INTRODUCTION:
THE FALSE POPE, THE FALSE PROPHET, THE
SECOND BEAST OF THE APOCALYPSE!
With the resignation of Pope Benedict,
some say, and rightly so, to not exaggerate, or imagine or fabricate
many things letting the mind run away. They say that God will not
abandon us and that He will provide, which is true. But many times
there is an underlying attitude of this flowery hope that the
providence of God means the exclusion of great suffering and even
great disasters. It is true that, as Christians, we must always have
hope. But many confuse divine hope with human hope in which we do not
have to go through Calvary with our Head, Jesus! There is Christian
Hope after the crucifixion!
Pope John Paul II warns us: “We
are standing before today the greatest fight that humanity has ever
seen. I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY HAS TOTALLY
UNDERSTOOD THIS. We are TODAY before the FINAL CONFRONTATION between
the Church and the anti-Church, between the Gospel and the
anti-Gospel”.
POPE JOHN PAUL II SAID TO A GROUP OF
PILGRIMS IN FULDA, WEST GERMANY, in November 1980, speaking about the
secrets of Fatima, that: “We have to be prepared to suffer, before
long, great trials which will require of us the disposition to
sacrifice even our life for Christ. Through your prayers and mine,
it is still possible to diminish this trial (predicted at Fatima),
but it is no longer possible to avert it, because only in this manner
can the Church be effectively renewed. How many times has the
renewal of the Church been brought about in blood! It will not be
different this time.”
PRECISELY BECAUSE SO FEW PEOPLE ARE
PRAYING, THE REALITY TODAY IS NOT TOO NICE. Some want to accuse me of
being a pessimist, but I believe that I am rather a realist. I am not
the type to look at today’s reality with rose-colored glasses. Some
of my friends have put me in the category of half crazy, with the
apocalyptic mentality, but they put up with me because there is a
scarcity of priests today.
Jesus said: "This generation will
not pass away till all these things take place” (Mt 24:34; Mk
13:30; Lk 21:32). There are a great number of indications and signs
from the saints, the popes and from the messages of Our Lady that we
are “this generation” which Christ referred to in Matthew 24. I
believe that our “generation” will witness the most underhanded,
sly and devastating deception of Satan in the history of the world
and of the Church. The true Christians, who will be ever more in the
minority and further away from the prevailing relativistic and
secularistic mentality, in this situation in which the False Pope
offers “a religion without a cross”, will
be more and more persecuted by those who embrace this false and
comfortable Christianity, and these apostates will end up killing as
many true Christians as possible to soothe or rather vindicate their
dead consciences given over to the “father of lies”. (Jn 8:44).
I think also that
THIS FRAUD WILL BE DONE AS SMOOTHLY AS POSSIBLE, as hidden as
possible, so as to fool as many people as possible. As Saint
Hildegard wrote (who was made a doctor of the Church only a few
months ago!!! (October 7, 2012..)):
“two-thirds of the Christians will go with him” (the false
Pope, the false prophet, the second beast of the Apocalypse)! I do
not believe that it is by chance that Hildegard was proclaimed a
Doctor of the Church in this very particular period of the history of
the Church! Forewarned is forearmed!
This attitude to label me, as well as
listening to the reaction of the priests about the resignation of the
Pope here in Italy, makes me realize more and more that many priests
consider themselves as an equal with the Vicar of Christ; many
priests do not have the eyes of faith to believe that God has given
the Pope a very special charism for the Church, a true gift! It is
like the Pope has his opinion and I have mine, enough said. So many
priests have the attitude of putting up with Pope Benedict hoping
that the next Pope will think as they do! They just might get their
wish very soon in a way that they never imagined, in their “wisdom
and intelligence”, in a deception better masked and disguised than
ever before by perhaps the most intelligent creature ever created! I
think that this vacancy (while a “Judas Iscariot” will be in
control of the Vatican) of the true head of the Body of Christ on
earth, the Vicar Pastor, the Pope, so ignored, disobeyed and despised
in the last 50 years not only by the left side of the spectrum
(ignore or disobey) but also by the right side of the spectrum
(prideful rebellion), will be a great just punishment not only for
the whole Church but for the whole world; the world which is
intrinsically connected with all of creation, goes forward or
backward depending on the behavior and choices of those who have
received much more from God in this “cosmic battle” (as Pope John
Paul II put it), the lay Catholics, the priests and the bishops of
the One True Church, the Catholic Church! Pope Paul VI was so
devastated by the reaction to Humanae Vitae that he said, referring
to the situation in the Church, “FROM SOME CREVICE, THE SMOKE OF
SATAN HAS ENTERED THE TEMPLE OF GOD” (June 29, 1972), and he did
not write another encyclical after Humanae Vitae (1968)!
