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"THE
Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, appeared six times to three shepherd
children "The Three Seers" near the town of Fatima, Portugal between May
13th and October 13th 1917. Appearing to the children, the Blessed Virgin
told them that She had been sent by God with a message for every man, woman
and child living in our century. Coming at a time when civilization was
torn assunder by war and bloody violence, She promised that Heaven would
grant peace to all the world if Her requests for prayer, reparation and
consecration were heard and obeyed.
Our Lady of Fatima explained to the children that war is a punishment for sin and warned that God would further castigate the world for its disobedience to His Will by means of war, hunger and the persecution of the Church, the Holy Father and the Catholic Faithful. God's Mother prophesied that Russia would be God's chosen "instrument of chastisement," spreading the "errors" of atheism and materialism across the earth, fomenting wars, annihilating nations and persecuting the Faithful everywhere."If My requests are granted ... there will be peace"
In all Her appearances at Fatima, the Blessed Mother repeatedly emphasized the necessity of praying the Rosary daily, of wearing the Brown Scapular of Mount Carmel and of performing acts of reparation and sacrifice. To prevent the terrible chastisement at the hands of Russia and to convert "that poor nation", Our Lady requested the solemn public Consecration of Russia to Her Immaculate Heart by the Pope and all the Catholic bishops of the world. She also asked that the Faithful practice a new devotion of reparation on the first Saturday of five consecutive months ("the first five Saturdays")"If My requests are not granted, Russia will spread its errors throughout the world, raising up wars and persecutions against the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will suffer much and various nations will be annihilated."
At the time that She confided the Fatima Secret to the three seers, the Blessed Virgin also promised that God would work a great miracle the following October "so that all may believe." On October 13th 1917, in the presence of 70,000 eyewitnesses, a miracle was worked in the sky above Fatima at the exact moment and in the precise spot that the children had announced earlier. Witnesses recounted that the sun appeared to actually "dance" in the sky and seemed to fall to the ground before resuming its normal place in the heavens."You saw hell where the souls of poor sinners go. In order to save them, God wishes to establish devotion to my Immaculate Heart in the world. If people do what I ask, many souls will be saved and there will be peace."
This event has now become known as "the miracle of the sun" and has been justly characterized as the greatest supernatural occurrence of the 20th century. As one leading Fatima authority has noted, this great miracle "does not belong (only) to the domain of faith, or even that of science. Before all else it is a historical event.""On the last month, I will perform a miracle so that all may believe."
The
Catholic Church has officially endorsed the Fatima Message "as worthy of
belief" since 1930. Five successive popes have publicly indicated their
approval and belief in the validity and critical importance of the Fatima
apparitions. Several popes have visited Fatima on solemn pilgrimage and
Pope John Paul II has gone at least once in every decade of his pontificate.
His Holiness has publicly credited Our Lady of Fatima for saving his life
during an assassination attempt in 1981 (which, parenthetically, took place
on the 64th anniversary of the first Fatima apparition). The following
year, while in Fatima to give thanks for Her intervention, the Pope stated
that "the message of Fatima is more relevant and more urgent" today
than even when Our Lady first appeared.
In the years since the Queen of Heaven's appearances at Fatima, innumerable books, pamphlets, recordings, films and video programs have been produced as part of a growing worldwide movement of faith and devotion. Belief in the Fatima apparitions and Our Lady's full Message are now widely synonymous with an orthodox adherence to the doctrines, rites and traditional practices and teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. Many theologians believe that Our Lady's Message is uniquely designed for the difficult and trying times in which we live today and suggest that it is Heaven's intervention to save the world from war, hunger and need, the Catholic Church from apostasy and chaos and the souls of countless millions from eternal damnation. While stern in its warning of the terrible punishments for sin and disobedience, Fatima remains fundamentally a life-affirming and faith-building message of hope and peace for all Catholics and others of good will everywhere.""In the end, My Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me and she will be converted and a period of peace will be granted to the world."
"Only I can help you. My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God."
"Besides the Message of
Fatima given by Our Lady to the general public in the series of apparitions
from May 13th to October 13th, She confided on July 13th, 1917, a Secret
which was to be given later to all the faithful by Sister Lucy and the
Church authorities.
This
Secret is divided into three distinct parts and Sister Lucy with the approval
of her bishop revealed the first two parts in 1941. The third part was
written down between January 2nd and January 9th, 1944, under holy obedience
to her bishop and after Our Lady of Fatima appeared to Sister Lucy confirming
that indeed God wanted the third part of the Secret to be now written.
(This third part of the Secret is commonly referred to as the Third Secret).
The Pope and the Bishop of Leiria could read it immediately.
Our
Lady asked that this third part of the Secret be made known to the faithful
at the latest by 1960. Like the first two parts of the Secret, it is clear,
and easy to understand. Like the second part of the Secret it is prophetic.
We are now living through the Third Secret. You may be one who needs to
know its contents in order to save your soul and your loved ones from eternal
ruin.
The
Third Secret has been unveiled by Frère Michel, who is most qualified
to write this study after 4 years of research. His conclusion is the same
as Father Alonso, the official archivist of Fatima for 16 years. You will
know when you finish reading this study that you indeed know the substance
of the Third Secret.
This
is a profound, easy to read, and yet deeply moving study. Because it penetrates
with a high degree of certitude the Secret which the Vatican has sought
for 34 years to bury, this article is bound to have great impact on the
Church, the salvation of millions of souls and ultimately on world history.
The
message of Fatima is a heavenly light and occasion of grace and salvation
for the 20th century, a Message and an event unparalleled in Church History,
the most momentous and important event of our time, which is still unfolding
to this day. So, too, this study is momentous and important since it finally
tells you the shocking, yet salutary Secret which once it is widely known
will deliver the Church and the world from the powers of Antichrist.
At
present, these satanic powers seek to drag millions of souls to eternal
ruin and the whole world to enslavement to Antichrist while various nations
will be "annihilated", "wiped off the face of the earth".
Read
these words, meditate on them and share them with others on. It is most
important and most urgent that the contents of this study be widely known
because it reveals the Third Secret of Fatima.
