PREPARING FOR THE IMMINENT TRIBULATION, WARNING
AND CHASTISEMENT PROPHESIED BY THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY AT FATIMA, GARABANDAL
& AKITA
by: Fr. Jim Anderson-given
at the Divine Will Conference- Oct. 2012 in Florida, USA
He was a prosecuting Attorney
before he became a Priest.
long but WORTH IT!!
This first talk will try to connect the historical
dots beginning with the well-known locution of Pope Leo XIII at the end of the
19th Century to try to see the outline of the final conflict between God and the
Kingdom of darkness that is rebelling against Him. The rebellion is led
by Satan and God has delegated leadership of the host of heaven to the Blessed
Mother with Archangel Michael.
Paul's reference in 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12
to the Mystery of Iniquity being already at work in secret, and God's allowing
the deception of deliberate nonbelievers and the unrighteous, is echoed in the
Blessed Mother's warning to Sister Lucia of Fatima of a
diabolical disorientation within the Church contributing to a future apostasy, and
of our Mother's prophesy in 1961 to the four Garabandal visionaries that they
would later contradict one another and come to doubt having experienced the
visions as part of the same confusion that now exists in the
Church.
This first will focus on the 1st and 2nd parts of
the Secret of Fatima; especially the vital importance of devotion to the
Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Consecration of Russia. The second will
consider the claims of the Vatican's 26 June 2000 publication,
The Message of Fatima, that John
Paul II's 1984 consecration of the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary has
been accepted by heaven as fulfilling Mary's request at Fatima for the papal
consecration of Russia, and to have fully revealed the 3rd part of the Fatima
Secret. It will then consider the Tribulation, the Warning, and the
Miracle and the “Chastisement prophesied by the Blessed Mother at Garabandal
and Akita, and suggest personal spiritual preparation for them.
I want to assure you that I love each
one of the popes I refer to. We must be merciful as Christ is merciful to
obtain mercy we must love one another; especially our pontiffs even in our
miseries and pray for them as Mary prays for us.
On 13 October 1884 Pope Leo XIII had
just finished celebrating holy Mass when he fell into a mystical state and
heard Satan boast to Jesus that he could destroy his Church if Jesus would give
him power for 100 years over all those who would serve him. Jesus
agreed! Leo became pale with alarm and wrote a strong prayer invoking
God's protection of his Church through Archangel Michael and his heavenly
cohort. This prayer, modified in 1930, was said by all the faithful after
low mass throughout the church until 1971.
Satan began this final battle in Holy Russia in
1905 seizing on existing social, economic and political injustice as the
opportunity to foment violent uprisings. On 22 January 1095 thousands of
impoverished Muscovites carrying only religious icons and led by an Orthodox
priest converged on the Winter Palace of their Tsar with five petitions:
amnesty for those already arrested, certain civil liberties, a living wage,
gradual land reform and universal suffrage. In response the Tsar's
Cossacks attacked the unarmed petitioners killing over 1,000. That provoked
mutiny in the navy and a peasant revolt that involved up to 2,800,000 persons
by the time order was restored in December. But the underlying issues of
injustice were not resolved and discontent seethed until the "Great
War" of 1914-1918 was nearing its end.
In mid March of 1917 revolution began in Russia
within the armed forces. Within two weeks the Bolshevik Lev Trotsky had
boarded a ship in New York for Russia. In April Vladimir Lenin with a
small contingent of his Bolsheviks was secretly returned from thirteen years of
voluntary exile in Switzerland through Germany and Sweden in a sealed railway
car by Kaiser Wilhelm, intending to further destabilize Russia. The
Bolsheviks gradually gained control of the revolutionaries and were able to
control most of the government by October 1917. After three more years of
brutal civil war the Bolsheviks had totally replaced the autocracy of the
Christian Czar with the totalitarianism of satanic dictatorship. Terror
and the Gulag were added to a new system of social, economic and political
injustice, but now directed against God and his Church, and all opposition.
Satan's pride compelled him to reveal his
hand in the destruction of Holy Russia from the start of the revolution.
In 1905 when Catherine de Hueck Doherty was a nine year old girl living
comfortably with her family in rural Russia, it was customary for pilgrims to
walk long distances to pray at its many shrines. One evening a single old woman
pilgrim sought shelter at the farm of Catherine's family and the family and
servants eagerly gathered by kerosene lamps around a crackling fireplace to
hear tell of her pious adventures. Well into the evening, after relating many
blessings received at the holy shrines, the woman told of passing through a
thick forest with a growing sense of an evil presence that even set the forest
creatures on edge. Around a bend another road joined hers and a single
man walking in her direction joined her. Although she sensed some evil
about him he behaved well. He didn't use a Christian greeting, just
calling her Granny. When she told him of her holy pilgrimage he laughed
about religion being superstition fed to peasants by priests to pacify them to
accept the many injustices that afflicted them. He was eloquent and
persuasive and she soon began to believe him. Then he began mocking the Blessed
Mother and calling the virgin birth fiction and devotion to Mary
idolatry. She quietly took a small bottle of holy water and sprinkled him
with it in the name of Jesus and the Holy Trinity. He screamed, fell
twisting to the ground an before vanishing cried out:
"You old fool! All Russia will be covered with rivers of
blood over the things I've said. Millions will think like I do.
There will be moaning and groaning and tears all over this land. I am out
to win it and win it I will. And neither your God nor your Blessed Virgin
will be able to save it."
The old woman fainted in terror. Awakening, she continued walking
cautiously.
