The Message of Fatima, 2016 - Return to Fatima
The Message of Fatima is both a warning and a promise. In 1917, between May 13 and October 13, the Queen of Heaven appeared 6 times to three shepherd children in a small village near Fatima, Portugal in order to warn of impending chastisement and offer mankind a sure way of safety and peace. Most Catholics today believe that the Message of Fatima has been relegated to the past and no longer pertains to this modern church, which is so focused on social justice and ecology issues. They are wrong.
Awaiting the Church’s Obedience to the Mother of God
“From now on we must choose sides. Either we are for God or we are for the devil. There is no other possibility.”
The oldest of the shepherd children of Fatima, Lucia explained the message of Fatima to Father Fuentes years later:
“Father, the Most Holy Virgin did not tell me that we are in the last times of the world, but She made me understand this for three reasons.”
“The first reason is because She told me that the devil is in the mood for engaging in a decisive battle against the Virgin. And a decisive battle is the final battle where one side will be victorious and the other side will suffer defeat. Also, from now on we must choose sides. Either we are for God or we are for the devil. There is no other possibility.“
“The second reason is because She said to my cousins as well as to myself, that God is giving two last remedies to the world. These are the Holy Rosary and devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. These are the last two remedies which signify that there will be no others.”
“The third reason is because in the plans of Divine Providence, God always, before He is about to chastise the world, exhausts all other remedies. Now, when He sees that the world pays no attention whatsoever, then as we say in our imperfect manner of speaking, He offers us with certain fear the last means of salvation, His Most Holy Mother. It is with certain fear because if you despise and repulse this ultimate means, we will not have any more forgiveness from Heaven, because we will have committed a sin which the Gospel calls the sin against the Holy Ghost. This sin consists of openly rejecting, with full knowledge and consent, the salvation which He offers. Let us remember that Jesus Christ is a very good Son and that He does not permit that we offend and despise His Most Holy Mother. We have recorded through many centuries of Church history the obvious testimony which demonstrates by the terrible chastisements which have befallen those who have attacked the honor of His Most Holy Mother, how Our Lord Jesus Christ has always defended the honor of His Mother.”
The message of Fatima is then that we are now in a life or death struggle, even though most people are oblivious. As Sister Lucia warns us, “we must choose sides. Either we are for God or we are for the devil. There is no other possibility.” Where do you stand?
The purpose of this blog is to call Catholics to return to Fatima. Re-examine the message given to us by the Blessed Virgin Mary. Remove the blinders that are making you think that Fatima was “a long time ago, and is no longer relevant”.
What did Our Lady of Fatima ask for?
At Fatima, the Blessed Virgin did not ask extraordinary things. Essentially, her requests were for prayer (Rosary) and reparation, much as the Old Testament prophets and Jesus’ own demands that the Israelites repent. What she asks is:
- The daily recitation of the Rosary, “o terzo”, Portuguese for one third of the Rosary.
- Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
- Practice of the devotion of First Saturdays of Reparation.
- The consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart.
Several strong signs were given to the popes to point them towards Fatima’s message: Pope Pius XII was consecrated a Bishop on the same date that Our Blessed Mother first appeared at Fatima, May 13, 1917, and he was given his very own apparition related to Fatima when between October 30 and November 8, 1950, he witnessed the sun appear to dance. (See here) Pope John Paul II, who was the only pope to experience first hand the errors of Russia, barely survived an assassination attempt on May 13, 1981. Although these popes appeared to understand the connection with Fatima, they did not go so far as to actually obey Our Lady’s commands by consecrating Russia to her Immaculate Heart in the way she commanded it.
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE CONSECRATION OF RUSSIA
The Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, if it were properly done by the Pope in unison with the Bishops of the Church would serve several purposes.
- It is an act that must be initiated and commanded by the Pope personally, therefore it would correct the Vatican II error of collegiality.
- It would assert the Pope’s authority over Russia, thus correcting the Orthodox schism.
- Such an act would indicate the mediation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, thus correcting Vatican II’s error of false ecumenism with protestant heretics.
- The Consecration of Russia as requested by the Blessed Virgin indicates the goal of conversion of Russia to the true faith, thus correcting the Vatican II error of religious liberty.
- If the Pope were to promote the devotion of the First Saturdays it would provide a strong instruction to the world that sin offends God and that we must pray and make reparation to prevent souls from falling into hell. What an excellent teaching against the pernicious heresy of the neo-modernist theology that is devastating the Church!
- The Consecration of Rome can only be done by a chastened, penitent Pope, one who has learned the hard way of the futility of following a religion of man. This is in stark contrast to the shallow arrogance exemplified by the current Pope of the Twitterverse and his encyclical on climate change.
Fatima’s message is more relevant today than it ever was. When Pope John XXIII refused to release the message that Our Lady commanded be released in the year 1960, the world experienced a spiritual shock: the Vicar of Christ on earth refusing to obey the Mother of Christ. Never before in history has such a thing happened.