Is it not in our egotistical times, in
the “culture of death” (Evangelium Vitae), that we hear shouted
and promoted in the mass media the prophecy of Jesus (the eighth
“Station of the Cross”): “For behold, the days are coming when
they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never
bore, and the breast that never gave suck!’ Then they will begin to
say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us’; and to the hills, ‘Cover
us.’ (“The survivors will find themselves so
desolate that they will envy the dead.” - Akita). For if
they do this when the wood is green (when all is easy in wellbeing
and richness; no sacrifice in giving life, procreation (Gen 1:28), as
God did in creating us!), what will happen when it is dry?” (Lk
23:29-31). In the past this prophecy was often applied to the women
of Jerusalem, those who had compassion for Jesus in His great
sufferings for us.
It is rather interesting that these
priests and others who easily label me into a certain category are
not interested in having a dialogue with me so as to seek the truth
together, each one offering the information and insights that he has
discovered and received. Pope John Paul II very often repeated the
importance of dialogue, dialogue, dialogue! But when one is open to
dialogue there is the risk of discovering something outside of our
own heads (humility!) challenging us to change our idea or even our
life and then suffer the consequences.
Recently (after the announcement of the
Pope’s resignation) a woman expressed her indignation about a
recent nomination for an important position in the Vatican. SHE
WANTED TO PUT ALL THE BLAME ON POPE BENEDICT. I said to her that I am
not up to date on all of these things but that there are more than
one out of twelve “Judas Iscariots” in the Vatican and in the
Church today. What can the Pope do when so few recognize his
important office and vocation given to him by God and thus do not pay
attention to what he says or disobey him outright? Do we obey the
Church and the Pope that Christ left us as a gift so as to be a part
of the solution or do we only criticize the Church and the Pope so as
to contribute to the problem? It usually feels good inside to
criticize others in a non constructive way; sin is attractive and the
easier way! It takes only a few to destroy, but many to build. It
took many people and many years to build the Twin Towers but only a
few minutes to bring down the Twin Towers! Many people today are fond
of criticizing but how many are willing to pray and offer themselves
in persevering sacrificial love, courageously but with true humility,
to defend, protect and build up the Spouse of Christ, the Church?
(“Constructive Or
Destructive Criticism”;
http://god-politics.blogspot.it/2012/09/constructive-or-destructive-criticism.html).
I am not surprised
by this attitude after having read: “A
Manuscript On Purgatory.” In this booklet Sister Gabriel in
purgatory said to Sister Mary of the Cross: “If only it were
given you to understand with what scorn and indifference Jesus is
treated on earth, not only by the world in general, but how He is
insulted, mocked and held in derision even by those who ought to love
Him. Such indifference is found even in religious communities of men
and women, His chosen people, where He ought to be treated as a
Friend, a Father, a spouse. Often He does not even receive the
consideration shown to a stranger. This indifference is found also
among the clergy, at present more than at any other time. HE IS
TREATED AS AN EQUAL BY THOSE WHO SHOULD TREMBLE at the thought of the
awful and august mission with which they have been entrusted. The
most sacred reality is often treated with coldness and boredom. How
many are there who have the interior spirit? I can assure you that
there are but a few. Here in Purgatory the priests who are expiating
their indifference and their want of love are numerous. Their
culpable negligence must be atoned for in the midst of fire and
torture of all kinds. You can judge from this that God who is so good
and loving to all His creatures finds few who love and console Him.