Suddenly, there was a very great light on the
road, and a young woman, dressed just like me in a pilgrim's garb, with an icon
on her breast, came up gently to my side. 'Fear not, Grandma, ' she said,
'it is true what the man said, but he as not a man. These things will come
to pass so that Holy Russia may hang on the cross with my Son to redeem the
world. The only way the world can be redeemed is through suffering with
my Son. Fear not. There will come a day when, under the sign of my
Son, I will lead Russia to show my Son's face to the world.' Then she
vanished too, and I saw the lights of the village.
Like the blasphemy Goliath hurled against God, Satan's blasphemy against Christ
echoes through our times waiting for a modern David to crush him to uphold the
honor of God. Young David had only five smooth stones and his skill with
his sling. Yet his faith and his courage vanquished Goliath because God
was with him! As we shall see, our Pontiffs have the promise of Jesus'
Holy Mother Mary that when the Pope together with his Bishops solemnly
consecrates Russia to her Immaculate Heart, and leads the Church in First
Saturday reparatory devotions to her Immaculate Heart, and leads the Church in
First Saturday reparatory devotions to her Immaculate heart, she will convert
Russia and a period of peace will be granted to the world.
Is that not
the
"day when, under the sign of my Son, I will lead Russia to show my
Son's face to the world"
prophesied by Mary to the pilgrim in Catherine
Doherty's story? Is not this leadership of the Blessed Mother in the
Church's war against Satan prophesied in Genesis 3:15-16 and Revelation
11:19-12:6, 13-17?
By 1917 WWI had been killing the youth of
Europe for three years. On 5 May Pope Benedict XV penned a letter in
which he turned to our Blessed Mother in prayer for peace in the midst of
the terror and darkness that had raged since August, 1914. Benedict
was an experienced, well connected diplomat, but all his Vatican diplomacy had
failed to bring peace. Now he turned to Mary:
He wrote: Our
earnestly pleading voice, invoking the end of the vast conflict, the suicide of
civilized Europe, was then and has remained ever since unheard. Indeed it
seemed that the dark tide of hatred grew higher and wider among the belligerent
nations, and drew other countries into its frightful sweep, multiplying ruin
and massacre. Nevertheless Our confidence was not lessened...Since all
graces which the Author of all good deigns to grant to the poor children of
Adam, by a loving design of His Divine Providence are dispensed through the
hands of the most holy Virgin, we wish that the petition of Her most afflicted
children, more than ever in this terrible hour, may turn with lively confidence
to the august Mother of God.
A week later, on 13 May and again on 13 June 1917, our
Blessed Mother responded to Benedict's prayer in the first two of six
visitations to three young seers, Jacinta and her brother Francisco Marto, and
their cousin Lucia dos Santos, at the village of Fatima in central
Portugal. On 13 July 1917 Our Lady appeared to them for the third time
and on that day revealed to them in 3 parts heaven's plan to prevent many souls
from being lost, and to bring a period of real peace to the world, but told
them it was a secret not to be revealed until she gave permission. She
asked them to come again on the 13th of the next month and to pray the Rosary
daily in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary for world peace and for the end
of the war
"because only she can
help you." She promised to perform a miracle on 13
October "for all to see and believe..
and she kept her promise." On 8 December 1941 Lucia, then a
sister of the Order of St. Dorothy wrote out parts One and Two and
according to Fatima scholars the first sentence of part three of the Secret as
follows:
Sacrifice
yourselves for sinners, and say many times, especially whenever you make some
sacrifice: O Jesus, it is for love of You, for the conversion of sinners,
and in reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
As our Lady spoke these last words, she opened
her hands once more, as she had done during the two previous months. The
rays of light seemed to penetrate the earth, and we saw as it were a sea of
fire. Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form. ...Terrified
and as if to plead for succor, we looked up at Our Lady, who said to us, so
kindly and so sadly: 'You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners
go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my
Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved
and there will be peace. The war is going to end; but if people do not
cease offending God, a worse one will break out during the pontificate of Pius
XI. When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that
this is the great sign given you by God that He is about to punish the
world for its crimes, by means of war, famine, and persecutions of the Church
and of the Holy Father.
To prevent this, I shall come to ask for
the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart and the Communion of
reparation on the First Saturdays. If my requests are heeded, Russia will
be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors
throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The
good will be martyred; the Holy Father will have much to suffer; various
nations will be annihilated. In the end, my Immaculate Heart will
triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and she will be
converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world. In
Portugal, the dogma of the Faith will always be preserved; etc...Do not tell
this to anybody. Francisco, yes you may tell him.
When you pray the Rosary, say after each mystery: O my Jesus,
forgive us, save us from the fire of hell. Lead all souls to heaven,
especially those who are most in need.
How are we to understand the Blessed Mother's message
that to save sinners from going to hell God wishes to establish in the world
devotion to her Immaculate Heart? In
Lumen Gentium 61-62 The
Second Vatican Council proclaims the perennial Catholic truth that:
By her manifold intercession, she
continues to win the gifts of eternal salvation for us. By her motherly
love, she takes care of the brothers of her Son who are still in pilgrimage and
in dangers and difficulties, until they be led through to the happy fatherland. For this reason, the Blessed Virgin is
invoked in the Church under the titles of Advocate, Auxiliatrix, Adjutrix, and
Mediatrix.