Since the Third Secret of Fatima has still not been officially revealed,
it seems obvious at first sight, that we can know nothing of its content.
This however, is only so in appearance. For if it is true that this vital
secret remained absolutely impenetrable in 1917 when it was revealed by
the Blessed Virgin to the three shepherd children of Aljustrel, or in 1944
when it was written down by Sister Lucy, or yet again in 1960 at the time
when it was to have been publicly revealed to the world by Pope John XXIII,
that is no longer the case today. Indeed, for more than 40 years, a number
of certain facts concerning it have become known.
They
form today an impressive mass of sure information from which the historian
can precisely retrace its entire history and expose its essential content
with a considerable degree of certitude. Such has been my double concern
in writing my third volume of "The Whole Truth About Fatima", which is
completely devoted to the mystery of the Third Secret.
It
is this minutely detailed demonstration that I shall attempt to present
to you while simplifying it and summarizing much of it, for I must be brief.
But I will tell you sufficiently about it, I hope, to show you how important
this final secret of Our Lady is. How it is at the very heart of the Message
of Fatima, and finally why it is urgent for the good of the Church that
it be revealed to the world according to the command of the Blessed Virgin.
It
was in July/August, 1941, in her third memoir, that Sister Lucy mentioned
for the first time the division of the Secret of Fatima into three distinct
parts. "The Secret is composed of three distinct matters," she writes,
"And I shall disclose two of them." The first is the vision of hell and
the designation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary as the supreme remedy offered
by God to humanity for the salvation of souls. "In order to save them,
God wishes to establish in the world devotion to My Immaculate Heart."
The second, is the great prophecy concerning a miraculous peace which God
wishes to grant to the world through the consecration of Russia to the
Immaculate Heart of Mary, and the practice of Communions of Reparation
on the first Saturdays of the month.(1) "If people heed My commands, Russia
will be converted and the world will have peace." And there is also the
announcement of terrible punishments if people persist in not obeying Her
requests. As for the third part of the Secret, in 1941, Sister Lucy declares
that for the moment she is not permitted to reveal it.
The
dramatic account of the writing down and the transmission of this vital
Message begins in 1943. The hour of providence had then struck. Sister
Lucy was living at that time in the convent of the Dorothian Sisters of
Tuy, in Spain. In June, 1943, she suddenly fell gravely ill. Her condition
was so alarming that Bishop da Silva, the Bishop of Leiria/Fatima, became
worried. He feared that she would die before having revealed the Third
Secret of Our Lady and he sensed that it would be the loss of an exceptional
grace for the Church. Canon Galamba, the friend and advisor of the Bishop,
then suggested to him an extremely judicious idea, that he at least ask
Sister Lucy to write down forthwith, the text of the Third Secret and then
that she place it in an envelope sealed with wax, to be opened later.
On
September 15, 1943, Bishop da Silva went, therefore, to Tuy and he asked
Sister Lucy to write down the Secret "if she really wanted to". But the
seer, undoubtedly under the impulse of the Holy Spirit was not content
with this vague order. She requested of her bishop a written order, formal
and perfectly clear - that is very important. The final Message of the
Virgin of Fatima is, as previously were Her other requests, linked to marvelous
promises. It is an exceptional grace offered by God to our 20th century
in order to meet its most urgent needs. But again it is necessary that
the pastors of the Church have sufficient faith and docility to the designs
of Heaven in order to be instruments of this outpouring of grace that God
wants to bestow upon the world through the sweet mediation of His Immaculate
Mother. In 1943, God desired that it be the Bishop of Leiria, who demanded
of this messenger the writing down of the Third Secret.
Finally,
in mid-October, 1943, Bishop da Silva made up his mind. He wrote to Sister
Lucy, giving her the express order that she had besought of him. However,
new difficulties would arise. Sister Lucy experienced at that time, for
almost three months, a mysterious and terrible anguish. She has related
that each time she sat down at her work table and took her pen in order
to write down the Secret, she found herself obstructed from doing it. One
must, no doubt, see there the last outburst of satan against the messenger
of the Immaculate One.
Guessing
what a terrible weapon this great prophecy could set up against his dominion
over souls and his plan to penetrate the very heart of the Church, such
a trial endured by the seer thus indicated the magnitude of the grandiose
event which was about to be carried out, should the Secret be put down
on paper.
On
Christmas Eve, Sister Lucy confided to her director that she had still
been unable to obey the order that she had been given.
Finally,
on the 2nd of January, 1944, (this is very little known) the Blessed Virgin
Mary Herself appeared again to Lucy. She confirmed to her that such was
truly the Will of God and gave her the light and the strength to accomplish
the writing that had been commanded.
The
extreme care that Sister Lucy then took to transmit it with complete safety
to its recipient, Bishop da Silva, is a new proof of the exceptional importance
which she attributes to this document.
She
did not wish to entrust it to anyone but a Bishop. It was Bishop Ferreira,
Archbishop of Gurza, who received from the hands of Sister Lucy, the envelope
sealed with wax containing the precious document. He delivered it the same
evening to Bishop da Silva.
Concerning
the transmission of the Secret to the Hierarchy, it is necessary to underline
four facts of the highest importance:
Fact#1.
The immediate recipient of the Secret was Bishop da Silva and he could
have read it at once. Sister Lucy told him so from the Blessed Virgin.
But frightened by the responsibility that he would have to assume, he did
not dare, he did not wish to have knowledge of it. He then tried to commit
it to the Holy Office, but Rome refused to receive it. It was then agreed
that if Bishop da Silva happened to die, the envelope would be entrusted
to Cardinal Cerejeira, the Patriarch of Lisbon. It is therefore false to
say, as has been so often repeated after 1960, that the Third Secret is
destined explicitly and exclusively to the Holy Father!
Fact#2.
It is true, however, - I provide several proofs of it in my book - that
Sister Lucy wanted Pope Pius XII to know the Secret without further delay.
Unfortunately, that did not happen.
Fact#3.
