Well, thank you, everybody, so much for joining
us once again for our continuing series live, all live here at the National Shrine of the
Divine Mercy. I'm Father Chris. It's again, a pleasure to be with you as we continue
our series. And you can see on your screen today's topic is understanding Fatima. And as you
saw on that title slide, you know, there's so much that we hear about Fatima, quite arguably the most
important Marian apparition in human history. But there's a lot of confusion. Is Russia consecrated?
Not consecrated? What was the message? There was all kinds of visits. What do we need to take from
that? What is the message? What do we have to do? What are we instructed? What's obligatory,
obligatory? What's not? We're going to cover all that today. So we're excited you could be with
us on a sunny, beautiful day in Stockbridge today, on Saturday. A little bit cooler about
55 that we're hey, we're making it.
And, and this is a part this whole series and the
next slide you'll see is part of my Explaining the Faith Series. Now, these are going to come
in sets. The first set was my first 13 talks. This talk today will be on the next
set. But you can get this first set called Explaining the Faith on our website
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visit TheDivineMercy.org/ExplainingTheFaith. Okay so everybody again awesome to be here
and again with the most important topics that we can discuss from our messages
from Mary of all Marian Apparitions.
All right. Let us begin really what this talk
is going to connect is Mary and Divine Mercy and this is one thing you don't often hear when
we talk about Fatima. Mary and Divine Mercy is going to be the connection. Now, most people
agree that Fatima is about private revelation and prophecy. But Father, that is
not mandatory. That's optional in the Catholic Church. We don't have to believe
it to get to Heaven. Is this true? Yes. However, why listen then? Well, I think these next
couple of slides will help you understand. Look at the next slide. This is Thomas Aquinas, one of the
greatest Saints ever in the Church. And he said private revelation is important because it offers
a deeper understanding of revealed truth.
He said it gives guidance to leaders in the Church
of actions they should take at a particular point in time. Don't you think it's interesting that
Mary appears at different times to address issues of that time. Aquinas also said prophecy
is needed for the proper worship of God. So there is a role in private revelation and
prophecy. Now let's go to our next slide. Here we have two powerful statements.
The first one is Saint Peter. Saint Peter said no prophecy ever came through
human will, but rather human beings moved by the Holy Spirit spoke under the influence of God. So
here's Peter telling us that we need to listen.
This is important. Next, Karl Rahner there
on the right. He said private revelation answers the question as to what is most urgently
to be done here and now in accordance with the general principles of the Faith. Okay, so what are
we saying here? What we're seeing here is, yes, technically we do not have to listen to private
live relation or even believe it to get to Heaven. However, as Father Seraphim says, and I use his
words directly, quote, You'd be foolish not to.
So. And the important thing to remember here,
though, and this is what most people forget, prophecy is not set in stone. Pope
Benedict the Fifteenth emphasized this. It sometimes is given by God as a warning to
change. To change. And we can affect that change. And so, when we have that opportunity, when,
when God warns us, especially through His Mother, we need to listen because He's telling us how
to avoid, like for instance, a chastisement. So anyway, this is important stuff. Now, where
does Fatima begin and how does it begin? I think this is interesting and I'm giving a new
talk here. I've done the Fatima talk before, but I've adding some new things to it. I
did this only a couple of times years ago, but I'm adding a couple of things.
I believe that Fatima actually bully, excuse me, actually begins and let's put up our next slide
right here with Pope Leo the Thirteenth, who I believe is the greatest Pope in the history of the
Church. Father, you're from the JP Two generation, you can't say that. Okay, I get it. And yes, John
Paul too is right there. But personally, what I learned in Seminary, I think Leo the Thirteenth
was the greatest Pope we've ever had. Now, as we saw on that slide, he was Pope from 1878 to 1903.
Now what happened? We have a pious tradition, which means this is not Scripture. But the pious
tradition was in 1884, on October the thirteenth, Pope Leo finished Mass and overheard a
conversation between Jesus and Satan. So, our next slide. Because this is what he heard.
