Monday, July 14, 2025

Jesus Warns Us About the Great Dangers of Social Media

JESUS Warns Us About the Great Dangers of Social Media

 

 


 

The following was published on Facebook in July 2025.

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Sharing THIS IMPORTANT and apparently true story. I am also very guilty and pledge to change.

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My Name is Madison Taylor Brooks

I'm 14 years old, and on October 17th I died for 12 minutes when our car flipped three times on Highway 29.

I was in the backseat scrolling through TikTok, barely paying attention to mom driving me to volleyball practice. My little brother Tyler was playing his Nintendo Switch next to me.

The rain was coming down so hard that mom kept asking me to look up directions because she couldn't see the exit. I remember being annoyed because I was right in the middle of watching this dance trend video. I didn't look up.

Then it happened.

The semi-truck came out of nowhere. Mom screamed.

Tyler dropped his game. My phone flew out of my hands as our SUV spun across three lanes. I remember the sound of metal crushing and glass breaking.

Then... nothing.

But then... I was floating above our car.

I could see the ambulance lights flashing. People were running around below me. The rain was still pouring, but I couldn't feel it.

I watched as they pulled my body out of the wreckage. My favorite blue volleyball shorts were torn. My face was covered in blood.

Mom was crying, being held back by a firefighter. Tyler was already in an ambulance. I tried to yell, "Mom, I'm okay, I'm right here," but she couldn't hear me.

Then everything got really bright. The ambulances, the highway, Mom — it all faded away. I felt myself being pulled through what felt like a tunnel of light.

It wasn't scary. It felt warm, like when you stand in the sunlight on the first day of summer.

That's when I saw him.

Jesus was standing there, and he was nothing like the pictures in Sunday school. He was... I don't even have words.

Light poured from him, but somehow I could still see his face. His eyes. They looked right through me like he knew every thought I'd ever had.

Every mean text I'd ever sent. Every TikTok video I'd ever posted. But he still loved me completely.

When he smiled at me, I felt like I was home. Really home. Not like our house back in Oak Ridge — something deeper.

"Madison." He said my name, and it sounded like music. His voice wasn't loud, but it filled everything.

I started crying. Not sad tears. I don't know how to explain it.

I just felt everything at once. All the love I'd ever wanted, and all the peace I never knew I needed.

"Am I dead?" I asked him.

"For a little while," he said. "But I have something to show you first. Something important."

He reached out his hand, and when I took it, suddenly we were somewhere else.

It looked like a giant room with thousands of screens floating in the air.

On each screen, I could see kids my age — some younger, some older — all staring down at phones or tablets or computers.

"What is this?" I asked.

Jesus looked sad. "This is what I see every day. These are the children I love, but they cannot hear me anymore."

As we walked through the room, I could see closer. Each screen showed someone like me, hunched over. Scrolling mindlessly. Their eyes looked empty.

But the weird thing was, around each person were these... shadows. Dark figures that whispered things into their ears.

"What are those?" I whispered, moving closer to Jesus.

"The enemy's workers," he said. "They speak lies through the screens."

He brought me to one screen where a girl about my age was crying while scrolling through Instagram. Around her neck was what looked like a heavy chain, and at the end of it was her phone.

The shadows were putting more links on the chain with every swipe of her finger.

"Her name is Emma," Jesus said. "She believes she is worthless because she doesn't look like the filtered images she sees. She spends six hours every day comparing herself to lies."

I felt sick because... that was me too.

I remembered crying in my bedroom because Kylie posted pictures from her birthday party that I wasn't invited to. I'd spent three hours that night scrolling through everyone's perfect lives, feeling worse and worse.

Jesus touched the screen and I could hear Emma's thoughts:

"Nobody would care if I wasn't here anymore. Look how happy everyone else is."

"But that's not true," I said, "and people would care."

"You understand," Jesus said quietly. "But she cannot hear the truth anymore. The voices from her screen are too loud."

We moved to another screen.

A boy, maybe 12, was playing a violent game. With each kill in the game, the shadows around him grew bigger. He looked pale, with dark circles under his eyes.

"He hasn't slept more than four hours a night for three years," Jesus said. "The games were designed to keep him there, to make him need them. His parents don't know he's playing until 3am every night."

"His anger is growing. His ability to feel compassion is shrinking."

I thought about Tyler and how he'd thrown his controller at me last week when Mom made him turn off his game for dinner.

Jesus showed me more screens. Kids sending cruel messages to classmates while laughing. Girls taking inappropriate pictures to get attention.

Boys watching violent and sexual content that made the shadows around them dance with glee.

Everywhere, phones and tablets glowed like little prisons.

"Madison," Jesus said turning to me, "Do you know how many hours you've spent looking at a screen in your life?"