Ascertaining that Bishop da Silva persisted in not wishing to open the
envelope, Sister Lucy "made him promise, in the words of Canon Galamba,
that the Third Secret would be opened and read to the world upon her death
or in 1960, whichever would happen first." A series of testimonies which
give us an account of the repeated statements of Sister Lucy enabled this
fact to be established with absolute certitude.
Fact#4.
Finally, this promise to disclose the Secret immediately after the death
of Sister Lucy or in any case, "in 1960 at the latest", surely corresponds
to a request by the Virgin Mary Herself. In fact, when in 1946, Canon Barthas
asked the seer why it would be necessary to wait until 1960, Sister Lucy
replied to him in the presence of Bishop da Silva, "Because the Blessed
Virgin wishes it so."
Briefly
stated, I have established it solidly in my book and we have all the proofs
that God desired, willed that the final Secret of Our Lady be finally believed
by the Pastors of the Church and made public to the faithful. This was
to be done at the earliest in 1944 or at the latest by 1960 because as
Sister Lucy further explained, "It would become clearer at that time."(2)
I cannot linger here on a still mysterious episode in the history
of the Third Secret: In 1957, the Holy Office demanded the text of it,
kept until then at the palace of the Bishop of Leiria/Fatima. Who took
this initiative? With what intention? A detailed analysis of the facts
have enabled me to formulate a plausible hypothesis but I have not arrived
at any certitude.
In
mid March, 1957, Bishop da Silva entrusted his Auxiliary Bishop Venancio
with the responsibility of delivering the precious document to Bishop Cento,
the Apostolic Nuncio to Lisbon at that time. Bishop Venancio implored his
bishop to finally read the Secret and to make a copy of it before sending
the manuscript to Rome, but the old bishop persisted in his refusal. Bishop
Venancio, who related this to me in Fatima on February 13, 1983, had to
content himself with looking at the envelope while holding it up to the
light. He could see inside a little sheet of which he measured the exact
size. We thus know that the Third Secret is not very long, probably 20
to 25 lines, that is to say about the same length as the Second Secret.
This allows us to reject as certainly inauthentic, several texts much too
long, which some forgers have tried to foist upon the public as being the
true Secret of Fatima.
On
the 16th of April, 1957, the sealed envelope arrived in Rome. What became
of it? It was placed in the office of Pope Pius XII, in a little chest
bearing the note, "Secret of the Holy Office".(3) It is Mother Pascalina
who confided this to the journalist, Robert Serrou who in turn recently
confirmed this fact.
As
surprising as it may seem the answer is almost certainly No. Like Father
Alonso, I give several solid arguments for this conclusion; notably the
testimonies of Cardinal Ottaviani and Monsignor Capovilla, Secretary of
Pope John XXIII, who stated to us that the envelope was still sealed when
the Holy Father opened it in 1959, one year after the death of Pope Pius
XII.
One
understands, therefore, the solemn words which Sister Lucy addressed on
the 26th of December, 1957, to Father Fuentes, then Postulator of the beatification
causes of Jacinta and Francisco.She said: "The Blessed Virgin is very sad,
for no one attaches any importance to Her Message ... Neither the good
nor the bad ...
The
good continue on their way but without paying attention to the Message
... I cannot give any other details, since it is still a secret ... Only
the Holy Father and His Excellency the Bishop of Fatima would be able to
know it in accordance to the Will of the Blessed Virgin ... But they haven't
willed to know it as they did not want to be influenced."
Pope
Pius XII, therefore, without a doubt, preferred to wait for 1960, but he
died before then. What a loss for the Church!(4)
At
the approach of 1960, older ones remember it, the whole Christian people
confidently awaited the promised public unveiling of the Secret. And you
Italians (here present) you no doubt know that in 1959 there was in the
whole country a great movement of devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
For several months, the Virgin of Fatima crisscrossed the peninsula drawing
along in Her trail enthusiastic crowds and spreading everywhere Her marvels
of grace, extraordinary fervor, miracles of conversion, miracles of doves(5)
... On the 13th of September, 1959, all the Bishops of the country solemnly
consecrated Italy to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Unfortunately, the movement
was so little encouraged by Pope John XXIII that his silence and reserve
could not pass unnoticed.
We
know that the Pope had the envelope of the Third Secret brought to him
at Castelgandolfo on August 17, 1959, by Monsignor Philippe, who was then
an official of the Holy Office. Let us notice that this transmission of
the Secret to the Sovereign Pontiff thus took on an official character
and gathered around it a certain solemnity, which shows the esteem which
Fatima was held in that era. Pope John XXIII did not immediately open the
envelope. He was content to declare "I am waiting to read it with my confessor."
"The reading of the Secret," Monsignor Capovilla stated precisely, "was
done a few days later." "But because of the difficulty raised by expressions
peculiar to the language, assistance was requested of the Portuguese translator
of the Secretariat of the State, Mgr. Paulo Jose Tavarez," who became afterwards,
the Bishop of Macao. Later, Pope John XXIII had it read to Cardinal Ottaviani,
Prefect of the Holy Office.
Let
us open here a brief parenthesis. Certainly we know well that it belongs
to the Hierarchy to judge "private revelations". In 1960, it was evident
that the Church had already officially recognized the Divine authenticity
of the Fatima apparitions, proved, moreover, more solidly than any other
by incontestable prophecies and dazzling miracles as Father Gruner has
just reminded us. In accordance with the command of the Most Blessed Virgin
transmitted through Sister Lucy, the two prelates in charge, the Bishop
of Leiria and the Patriarch of Lisbon had publicly undertaken to reveal
the complete content of it by 1960 at the latest. For more than 15 years,
no authoritative declaration had come out to refute these repeated promises
echoed throughout the entire world by Cardinals, Bishops and Fatima experts
as renowned as Canon Galamba, Canon Barthas or Father Messias Dias Coelho.
The disclosure of the first two Secrets in 1942 with the consent of Pope
Pius XII constituted moreover a precedent. So that the faithful perfectly
had the right to expect from the supreme authority this promised revelation.