He heard this conversation between Satan and Jesus, where Satan said to Jesus, I can
bring down Your Church. And Jesus said, you think so? He said, Yes, but I need more
time and I need more power. And Satan, or Jesus said, How much power? And Satan said, enough
to influence the lukewarm sinner, those on the fence. I want a shot at getting the souls of those
on the fence. Now, why would Jesus allow this? He allows this because the Bible tells us we
must be tested. The Angels were tested. Adam and Eve were tested. We are going to be tested. If we
haven't already. You will through your whole life. So here's what's important.
Jesus granted him the power to test us. Then Satan said, I need more time.
And Jesus said, how much time? He said, about a hundred years. And he said, and I can bring down
Your church. Whoa! In the hundred years. Now, the question is going to be, when
did that one hundred years begin? But we know in the last hundred years, or in that
one hundred years, even from the time of Saint Leo here's what we've seen. In our culture
we've accepted no fault divorce, Contraception is not even questioned, Abortion,
shattered families, single parenthood, test tube babies, same-sex
marriage, redefinition of marriage, Instant access Pornography, the corruption of
higher education, the indoctrination of our youth, a giant welfare state, the destruction
of the middle class, crippling debt, a rejection of our Constitution, the stripping of
our freedoms, especially the freedom of religion, an embracing of Marxism, an acceptance
of violence as a form of protest and the no one is accountable approach, yet
everyone goes to Heaven and there is no Hell.
That's what's happening in our society. So, Satan,
if he was given this power and we can see those effects, those have happened. The question often
asked of theologians is: when did that one hundred year reign of Satan begin? Did it begin in
1884 when Christ had that conversation with Satan? Now some people say yes, because 100 years
later. So, if it was in October 13th, 1884 that Satan had this conversation and he was
granted 100 years. Some believe this is true, because what happened one hundred years
later to the day October 13th, 1984? The Detroit Tigers won the World Series. I'm from
Detroit. I had to throw that in there. But no, actually, sorry. All joking aside, a hundred
years later, John Paul consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in 1984.
So, some people believe that was the hundred years. However, others believe that that time may
have began in 1917. That Satan took some years to form his army and to launch his attack. Why 1917?
This is very important. Okay. The other thing, the reason that people believe in 1917, may have
been the year that began was the horrible things that were happening in 1917. All right. First
of all, the World War One was raging. This was the War to end all Wars. All right. Not only
was World War One raging, the Masonic bankers took their first country in Russia.
Also, Margaret Sanger. You may have heard of Planned Parenthood. She was the founder. She
released a film called Birth Control in 1917. It was so scandalous she actually spent 30 days
in jail as I understand it. She opened the first birth control clinic in New York. In Brooklyn.
I think it was in 1916. But anyway, this birth control film was released in 1917. So all
these things were going on in 1917. I think the Spanish flu was even raging at that time, if I'm
correct. But what does God do? Where sin abounds, grace abounds even the more. How did
God answer this issue in 1917? Well, God did. Let us look at our next slide. In 1917,
God answered in a big way with Our Lady of Fatima and Maximilian Kolbe in 1917.
You know what's interesting? Mary appeared on the 13th of every month, and
I told you that Pope Leo s vision of Satan and Christ speaking happened on October 13th. You
know what happened 33 years later to the day? The Miracle of the Sun on October 13th,
1917. But that's not the only connection. Let's look at some more incredible
connections in 1917. All right.
First, our next slide. You see
Pope Pius the Twelfth right there. He was made a Bishop in the Sistine Chapel at the
exact time and day, May 13th, 1917, that Mary was appearing to the children at Fatima and Pope Pius
the Twelfth is the Pope that led us through World War Two. Also, you see Pope Benedict the Fifteenth
on that screen, on that slide. Now he was doing a Novena there's Pope Benedict the Fifteenth. He
was leading a Novena to Mary Mother of Mercy, believe it or not. So, there's Benedict Fifteenth
leading a prayer to Mary, the Mother of Mercy for peace and an end to World War One.
