To the
Priests, Our Lady's Beloved Sons
From the writings of Don Stefano Gobbi
Year 1989
COME, LORD JESUS
397
Dongo (Como, Italy); January 1, 1989
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
Come, Lord Jesus
a "I am your immaculate Mother, who is
leading you to Jesus and bringing you to peace. Today the whole
Church rejoices, as it contemplates the ineffable mystery of my
divine and universal motherhood.
b At the beginning of this new year, which will be
marked by a succession of grave and significant events, you are
looking in a special way to me as the Mother of Hope and Queen of
Peace.
c In the time of the great tribulation, through
which you are living, my motherly presence will become continually
stronger and more extraordinary. The greater and more universal the
reign of my Adversary, the Red Dragon, will become, the greater and
more universal the victorious presence of the Woman Clothed with the
Sun will likewise become.
d For this reason you have, as of now, entered
into a period of time marked by a strong presence of mine in your
midst, and this will become manifest to all by means of extraordinary
events.
e I am your tender Mother who has the duty of
leading you to Jesus, your Lord and your Savior. In these years,
which still separate you from the end of this century, I will take
action in all manner of ways in order that the reign of Jesus be
restored among you and that the Lord Jesus may be loved and glorified
by all.
f Come, Lord Jesus, in the life of each
one, by means of divine grace, of love and of sanctity. I will act in
a very powerful way to bring all of you, who have consecrated
yourselves to my Immaculate Heart, to a great sanctity, so that Jesus
may live, work and shine forth more and more in your life.
g Come, Lord Jesus, in families, to help
them to rediscover the life of communion, of mutual and reciprocal
love, of perfect unity and of a complete availability to the gift of
life.
h Come, Lord Jesus, in nations, which have
need of becoming once again communities open to the spiritual and
material needs of all, especially of the little, the needy, the sick,
the poor and the marginalized.
j There is in preparation for you the coming of
the reign of Jesus, which will bring you into a new era of great
brotherhood and of peace. For this reason, at the beginning of a
period of time which is very important – because during it a plan
prepared and completed by myself will be carried out - I am today
urging you all to band together in the prayer which your heavenly
Mother, united with the Holy Spirit her divine Spouse, directs each
day to the Father: `Come, Lord Jesus!' (Rev 22:20)
j Only when Jesus will have brought his reign into
your midst will all humanity at last be able to enjoy the great gift
of peace."
398
Milan (Italy); February 2. 1989
Feast of the Presentation of the Child Jesus
I Am Bringing You to Jesus
a "Beloved sons, live with joy the mystery of
the Presentation of the Child Jesus in the Temple of Jerusalem, and
with docility let yourselves also be carried in my motherly arms.
b Forty days after his birth, in fulfillment of
the prescriptions of the Law, together with my most chaste spouse,
Joseph, I go up to the temple both to offer to the Lord my first-born
Son and to carry out the sacrifice prescribed for his ransom. With
what love I clasp the Child Jesus in my motherly arms! And with what
docility and filial abandonment the little Babe allows Himself to be
carried by me, as I press Him with boundless tenderness to my Heart.
c And carried, presented and offered by the
Mother, Jesus enters into the glory of his temple.
d Jesus enters into the temple of Jerusalem,
because for Him, the Messiah, Lord and Redeemer, it was built and
sanctified.
e Jesus comes, in the splendor of his glory, and
takes possession of his divine dwelling place.
f Jesus is manifested in the splendor of his light
for revelation to all the gentiles.
g Jesus is announced in advance as a sign of
contradiction, for the salvation and ruin of many in Israel.
h Jesus is received into the arms of old Simeon as
the Messiah awaited for centuries and as Savior of his people.
i And within the mystery of his mission, there is
intimately engrafted the unfolding of my motherly function: `As for
you, O Mother, a sword shall pierce your soul.' (cf. Lk 2:35) Because
my duty as Mother is that of bringing Jesus to you and of bringing
you all to Jesus. I am the way along which you must travel if you
want to reach your Lord and Savior.
j I am bringing you to Jesus.
k I am bringing you to Jesus, your Truth. This
is why in these times, when many are leaving the faith to follow
errors, I am intervening with my numerous and extraordinary
manifestations, in order to lead you all to the full truth of the
Gospel. You must be only the lived-out Gospel so that you too may be
able to give the light of the truth.
l I am bringing you to Jesus, your Life. This
is why today, when many are falling into the darkness of sin and of
death, I am helping you through my strong presence in your midst, to
live in the grace of God, so that you also can share in the very life
of the Lord Jesus.
m In these dark times of the great tribulation, if
you do not allow yourselves to be carried in my arms, with filial
abandonment and with great docility, it is difficult for you to
succeed in escaping the subtle snares which my Adversary sets for
you. His seductions have become so dangerous and subtle that hardly
anyone any longer succeeds in escaping them. You are running the
great danger of falling into the seduction, which my Adversary is
setting for you in order to draw you away from Jesus and from me.
n All can fall into his trap. Priests and even
bishops can fall into it. The faithful and even those consecrated can
fall into it. The simple and even the learned can fall into it. The
disciples and even the masters can fall into it.
o Those will never fall into it who - as little
children - consecrate themselves to my Immaculate Heart and allow
themselves to be carried in my motherly arms. As of now, it will
become ever clearer and clearer to the Church and to the world that
the little flock which, in these years of the great apostasy,
will remain faithful to Jesus and to his Gospel, will be entirely
protected in the motherly enclosure of my Immaculate Heart.
p I am bringing you to Jesus, your Way. You
are thus led by Him to your Heavenly Father. Jesus is the perfect
Image of the Father; He is his only-begotten Son; He is the Word
consubstantial with Him; He is the reflection of his beauty; He is
the revelation of his love.
q Jesus and the Father are one single being. From
the Father, through the Son, there is given to you as gift the Spirit
of Love, in order that you too may be able to penetrate into the
stupendous mystery of this divine Unity.
r If Jesus becomes your way, you come into the
arms of his, and your, Heavenly Father. If you walk with Jesus, you
carry out the divine Will in your life, with that love and that
docility with which Jesus has always done the Will of the Father. And
thus you live with the confidence and the abandonment of little
children who expect and receive everything as a gift of love from
their Father who is in heaven.
s And then I, your heavenly Mother, am able to
carry you each, day, upon the altar of my Immaculate Heart, to the
temple of the glory and the light of the Lord. Thus I am able to
offer you, in life, to the perfect glorification of the Most Holy
Trinity, and by means of you, I am able to spread everywhere the
light of its divine splendor.
t When this light will have illumined and
transformed the whole world, Jesus will come to you in glory to
restore his kingdom."
399
Dongo (Como, Italy); March 23, 1989
Holy Thursday
Jesus Comes
a "Beloved sons, today is your pasch. Live it
in intimacy of life with Jesus, your Brother, who has personally
associated you in the exercise of his high and eternal Priesthood.
Live in love for Him.
b How Jesus has loved you! `Having loved
his own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.' (Jn
13:1) `I have earnestly desired to eat this Pasch with you before
I suffer.' (Lk 22:15)
c How Jesus loves you! Each day He renews again
the gift of this, his Last Supper, of his Sacrifice accomplished on
Calvary. You are an important part of this, his plan of love.
d Today you find yourselves gathered about your
bishops, to renew the promises which you made at the moment of your
priestly ordination. Renew them with joy and with confidence. Renew
them with love, as a sign of profound gratitude to Him who has chosen
you.
e Each day Jesus comes by means of you, his
priests and sons of my maternal predilection.
f Jesus comes, by means of your word, which
repeats the words of his Gospel of salvation in every language and to
all men: `Go into the whole world, and preach the Gospel to every
creature.' (Mk 16:15)
g Jesus comes, by means of your priestly
action, which is exercised in bringing all to Him, your Redeemer and
Savior. `He who believes and is baptized will be saved.' (Mk 16:16)
h Jesus comes, by means of the Eucharistic
Sacrifice, which renews that accomplished by Him on Calvary, to wash
again today, with his divine blood, all the sin and the evil of the
world. `Do this in memory of Me.' (Lk 22:19)
i Jesus comes, by means of the sacrament of
Reconciliation, which brings back all sinners to the house of his
merciful love. `Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven.' (Jn
20:23)
j Jesus comes, by means of the sacraments
of which you are the ministers and of your person which must reflect
the light of his perennial presence. `I am with you all days, until
the end of the world.' (cf. Mt 28:20)
k In this your day of Holy Thursday, I ask of each
one of you to give to all the joy of his divine presence in your
midst.
l Then, in the immense darkness which still
surrounds everything, you brighten up the earth with the light of
Jesus Christ, who comes again today by means of you."
400
Dongo (Como, Italy); March 24, 1989
Good Friday
Remain with Jesus on the Cross
a "I am here with the Apostle John who
represents all of you, my beloved sons, beneath the Cross on which my
Son Jesus is living out the bloody hours of his atrocious agony.