I shook my head. He waved his hand, and I saw what looked like an hourglass. But instead of sand, it was filled with moments of my life. Moments I'd never get back.

I saw myself sitting on the couch while my grandma tried to tell me stories about her childhood. But I was watching YouTube.

I saw hundreds of sunsets I'd missed because I was taking selfies instead of actually looking at them. I saw myself ignoring my brother when he wanted to play because I couldn't pause my TikTok scrolling.

"8,422 hours," Jesus said quietly. "That's how much of your life was given to a screen."

I did the math in my head. That was over a year of my life gone.

"But everyone does it," I whispered, feeling ashamed.

"Yes," Jesus said. "And that's why I'm showing you this. The enemy has found a way into every home, every bedroom, every mind, without anyone noticing. Parents give their children these devices without understanding they're handing them poison in small, addictive doses."

Then Jesus showed me something that broke my heart.

He showed me hundreds of moments where he had tried to speak to me — when I was alone in my room, or walking to school, or lying in bed at night. Times when his presence was there, when he wanted to comfort me or guide me.

But every single time, I'd reached for my phone instead. I'd chosen the noise over his voice.

"The greatest trick," Jesus said, "was making everyone believe they're connected when they're actually more alone than ever."

Tears were streaming down my face now. "I'm sorry," I said. "I didn't know."

Jesus put his arm around me. "This is why you're seeing this, Madison, because others need to know."

Then he showed me one more scene.

It was our living room, but different. My family was playing a board game. No phones in sight. Everyone was laughing.

Outside it was raining, just like the day of the accident. But inside, it was warm and bright. I could almost smell mom's cookies baking.

"This could have been tonight," Jesus said softly, "if the phones had been put away."

My heart felt like it was breaking. I never realized how much I'd missed by staring at a screen.

"Madison," Jesus said, "your time here isn't finished. You have an important message to share."

"But I don't want to go back," I said, and I meant it. Being with him felt so good, so right. "I want to stay with you."

He smiled that smile that made me feel completely loved. "I'm always with you, Madison. But your family needs you, and others need to hear what you've seen."

"Will they listen?" I asked.

"Some will," he said. "And that's enough to start changing things."

He touched my forehead and suddenly I felt myself being pulled back — away from his light, through the tunnel again, faster and faster.

Then pain. So much pain.

Beeping machines. Bright hospital lights. Someone yelling, "She's back! We've got a pulse!"

I gasped for air, my chest burning like I'd swallowed fire. My whole body hurt. I couldn't move my left leg. There was a tube down my throat.

The doctors called it a miracle. They said my heart had stopped for 12 minutes. They said I should have brain damage, but all my tests came back normal. They couldn't explain it.

Mom cried for three days straight. Dad, who had been away on a business trip, refused to leave my hospital room after he arrived.

Tyler made me a card that said, "Best sister ever," even though I'd been pretty mean to him lately.

When they finally took the breathing tube out, the first thing I said was, "Where's my phone?"

Mom looked surprised. "Honey, it was destroyed in the crash."

And I started crying. Not because I missed my phone, but because I was relieved it was gone.

It took weeks before I could tell them everything I'd seen. At first, I was afraid they wouldn't believe me. But something had changed in me, and they could see it.

The first night I was home from the hospital, I asked everyone to put their phones in a basket. Then I told them about Jesus. About the screens. About the shadows. About the moments we'd lost.

I told them how the devices we think keep us connected are actually tearing us apart.

Dad cried. I'd never seen him cry before.

That was six months ago.

Our house is different now. We have a phone box that all devices go into during family time. We started playing board games on Friday nights. Mom deleted most of her social media apps. Dad stopped bringing his laptop home from work. Tyler still plays games, but with a timer — and mostly ones we can play together.

The hardest part was going back to school and telling my friends.

Some of them thought I was weird now. Some stopped hanging out with me because I wouldn't spend lunch period scrolling through TikTok anymore.

But some listened.

My best friend Zoe deleted Snapchat after I told her what I saw. She said she'd been feeling more anxious and sad lately but couldn't figure out why. Now she's sleeping better. Her mom sent my mom a thank-you text.

I still struggle sometimes. Those apps are designed to pull you back in. Sometimes I borrow Mom's phone and find myself mindlessly scrolling before I even realize what I'm doing.

The habit is strong. But now I can feel when it's happening — like Jesus opened my eyes to see the chains.

If you're watching this, I want you to try something. Just for one day, put your phone away. Look at the people around you. Really look at them. Listen when they talk. Feel the sun on your face without taking a picture of it.

You might be surprised by what you hear in the quiet.

Jesus told me that the enemy can't create anything. He can only distort what God made. He took our need for connection and twisted it into something that actually isolates us. He took our desire to be known and loved and convinced us that likes and followers could fill that hole.

They can't. They never will.

I know some people won't believe my story. That's okay.