And on the eighth day of that Novena, Mary appeared. That was May 13, 1917. So, you
see, Satan launches his attack in 1917. World War One's going on, the Masonic banker's take over,
the Bolshevik Revolution, the fall of Russia, the Spanish Flu, Margaret Sanger launches birth
control clinics and the film Birth Control. But yet, God answers with Mary and Maximilian
Kolbe in 1913. So, while the Pope is being installed as a Bishop in 1913, 1917
on May 13th, there's Mary appearing to the Children of Fatima. Unbelievable.
All right. Most people don't know when Fatima actually began, but it actually began the year
before Let's look at this slide. Here's a slide of the Angel of Peace appearing to the Children
at Fatima. Actually in 1916 Now it appears that excuse me, the Angel appeared to the Children to
prepare them for Mary's visits. Now the reason I bring this up is it's powerful because he taught
them a prayer that's very similar to the Divine Mercy Chaplet: I offer You the Most Precious
Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus. This, these two prayers, the Chaplet and what the Angel
gave at Fatima are incredibly similar. All right, so then Mary came at the next opportunity in
1917 that the angel prepared them for. Mary came on May 13th, as I said in 1917, which was
the Feast of Our Lady of the Eucharist.
So, you're going to see the connection here
between Mary and Jesus, the Divine Mercy. And I'm going to show you later, that's the
entire message of Fatima. All right. Now, next, we see the three children. This is who
Mary appeared to. These three Children: Lucia, who was ten, Francisco who was eight, and Jacinta
who was seven. That picture supposedly was taken right after they had the vision of Mary, where
they said She was more brilliant than the sun. And so, Mary appeared to these children starting
in May 13th, 1917 and asked for prayer and penance to never offend God again. Her message was that
mankind must abandon themselves to God, who is the Source of Love and Mercy. So we're getting
there. Mary told them to pray the Rosary every day in order to obtain peace for the world and an end
of the war. Then, She told them to come back every month on the 13th for six consecutive months.
All right. Now, in those apparitions, I don't have time to explain what happened in each
of the months. Let's jump ahead to the most, and one of the most important of them. See our
next slide. The Secret of Fatima. All right. The Secret of Fatima was given in July's
Apparition, and the Holy See treats them as one Secret in three parts. So, we're going to
talk about the first Secret, the second Secret and the third Secret. All right. The first
part, or the first Secret was given a vision of Hell which only lasted but an instant. But it
was so awful that the Children said they would have died of fright, had Our Lady not promise
them that they were already going to go to Heaven. Now, I want to show you a clip, a quick
minute and a half video from Father Mike Gaitley s Series where he describes Hell.
Now, I should probably give the little parental guidance warning here because it could be a little
scary. But the reason I'm showing this slide, so if you have children watching, might want to judge
right now if it's a little scary, because this is the vision of what the Children described that
they saw in Hell and to them was very scary.
And so, let s watch this quick video
from Father Mike Gaitley.
Our Lady showed us a great sea of fire
which seemed to be under the earth. Plunged in this fire where demons and souls in
human form, like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze,
floating about in the conflagration. Now raised into the air by the flames
that issued from within themselves together with great clouds of smoke now
falling back on every side like sparks in a huge fire without weight or equilibrium,
and amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and made this tremble with
fear. The demons could be distinguished by their terrifying and repellent likeness to frightful
and unknown animals, all black and transparent. This vision lasted but an instant. How can we ever
be grateful enough to Our Dear Heavenly Mother, who had already prepared us by promising in
the first Apparition to take us to Heaven. Otherwise, I think we would have
died of fear and terror.
Okay, so you see in that video a real,
what I would say is a wake-up call, right? I show that because sometimes you know,
it takes a little shot to us to wake up, to realize the error of our ways, and this is what
Mary showed the Children. And so, we have there a message from Mary. In the first Secret it was,
this is Hell where poor sinners go, especially if there's nobody to pray for them. Now, let's
go to our second slide, because in the second part of the Secrets we have Mary saying this: you
have seen Hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the
world devotion to My Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and
there will be peace. The war is going to end.
But if people do not cease offending
God, a worse one will break out. She means World War Two. To prevent this, I shall
come and to ask for the Consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart and reparation on the First
Saturdays. We'll talk about that in a minute. If My requests are heeded, Russia will
be converted and there will be peace. If not, she will spread her errors throughout the
world, causing wars and persecution of the Church. The good will be martyred; the Holy Father will
have much to suffer; various nations will be annihilated. In the end, My Immaculate Heart
will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to Me, and she shall be converted, and a
period of peace will be granted to the world.