They had at least a right to an exact and straightforward explanation on
the part of the Holy Father.
Alas,
on February 8, 1960, it was all of a sudden learned through a simple press
release that the Third Secret of Fatima would not be revealed. It was an
anonymous decision, which is by its very nature, totally irresponsible.
What were the reasons that had motivated it? The Vatican communiqué
had offered only inconsistent, and even contradictory excuses. This anonymous
press release even ended in treachery: "Although the Church recognizes
the Fatima apparitions She does not desire to take the responsibility of
guaranteeing the veracity of the words that the three shepherd children
said that the Virgin Mary had addressed to them."(6) Thus, apparently,
the Vatican not only assumed as its own the untenable position of Father
Dhanis (the detailed exposé and analysis of this incoherent thesis
is in the first volume),(7) but this communiqué went even further.
It publicly and without any valid reason cast the most ignominious suspicion
upon the credibility of Sister Lucy and upon the whole of the Fatima Message!
According
to Mgr. Capovilla, several Roman Prelates had been consulted. But what
is certain is that the Portuguese authorities in charge were odiously disregarded.
Neither Bishop Venancio nor Cardinal Cerejeira had been consulted or notified
by Rome.
Upon
re-reading and analysing this lamentable press release of February 8, 1960,
or even more by studying the miserable article published in June by Father
Caprile in "Civilta Cattolica", one is disheartened by the massive examples
of incoherence, inaccuracies and falsehoods which have been uttered by
responsible authorities in Rome itself on the subject of Fatima. This tells
you how much the decision to take no notice of the expressed will of the
Immaculate Virgin, Queen of the Apostles, demanding that Her Secret be
revealed by 1960, was unjustified and unjustifiable. It is certain also,
that it did immense harm to the Fatima cause.
One
can say that it was from this date after this public disregard for the
"Secret of Mary" that devotion to the Most Blessed Virgin began to decrease
in a perceptible and then alarming manner in the very bosom of the Catholic
Church. More than ever, the words of Sister Lucy applied: "The Blessed
Virgin is very sad, for no one pays attention to Her Message." And this
fault, one must dare to say it, was going to have incalculable consequences.
For in the disregarding of the prophecies and requests of Fatima, it was
the Virgin Mary, it was God Himself who had been disregarded, who had been
ridiculed in front of the world. The conditional punishment announced through
the maternal warning of the Immaculate One was then going to be carried
out tragically, inevitably.
Cardinal Ottaviani related that Pope John XXIII placed the Secret "in one of those archives which are like a very deep, dark well, to the bottom of which papers fall and no one is able to see them anymore." We know very well what became of the manuscript of Sister Lucy. One can even discover the essential content of it. What does Our Lady tell us in this warning in which She has given for our age on July 13, 1917? First of all we can establish four certain and objective facts concerning this Secret and which are going to enable us to advance with long strides in the uncovering of the Mystery.
1.
A first capital fact: We know the context of the Third Secret. Properly
speaking, there is in effect only one Secret, revealed completely on July
13, 1917. Now of this composite entity at this moment, we know three parts
of four. We know the beginning, the first two parts of the Secret and the
end, which is surely formed by the conclusion: "In the end," Our Lady promises
us, "My Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate
Russia to Me and she will be converted and a period of peace will be granted
to the world." It is in this already known context, following the "etc."
in the text that Sister Lucy herself wrote concerning the second part of
the Secret, that the Third Secret happens to be inserted. Such is the first
fact which is for us an important guide post in order to allow us to proceed
in the discovery of the content of the last Secret. The latter must correspond
with its immediate context and agree harmoniously with the whole of the
Message of Fatima, whose coherence is moreover completely remarkable.
2.
A second important fact: If the circumstances in which it was revealed,
prove to us its fundamental unity, the dramatic circumstances of its writing
down unveil to us on their own, its tragic seriousness.
3.
A third very illuminating fact: It is on account of its content and on
these grounds alone that since 1960, successive Popes have refused to disclose
it.
First
of all, Pope John XXIII did this, as we have seen, despite the enthusiastic
and anxious expectation of the whole Catholic world.
Paul
VI adopted straight away the same attitude. Elected on
June 21, 1963, some time afterwards
he asked for the text of the Secret. This proves his lively concern for
this subject. Since no one knew what Pope John XXIII had done with it,
they questioned his secretary, Mgr. Capovilla, who indicated the place
where the manuscript had been put. Pope Paul VI surely read it at that
point but he did not speak about it. You know, however, on February 11,
1967, as the 50th anniversary of the Fatima Apparitions approached, Cardinal
Ottaviani in the name of the Pope, made a long declaration on the subject
of the Third Secret of Fatima, in order to explain that it would still
not be revealed. In my book, I cite and analyze this text, following the
Portuguese experts, I am forced to testify that in order to justify at
any price the nondisclosure of the Secret, the Prefect of the Holy Office,
supreme guarantor of truth in the Church, is compelled to accumulate a
mass of incoherencies and patent untruths.(8)
And alas, we shall see the reasons
advanced in 1984 by his successor, Cardinal Ratzinger, are not any more
consistent.
Pope
John Paul I was very devoted to Our Lady of Fatima; he went in pilgrimage
to Cova da Iria in 1977, and what is a very curious fact, Sister Lucy herself
asked to meet with him. Cardinal Luciani went therefore to the Carmel of
Coimbra and he conversed at length with the seer. I am in a position to
verify that Sister Lucy spoke with him about the Third Secret and revealed
to him the essential content of it. He was very impressed by it. He informed
his entourage at the time of his return to Italy, how moved he had been
and how serious was the Message. He then spoke and wrote about Fatima in
vigorous terms and he expressed his admiration and his total confidence
in Sister Lucy whom he obviously considered to be a saint. (I shall give
in my fourth volume all the proofs of these unpublished facts.) Having
become Pope, he wished no doubt to prepare public opinion before doing
something. Unfortunately, he was tragically taken away from us before having
been able to say anything.