But if you're a parent watching this — please hear me.

Your kids need you to be brave. They need you to set boundaries they can't set for themselves. They need you to create space where God's voice can be louder than the screens.

And if you're my age, watching this — know that you're worth more than your follower count. The filtered, perfect lives you see online aren't real.

The shadows want you to believe you're missing out. But the truth is, life — real life — is happening right now, all around you.

And Jesus is trying to get your attention. Maybe this video is one way he's doing that.

I don't have all the answers. I'm just a 14-year-old girl who died for 12 minutes and came back different.

But I know what I saw. I know what I felt. And I know we can't keep living like this — heads down, thumbs scrolling, hearts empty.

Put down your phone. Look up. He's waiting to show you what really matters.

Because the truth is, none of us know how much time we have left.

And I don't want to waste another second of mine on shadows and screens.

My name is Madison Taylor Brooks.

I died on October 17th.

And Jesus sent me back to tell you this.

Madison Taylor Brooks

(Transcribed and formatted for clarity)



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Padre Quartilio Gabrielli’s Two Letters in 2017 (MMP)

 

Padre Quartilio Gabrielli’s Two Letters in 2017 (MMP)





There is a great battle going on for the Truth! Jesus Christ is the Truth (Jn 14:6)! The Truth of God “will make you free!” (Jn 8:32; Jer 6:16), now and for all eternity! The false truth of Satan, “the father of lies” (Jn 8:44) will offer us pleasure and pride now, without the cross of Christ, but there will be slavery afterwards and for all eternity. There is great pressure on everyone today to be “politically correct”, especially in the Catholic Church since 2013. No group or ecclesial movement will be exempt from the purification in this period of the “great tribulation” (Mt 24:21), not even the Marian Movement of Priests!



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The Church Will Be Purified in the Great Tribulation!

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To have a deeper insight into the battle for the Truth, below you will find two letters (2017) of Father Quartilio Gabrielli, the first successor of Don Stefano Gobbi who was the founder of the Marian Movement of Priests (M.M.P.). After these two letters translated into English, you will find the original two letters in Italian.



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First Letter of Father Quartilio Gabrielli In 2017 (MMP)





Marian Movement of Priests (MMP)

The centenary of the apparitions of Fatima

The movement is Fatima: Fatima is the Movement



Who does not remember the many times that Don Stefano repeated these words, to convey that same mission entrusted to him by Our Lady on that May 8, 1972.



I confess that in receiving the circular letter of the centenary of the apparitions of Fatima I was disappointed, not having been given the slightest indication about a fundamental event for the Movement, because not only is Fatima the birthplace of the Movement but, as Don Stefano repeated, The Movement is Fatima, Fatima is the Movement. It is true, they are organizing the spiritual exercises at Fatima to celebrate this very important date; but I do not know how many people will be able to participate. But for our Movement Fatima is certainly something more than just eight days of Spiritual Exercises; those who will not participate must live this centenary year in oblivion or almost?



This is why I felt the need to share this very important date for the Movement with all the members of the Movement. I do so in the name of Don Stefano, because I'm sure he would have done it with great gratitude to Mary's Immaculate Heart, and above all he would have offered and consecrated, together with all of us, to the Immaculate Heart of Mary the M.M.P. and the Marian Movement (M.M.), invoking and imploring Her triumph. I think that all those who knew Don Stefano have heard that his mission, entrusted to him by Our Lady herself, is due to the fact that Sr. Lucia, being a nun in cloister, could not make known throughout the world the wonderful project of Mercy which the Most Holy Trinity had entrusted to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Because even more than Mary's desire that the third secret to be known since the 1960s, which was ignored, Our Lady chose Don Stefano, and then, as She says in a message, she chose the great Pope John Paul II: he too, with his hundred and more apostolic journeys, consecrated many countries to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.



Also during this year of the centenary, the Movement will complete 45 years of its existence. For nearly 40 years it was led by Don Stefano who, together with Mary, has spread it all over the world. Our Lady did this through her little son, who, as She asked him, let himself be guided and led by Her everywhere, in order to consecrate to Her Immaculate Heart the COHORT of Mary, born to fight the other cohort, that of her adversary. In the messages, Our Lady speaks of her cohort, which she prepared in the secret of Her Immaculate Heart for these times, which we now have to acknowledge and to not pretend to ignore it: this is devious, and it is very, really very serious to try to hide this. I say it sadly: anyone who knew Don Stefano knows that he would never, never hide that this year 2017 is the year of Mary; and that these are the times to defend the TRUTH from so many errors, to remain faithful to the true Church. We must now, in this centenary, act and commit ourselves with all our strength to remain faithful and to expose, "As has already been predicted by Me in Fatima, the false Christ without the Cross, thus the false Church free from the dusty truths, old, no longer suitable for today's times.”