Alas, there are few. That is the sorrow of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,
the ingratitude of His own. Yet His Sacred Heart is full of
overflowing love and seeks only to share it. He wants to find some
souls bereft of self so as to overpower them with His love, more than
He has as yet done for anyone. Oh, how little Jesus is understood on
earth, and how little are His mercy and His love understood! People
try to seek everything except that which gives real happiness. How
pitiable!”
(“A Manuscript On Purgatory”;
http://purgatory-manu.blogspot.com).
“Oh, what pain it causes my heart
when I see a nun who has not the religious spirit! How can one be
pleasing to God when one is INFLATED WITH PRIDE AND SELF-LOVE UNDER
THE PRETENSE OF STRIVING FOR GOD’S GLORY, while in fact one is
seeking one’s own glory? When I see such a thing, it gives me very
great pain. How can such a soul be united closely with God? Union
with the Lord is out of the question here” (Diary, 1139).
“On several occasions, I have learned
how some religious defend their own glory under the pretext of being
concerned for the glory of God, whereas it is NOT A QUESTION OF THE
GLORY OF GOD, BUT OF GLORY OF SELF. O Jesus, how painful this has
been for me! What secrets the day of Your judgment will bring to
light! How can one steal God’s gifts?” (Diary, 1149).
The Lord said to Saint Faustina: “I
have wanted to exalt this Congregation many times, but I am unable to
do so because of its pride. Know, My daughter, that I do not grant My
graces to proud souls, and I even take away from them the graces I
have granted” (Diary, 1170).
Prophetic private revelations are so
important that Satan seeks in every way to diminish their
divulgation, influence and effect. In 1882,
Christ revealed to the stigmatist, Marie Julie Jahenny of La
Fraudais, France that: "In
the last days, a seemingly unlimited amount of FALSE REVELATIONS will
arise from hell like a swarm of flies; a last attempt of Satan to
choke and to destroy the efficacy of the TRUE REVELATIONS by false
ones."
This revelation of
Jesus to Marie Julie indicates
that these revelations are important enough for Satan to try to
diminish their effectiveness in helping to convert souls. But this
also indicates that there are many false revelations and thus one
must be wise and prudent especially in regards to recent revelations
in which the proper Church authorities have not made any
pronouncement yet. There are some who have the tendency to believe in
every private revelation, and then there are others who want to
condemn every private revelation a priori. One must struggle each day
to discern and to discover the truth. Virtue lies between the two
extremes as Saint Thomas tells us. Usually it is easier to go toward
one extreme or the other.
St. John also tells us:
“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see
whether they are of God: for many false prophets have gone out into
the world” (1Jn 4:1).
THERE ARE SOME CATHOLICS AND CATHOLIC
GROUPS WHO PUT THEMSELVES IN THE PLACE OF JUDGING and interpreting
the licitness of reading, promoting or going to apparitions sites not
yet approved. They put themselves in the place of the local ordinary
or of the Pope himself; many like to pontificate! They often
interpret in their own rigorous way the decree of
the “Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine and the Faith”,
published in the "Official Acts of the Holy See" (A.A.S.)
58/16, dated December 29, 1966. Other critical Catholics want to
accuse those who read and promote these messages from these
apparitions of Our Lady (or also, for example the testimony of Gloria
Polo) as being motivated only by curiosity and pride (who is really
prideful here?) in seeking to know that which is not for us to know.
But if one goes even to this one-sided interpretation and judgment,
then why are the number of apparitions of Our Lady increasing in our
day as Cardinal Ratzinger pointed out ("The Ratzinger
Report"; 1985)? Do these supposed wise ones know more about
what is needed today than the Mother of God? According to these
intelligent people, can there not also be another possible motive for
reading and promoting the messages of Our Lady in these our times
which are so particular and in need of extra heavenly help and
guidance just as God gave extra heavenly help and guidance through
the prophets and patriarchs of the Old Testament? Does not the
Church encourage us to read the whole Bible, including the Book of
Revelation, Daniel, Ezekiel, Matthew 24, Luke 21, Mark 13, etc.? In
these times of great trail and great deception God has sent the
greatest human prophet, His Mother, beginning in 1830 at Rue
du Bac in Paris (1830), where St. Catherine Laboure beheld
apparitions of Mary who asked for the Miraculous Medal to be struck
and devotion promulgated. It is amazing how many people choose to
close their eyes and ears to the signs of our times! Jesus called
these people “HYPOCRITES”! (Lk 12:56; Mt 16:3).
