The
following is a meditation of the priest, Padre Gabrielli Quartilio,
to over 200 priests and to over 10 bishops during the International
Spiritual Exercises of the Marian Movement of Priests, at
Collevalenza – Sanctuary of Merciful Love (Madre Speranza), June
21-27, 2015.
The
End of the Times - The Great Trial
I
would like to begin this first meditation first of all; a big thanks
to the Most Holy Trinity Infinite Mercy; if we are here it is because
of Their gift, not because of our own choice; and because of the gift
of Mary to us, and because of the gift of the M.M.P. (Marian Movement
of Priests).
A thanks to Our Lady Mediatrix and Queen: Our Lady of the end times,
represented in the beautiful picture that Madre Speranza wanted and
had painted, here on the right of the altar (in the Sanctuary of
Merciful Love).
In this framework the M.M.P. finds the explanation
of what Our Lady asks us so insistently and forcefully: "The
cenacles of prayer", in order to
obtain the gift of the Holy Spirit Who will sweep away all the
darkness that the serpent has spread all over the world and
everywhere in the Church . The Cenacles which we do are nothing more
than a ceaseless invocation of this "LIGHT" to defeat the
"DARKNESS": this is why our Mamma calls them "like
a vaccine" to overcome the evils
of the times in which we are living in now.
After these premises let us dispose ourselves to
spend this day with Mary in prayer, in reflection, in fraternity,
welcoming what Mary wants of us today. We all see and experience the
terrible confusion of today, the great apostasy which by now has
invaded everything and everyone; but we must remember and keep in
mind what Our Lady tells us members of the Movement to be "the
Apostles of the last times", to be
ready to battle with the unleashing of the forces of evil.
For this I chose excerpts from the messages, where we find described
the trail, I would say in detail, with the description of the
apostasy and of the deception that have obscured the truth taught to
us by Jesus and transmitted by the Church faithfully for centuries.
In this first meditation let us take a look at the messages which
describe:
1.
The end of the times.
2.
The great trial.
The
end of the times. The apocalyptic message.
The first thing to see to be convinced of the
times we live in, (let me say with pain, because even for the Don
Stefano it was with pain: not everyone: even in the Movement there
are those who do not believe in certain messages) these are the times
that She describes to us, for the "Apostles
of the last times"; and that's why
she wanted this HER "Work"
to fight the definitive battle between Her,
the "woman clothed with the sun, and her Opponent
from the beginning.
This is the whole message of Fatima, which we knew through the
messages of the book, and many of us also, by living next to Don
Stefano. I say this because now the Movement HAS AN IMPORTANT ROLE TO
CARRY OUT in the world and in the Church, which it can not ignore:
“Is this not a strong sign that today you give
me? You want me to understand that your
cohort is ready;
that your little children have responded to you, that you have
triumphed in the life of these your sons because, by
way of these, you will accomplish the triumph of your Immaculate
Heart in the world.
Here at Fatima there was given the announcement of
a mystery that was not completely revealed. Here at Fatima there is a
message which reflects a beam of light on all the events of this
century and on what will happen in the next century” (Homily of Don
Stefano at Fatima, November 20, 1999).
From these words of Don Stefano you understand why now is the time of
the battle: Our Lady, our Leader, and we, her cohort, to fight the
final battle.
Now I recall them briefly. Note well that the
Mamma in this message says that these signs "are
clearly indicated in the Gospels, in the Letters of St. Paul and of
St. Peter; in Holy Scripture.
1 - THE FIRST SIGN: THE DIFFUSION OF ERRORS:
"They will false renowned
theologians who will teach pernicious heresies, false teachers, who
will spread errors and many will listen to them and will follow
them," because of them, errors will be spread, the Christian
life will be despised, because of this apostasy will spread
everywhere." (Mt 24:5-9; 2Thes
2:3; 2Pt 2:1-3).
2 - THE SECOND SIGN: THE OUTBREAK OF WARS AND
FRATRICIDAL CONFLICTS: "There
will be famines and earthquakes, the dominance of violence, of
hatred, there will be natural disasters. With epidemic famines,
flooding." (Mt 24:6-12) (Ebola)
Aids, cancer, rare diseases.
3 - THE THIRD SIGN: THE BLOODY PERSECUTION:
''You will be arrested, persecuted and
killed. You will be hated by all because of me. Many will abandon the
faith, they will hate and they will betray you”
(Mt 24.9-10).
Never
before in recent years have there been attacks on churches, true and
real persecutions only because they were Christians: Nigeria, Sudan,
Iraq, Libya, Pakistan; but there are also many other forms of
persecution, even in Italy, Europe, even within the Church herself
today: Franciscans of the Immaculate.
