The
Woman Clothed With the Sun and the Red Dragon
(The Book of Revelation, chapter 12)
Dear friends,
As we know, today
there is less prayer in the world and in the Church than every
before, and more sin than ever before,
even worse indifference, and thus what Saint Paul warned us about is
even more true today: “Satan DISGUISES
himself as an angel of light” (2Cor
11:14). This means that the great number of followers and
collaborators of Satan in the world and in the Church today will lead
us to destruction in such a way that all seems OK and the right thing
to do. Thus it is more important than ever to seek the Truth (Who is
Christ – Jn 14:6) from the Magisterium of the Church, which cannot
change, and to discover the misleading
ways in which these “angels of light” offer their beautiful lies
as if they were the truth. Behold the
great attack on the fathers of families, the priests and the bishops
to become “dumb dogs, they cannot bark”
(Is 56:10), so as not to warn the souls entrusted to them, about the
sly wolf (Pope St. Gregory the Great; Office of Readings; Sunday,
Week 27 of OT)! I hope all of you have in
your homes not only the Bible but also the very important summary of
the teachings of the Church in the Catechism
of the Catholic Church for adults!
There are thousands of independent protestant groups with only the
Bible and very often interpret many passages in Sacred Scripture in
contradictory ways!
Another
fundamental strategy of our mortal
enemy is to facilitate in as many ways as possible that which does us
most harm, sin, by offering many
SLIPPERY SLOPES toward our destruction,
to make it easier, and even alluring and acceptable, to slide into
sin, and to not realize or to not regret the loss of the presence of
God in our own souls. Seventy years ago most countries of the world
had civil laws which explicitly indicated more concern, than there is
today, for the common good and thus sought to protect the fundamental
cell of society, the family. Thus in many countries it was illegal to
sell or buy pornography; up to 1930 our protestant brothers were in
agreement with the Catholic Church that birth control did great harm
to married couples and to their families and thus to all of society.
Seventy years ago not only did almost all religious leaders, but even
most civil leaders, did what they could do to keep husbands and wives
together for the sake of the married couples, for the sake of the
children and for the sake of the whole of society; divorce became
legal in Italy in 1970. Now many
cardinals, bishops and priests are doing the exact opposite in
offering every means possible to be “free” of your wife or your
husband, without any concern about THE
TRUE AND LONG LASTING WELL BEING of the
couple, of the children and of the society!?! “The
ONE who should speak will fall silent”!
If we could see
a soul in the state of grace, we would die immediately of joy;
if we could see a soul not in the state of grace, in mortal sin, we
would die immediately of terror. God hides the full reality so as to
respect our free will. If we saw these things, or even one instant
heaven or hell, we would no longer be free, and we would be forced to
choose to do the will of God. This is why it is so important to take
Christ’s words to heart: “Beware of false prophets, who come to
you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You
will know them by their fruits” (Mt
7:15-20). Jesus did not say by their leaves, which would be their
nice words! We are so brainwashed today to follow only our feelings
and sentiments rather than making the effort to discover the truth of
the reality by sincere prayer and diligent study. People vote for
politicians according to their nice words instead of taking the time
to study if these politicians have voted and used our money in the
past to help the family and society or not – the real fruits! It
is even more important, especially
today, to make the effort to see if a priest or a bishop preaches
according to the revealed Divine Revelation, found in the Bible and
explained properly and infallibly in the documents of the Church,
summarized in the CCC. This effort is especially necessary today
since Satan has much more power than usual to deceive with beautiful
lies transmitted by the highly controlled mass media, the schools and
religious institutions.
G.K.
Chesterton, in his book Orthodoxy,
explained that keeping the orthodox true faith in the Church is like
trying to control wild horses that are in danger of constantly
pulling in opposite directions. This is why we need the Magisterium
of the Church to help us keep the proper balance and equilibrium. In
LA, California (September 1987), Pope
John Paul II did not say to the bishops that they must obey me as
Pope, but “dissent from the Magisterium” of the Catholic Church!
