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Jesus Christ is God... 

"The lessons of your Faith have been given to you for all time without change. My Son is forever, for God is, God was, and God always will be. My Son is your God in the Father and the Holy Ghost. Do not cast aside your knowledge in faith of the Trinity. Do not cast aside your knowledge in faith of My Son's divinity. Do not recrucify My Son upon your earth and in His Church, His House. You call upon you a heavy hand of punishment from the Eternal Father!" - Our Lady of the Roses, December 24, 1976
 

(The following is taken from the booklet, "Faith and common sense", + Imprimatur: Most Reverend John F. Whealon, Archbishop of Hartford): 

     Jesus was born in the town of Bethlehem during the reign of Caesar Augustus. Brought up in Nazareth, He began to preach publicly during the reign of Tiberius Caesar. For approximately three years He taught the Jewish crowds wherever He could find them. He held out to them the fulfillment of their ancient hopes of a Messias, but a spiritual fulfillment. The Jews did not entirely accept that, and Jesus made enemies of the Pharisees and others in Jewish life by His popularity. They decided to do away with Him. He was condemned on a charge of making Himself equal to God, and then crucified by the Roman authorities of Palestine. On the third day after His death he arose from the dead. Forty days later He ascended into heaven from the little group of his disciples gathered on Mt. Olivet near Jerusalem.
     No man ever taught as this man. The wisdom of the sages of the earth is as nothing compared to His. He worked miracles. The Gospels describe more than forty of them in detail, and mention many more in general. He cured such things as leprosy, paralysis, hemorrhage, deafness, blindness, dropsy and fever. He changed water into wine, silenced tempests, walked upon water, and multiplied bread and fish a thousandfold. He brought three dead people back to life: the son of the widow of Naim, the daughter of Jairus, and Lazarus.
These were not sleight-of-hand tricks, “Faith-healing” of people who only thought they were sick, or natural cures. They were done in the open upon people who were known to be incurable sick. Consider the story told by John (John 9) of the man born blind. He had spent his adult life begging at the gate of the Temple. The Lord cured him by sending him to the Pool of Siloe to wash. He went and washed and saw.
     The adversaries of Christ were not fools, but well-educated men. They could not admit a miracle from His hands any more than the modern critics can. They investigated. First, they implied that a switch had been made between a blind man and one with sight who resembled him. But the people who knew the beggar identified him.
     It was intimated that medicine had been used to work the cure. “What did he do to thee? How did he open thy eyes?” they demanded (John 9:26). The blind man could only reply that the Lord had anointed his eyes with clay and sent him to wash in the Pool of Siloe. Blocked in this way the Jews cast doubt on whether the man had been blind at all. But his parents testified he had been blind from birth.

The force of logic
     When all this examination failed, the Jews tried to break down the man’s story by bluff. They pointed out that the cure was done on the Sabbath. God must be responsible for miracles, but God would not violate the Sabbath rest by working a miracle. To this bit of tortured theology the blind man opposed the facts. “Not from the beginning of the world has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind. If this man were not from God, he could do nothing,” he said (John 9:32-33).
     This logic was indisputable, so they cast him out of their presence. But the facts remained, and the facts have never been explained–unless we accept the fact that God was with Jesus Christ.
     That is the inescapable conclusion that follows from the existence of real miracles. This world runs down its own track, precisely repeating over and over again the same actions. The observed course of things becomes so clear and constant that we make “laws” to give it expression.
     “Whatever goes up, must come down,” we say. That it can go up, we do not deny. As long as some force greater than gravity works on it, it goes up. A ball goes up and up as long as it has the force of the bat behind it. An airplane stays aloft as long as its speed is great enough to overcome gravity.
     The only higher power in control of such forces, of course, is God. Doctors can cure; they cannot create life. Yet Jesus of Nazareth raised Lazarus from the dead. He did not cure him. Lazarus was not in a coma; he was dead. Christ recreated life in him. No man can do that, no angel, no devil. Only God is the master of life and death.
     So also with the greatest miracle of all, His own death and resurrection. He did what no man can do–He predicted His own death in precise detail. He said He would be killed in a most unusual way. He predicted that He would be betrayed to the Jews, condemned by them to death, and then delivered to the Gentiles to be mocked and spit upon and scourged and crucified. And on the third day He would rise again.