All right. Powerful, right? That's the
second of the Secrets, talking about the War, that if we don't change, this first World War
that was happening, a worse one would break out. Then She talked about Russia. What's
interesting is we know that this message was authentic because the Children, they
didn't even know who or what Russia was. They thought it was the name of a woman.
They re like, who's this Russia? They didn't even know there was a
nation called Russia. And so, when Mother Mary said Russia to them and they repeated
it, they didn't even know what Russia was. So, we knew there was something really truthful told
to them. All right. Then Mary gave the third part of the Secret, the one that has
much controversy and confusion. And we're going to try to clarify that for you.
All right. So basically, before I show the slide, the third part of the secret had
the Angel crying out penance, penance, penance. And then Mary, let's show our
next slide. Or Lucia said she documented what Mary, or excuse me, what the Children documented,
what Mary said. Okay. Mary said this. to prevent this. Meaning what? The Children going to Hell or
excuse me, Mary said the Holy Father, I'm sorry, the Holy Father passed through a big city, half in
ruins and half trembling with halting step. Now, what is halting step mean? That's kind of like a
stutter step. Remember John Paul Two when he had Parkinson's disease? That was a halting
step. Afflicted with pain and sorrow.
He prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on
his way; having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the Big Cross, he was
killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way there died
one after another the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious and various lay people,
other positions. All right. This is important because, first of all, it says who's that Bishop
in white? Well, John Paul believed it was him. Most everybody believes it. But it
said he died. He was killed. Remember, Pope Benedict told us prophecy is not set in
stone. We can change it, mitigate it through prayer and penance. And so, John Paul
Two believed he was spared for a purpose, and we'll talk about that in a moment.
But after the Children describe that third Secret, it said that beneath the two arms
of the Cross, there were two Angels with a Crystal Aspersorium in which they had in
their hand, and they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs. Remember the Church expression? The
blood of the Martyrs is the seed of the Church. So they gathered up the blood of the martyrs
and sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God. That's you and me right now. We are
those souls struggling through those, that those, ruins. What do you think those ruins are? Are we
not seeing on the news every night? The cities being torn to ruins, not just in the
United States, but around the world.
These are the ruins and we, you and me,
are making our way through it. But yet we're being persecuted. It says we're being
persecuted greatly. This is what happens to us just for being Christians. We re being greatly
persecuted. All right. So, what happened then? On that July Apparition, Mary then promised
that She would come and give a great miracle on October the 13th for all to believe. And so,
right now, I want to show the second and final video from Mother, Father Mike Gaitley. It's
only 3 minutes long, so stay with me. But this is a beautiful one. The Children can watch this
one. It's a summary of the Miracle of the Sun that Mary told about that was going
to come on October the 13th.
You know, I once told my Dad the story of Our
Lady of Fatima. At the time, he didn't have a very strong faith, yet, he was totally captivated.
In fact, he was so captivated that after I finish the story, he said, Mike, if people heard that,
they d believe. Now while the prophetic aspects of the message of Fatima are certainly impressive,
what particularly struck him was the Great Solar Miracle. That's the part he thought would really
get people believing. So, let's go to October Thirteenth, 1917 in what's known as the Miracle
of the Sun. Of course, any miracle is impressive, but I personally think that the Miracle of the
Sun was one of the most awesome and dramatic public Miracles in the whole history of the
Church. During the July Thirteenth Apparition, Our Lady had told Lucy that She would perform a
miracle in October for all to see and believe. Well, Lucia shared that information with
others and the word quickly spread.
In fact, even the secular anti-Catholic
newspaper O Seculo. It helped get the word out, although it did so only to mock the
Children and the people who believe them. Well, all morning long on October Thirteenth,
1917, the day of the promised Miracle, a steady rain saturated the Cova d Ira. But despite that,
tens of thousands of people still came. Then at midday, Our Lady appeared and the Children
knelt in the mud at the front of the crowds.