Every moan of his agony pierces, as a sword, my sorrowful
soul. Every drop of his suffering is gathered in the open chalice of
my Immaculate Heart.
b I am here to seek a little love and
compassion to offer, in order to alleviate the great thirst of Jesus
who is in agony. I am asking for a little love, but about us there is
inhuman wickedness, deep hatred, shrieks and blasphemies which go up
from the hearts and the lips of those who are assisting at his
execution. And, among these, there is a cry which pierces my Heart,
wounds it and causes it to bleed with indescribable pain. `Come down
from the Cross. If you are the Son of God, save yourself. Come down
from the Cross, and then we will believe in you.' (cf. Mt
27:40,42)
c But indeed it was to mount this Cross that my
Son was born. that He grew up, that He lived: to become the docile
lamb who, meek, is led to the slaughter. He is the true Lamb of God,
who takes away all the sins of the world.
d I, through my motherly presence, must today help
Him to remain on the Cross, that the Will of the Father be
accomplished and that you might be redeemed and saved by Him. Remain,
O my Son, on the Cross. I am here to help You stretch Yourself on
your scaffold, to suffer, to die. Remain, O my Son, on the Cross:
only thus do You save us; only thus do You draw the whole world to
Yourself.
e For this You came down from the bosom of
the Father into my virginal motherly womb.
f For this, for nine months, I carried You in my
womb and gave You flesh and blood for your human birth.
g For this You were born of me in
Bethlehem, and You grew up like every man, through the rhythm of your
human development.
h For this You opened up like a flower,
during your infancy, and You were formed in the vigor of your
adolescence.
i For this You bore the weight of daily labor in
the poor home of Nazareth; You were assisted each day by me, your
tender Mother, with the precious help of your legal father, Joseph.
j For this You have spent the three fatiguing
years of your public life, announcing the Gospel of salvation,
healing the sick, pardoning sinners, opening the gates of the kingdom
to the poor, the little, the humble and the oppressed.
k For this You have undergone the judgment
and the condemnation of the religious tribunal, ratified by Pilate,
who has delivered You over to the Cross. And today, behold, You are
stretched upon the throne of your glory, prepared by the Heavenly
Father for You, his only-begotten Son, gentle and divine Lamb who
takes away from the world all sin, evil, hatred, impurity and death.
O precious and fruitful Cross who carry in your arms the Savior of
the world!
l O sweet and saving wood, upon which is hung the
price of our ransom! O Cross, blessed and sanctified by the Paschal
Victim who today is immolating Himself upon you in the one and only
Sacrifice which redeems and saves all!
m Beloved sons, on this day of Good Friday, permit
that I might repeat also to you: Remain with Jesus, on the Cross.
Do not give in to the subtle temptations of my Adversary, to the
facile seductions of the world, to the voices of those who again
today repeat to you: `Come down from the cross!'
n No! You also, like Jesus, must understand the
divine plan of your personal priestly offering. You too must say yes
to the Will of the Father and be open to words of prayer and of
pardon. Because today, you also, like Jesus, must be immolated for
the salvation of the world."
401
Dongo (Como, Italy); March 25, 1989
Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord
Holy Saturday
In the New Sepulcher
a "In the new sepulcher, the body of
my Son Jesus rests in the sleep of death.
b Upon my virginal bosom, where the Word of the
Father placed Himself after the yes which I gave at the moment
of the Annunciation, his Spirit is placed. And I feel myself to be a
sorrowful and contented Mother, wounded and soothed, submersed in an
ocean of sorrow and enwrapped in a mantle of peace, racked by tears
and composed in an interior and divine blessedness.
c All has now been accomplished.
d Now I am keeping vigil in an act of incessant
prayer, as my Heart opens itself to the certainty or the resurrection
or my Son Jesus, my mind is illumined by the light of his prophecy,
and my person is all straining forward in the expectation of this,
his glorious moment.
e This is the day of my motherly solitude.
This is the day of my immense sorrow.
This is the fruitful day of my sure hope.
This is the first day of my new and spiritual motherhood.
This is the day of my immense sorrow.
This is the fruitful day of my sure hope.
This is the first day of my new and spiritual motherhood.
f Enter, beloved sons, into the cradle of my
Immaculate Heart, and prepare yourselves as well for the moment of
your new birth.
g In the new sepulcher, where the lifeless
body of my Son Jesus lies for this one day, place the man who, in
you, must die. Place the man of sin and of vice, of hatred and of
egoism, of avarice and of lust, of pride and of haughtiness, of
discord and of disbelief.
h Let there die in you today all that you have
inherited from the first man. And let there emerge at last into the
light the new man, who is born in the new sepulcher, where
Christ is risen in the glorious splendor of his divinity:
i The new man of grace and of holiness,
The new man of love and of communion,
The new man of mercy and of purity,
The new man of humility and of charity,
The new man of docility and of obedience,
The new man of light and of sanctity,
The new man formed in the new sepulcher and who comes to life at the joyous moment of the resurrection of Christ.
The new man of love and of communion,
The new man of mercy and of purity,
The new man of humility and of charity,
The new man of docility and of obedience,
The new man of light and of sanctity,
The new man formed in the new sepulcher and who comes to life at the joyous moment of the resurrection of Christ.
j This new birth of yours comes to pass in the
cradle of my Immaculate Heart, beside me, your tender Mother, who
thus initiates the new task of her spiritual and universal
motherhood.
k Only this new man, who is born in the
paschal mystery of Christ, can throw open wide the door of the
sepulcher, in which there lies today the whole of humanity, at this
point dead, to cause it to arise to a new era of grace and of
holiness, which the risen Christ brought you at the moment of his
victory over sin and over death."
402
Dongo (Como, Italy); March 26, 1989
Easter Sunday
In Expectation of His Glorious Return
a "Beloved sons, live in the joy of Easter.
Jesus Christ, scourged, crowned with thorns, reviled, led to the
Cross, crucified and put to death as a malefactor, is risen. With the
power which comes to Him from his Person and from his divine nature,
He has summoned from death his human nature, and in the splendor of
his glory, He comes forth victorious from the sepulcher.
b Christ Risen is alive in your midst. Do
not fear: He is guiding the events of human history to the
realization of the Will of the Heavenly Father and of his great plan
of salvation. Christ Risen is now seated in heaven upon his throne of
glory, at the right hand of the Father.
c To Him all things are subjected. Beneath his
footstool all his enemies will be humbled and defeated. As of today,
human history is opened up to the full glorification of the risen
Christ. The risen Christ will come again to you on the clouds of
heaven, in the full splendor of his glory.
d Live today in expectation of his glorious
return.
e Do not allow yourselves to be discouraged
by the momentary triumph of evil and of sin. Do not let the present
victory in the world - the victory of the obstinate rejection of God,
of rebellion against his Law of love and of a so universal impiety -
sadden you. Nor should you allow yourselves to be seized by doubt or
lack of confidence in seeing the Church so wounded and stricken,
ensnared and betrayed. Let the paschal joy be greater than every
human reason for apprehension and sadness.
f Christ Risen is alive in your midst. Christ
Risen marks with his victory the events of the world and of history.
Christ Risen wills to restore his kingdom in your midst, that He may
be glorified by the whole created universe.
g Live always in joy and in a firm hope, in
expectation of his glorious return."
403
Sant' Omero (Teramo,Italy); May 6,
1989
First Saturday
The Two Wings of the Great Eagle
a "My beloved sons, today you are
venerating me in a special way, on the first Saturday of this month
of May, which is specially dedicated to me by you. You are gathered
in cenacles of brotherly sharing and of prayer with your heavenly
Mother.
b How much comfort you give to my deep
sorrow; how much joy you bring to my Immaculate Heart! Because, by
means of you who have responded to me, devotion to me is now
flourishing again in all the Church.
c Thus I am able to exercise, in these times of
yours, the great power which has been given to me by the Most Holy
Trinity, to render harmless the attack which my Adversary, the Red
Dragon, has unleashed against me, vomiting from his mouth a river of
water to submerge me. The river of water is made up of the collection
of all the new theological doctrines, which have sought to obscure
the image of your heavenly Mother, to deny her privileges, to
restructure devotion to her, and to cast ridicule upon all those who
are devoted to her. Because of these attacks of the Dragon, in these
years, piety toward me has steadily diminished among many of the
faithful and, in some places, has even disappeared.
d But to the help of your heavenly Mother,
there have come the two wings of the great eagle. The great
eagle is the word of God, above all the word contained in the Gospel
of my Son Jesus.
e Of the four Gospels, the eagle indicates
that of Saint John, because he flies higher than all, enters into the
very Heart of the Most Holy Trinity, affirming with forcefulness the
divinity, the eternity and the consubstantiality of the Word and the
divinity of Jesus Christ.
f The two wings of the eagle are the word
of God, received, loved and kept with _faith and the
word of God lived with grace and charity. The two wings
of faith and of charity - that is to say, of the word of God received
and lived by me - permitted me to fly above the river of water of all
the attacks made upon me, because they have manifested to the world
my true greatness.
g And then I sought a refuge for myself in the
desert. The desert, in which I have made my habitual dwelling place,
is made up of the hearts and the souls of all those children who
receive me, who listen to me, who entrust themselves completely to
me, who consecrate themselves to my Immaculate Heart. In the desert
in which I find myself, I am working today my greatest prodigies. I
am working them in the heart and in the soul, that is to say, in the
life of all my littlest children. Thus I am leading them to follow me
along the road of faith and of charity, bringing them to receive, to
love and to keep the word of God and helping them to live each day
with consistency and courage.
h In silence and in hiddenness, that is to say, in
the desert in which I find myself, I am working forcefully that my
children consecrated to me believe today in the Gospel, let
themselves be guided only by the wisdom of the Gospel, be ever the
Gospel lived out.
i This is the task which I have prepared for the
army which I have formed for myself in every part of the world, with
my Marian Movement of Priests: to let themselves be carried with me
on the two wings of the great eagle, namely of faith and of
charity, receiving with love and living solely, in these times of
yours, the word of God.
j The great prodigies which I am accomplishing
today, in the desert in which I find myself, are those of
transforming completely the life of my little children, that they may
become courageous witnesses of faith and luminous examples of
holiness.
k In this way, in silence and in hiddenness, each
day I am preparing my great victory over the Dragon, in the triumph
of my Immaculate Heart in the world."