Pope
John Paul II, before going on pilgrimage to Fatima on May 13, 1982 asked
for the help of a Portuguese translator from the Curia, in order to translate
to him certain expressions of the Secret which are peculiar to the Portuguese
language. He also, therefore, has read the Third Secret but has not chosen
to make it public either.
Finally,
we know that Cardinal Ratzinger has read it as well since he told the Italian
journalist Vittorio Messori that he had read it. Cardinal Ratzinger has
even written about it on two occasions, in November, 1984, and in June,
1985, alluding to its content in very different terms, which for us is
significant. In my book, I published and commented on the synopsis of these
two successive published versions.(9)
4.
The fourth principal fact: the prophecy of the Third Secret has been unfolding
at the present time, before our eyes, since 1960. There is, in fact, a
timetable, a chronicle in the realization of the prophecies of Fatima.
On
the one hand, it is indeed certain that we have not yet come to the time
announced by the conclusion of the secret. Why? Because Russia has not
yet been consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, as it must be, and
as it will be one day. Sister Lucy made this known clearly even after the
Act of March 25, 1984.(10) Russia is not yet converted and the world is
not in peace, far from it! Therefore, we are not at the end of the prophecy.
On
the other hand, the events announced in the Third Secret do not only concern
our future, for we have another guide mark: 1960. The Virgin had asked
that the Secret be made public in 1960 because Lucy told Cardinal Ottaviani,
"In 1960, the Message will appear more clear." Now, the only reason that
might render a prophecy clearer from a specific date onward, without any
doubt, is the beginning of its fulfillment. And we have other statements
from Lucy saying that "the punishments predicted by Our Lady in the Third
Secret have already begun."
The
terminus a quo (beginning point) and the terminus ad quem (the end point)
of the prophecy having been thus determined, we can be sure that we are
presently in the period of which She speaks. So we are living the Third
Secret. We are witnessing the events that it announces.
Basing
oneself on this reliable data, one can discard a whole series of false
secrets that have been successively published for 25 years. I cite them
all in my work and I demonstrate, for example, that the most famous of
them, the "Secret" circulated in 1963 by the German magazine "Neues Europa",
and which has been ceaselessly reprinted in innumerable magazines, is a
fake. There are in this text, several monstrous errors which prove this
sufficiently. Moreover, although it is a matter we are told, of simple
"extracts" of the real Secret, these "extracts" are already at least four
times too long to fit on the sheet of paper on which Lucy wrote down the
whole of the Third Secret.(11)
One
can dismiss also, a good number of false hypotheses. Certainly, one is
not dealing with a simple "invitation to prayer and penance", as Father
Caprile dares to claim!(12) The Virgin Mary would not have asked Lucy to
wait for 1944 or 1960 in order to divulge a message that would repeat word
for word Her public Message of October 13, 1917!
[Translator's
Note: Nor would it explain the extreme difficulty Sister Lucy had from
Oct/43 to Jan/44, in writing down the 25 lines of the Secret. If it were
only a call to prayer and penance there would be no such difficulty.]
Neither
is it a matter of happiness: The Third Secret of Fatima certainly does
not accord with the views of optimism of Pope John XXIII, proclaiming that
the Council would be "a new pentecost", "a new springtime for the Church!"
If that were the case, he himself or his successors would have revealed
it to us. "If it were pleasant," Cardinal Cerejeira said very justifiably,
"We would have been told so. Since we haven't been told anything, the fact
is that it is sad," Yes, it is obviously grave and tragic.
Neither
is it the announcement of the end of the world since the prophecy of Fatima
ends with a marvelous and unconditional promise, which ought to be preached
in season and out of season, because it is a source of unshakeable hope:
(Webmaster's Note - the 'end of time' in no way means the 'end of the world'
- the 'end of time' means the second coming of Jesus Christ along with
a new era of peace.)
Would
it be the announcement of a Third World War? Of a Nuclear War? It would
be sensible to think so, for here the prophecy would do nothing but confirm
the most lucid political analyses. Would not the Virgin Mary have predicted
this most horrible future war, which so tragically threatens us?
Together
with Father Alonso, I think that this is undoubtedly not the essential
of the Third Secret. And I say this for a solid reason: Namely, this foretelling
of material chastisements, of new wars and of persecutions against the
Church, constitutes the specific content of the Second Secret. Have we
yet reflected on the terrible importance of these simple words: "The good
will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations
will be annihilated"? "The Blessed Virgin has told us," Sister Lucy confided
to Father Fuentes, "that many nations will disappear from the face of the
earth, that Russia will be the instrument of chastisement chosen by heaven
to punish the whole world (for its crimes)if we do not beforehand obtain
the conversion of that poor nation."(13) That is why it is to be feared
that the word "annihilated" is to be taken literally in its obvious sense:
annihilated, totally destroyed. Improbable in 1917, this tragic threat
is not any longer farfetched for us today in the Nuclear Age.
It
is therefore clear: all the material punishments which still threaten us,
even the most dreadful, like nuclear war, or the expansion of Communism
over the whole planet, are already foretold by Our Lady in Her Second Secret,
and we also know the supernatural means to avert them before it is too
late.(14) We can be certain, according to Father Alonso, that nothing about
these material chastisements is repeated in the third part of the Secret.Or
at least, I would add, if allusion to it is again made (as is quite possible),
this will not be the essential message of the Third Secret. In effect,
since the Secret is composed of three interrelated but distinct parts and
whose date, for disclosure, fixed by heaven were not the same, one can
be sure that the third part of the Secret is not going to repeat the same
thing as the second in a few lines of space.
Doubtlessly, the Third Secret mainly refers to a spiritual chastisement.
Far worse, even more fearsome than famine, wars, persecutions, for it concerns
souls, their salvation or their eternal perdition. The late Father Alonso,
named in 1966 as official archivist of Fatima by Bishop Venancio, has proved
that this is what the Third Secret contains. He wrote about it in one of
the volumes of his great critical work, consisting of 14 volumes, which
unfortunately, he was forbidden to publish. But he was able, all the same,
before his death on December 12, 1981, to make known to us his conclusions
in various pamphlets and numerous articles in theological journals.