Looking very sad, Our Lady said do
not offend the Lord or God anymore because He's already so much offended.
After speaking those words, Mary opened Her hands. The reflection of Her own glorious light
was reflected on the Sun as She disappeared into the distance. At that point, the Children
began to experience a series of visions: Saint Joseph with the Child Jesus, Our Lady robed
in white with a blue mantle, and then Our Lady again, first appearing as Our Lady of Sorrows and
then as Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Now, while the Children beheld those visions, the people who
had gathered saw something very different.
As we approach the hillside upon which the
appearances were supposed to have taken place, I saw a sea of people.
It was a day of incessant drizzle
It was absolutely full of people. But for
my part, I felt devoid of any religious feeling. A few moments before the
Miracle, it stopped raining.
Suddenly the rain ceased, the clouds separated,
and I saw a large sun brighter than the sun.
Outside the people were shouting and weeping
and pointing to the sun. One could see the immense multitude turned toward the sun, which
appeared free from clouds and in its zenith.
When Lucia called out Look at the
sun , the whole multitude repeated: attention to the sun. Look at the sun . I can
hardly find words to describe what followed. It looked like a lake of dull silver. It might have
been an eclipse which was taking place.
Then the sun started spinning
and shooting streams of light, which changed it to all colors
of the rainbow. At the same time, it started getting bigger and bigger in the sky
as though it were falling on the earth.
Before the astonished size of the crowd, the sun
trembled, made sudden incredible movements outside of all cosmic laws. The sun danced, according
to the typical expression of the people.
Everyone was frightened. We all thought
it was the end of the world.
Near us was an unbeliever with spent the morning
looking at the simpletons who had gone off to Fatima just to see an ordinary girl. He now seemed
to be paralyzed. His eyes fixed on the sun.
Suddenly, the sun stopped the spinning
and returned to its place in the sky. Everyone started shouting, Miracle. This
is a miracle. Just then I noticed that both the ground and my clothes were bone dry.
People then began to ask each other what they had seen. The great majority admitted to have
seen the trembling and the dancing of the sun. There was a man standing with his face turned to
the sun. He recited the Creed in a loud voice. I believe in one God, the Father Almighty.
I believe in one God, the Father Almighty.
Okay, so we know and we've all heard about the
Miracle of the Sun and maybe you've also heard about the Miracle really in a sense that happened
in Fatima that day or in, yeah, in Fatima that day because there were 70,000 people that were
reported to be there and remember it had been raining all day. They were full of mud, soaking
wet, and all of a sudden everything was completely dry. Their clothes were clean. The mud was gone.
They were completely dry and everybody was yelling miracle. So, all this good, right? Mary comes,
makes it known the world is not destroyed. Everything's clean now. The mud goes away. All
is good, right? Well, not necessarily. Here's a picture of it. Here's a picture of those 70,000
people or just some of those 70,000 people.
And you can see, look at the crowd there. I
mean, that's incredible. I love this old picture because it gives you a context of really
what was going on. Some people showed up, as Father Mike said, just to mock it but, boy,
they all became believers afterwards, right. Now, after Mary did the Miracle and everything got
cleaned up, that means all was good. Right? Wrong. World War Two still happened. Mary's predictions
of hunger and famine and persecution of the Church still happened. The Children, they suffered a
lot. Fact. In fact, Francisco died and Jacinta, she had to go through some real pain. She had
two ribs removed with, for an inflamed long with no anesthesia. Can you imagine? Now,
people think that was the end of Fatima.
The last Apparition was October 13th, but no,
Fatima continued into the 1920s. This is where the real important messages come. Because remember,
Mary hadn't given all the details in those six months at Fatima. More was to come in the 1920s.
For instance, in 1925 in Spain, Jesus appeared as the Christ Child and described how Mary's Heart,
His Mother, Her Heart was wounded by blasphemies, and He talked about the five blasphemies
that wounded Her Heart, and that was blasphemies against Her Immaculate Conception,
blasphemies against Her Perpetual Virginity, Blasphemies against Her Divine Maternity.
You remember these are Marian Dogmas for us. Blasphemies that instilled hate in Children
against Mother Mary and blasphemies of those who reviled Her Sacred Images.