404
Shrine of Tindari (Sicily, Italy); May 14, 1989
Solemnity of Pentecost
The Huge Red Dragon
a "Beloved sons, today you adore and call
upon the Holy Spirit, descended at Pentecost upon the Apostles and
the disciples, gathered together with me in the Cenacle of Jerusalem.
You are calling upon Him again in these times of yours, with
confidence and perseverance, gathered together with me in cenacles of
prayer which are now spread in every part of the earth.
b With my Marian Movement of Priests, I am
today inviting all the children of the Church to gather together in a
continuous cenacle of prayer with me, your heavenly Mother. I am
inviting all the bishops, the priests, the religious and the
faithful.
c My Immaculate Heart is the place of this new,
spiritual and universal cenacle. You must enter into it through your
act of consecration, which commits you to me forever, so that I may
unite my voice to yours in calling down upon the Church and upon all
humanity the gift of a second Pentecost.
d Only the Spirit of the Lord can bring
back humanity to the perfect glorification of God. Only the Spirit of
the Lord can renew the Church with the splendor of its unity and its
sanctity. Only the Spirit of the Lord can overcome the power and the
victorious force of the huge Red Dragon, which, in this
century of yours, has broken loose everywhere, in a formidable way,
to seduce and ensnare all humanity.
e The huge Red Dragon is atheistic
communism which has spread everywhere the error of the denial and of
the obstinate rejection of God. The huge Red Dragon is Marxist
atheism, which appears with ten horns, namely with the power of its
means of communication, in order to lead humanity to disobey the Ten
Commandments of God, and with seven heads, upon each of which there
is a crown, signs of authority and royalty. The crowned heads
indicate the nations in which atheistic communism is established and
rules with the force of its ideological, political and military
power.
f The hugeness of the Dragon clearly manifests the
vastness of the territory occupied by the uncontested reign of
atheistic communism. Its color is red because it uses wars and blood
as instruments of its numerous conquests.
g The huge Red Dragon has succeeded during
these years in conquering humanity with the error of theoretical and
practical atheism, which has now seduced all the nations of the
earth. It has thus succeeded in building up for itself a new
civilization without God, materialistic, egoistic, hedonistic, arid
and cold, which carries within itself the seeds of corruption and of
death.
h The huge Red Dragon has the diabolical
task of taking all humanity away from the dominion of God, from the
glorification of the Most Holy Trinity, from the full actualization
of the plan of the Father who, by means of the Son, has created it
for his glory.
i The Lord has reclothed me with his light and the
Holy Spirit with his divine power, and thus I appear as a great sign
in heaven, a Woman Clothed with the Sun, because I have the task of
taking humanity away from the dominion of the huge Red Dragon and of
bringing it all back to the perfect glorification of the Most Holy
Trinity.
j For this I have formed for myself the army of my
littlest children, in every part of the world, and I am asking of
them that they consecrate themselves to my Immaculate Heart. Thus I
am leading them to live only for the glory of God, by means of faith
and charity, and I myself am jealously cultivating them in my
heavenly garden.
k Then each day I present myself before the
throne of my Lord in an act of profound adoration; I open the golden
door of my Immaculate Heart; and I offer in my arms all these little
children of mine, as I say: `Most Holy and Divine Trinity, at the
moment when You are being universally denied, I present to You the
homage of my motherly reparation, by means of all these little ones
of mine whom I am forming each day to your greater glorification.'
l Thus again today, from the mouths of
infants and sucklings, the Lord receives his perfect praise."
405
Milan (Italy); June 3, 1989
Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
First Saturday
The Beast Like a Leopard
a "Beloved sons, today you are gathered in
cenacles of prayer to celebrate the feast of the Immaculate Heart of
your heavenly Mother. From every part of the world, I have called you
to consecrate yourselves to my Immaculate Heart, and you have
responded with filial love and generosity. I have now formed for
myself my army, with those children who have accepted my request and
have listened to my voice.
b The time has come when my Immaculate
Heart must be glorified by the Church and by all humanity because, in
these times of the apostasy, of the purification and of the great
tribulation, my Immaculate Heart is the only refuge and the way which
leads you to the God of salvation and of peace. Above all, my
Immaculate Heart becomes today the sign of my sure victory, in the
great struggle which is being fought out between the followers of the
huge Red Dragon and the followers of the Woman Clothed with
the Sun.
c In this terrible struggle, there comes up from
the sea, to the aid of the Dragon, a beast like a leopard.
d If the Red Dragon is Marxist atheism, the
Black Beast is Freemasonry. The Dragon manifests himself in
the force of his potter: the Black Beast, on the other hand, acts in
the shadow, keeps out of sight and hides himself in such a way as to
enter in everywhere. He has the claws of a bear and the mouth of a
lion. because he works everywhere with cunning and with the means of
social communication, that is to say, through propaganda. The seven
heads indicate the various Masonic lodges, which act everywhere in a
subtle and dangerous way.
e This Black Beast has ten horns and, on the
horns, ten crowns, which are signs of dominion and royalty. Masonry
rules any governs throughout the whole world by means of the ten
horns. The horn, in the biblical world, has always been an instrument
of amplification, a way of making one’s voice better heard, a
strong means of communication.
f For this reason, God communicated his Will to
his people by means of ten horns which made his Law known: the Ten
Commandments. The one who accepts them and observes them walks in
life along the road of the divine Will, of joy and of peace. The one
who does the Will of the Father accepts the word of his Son and
shares in the redemption accomplished by Him. Jesus gives to souls
the very divine life, through grace, that He won for us through his
Sacrifice carried out on Calvary.
g The grace of the redemption is communicated by
means of the seven sacraments. With grace there becomes implanted in
the soul the seeds of supernatural life which are the virtues. Among
these, the most important are the three theological and the four
cardinal virtues: faith, hope, charity; prudence, fortitude, justice
and temperance. In the divine sun of the seven gifts of the Holy
Spirit, these virtues germinate, grow, become more and more developed
and thus lead the soul along the luminous way of love and of
sanctity.
h The task of the Black Beast, namely of Masonry,
is that of fighting, in a subtle way, but tenaciously, to obstruct
souls from traveling along this way, pointed out by the Father and
the Son and lighted up by the gifts of the Spirit. In fact if the Red
Dragon works to bring all humanity to do without God, to the denial
of God, and therefore spreads the error of atheism, the aim of
Masonry is not to deny God, but to blaspheme Him. The Beast
opens his mouth to utter blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his
name and his dwelling place, and against all those who dwell in
heaven. The greatest blasphemy is that of denying the worship due to
God alone by giving it to creatures and to Satan himself. This is why
in these times, behind the perverse action of Freemasonry, there are
being spread everywhere black masses and the satanic cult. Moreover
Masonry acts, by every means, to prevent souls from being saved, and
thus it endeavors to bring to nothing the redemption accomplished by
Christ.
i If the Lord has communicated his Law with the
Ten Commandments, Freemasonry spreads everywhere, through the power
of its ten horns, a law which is completely opposed to that of God.
j the commandment of the Lord: `You shall not have
any other gods but me,' (cf. Ex 20:3) it builds other false idols,
before which many today prostrate themselves in adoration.
k To the commandment: `You shall not take the name
of God in vain,' (Ex 20:7) it sets itself up in opposition by
blaspheming God and his Christ, in many subtle and diabolical ways,
even to reducing his Name indecorously to the level of a brand-name
of an object of sale and of producing sacrilegious films concerning
his life and his divine Person.
l To the commandment: 'Remember to keep holy the
Sabbath Day,' (Ex 20:8) it transforms the Sunday into a weekend, into
a day of sports, of competitions and of entertainments.
m To the commandment: `Honor your father and your
mother (Ex 20:12) it opposes a new model of family even between
homosexuals.
n To the commandment: `You shall not kill,” (Ex
20:13) it has succeeded in making abortion legal everywhere, in
making euthanasia acceptable, and in causing respect due to the value
of human life all but disappear.
o To the commandment: `You shall not commit impure
acts,' (Ex 20:14) it justifies, exalts and propagates every form of
impurity, even to the justification of acts against nature.