4 – THE FORTH SIGN: THE HORRIBLE SACRILEGE:
"From one who opposes Christ, that
is the anti-Christ. He will enter into the temple, he will sit on the
throne, making himself to be adored as if her were God, with the
power of false miracles and prodigies, he will use every kind of evil
deception to do evil” (2 Thess
2:4-9). What is the horrible sacrilege:
the Protestant doctrine will be welcomed, and it will be said that
the Mass is not a sacrifice but only a sacred meal. This agreement
has already been made with the Lutherans, in which Catholics can
participate in their rituals, and our Lutheran in ours.
5 - THE FIFTH SIGN: EXTRAORDINARY PHENOMENA: that take place
in the firmament of the heavens. Wars will multiply, natural
disasters, persecutions ... Our Lady invites us to remain strong in
the faith:
“Allow yourselves to be led by me, and gather
together, each and all, in the sure refuge of my Immaculate Heart,
which I have prepared for you especially during these last times… I
am always with you, to tell you that the coming about of these signs
indicates to you with certainty that the end of the times, with the
return of Jesus in glory, is close at hand”.
(December 31, 1992)
But before the liberation we have to know that there is waiting for
us the times that Our Lady describes to us.
After the message of the 5 signs of the last times, I would like to
bring to your attention another message of May 13, 1994, which
describes the end times, the final times.
“It is within your time that the fulfillment
of the message is taking place, the message which I have given you at
Fatima and against which my Adversary has thrown himself in fury, but
which will now appear in all its extraordinary importance for the
Church and for all humanity. It is an apocalyptic message. It has
regard to the end of the times. It announces and prepares for the
return of my Son Jesus in glory.”
(May 13, 1994).
Here, Our Lady tells us that this "Apocalyptic"
message concerns the Church and
humanity. First of all Our Lady
speaks about humanity:
“Upon
this humanity which has again become pagan, enveloped in the coldness
of the denial of God and of rebellion against his Law of love,
corrupted by sin and evil, and over whom Satan reigns as a sure
victor, I am causing the rays of love and of light from my Immaculate
Heart to come down…
Because
only in my Immaculate Heart will you find refuge in the moment of the
chastisement, comfort in the hour of suffering, relief in the midst
of unspeakable afflictions, light in the days of densest darkness,
refreshment amidst the flames of the fire which consumes, confidence
and hope in a now general despair”. (May 13, 1994).
These words concern humanity; now let's see what she says about the
Church. Now pay good attention to what she says about the Church:
“Upon
this Church, darkened and wounded, stricken and betrayed, I am
causing the rays of love and of light from my Immaculate Heart to
come down. When there will have entered into her the man of iniquity,
who will bring to fulfillment the abomination of desolation which
will reach its climax in the horrible sacrilege, as the great
apostasy will have spread everywhere, then my Immaculate Heart will
gather together the little faithful remnant which, in suffering, in
prayer and in hope, will await the return of my Son Jesus in glory.
For this reason I urge you today to look to the
great light which has spread out from Fatima over the events of this,
your century, and which is becoming particularly strong in these last
times. Mine is an apocalyptic
message, because you are in the
heart of that which has been announced to you in the last and so very
important book of Sacred Scripture.
I
entrust to the angels of light of my Immaculate Heart the task of
bringing you to an understanding of these events, now that I have
opened the sealed Book for you." (May 13, 1994).
“You are in the heart of that which has been
announced to you in the last and so very important book of Sacred
Scripture”; and that Our Lady
entrusts “to the angels of light of my
Immaculate Heart the task of bringing you to an understanding of
these events” (May 13, 1994).
In this regard I quote the words spoken by
Benedict XVI on the third secret of Fatima in 2010, during his trip
to Fatima. The Pope responded to a reporter who asked if in the
visions of Fatima there were included the sufferings of the Church
for these times (it was the moment of the scandals of pedophilia).
The Pope replied:
"The greatest persecution of the Church does not come from
outside, from enemies without, but arises from sin within the Church
in her internal ... There are indicated realities about the future of
the Church we will slowly know as they develop and they show that
there is a vision of the passion of the Church which of course is
reflected in the person of the Pope, the terrible crisis of faith,
accompanied by a profound moral crisis ... the solutions are
external, regarding a creative secularism of barriers against the
faith more concerned with publicity and efficiency than with the
Truth".
At this point there are lots of messages to be
analyzed, and it is impossible to see them all; for this reason I
would like to focus mainly on the year 1975: Be
Joyous.