It follows that the most pure, the Immaculate
Heart of Mary, not only beckons us to follow her in being pure of heart, free
from earthly chains to do the will of God, but also that she is able to obtain
for us the divine assistance we require to do so! For, while when
baptized we are indwelt by the Blessed Trinity and divinely infused with
inclinations to both theological and moral virtue, we can grow strong in the
practice of Faith, Hope and Charity, Prudence, Justice, Fortitude and
Temperance only with the help of the Holy Spirit, the Sanctifier. By
acting within us with his gifts of Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Fortitude,
Knowledge, Piety and Fear of God this Sanctifier can mold us ever more
perfectly into the image of Jesus that God intends us to be. As his
holiness Leo XIII teaches in his encyclical on the Holy Spirit,
Divinum
Illud Munus:
The just
man, that is to say he who lives the life of divine grace, and acts by the
fitting virtues as by means of faculties, has need of those seven gifts which
are properly attributed to the Holy Ghost. By means of them the soul is
furnished and strengthened so as to obey more easily and promptly His voice and
impulse.
So it is not surprising that God should choose to save sinners
by establishing in the world devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. As
daughter of the eternal Father she, being immaculately conceived and full of
grace, cooperated perfectly with the Divine Will to become the new Eve of his
heart. As spouse of the eternal Spirit she yielded to his movement within
her soul and body to become the Ark of the New Covenant. As mother of the
eternal Son she entered a most intimate union with him from the moment of his
conception through his death, resurrection and eternal glorification. Finally,
from his cross Jesus made her our mother. By choosing to establish
devotion in the world to the Immaculate Heart of this uniquely privileged woman
he has made to be our Mother and Queen God intends that we gain her most
powerful intercession with him to send his eternal Spirit to save with his
gifts those sinners who will be open to receive them. Yes, Christ alone
is Savior and Redeemer. But as Mediatrix of all Graces, Mary is
indispensable to our salvation.
Blessed John Paul II explained the efficaciousness
of Mary's motherhood in his homily at Fatima on 13 May 1982:
When
Jesus on the Cross said: 'Woman, behold, you son (John 19:26), in a new way he
opened his Mother's Heart, the Immaculate Heart, and revealed to it the new
dimensions and extent of the love to which she was called in the Holy Spirit by
the power of the sacrifice of the Cross...The solicitude of the Mother of
the Savior is solicitude for the work of salvation: the work of her Son.
It is solicitude for the salvation, the eternal salvation, of all.
Precious insights into God's predilection for the
Immaculate Heart of Mary were given to Sister Lucia at Pontevedra, Spain in
1925 and again at Tuy, Spain in 1929. On 10 December 1925 she was an 18
year old postulant in the convent of the Sisters of Saint Dorothy in
Pontevedra. That evening she had just returned to her cell after supper
when she was visited by Our Lady and the Child Jesus. She writes of
herself in the third person:
On December
10, 1925, the Most Holy Virgin appeared to her, and by Her side, elevated on a
luminous cloud, was the Child Jesus. The Most Holy Virgin rested Her hand
on her shoulder, and as She did so, She showed her a heart encircled by thorns,
which She was holding in Her other hand. At the same time, the Child
said: 'Have compassion on the Heart of your Most Holy Mother, covered with
thorns, with which ungrateful men pierce It at every moment, and there is no
one to make an act of reparation to remove them.'
This image of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, first shown
to Lucia on 10 December 1925 at Pontevedra, is the same as that which Jesus
revealed to Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque on 16 June 1675 at Paray-Le-Monial in
France. Jesus had explained to Margaret Mary that the flames depicted his
burning love for souls and the thorns depicted his pain that his love was
neither appreciated nor returned.
Consider the insight of John Paul II
that "when Jesus on the Cross said: 'Woman, behold your son (John
19:26), in a new way he opened his Mother's Heart, the Immaculate Heart, and
revealed to it the new dimensions and extent of the love to which she was
called in the Holy Spirit by the power of the sacrifice of the Cross..."
Given that insight, does this vision of the Immaculate Heart of Mary not
reveal that the hearts of Jesus and Mary beat as one in the predilection of the
Father? Thus, while the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary certainly
includes the assertion in the Vatican’s
The
Message of Fatima that “The Heart
open to God, purified by contemplation of God, is stronger than guns and
weapons of every kind, “and that “thanks to her Yes, God could become man in
our world and remains so for all time.”
Its significance within the whole cloth of the first and second
parts of the Secret of Fatima and the subsequent visions and messages given to
Sister Lucia at Pontevedra and Tuy comprehends much more.
Mary told the seers at Fatima that God …punish [es] the world for its crimes, by
means of war, famine, and persecutions of the Church and of the Holy Father…To
prevent this, I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my
Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of Reparation on the First Saturdays…In the
end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.
The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and she will be converted,
and a period of peace will be granted to the world.
Given
God’s predilection for her Immaculate Heart, one can conclude that the
conversion of Russia will occur by the power of the Holy Spirit given to
Russians in response to the requested consecration of Russia and the First
Saturday devotions, both to her Immaculate Heart. From such triumph of the Immaculate Heart of
Mary a period of peace will be granted to the world.
Our Lord, himself, explained this
to Lucia as she stated in a hand-written letter to Father Goncalves on 18 May
1936. As Adolph Hitler was then
preparing Germany for an aggressive war and Joseph Stalin was fomenting civil
war in Spain, Fr. Goncalves had written asking Lucia concerning the consecration
of Russia. She replied:
Intimately
I have spoken to Our Lord about the subject, and not too long ago I asked Him
why He would not convert Russia without the Holy Father making that
consecration?
[Jesus replies.]’Because I want My whole
Church to acknowledge that consecration as a triumph of the Immaculate Heart of
Mary, so that it may extend its cult later on, and put the devotion to This
Immaculate Heart beside the devotion to My Sacred Heart.’ [Lucia then pleads with Jesus.] By my God, the
Holy Father probably won’t believe me, unless You, Yourself move him with a
special inspiration.[Jesus.] ‘The Holy Father. Pray very much
for the Holy Father. He will do it, but
it will be late. Nevertheless the
Immaculate Heart of Mary will save Russia.