That's why I get sometimes comments online about, you know, disgusting images of idolatry. No, it's
not. And I I'll do a whole nother talk on Statues and images coming up in the future. But, that's
not idolatry. It's actually given by Our Lord, as He's given us in the past ways to carve
Statues. For instance, the Ark of the Covenant, where the gold, the Bronze Serpent. These were
instructed by God to carve these. Again, we don't worship Mary, but She leads us to Jesus.
And we'll talk about that. All right. Now, when Mary came, Jesus gave, the Child Jesus gave these
blasphemies as a reason that Her Heart is pierced. So the Blessed Virgin then appeared and requested.
Let's look at our next slide. The Five First Saturdays Devotion. All right. The Five First
Saturdays Devotion because of these blasphemies, and we're going to talk
about this in more detail.
I want you to put this in your memory
bank. But basically, what do you do for the First Saturday of five consecutive
months? Mary said, one, you go to Confession. All right. Now, the people always ask, does that
mean it has to be exactly on that day? Try your best to go on that day. But Father Apostoli said
even if you had to go a couple of days before, a couple of days after, as long as you're in a
state of grace, go after. Try to get it as close as you can. But it doesn't have to be exactly on
that day. Try. Next, you receive Holy Communion. All right. Then you pray the Rosary.
And here's the key. And meditate on one or more of the Mysteries of the
Rosary for an additional 15 minutes. All right. That is the Five First Saturday
devotions. We're going to come back to it.
Why? This is very important and it has to do
with the Consecration of Russia and, I'm sorry, the conversion of Russia, which is different.
You have the Consecration of Russia, which means she is blessed. Then
you have the conversion of Russia, which means the people change. Now, let's look
at this for a minute. That happened in 1925. Now, in 1929, Mary appeared again to Lucia in Spain and
asked, now for the official Consecration of Russia by the Pope with his Bishops around the world.
So, what happened? It wasn't consecrated. So, in 1931, Jesus appeared and said He was
unhappy that Russia had not been consecrated. So when Mary asked first in 1929 it was not done.
1931, 2 years later Jesus appears and says I'm not happy. Russia has not been consecrated.
And Jesus said they did not heed My request. Like the King of France, and I'll explain
that in a second. They will repent and do it, but it will be late. Russia will have already
spread her errors throughout the world, provoking wars and persecutions against the
Church. The Holy Father will have much to suffer. All right. So, people who are saying
was Russia consecrated it or not? Lucy said in 1931 that Jesus said it will,
she will be consecrated, but she'll be late and I'm not happy and Russia will spread
her errors all around the world. Well, Father, Russia wasn t consecrated because
she spread her errors around the world.
Well, that's what Jesus said would happen, not
because it wasn't consecrated, but because it was late. Now, what's this about the King
of France? All right. On June 17th, 1689, Jesus commanded that the King of France
consecrate France to the Sacred Heart. We know this with Margaret Mary Alacoque. They
didn't do it. 100 years later to the day, June 17, 1789 the French Revolution. This is that same
hundred years that France calls the Enlightenment. And trust me, it was anything but enlightened.
It was a rejection of God and a turning away and putting all power in the reason of man. It's
the beginning of many of our modern day problems. So what happened? Russia is not been consecrated.
Jesus appears in 1931 says it's not happened.
I'm not happy here. So all of this went on.
There was a few attempts like during the War Pope Pius the Twelfth but he didn't have all
the bishops with him and all kinds of stuff. So, nobody argues that Russia was not consecrated in
those decades following Fatima. So, what happened? Well, on May 13th, 1981. Let's look at
our next slide. We had a wake-up call. On May 13th, 1981, the 64th anniversary,
John Paul two was shot and he was rushed to the hospital in what they said he should
have died. But miraculously the bullet was, was, changed trajectory inside the body
of John Paul and miraculously he did not die. Now when he was in the hospital, he asked for
two things. He asked, one for the Third Secret of Fatima, and guess what else he asked for?
Let's show it on the screen. The Diary of Saint Faustina in Polish.