p To the commandment: `You shall not steal,' (Ex
20:15) it works to the end that theft, violence, kidnapping and
robbery spread more and more.
q To the commandment: `You shall not bear false
witness,2 (Ex 20:16) it acts in such a way that the law of deceit,
lying and duplicity becomes more and more propagated.
r To the commandment: `You shall not covet the
goods and the wife of another,' (cf. Ex 20:17) it works to corrupt in
the depths of the conscience, betraying the mind and the heart of
man.
s In this way souls become driven along the
perverse and wicked road of disobedience to the laws of the Lord,
become submerged in sin and are thus prevented from receiving the
gift of grace and of the life of God.
t To the seven theological and cardinal
virtues, which are the fruit living in the grace of God,
Freemasonry counters with the diffusion of the seven capital
vices, which are the fruit of living habitually in the state of
sin. To faith it opposes pride; to hope, lust; to charity, avarice;
to prudence, anger; to fortitude, sloth; to justice, envy; to
temperance, gluttony.
u Whoever becomes a victim of the seven capital
vices is gradually led to take away the worship that is due to God
alone, is order to give it to false divinities, who are the very
personification of all these vices. And in this consists the greatest
and most horrible blasphemy. This is why on every head of the Bear
there is written a blasphemous name. Each Masonic lodge has the task
of making a different divinity adored.
v The first head bears the blasphemous name of
pride, which opposes itself to the virtue of faith and leads one to
offer worship to the god of human reason and haughtiness, of
technology and progress.
w The second head bears the blasphemous name of
lust, which opposes itself to the virtue of hope and brings one to
offer worship to the god of sexuality and of impurity.
x The third head bears the blasphemous name of
avarice, which opposes itself to the virtue of charity and spreads
everywhere the worship of the god of money.
y The fourth head bears the blasphemous name of
anger, which opposes itself to the virtue of prudence and leads one
to offer worship to the god of discord and division.
z The fifth head bears the blasphemous name of
sloth, which opposes itself to the virtue of fortitude and
disseminates the worship of the idol of fear, of public opinion and
of exploitation.
A The sixth head bears the blasphemous name of
envy, which opposes itself to the virtue of justice and leads one to
offer worship to the idol of violence and of war.
B The seventh head bears the blasphemous name of
gluttony, which opposes itself to the virtue of temperance and leads
one to offer worship to the so highly extolled idol of hedonism, of
materialism and of pleasure.
C The task of the Masonic lodges is that of
working today, with great astuteness, to bring humanity everywhere to
disdain the holy Law of God, to work in open opposition to the Ten
Commandments, and to take away the worship due to God alone in order
to offer it to certain false idols which become extolled and adored
by an ever increasing number of people: reason, flesh, money,
discord, domination, violence, pleasure. Thus souls are precipitated
into the dark slavery of evil, of vice and of sin and, at the moment
of death and of the judgment of God, into the pool of eternal fire
which is hell.
D Now you understand how, in these times,
against the terrible and insidious attack of the Black Beast, namely
of Masonry, my Immaculate Heart becomes your refuge and the sure road
which brings you to God. In my Immaculate Heart there is delineated
the tactic made use of by your heavenly Mother, to fight back against
and to defeat the subtle plot made use of by the Black Beast.
E For this reason I am training all my
children to observe the Ten Commandments of God; to live the Gospel
to the letter; to make frequent use of the sacraments, especially
those of Penance and Eucharistic Communion, as necessary helps in
order to remain in the grace of God; to practice the virtues
vigorously; to walk always along the path of goodness, of love, of
purity and of holiness.
F Thus I am making use of you, my little
children who have consecrated yourselves to me, to unmask all these
subtle snares which the Black Beast sets for you and to make futile
in the end the great attack which Masonry has launched today against
Christ and his Church. And in the end, especially in his greatest
defeat, there will appear in all its splendor, the triumph of my
Immaculate Heart in the world."
406
Dongo (Como, Italy); June 13, 1989
Anniversary of the Second Apparition at Fatima
The Beast Like a Lamb
a "Beloved sons, today you are calling to
mind my second apparition, which took place in the humble Cova da
Iria in Fatima, on June 13, 1917. Even as of then I foretold to you
that which you are living through in these times. I announced to you
the great struggle between me, the Woman Clothed with the Sun, and
the huge Red Dragon, which has brought humanity to live without God.
b I also foretold to you the subtle and
dark work, carried out by Freemasonry with the purpose of separating
you from the observance of the Law of God and thus making you victims
of sins and of vices.
c 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.
d 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.
e The lamb, in Holy Scripture, has always been a
symbol sacrifice. On the night of the exodus, the lamb is sacrificed,
and with its blood, the doorposts of the houses of the Hebrews are
sprinkled, in order to remove them from the punishment which on the
contrary strikes all the Egyptians. The Hebrew Pasch recalls this
fact each year, through the immolation of a lamb, which is sacrificed
and consumed. On Calvary, Jesus Christ sacrifices Himself for the
redemption of humanity; He Himself becomes our Pasch and becomes the
true Lamb of God who takes away all the sins of the world.
f The beast has on its head two horns like
those of a lamb. To the symbol of the sacrifice, there is
intimately connected that of the priesthood: the two horns. The high
priest of the Old Testament wore a headpiece with two horns. The
bishops of the Church wear the miter with two horns to indicate the
fullness of their priesthood.
g 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.
h Jesus Christ is the Son of the living God; He is
the Word incarnate; He is true God and true Man because He unites in
his divine Person human nature and divine nature. Jesus, in the
Gospel, has given his most complete definition of Himself, saying
that He is the Truth, the Way and the Life.
i Jesus is the Truth, because He reveals
the Father to us, speaks his definitive word to us, and brings all
divine revelation to its perfect fulfillment.
j Jesus is the Life, because He gives us
divine life itself, with the grace merited by Him through redemption,
and He institutes the sacraments as efficacious means which
communicate grace.
k Jesus is the Way which leads to the
Father, by means of the Gospel which He has given us, as the way to
follow to attain salvation.
l Jesus is the Truth because it is He - the living
Word - who is the font and seal of all divine revelation. And so
ecclesiastical Masonry works to obscure his divine word, by means of
natural and rational interpretations and, in the attempt to make it
more understandable and acceptable, empties it of all its
supernatural content. Thus errors are spread in every part of the
Catholic Church itself. Because of the spread of these errors, many
are moving away today from the true faith, bringing to fulfillment
the prophecy which was given to you by me at Fatima: `The times will
come when many will lose the true faith.' The loss of the faith is
apostasy. Ecclesiastical Masonry works, in a subtle and diabolical
way, to lead all into apostasy.
m Jesus is the Life because He gives grace. The
aim of ecclesiastical Masonry is that of justifying sin, of
presenting it no longer as an evil but as something good and of
value. Thus one is advised to do this as a way of satisfying the
exigencies of one's own nature, destroying the root from which
repentance could be born, and is told that it is no longer necessary
to confess it. The pernicious fruit of this accursed cancer, which
has spread throughout the whole Church, is the disappearance
everywhere of individual confession. Souls are led to live in sin,
rejecting the gift of life which Jesus has offered us.
n Jesus is the Way which leads to the Father, by
means of the Gospel. Ecclesiastical Masonry favors those forms of
exegesis which give it a rationalistic and natural interpretation, by
means of the application of the various literary genres, in such a
way that it becomes torn to pieces in all its parts. In the end, one
arrives at denying the historical reality of miracles and of the
resurrection and places in doubt the very divinity of Jesus and his
salvific mission.
o After having destroyed the historical Christ,
the beast with the two horns like a lamb seeks to destroy the
mystical Christ which is the Church. The Church instituted by Christ
is one, and one alone: it is the one, holy, catholic and
apostolic Church, founded on Peter. As is Jesus, so too is the Church
founded by Him which forms his Mystical Body, truth, life and way.
p The Church is truth, because Jesus has
entrusted to it alone the task of guarding, in its integrity, all the
deposit of faith. He has entrusted it to the hierarchical Church,
that is to say, to the Pope and to the bishops united with him.
Ecclesiastical Masonry seeks to destroy this reality through false
ecumenism, which leads to the acceptance of all Christian
Churches, asserting that each one of them has some part of the truth.