It has been entrusted to Her.’ [Emphasis added]
On 13 June 1929 both Jesus and
Mary appeared to Lucia in the convent chapel at Tuy and told her that the time
had come for her to communicate Heaven’s plan for peace revealed at Fatima to
the Holy Father. She did in at least two
letters to Pope Pius XI through her spiritual director and through her bishop,
but received no response. Jesus,
himself, confirmed both his vicar’s receipt of this plan for peace from Lucia,
and His Holiness’ failure to comply, in an apparition to Lucia at the little
seaside chapel in Rianjo where she was recuperation from a lingering illness in
August 1931. Lucia explains this in a
letter to her Bishop written 29 August 1931:
My confessor orders me to inform Your Excellency of what took place a
little while ago between the Good Lord and myself: as I was asking God for the conversion of
Russia, Spain and Portugal, it seemed to me that His Divine Majesty said to me:
‘You console Me a great deal by asking Me for the conversion of those poor
nations. Ask it also of My Mother
frequently, saying: Sweet Heart of Mary, be the salvation of Russia, Spain,
Portugal Europe and the whole world. At
other times say: By your pure and Immaculate Conception, O Mary, obtain for me
the conversion of Russia, Spain, Portugal, Europe and the entire world.Make it known to my ministers that given
they follow the example of the King of France in the delaying the execution of
My request, that they will follow him into misfortune. It will never be too late to have recourse to
Jesus and Mary.[Emphasis added.]
Lucia reiterated the
consequences of His Holiness’ inaction in a letter to Fr. Goncalves written on
21 January 1935:
“Regarding the matter of Russia, I think that it would please Our Lord
very much if you worked to make the Holy Father comply with His wishes. About three years ago our Lord was very
displeased because His request had not been attended to and I made this fact
known to the bishop in a letter.”
A
year later, as part of the letter to Fr. Goncalves detailing the apparition at
Tuy, Lucia repeats Jesus severe warning of August 1931:
“Later on, by means of an interior
communication, Our Lord complainingly said to me: ‘They did not want to heed My
request. Like the King of France they
will repent and do so, but it will be late.
Russia will already have spread her errors throughout the world, causing
wars and persecutions of the Church. The
Holy Father will have much to suffer!”
On the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, 17 June, and again on 28 August,
1689, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque wrote to Mother de Saumaise, her prioress at
the Visitation Monestery of Paray-le-Monial, to have a message the saint had
received from Jesus requesting that the King consecrate France to His most
Sacred Heart, delivered to him. Margaret
Mary expressed Heaven’s wish that Jesus’ Sacred Heart receive
“the
consecration and homage of the king and the entire court. Moreover, this divine Heart wishes to become
the protector and defender of his sacred person against all his enemies visible
and invisible, to defend him against them, and assure his salvation by this
means.”
The saint added that
Jesus had chosen that the Jesuits deliver this message to Louis XIV and spread
this devotion to His Sacred Heart, specifically mentioning a Father de la
Chaise because of his influence over Louis’ heart. Historians surmise that Fr. De le Chaise
either refused to deliver the message to Louis, or was not willing to advocate
that the king comply, or that Louis XIV soul was not sufficiently humble to
comprehend the greatness being offered.
It is certain that this initiative of Jesus’ Sacred Heart was not
understood and Margaret Mary’s admonitions were of no avail.
There can be no doubt of the consequences of
the refusal of kings Louis XIV through XVI to comply with Heaven’s will
regarding the consecration of France and devotion to Jesus’ Sacred Heart. One hundred years tot eh day after Margaret
Mary penned her first letter to her prioress, the French peasants, led by
atheist philosophers and Masonic anti-Church propagandists, overthrew the
Catholic monarchy and proclaimed their new National Assembly to be the
legitimate government of France. The
subsequent terror included the suppression and fanatical persecution of the
Catholic Church, the French nobility and the execution of King Louis XVI on 21
January 1793.
While the French revolution could not have happened without the well-known
injustices callously inflicted on those outside the privileged and elitist
classes within the nobility and even within the church during the eighteenth
century, one must consider how Catholic France fell to such moral, spiritual,
material and social misery.
Although
that question is beyond the scope of this talk, the texts of Heaven’s messages
to both Saint Margaret Mary and to the seers of Fatima strongly suggest that in
the century following the death of Louis XIV in 1701 France was “deprived
of the increase of extraordinary graces and miraculous help of the Sacred
Heart” and was unable to cope with the internal “frivolousness, deadly errors,
cowardice and betrayals which soon brought about its ruin.” The theological heresies, the Masonic
Counter-Church and a “satanic hatred against God, against Christ
and against His Church” were thus able to exploit the wide-spread
misery to prepare the revolution.
By a parity of reasoning the same inferences can be made regarding the
disastrous consequences for the world and for the Church of the failure of the
succession of Roman pontiffs from Pius XI to John Paul II to comply with
Heaven’s request, although there are good reason to conclude that John Paul I
would have complied, but for his sudden, tragic and mysterious death. Albino Cardianl Luciani of Venice had visited
Sister Lucia in Coimbra privately for several hours in 1977 just months before
he became Pope John Paul I. Lucia
requested the private visit after Luciani had celebrated mass for the
cloistered Carmelites, Cardinals having access to the seer without Vatican
permission.
We don’t know if or how much
of the third part of the Secret of Fatima Lucia revealed to the Cardinal, but
in early 1978 the usually jovial prelate explained his apparent pensiveness and
absorption to his brother and sister-in-law, Edoardo and Antonietta Luciani, by
saying that
“I was just thinking of what Sister Lucia told me at Coimbra…The
Secret, it’s terrible.” Luciani
held Lucia in high esteem and it is probable that he would have acted on
Heaven’s Plan for Peace, had he lived.