(“The Hidden Broad Road to Perdition”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2015/05/road-perdition.html).
Thus when very high ranking religious
leaders in the Catholic Church talk only about MERCY,
but do not talk about, in the same discourse or context, the absolute
need to amend ones life, to “go and sin no more” (Jn
5:14; 8:11), as we say in the Act of
Contrition, there is a very powerful misleading deception of
subjectivism and relativism which does not lead us toward the
absolute Truth, God, and altruism, but toward ourselves (feelings and
sentiments) and egoism, precisely in the name of “mercy” and
“love”!?! The whole Truth of God “will set you free” (Jn
8:32) in an authentic manner, together with the cross in this short
life, not false freedom, detached from the Truth, which leads to
slavery afterwards in this life and for all eternity if one does not
truly repent and change ones life with the help of God in prayer and
the Sacraments.
“What kind of
men are they who, fearing to hurt those they speak to,
not only do not prepare them for imminent temptations, but even
promise the happiness of this world, which God did not promise to the
world itself?...” (Sermon of St.
Augustine on the Shepherds; Office of Readings; Sunday, Week 24 of
OT, Friday).
I have a great
sorrow in my heart for the souls
entrusted to Catholic pastors who do not follow nor teach from the
Catechism of the Catholic Church for adults! Do we believe that God
gave us the Ten Commandments for our good or for our evil?!? Who do
we trust, God or ourselves? Is the Church the handmaid of the Truth
or the Author of the Truth?!? ARE THE
BISHOPS THE HANDMAIDS OF THE TRUTH OR THE authors OF THE TRUTH (Gen
3:4-5)?!?
The Truth, Who is God, must change according to every period of the
world, or must the world change according to the Truth Who is God (Jn
14:6)?!?
“We do not need a Church that is moved by the
world, but a Church that moves the world” – G.K. Chesterton.
Cardinal Caffarra asked the many
high-ranking Church leaders who want to change Church doctrine on the
Sacrament of Marriage (disguised as a change in Church discipline):
“What happens
to the first valid and consummated marriage?”
What happens to the children of the first valid and consummated
marriage? Do these high-ranking Church leaders even consider this
question or even care about what happens to the children of the first
valid and consummated marriage? “What
therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder”
(Mk 10:9; Mt 19:6). “And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife,
except for unchastity, and marries another, commits adultery; and he
who marries a divorced woman, commits adultery” (Mt 19:9; 5:32; Lk
16:18; 1Cor 7:10-13).
How many pastors
have the courage to struggle against "the
most profound difficulty of our time”, relativism, so as to
offer the true good to the sheep as did Cardinal Ratzinger? Writing
about the pastoral care for homosexuals and
divorced and remarried, Cardinal Ratzinger wrote: “Only
what is true can ultimately be pastoral”.
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.”
OUR LADY OF
GOOD SUCCESS; Quito, Ecuador
(January 20, 1610), warned us:
“Thus I make
it known to you that from the end of
the 19th century and shortly after the middle of the 20th century…the
passions will erupt and there will be a total corruption of morals…
As for the Sacrament of Matrimony, which symbolizes the union of
Christ with His Church, it will be attacked and deeply profaned.
FREEMASONRY, which will then be in
power, will enact iniquitous laws with
the aim of doing away with this Sacrament, making it easy for
everyone to live in sin and encouraging procreation of illegitimate
children born without the blessing of the Church… in
this supreme moment of need for the Church, the ONE who should speak
will fall silent.”
(“The False Pope
Will Fall Silent”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2015/09/the-false-pope-will-fall-silent.html).
Of course all of
these subtle and hidden tactics of Satan are used to diminish or take
away the very powerful graces that can be received in the Sacraments,
in particular in the
Eucharist - “the source and summit of the Christian life”
(Vat. II: LG 11; CCC 1324).
Visit:
“The Subtle
and Powerful Attack on the Eucharist”
“The
Progressive Protestantization of the Catholic Mass”
In the meditation that I offer you below, you will
find this paragraph:
“Of course,
Satan does not say, "Come, commit sin!" No!
