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” (Mt 11:25; Lk
10:21), in a deception better masked and disguised than ever before!
“The
Pope, has been 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). I
think that this vacancy (while a “Judas Iscariot” will be in
control of the Vatican) 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 responsibility 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). Pope
Paul VI 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 and those like them,
those who had compassion for Jesus in His great sufferings for us;
sometimes this led people to think that I hope I am not pregnant of
nursing a baby in the period of time! The truthful economists, who do
not promote the culture of death, tell us that one of the most
fundamental factors causing the current economic crisis is that for
the first time in the history of the world and of the Church in the
richer countries there are more grandparents than children who must
sustain the pensions of those in retirement.
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
DISGUISES 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/2007/12/13/blogs/san-pietro-e-dintorni/lotta-finale-all-anticristo-VjY7tBXJk6gNU3YmWcyOvN/pagina.html).
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.”
RELATIVISM,
according to Pope Benedict XVI, is "the most profound difficulty
of our time."
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; Rev 13:7). 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)
