Debra Geileskey, Helidon, Toowoomba, Australia, 1983 –1993 (The Magnificat Meal Movement)

 

Status:  Established as Not Supernatural (Constat de non Supernaturalitate)

 

Episcopal Remarks:  “it can only be concluded that the alleged apparitions associated with the Magnificat Meal Movement are devoid of any supernatural origin. The writings published by the Movement itself also lead to the inevitable conclusion that it neither had, nor desires, any place in the Catholic Church”  (Statements by the Catholic Bishops of Queensland, March 3, 2000);  “the claims of Debra Geilesky…have increasingly become more at variance with Catholic faith, practice and spirituality” (ibid) “Catholic people should disassociate themselves from the Magnificat meal Movement saying "All this constitutes a clear danger to many good people”. In light of the Vatican statements I still declare that the Magnificat Meal Movement is not of God.” (William M Morris, DD, Bishop of Toowoomba, An Open Letter Concerning the Magnificat Meal Movement, July 19, 1999);  “On the basis of all the information available it can only be concluded that the alleged apparitions associated with the Magnificat Meal Movement are devoid of any supernatural origin. The writings published by the Movement itself also lead to the inevitable conclusion that it neither has, nor desires, any place in the Catholic Church” (William M Morris, DD, Bishop of Toowoomba, Declaration Concerning The Magnificat Meal Movement in the Diocese of Toowoomba, February 11, 1999); “It is misleading, to say the least, that these attitudes should be presented as inspired by Our Blessed Lady. None of this can come from a good source. All of this constitutes a clear danger to many good people” (Secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Letter to William M Morris, DD, Bishop of Toowoomba, January 12, 1999) (See Documentation Here)

 

Corroboration by Other Seers:

 

Biographical Information: The Magnificat Meal Movement (MMM) was established as a breakaway Catholic community in 1992 by self-styled prophet, Ms Debra Geileskey, an ex-teacher who has claimed to see visions of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary at the organisation’s Helidon headquarters (formerly a Catholic convent), about 60 miles from Melbourne in Australia.  Debra Geileskey solemnly told her followers in the Magnificat Meal Movement that not only had she been chosen as God’s messenger but that the Lord had instructed her to follow the diet of the Eucharist. Over 14 months, the MMM leader claimed to have consumed nothing but "holy" wafers and water, except on 33 days when God told her she could eat normally.  The aims of the Movement are to promote Eucharistic Adoration and the honour of the Blessed Mother in all her titles, but especially as Mary, Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix of all God's graces and Advocate. Debra holds a special devotion to virginity and her favourite saint after the Virgin Mary is a 13-year-old girl who died earlier this century protecting her honour from a rapist.  "I like to take in young girls, to protect their virginity," she says.   For many supporters the residents' lives of prayer, fasting, penance and loving obedience to the Holy Father are an inspiring example, as is the reverence at Mass and the various ceremonies.

 

The Movement's founder, Mrs Debra Geilesky, has been subjected to continual persecution, including attempts on her life, since she started to boldly proclaim the revelations of Our Lord. Despite, and probably because of these persecutions, the Movement has flourished and now boasts an international following of thousands of members in 70 countries including Ireland, where there are at least 300 members.  Many of these are reported to be priests and Bishops from all around the world.  Although the continuous persecution is evidence for some Mariologists like Fr Rene Laurentin, that the movement is authentic the organisation is not without its critics. MMM described as a “cult” by Rome  and dubbed by critics as “Make More More Money” is known to run 10 companies and have accumulated property assets worth AUS $3.5 million. Indeed those who decamp to the Helidon base describe it as the “New Jerusalem”  Whilst some of the movement's members dress in habits and describe themselves as “slaves of the Eucharist” following strict prayer regimes the community leaders have been criticized for indulging a high roller’s lifestyle of regular trips to America and chauffeur driven Mercedes cars with matching number plates. Geileskey claims plans to raise AUS$ 45 million from her members donations and charitable acquisitions to construct a basilica which she says will coincide with the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.  

 

More controversially Mrs Geileskey reveals beliefs in a global conspiracy; that a Jewish group controlled world power through an underground, unholy alliance with Masonic Orders. According to Mrs Geileskey "Jews masquerading as Christians are responsible for modernism in the Catholic Church".  This contamination of the Church, she says, spills over into the New Mass. Not only is it invalid, she claims, but those who attend it are committing a mortal sin. The society has responded by attending only Latin Tridentine Masses celebrated by Traditionalist priests. She also refers to the 'sins of Paul', by which she means the entire programme of liturgical reform carried out by the Second Vatican Council under Pope Paul VI. For Geileskey the Conciliar Church is being used by subversive anti-Catholic forces to promote a false ecumenical Religion of universal brotherhood with the world and as such she refers to it as the “Whore of Babylon” as detailed in the Apocalypse. The latest sign of this movement away from the Conciliar Church is that they now bury their dead in the Helidon public cemetery, rather than attend a Catholic Funeral Mass and bury them in the Catholic cemetery nearby. 