He presents sin as a new way of doing good, a way that corresponds
more to the exercise of human freedom. He finds all the ways to
justify and to make appear sin no longer as sin, no longer as an
evil, no longer as a violation of God's law, but as a response to a
need that is within our nature, as a means to express our freedom,
even as a more perfect way to development our personality…”
Already 13 years ago Don Stefano Gobbi warned us
about the powerful poison of false mercy, of false love, which is
disguised relativism!
During the
International Spiritual Exercises, at Collevalenza – Sanctuary of
Merciful Love (Madre Speranza), June 29 – July 5, 2003, Don
Stefano Gobbi offered to over 200
priests and to over 10 bishops of the Marian Movement of Priests the
following meditation. This is the first of four meditations given by
Don Stefano Gobbi during this week of Spiritual Exercises.
- - - - - - -
THE WOMAN
CLOTHED WITH THE SUN AND THE RED DRAGON
(The Book of Revelation, chapter 12)
(The birth and the spread of the Marian Movement
of Priests)
A – The Year of the Holy Rosary.
B – The great trial.
C – The mystery of iniquity.
D – The mystery of Mercy.
E – The birth and the spread of the Marian
Movement of Priests.
Praise be Jesus Christ!
“Learn from
me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for
you souls” (Mt 11:29).
We find our rest in
meekness and humility of heart. In this spirit we want to look,
in the light of Wisdom and of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, at the
times that we are living, in order to understand the Work that Mary
is doing all over the world, with the Marian Movement of Priests.
A - THE YEAR OF
THE HOLY ROSARY
We
are in a special year: the Year of the Rosary. In my circular letter
of 2003 I had stressed that for us this year is the year of the
Cenacle. That which the Pope asks us to do with the letter "Rosarium
Virginis Mariae", we have been doing this from the beginning of
the Marian Movement of Priests with the Cenacle. In the Cenacle we
pray the Rosary. Therefore, if the Pope says that this year is that
of the Rosario, for us of the Marian
Movement of Priests, it must be the time of the Cenacle.
“And so I
renew again today my invitation to multiply the cenacles of prayer,
which I have asked for, with such motherly insistence”
(May 30, 1993).
“The period
of the purification and the great tribulation in which you are living
must be for you the time of the cenacle.
It is the time of the cenacle for the Church,
invited by me to enter into the cenacle of my Immaculate Heart…
It is the time
of the cenacle for this poor humanity, so possessed by the spirits of
evil, impelled along the road of pleasure and pride, of sin and
impurity, of egoism and unhappiness.
Humanity
must now enter into the cenacle of my Immaculate Heart:
here, as Mother, I will teach it to pray and to repent; I will lead
it to penance and conversion, to a change of heart and of life… For
this reason, I am asking today that the Church and humanity enter
into the cenacle which your heavenly Mother has prepared for you”
(May 22, 1996)
What is the fruit of the Cenacle? It is the second Pentecost. Our
Lady wants us in the Cenacle, to prepare to receive the great gift
that will transform the world: the fire of the second Pentecost.
The more we enter
into the trial and the suffering will increase, all the more the
Comforter will have the task fulfill His mission in these times: to
be for us comfort. "Consolator optime."
“Amidst
the mourning of a humanity without God,
there will come down the comfort of the Holy Spirit, who will lead
the whole world to the perfect glorification of the Heavenly Father,
bringing about a new marriage of love between a renewed humanity and
its Lord who has created, redeemed and saved it.
Amidst the
mourning of a divided, darkened and wounded Church,
there will be felt the comfort of the Holy Spirit, who will clothe it
with fortitude and wisdom, with grace and holiness, and with love and
light, in such a way that it may give its full witness to Jesus,
living in it until the end of the world.