Be Joyous
“Live each moment in me, without thinking of
tomorrow, without ever worrying about what you must do… Soon
everything will be plunged in darkness. Then I myself will be your
light and will guide you… For this, accustom yourselves not to look
at things but to me alone… Do not consider what many are doing
today against my Son and against me and what they are preparing to do
against you. The hour of darkness is approaching, the hour when you
must drink the chalice which my Son has prepared for each one of you.
But do not even think of this hour, that you may not be caught up in
fear and anxiety. Look only to my Immaculate Heart: take refuge and
warm yourselves here, strengthen yourselves here. Feel yourselves in
safety here”. (March 15, 1975)
Here Our Lady warns us: we are called to live
these days with serenity, looking only at Her, to her Mother’s
Heart; but she wants us also aware of “the
hour of darkness” and that we are
called to drink the "bitter cup".
“This is now the time for me to begin
disclosing part of my plan. First of all, it is necessary that my
Enemy have the impression of having conquered everything, of having
everything now in his hands. This is why he will be permitted to
penetrate even into the interior of my Church, and he will succeed in
plunging the sanctuary of God into darkness”.
(October 18, 1975)
“Satan is maneuvering more and more openly in
my Church. He has now associated many of my priest-sons with himself,
deluding them with the false mirage that Marxism proposes to all:
exclusive interest in the poor, a Christianity engaged solely in the
building up of a more equitable human society, a Church which would
be more evangelical and therefore disengaged from its hierarchical
institutions. This real division within my Church, this real apostasy
on the part of so many of my priest-sons, will become accentuated and
thus develop into a violent and open rebellion”.
(December 31, 1975)
“My beloved sons. You are the warp and woof
of my plan; the loving design of your mother; the gift that I give to
the Church, to comfort her in the passion and apparent death that
awaits her, before her wondrous renewal through the triumph of my
Immaculate Heart in the world”.
(January 31, 1975)
We
are the design of her Mother’s Love. UNDERSTOOD!?!
The
great trial
“Prepare to live moments in which the history
of the Church has never known before and in which everything will
seem subverted. But in the greatest obscurity I will be you light and
your guide.
Therefore do not fear, my beloved sons. Begin
this new year with the greatest trust in my Immaculate Heart… you
are called to see the greatest triumph of the mercy of God in the
world”. (January 1, 1978)
“In these times, the Church is being called
to live the hours of agony and of Gethsemane, the hours of the
redemptive passion, the hours of her bloody immolation on Calvary…
How heavy a cross they must carry today, these most beloved children
of mine: the cross of apostasy and of the lack of faith; the cross of
sins and of innumerable sacrileges; the cross of abandonment and of
rejection; the cross of condemnation and of crucifixion!
For
my Church, the moment of the shedding of blood and of her bloody
immolation is close at hand. Especially in these times, I am ever
close to this suffering and agonizing Daughter of mine, as I was
beneath the Cross, upon which Jesus was immolated for our redemption…
Pray, beloved children, and do penance, because
you have now entered into the time of the great chastisement which
the Lord will send for the purification of the earth… Your
suffering will increase with the increase of the trial which has
already begun”. (January 1, 1991)
“The great trial has come for all of you, my
poor children, so threatened by Satan and stricken by the evil
spirits…
Never
as in your days has peace been so threatened, because the struggle of
my Adversary against God is becoming stronger and stronger, more
insidious, continual and universal”. (January 1, 1993)
“This is a mystery of love and of sorrow, of
light and of darkness, of joy and of suffering, of death and of life…
It is a trial so great and painful, that you cannot even imagine it,
but it is necessary for the Church and for all humanity, in order
that the new era, the new world, and the reconciliation of humanity
with their Lord may come upon you”.
(February 2, 1991)
You
have thus entered into the great trial.
“The danger you are in is that of losing
grace and the communion of life with God,
which my Son Jesus obtained for you at the moment of redemption, when
He delivered you from slavery to the Evil One and set you free from
sin. Now sin is no longer considered an evil; indeed, it is often
exalted as a thing of value and as something good. Recognize
sin as the greatest of evils, as
the source of all individual and social evils.
The great trial has come for the Church, so
violated by the evil spirits, so divided in its unity, so darkened in
its holiness. See how error has flooded throughout it, error which
leads to the loss of the true faith. Apostasy is spreading
everywhere. A special gift
of my Immaculate Heart
for these times of yours is the Catechism
of the Catholic Church, which my
Pope has wished to promulgate, to be as it were his shining last
testament.