It develops the plan of founding a universal ecumenical Church,
formed by the fusion of all the Christian confessions, among which,
the Catholic Church.
q The Church is life because it gives
grace, and it alone possesses the efficacious means of grace, which
are the seven sacraments. Especially it is life because to it alone
is given the power to beget the Eucharist, by means of the
hierarchical and ministerial priesthood. In the Eucharist, Jesus
Christ is truly present with his glorified Body and his Divinity. And
so ecclesiastical Masonry, in many and subtle ways, seeks to attack
the ecclesial devotion towards the sacrament of the Eucharist. It
gives value only to the meal aspect, tends to minimize its
sacrificial value, seeks to deny the real and personal presence of
Jesus in the consecrated Host. In this way there are gradually
suppressed all the external signs which are indicative of faith in
the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, such as genuflections,
hours of public adoration and the holy custom of surrounding the
tabernacle with lights and flowers.
r The Church is way because it leads to the
Father, through the Son, in the Holy Spirit, along the way of perfect
unity. As the Father and the Son are one, so too must you be one
among yourselves. Jesus has willed that his Church be a sign and an
instrument of the unity of the whole human race. The Church succeeds
in being united because it has been founded on the cornerstone of its
unity: Peter, and the Pope who succeeds to the charism of Peter. And
so ecclesiastical Masonry seeks to destroy the foundation of the
unity of the Church, through a subtle and insidious attack on the
Pope. It weaves plots of dissension and of contestation against the
Pope; it supports and rewards those who vilify and disobey him; it
disseminates the criticisms and the contentions of bishops and
theologians. In this way the very foundation of its unity is
demolished, and thus the Church becomes more and more torn and
divided.
s Beloved children, I have urged you to consecrate
yourselves to my Immaculate Heart and to enter into this, my motherly
refuge, above all in order to be preserved and defended again this
terrible snare. In this way, through the act of consecration of my
Movement, I have urged you to renounce every aspiration of building
up a career. Thus you will be able to remove yourselves from the
strongest and most dangerous snare, made use of by Masonry in order
to associate in its secret sects so many of my beloved children. 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.
t Then I lead you to the greatest love for the
Church.
u 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.
v 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. In your churches may you
once again hold frequent hours of public adoration and reparation to
the Most Holy Sacrament of the altar.
w 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.
x 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.
y In this there shines forth above all the victory
of the Woman Clothed with the Sun, and my Immaculate Heart attains
its most luminous triumph.”
407
Milan (Italy); June 17, 1989
The Number of the Beast: 666
a "Beloved sons, you now understand the plan
of your heavenly Mother, the Woman Clothed with the Sun, who, with
her army, is engaged in the great struggle against all the forces of
evil, in order to attain her great victory in the perfect
glorification of the Most Holy Trinity.
b Join me in battle, little children, against the
Dragon, who seeks to lead all humanity against God.
c Join me in battle, little children, against the
Black Beast, Masonry, which seeks to lead souls to perdition.
d Join me in battle, little children, against the
beast like a lamb, Masonry, infiltrated into the interior of
ecclesial life in order to destroy Christ and his Church. To attain
this end, it seeks to build a new idol, namely a false christ and a
false church.
e - Ecclesiastical Masonry receives orders and
power from the various Masonic lodges and works to lead everyone
secretly to become part of these secret sects. Thus it stimulates the
ambitious with the prospect of easy careers; it heaps up with goods
those who are starved for money; it assists its members to exceed
others and to occupy the most important positions while it sets
aside, in a subtle but decisive way, all those who refuse to take
part in its designs. Indeed the beast like a lamb exercises all its
power from the first beast, in its presence, and it forces the earth
and all its inhabitants to adore the first beast.
f Ecclesiastical Masonry goes as far as even
building a statue in honor of the beast and forces all to adore this
statue.
g - But, according to the first commandment of the
holy Law of the Lord, only God is to be adored and to Him alone must
every form of worship be rendered. And so they substitute for God a
strong, powerful and dominating idol. An idol so powerful that it
puts to death all who do not adore the statue of the beast. An idol
so strong and dominating as to cause all, small and great, rich and
poor, freemen and slaves, to receive a mark on the right hand and on
the forehead, and that no one can buy or sell without having this
mark, that is to say, the name of the beast or the number of its
name. This great idol, built to be served and adored by all, as I
have already revealed to you in the preceding message, is a false
Christ and a false church.
h But what is its name?
i - In the thirteenth chapter of the Apocalypse,
it is written, `This calls for wisdom. Let him who has understanding
reckon the number of the beast: it represents a human name. And the
number in question is 666 (six hundred and sixty-six).' (cf. Rev
13:18) With intelligence, illumined by the light of divine wisdom.
one can succeed in deciphering from the number, 666, the name of a
man and this name, indicated by such a number, is that of the
Antichrist.
j Lucifer, the ancient serpent, the devil or
Satan, the Red Dragon, becomes, in these last times, the Antichrist.
The Apostle John already affirmed that whoever denies that Jesus
Christ is God, that person is the Antichrist. The statue or idol,
built in honor of the Beast to be adored by all men, is the
Antichrist.
k Calculate now its number, 666, to
understand how it indicates the name of a man. The number, 333,
indicates the divinity. Lucifer rebels against God through pride,
because he wants to put himself above God. 333 is the number which
indicates the mystery of God. He who wants to put himself above God
bears the sign, 666, and consequently this number indicates the name
of Lucifer. Satan, that is to say, of him who sets himself against
Christ, of the Antichrist.
l 333 indicated once, that is to say, for
the first time, expresses the mystery of the unity of God. 333
indicated twice, that is to say, for the second time, indicates the
two natures, that of the divine and the human, united in the divine
Person of Jesus Christ. 333 indicated thrice, that is to say, for the
third time, indicates the mystery of the Three Divine Persons, that
is to say, it expresses the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity. Thus
the number, 333, expressed one, two and three times, expresses the
principal mysteries of the Catholic faith, which are: (1) the Unity
and the Trinity of God, (2) the incarnation, the passion and death,
and the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
m If 333 is the number which indicates the
divinity, he who wants to put himself above God Himself is referred
to by the number 666.
n 666 indicated once, that is to say, for
the first time, expresses the year 666, six hundred and sixty-six.
In this period of history, the Antichrist is manifested
through the phenomenon of Islam, which directly denies the mystery
of the Divine Trinity and the divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Islamism, with its military force, breaks loose everywhere,
destroying all the ancient Christian communities, and invades Europe,
and it is only through my extraordinary motherly intervention, begged
for powerfully by the Holy Father, that it does not succeed in
destroying Christianity completely.
o 666 indicated twice, that is to say, for
the second time, expresses the year 1332, thirteen hundred and
thirty-two. In this period of history, the Antichrist is
manifested through a radical attack on the faith in the word of God.
Through the philosophers who begin to give exclusive value to
science and then to reason, there is a gradual tendency to constitute
human intelligence alone as the sole criterion of truth. There come
to birth the great philosophical errors which continue through the
centuries down to your days. The exaggerated importance given to
reason, as an exclusive criterion of truth, necessarily leads to the
destruction of the faith in the word of God. Indeed, with the
Protestant Reformation, Tradition is rejected as a source of divine
revelation, and only Sacred Scripture is accepted. But even this must
be interpreted by means of the reason, and the authentic Magisterium
of the hierarchical Church, to which Christ has entrusted the
guardianship of the deposit of the faith, is obstinately rejected.
Each one is free to read and to understand Sacred Scripture according
to one's personal interpretation. In this way, faith in the word of
God is destroyed. The work of the Antichrist, in this period of
history, is the division of the Church and the consequent formation
of new and numerous Christian confessions which gradually become
driven to a more and more extensive loss of the true faith in the
word of God.
p 666 indicated thrice, that is to say, for
the third time, expresses the year 1998, nineteen hundred and
ninety-eight. In this period of history, Freemasonry, assisted by
its ecclesiastical form, will succeed in its great design: that of
setting up an idol to put in the place of Christ and of his Church. A
false christ and a false church. Consequently, the statue built in
honor of the first beast, to be adored by all the inhabitants of the
earth and which will seal with its mark all those who want to buy or
sell, is that of the Antichrist. You have thus arrived at the
peak of the purification, of the great tribulation and of the
apostasy. The apostasy will be, as of then, generalized because
almost all will follow the false christ and the false church. Then
the door will be open for the appearance of the man or of the very
person of the Antichrist!
q This is why, beloved children, I have wanted to
enlighten you concerning the pages of the Apocalypse which refer to
the times you are living through. This is to prepare you with me, for
the most painful and decisive part of the great struggle which is on
the point of being fought out between your heavenly Mother and all
the forces of evil which have been let loose.
r Take courage! Be strong, my little children. To
you befalls the duty, in these difficult years, of remaining faithful
to Christ and to his Church, putting up with hostility, struggle and
persecution. But you are a precious part of the little flock, which
has the task of fighting against, and in the end of conquering, the
powerful force of the Antichrist.
s I am forming you all, defending you and blessing
you."
408
Valdragone (San Marino); June 28, 1989
Spiritual Exercises in the Form of a Cenacle
with the Priests of the M.M.P. from America and Europe
Bear Within Yourselves the Witness of Jesus
a "Beloved sons, with what love I look at
you, and how my sorrowful Heart is consoled by this continuous
cenacle of yours, which renews here the reality of that of Jerusalem!