Amidst the
mourning of souls, made slaves of Satan, immersed in the shadow of
sin and death, there will alight
the comfort of the Holy Spirit, who will give the light of the
presence of God, the life of divine grace, and the fire of love, so
that in them the Most Holy and Divine Trinity will be able to take up
its permanent dwelling.
Amidst the
mourning of the great trial
(which we are now living),
there will come down the comfort of the divine presence of the Spirit
of the Lord, who will lead you to live - with confidence (many
of us are discouraged), courage, hope,
serenity and love… And so today, I invite you to unite your prayer
to mine, so that the Spirit of the Lord may come down upon you, with
all his gifts.
Come, O Holy
Spirit. Come, and change the
face of the earth. Come, quickly.
Come, in these last times. Come, now that the great trial has arrived.
Come, in these last times. Come, now that the great trial has arrived.
Come, and bring us your second Pentecost, so
that our eyes may see your greatest miracle, that of the new heavens
and new earth” (May 30, 1993)
It is the time of the Cenacle to prepare the
second Pentecost.
B - THE GREAT
TRIAL
It is the time of the Cenacle for us, because John
Paul II proclaimed the Year of the Rosary!
Why did not he
proclaim it in 2000, or 2001 or 2002? In my circular letter I said:
because for humanity and for the Church
there has arrived the time of the great trial.
The trial means suffering, it means a merciful punishment; the trial
has come so that humanity might come out of the state in which it
finds itself. Alone it cannot get back up, if a great mercy does not
lift it up.
We
have come to the time of the great trial and for this the Pope
proclaimed the Year of the Rosary. He says it himself:
“At the
start of a millennium which began with the terrifying attacks
of 11 September 2001, a millennium which witnesses every day
innumerous parts of the world fresh scenes of bloodshed and violence,
to rediscover the Rosary means to immerse oneself in contemplation of
the mystery of Christ who “is our peace”.”
(Eph 2:14)
(Rosarium Virginis Mariae, 6).
“The grave
challenges confronting the world at the start of this new Millennium
lead us to think that only an
intervention from on High,
capable of guiding the hearts of those living in situations of
conflict and those governing the destinies of nations, can give
reason to hope for a brighter future”
(Rosarium Virginis Mariae, 40).
The Blessed Virgin
in her messages and the Pope in his exhortations say: "With
the Rosary you can affect all international events and change them."
John
Paul II is especially concerned about the
Church that is attacked from within and from without.
The Pope uses a historical event: on October 7, 1571 there was a
battle between the Muslim and the Christian forces, which were much
smaller. Pope St. Pius V proclaimed a crusade, but not as in the
Middle Ages with weapons, but with the Rosary. Due to this prayer the
victory was with the Christians. John Paul II, but does not mention
the date but the episode, to show us that we are living in similar
events and that Christianity is threatened.
“The
Church has always attributed particular efficacy to this prayer,
entrusting to the Rosary, to its choral recitation and to its
constant practice, the most difficult problems. At times when
Christianity itself seemed under threat, its deliverance was
attributed to the power of this prayer, and Our Lady of the Rosary
was acclaimed as the one whose intercession brought salvation”
(Rosarium Virginis Mariae, 39).
Of course, the Pope can
not order and do a Rosary Crusade: he would be laughed at, beginning
with some clergymen ... However John Paul II proclaimed the Year of
the Rosary with such force that surprises me. In all his documents
with his signature he writes: 25th year of my Pontificate, the Year
of the Rosary.
Has
this Year of the Rosary been welcomed in the Church?
At the level of the Bishops? With great simplicity I asked a bishop:
"You spent a week at a conference of bishops, you discussed many
things, politics etc... Did not one of you say: "We are in the
Year of the Rosary. We will ask our communities to pray the Rosary"!"
Do you not see that there is a dissonance, a discrepancy between what
the Pope says and proposes, and how it is listened to and received?
Today during the
''Fraternity hour" I want to read an article published on June
10 this year in the newspaper "Corriere della Sera": "A
great Pope who loses triumphantly all the battles."