Now I quote an uncomfortable message, I was told that it is dangerous to quote it, but on the contrary it is very current, not only but in a very useful way for us to be guided today and to be able to help others as well. I cite long pieces of this message, given at Fatima in 1989, on June 13, the second anniversary of the apparitions: today, unfortunately, we are living in full what she tells us.



Above all, as Mother, I have wanted to warn you of the grave dangers which threaten the Church today, because of the many and diabolical attacks which are being carried out against it to destroy it. To attain this end, there comes out of the earth, by way of aid to the Black Beast which arises out of the sea, a beast which has two horns like those of a lamb. … The black beast like a leopard indicates Freemasonry; the beast with the two horns like a lamb indicates Freemasonry infiltrated into the interior of the Church, that is to say, ecclesiastical Masonry, which has spread especially among the members of the hierarchy. This Masonic infiltration, in the interior of the Church, was already foretold to you by me at Fatima, when I announced to you that Satan would enter in even to the summit of the Church. If the task of Masonry is to lead souls to perdition, bringing them to the worship of false divinities, the task of ecclesiastical Masonry on the other hand is that of destroying Christ and his Church, building a new idol, namely a false christ and a false church. … I bring you to a great love for Jesus-Truth, making you courageous witnesses of the faith; to Jesus-Life, leading you to great holiness; to Jesus-Way, asking you to be in life the Gospel alone, lived out and proclaimed to the letter. Then I lead you to the greatest love for the Church. I bring you to love the Church-truth, making of you strong proclaimers of all the truths of the Catholic faith, as you set yourself in opposition, with strength and courage, to all errors. … I make of you ministers of the Church-life, helping you to be faithful and holy priests. Be always available for the needs of souls, lend yourselves, with generous abnegation, to the ministry of Reconciliation, and be burning flames of love and of zeal for Jesus present in the Eucharist. … I transform you into witnesses of the Church-way, and I make of you precious instruments of its unity. For this reason, I have given you, as a second pledge of my Movement, a special unity with the Pope. By means of your love and of your fidelity, the divine plan of perfect unity in the Church will once again shine forth in all its splendor. Thus to the dark force which ecclesiastical Masonry is today exercising to destroy Christ and his Church, I am opposing with the powerful splendor of my priestly and faithful army, so that Christ may be loved, listened to and followed by all, and that his Church may be more and more loved, defended and sanctified” (June 13, 1989).



Dear ones, let us not be fooled, it does not help to put our heads in the sand; not just the messages of Our Lady where she talks about loving each other; but also these and many others, where she talks to us to unveil to us our mission.



Now even for us today, dear ones, in these times of great confusion which has penetrated even in the Movement, Our Lady can ask each of us: Do you want to consent to my messages, and live them? Do you want to be part of my cohort, to fight the last battle? Or do you want, with a thousand fake excuses, to adapt to the predominant way of thinking, of a secularized Church, which has as its program to adapt itself to the modern times at the expense of the Truth of the Gospel, and of the 2000-year teaching of the perennial values inherent in human nature, free from sin?



- Are you willing to be rejected, mocked, persecuted, marginalized, trampled on, and to climb Mount Calvary with Me?



- Do you trust ME, do you believe that the messages I brought forth from my Immaculate Heart are the will of the Most Holy Trinity to defeat Satan and to overcome his hidden power, having penetrated as "a pernicious fog" even within the Church?



- Are you convinced that the errors so widespread today in the Church have spread such a great apostasy that has overshadowed my Church?



- Are you convinced that when he (Satan) will believe to have everything in his hand, that I will snatch from him the booty?



- Are you convinced that to knock down the occult power is not a leisurely walk, but it will be only the work of Mary the IMMACULATE: that to HER is entrusted with this task, and we, the little group, the ‘little remnant’, are called to be the Apostles of the last times?



- Do you believe that the words of the messages can help us to remain faithful and confident that the victory will be that of the IMMACULATE?



For this reason I would like to conclude by quoting a message that indicates to us that the task entrusted to us for this date of the hundredth year is something so great: "The likes of which has never happened since the creation of the world. That is why everything has already been predicted in the Bible” (October 18, 1975).



The hour of my battle has now arrived. In the harshest of winters, you are the buds which are opening up from my Immaculate Heart and which I am placing on the branches of the Church to tell you that her most beautiful springtime is about to arrive” (December 31, 1997).



I apologize if someone does not share my interventions; but for loyalty to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and for loyalty to Don Stefano I must do it. These are the final times of the struggle, it is time to choose where and with whom to stand.



Immaculate Heart of Mary: My Confidence, My Health, My Victory.