Jesus to Saint Faustina:
“Woe to them if they do not recognize this time of My visitation”!
(Diary, 1160).
(“Revelations
to Margaret of Jesus”;
http://markbeast.blogspot.com/2009/04/margaret-of-jesus.html).
GOD OR HIS MOTHER DO NOT NEED
PERMISSION from a bishop or a priest or a Catholic group or a
moderator of a Catholic Blog on the Web in order to appear or to give
private revelations. I think that very few of the seventy thousand
people who went to Fatima on October 13, 1917 asked permission from
their respective bishops or priests or from people who believe they
are wise and intelligent, and want to pontificate, before going to
Fatima that day. And not withstanding this lack of permission, they
were rewarded with the great miracle of the sun. Did God make a
mistake according to these wise people? I also believe that as we
approach this period of “great tribulation” (Mt 24), God in His
love for us, like a loving mother, will give even more help,
encouragement and words to the “little ones”, willing to listen,
to help all those of good will to prepare so as to take advantage of
this period of great trial and suffering. In this way God will offer
one last help to those who might be willing to convert and put God in
the first place and priority in their lives rather than themselves or
so many other things or persons.
And so, I have gathered together some
paragraphs from my writings that one can print on one piece of paper,
front and back. To download this document ready to print, visit:
Below you will find
the same document but with a many
references from the Internet that are not included in the
downloadable document which is ready to print.
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The
FALSE POPE –
Saint Hildegard
Forewarned is forearmed!
Saint HILDEGARD
of BINGEN (d. 1179), the newest Doctor of the Church, wrote
that when the new Pope is elected immediately before the Antichrist,
a cardinal will kill the elected pope before he is crowned through
jealousy, he wishing to be Pope himself. Then when the other
cardinals elect the next Pope this cardinal will proclaim himself
(anti) Pope, and two-thirds of the Christians will go with him. She
notes that this Antipope as well as the Antichrist are descendents
from the tribe of Dan. If this private revelation of St. Hildegard
turns out to be true, is it possible that this Antipope, who will
appear “IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE ANTICHRIST”, might be the FALSE
PROPHET predicted in the book of Revelation (Rev 16:13; 20:10; chap.
13 etc.) who will work hand in hand with the first "beast",
the Antichrist, to subdue and lead the world to the Antichrist?
“SATAN DISGUISE HIMSELF AS AN ANGEL
OF LIGHT” (2Cor 11:14).
The Beast will be able to perform
“great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even
the elect” (Mt 24:24; Mk 13,22; Rev 13:8;
19:20)!
Before the second coming of Jesus
Christ “that day will not come, unless THE REBELLION (APOSTASY)
COMES FIRST, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of
perdition, who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god
or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God,
proclaiming himself to be God” (2Thess 2:3-4).
The second beast (the false prophet)
“exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence,
and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast,
whose mortal wound was healed. It works great signs, even making fire
come down from heaven to earth in the sight of men… and to cause
those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain. Also
it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free
and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead (THE
MICROCHIP), so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the MARK”
(OF THE BEAST!) (Rev 13).
(“The
“Sign” of the Beast of the Book of Revelation”;
http://www.margheritadigesu.it/pagine/microchipeng.html).
Those who have let
themselves slowly slide into the comfort of subjectivism and
relativism, which totally surrounds us today like the air we breath,
inventing the easy truth (small “v”) according to their heads,
will be very happy with this new “Judas Iscariot”, who will take
control of the Vatican, and who will approve their masked egoism in
the name of religion. Behold “THE REBELLION (APOSTASY)”
which we see in the last 50 years! Each person is god (Gen 3:4-5)!