Given that Jesus’
“ministers”
have failed to
“heed My request” proposed at Fatima in 1917 and made at Tuy in
1929, one could conclude that they also have been
“deprived of the increase of
extraordinary graces and miraculous help” from Heaven to prevent the
“satanic
hatred agains God, against Christ and against His Church” of its
enemies, visible and invisible, within and without the Church , from
influencing pivotal decisions and initiatives that have yielded tragic consequences
for the Church and the world.
Had Pius XI or Pius XII obeyed
Heaven’s request for the consecration and First Saturday reparatory devotions
communicated through Sister Lucia in 1929, the Queen of Heaven would have been
graced to convert Russia and lead that nation to convert the world to
Christ. World War II would have been
avoided and the world would have been blessed with a period of peace. Instead Russia still spreads her errors
throughout the world, souls are lost to occultism, atheism and sin of all
kinds, and we live in a state of continuous war. Further, a sad a disappointed Jesus had
warned Lucia in 1931 that if his
“ministers” were late in performing
the consecration and leading the Church in the First Saturday reparatory
devotions, they would suffer the same fate as the Kings of France. It appears to many, including myself, that
Jesus’ warning has been and will continue to be fulfilled in the persons of our
pontiffs. Had they obeyed would not God
have blessed their sowing with super-abundant fruit and opposed the contrary
efforts of all their enemies, visible and invisible, within and without the
Church?
In making Peter and his
successors his vicars on earth Christ has irrevocably delegated to them his
authority over all people, including those in schism or accepting heretical and
even atheistic and pagan beliefs. As Leo
XIII explained in his encyclical of 25 May 1899, Annum Sacrum, the whole can be
consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
:
“Indeed the empire of Jesus Christ does
not extend to Catholic nations only…But the power of Christ extends also over
all those who live outside the Christian faith; it is thus an unquestionable
truth that the whole human race is under the power of Jesus Christ.”
With faith in Jesus our pontiffs could follow
Peter and in obedience to Heaven’s request, pay out their nets for a
catch. As Peter’s nets were filled with
fish then, today many souls would be saved, Russia would be converted and the
world would be blessed with a period of peace.
But Satan’s hand is clearly revealed working against compliance through
the complexities, betrayals and intrigues that have confronted our pontiffs
through the last century and into the present.
Pope Pius XI began his reign on 6
February 1922 by following the Ostpolitik begun by Benedict XV understandably
seeking to cooperate with the Soviet Government to mitigate the Russian misery
following the Great War and the Bolshevik revolution and to secure the safety
of both Orthodox believers and the Roman Catholic Church in Russia. In early 1930 the pontiff received but
remained incredulous to Sister Lucia’s communications of Heaven’s request for
the consecration and First Saturday devotions.
He believed that such a serious request, if from Heaven, would have been
communicated directly to him.
Moreover,
what was suggested
“seemed to him contrary to his designs.
The direction of the Church was his business – he knew, better than
anybody else, the road to follow!
But after 15 years of vainly trusting in Vatican diplomacy to accomplish
these ends amid the communist terror, genocide, persecution of the Church and
the torture and murder of thousands of priests and bishops, and imprisonment or
death of millions of the faithful, his holiness published on 19 March 1937 an
incisive encyclical against communism,
Divini Redemptoris.
After detailing the methodical persecutions
in Russia, Mexico and Spain as barbarous, intrinsically perverse and
diabolical, the pontiff repeated several times
that “communism directed by
Moscow” accomplished these atrocities which
“are the natural fruits of a
system which is lacking all interior restraints.” He concluded with an unambiguous
order to the Church:
“Communism
is intrinsically perverse, and no one who would save Christian civilization may
collaborate with it in any undertaking whatsoever.” The pontiff urged his Bishops that, following
the teaching of Christ to his apostles, they must lead the fight against
demonic Communism by fostering and intensifying
“the spirit of prayer joined with
Christian penance.”
But Satan works his mystery of
iniquity against Jesus’ Church beyond organized communism. His holiness had finally come to see the
demonic behind other enemies of the Church in the systematic attempt to drive
God from the hearts and minds of the Mexican people in the 1920’s. In 1926 the Freemason Plutarco Calles became
president. He was fanatically
anti-Catholic and determined to exterminate Catholicism by legislating and
strictly enforcing the anti-Catholic provisions of the new Constitution of
1917, and adding others of his own. In
1926, Calles regime launched a new offensive to bury the Church.
He wrote: Now there must be a psychological
revolution. We must penetrate and take
hold of the minds of the children and the youth because they must belong to the
revolution.
The Catholic schools
were shut down, the congregations expelled, Christian trade unions forbidden
numerous churches confiscated and profaned or destroyed. Public school attendance became mandatory
atheism was officially taught, and religious symbols such as medals,
crucifixes, statues and pictures were forbidden even in private. Catholic public figures were assassinated and
girls leaving church were kidnapped, imprisoned, even raped. The Archbishop of Baltimore complained that
U.S. friendship has encouraged Calles to destroy the idea of God in the minds
and hearts of millions of Mexicans. On
28 May 1926 Calles received the Masonic medal of merit from the hands of the Great
Commander of the Masonic Scottish rite in Mexico. On 12 July 1926, International Masonry
accepted
responsibility for everything that was happening in Mexico, and prepared to
mobilize all its forces for the methodic, integral application of the agreed
upon program for this country.
