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Fr. Gruner~The 3 Stages of Our Lady’s Triumph in the Light of St. John Bosco’s Vision

The Three Stages of Our Lady’s Triumph
in the Light of St. John Bosco’s Dramatic Vision

Father Nicholas Gruner

Our Lady has promised unconditionally that “In the end, [Her] Immaculate Heart will triumph.”

This triumph will occur in three stages. The first stage is indicated by Her next words, "The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to Me."

The Consecration of Russia is the first stage of Our Lady’s triumph.

We have been in this stage, as it were, for ninety years. The Consecration will be done, we know, but as we see, it will be late. Sister Lucy has told us that we will be in this stage, awaiting Our Lady’s intervention, while the errors of Russia continue to spread throughout the world, until the Consecration is performed.

God's design at Fatima is to save the world through devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, but He also wills that the pastors of His Church be the ones who solemnly establish this devotion, using their divine authority. He has put this in their power, so, by choosing to do nothing about Our Lady’s requests, or even to completely ignore the Message of Fatima, they have had it in their power also for all these years to delay God’s will from being realized.

Now it’s a fairly common temptation for a person to say in a situation like this, “Well it’s really not my fault; it’s that person over there. He should have done his job, and if he did his job or if she did her job, then I could do my job. But until they do their job my hands are clean; I don’t have to do anything.”

No. Our Lady is asking something from each of us now to bring about this stage of Her triumph. Our prayers and our sacrifices for this intention are of the first importance. Each of us has been given an important work in this task. We must all do our part, and that includes using the influence that God has given us, wherever we are, to reach others with the Blessed Virgin’s Message, so they can be doing their part better, too.

The second stage of the triumph of the Immaculate Heart will follow quickly when the first stage is completed, and that second stage is the conversion of Russia. Our Lady promised that when Russia is consecrated, it will be converted. Unlike the present stage, there will be no delay in the second stage. It will take less than a couple of years. Russia’s conversion will be brought about by means of its Consecration, and the cause and effect relationship of the second stage following from the first, will be clear to all.

And then in the third stage, shortly after Russia has converted, peace will be given to the world.

In the prophetic visions of St. John Bosco, we see that the Pope will not consecrate Russia until Russia invades the West. St. John Bosco had a vision of the Russian armies in France, and they have not been there yet in this century (during the last one hundred years). They will be marching, as it were, under a black standard or a black flag when they come into Europe. They will not come as friends. They will come as a punishment of God upon the guilty nations of the world.

But while they are in France, their standard will turn from black to white. That moment will be when Russia has been consecrated and it has converted. The Russian armies then will stay in France and Western Europe, not as enemies but as friends, to defend Europe from the invasion from the South.

As St. John Bosco summarizes his dream, "Salvation is from the North (meaning the Russian armies); danger is from the South (meaning the Islamic armies).

The Russians will stay there, when they are converted, and defeat the Islamic armies and save Europe. So the promise of peace is not something we expect to be instantaneous after the Consecration of Russia, but it will come shortly after.

From the Fatima Center website

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