The
Pope is beginning to lose battles even in the Church,
when he is not followed. Will this Year of the Rosary be effective on
the events which await the Church and humanity? It will be effective
to the extent that it has been put into practice. We must all do an
examination of conscience.
The
Pope proclaims the Year of the Rosary because the great trial has
come. What does this trial consist of?
In a merciful punishment. The Lord has seldom punished us directly,
because He is Love. In the Old Testament He sent a punishment when
the people turned away from Him, that they might return to Him. So
God permits the punishment, because through it humanity might return
to Him. He allows it in view of a greater good. But the punishment is
constructed by builds humanity with its own hands.
John Paul II in the 2000 said:
“Humanity now
has instruments of unprecedented power: we
can turn this world into a garden, or reduce it to a pile of rubble…
Today as never before in the past, humanity stands at a crossroads.
And once again, O Virgin Most Holy, salvation lies fully and uniquely
in Jesus, your Son” (Act of
Entrustment To Mary, October 8, 2000).
According
to you, which path is humanity taking?
Is it taking the path toward the garden or the one toward the pile of
rubble? Humanity has totally drawn away from God and it finds itself
on the path which leads to the pile of rubble. It has become the
victim of practical atheism, of materialism, of hedonism. In the
place of God, it has built idols, a new golden calf that everyone
adores: pleasure, entertainment (see how many young people go to
church and how many in the discotheques!), money, pride, impurity
(especially through the diabolical instrument of television evil), he
has seduced all the nations of the earth. It comes to my mind the
beast of the Apocalypse which with the cup of lust intoxicates all
the nations of the earth.
God
is Love. Far from God, humanity has
become pagan and it is a desert of love. This is the sufferings of us
priests: we live in a world that is a desert of love. We must be
witnesses of God-Love.
God is Life. Far
from God, humanity lives in the shadow of death, under the threat of
death: abortion was legitimized in almost every country, there are
millions of abortions. People lose awareness of the value of life:
every day there are murders and suicides. If you listen to the
Italian news, they talk every day of murders, the lack of respect for
the value of life ... The shadow of death hangs over humanity: wars
that increasingly spread ...
God is Communion.
Satan is the spirit of disunity. In humanity, far from God, division
is everywhere: in families, in nations, between nations (resulting in
violence and terrorism) ...
Humanity,
which has drawn away from God, lives under the power of evil, lives
in evil. It follows that the law of
God, the Ten Commandments, are increasingly violated, trampled on
this on an individual and social level. There is individual sin and
social sin. There has been substituted for the law of God a law which
is contrary to the law of God: it is said that sins are new ways to
express ones own freedom. For example: the commandment to keep holy
the Lord's Day has become the day of man; weekend, sports,
entertainment, etc.
It
the sixth commandment was abolished to not commit impure acts.
Today, based on the value of sexuality, anything goes: impure sins by
oneself no longer exist, premarital sex is justified, families can do
whatever they want and use any means available to prevent the life;
homosexual relationships are legitimized. Any aberration is permitted
in the name of the great value of sexuality. It is true that
sexuality is a value but relative to this earthly life. When we die
one day, they put us in the coffin, take us to the cemetery and bury
us, after a short while what remains of the value of sexuality, upon
which were justified all the transgressions of God's law?
And
so you understand how Satan dominates in the fullness of his power,
because he has led humanity away from God, he has built a hedonistic
and materialistic civilization, he has spread a moral law opposed to
the law of God. Humanity finds itself in this state and now lives in
such a way that it is even difficult to understand.
You
can think that the Lord has conceded a
certain amount of time to Satan to purify us through this
tribulation. The Gospel says: you shall
be threshed as grain is threshed. The light part that covers the
grain is called chaff: the chaff goes into the air, leaving just the
true, good grain. Many of us also have flown away like chaff. Good,
but they were not mature. That's why Our Lady matures us especially
with suffering, marginalization, sometimes with incomprehension,
often allowing us to experience the burden of our weakness. But this
is a necessary maturation, so that we can remain. Do you want to
leave also as many have gone? It is necessary to remain, but to be
mature. We become mature, if we let ourselves work completely from
the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Satan
has all this power also because he has built his army in a strong
way. Satan is an evil spirit, but
extremely intelligent. Being spirit, he is smarter than all of our
minds; he is smarter than all the minds of the theologians combined.