By 1927 hundreds of priests and
laymen had been killed and 20,000 Cristeros combatants took up arms in defense
of the faith. Their number rose to
30,000 by the end of the year, and to 50,000 by 1929. Beginning with little,
they armed themselves with captured weapons and horses. The people supplied their material needs and
the fight became a crusade! In 1927 they
defeated the government forces in several battles. By November the US military attaché’ began to
worry about the success of the “fanatics,” as 40% of them were now equipped
with captured Mauser rifles. The
Cristiada was a succession of miracles.
In 1928 Mexico’s rural population
was sent to concentration camps where famine and epidemics decimated them. Those who resisted were massacred.
Harvests and flocks were seized, grazing
land burned, and villages destroyed by the thousands. Despite this scorched earth policy the
Cristeros stood fast like latter-day Maccabees.
By 1929, Cristeros victories forced
the government to abandon the rural war.
Three-fourths of inhabitable Mexico was in the hands of the
Cristeros. They had won military
victory, and in the United States Herbert Hoover, who was not a Mason, was
elected president! Then the Cristeros
learned that secret negotiations between the Mexican government and the Vatican
had relulted in an accord. On 21 June
the Mexican episcopate signed
a resolution of the conflict with
the ruling power. The accord provided
for immediate, unconditional cease fire and the resumption of the public
worship began the next day. It restored
the same situation that prevailed in 1926 with all the anti-Catholic laws then
in effect, including the registration of priests! In the text, the Cristeros were called fanatics
directed by a few third-rate priests; their revolt was an error, imprudent,
even a sin. They must lay down their
arms under pain of excommunication…
The commander in chief of the Cristeros, Jesus Degollado, addressed his
troops in a voice breaking with sorrow:
His Holiness the Pope, by the intermediary
of the most excellent Apostolic Nuncio, has decided, for reasons which are
unknown to us but which, as Catholics, we accept, that public worship will be
resumed tomorrow without the law being changed…This arrangement…has wrested
from us that which is most noble and most holy on our flag, at the moment when
the Church has declared that she will resign herself to what she has
obtained…Consequently, the National Guard assumes responsibility for the
conflict…As for ourselves as men, we have a satisfaction that no one can take
from us; the National Guard does not disappear defeated by its enemies, but
rather abandoned by the very ones who were to be the first to receive the fruit
of our sacrifices and abnegation! Ave,
Christ! Those who for You are going to
humiliation, to exile, and, perhaps, to an inglorious death,…with the most
fervent love salute You, and once more proclaim You as King of our country.
Six thousand Cristeros obeyed, and were immediately massacred. In three years, they had lost 5,000 men in
combat! The Mexican episcopate decreed
the excommunication of the Cristeros priests, but those 180 who had not been
killed during the war had already been martyred…all was lost.
The new president, the Masonic lawyer Fortes Gil, rejoiced. At the summer solstice banquet he
acknowledged his astonishment at the unconditional capitulation of a victorious
army, and stated his intention to continue the fight: The fight did not begin
yesterday. The fight is eternal. The fight began 20 centuries ago.(Adapted
from M. Olivier Lelibre, The Cristeros,
Catholic Soldiers of Christ)
By 1935 Pius XI had earned by bitter experience that it was the same
enemy of God and his Church that drove both the communists in Europe and the
Freemasons in Mexico. After Divini
Redemptoris it was unthinkable for any in the Church to collaborate
with communism or freemasonry in any undertaking whatsoever.
Following the aging pontiff’s death his Secretary of State, Eugenio
Cardinal Pacelli, was elected to succeed him on 2 March 1939, taking the name
Pius XII. Pope Pacelli had learned on
the job the reality of communism. But
after Adolph Hitler led his Nazis to attack Russia on 22June 1941 the pontiff
was required to temper his leadership against communism at least partly because
the American President, freemason Franklin Delano Roosevelt, pressured him that
Stalin was needed as an ally against Hitler. On 3 Sept 1941 Roosevelt urged Pius XII that
the Soviets had changed for the better:
The churches in Russia are open. I believe there is a real possibility that
Russia may, as a result of the present conflict, recognize freedom of religion
in Russia, although, of course, without recognition of any official
intervention on the part of any Church in education or political matters within
Russia…I believe that this Russian dictatorship is less dangerous to the safety
of other nations than is the German form of dictatorship.
Because communism was founded on atheism and hatred for Christ, Pius
knew it was an enemy of His Church with whom accord or coexistence was possible
and after the war he strictly forbade any Vatican relations with it. Pius XII
died of a lingering illness on 9 October 1958 and Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was
elected Pope John XXIII on 28 October. John XXIII immediately reversed the
direction of Pius XII politically by enthusiastically embracing Ostpolitik,
or dialoguing with the Communist eastern European countries, and theologically
by introducing what he considered to be a vital aggorimento, or updating of the Church to adapt to modern times.
On 17 August 1959 Pope John received an envelope containing the third
part of the Secret of Fatima which he read several times both on his own and
with the help of Portuguese translators.
Its contents were shared with the leaders of the Holy Office, the
Secretariat of State, and a few others.
He said he preferred to leave to others the appraisal of it, writing
only a personal note that was resealed it in the envelope with Lucia’s letter
and kept on his writing table until his death.
In fact by withholding the long-awaited and eagerly anticipated third
part of the Secret from the Church and the world Pope John had de
facto judged it unworthy of publication. The consequences of that papal decision are
incalculable, but surely include a further loss “of extraordinary graces and
miraculous help” so desperately needed to guide the Church in its
conflict with those forces, visible and invisible, that are led by Satan’s
cunning.