My
personal research has only permitted me to clarify, to complete, to be
more specific about his thesis which new documents have come to confirm.
Here
is the most important: On September 10, 1984, Bishop Cosme do Amaral, the
present Bishop of Leiria, Fatima, in the Aula Magna (large auditorium)
of the Technical University of Vienna, declared in the course of a period
of questions and answers: "The Third Secret of Fatima speaks neither of
atomic bombs nor of nuclear warheads, nor of SS20 missiles. Its content,
he has insisted, concerns only our faith. To identify the Secret with catastrophic
announcements or with a nuclear holocaust is to distort the meaning of
the Message. The loss of faith of a continent is worse than the annihilation
of a nation; and it is true that faith is continually diminishing in Europe."(15)
For
ten years, the Bishop of Fatima kept an absolute silence about the content
of the Third Secret. When he opens his mouth in order to make so resolute
a public statement, one can be morally certain that he has not said this
without having beforehand consulted Sister Lucy. We can be all the more
certain of this since in 1981, he had already refuted some false secrets
while saying that he had questioned the seer on the subject.
This
is to say that the thesis of Fr. Alonso is now publicly confirmed by the
Bishop of Fatima: It is the terrible crisis within the Church. It is the
loss of faith that the Immaculate Virgin has foretold, precisely for our
era, if Her requests were not sufficiently carried out, and it is this
drama which we have been witnessing since 1960. The essential having been
said, I shall now content myself to mention the principle stages of my
proof regarding the true content of the Third Secret.
In
the first chapter(16), I set forth the reasons which prove that the Third
Secret deals specifically with the loss of faith. It is the principle element
of the Secret that we already know. In effect, we know more than only the
context of it. Sister Lucy was desirous to indicate to us the first sentence
of it, "In Portugal, the dogma of faith will always be preserved, etc."
This little sentence which the seer surely and intentionally added when
she wrote down the first two parts and the conclusion of the Secret for
the second time in her Memoirs, is definitely significant. It provides
us very discreetly, with the key to the Third Secret.
Here
is the judicious commentary of Father Alonso: "'In Portugal, the dogma
of the faith will always be preserved". This sentence in all clarity implies
the critical state of the faith which will befall other nations. That is
to say that there will be a crisis of faith, while Portugal will save its
faith". "Therefore", Father Alonso writes further, "in the period which
precedes the great Triumph of the Heart of Mary, the terrible things which
are the object of the third part of the Secret, will occur. Which ones?
If, 'In Portugal, the dogmas of faith will always be preserved,' one can
deduce from it with perfect clarity that in other parts of the Church these
dogmas either are going to become obscure or else even be lost."
Most
of the experts have adopted this interpretation: Father Martin dos Reis,
Canon Galamba, Bishop Venancio, Father Luis Kondor, Father Messias Dias
Coelho. Last November 18th, in the course of a conference that he gave
in Paris, Father Laurentin declared himself also in favor of this solution.(17)
Let
us add that Cardinal Ratzinger has himself spoken in this sense to Vittorio
Messori, while saying that the Third Secret concerned "the dangers threatening
the faith and life of Christians". Finally, as we have said, the present
Bishop of Fatima is still more explicit. He lets it be understood that
it is a crisis of faith, on the scale of several nations and entire continents
... such a defection has a name in Holy Scripture: It is apostacy. It is
possible that this word is found in the text of the Secret.
In
another chapter(18), I show that there is more: The Third Secret insists
surely on the heavy responsibility of consecrated souls, of priests, and
even bishops themselves in this unprecedented crisis of faith which has
hit the Church for 25 years. I provide several proofs of it, several very
clear indications. I must be content here to cite to you Father Alonso:
"It is therefore completely probable that the text of the Third Secret
makes concrete allusions to the crisis of faith within the Church and to
the negligence of the pastors themselves."
He
speaks further of "internal struggles in the very bosom of the Church and
of grave pastoral negligence by the high hierarchy", of "deficiencies of
the upper hierarchy of the Church."
These
very serious words, Father Alonso has surely not written and published
them so clearly and openly without having carefully considered the whole
impact. As official archivist of Fatima, would he have adopted after 10
years of labors and various interviews, various conversations with Sister
Lucy, a position so bold on a subject so red hot without being assured
at least of the tacit agreement of the seer? The answer does not permit
any doubt at all.
This
declaration of the deficiencies of the Hierarchy explains the haunting
concern of the three seers forcing themselves to pray, to pray much and
to sacrifice without ceasing for the Holy Father; the three months of insurmountable
anguish that Sister Lucy had to face before daring to write down this text.
It explains finally why the Popes since the optimist John XXIII, have hesitated,
delayed and ceaselessly put off until later its publication, seeking at
all costs to keep it hidden.
In
the third chapter(19), I show that Sister Lucy, without doubt, echoed a
theme of the Third Secret in certain of her words and letters where she
lays stress on the unleashing of the devil in our era. Already in 1957,
she was confiding to Father Fuentes, "The Most Holy Virgin has told me
that the devil is about to engage in a decisive battle against the Virgin
... and that he knows what most offends God, and what will make him gain
the most souls in the shortest possible time. He does everything to gain
souls consecrated to God, for in this manner, he will succeed in leaving
the souls of the faithful abandoned by their leaders, thereby the more
easily will he seize them."
But
it is especially in a series of very little known but very important letters
in the years 1969-1970, that she uses some striking expressions to describe
the present crisis of the Church. And, let us note it well, through the
pen of a soul who is so humble, and so respectful of authority, that such
strong expressions are without doubt the echo of the words heard from the
very lips of the Immaculate Virgin in Her Final Message concerning the
protection of the faith and the welfare of the Church.
"I
see by your letter," she writes to a priest, "that you are preoccupied
by the disorientation of our time. It is sad, in fact, that so many persons
let themselves be dominated by the diabolical wave that is sweeping the
world and that they are blinded to the point of being incapable of seeing
error! The principle fault is that they have abandoned prayer, they have
in this way become estranged from God, and without God, everything is lacking."