The hour of its great trial has above all come
for the Church, because it will be shaken by the lack of faith,
obscured by apostasy, wounded by betrayal, abandoned by its children,
divided by schisms, possessed and dominated by Freemasonry, turned
into fertile soil from which will spring up the wicked tree of the
man of iniquity, the Antichrist, who will bring his kingdom into its
interior.
The further you enter into the time of the
great trial, the more will you experience, in an extraordinary way,
my motherly presence close to you, to help, defend, protect and
console you, and to prepare for you new days of serenity and peace”.
(January 1, 1993)
Now allow me let out a little vent. You know that Our Lady disposed
things so that I might spend the last years next to Don Stefano, and
I can tell you that there were many trials and sufferings that he
faced for the Movement; but I remember, for him it was a for great
suffering when some of the leaders questioned the messages and so
doubted about their veracity. In 2000, many leaders no longer
participated in the annual retreat, some continued but then left. I
remember in this regard; Gerard, Father Fabio of Salvador, a Bishop
of Peru who for several years gave the beautiful meditations on the
messages with the relative biblical quotations; and many others....
Even to this day I think that for the Movement the moment has arrived
to be ready to carry out the mission that She, the Leader, asks us;
we must face painful trials, because these are the times of the great
battle.
“Prepare
to live moments in which the history of the Church has never known
before and in which everything will seem subverted. But in the
greatest obscurity I will be you light and your guide.
Therefore do
not fear, … have the greatest
trust in my Immaculate Heart… you are called to see the greatest
triumph of the mercy of God in the world”.
(January 1, 1978)
Here, Our Lady tells us to prepare for these moments of great
darkness in the Church and we now live them in these days, in which
many want to subvert the truth of the Gospel, many want to transform
the Faith, into only pietism, ecumenism…
“As Mother, I am always close to you, to the
Church and to humanity, in order to lead you along the way of the
fulfillment of the Father's Will… in such a way that the Most Holy
and Divine Trinity may be more and more glorified. The fountain of
your joy and your peace is to be found in the perfect glorification
of the Most Holy Trinity” (January 1,
1993)
The great trial has begun because we are threatened by Satan who
makes us lose the true sense of sin, the real cause of all evil is
not only spiritual but also physical. The great trial has begun
especially for the Church, and Our Lady invites us to look at her:
“See how error has flooded throughout her,
error which leads to the loss of the true faith. Apostasy is
spreading everywhere. A special gift of my Immaculate Heart for these
times of yours is the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which my Pope
has wished to promulgate, to be as it were his shining last
testament”. (January 1, 1993)
Here, beloved, there is nothing left for us to do except look to Mary
as Mother of God but also as our true Mother and Mother of the
Church. We are called not to be overwhelmed by lack of trust, by
fear, much less by discouragement, even though we see that:
“Atheism has organized itself as a force
spread out for the conquest of the whole world and the complete
destruction of my Church… You, my poor sons, are the ones most
knocked about in a struggle which is, above all, between ME and my
Adversary, … before telling you of the battle, I have, as Mother,
invited you to seek a safe refuge… My
Immaculate Heart: now you
understand, my sons, why it is the greatest gift which the Heavenly
Father offers you. My Immaculate Heart: it is your safest refuge and
the means of salvation which, at this time, God gives to the Church
and to humanity. The special intervention of this Heart of mine is
the work which I am carrying out in my Church to call all priests, my
beloved ones, to take refuge in me…
This victory of mine has already begun, and
soon it will shine forth upon the entire Church and upon the whole of
renewed humanity”. (December
8, 1975)
“Mindful that atheism has caused shipwreck in
the faith to a great number of the faithful, that desecration has
entered into the holy temple of God, not sparing even many of our
brother-priests, and that evil and sin are spreading more and more
throughout the world, we make so bold as to lift our eyes trustingly
to You…” (Act of Consecration)
So get rid of lack of trust, away with fear on the
part of us in the Movement: the only concern should be that of
entering and helping others to enter into the safe haven of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary, living the consecration to her Immaculate
Heart " with the simplicity of
children, in a spirit of humility, of poverty, of trust and of filial
abandonment" (31 December 1997).
“Those
who oppose you, who calumniate you, who despise you, who push you
aside and who persecute you will believe that they are doing
something pleasing to the Heavenly Father and even to ME, your
Immaculate Mother.
This forms part of the tenebrous time in which
you are living. Because you are now entering into the most painful
and dark phase of the purification, and soon the Church will be
shaken by a terrible persecution,
a new persecution, such as has hitherto been unknown”.