They will say: “Oh, finally we have a modern pope, with the times,
who thinks like us!” One no longer asks the question what does
Jesus want, one does not confront his life with the Catechism of the
Catholic Church, one does not ask himself what are the effects on
others caused by his actions, such as selling pornography for a few
coins (CCC 2354), abortion…; one just does not care, despite the
fact that God has given us everything we have, Who even sent His only
Son, Jesus Christ, to die for each of us on the cross! “Therefore
God sends upon them a strong delusion, to make them believe what is
false, so that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but
had pleasure in unrighteousness” (2Thess 2:11-12).
THE PRIESTS (CAPTAINS) AND THE BISHOPS
(GENERALS) WHO HAVE SECONDED THIS SLIDE INTO RELATIVISM and the
slackening with their culpable silence and their disobedience to the
Vicar of Christ, the Pope, such as “Humanae Vitae” (1968), or the
great obligation to maintain a great reverence before the infinite
God in the Eucharist (Memoriale Domini, 1969), in
this “dour combat” (CCC 409), have a much greater culpability
having received a great vocation and responsibility with the
corresponding graces. LET US PRAY FOR OUR PASTORS! One must struggle
everyday with great effort to discover the Truth (big “V”), in
order to live the Truth with the help of God, to be able to lead
oneself and others to the Truth not only in this short life but for
all eternity. God, Who is love, and thus respectful of our free will,
does not coerce anyone to be with the Truth Who is God! “The chief
punishment of hell is eternal separation from God” (CCC 1035). God,
Who is love, respects our great dignity at the level of the angels,
created in His image (Gen 1:26-27), and thus even if we live as
animals without responsibility, we will be judged as human beings at
the end of our life. If more people would have prayed 100 years ago,
Hitler would not have been able to do what he did. Today there are
much fewer people who pray with the intention of discovering and
doing the will of God! We deserve what is happening and what is
coming with the “NEW WORLD ORDER”, now rather hidden, but soon,
totally in the open!
(“Pope
Paul VI As Prophet: Have Humanae Vitae's
Bold Predictions Come True?” by Janet Smith;
http://www3.nd.edu/~afreddos/courses/264/popepaul.htm).
The first question
that we learned in the catechism as children was: “Why did God
create you? And we answered: To know, love
and serve God. TODAY THIS IS TOTALLY UPSIDE
DOWN: religion exists for a great number of people to serve me, not
to help me to serve God, not to help me to discover the will of God
from the teachings of the Church guided by the Pope (Mt 16:18), not
to help me to do the will of God with the help of prayer and the
Sacraments (as we say in the Our Father: “THY (not mine!) will be
done”!). The great majority of people today do not want to take
even the first step to discover what God wants. The philosophy of
life is: “Ignorance is bliss”! Bliss today, but tomorrow, and
after death?!? The recent Popes tell us that the gravest sin today is
that we have lost the sense of sin. One trusts in himself and not in
God-Love! “Jesus I trust in You!”
(Saint Faustina).
POPE JOHN PAUL II
(AMONG MANY OTHER OCCASIONS) SPOKE FIRMLY TO THE US BISHOPS AGAINST
THIS "PICK AND CHOOSE SMORGASBORD TYPE CATHOLICISM" in LA
in his September 1987 visit: "It is sometimes reported that a
large number of Catholics today do not adhere to the teaching of the
Church on a number of questions, notably sexual and conjugal
morality, divorce and remarriage. Some are reported as not accepting
the Church's clear position on abortion. It has also been noted that
there is a tendency on the part of some Catholics to be selective in
their adherence to the Church's moral teachings. It is sometimes
claimed that dissent from the Magisterium is totally compatible with
being a “good Catholic” and poses no obstacle to the reception of
the sacraments. This is a grave error that challenges the teaching
office of the bishops of the United States and elsewhere. I wish to
encourage you in the love of Christ to address this situation
courageously in your pastoral ministry, relying on the power of God's
truth to attract assent and on the grace of the Holy Spirit which is
given both to those who proclaim the message and to
those to whom it is addressed."
The Servant of God, ARCHBISHOP FULTON
SHEEN, said: “The False Prophet will have a
religion without a cross, a religion without a world to come, a
religion to destroy religions. There will be a counterfeit church.