The
devil is very cunning and looks for our weak points in order to attack
us."
If
we are not diligent and careful to obtain from God strength, we shall fall,
for our age is very wicked and we are weak. Only the strength of God can
keep us on our feet."
In
a letter to a friend who is zealously involved in the defence of Marian
Devotion, Sister Lucy writes:
"Let
people say the Rosary every day, Our Lady has repeated that in all of Her
apparitions, as if to fortify us in these times of diabolical disorientation,
in order that we not let ourselves be deceived by false doctrines ... Unfortunately,
in religious matters the people for the most part are ignorant and allow
themselves to be led wherever they are taken. Hence, the great responsibility
of the one who has the duty of leading them ...
"It
is a diabolical disorientation that is invading the world, deceiving souls!
It is necessary to stand up to 'the devil'."
On
September 16, 1970, she writes to a religious friend: "Our poor Lord, He
has saved us with so much love and He is so little understood! So little
loved! So badly served! It is painful to see such great confusion, and
in so many persons who occupy places of responsibility! ... For us, we
must try, as much as it is possible for us, to make reparation through
a still more intimate union with the Lord ... It pains me to see what you
are saying, but now, that is happening around here also! ... The fact is
that the devil has succeeded in bringing in evil under the appearance of
good, and the blind are beginning to lead others ... This is like the Lord
told us in His Gospel, and souls allow themselves to be taken in. Gladly
I sacrifice myself and offer God my life for peace in His Church, for priests
and for all consecrated souls, especially for those who are so deceived
and misguided!"
FOR
the confidant of the Virgin Mary, evil is not only in our world
"in decadence", "plunged into the darkness of error of immorality and pride".
Evil is also in the Church itself, where the devil has his "followers"
and his "partisans" who are always "forging ahead with intrepid audacity".
Facing them, there are so many "timid persons" who do not have the courage
to take a stand. And Sister Lucy is not afraid to state that many bishops
are among their number. Moreover, it is not only a question of luke-warmness
or of pastoral neglect, Sister Lucy lets it be clearly understood that
it is the faith itself that is being attacked. She speaks of "false doctrines"
and of "diabolical confusion", of "blindness" and this, among the very
ones "who have great responsibility" in the Church. She deplores the fact
that, so many pastors "let themselves be dominated by the diabolical wave
that is invading the world". Could one better describe the crisis of the
Church that has opened itself to a world ... of which satan is the prince?
But
Sister Lucy insists, "The Virgin knew that these times of diabolical disorientation
had to come." All these words of the seer and so many others that we can
cite, are explained perfectly, and take on great prominence, if on July
13, 1917, in Her Third Secret, the Virgin specifically foretold this "diabolical
disorientation" which would suddenly invade the Church, if Her requests
were not obeyed.
To
someone who was questioning her on the content of the Third Secret, Sister
Lucy one day replied: "It's in the Gospel, and in the Apocalypse, read
them." She has also confided to Father Fuentes that the Virgin Mary has
made her see clearly that "We are in the last times of the world." This
does not mean, one must emphasize, the time of the end of the world and
of the last judgement, since the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
must come first. Cardinal Ratzinger himself discreetly alluding to the
content of the Secret of Fatima, has mentioned three important elements:
"The dangers threatening the faith," "the importance of the last times"
and the fact that the prophecies "contained in this Third Secret correspond
to what has been announced in Scripture." We even know that one day Lucy
indicated Chapters 8 and 13 of the Apocalypse.
That
is why, in the last two chapters of my book, I take up the great teachings
of Our Lord, of St. Paul and St. John so ignored today! - Announcing the
troubles, the heresy and finally the great apostasy which will arise in
the Church during the "last times". And the objective comparison of the
prophecies of Scripture - very particularly those of the Apocalypse - and
the great prophecy of the Virgin of Fatima, at the dawn of our Century
shows indeed very numerous and quite striking parallels.
We have said enough
about it in order to understand that nothing is so important, so necessary,
so urgent, than to make known without delay, to all the faithful of the
Church, the complete and integral text of Mary's Secret, in its limpid
truthfulness and in its prophetic richness and its Divine transcendence.
It would be proper here to cite the numerous and solid reasons which underline
the urgency of this disclosure. I shall be content at the end of this presentation
to mention the principle points.
1.
"Because the Blessed Virgin wants it." We know indeed that Her will has
not changed in the least since the moment of Grace of July 13, 1917 when
She revealed it to the three shepherds nor has it changed since that January
2, 1944, when appearing to Sister Lucy in her convent at Tuy, She asked
her to write down the text of it. Our Lady wills that this prophetic oracle
be unveiled, that it be known. And Sister Lucy, Her messenger, has continued
to want this public disclosure and as much as she has been permitted, she
has urgently requested it from those in authority, this we know.
2.
For the good of souls. For contrary to the falsehood so often repeated,
the Secret is not intended exclusively for the Holy Father. Like the two
preceding ones, it is destined for all the faithful. As sons of the Church,
we are all children of Mary. We all have the right to know the salutary
warning that Our Heavenly Mother addresses to us in this very perilous
hour, in order to help us - we ourselves, our children, all those dear
to us - to keep intact and alive in our hearts, the true Catholic faith
received from our forefathers.
3.
As long as this Secret is not revealed, the peace of the world will remain
tragically threatened! I will explain myself. We believe strongly, that
as long as Russia is not consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, as
God requires it to be, Russia will not be converted. And as long as she
will not be converted, liberated from its atheistic and persecuting Bolshevism
and from the grip of satanic forces which enslave it, the risk of a nuclear
apocalypse will remain a terrible threat for the world.
God
has willed that the peace of the world depends, in our century, on the
ardent filial obedience of the Pope and of the bishops to the commands
of His Most Holy Mother who appeared at Fatima. Now, this act of faith,
of confident docility towards the Immaculate Mediatrix, through which our
pastors shall carry out the consecration of Russia, presupposes also, and
I shall even say first of all, the acceptance and the public disclosure
of the Secret. It is a lesson of history: Since 1960, the deliberate, contemptuous
concealment of the Secret of Our Lady has gone hand in hand with the stubborn
refusal to precisely carry out with exactitude, Her other requests. On
the other hand, the publication of the Third Secret will be the clear sign
that the Church has officially recognized the Divine authenticity and importance
of the Fatima Message in its entirety. One of the major obstacles to the
consecration of Russia shall in that case be set aside!