The
mistake he makes is always the one that led him from Lucifer to
Satan, from Paradise to Hell: it is
always a mistake of perspective, it is always the mistake of pride.
He thinks: I want to win. I must form for myself the strongest army!
Because it is logical: in a battle the stronger army wins.
I
remember, when during the siege of
Vienna (1683), the camp of the Turks
was in place. It was frightening: they were very strong, if they
conquered the city, they would go to Rome. And the Mustafa at that
time said, "We will go to Rome and transform the basilica of St.
Peter into a mosque!" The Turks did this at Constantinople with
the basilica of Satin Sophia.
But King John Sobieski
of Poland came with his troops and for one whole night they prayed.
Blessed Marco d'Aviano, Legate of the Pope, had them put on their
banners the name of Mary. They attacked, they defeated all the forces
of the Turks. And since September 12 throughout Europe there is still
celebrated the name of Mary. The Pope put it in the calendar of the
universal Church as a memoria.
Satan
seeks to form for himself the strongest army.
For this reason he chooses the strongest, those who matter most, the
greatest, the most powerful, the richest at all levels: at the
political level, cultural, philosophical ... even, I believe, at the
church level, because he has succeeding in forming for himself the
army with the Masons, this secret and diabolical force that entered
the Church.
The
head of Lebanon (of the MMP) came to me, saying: "Tomorrow, a
Lebanese bishop wants to talk about Freemasonry." So be it, we
are happy, if
this
bishop will speak to us about MASONRY,
because it has entered the Church.
Do
you see that Satan forms his army and now he feels the sure winner.
To the point that the Pope last year, when he spoke in Krakow said,
citing a term that in the Bible has a profound meaning: "Today
we are experiencing the mysterium
iniquitatis" the mystery of
iniquity. This mystery has always operated, from the start, but in
these last times explodes in a strong way, because it will succeed in
seducing the world, it will succeed in seducing many children of the
Church. The "mysterium iniquitatis" in biblical and
apocalyptic vision appears in the splendor of its power as a great
dragon.
The old serpent,
cunning, in order to tempt Adam and Eve appeared in the form of a
snake - a snake is not too scary. To tempt Jesus, it manifested
itself in the form of a man – it is more alluring. And Jesus
rejects it, using the word of God. But in these days when Satan
triumphs, he appears in the splendor of his triumph as a great
dragon.
I like to read a
portion of the homily that the Pope gave on May 13, 2000 at Fatima,
when he beatified Francesco and Giacinto:
“Another
portent appeared in heaven; behold, a great red dragon" (Rv 12:
3). These words from the first reading of the Mass make us think of
the great struggle between good and evil, showing how, when
man puts God aside, he cannot achieve happiness, but ends up
destroying himself.”
Humanity has put God aside: it will not arrive to
the new garden, it will not arrive to happiness, it can arrive to
destroy itself, on the path that leads it to a heap of rubble.
“How many victims
there have been throughout the last century of the second millennium!
We remember the horrors of the First and Second World Wars and the
other wars in so many parts of the world, the concentration and
extermination camps, the gulags, ethnic cleansings and persecutions,
terrorism, kidnappings, drugs, the attacks on unborn life and the
family.
The message of Fatima is a call to conversion,
alerting humanity to have nothing to do with the dragon” (John
Paul II, Homily at Fatima, May 13, 2000).
Without
knowing it, humanity has given in to his game, because Satan can lead
away humanity from God only by playing with it.
In what does this game consist of? To make appear something as if it
were another. In Italian there is a proverb that says: "To make
appear lightning bugs as lanterns." See that he is an expert in
this scam, because, by definition, he is the one who deceives,
seduces, kills, the murderer from the beginning (cfr. Jn 8:44). And
so it is easy for him to make appear something as if it were another.