Christ’s Church will be one. And the False Prophet will create the
other. The false church will be worldly, ecumenical (false, not
according to the teachings of the Second Vatican Council), and
global. It will be a loose federation of churches, religions forming
some type of global association, a world parliament of churches. It
will be emptied of all divine content and will be the mystical body
of the antichrist. The Mystical Body of Christ on earth today will
have its Judas Iscariot and he will be the false prophet. Satan will
recruit him from among our bishops.”
(“Everything
is referred to the one who will “usurp” the Chair of Peter and
will thus be a false Pope. This time is near!...”;
“Prophetic Warnings for the “Church”
(Year 2005)”;
http://www.margheritadigesu.it/pagine/avvprofeticichiesa0507eng.html).
(“Remember this: when my son Peter
will no longer be in power to guide the Church, then you will be very
attentive in doing what they will ask you. There will be needed much
discernment and letting oneself be interiorly guided and do not think
too much about the ‘then’.” (January 24, 2002;
http://www.margheritadigesu.it/pagine/avvprofeticichiesa9902eng.html).
The Catechism of the
Catholic Church (as well as 1Jn 2:18) indicates that there will be
ONE ANTICHRIST IN PARTICULAR (CCC 675): “Before
Christ's second coming the Church must pass through a final trial
that will shake the faith of many believers (Cf. Lk 18:8; Mt 24:12)..
The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth (Cf. Lk
21:12; Jn 15:19-20) will unveil the “mystery of iniquity” in the
form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to
their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme
religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by
which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come
in the flesh.” (Cf. 2Thess 2:4-12; 1Thess
5:2-3; 2Jn 7; 1Jn 2:18,22).
“CARDINAL IVAN
DIAS AT LOURDES SAID: “What meaning could the message of Our Lady
of Lourdes have for us today? I love to situate these apparitions in
the broader context of the permanent and fierce combat between the
forces of good and evil, which will continue till the end of time”.
Our Lady foresees “the rise of the Antichrist and his attempts to
replace God in the life of men; attempts that despite their striking
successes, will be nevertheless destined to failure”. The cardinal
counsels to pray the Rosary, and to practice the conversion of heart,
and to accept sufferings for the salvation of the world. Especially
now, he explains, because “The combat between God and his enemy
always blazes, even more today, because the world finds itself
terribly swallowed up in the swamp of a secularism that wants to
create a world without God; of a relativism that suffocates the
permanent and immutable values of the Gospel; of a religious
indifference which remains imperturbable before the superior good of
the things which regard God and the Church”. And then he cites John
Paul II: “WE ARE STANDING BEFORE TODAY THE GREATEST FIGHT THAT
HUMANITY HAS EVER SEEN. I do not believe that the Christian community
has totally understood this. We are today before the FINAL
CONFRONTATION between the Church and the anti-Church, between the
Gospel and the anti-Gospel”. BUT IT IS THE WOMAN “OF GENESIS AND
OF THE APOCALYPSE”, CONCLUDES THE CARDINAL, “THAT WILL COMBAT AT
THE HEAD OF THE ARMY OF HER SONS AND DAUGHTERS AGAINST THE ENEMY
FORCES OF SATAN AND WILL CRUSH THE HEAD OF THE SERPENT.” (Gen
3,15)” (December 13, 2007).
(“An
Open Letter To A Fellow Priest”,
http://testimony-polo.blogspot.com/2009/11/open-letter-to-fellow-priest.html;
http://www.lastampa.it/_web/CMSTP/tmplrubriche/giornalisti/grubrica.asp?ID_blog=196&ID_articolo=36&ID_sezione=396&sezione=San%20Pietro%20e%20dintorni).
Read the prophetic
book of ST. LOUIS DE MONTFORT: “True Devotion To Mary”.