Father Quartilio Gabrielli (first successor of Don Stefano)



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Second Letter of Padre Quartilio Gabrielli (2017)



Dear members of the Marian Movement of Priests,



Dear members of the Marian Movement,



It's been almost two months since I wrote to all the ones in charge of the M.M.P. and of the M.M. the two letters of great uneasiness and disappointment as to how the Movement is run in these times, in which they are called to defend the Truth and to uncover error, and especially about the loss of the true spirit left to us by Don Stefano. I have tried in so many ways to make it clear to the One in charge and to his assistant that the Movement was betraying the purpose for which it was desired by the Immaculate Heart of Mary for these times.



After a careful examination and reflection, together with prayer and the various suggestions I have received from various members of the M.M.P., I have been able to ascertain that the cause of all this confusion is precisely myself, that I wanted, with the statues, to give to the Movement an official recognition: Our Lady did not like it, as she did not like it when Don Stefano tried to do the same thing. Cardinal Bertone wanted to transform the messages into Don Stefano's personal literary work, and, as Don Stefano repeated several times on that occasion, there is the risk of destroying the Movement.



Let me say that now, following the statutes to the letter, the Movement has become one of the many movements, but not the Marian Movement of Priests. We all know very well what Our Lady says repeatedly: the Movement is "HER WORK" and she will take care of it to go forward and to provide for everything else. That is why I am here to apologize to the Immaculate Heart for having betrayed this work with the statutes, her Work, and to all of you for not trusting in Mary, in wanting to give a formal and legal structure (never wanted by Our Lady), to a work of which the only owner is MARY alone, the IMMACULATE HEART of MARY. In this regard, I should make clear a fact that I think is important: we elected the two people in charge at Collevalenza at the end of June, prior to the approval of the statutes which were done on July 13 by the Bishop of Como, Msgr. Coletti.



For this reason, let me ask publically for forgiveness of Jesus, of Our Lady, of Don Stefano, and of all of you for the damage caused to the whole Movement for this my rush. Now, however, I can no longer be afraid to embrace the CROSS because in the midst of all of this is the salvation of souls: as the last priest who was able to share so many confidences with Don Stefano, I must assume full responsibility, also for the fact that Don Stefano had always refused an acknowledgment of the Movement, as he always said when asked this question: "The Movement is the Work of Mary, I cannot dispose of what is not mine." Again, I apologize for being the cause of the current confusion and of the swing away from the true mission of us as part of the cohort of Mary, who wants us in the forefront of fighting the cohort of the Adversary formed by the strongest, the most intelligent, the most powerful, the more numerous, influential and rich. While the cohort of Mary is formed by the last ones, by those who do not count for anything, by those which the world discards. Those who followed Don Stefano in the last years know that he used very often the example of Gideon, and even in the Movement there will remain few up to the final battle.



Naturally in this Work there are made use of instruments: in particular Don Stefano Gobbi was chosen. Why? On a page of the book this explanation is given: "My son, I have chosen you because you are the least apt instrument; thus no one will say that this is your work. The Marian Movement of Priests must be my work alone. Through your weakness I will manifest my strength; through your nothingness I will manifest my power” (July 16, 1973).



The M.M.P. is not therefore a laudable association, with many statutes and executives, promoted by some fervent priest or soul, but it is "a spirit", as the Holy Father John Paul II happily understood it. It is something impalpable, even though strong and alive, as are the gifts of God, and it has as its main purpose to live the consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.



"I do not need human resources. "The Movement goes forward when you offer me your prayer and your suffering. … I have no need of human means. … to adhere to it depends entirely on correspondence to a special grace which I will grant to each one. And this you can obtain through your prayer, my son, through your love, through your suffering, and even through your inability to act” (June 24, 1974).



If I have asked for no juridical structure for the Movement, it is precisely because I want it to be spread in silence and hiddenness” (October 24, 1975).



This is not one of many movements, but it is my Movement, my son. So then let me act! All my priests must act this way. I will make them understand by causing every human means in which they had placed their trust to come tumbling down. They must entrust themselves to me alone” (February 10, 1974).



From all this do you realize the great mistake I made in making the statutes, do you understand my little trust in Mary, worried as I was just about my health? While it is Her the Leader of her squadron by the will of the Most Holy Trinity. So it's clear; the Mother of God and Mother of the Church did not want and does not want the juridical structure for her Movement. For this I myself submit myself to Her holy will, and therefore the M.M.P. and the M.M. might remain as they were with Don Stefano, before and immediately after his death. In this way the Movement returns to its original charism, as received and lived by Don Stefano. It goes back to its prior state to its juridical structure, as I received it as Don Stefano's first successor.



I know that all this may seem like science fiction, but we are facing an important supernatural decision: "No one can come to me unless it is granted to him by the Father" (Jn 6:65). In the face of supernatural choices, man alone would be lost, because "the flesh is of no avail" (Jn 6:63; St. John Paul II, Homily August 21, 1988). But if we think about this carefully, the Movement already has guidelines on how to act: we live what is in the act of consecration, there we find everything, there is no need of circular letters from the one in charge, even Don Stefano for ten years had suspended them.