I would make Satan the patron of all magicians, when they show
something for another. He is not so stupid to say to mankind: "Go
down this road, go on the road of evil, of sin, of error ... "
St.
Paul says: "Therefore God sends
upon them a strong delusion”
(2Thes 2:11). And how does Satan deceive? He attracts many on the
road of error, making error to appear as truth. He will attract many
on the road of evil, of sin, making evil appear as a good. This is
the way in which he has seduced mankind and has succeeded in
deceiving also a part of the Church.
Of
course, Satan does not say, "Come, commit sin!" NO! He
presents sin as a new way of doing good, a way that corresponds more
to the exercise of human freedom. He finds all the ways to justify
and to make appear sin no longer as sin, no longer as an evil, no
longer as a violation of God's law, but as a response to a need that
is within our nature, as a means to express our freedom, even as a
more perfect way to development our personality.
Thus
sin is committed by many, but it is no longer felt as sin, there
disappears the source from which comes repentance and one no longer
confesses. Today the wound of the
Church is that the individual confession has disappeared. It is still
in Italy, I do not know about France, in America (USA) Father Roux
will tell us. But in Germany, a German priest told me, that hardly
anyone goes to confession. They had a penitential function during
Holy Week, then they went into the confessional. Do you know how many
went to confession? Three people! But everyone went to communion on
Easter Sunday! Look at how this Church is now in crisis from within,
because infidelity is rampant. Satan triumph: they sin, they live in
sin, they die in mortal sin ... What awaits them? Hell!
Brothers,
today many even among theologians deny that Hell exists, that it is
eternal. But Hell exists, and it is a
truth of faith, and even Our Lady at Fatima, showed it to the
visionaries. But today many truths of faith are easily denied,
forgetting that St. Thomas Aquinas said, "When you do not
believe a single truth of faith, you have already lost the
supernatural virtue of faith."
D - THE MYSTERY
OF MERCY
Our
Lady is Mother, and she sees through the eyes of a mother this
situation. She sees that evil triumphs
and thus her children are in danger of being lost. What can she do?
What can the Lord do, seeing that we are in the "mysterium
iniquitatis" and we are victims of this overwhelming power that
Satan? What can the Heavenly Father do, who so loved the world, that
He gave his only Son, so that the world might be saved through Him?
This father who is Love; Love endures and is stronger than any
infidelity. What can Jesus do who gave all his blood to redeem us
facing such a situation which puts in grave difficulty our salvation?
He told a story of the lost sheep. He left all the others, He went to
look for it because by itself it could no longer return.
This humanity, in the
state of prostration in which it finds itself, alone it cannot
return. Our Lady gives her messages. Humanity does not listen to
them; alone it cannot come back, if a great mercy does not lift it
up.
The
Lord goes to meet this humanity with that aspect of his love that
goes in search of the lost sheep, which goes to find humanity where
it is, and where by itself it can no longer return to him. This
aspect of God's love that goes in search of those who are lost, which
goes in search of a humanity, that after having saved it with the
blood of his Son, it has so much drawn away, to no longer be able to
come back to Him, this aspect of 'God's love is called MERCY.
The
Lord in order to destroy the mystery of iniquity, with which Satan
holds humanity enslaved, makes use of his own design, which comes out
from the Heart of his divine Love and it is the
mystery of his Mercy. With the mystery
of God's Mercy he will destroy the mystery of iniquity.
A
mystic carmelite soul, Blessed Mariam of
Jesus Crucified, said: "Satan now
dominates and he feels glorified. But the Lord has granted it not for
his glory, but rather for his shame. "
The
power, which Satan has today, is not for his glory, it
is for his shame, because Satan will be
put to shame at the moment in which he will be defeated. And he will
be put to shame because to conquer him it will not be God directly,
God entrusts this task to a creature. Look at this carefully: to a
creature that Satan could never touch even with a shadow; a creature
that has blossomed in the heart of the Trinity: the favorite daughter
of the Father, Mother of the Son, Spouse of the Holy Spirit, a
beautiful creature, full of grace, full of holiness, a creature who
becomes the type of all beauty, of all holiness, of every tenderness,
of all love outside of God. It is She who reflects this, but she is
still always a creature.