It was interesting that Pope Benedict
XVI invited CARDINAL BIFFI TO OFFER THE ANNUAL LENTEN RETREAT FOR THE
POPE and the top members of the Vatican (Feb. 27, 2007). The cardinal
speaks often on the theme of the Antichrist. The Times of London
reported in 2004 that the Cardinal described the Antichrist as
“walking among us”. “Days will come in
Christianity in which they will try to reduce the salvific event to a
mere series of values.” It is a key passage in the last work of
Vladimir Soloviev,
“Tale of the Antichrist”, at the center of Cardinal Giacomo
Biffi’s reflections. The Russian
philosopher, who died in the year 1900 with great acumen, had
prophesied the tragedies of the 20th
century. In the “Tale of the Antichrist”, recalled the cardinal,
“THE ANTICHRIST PRESENTS HIMSELF AS PACIFIST,
ECOLOGIST AND ECUMENIST. He will convoke an
ecumenical council and will seek the consensus of all the Christian
confessions, granting something to each one. The masses will follow
him, with the exception of small groups of Catholics, Orthodox and
Protestants who will resist and will say to the Antichrist: ‘You
give us everything, except what interests us, Jesus Christ’.” For
Cardinal Biffi, this narrative is a warning: “Today,
in fact, we run the risk of having a Christianity which puts aside
Jesus with his cross and resurrection.”
In his
homily at the Mass preceding the conclave that quickly elected him
Pope Benedict XVI, then Cardinal Ratzinger said: “Today, having a
clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled as
fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, that is, letting oneself be
"tossed here and there, carried about by every wind of
doctrine", seems the only attitude that can cope with modern
times. WE ARE BUILDING A DICTATORSHIP OF RELATIVISM that does not
recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists
solely of one's own ego and desires.”
(http://www.vatican.va/gpII/documents/homily-pro-eligendo-pontifice_20050418_en.html;
http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2005/colson_relativism_may05.asp).
“ONE DAY, I SAW
TWO ROADS. One was broad, covered with sand and flowers, full of joy,
music and all sorts of pleasures. People walked along it, dancing and
enjoying themselves. They reached the end without realizing it. And
at the end of the road there was a horrible precipice; that is, the
abyss of hell. The souls fell blindly into it; as they walked, so
they fell. And their number was so great that it was impossible to
count them. And I saw the other road, or rather, a path, for it was
narrow and strewn with thorns and rocks; and the people who walked
along it had tears in their eyes, and all kinds of suffering befell
them. Some fell down upon the rocks, but stood up immediately and
went on. At the end of the road there was a magnificent garden filled
with all sorts of happiness, and all these souls entered there. At
the very first instant they forgot all their sufferings.” (Diary,
153)
“Today, I was led
by an Angel to the chasms of hell… But I noticed one thing: that
most of THE SOULS THERE ARE THOSE WHO DISBELIEVED THAT THERE IS A
HELL” (Diary, 741). It was recounted to Pope John Paul II
that the Vatican's chief exorcist, Father Gabriele Amorth, “knows
too many bishops who do not believe in the Devil”. The Pope replied
bluntly: “ANYONE WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE IN THE DEVIL DOES NOT BELIEVE
IN THE GOSPEL”. Amorth said in an interview (2001): “We have
entire Episcopates trying to counter exorcism. We have countries
completely devoid of exorcists, such as Germany, Austria,
Switzerland, Spain and Portugal.” We poor buck privates are on the
great spiritual field of battle and many of our generals (bishops)
and captains (priests) tell us that the enemy does not exist! We are
in bad shape, to say the least!
(http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=2879;
http://www.vaticans.org/index.php?/archives/61-An-interview-with-the-Vaticans-chief-excorcist,-Father-Gabriele.html).
SISTER LUCY OF FATIMA said to Father
Agostino Fuentes, the postulator of the cause of beatification of
Giacinta e Francesco (December 26, 1957): “Our Lady is very
displeased because it is not taken into account her message of 1917.
Neither the good nor the bad have held them in consideration.
Believe me my Father, the Lord will punish the world very soon; the
punishment is immanent! Many nations will disappear from the face of
the earth, many nations will be annihilated. … The devil knows that
the religious and the priests, not living up to their beautiful
vocation, drag many souls to hell. …The third time she said that,
the other means exhausted and despised by men, He will give with
trembling the last anchor of salvation which is the Most Holy Virgin
in person, signs of tears, messages of seers spread in all the parts
of the earth. Our Lady said that if we do not listen and if we still
offend we will not be pardoned. Father, it is urgent that we realize
this terrible reality. WE DO NOT WANT TO FILL THE SOULS WITH FEAR,
BUT ONLY IT IS URGENT A RECALL TO REALITY. From when the Holy Virgin
gave such a great efficaciousness to the Rosary, there does not exist
any material, spiritual, national or international problem that
cannot be resolved with THE HOLY ROSARY AND WITH OUR SACRIFICES. To
recite it with devotion will be to consol Mary and to wipe away so
many tears from her Immaculate Heart. … Our Lady expressly said:
“We are approaching the end times”.”