On 25 November 1961 the pontiff received birthday greetings from the
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev praising his recent expressions of hope for
world peace “as well as to the solution of international problems thanks to frank
negotiations.” In joyful
response Pope John privately expressed his belief that “Something is moving in the
world. The Lord is using the humble instrument that I am to budge history. Today we have had a sign of Divine
Providence.”
Pope John felt inspired to call for a new ecumenical council that he
hoped would be the occasion for a new springtime, a “New Pentecost” in the
Church, to which he, ardently desired that members of the Russian Orthodox
Church attend. To that end Cardinal
Eugene Tisserant for the Vatican and Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Nikodim for
the Soviet Union concluded the “Vatican-Moscow Agreement” or “Metz Pact”
at Metz, France on 18 August 1962.
In
consideration of the Soviets sending two Russian Orthodox observers to the
council, the Vatican agreed tha the Second Vatican Council would abstain from
any consideration of Communism and Russia.
“Ever since that time the Holy See considers itself as still bound by
the engagements taken by John XXIII.
Communism is no longer ever mentioned by name in any pontifical
document.”
On 11 October 1962 Pope John opened his council with a joyful and upbeat
address, but included an explicit rejection of warnings such as those of Sister
Lucia:
“We feel that We must disagree with these prophets of doom, who are always
forecasting worse disasters, as though the end of the world were at hand.” Tragically, the prophet to which he refers is
not Sister Lucia to whom she appeared and spoke, but the “Woman clothed with the sun,” our
August Queen of heaven and earth, of angels and men!
On 11 April 1963 John XXIII signed Pacem in Terris, his internationalist
encyclical on World Peace, in which “he officially recognized the ‘charter of
the rights of man’ of the United Nations, and he extolled a world community, of
liberty equality and fraternity” wherein ideal societies of the future
would “constructed on the good will of all men. And at the same time, the Pope practically
lifted the prohibition of collaborating with the communists.” Moreover, he wrote that such collaboration
“may possibly provide the occasion or even the incentive for their conversion
to the truth. “
Pope John here
officially promoted collaboration with Communists, accepting them as reasonable
men of natural moral integrity. He might
have said the same of Freemasonry. It appears that the pontiff here fails to
fully grasp or appreciate the demonic spirit and the perverse nature of a
totalitarian system such as communism, by whatever name it may call itself from
time to time that demands the unconditional and uncompromising personal
commitment of a de facto religion. This
is surely because of the diabolical disorientation of the mystery of
iniquity. That is why we must pray for
our Pope as never before, or I believe errors will continue.
One cannot logically separate a
communist from the errors of communism by whatever name they may call
themselves as if a communist or a freemason were merely an atheist with strong
socialistic or intellectual convictions.
For a communist believes the ultimate good is the dictatorship of the
proletariat, or other totalitarian regime, and all means that achieve that end
are good. Morally-ethical categories are replaced by political expediency. As Harry and Bonaro Overstreet reported in
their seminal study of communism in 1958, the necessary lie, slander,
intimidation of the masses, and the liquidation of oppositional groups and
hostile classes must not only be obediently carried out, but conscientiously
accepted as the right thing to do by party members. In 1957 Margarita Aliger confessed during a
conference of Soviet writers in Moscow that she had sometimes substituted “morally-ethical
categories for political categories…[whereas] All the work of a Soviet writer
is political work, and to accomplish it honorably is possible only when one
follows firmly the party line and party discipline.” Hence, moral integrity consists in total
personal dedication to use all means, including deception, liquidation,
imprisonment, violence and terror, to achieve the ultimate good. A party member is forbidden to love his
enemies and is obligated to define as enemies “all who are outside the
ideological pale.” Cannot the same be said of the Freemason Calles
in Mexico in the 1920’s?
In the late 1962 Pope Roncalli suffered a severe hemorrhage. On 17 May 1963 he was confined to bed and on
3 June he died, setting the stage for a new conclave to choose his
successor. Giovanni Battista Montini was
chosen and took the name of Paul VI.
From his coronation as Paul VI on 21 June 1963 Pope Paul eagerly pursued
communications with Russian communists, receiving in private audiences both of
the Russian Orthodox observers to the Second Vatican Council.
Pope Paul published his first
encyclical, Ecclesiam Suam, on 6 August 1964, while Vatican II was still in
session, “to demonstrate with increasing clarity how vital it is for the world,
and how greatly desired by the Catholic Church, that the two should meet
together, and get to know and love one another…Our task is to serve society.” While Pope Paul clearly articulated the
perverse nature of atheistic communism, but not Freemasonry; he held to his
conviction that future dialogue may be possible. If this was a consequence of
diabolical disorientation do we all not share responsibility to pray
for our Pope and because of our sins? On
15 September 1964 Monsignor Agostino Casaroli signed an agreement for Paul VI with the communist Hungarian
government which stipulated that Bishops named by Rome would be sworn “to
the people and the constitution” of the communist state, followed by
similar modus Vivendi with Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, East Germany and
Bulgaria. On 30 January 1967 Pope Paul
met privately in the Vatican with Soviet President Nicolas Podgorny accompanied
by Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs, Andrei Gromyko. By 1975 the pope and Gromyko had met
privately several additional times.
Nevertheless:
In the 1970’s the Bolshevist persecution against Catholics did not
diminish at all. One could read the
following observations in the ‘Chronicles of the Catholic Church in Lithuania:
‘It seems to us that a dialogue with the Church is needed by the Soviet authority
only so that the Vatican will keep silence about the persecution of Catholics
in the USSR in hope of a betterment of the faithful’s situation.
The dialogue is being used to deceive world public opinion that in the
USSR freedom of religion is preserved.