You are gathering together in prayer which is continuous, intense and
made with me. How pleasing to me is the prayer of the Liturgy of the
Hours, the entire rosary which you recite, the Eucharistic adoration
and the solemn concelebration of Mass, which forms the heart of the
entire cenacle!
b You are united as brothers who love each other
and who help each other to carry together the burden of the
difficulties which you encounter. You renew each day your act of
consecration to my Immaculate Heart in diverse languages, and thus
you truly unite yourselves to all your brothers of my Movement who
are spread throughout every part of the world. You are part of my
army. You are a precious portion of my maternal heritage.
c You bear within yourselves the witness of
Jesus, and you observe the commandments of God.
d Satan unleashes himself against you, because you
form my heel, that is, the weakest and most fragile part of me, and
because you are my offspring. Thus today he lies in ambush for you in
a powerful manner, and he unleashes himself against you with every
sort of temptation and persecution. Remain serene. Have confidence in
me. These are the times of the battle, and you must fight for my
victory. Because of this, I invite you all to bear within yourselves
the witness of Jesus.
e Bear within yourselves the witness of Jesus
in these times of the purification in order to walk along the
road of fidelity to Christ and to his Church, and of an ever greater
holiness. Thus you will remain in security and peace, in trust and in
filial abandonment to me.
f Bear within yourselves the witness of Jesus
in these times of the apostasy in order to be strong and
courageous witnesses of faith. For this, I invite you to be ever more
united to the Pope, to sustain him with your prayer and with your
love, to accept and spread his teaching: in this way you will
indicate to souls the secure way to follow in order to remain in the
true faith.
g Maintain the witness of Jesus in these
times of the great tribulation. The days foretold by the Gospel and
the Apocalypse have arrived. The forces of evil, united by the power
of the one who opposes himself to Christ, will perform great
prodigies in the heavens and on the earth in order to thus seduce a
great part of humanity. You must remain solid in your heroic witness
to Jesus and fight with me against the powerful force of him who
manifests himself as the enemy of Christ. In the end you will be able
to contemplate with joy my great victory in the glorious triumph of
Christ.
h I bless you all with your dear ones, the souls
confided to your care, your priestly ministry, and I gather in my
hands all the good intentions you carry in your heart."
409
Rubbio (Vicenza, Italy); August 15, 1989
Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed
Virgin Mary into Heaven
Here Must Appear the Constancy of the Saints
a "Today, look to me, your heavenly Mother,
in the splendor of my glorified body assumed, with my soul, into the
glory of paradise.
I am the Woman Clothed with the Sun. I am your heavenly Leader.
I am the Queen of all the saints.
I am the Woman Clothed with the Sun. I am your heavenly Leader.
I am the Queen of all the saints.
b Look to me as a sign of sure hope and of
consolation, in these times of the purification, of the apostasy and
of the great tribulation. The times of the struggle and the greatest
conquest on the part of the Dragon, of the beast which comes up from
the earth and of the beast which comes up from the sea have come.
c These are therefore the times when a
civilization without God is being constructed and all humanity is
being led to live without Him.
d These are the times when Satan and the
diabolic forces are making themselves adored by an ever increasing
number of men, and thus the spread of the satanic cult, of the sects
and of the black masses is becoming vaster.
e These are the times when an idol is being built
to be put in the place of the true God and of the true Church, and
this idol is a false christ and a false church.
f These are the times when all those who will
follow this idol will be signed with its mark on the forehead and on
the hand.
g These are the times when the faithful
followers of the Lamb will be subjected to marginalization, to
persecutions, to prison and to death.
h These are therefore the times of your constancy.
i Here must appear the constancy of the saints.
j Here must appear the constancy of those
who belong to the Lord, who put into practice the commandments of God
and who remain faithful to Jesus.
k Here must appear the constancy of those
who will be persecuted and led to martyrdom, because blessed are they
who die in the Lord, who find rest from their labors, and the good
that they have done accompanies them.
l Here must appear the constancy of those
who do not adore the beast and who will not allow themselves to be
signed with his diabolical mark. Those, on the other hand who will
adore the beast and its statue and will receive its mark on the
forehead and on the hand, will drink the wine of the wrath of
God, poured it from the chalice of his terrible chastisement and will
be tortured, in the presence of the Lamb and of the holy
angels, with fire and sulfur.
m Here must appear the constancy of those
who bear, written upon their foreheads, the name of the Lamb
and the name of his Father, because they have not betrayed
their God, there has never been a lie in their speech, and they
follow the Lamb wherever He goes.
n Here must appear the constancy of all my
little children, whom I am calling to consecrate themselves to my
Immaculate Heart, to live out with me the conclusive moments of the
battle and of the fall of Babylon, when the vintage of
the earth will be harvested, and the grapes will be cast into the
wine press, which represents the great chastisement of God.
o For this reason I invite you all today to look
to me, your heavenly Mother, in the splendor of my glorified
body, that my light may illumine you, my Immaculate Heart enfold you,
and my motherly love support you to be, in these times, courageous
witnesses of constancy before the Church and before all
humanity.”
410
Dongo (Como, Italy); September 8, 1989
Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin
Mary
The Mark on the Forehead and on the Hand
a "Today is the feast of the birth of
your heavenly Mother, my dear beloved ones and children
consecrated to my Immaculate Heart. Live it in joy and in
peace, in silence and in prayer, in confidence and in filial
abandonment.
b You are the little infants of your infant
Mother. You are part of my progeny and a strong point of my
victorious plan. You form a precious crown of purity, of love and of
humility about the cradle in which I am placed.
c Allow yourselves to be nourished and formed by
me; allow yourselves to be led by me with docility; allow yourselves
to be signed by me with my motherly seal.
d These are the times when the followers of
him who opposes himself to Christ are being signed with his mark on
the forehead and on the hand.
e The mark on the forehead and on the hand is
an expression of a total dependency on the part of those who are
designated by this sign. The sign indicates him who is an enemy of
Christ, that is to say, the sign of the Antichrist. And his mark,
which is stamped, signifies the complete belonging of the person thus
marked to the army of him who is opposed to Christ and who fights
against his divine and royal dominion.
f The mark is imprinted on the forehead and on
the hand.
g The forehead indicates the intellect,
because the mind is the seat of the human reason.
h The hand expresses human activity,
because it is with his hands that man acts and works.
i Nevertheless it is the person who is marked with
the mark of the Antichrist in his intellect and in his will.
j He who allows himself to be signed with the
mark on his forehead is led to accept the doctrine of the denial
of God, of the rejection of his Law, and of atheism which, in these
times, is more and more diffused and advertised. And thus he is
driven to follow the ideologies in mode today and to make of himself
a propagator of all the errors.
k He who allows himself to be signed with
the mark on his hand is obliged to act in an autonomous manner
and independently of God, ordering his own activities to the quest of
a purely material and terrestrial good. Thus he withdraws his action
from the design of the Father, who wants to illumine it and sustain
it by his divine providence, from the love of the Son who makes human
toil a precious means for one's own redemption and sanctification,
from the power of the Spirit who acts everywhere to renew interiorly
every creature.
l He who is signed with the mark on his hand
works for himself alone, to accumulate material goods, to make
money his god, and he becomes a victim of materialism.
m He who is signed with the mark on his hand
works solely for the gratification of his own senses, for the quest
of well-being and pleasure, for the granting of full satisfaction to
all his passions, especially that of impurity, and he becomes a
victim of hedonism.
n He who is signed with the mark on his hand
makes of his own self the center of all his actions, looks upon
others as objects to be used and to be exploited for his own
advantage, and he becomes a victim of unbridled egoism and of
lovelessness.
o If my Adversary is signing, with his mark, all
his followers, the time has come when I also, your heavenly Leader,
am signing, with my motherly seal, all those who have consecrated
themselves to my Immaculate Heart and have formed part of my army.
p I am imprinting my seal on your foreheads
with the most holy sign of the Cross of my Son Jesus. Thus I am
opening the human intellect to receive his divine word, to love it,
and to live it. I am leading you to entrust yourselves completely to
Jesus who has revealed it to you. And I am making of you today
courageous witnesses of faith. Against those signed on the forehead
with the blasphemous mark, I am opposing my children signed with the
Cross of Jesus Christ.
q And then I am directing all your activity to the
perfect glorification of the Most Holy Trinity. For this, I am
imprinting upon your hands my seal which is the sign of the
Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. With the sign of the
Father, your human activity becomes directed towards a perfect
cooperation with the plans of his divine providence, which still
today arranges all things for your good. With the sign of the Son,
all your actions become profoundly inserted into the mystery of his
divine redemption. With the sign of the Holy Spirit, everything you
do becomes open to his powerful force for sanctification, which
breathes everywhere like a powerful fire, to renew from its
foundations the whole world.
r My beloved children, allow yourselves all to be
signed on the forehead and on the hand with my motherly seal, on this
day when, gathered with love about my cradle, you celebrate the feast
of the earthly birth of your heavenly Mother."
411
Fatima (Portugal); September 15, 1989
Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows
Great Is My Sorrow
a "Share, beloved sons, in my sorrow. I am
your sorrowful Mother. My Immaculate Heart is being pierced with
numerous and painful thorns.
b The dominion of my Adversary is becoming
daily greater and greater, and his power is expanding in hearts and
in souls.
A dense darkness has now descended upon the world.
It is the darkness of the obstinate rejection of God.
It is the darkness of sin, committed, justified
and no longer confessed.
It is the darkness of lust and of impurity.
It is the darkness of unbridled egoism and of
hatred of division and of war.