Another very current point, in my opinion, is not so much the problem of organizing trips or anything else. After Don Stefano's death, I do not believe that one should copy what he did, given the fact that he received a particular charism; now in most of the world there are people in charge named by Don Stefano, they themselves already know what they must to do. Now the most important commitment is that everyone live and does what Our Lady asks, the rest, even to fill up the stadiums, is not needed. Let us remember the example that Don Stefano quoted very often, the example of Gideon. Let us not forget, Our Lady speaks of the small remnant; she says "not so many, but saints".



What I'm saying may seem like abdicating the commitments of the Movement: in some exterior things yes, but, if we go deeply, She does not need human means (even less human disquisitions). So I would like it to be known, also to clarify the purpose of the two letters I sent by email, of which someone was even scandalized: now I say that the Movement does not need structures, it does not need the statutes, it does not need reports, it does not need to pay for trips or anything else to do 8 days of spiritual exercises in Fatima, now there is needed priests, with the CRUCIFIX and the ROSARY, there is needed lay people who support and join in prayer with them "of one heart and soul” (Acts 4:32), so that the second Pentecost takes place as soon as possible.



The M.M.P. becomes a reality not in the figures, in the resonance of names, in the efficiency of the organization, but insofar as one listens to Our Lady and one follows the work of the Holy Spirit, to the praise of the Most Holy Trinity. (Introduction - Spirituality, pp. 25, 26)



So the one who guides the Movement I think must first embody the "Spirit" of the Movement and at the same time keep in mind the figure of Don Stefano.



I have always thought that the one who is designated as the Person in charge must keep in mind the figure of Don Stefano, but above all he must embody "the spirit of the Movement" as it comes from the messages of the "Blue Book". For this reason, rather than saying "I am the one in charge" his job is to help keep faith in the messages of the Blue Book and the charism left to us by Don Stefano. Everything else: organizing, doing, even recalling: She will take care of things when someone does not behave well. Let us keep in mind the example of Don Stefano, and I would say also let us read and re-read the messages of the first ten years of the Movement, where we find messages that formed Don Stefano, and certainly if we live them they will form the true "Apostles of the last times”. These "Apostles of the last times" are not formed by the circular letters which we can write, Our Lady says that She forms them, and that as the first thing they must be:



- Mary’s property.

- Announcing, proclaiming the Gospel with courage, resolutely unmasking the heresies and errors, which undermine Truth.

- You must withstand with the strength of little ones the proud force of the great and of the learned.

- You must follow Jesus, on the road of contempt for the world, of yourself, you will also be marginalized, despised, persecuted, unknown to others, faithful even to the shedding of blood. (June 8, 1991)



Excuse me if I go back to the circular letter, but in the light of what She is asking us, there is too much difference in the fulfilling of the one hundred years of Fatima, between the human propositions and the heavenly ones.



Are we to follow the "circular letter" or what Our Lady asks us, with these 4 commitments through which, in Fatima's centenary, our Movement must strive to live and to give life to Fatima's message, because we all remember, and Don Stefano He repeated often: FATIMA IS THE MOVEMENT, THE MOVEMENT IS FATIMA.



For this reason, due to this ambiguity of the One in charge and of others, within the charism of Don Stefano, there has been created a second structure within the Movement itself, from which this fracture originated: outwardly, the Movement remains the M.M.P., but in reality the new structure virtually replaces the true Movement and so destroys it. Several members in Italy have realized that the Movement as it is managed with the statutes does not resemble the Movement known in the times of Don Stefano. This is very noticeable in Italy also because the Person in charge in these three years has been present in the Regional Cenacles on very few occasions, and because, where the second in charge was present, many had the impression that he did not even know the Movement. In fact, he speaks excessively of himself or about topics not adhering to the messages of the Blue Book; talking about the second commitment then more according to what the newspapers write than what Our Lady teaches us.



Regarding the second commitment of the M.M.P.: unity and loyalty to the Pope. I would like to know if we as the Marian Movement of Priests must keep silent about the errors which destroy the true faith, generating such vast apostasy, which we find well described in most of the messages, to the point of reaching an unbelievable extension, because it has arrived "even to the summit of the Church" (June 13, 1989).



It seems to me that Our Lady asks us to unmask the error and to defend the Truth "even at the cost of shedding our blood."



Fr. Quartilio Gabrielli, the first successor of Don Stefano.



N.B. I add a theological contribution of Father Ivan Pojavnik, regarding how the Movement should relate to the present "Bishop of Rome".