 

Known to some as an apocalyptic traditionalist remnant and to others as a cultic sect, the MMM has been accused  of everything from planning mass suicides, to hypnotically brainwashing its members.  Things evidently started to go downhill in 1996 when Mrs Geilesky published an undated prophecy detailing her own burning at the stake by a Catholic priest in the manner of St Joan of Arc.  After her estranged husband reportedly embellished the vision with apocalyptic overtones, generalising it to the whole community and a millenial fulfillment date of the ninth day of the ninth month of the year 1999, the local government authorities, police and media decided that this was a remote sign of a mass doomsday suicide pact. Fortunately the envisaged “Waco showdown” never came to pass.  Whilst the relationship of the MMM with the Catholic hierarchy continues to deteriorate since the negative findings of Bishop Morris’s theolgical commission in 1997, reports have been made that the marathon fasts of its leader Mrs Geileskey include secret eating binges, amid fraudulent Eucharistic miracles, and rampant religious deception. The organisation is presently being sued for refusing to repay a $600,000 loan by a wealthy promoter of the “Our Lady of Soufanieh” apparitions and  Geileskey’s estranged husband Gordon now denounces her as a fraud.  What has emerged since has been described as an incredible story of religious fervour involving court battles, internal power struggles, questionable property deals and traumatic defections that have rocked the Movement.

 

 

The Messages

 

Jesus, January 1, 1985

“Hide here, little flower. in My Heart. Behold the beauty of My Sacred Heart. Lift your head above your enemies and let Our Two Hearts (Jesus and Mary) entwine with yours, echoing forth the prayer of the Hearts who love and glorify Our Father. Let your heart pray this prayer as Mine does with true love: Our Father, who is in heaven, Your Name is holy, Your kingdom come, Your Will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Lead us away from all temptation and deliver us from all evil. Amen.” 1

 

Jesus, December 8, 1987

“I will use you to announce with a quiet voice the reign of the antichrist's beginning. It will be a time very soon, when the sacrifice of the Sacred Mass is no longer sacred to many. The horrible sacrilege will be man himself, exalted, replacing Me at My altars as the gods. They will at that time remove Me from My Tabernacle-Thrones. Quietly and together, We will sweep a Movement of the fire of My Holy Spirit (later proved to be the Magnificat Meal Movement International) across all nations to rectify the neglect of Me as fully God, alive with you in the Eucharist. It will be a Movement that gathers an adoring and obedient remnant away from the antichrist and his alterations of My House and My Sacrifice (the Mass). Tabernacles will be torn down. Sacred statues will be destroyed. The Mass will be altered and in many places terminated, leaving echoing barns with wordy ceremonies in the place of My Sanctuaries. Together We will build a Basilica of Eucharistic adoration, to which My frightened flock will flee from all nations. The antichrist will appear, at that time, to have removed Me as the eternal sacrifice, but My remnant Movement will bring forth a small obedient flock who will not adore the horrible sacrilege of man himself on My altars .” 2

 

Jesus, September 7, 1993

“Receive Me in your hands because you have My Holy Spirit.  I who am God have humbled Myself in this form (the Eucharist).  Again I allow Myself to be handled by mankind.  Hold Me.  Carry Me.  Embrace Me.  For I who am Almighty have humbled Myself for love of thee. I desire you to touch Me and I will daily reignite you. Receive Me daily.  Teach others to receive Me in love.  Teach others to handle Me lovingly and reverently.  Be humble as I am humble.  Allows others to handle your life too.  I am Jesus the Son of God and the Son of Man.” Debra says: “O Jesus I love to hold You in the Eucharist. Grant me the grace to always handle You reverently.  Many people believe it to be sinful to receive Communion in the hands.  Thank You for making this clear to me.” “It is not sinful to receive Me on the hands. It is the heart I read. If a heart receives Me lovingly with faith in My True Presence as the Meal, then both the heart and the hands are washed in My Holy Blood.  My Blood washes such hands as these whiter than snow.  Hands so covered with My Blood receive Me most worthily.  It is those hands that do not have My Spirit and My Blood upon them which grieve Me.I hear many who order others about telling them how they MUST receive Me in a particular way.  Be cautious not to be drawn into ordering My people.  To those who ask share what I have said to you today.” 3

 

Jesus, September 9, 1993

“Come and receive Me in My Eucharistic Form. Receive Me daily - and more often as I lead. I have made your soul to hunger greatly for Me, your Divine Meal.” 4