It is the darkness of the loss of faith and of
apostasy.
c In the chalice of my Immaculate Heart, I am
gathering, again today, all the pain of my Son Jesus, who is
mystically again living through the bloody hours of his agony. A new
Gethsemane for Jesus is to see today his Church so violated and
deserted, where the greater part of its pastors are sleeping in
indifference and in tepidity, while others repeat the act of Judas
and betray it out thirst for power and for money.
d The Dragon is exulting at the vastness of
his conquest, with the help of the Black Beast and the beast like a
lamb, in these days of yours, when the devil has unleashed himself
upon you, knowing that there is little time left him. For this
reason, the days of my greatest sorrow have also arrived
e Great is my sorrow in seeing my Son Jesus
again despised and scourged in his word, rejected because of pride
and lacerated through human and rationalistic interpretations.
f Great is my sorrow in contemplating
Jesus, really present in the Eucharist, more and more forgotten,
abandoned, offended and trampled upon.
g Great is my sorrow in seeing my Church
divided, betrayed, stripped and crucified.
h Great is my sorrow in seeing my Pope who
is succumbing under the weight of a most heavy cross, as he is being
surrounded with complete indifference on the part of bishops, priests
and faithful.
i Great is my sorrow for an ever vaster
number of my poor children, who are running along the road of evil
and of sin, of vice and of impurity, of egoism and of hatred, with
the great danger of being eternally lost in hell.
j And so I am asking you today, children
consecrated to my Immaculate Heart, that which, in this very place in
May 1917,1 asked of my three little children, Lucia, Jacinta and
Francisco, to whom I appeared.
k Do you also want to offer yourselves as
victims to the Lord, on the altar of my Immaculate Heart, for the
salvation of all my poor sinful children? If you accept this request
of mine, you must do what I now ask of you:
- Pray ever more and more, especially with the
holy rosary.
- Make frequent hours of adoration and of
Eucharistic reparation.
- Accept with love all the sufferings which the
Lord sends you.
- Spread without fear the message which I
am giving you, as heavenly Prophetess of these last times of yours.
l If you only knew the chastisement which awaits
you if you again close the door of your hearts to the anguished voice
of your heavenly Mother! Because the divine Heart of my Son Jesus has
entrusted to my Immaculate Heart the last and extreme attempt to lead
you all to salvation."
412
Dongo (Como, Italy); October 13, 1989
Anniversary of the Last Apparition at Fatima
The Angel of the First Plague
a "You are recalling today my last
apparition, which took place at Fatima on the 13th of October, 1917,
confirmed by the miracle of the sun. Look more and more to the Woman
Clothed with the Sun, who has the task of preparing the Church and
humanity for the coming of the great Day of the Lord.
b The times of the decisive battle have come. The
hour of the great tribulation has now descended upon the world,
because the angels of the Lord are being sent, with their plagues, to
chastise the earth.
c How many times have I urged you to walk along
the road mortification of the senses, of mastery over the passions,
of modesty, of good example, of purity and of holiness! But humanity
has not accepted my urging and has continued to disobey the sixth
commandment of the Law of the Lord which prescribes that one shall
not commit impure acts.
d On the contrary, it has sought to exalt such a
transgression and to put it forward as the acquisition of a human
value and a new way of exercising one's own personal freedom. Thus
today it has reached the point of legitimating as good all the sins
of impurity. It has begun to corrupt the consciences of little
children and of youth, bringing them to the conviction that impure
acts committed by oneself are no longer sins; that relations before
marriage between those engaged is licit and good; that families may
behave as they please and may also make use of the various means of
birth control. And they have come to the justification and the
exaltation of impure acts against nature and even to the proposing of
laws which put homosexual cohabitation on a par with marriage.
e Never as today have immorality, impurity
and obscenity been so continually propagandized, through the press
and all the means of social communication. Above all, television has
become the perverse instrument of a daily bombardment with obscene
images, directed to corrupt the purity of the mind and the heart of
all. The places of entertainment - in particular the cinema and the
discotheques - have become places of public profanation of one's
human and Christian dignity.
f This is the time when the Lord our God is being
continually and publicly offended by sins of the flesh. Holy
Scripture has already warned you that those who sin by means of the
flesh find their just punishment in that same flesh. And so the time
has come when the Angel of the first plague is passing over
the world, that it might be chastised according to the Will of God.
g The Angel of the first plague cuts - into
the flesh of those who have allowed themselves to be signed with the
mark of the monster on the forehead and on the hand and have adored
his image - with a painful and malignant wound, which causes
those who have been stricken by it to cry out in desperation. This
wound represents the physical pain which strikes the body by means of
grave and incurable maladies. The painful and malignant wound is a
plague for all humanity, today so perverted, which has built up an
atheistic and materialistic civilization and has made the quest for
pleasure the supreme aim of human life. Some of my poor children have
been stricken by it because of their sins of impurity and their
disordered morals, and they carry within their own selves the weight
of the evil they have done. Others, on the other hand, have been
stricken, even though they are good and innocent; and so, their
suffering serves for the salvation of many of the wicked, in virtue
of the solidarity which unites you all.
h The first plague is that of malignant tumors
and every kind of cancer, against which science can do nothing
notwithstanding its progress in every field, maladies which spread
more and more and strike the human body, devastating it with most
painful and malignant wounds. Beloved children, think of the spread
of these incurable maladies, throughout every part of the world, and
of the millions of deaths which they are bringing about.
i The first plague is the new malady of AIDS,
which strikes, above all, my poor children who are victims of
drugs, of vices and of impure sins against nature.
j Your heavenly Mother wants to be a help, a
support, a comfort and a source of hope for all, in these times when
humanity is being stricken by this first plague. For this, I urge you
all to walk along the road of fasting, of mortification and of
penance.
k Of little children I ask that they
grow in the virtue of purity and, in this difficult journey, let them
be assisted by their parents and teachers.
l Of the youth I ask that they form
themselves in the control of the passions through prayer and a life
of union with me, and that they renounce going to the cinema and the
discotheques, where there exists the grave and continuous danger of
offending this virtue which is so dear to my Immaculate Heart.
m Of engaged couples I ask that they
abstain from all relations before marriage.
n Of Christian husbands and wives I ask
that they form themselves in the exercise of conjugal chastity and
never make use of artificial means of birth control, as they follow
the teaching of Christ, which the Church still puts forth today with
enlightened wisdom.
o How very much I ask of priests the
scrupulous observance of celibacy and, of religious, the
faithful and austere practice of their vow of chastity!
p To my poor children, stricken by the first
plague of the painful and malignant wound, I present myself as a
merciful mother, who assuages and comforts, who brings to hope and to
peace. Of these I ask that they offer their sufferings in a spirit of
reparation, of purification and of sanctification. Above all, for
them my Immaculate Heart becomes the most welcome refuge and the sure
road that leads them to the God of salvation and of joy.
q In this, my heavenly garden, all will be
consoled and encouraged, while I myself personally and lovingly take
care to give consolation in suffering and, if it be in the Will of
the Lord, to offer the gift of healing.
r Consequently, in this time when humanity is
being stricken by the first plague, I urge you all to look to me,
your heavenly Mother. that you may be comforted and assisted."
413
Dongo (Como, Italy); November 1, 1989
Solemnity of All Saints
The New Jerusalem
a "Today is the feast of All Saints, and
tomorrow you remember those who are saved, but who are still immersed
in the purifying suffering of purgatory. In these times of the great
tribulation, the communion of saints must be lived vigorously by you.
I am the Queen of All Saints. I am the Leader of one single army
b To all the snares which the dragon, the
black beast, the beast like a lamb and the evil spirits set for you
every day, the angels of the Lord have from me the task of
responding, with force and power.
c How great today is their heavenly power, because
they are being sent by me to fight back the tactic of my Adversary,
which is that of leading many of my poor children away from the
adoration that is due to our God, by the ever greater spread of the
satanic cult and of the black masses! To this perverse and
blasphemous action of the demons, the angels respond with their
perennial, profound and incessant act of adoration and of
glorification of the Lord.
d To the dangers which, in these times, the wicked
set for you, seeking to strew with obstacles, with difficulties, and
with subtle opposition, the road along which you must walk, the
saints in paradise respond with their powerful assistance and
intercession. The hidden and obscure plots which Masonry sets against
you, to make you fall into its net, are revealed and destroyed by the
saints, who cause to come down from paradise a strong light which
surrounds you to make your whole life fragrant with the perfume of
faith, of hope, of love, of purity and of holiness.
e The communion of life with the saints of
paradise is the remedy which I am giving you against the subtle and
very insidious dangers which today the black beast of Masonry is
setting for you.
f Against the difficulties, the acts of derision,
and the marginalization which the beast like a lamb uses against you,
my beloved children, have recourse to a perpetual communion of prayer
with the holy souls in purgatory. This communion of prayer, with the
souls who are being purified, gives to them the light and the
comfort of shortening the time of their purification and grants to
you the security and the courage to carry out my plan in your
life, which is that of helping you to fulfill at each moment the
divine Will of the Lord.
g Today I am contemplating you with joy, gathered
together in the heavenly garden of my Immaculate Heart, to live this
stupendous reality of the communion of saints, which unites you,
helps you and pledges you all to fight for the full triumph of
Christ, in the coming upon the world of his glorious reign of love,
of holiness, of justice and of peace.
h Thus you are already contributing to the forming
of the new Jerusalem, the holy city, which must come down from
heaven, as a bride adorned for her husband. And you are forming the
dwelling place of God among men, that all may become his people,
where every tear will be wiped from their eyes, and there will no
longer be any death, or strife, or mourning, or anguish, because the
former things have passed away."