Cardinal Ratzinger said: “One of the
signs of our times is that the announcements of 'MARIAN APPARITIONS'
ARE MULTIPLYING ALL OVER THE WORLD.” ("The Ratzinger Report";
1985).
OUR LADY AT AKITA, JAPAN said (October
13, 1973: the anniversary of the great miracle of the sun on October
13, 1917 at Fatima, Portugal; Also the same date (October 13 –
1884) of the diabolical vision of Pope Leo XIII which motivated him
to compose “The Prayer To Saint Michael The Archangel” and to
print it and send it to all the bishops of the world): “As
I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father
will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be
punishment greater than the deluge, such as one will never have seen
before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of
humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor
faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they
will envy the dead. The only arms that will remain for you will be
the Rosary and Sign left by My Son. Each day recite the prayers of
the Rosary. WITH THE ROSARY, PRAY FOR THE POPE, THE BISHOPS, AND THE
PRIESTS. The work of the devil will infiltrate even the Church in
such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops
against other bishops. The priests who venerate Me will be scorned
and opposed by their conferees… churches and altars sacked, the
Church will be full of those who accept compromise …”
“THE DREAM OF ST. JOHN BOSCO” of
the two pillars indicates to us the great importance of staying very
close to Jesus in the Eucharist (while it is still possible) with our
Rosary in hand.
The last part of the homily of Pope
Benedict XVI; Esplanade of the Shrine of Our Lady
of Fátima; before 500,000 people: 13 May 2010:
“WE WOULD BE
MISTAKEN TO THINK THAT FATIMA’S PROPHETIC MISSION IS COMPLETE. …
At a time when the human family was ready to sacrifice all that was
most sacred on the altar of the petty and selfish interests of
nations, races, ideologies, groups and individuals, our Blessed
Mother came from heaven, offering to implant in the hearts of all
those who trust in her the Love of God burning in her own heart. At
that time it was only to three children, yet the example of their
lives spread and multiplied, especially as a result of the travels of
the Pilgrim Virgin, in countless groups throughout the world
dedicated to the cause of fraternal solidarity. MAY THE SEVEN YEARS
WHICH SEPARATE US FROM THE CENTENARY OF THE APPARITIONS HASTEN THE
FULFILMENT OF THE PROPHECY OF THE TRIUMPH OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF
MARY, TO THE GLORY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY.”
(http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/homilies/2010/documents/hf_ben-xvi_hom_20100513_fatima_en.html;
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/fatimas-prophetic-mission-not-complete-pope-declares-on-solemnity/).
The centenary of the
anniversary of the great miracle of the sun, October 13, 1917 at
Fatima, Portugal, will be October 13, 2017!
I believe that soon the Body of Christ, the Church, as a great
purification, will have to go through the stage of the crucifixion as
her Head, Christ, three hours on the cross, and even cry out with her
Head: “My God, my God why hast thou forsaken me?” (Mt 27:46; Mc
15:34). This period will be the GREATEST TRIBULATION in the history
of the world and of the Church (Mt 24:21-22; Jer 30:7; Dan 12:1).
Let us make a good
confession and changer our lives, with much prayer and sacrifices and
good will, while the door of Mercy is still
open.
Jesus to Saint
Faustina: “BEFORE
I COME AS A JUST JUDGE, I first open wide the door of My mercy. He
who refuses to pass through the door of My mercy must pass through
the door of My justice” (Diary, 1146).
Jesus said to Saint
Faustina (of the Divine Mercy): “YOU WILL
PREPARE THE WORLD FOR MY FINAL COMING” (Diary of Saint Faustina,
429).
Father Joseph Dwight
(http://josephdwight.blogspot.com)
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