Death and resurrection
     That was exactly what happened. He was scourged inhumanly by Roman soldiers. Condemned men often died under that torture. Christ did not. He was taken to a hill outside Jerusalem, His hands and feet were nailed to a cross, and He was raised up and left there to die in slow agony. The end came with unexpected suddenness, but there was no doubt that it was the end. He himself "cried out with a loud voice, and gave up his spirit” (Matt. 27:50).
     The Jews insisted on the execution being brought to an end before the Sabbath day concluded. Consequently, the soldiers on the execution detail killed the two thieves who were crucified with Christ. “But when they came to Jesus, and saw that He was already dead, they did not break his legs; but one of the soldiers opened his side with a lance, and immediately there came out blood and water” (John 19:33-34).
Pilate was surprised that Christ had died so soon. He questioned the officer in charge of the detail about it and was assured that there was no doubt.
     The corpse was taken from the cross and wrapped in a linen cloth. Aromatic spices were wrapped in the cloth and strewn within the tomb. The tomb was sealed. Under such conditions, no human being could have survived even if there had been a spark of life still in him.
     Soldiers were detailed to guard the tomb round the clock. Yet on Sunday morning before dawn the dead man in the tomb came back to life and left His burial place.
     Soon He began to appear to those who had been close to Him. St. Paul summarizes the evidence. “For I delivered to you first of all, what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day, according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, and after that to the Eleven. Then he was seen by more than five hundred brethren at one time, many of whom are with us still, but some have fallen asleep. After that he was seen by James, then by all the apostles. And last of all, as by one born out of due time, he was seen also by me” (1 Cor. 15:3-8).
     There was no doubt that this was Jesus. He said to them the first time He met them after His resurrection, “Why are you disturbed, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? See my hands and feet, that it is I myself. Feel me and see; for a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have” (Luke 24:38-39). He had Thomas put his hand into His side and touch the wounds in His hands. He ate with them and walked with them. The proof was abundant and indisputable.
     Yet some still doubt and seek other explanations. The Jews, for example, bribed the guards to say that while they were asleep the disciples came and stole Him away. The explanation was self-contradictory. If they were asleep, how could they known that the disciples had stolen Him away? And if they were not asleep, why did they not stop them?

Christ was God
     It has been claimed that Christ was not dead, that He did not reappear, that Christianity was founded on a fraud. This has satisfied no one, and the doubters then have tried denying that there was ever the slightest degree of truth in the resurrection story. They claim it was all made up much later on, but this is also contradicted by historically provable facts.
     The tomb of Christ still stands empty. It must be filled either with God or with the greatest mystery the world has ever known. The facts are that Christ was God. He arose. If the facts of His life are true–and they undoubtedly are–then His teaching must be accepted as truth also.
     Christ made that perfectly clear when He cured the paralytic of Capharnaum. The man came to Christ for a cure of his physical disease. But the Lord saw in him not only disease, but sin. And he forgave it. The Scribes and Pharisees immediately saw the implication. “Who can forgive sins, but God only?” They asked (Luke 5:21). For once they spoke the truth. By His actions and words the Lord was teaching that He had power to forgive sins, and that power came from God alone. He offered to prove His teaching by a miracle.
     “Which is easier, to say, ‘Thy sins are forgiven thee,’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk’? But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”–He said to the paralytic–“I say to thee, arise, take up thy pallet and go to thy house” (Luke 5:23-24).
     Before He called Lazarus to come forth from the tomb where he was buried, Christ prayed, “Father, I give thee thanks that thou hast heard me. Yet I knew that thou always hearest me; but because of the people who stand round, I spoke, that they may believe that thou has sent me” (John 11:41-42).

Christ’s authority
     To the Jews who questioned His authority to teach, Christ said, “I tell you and you do not believe. The works that I do in the name of my Father, these bear witness concerning me” (John 10:25). And again, “If I do not perform the works of my Father, do not believe me. But if I do perform them, and if you are not willing to believe me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in me and I in the Father” (John 10:37-38).
     As Nicodemus, a learned Jew, put it, “Rabbi we know that thou hast come a teacher from God, for no one can work these signs that thou workest unless God be with him” (John 3:2).
     At the Last Supper Christ once more reminded His Apostles, “Do you believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? Otherwise believe because of the works themselves” (John 14:11-12). Only God can give the power to work a miracle. He does not give that power to those that teach falsehood.
     These are not theories, vague generalities, myths, pretty stories. These are facts, hard, precise facts which will not be explained away. They are the basis for the reasonableness of faith.
     Christ often appealed for faith. The doctrines which He taught were often acceptable on no other basis. He gave no proof that He was in the Father and the Father in Him. He gave no proof that the bread He gave was His flesh for the life of the world. He said these things. That was the only proof. They were to be taken on faith. But faith is most reasonable since the facts prove conclusively that He was from God.

"My children, I have come to earth from the beautiful realms of Heaven to warn you as a Mother. The Eternal Father has sent Me as a Mediatrix between God and man--neither seeking to take the glory from My Son, as many make accusations of. No, My children, I come in support of My sacrificed Son, for He is being resacrificed by mankind. My children, I have been through this whole ordeal in the past, and I watch now as you recrucify My Son. Is this how you have set yourselves about to repay Him for His sacrifice: by blaspheming His name, destroying His divinity, destroying the sheep?" - Our Lady of the Roses, March 18, 1978