 

Jesus, November 7, 1993

“A man told you yesterday that you did not need to genuflect at Communion as the Holy Spirit is with you. I was pleased to hear you say that you would continue to do it, daughter. I sent your angels to show you how to reverence My Presence in this way. Your genuflection is a sign to the world that 1 am truly present. Each time My people pass the Tabernacle and genuflect, I bless them and rejoice over them as on a festival day. (Zeph. 3:17) Encourage others to reverence My Holy Presence (in the Eucharist) with an act of devotion. This can be a genuflection, a sign of the Cross or kneeling before Me. Each may choose that which suits him for I am easily pleased by a loving heart that believes in My True Presence.” 5

 

December 22, 1993

“The concelebrating priests also had many angels around them whilst they held the Eucharist. I tried to count the angels and God said that it would be impossible. He again pointed out that the angels are in huge numbers at each Mass and that we should adore Him with awesome reverence during Mass like the angels do.” 6

 

Jesus, March 8, 1994

“Nothing can replace or surpass this essential core of worship.  It is here that you offer Me your greatest sacrifice of praise – Myself.  It is here that I, your Everlasting Father, give you the True Meal of life” 7

 

Jesus, March 18, 1994

“Even the smallest grain which falls from the Eucharist has the complete nature of the perfect sacrifice.  You have underestimated My Sacrifice mankind.” 8

 

Jesus, May 30, 1994

“Receiving Me both morning and night is well advised for you, My little flower of the Eucharist.” 9

 

April 5, 1995

“The words, 'Hail Mary, full of grace,' were of such heavenly greatness that the Almighty Father sent His heavenly messenger to proclaim them in the world.  Honor these words also by continually praying this prayer (the Hail Mary) which brings honor to the Holy Trinity of God. Continue to say this Trinitarian prayer, (the Hail Mary) in the way the Lord has asked, for these end times of rejoicing (46) i.e. Rejoice, O Holy Mary, for you are full of grace, and the Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death. Amen.” 10

 

Jesus, May 6, 1995

"Dearest little one, you experience the pain of division in My Body.  My Own Heart is rent over the division and lack of faith of those who do not believe that I am fully present in the Eucharist….As soon as I gave this Sacrament to My Church, division began to arise in souls who failed to accept the Divine Meal nature of this Sacrament of My Love….This, My Magnificat Meal Movement, is My Spirit rectifying this division in My Body….I am your Divine Meal, mankind, and it will be the Eucharist which will both unite and divide. Your mouths take the Divine Bread. Your hearts and souls receive Me, the Eternal Food of Grace.” 11 

 

Jesus, June 6, 1995

“The breakaway groups (i.e. new churches down through the ages which have broken away from the `Rock of Peter—adds Debra) seek to dissipate faith in Me and My Presence with you in the Eucharistic Host. This Movement (the Magnificat Meal Movement International) is My Own Action to rectify this neglect of Me in the Eucharist. I am not just a symbol or a remembrance. I am Fully Present, as the Divine Meal from Heaven in each Sacred Mass.  My people, you have done so little to stop this false thinking about Me in the Eucharist as a fellowship meal. I am the Divine Meal. I have chosen the Magnificat Meal Movement as My Own Movement to bring back awareness of My Divine Nature in the Eucharist to your confused minds” 12

 

Jesus, June 19, 1994

“Some I call invitingly to offer the sacrifice of the Mass both morning and night.  This is your need too.  Return to this practice of attending the Holy Mass at the beginning and close of each day.” 13

 

Jesus, June 27, 1995

“by adoring Me in the Sacrament of Myself, exposed in all My Divinity and Humanity on your altars.” 14

 

July 2, 1995

“Dear child, tell My children not to read those newspapers which are freemasons’, but in fact claim to be Catholic”,  Debra sees and comments a vision in which she says: They are reading some scripture, but I hear the angels say they are using a twisted understanding of the scriptures (just like the freemasons do).  I understood that people should use true scripture to discern.  Those who don’t will be more easily deceived by ecclesiastical freemasons who use the scripture in a warped manner to lead souls to hell.” 15

 

Jesus, July 4, 1995

“My Heart is now calling all souls to come share this sweet companionship with my Son, a companionship of paradise, available to you now in the Sweetest Bread of the Blessed Sacrament, my Son (God fully in the Eucharistic Bread—Debra added).” 16

 

July 7, 1995

“The use of various scripture versions that I use with you is a sign to a divided humanity. A sign of unity that only I can perfect.  Surrender, mankind, your many differences and I will make you one in Me” 17

 