The blood of thousands of Catholic
Bishops, priests, nuns, brothers and millions of the faithful in communist
totalitarian regimes were witnesses to this reality.
Thus it appears that the
extraordinary graces promised by the Madonna at Fatima were as desperately
needed by Jesus’ vicars in the 20th Century as by the French
monarchs in the 100 years leading to the godless revolution that dragged Louis
XVI and countless others including bishops, priests and religious to the
guillotine.
On the eve of the closing of session two of the Second Vatican Council,
3 December 1963, Bishop de Proenca, Sigaud delivered to the Cardinal Secretary
of State petitions to the pope by 200 Council Fathers for a special schema to
address “errors of Marxism, Socialism and Communism” which were
ignored.
In October 1964 Bishop Yu Pin,
Rector of the Catholic University at Formosa, demanded minimally, on behalf of
70 Bishops, a solemn declaration on Communism, which was ignored. On 9 October1965 Bishop de Proenca Sigaud and
Bishop Marcel Lefebvre delivered the petition of 334 bishops to the council’s
secretariat general “demanding condemnation of Communism” which was put aside! “Everyone knew of the existence of that
petition.” It is fair to
conclude that, per the Vatican-Moscow agreement at Metz, the issues of
Communism and Russia were withheld from the consideration of the Council
Fathers.
Any inspiration of the Council Fathers by the Holy Spirit on the grave
moral issues of the effects of Communist totalitarianism o the church and souls
in communist regimes was thereby purposely foreclosed by those who expected a
new springtime and a new Pentecost within the Church. Can one be surprised that it did not
happen? That : “Instead the dark and frigid
winter arrived.”
It is probable that Ostpolitik
and the Vatican-Moscow agreement, the fear of provoking a formal schism within
the church, the fear of exasperating relations with the schismatic Orthodox
churches and the Chinese Patriotic church were factors in John Paul II’s belief
expressed on 1 August 1984 to
Father Pierre Caillon, a retired professor of philosophy and an expert on the
question of the papal consecration of Russia, that he could not consecrate
Russia apart by itself alone, but that Heaven would be satisfied that he had
done all that could be done in the practical circumstances.
One can only speculate what additional
factors may have influenced the aging pontiff’s acquiescence to the publication
of the Vatican’s The Message of Fatima on 26 June 2000 asserting that John
Paul’s consecration of the world in 1984 had fully complied with the Virgin’s
request for the consecration of Russia at Fatima in 1917. But it is clear that the consequences of the
acceptance of the Vatican’s The Message of Fatima by the Church
to date have included the removal of the entrustment of the Conversion of
Russia and World Peace to the Immaculate Heart of Mary by Heaven, from the mind
and heart of the Church, thereby frustrating the implementation of Heaven’s
plan for this final conflict with Satan and leaving the Church to human
initiatives.
This first talk will consider the accuracy of the claims in the
Vatican’s The Message of Fatima that: (1) Sister Lucia has confirmed in a
private letter that the 1984 consecration of the world to the Immaculate Heart
of Mary by Pope John Paul II completely fulfilled the Birgin’s request at
Fatima that he with his bishops solemnly consecrate Russia to the Immaculate
Heart of Mary, and that heaven had accepted that consecration; and (2) that the
vision shown to the seers of a bishop dressed in white, like a pope, leading a
procession of bishops, priests, religious and lay people through a ruined city,
stepping over many corpses, up a hill to a cross where all are shot and killed
by soldiers, is the complete 3rd Part of the Fatima Secret.
It will argue from the historical record that
since 1960 the Vatican’s Ostpolitik and diplomatic and social
justice initiatives, like those proclaimed in Pacem in Terris, have failed to
accomplish the conversion of Russia, to bring peace to the world, or any
significant betterment in human behavior that would evidence the conversion of
sinners’ hearts and minds to Christ; and that while significant blessings in
the form of reductions of the tribulation of WWII and the Cold War have been
obtained by the consecrations of the world to the Immaculate Heart by both Pius
XII and John Paul II, “how much greater would they have been had
the Madonna been heeded?”
By all appearances the publication of the Message of Fatima in 2000
has succeeded in removing Mary’s 1917 requests at Fatima for the Consecration
of Russia and the First Saturday reparatory devotions from the heart and mind
of most of the Church. That period has
seen the 9-11 destruction of the world Trade Center towers in New York City,
ongoing tension between the Koreas, wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria,
Israel and Egypt, a real threat of nuclear war between Israel and Iran, and the
ongoing genocide of Sudanese Catholics by Muslim militias, increasing military
competition between the United States and Communist China and growing mutual
mistrust between Russia and china and the West.
Part II will argue that it is ludicrous to maintain that the
consecration of Russia has been done as asked by Heaven at Fatima, or that the Ostpolitik
of the Vatican or any efforts by the United Nations have brought about
peace. Rather, the Church is in the
endgame of its final conflict with Satan.
There is not time for business as usual by the church as if there were
endless centuries to work for Christ.
Heaven has given the Holy Father and his Bishops specific orders at
Fatima. They are not optional.
Part II will conclude by arguing
that the 3rd part of the Fatima Secret contains an explanation of the
vision shown to the seers warning of dangers to the faith, apostasy within the
Church beginning from the top, and unimaginably severe punishments from God
that have been prophesied by the Blessed Mother at Fatima, Garabandal and
Akita. We in the Church must daily fast
and pray to support Pope Benedict XVI as he prayerfully contemplates the
promises and warnings of the three parts of the Message of Fatima within the
prophetic context of Garabandal and Akita, and to defeat his enemies, visible
and invisible, who work against him, within and without Christ’s Church!
Maranatha! Come, Lord
Jesus!
End of Part I