(November 12, 1988)
Today, dear friends, if one does not think like so many others, the
least accusation is: you are a conservative or a Lefrevrian; or even
worse: you are against the Pope, so you're not of the Movement ...
Listen to what SHE tells us, the Mother of the Church:
“I
am especially close to the Church in these last times, when she must
live through the bloody hour of her purification and of the great
tribulation.
For
her also, the plan of the Heavenly Father must be carried out, and
thus she is being called to climb the Calvary of her immolation.
This
most beloved Daughter of mine will be stricken and wounded, betrayed
and despoiled, abandoned and led to the gibbet, where she will be
crucified.
The man of iniquity will enter into her
interior, and he will bring to its culmination the abomination of
desolation, foretold in the Holy Scriptures…”.
(January 1, 1994)
“For a little while yet you will walk in
light, but soon everything will be plunged in darkness. Then I myself
will be your light and will guide you in carrying out that which my
Immaculate Heart desires.
To do this, beloved sons, I
must ask of you that which your human nature finds most costly: I ask
you to live without thinking of tomorrow,
without being preoccupied about the future… Live, with perfect love
and perfect abandonment, the present which I - moment by moment -
arrange for you, my little babes.
For
this, accustom yourselves not to look at things but to me alone. Do
not consider what is awaiting you, the deeply distressing events of
these times of yours…
The
hour of darkness is approaching, the hour when you must drink the
chalice which my Son has prepared for each one of you. But do not
even think of this hour, that you may not be caught up in fear and
anxiety.
Look
only to my Immaculate Heart: take refuge and warm yourselves here,
strengthen yourselves here. Feel yourselves in safety here! Abandon
yourselves completely and without reserve in this Heart; then only
will you correspond to the great plan of salvation which my Heart has
in each one of you, my little children”. (March 15, 1975)
“In fact at the very moment when Satan will
be enthroned as lord of the world and will think himself now the sure
victor, I myself will snatch the prey from his hands. In a trice he
will find himself empty-handed, and in the end the victory will be
exclusively my Son's and mine. This will be the triumph of my
Immaculate Heart in the world”.
(December 19, 1973)
There are many signs now clear that, in these times, Satan is seated
sure to win, rather to win big; let us not be fooled: he will not
prevail: let us welcome the invitation of the Mother:
“This is the cross which Jesus now asks
you to carry: to live side by
side with brother-priests who no longer believe, who spiritually are
no longer alive, who betray the Gospel, who are unfaithful servants
and yet remain in the Church to be ministers of this infidelity.
This is for you the heaviest of crosses, but it
enters into a greater plan of mine.
The decisive events have already begun, and the
one you are living through is the beginning of these. This scandal
will become even greater and more serious. You will be called upon to
suffer more and more, because this veritable apostasy from the Gospel
will one day become general in the Church, before the great
liberating purification.” (July 9,
1975)
Just today a dear brother recommended to me to not mention for now
these messages, because, he said, it is too early, they are not
understood and could alarm the people for no reason. But I say: it’s
been 40 years that She, the Mamma, told us these things: what must we
wait for!
“It
is now the time for you to know this, that you may be consciously
prepared for the battle. This is now the time for me to begin
disclosing part of my plan.
First
of all, it is necessary that my Enemy have the impression of having
conquered everything, of having everything now in his hands.
This
is why he will be permitted to penetrate even into the interior of my
Church, and he will succeed in plunging the sanctuary of God into
darkness. He will reap the greatest number of victims from among the
ministers of the sanctuary”. (October 18, 1975)
The adversary must have the impression that he has everything in
hand; introducing himself in the Church, gathering so many victims
among the ministers, and this, my dear brothers, we see it every day:
and as the Marian Movement of Priests we must still act as if
everything is normal!?!
L'Avversario deve avere l'impressione che ha tutto in mano, con
l'introdursi all'interno della Chiesa, mietendo così tante vittime
tra i ministri, e questo, carissimi, noi lo vediamo ogni giorno: e
come Movimento Sacerdotale Mariano dobbiamo ancora fare finta che
tutto è normale!?!
Padre Gabrielli Quartilio
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Note:
The messages of Our Lady to Don Stefano Gobbi have
been approved by several bishops; you can find all of the messages,
as well as the various “Imprimatur”s,
at:
“To
The Priests Our Lady’s Beloved Sons”,
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“Vatican’s ‘climate change’ light show
skipped the most endangered species of all – the unborn child”
“As the Year of Mercy launches with this show,
it makes me wonder if we’re testing God’s mercy rather than
celebrating it.”