Our Lady, June 19, 1999

“O grieved is my heart when the Body of Christ was torn from the Sacred Mass at the command of the ‘Novus Ordo.’  Adore the truly consecrated Sacred Sacrament.  Too many adore the Bread unconsecrated due to the horrible sin of so many priests and false priests.  Heaven can remain silent about this atrocious sin against the Mass no longer.This is not a Mass but Paul’s sin.  And my Divine Son’s Body is not present.I am crying for my betrayed and starving children…Heaven can remain silent about this atrocious sin against the Mass no longer.  This is not a Mass but Paul’s sin. And my Divine Son’s Body is not present…but My remnant Movement will bring forth a small obedient flock who will not adore the horrible sacrilege of man himself on My altars .” 18 

 

Undated

“After Mass and Rosary an old lady angrily told me 1 prayed the Hail Mary wrongly. I told her my angel taught me how to pray this prayer as a sign of the end time people of God being a rejoicing people, united to Our Lady, as in the book of Revelations. She became angrier and accused me of being against the Pope and a division in the Church, when I heard the Lord say sadly: It is ones, like this soul, who fill My Sanctuary with their self-righteous division, which caused My Wounds. and continue to scourge Me. I weep. I bleed…Colossians 2:8 "See to it, then, that no one enslaves you by means of the worthless deceit of human wisdom, which comes from the teachings handed down by men and from the ruling spirits of the universe, and not from Christ.” 19

 

Undated

“St John Vianney said: You have cried out to God for more priests to help you in the work that God has given you to do in gathering souls away from sin into the light around the Eucharist.  Our Heavenly Father is allowing you to minister to his priests with your suffering…” Debra then said a few words, and Mary said : “My priest is with you ( St John Vianney).  He will use your suffering to minister to those priests in need.  Allow him to anoint your hands and your side.”  Debra continued:  “St John Vianney anointed me with holy oils.” 20

 

Undated

“Debra says: You are my God. I will give You praise O my God. You are my Saviour. The reply: You are a priest in the line of Melchizedek (Debra adds: i.e Melchizedek was not an ordained priest but because of his love for God and his unending adoration of God, he was accepted as priestly and as an identifying sign of the coming of the humble Priest of priests, Jesus Christ.  We are all invited to fulfil the “priesthood of ministering adoration  to God” as Melckizedek did) for you have My identity. With My Divine Identity you also share in My role of ministering to God the Father and to the Church with your loving adorat'ron of reparation. I am Jesus, the Son of God and the Son of Man. Take My Identity. I will he your Shield. I will be your Armour. Put on the Full Armour of My Blood and share. fully in My Role.” 21

References

1. Morning Prayers (booklet for the MMM), 1997, 22 pages p.2

2. What God might say to Me today…in Australia. Diary 8 with extracts from Diary 9 and earlier diaries.  A series of Reflection with Debra.   First Edition, 1996, 450 pages. p.116-117 quoting Diary 1, 8th December, 1987

3. ibid p.63-64

4.ibid , p.98

5.ibid p.168

6. Debra and the Eucharist, by Ray Burke (a member of the Slaves of the Eucharist, founded by Debra), Nov. 1999, 40 pages, p.18, quoting Diary 6 p.46)

7. Holy Mass  (The Tridentine Mass in English with some slight changes and additions as it is used in the MMM.) 1999, 22 pages, p.2; Debra and the Eucharist, by Ray Burke (a member of the Slaves of the Eucharist, founded by Debra), Nov. 1999, 40 pages, p.9 quoting Diary 6, p.287-8)

8. Debra and the Eucharist, by Ray Burke (a member of the Slaves of the Eucharist, founded by Debra), Nov. 1999, 40 pages. p.18, quoting Diary 6, p.312

9.ibid , p.10, quoting D7,p.84

10. What God might say to Me today … in Australia, Diary 8 with extracts from Diary 9 and earlier diaries.  A series of Reflection with Debra. First Edition, 1996, 450 pages, p.182, 5th April, 1995 p. 182

11. ibid p. 211-212

12. ibid p.257-258

13. Debra and the Eucharist, by Ray Burke (a member of the Slaves of the Eucharist, founded by Debra), Nov. 1999, 40 pages, p.10, quoting D7, p.109-110

14. What God might say to Me today … in Australia   Diary 8 with extracts from Diary 9 and earlier diaries.  A series of Reflection with Debra.  First Edition, 1996, 450 pages, p.284

15. ibid

16. ibid p.295

17. ibid p.302

18. Holy Mass  (The Tridentine Mass in English with some slight changes and additions as it is used in the MMM.) 1999, 22 pages, p.1-2

19. What God might say to Me today … in Australia  Diary 8 with extracts from Diary 9 and earlier diaries.  A series of Reflection with Debra.  First Edition, 1996, 450 pages, p.279

20. ibid p.243-244

21. ibid p.294