Father Ivan Pojavnik has been in the Movement since the early years. He knew well Don Stefano. He attended many meetings with Don Stefano. He was a professor of theology at the faculty of Ljubljana-Slovenia. He has published various theological studies on the Second Vatican Council and on the Church. His is doctrine, true and certain, the messages he knows very well, he knows Don Stefano, so what he presents, we are confident, is true doctrine.





The charism of petrina infallibility.



1. "For the holy Spirit was promised to the successors of Peter not so that they might, by his revelation, make known some new doctrine, but that, by his assistance, they might religiously guard and faithfully expound the revelation or deposit of faith transmitted by the apostles (traditam per apostolos rivelationem)" (Vatican Council I, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of Christ, IV). The Magisterium of the Church "is not above the word of God, but serves it, teaching only what has been handed on” (docens nonnisi quod traditum est)" (Vatican Council II, DV 10.2).



The exercise of the charism of the infallibility of Peter's successors is tied to the fulfillment of the conditions expressed in these passages of the two Vatican Councils. They must teach "only what is transmitted", that is, the divine and human Apostolic Tradition, whose source is in the Holy Spirit, the historical God-Man and at the same time the God-Man glorified in Heaven. If a Pope does not fulfill these conditions, he falls in error, as has happened several times in history.



The charism of a total and unconditional infallibility does not exist. Already the apostle Peter fell into an erroneous conception and ambiguous public act in the Christian community of Antioch, and was publicly corrected by the Apostle Paul (cf. Gal 2:11-16). The public correction was an act of truth and supernatural charity from Paul, derived from the Divine Heart of Christ. The first pope immediately accepted the public correction: "Being the first in the apostolic hierarchy, he was first also in humility" (St. Gregory the Great). This shows that the charism of supernatural humility is greater and more important than that of infallibility.





2. Unfortunately, there are numerous ambiguities and mistakes in Pope Francis's sermons at Santa Marta, as noted by some attentive observers over time. The most problematic thing is his exhortation "Amoris laetitia", which contains some serious ambiguities and errors, as is shown by a systematic comparison with the doctrine of Sacred Scripture, of some Ecumenical Councils (especially that of Trent), of Peter's successors from Leo XIII to Benedict XVI and of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which is a "special gift of the Immaculate Heart of Mary for these times ... and as it were shining last testament of Pope John Paul II” (cf. M. 01-01-1993).



(Note: These messages can be found at: “To The Priests Our Lady’s Beloved Sons”; http://our-lady-priests.blogspot.it/).



The most serious problem is the teaching of Chapter VIII of the Exhortation. All of Peter's followers up to Benedict XVI have taught the same doctrine about the sacraments of marriage and penance, on the reception of the Most Holy Eucharist by Christians in the state of mortal sin, and the universal moral law (Decalogue). It is the doctrine of the Apostolic Tradition. Now in Chapter VIII next to the perpetual doctrine of the Church, there is also a new doctrine which contradicts, and this constitutes its fundamental ambiguity.



Here we are facing a decisive choice between two parts that are in contradiction: is it infallible the doctrine of all of Peter's successors before Pope Francis or his doctrine in Chapter VIII? If the doctrine of the second part is infallibly true, then that of the first part is infallibly untrue, that is, erroneous. Is this not a fracture with the Apostolic Tradition and with this, with the teaching of the Incarnate Logos of God that is divine, infallible, universal, and immutable?



In fact, two contradictory interpretations of Chapter VIII are spread at all levels of the Church. The interpretation that breaks the bond with the Apostolic Tradition undermines the three above-mentioned sacraments. In addition, it replaces the universal moral law (Decalogue) with the erroneous ethics of the situation (“situation ethics”): in particular, this is in flagrant contradiction with the teaching of the encyclical "Veritatis splendor" (1993) by John Paul II and of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Many Bishop’s Conferences and many Bishops have already issued new pastoral guidelines that accept this fracture, they allow a grave abuse of the three sacraments, and push - in the name of mercy – civilly divorced people "remarried" to eternal damnation. Part of the Church is moving to Protestantism, and a huge crowd progresses headlong toward the infernal abyss.



"Man, in fact, obeys his ultimate purpose - which is God - by virtue of an absolute and necessary law (= moral law) founded on the infinite perfection of the same divine nature, in such a manner that not even God could exempt someone from observing it. With this eternal and immutable law it is established that man and all his actions must manifest, in praise and glory of the Creator, the infinite perfection of God, and must imitate it as much as possible" (Pius XII, encyclical Musicae sacrae, 1955; cf. John Paul II, encyclical Veritatis splendor, No. 91-92).





3. The second commitment of the M.M.P. remains: the fidelity to Peter's successor who "only teaches what has been transmitted by the apostles". In the teaching of Pope Francis, I accept the true part and I do not accept the ambiguities and the errors, for he "is not above the word of God," and I want to remain completely faithful to Christ-Truth.