414
Rubbio (Vicenza, Italy); December 8, 1989
Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception
A Crown of Twelve Stars
a "Beloved sons, today you are gazing upon
the immaculate splendor of your heavenly Mother. I am the Immaculate
Conception. I am the only creature free from every stain of sin, even
the original one. I am `all beautiful'- tota pulchra.
b Let yourselves be enfolded by my mantle of
beauty, that you too may be illumined by my heavenly splendor, by my
immaculate light. I am all beautiful, because I am called to be the
Mother of the Son of God and to form the virginal shoot, from which
the divine Flower shall blossom. For this reason, my purpose is
included in the very mystery of your salvation.
c At the beginning, I am announced as the enemy of
Satan; she who will obtain the complete victory over him. `I will put
enmity between you and the Woman, between your offspring and hers;
she will crush your head, as you will attempt to bite her heel.' (Gen
3:15)
d At the end, I am seen as the Woman Clothed with
the Sun, who has the task of fighting against the Red Dragon and his
powerful army, to conquer him, to bind him and to drive him away into
his kingdom of death, that Christ alone may reign over the world.
e Behold me, then, presented by Sacred
Scripture in the splendor of my maternal royalty: `And another sign
appeared in the heavens: a Woman Clothed with the Sun, with the moon
beneath her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.' (Rev
12:1)
f About my head there is therefore a
crown of twelve stars. The crown is the sign of royalty. It is
composed of twelve stars because it becomes the symbol of my maternal
and royal presence in the very heart of the people of God.
g The twelve stars represent the twelve
tribes of Israel, which compose the Chosen People, selected and
called by the Lord to prepare for the coming into the world of the
Son of God, the Redeemer. Because I am called to become the Mother of
the Messiah, my purpose is that of being the fulfillment of the
promises, the virginal shoot, the honor and the glory of all the
people of Israel. In fact, the Church exalts me with these words:
`You are the glory of Jerusalem; you are the joy of Israel; you are
the honor of our people.’ (cf. Jdt 15:9) For this, the tribes of
Israel form twelve precious gems of the crown which surrounds my
head, to indicate the function of my maternal royalty.
h The twelve stars also signify the twelve
Apostles, who are the foundation upon which Christ has founded his
Church. I was often with them, to encourage them to follow and to
believe in Jesus, during the three years of his public mission. In
their place, together with John, I stood beneath the Cross at the
moment of the crucifixion, of the agony and of the death of my Son
Jesus. With them, I took part in the joy of his resurrection. At
their side, recollected in prayer, I assisted at the glorious moment
of Pentecost. During my earthly life, I remained at their side, with
my prayer and my motherly presence, to help them, to form them, to
encourage them and to urge them on to drink the chalice which had
been prepared for them by the Heavenly Father. I am thus Mother and
Queen of the Apostles who, about my head, form twelve luminous stars
of my maternal royalty.
i I am Mother and Queen of all the Church.
j The twelve stars also signify a new reality.
Indeed the Apocalypse sees me as a great sign in heaven: the Woman
Clothed with the Sun who does battle with the Dragon and his powerful
army of evil. And so the stars about my head indicate those who
consecrate themselves to my Immaculate Heart, who form part of my
victorious army, and who allow themselves to be guided by me in order
to fight this battle and to attain in the end our greatest victory.
Thus all my beloved ones and children consecrated to my Immaculate
Heart, called to be today the apostles of the last times, are the
most luminous stars of my royal crown.
k The twelve stars, which form the luminous crown
of my maternal royalty, are made up of the tribes of Israel, of the
Apostles and of the apostles of these last times of yours.
l And so, on the feast of my Immaculate
Conception, I am calling you all to form a precious part of my crown
and to become the brilliant stars which spread the light, the grace,
the holiness, the beauty and the glory of your heavenly Mother
throughout very part of the world."
415
Dongo (Como, Italy); December 24, 1989
The Holy Night
The Time Has Reached Its Fullness
a "Beloved sons, live these hours of
the holy night with me in an act of unceasing prayer and of profound
recollection.
b The time has reached its fullness. For
hundreds of years, this event had been awaited: the voices of
prophets and of envoys from God had kept the torch of hope and of
expectation burning. The course of time and of history all flowed
toward this extraordinary moment.
c On this holy night everything has its
fulfillment. I, Virgin and Mother, bring forth my divine Son. My most
chaste spouse, Joseph, is at my side and brings, in his person, the
presence of all the poor of Israel. The barren cave becomes a royal
palace for the Son of David, called to sit upon his royal throne. The
shepherds hasten to offer the homage of the simple and of the poor in
spirit. The choir of angels sings and brings the innocent light of
infants, of little ones, of the pure of heart.
d With how much ineffable love and delicate
tenderness I place my divine Son in the poor manger, the First-born
of the new people of Israel, the only-begotten Son of the Father, the
Messiah, promised and expected for centuries!
e On this holy night the prophecies are
realized, and everything attains its perfect fulfillment.
f The time has reached its fullness.
g Live this Christmas with love, with
confidence and with great hope. It is the Christmas of 1989. It is
the Christmas of a year that has been very important.
h Live it with me, the Mother who each day brings
you forth to that life which my Child has given you, through his
coming into your midst.
i Live it with my spouse, Joseph, in an act of
humble and docile collaboration with the plan of your Heavenly
Father.
j Live it with the shepherds who hasten
jubilantly, in the joy that you too are witnesses to the
announcement, which again today proclaims peace and salvation to all
men.
k Live it with the little, the simple, the
poor, who form a royal throne for the reign of my Son Jesus.
l Live it with the angels who chant divine
harmonies and offer love to this poor earth, never before so
threatened and stricken.
m Live this Christmas of yours in a spirit of
profound joy, because the time has reached its fullness.
n Enter as of now into the events which are
preparing you for his second Christmas. You are drawing close to the
moment of the glorious return of Christ. And so, do not allow
yourselves to be seized with fear, or with sadness, or with vain
curiosity, or with useless anxiety
o Live, in my Immaculate Heart, with the
simplicity of little ones, each moment of this new advent, and make
yourselves eagerly ready to throw open the doors of men and of
nations to Christ who is coming. And open your heart to hopefulness,
to welcome with joy the announcement which I am making to you today:
the time of his glorious return is in the very act of reaching its
fullness."
416
Rubbio (Vicenza, Italy); December 31, 1989
Last Night of the Year
Open Your Hearts
a "From every part of the world, gather
together in the cenacle of my Immaculate Heart, in an act of intense
and continual prayer, to live together with me the last hours of this
year which is about to end. It has been a very important year.
b I have held in my motherly hands the
prayers and the sufferings of all my children, and I have deposited
them in the open chalice of the divine and merciful Heart of my Son
Jesus. Thus I have been able to carry out, in a powerful way, my work
of mediation between you and my Son, and, as your sorrowful and
merciful Mother, I have interceded before Him for all.
c - I have obtained many graces for my
priest-sons, to help them to walk along the road of an ever more
perfect witness of life, which would be in conformity with the plan
of Jesus and with the great needs of the Church of today
d - I have placed myself at the side of my
children, consecrated, by virtue of their religious profession, to
give them the courage and the enthusiasm to follow Jesus, chaste,
poor and obedient even to Calvary.
e - I have prayed for all my poor sinful
children, victims of passions, of vices, of sins, of impurity, of
egoism, of hatred and of rejection of God. In my Immaculate Heart, I
have prepared for them the help of which they have need, that they
may be able to return into the arms of their Heavenly Father, who is
awaiting them all that He may bind them to Himself with the chain of
his divine and merciful love.
f - I have prayed for the sick that they may
obtain the gift to accept with docility and meekness the cross of
their illness. I have prayed for divided families, for the scattered
youth, for the nations oppressed under the yoke of slavery, for all
the peoples of the earth. I have prayed to obtain for all humanity
the great gift of peace.
g In this, my work of intercession before my Son
Jesus, you, my little children, through your prayer, have given a
great power to your heavenly Mother.
h I thank you for your generous response to
my wishes and my repeated requests. By means of my Marian Movement of
Priests, from every part of the world, I have been able to obtain, on
the part of priests and of faithful, a great response to my request
for consecration and for prayer. The cenacles, which I had asked of
you in my message of January 17,1974, have spread everywhere.
i Now your heavenly Mother can exercise her great
power. As of now, I have in my hands the precious key, with which to
open the golden door of the divine Heart of Jesus, so that He can
pour out upon the world the ocean of his mercy. The water, which
flows from the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, will wash and purify the
entire world and will prepare it to live the new era of grace and of
holiness which all are awaiting.
j In these years you will see come to fulfillment
the great miracle of divine mercy.
k Open your hearts. Open the hearts of all
men, so that they can welcome Christ who is coming in the splendor of
his light, to make all things new."
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