Lucifer did not want to
honor the Word of the Father who became Man, because as spirit he was
immensely superior to man. For this he was punished: from Lucifer to
Satan, from Paradise to Hell. Satan will be defeated by a creature.
This is why in the moment in which he will be defeated, he will also
be shamed and humiliated.
E - BIRTH AND
SPREAD OF THE MARIAN MOVEMENT OF PRIESTS.
The
creature who will defeat Satan, who
will crush his head, who will drive him into hell, who will shut the
door, so that he might not get out any longer to harm the world, so
that Christ will finally reign in the world and Merciful Love will
triumph, this creature is MOST HOLY
MARY.
Our
Lady has accepted the job that has been entrusted to her by the Most
Holy Trinity and she is beginning to shape and to implement Her plan.
She is the humble servant of the Lord - "ecce ancilla domini"
– she is his slave. She also forms her
army, not with the greatest ones, but
with the little ones; not with the most powerful, but with the
weakest; not with the most important ones, but with those who are
considered as nothing... She forms it in every part of the world with
her little children. The design that Mary is forming with Her
Marian Movement of Priests is that of
gathering her little children from all over the world to build her
cohort, which is called today to fight against the powerful host of
Satan.
"Father,
... to you I offer praise; for what you have hidden from the learned
and the clever you have revealed to the merest children"
(Mt 11: 25). With these words, dear brothers and sisters, Jesus
praises the heavenly Father for his designs; he knows that no one can
come to him unless he is drawn by the Father (cf. Jn 6: 44);
therefore he praises him for his plan and embraces it as a son:
"Yes, Father, for such was your gracious will"
(Mt 11: 26).
And here is the phrase
that explains the birth, the diffusion, and the reason for the
existence of this Movement:
“According to
the divine plan, "a woman
clothed with the sun" (Rev
12: 1) came down from heaven to this earth to visit the privileged
children of the Father” (John Paul
II, Homily at Fatima, May 13, 2000).
According to the plan of God: we are not the
designers of the plan, it is a design that comes from God! Why did
the woman clothed with the sun come? She came to earth, in search of
the privileged little ones of the Heavenly Father.
In the second meditation we will deepen this
phrase spoken by the Pope, so that we can understand well the nature
and function of the Marian Movement of Priests. That is why the
Marian Movement of Priests is connected to Fatima. Because at Fatima
Our Lady as the Woman clothed with the sun said to the visionaries.
"I came from Heaven." And the Pope added, "She
came down from heaven to this earth to visit the privileged children
of the Father”.
And you are here,
because Our Lady came to seek you. So let us thank Her together, that
she came looking for us: let us thank together Heaven that we
responded.
Don Stefano Gobbi
P.s.
P.s.
There
is less prayer than ever before, more
sin than ever before, even worse, indifference as if sin no longer
exists, and so we have given much greater power to “the father of
lies”, Satan (Jn 8:44). In particular Satan has more power to
“disguise himself as an angel of
light” (2Cor 11:14), to offer his
very deadly beautiful lies as if they were the “truth that sets us
free” (Jn 8:32)!
Thus
it is very important in these times of
great confusion, when even Catholic
bishops are no longer in agreement about the fundamentals of our
faith and morals, to not only pray much and to study the Catechism of
the Catholic Church for adults, but to
keep our eyes open so as not to fall into the beautiful lies of Satan
presented as if they were the Truth!
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UPDATES on some of these fundamental, hidden, and disguised
deceptions of the ancient serpent, visit one of my index web sites to
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well as the DOCUMENTS REGARDING ECCLESIAL APPROVAL of the TESTIMONY
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Joseph Dwight
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