Not understanding well some of Our Lady's messages and ignoring other uncomfortable ones, Fr. Larroque's circular letter defends a total and unconditional infallibility of Pope Francis. With this great mistake he has confirmed those members of the Movement who sleep as naive children in Gethsemane at this hour of the Church’s agony, and he has put to sleep many others. In addition, by virtue of its ambiguity, the circular letter has led a number of members away from the Movement of Our Lady to another movement.



(Note by Father Joseph Dwight: I believe that Father Ivan Pojavnik has concisely summarized well here what a great number of priests and bishops do today in the Catholic Church; a great number have taken the easy way: “In the Name of Purpose - Sacrificing Truth on the Altar of Unity” (Jeremiah 6:16), by Tamara Hartzell (http://inthenameofpurpose.org/inthename.pdf)! There is always the temptation of pride to seek and maintain one own glory before men (Lk 6:26; 16:14-15; Jn 12:43; 5:44; 12:43; Rom 2:29; 1Cor 4:5; Gal 1:10. See also “The True Easter!”; http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2017/05/the-true-easter.html).





The present situation in the Church.



4. "The Dragon is exulting at the vastness of his conquest, with the help of the Black Beast and the beast like a lamb” (cf M. 09-15-1989; M. 08-15-1989). By way of the meta-temptation of pride Satan has plunged mankind into the deepest abyss of atheism and has provoked a great apostasy from the faith in Christ. By forming in an occult and systematic manner a false Christ and a false Church, the beast, similar to a lamb, is taking possession of the Church (cf. M. 06-13-1989, M. 06-17-1989). This process advances very quickly to the culmination without a lot of people noticing it, unfortunately also many members of the Movement. Don Stefano said, "We must be intelligent children, that is, children with open eyes, and not stupid children, that is, with eyes closed."



Note well.: One should tremble in the face of the powerful and subtle pitfalls of the meta-temptation, with which Satan unleashes against us, which we are his first targets, because we belong to the Queen of victories. The Celestial Leader warns us: "Satan bites furiously at my heel" (M. 08-13-1975; cf. M. 06-28-1989). If the charisma of humility melts in the inebriating liquor of omniscient pride, then the three theological virtues and other charisms are emptied within a Christian. One should tremble before Satan's daily bites, with which he tries to inject us, drop by drop, especially his inebriating liqueur, first to get us into confusion and then to disperse us. Finally, one should shudder, since Leviathan strongly seduces us with a false security, as he already did with the apostles before the passion of Jesus, who had underestimated his predictions and the depth of the mystery of iniquity. "Satan ensnares you by causing you to feel like adults, sure of yourselves, and by causing you to set the basis of your security in your own selves, in your own ideas, in your own actions” (M. 07-08-1977).





5. "We further promise you the greatest loyalty to the Gospel, of which we shall always be genuine and courageous heralds, even, if necessary, to the shedding of our blood" (Act of Consecration). That is why I will never accept a break with the Apostolic Tradition, because I would depart from the Apostolic Church, indeed I would no longer be faithful to the Gospel and therefore to Christ Himself.



"True poverty of spirit is the gift I make to him whom I call. It is emptiness which draws my love. It is the wavelength on which my voice can be heard and understood" (M. 12-31-1976). The Poetess of the Magnificat sings in many messages an incomparable hymn to the virtue of humility. Only if we are truly poor in spirit we can hear and understand her Voice: She tells us in several messages that we are today in the concluding phase of the apocalyptic battle. For this battle, the heavenly Leader has formed Her cohort by conducting it, through the lived consecration to her Immaculate Heart, to the victorious high mountain of Christ Crucified and Risen. But only those mountainers, who have reached levels far superior to the mediocre life, clearly observe in the divine light the global battlefield and recognize the moves of the cohort of the Adversary. These heroic climbers are "strong proclaimers of all the truths of the Catholic faith, as you set yourself in opposition, with strength and courage, to all errors” (cf. M. 06-13-1989).



As prophetically predicted by Don Stefano in the meditation on Gideon's battle against the Madianites, only a remnant of the Movement will be ready for the heroic climb of Calvary up to the end, but with this remnant Our Lady will obtain her triumph. In this horizon of the paschal mystery of Christ and of His Mother, actualized today (many messages explain this), Father Quartilio put at the end of the two letters seven important questions.





Father Ivan Pojavnik



M.” refers to quotations from messages of Our Lady through Don Stefano Gobbi in the Blue Book:

To The Priests Our Lady’s Beloved Sons”

(http://our-lady-priests.blogspot.it/)



You can also find this article at:

http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2017/05/ready-to-die-for-christ-truth.html



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Father Joseph Dwight

http://josephdwight.blogspot.com





Father Joseph Dwight with Don Stefano Gobbi in the sacristy at Collevalenza, Italy, March 24, 2011.