The Tears and Message of Mary (Part 2)

We continue our series of notable excerpts from the definitive book on the Marian apparition in Akita, “Akita: The Tears and Message of Mary” by Fr. Teiji Yasuda, who was the convent chaplain during the time of the apparitions and Sr. Agnes spiritual director. This part contains some significant spiritual insights from Fr. Teiji regarding […]

Quotes from Akita: The Tears and Message of Mary (Part 1)

With the news of a new message from Sister Agnes Sasagawa, the story of the Akita returned to the fore of Catholic consciousness. Since then, WQPH has relayed messages from sources close to Sister Agnes, including her desire that people become familiar with the definitive Akita documentary by David Dionese, which we have transcribed. With […]

Fr. Richard Heilman confirms the Akita story's source

On October 27th, when WQPH posted the story about the new message from Sr. Agnes Sasagawa of Our Lady of Akita, many Catholic commentors offered interpretations of the message, including Fr. Richard Heilman of RomanCatholicMan.com, who co-hosts Grace Force with Doug Barry. WQPH raised questions to our source about the message but we were not […]

UPDATED: Bishop Strickland gives a powerful testament of faith before image of Our Lady during the USCCB 2019 conference (watch)

Update 11/14 8:44 – an earlier copy of the article stated the bishop was John Brennan of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia. A reader wrote in to correct us, and we confirmed with another photo, this was Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas. We regret the error. On November 13th, Catholics rallied again to pray the Rosary […]

An update from Sr. Agnes: "I felt the time is near."

Our source for the new message from Sr. Agnes has come back in contact with us and relayed with great urgency a part of the new message, which our source omitted accidentally out of haste. The courier received new permission from Sr. Agnes to communicate this omitted detail. We have included again the Japanese of […]

An update on the new Akita message

We are back in contact with our source (thank you to all who offered prayers!) who promised to send a “more detailed message” soon. In the meantime, she encouraged us to watch the following video which we have obtained a copy of: Our source reiterated that Sister Agnes finds this video to be a good […]

WQPH's statement on our story of the new message from Sr. Agnes of Our Lady of Akita

You may have already read the news which WQPH broke, and has traveled fast. Please find the story here, which we have updated with a new translation from the original Japanese of the message. Since then, we have been overwhelmed by the responses and inquiries and now feel it is incumbent upon us to to issue […]

A new message from Sister Agnes of Our Lady of Akita

UPDATE 11/2: we have included a new translation from a English/Japanese speaker, and made a few other small edits to this article WQPH has obtained a new message from Sister Agnes Sasagawa, the nun who received the message of Our Lady of Akita, who is sometimes referred to as the daughter of Our Lady of […]

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