4.
Finally and especially, for the good of the Church. While the Church, without
a doubt, is going through the most serious crisis in her history, while
heresies of all sorts are taught and propagated, poisoning everywhere the
people of God, while her "self-destruction" continues without let up since
1960, and when the "smoke of satan"(20) has penetrated into the holy place,
to use some expressions of Paul VI, it would be a very great pity and certainly
even criminal to continue to neglect, to disregard, to despise the salutary
words of the Virgin Mary - concerning precisely this `crisis of faith'
that we are undergoing. Since the Queen of Heaven as early as 1917 had
foretold the danger and since She had certainly indicated the real causes
of it, and moreover, since She had proposed the effective remedies, is
it not a terrible shame that these remedies intended to be publicly made
known in 1960 have yet to be revealed to us? Is it not scandalous that
for 25 years, millions of souls have been suffering in this "diabolical
disorientation" and have been running the risk of being lost eternally
without the pastors of the Church deigning to accept the extraordinary
aid that Heaven is offering them?
There
now are so many reasons which make it a duty for us to continue to address
to the Holy Father our repeated supplications for the disclosure of the
Secret of Fatima: It is for the honor of Our Mother, for the salvation
of our brothers, for the peace of the world, for the renewal of the Church.
Let us not be told, as a recent false report tries to make us believe,
that the Fatima Secret cannot be unveiled because "It would risk being
misinterpreted!" Is it possible that the Queen of Prophets who foresaw
and announced in 1917 so many then unforeseeable events that we have since
witnessed, would have failed to foresee this risk, to the point of making
Her Secret completely useless for the Church? This is unthinkable! No,
Her Secret is clear, with neither the least ambiguity nor difficulty in
interpretation, we can be certain of it. Let us dare even to say it! Would
it not be rather because of its too great clarity which is making our pastors
uneasy? Let us therefore pray untiringly so that the Holy Father can receive
from God the light and the strength which will permit him to finally conquer
all obstacles. It is already late, but Jesus tells all through Sister Lucy,
"It will never be too late to have recourse to Jesus and to Mary."
Finally,
and with this I shall conclude, if the Holy Father cannot yet decide to
make public the final Secret of Our Lady by exercising his personal authority,
could he not, should he not at least allow complete freedom to the Prefect
of the Holy Office or to the Bishop of Leiria, or to the seer herself,
to obey the expressed command of Our Lady that the Secret be made known
to the faithful?
For
it is an astounding fact, that for more than 25 years, the Secret of Fatima
and it alone is in some manner on the Index.(21) Sister Lucy, and she alone
is compelled to silence. On November 15, 1966, Pope Paul VI abrogated articles
1399 and 2318 of the code of Canon Law, which prohibited the publication
of books and pamphlets which propagate without authorization new apparitions,
revelations, or prophecies still not approved by the Church. And this abrogation
is now in the new code.(22) So that since 1966 anyone can publish and spread
among the Christian people the most fantastic revelations. Any deception,
and devilry, nothing is prohibited anymore. Everything is authorized to
be published and the `prince of lies' skillfully takes advantage of this
license by multiplying throughout the world, false apparitions and fraudulent
messages, which spread freely everywhere and lead astray countless members
of the faithful. Only that Message, the Secret of Fatima whaich is most
certainly and most unquestionably from God, is the only Message which is
scandalously prohibited from being published.
The
conclusion imposes itself: It is high time to also let the seer of Fatima
speak. And through her the Immaculate Virgin, Mother of God and our Mother,
our all loveable and all loving Mediatrix and Coredemptrix. It is urgent
to listen to Her since, "She alone will be able to help us" as She Herself
informed us on July 13, 1917.(23)
HER
three Secrets reveal to us in fact Her threefold power and Her threefold
mission which God has entrusted to Her. God wishes to manifest in a most
striking way in our century, this mission of Our Lady. It is through Her,
through the vision of hell and the revelation of Her Immaculate Heart,
the first terrible and marvelous Secret that He wishes to convert souls,
all souls, and to save them, because She is the 'Mother of Mercy' and the
'Gate of Heaven'. It is through Her - the commands, the promises, the threats
in Her Second Secret, that He has been seeking to save Christianity, to
spare us from horrible wars and Communist slavery! For He has established
Her as 'Queen of Peace'. Moreover, it is through Her, through the prophecy
of Her Third Secret that He wishes to conquer today that "diabolical wave"
surging upon the Church, the impiety that has taken hold, even in the Sanctuary
and all the dark forces that have propagated and encouraged the modern
apostasy, for She is the 'Defender of the True Faith' and She alone has
received from Her Son the power to conquer all of the heresies in the whole
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And this threefold
mission of the Immaculate Mediatrix which Her great Secret reveals to us,
is also the unshakeable basis for our inconfoundable hope. Yes we can be
sure of it when Her Secret will finally be completely unveiled and recognized
as authentic, when Russia will finally be solemnly consecrated to Her,
and the reparational devotion of the First Saturdays of the month is officially
approved, the faithful and powerful Virgin, Virgo Fidelis', Virgo Potens'
will accomplish Her wonderful promises.
Filled
with joy, we shall then witness the triumph of Her Immaculate Heart, preparing
the universal reign of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Russia, delivered from
her demons through a remarkable miracle of conversion, will return to the
sheepfold of Roman unity. A period of peace will be granted to the world.
The Catholic faith will be preached to all nations. And countless numbers
of souls shall go in joy to the Fountains of Salvation in the One Holy
Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Church of Christ under the guidance of a
single Shepherd!
Yes,
this hour will come, but we ourselves must hasten it by carrying out with
love all the requests of Our Lady from this moment onward.
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