And thus began the Chastisement.
The initial chastisement was the result of the spiritual blindness which descended upon the pope and hierarchy following their willful disobedience. When one separates himself from God by mortal sins, the darkened reason is unable to discern the correct path and stumbles into error and folly. Vatican II and its poisonous fruits, which caused unprecedented abandonment of religious vocations and the loss of faith and Catholic identity of entire nations was the fruit of this spiritual ignorance which descended upon the Church.
When God chastens us, He is merciful; indeed, His mercy and His justice are inseparable. The initial chastisement of the catastrophic Second Vatican Council could have been mitigated. If only the Pope had seen the noxious results for what they were and repented, his repentance would have brought down God’s mercy.
But the hearts of the popes were hardened in their sin and they have persisted in disobedience of Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Mother. The result has been an unmitigated disaster for the Catholic Faith. Now, with Pope Francis, we have descended into subterranean depths of disobedience against God’s laws. This darkness and spiritual desolation cannot be dispelled by human means.
God’s own Most Holy Mother is the last means of salvation we are offered. Until Catholics return to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, with humility, repentance and obedience, the Chastisement will continue to unfold, bringing with it ever more severe spiritual desolation, a desolation which will soon reach proportions never before seen, with nations destroyed and such physical calamities that those who survive them will envy the dead.
In his last Fatima update, Father Gruner of the Fatima Center related that when he had recently spoken with Father Gabriel Amorth, the world’s foremost exorcist, Father Amorth told him that unless the Pope and Bishops consecrate Russia as requested by the end of October, the Chastisement will occur soon after. This indicates a relationship with the Pope’s plans for the final Synod of October, 2015.
We are now seeing the toxic results of that Synod’s agenda throughout the Church. At the current rate of acceleration, it seems likely that we may soon see what was foretold by Sister Lucia:
” the point of a lance like a flame … touches the axis of the earth”
‘In time, one faith, one baptism, one Church, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic. In eternity, Heaven!’
“I felt my spirit inundated by a mystery of light that is God and in Him I saw and heard: the point of a lance like a flame that is detached, touches the axis of the earth, and it trembles: mountains, cities, towns and villages with their inhabitants are buried. The sea, the rivers, the clouds, exceed their boundaries, inundating and dragging with them, in a vortex, houses and people in a number that cannot be counted. It is the purification of the world from the sin in which it is immersed. Hatred, ambition, provoke the destructive war. After I felt my racing heart, in my spirit a soft voice said: ‘In time, one faith, one baptism, one Church, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic. In eternity, Heaven!’ This word ‘Heaven’ filled my heart with peace and happiness in such a way that, almost without being aware of it, I kept repeating to myself for a long time: Heaven, Heaven.” (Antonio Socci).
ISIS has threatened to raise their hateful flag over the Vatican, and they appear intent in carrying through on all their despicable agenda, so it is not beyond the bounds of reason that the Chastisement may include God’s unleashing the terrible forces of nature (as in the above scenario) and an islamist attack on the Vatican, which could end with the familiar “Bishop in White” at the foot of the cross, as foretold in the released portion of the Third Secret.
We know that in the end, Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart will triumph; the only question that remains is will we choose to be with her, will we take the steps necessary to be on the winning side?
What steps are called for at this late hour? How can we return to the message of Fatima?
- By our personal acts of Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and to the Immaculate Heart of His Dear Mother, Our Lady.
- By our daily rosary for the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and through her, of Christ the King.
- By our daily sacrifices in loving reparation for sins against the Sacred and Eucharistic Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate and Sorrowful Heart of Mary.
- By wearing of Our Lady’s own Scapular of Mount Carmel.
- By practicing the devotion of the First Saturdays of Reparation.
- By promoting the entire Message of Fatima by example and by sharing the information regarding these devotions and the Message of Fatima with others.
- And lastly by always seeking to be informed and knowledgeable regarding the doctrines and practices of the Faith and the ways they are being threatened and undermined today by enemies within and without the Church.
Take every opportunity to read more about Fatima and its true message. Subscribe to the Fatima Center’s newsletter. John Vennari’s Catholic Family News is a wonderful source for all things related to Fatima, true Catholic teaching and Vatican II. John Salza’s site is also a good, reliable site for Catholic truth. The links on the sidebar offer a reliable source of Catholic news and information.
If at all possible, get to know other true Catholics. and above all, spread the word!
All that is left is for us to draw close to the Immaculate Heart of the Mother of God and trust in her merciful love, which will never fail us. Let us strive to save our souls and all those souls who have been entrusted to us.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, be our salvation, now and at the hour of our death!
Vouchsafe that I may praise thee, O Sacred Virgin! Give me strength against thine enemies!
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