This is incredible. This is what John Paul asked for. The Third Secret
of Fatima and the Diary of Saint Faustina. Now, he saw his shooting as the fulfillment of
the shooting of the Bishop in White that we just read on that slide for the Third Secret.
Remember, a Bishop would be walking through ruins with a halting step. Well, John Paul two had
Parkinson's. He had a halting step towards the end of his papacy. The ruins, I think we're
seeing ruins of our cities and world right now. And this is what's going on. But he didn't die.
Remember the prophecy said the Bishop would be killed, but he wasn't. He should have been
killed. He was shot. Just like the prophecy said he would be shot. But remember, Pope
Benedict says prophecy is not written in stone. We can change it with prayer and penance. We
can mitigate it. So this is important. So, after reading the Third Secret, John Paul Two said that
Mary should no longer remain in the background.
It is time to bring Mary to the forefront And,
this is the beautiful thing that started happening in the world. John Paul Two s Pontificate, started
bringing Mary out to the world just like God desired All right. So next slide. Not many people
know this but on May 13th, 1982, John Paul went back to the Shrine of Fatima in Portugal and he
was assassinated or there was an assassination attempt again. One year later to the day, he
was stabbed by a Spanish Cleric in a second assassination attempt. My goodness. So let's look
at the slide here. There's the crown that he then, although he was not seriously injured in the, in
the stabbing, he then took the bullet and placed it, the bullet that was fired at him, he placed
it in Mary's Crown. That was what he did on this second visit to Fatima on May 13th. 1982.
So, holy cow. What's all this going on here? All right. So now he said, that's it. He decided to
consecrate Russia. So, John Paul Two consecrated, but his first attempt was done privately.
So did not fulfill Our Lady's requests. Now, in the second attempt, he invited all the
Bishops because the first attempt was private.
He didn't have the Bishops.
Not valid. His second attempt, he invited the Bishops, but it arrived too late,
the invitation. And so, we have a lot of problems, people saying because the Bishops weren
t part of it. Well, he realized that. But good came out of this because when he realized
that Russia wasn't consecrated, he was learning and he was being inspired. Let's look at our next
slide of some of the good that came out of this. John Paul Two began to make explicit the
connection between Fatima and Divine mercy. You see that Priest holding that? That's a Marian
of the Immaculate Conception. Father Francis, one of our own Marian Priest s there with Father,
with his assistant, with Cardinal Dziwisz.
And so, look at this beautiful painting of the
Divine Mercy Image. John Paul started to make the connection between Fatima and Divine Mercy. This
is where we're going here. All right. Remember the Angel's first words at Fatima in 1916 were
designs of Mercy. And Sister Lucia's last vision, so the first vision talked about designs of Mercy.
And her last vision had the words Grace and Mercy. Mercy bookends the messages of Fatima, and John
Paul II finds hope in a love more powerful than evil that no sin of the world can overcome. This
Love. What was it called? Mercy. This is what John Paul two said. And he said, Mary brings us to
the source of this Love and Mercy, Christ Himself. John Paul said Consecration to the Immaculate
Heart means returning to the Cross of Her Son.
It means bringing the world and all its
problems to the Pierced Side of the, and the Heart of the Savior. And thus
back to the very source of its redemption. Now, listen to this. It means bringing Mary.
Excuse me. I'm sorry. It means bringing the world through Mary to Divine Mercy. Every one of you
right now listening, who's a Marian Helper or who helps support our Marian Father s mission,
I can tell you right now, God handpicked you. The reason I am a Marian of the Immaculate
Conception is because of those words that John Paul Two uttered. What is this whole message?
Bringing the world through Mary to Divine Mercy. This is who we Marians are. We're all about
to Jesus through Mary. That's why Father Mike Gaitley focuses on Marian Consecration.
I and other Marians focus on Divine Mercy. Although the two are inner connected, you can't
separate them. That's why I'm talking about Mary today. And Father Mike talks about Divine Mercy.
It is the two Spiritual Weapons of our times, Mary and Divine Mercy and John Paul II saying this.
This is what the message of Fatima is actually about. This is how we have to understand it. Let's
read John Paul's next quote on the next slide. The message of Fatima is more urgent than
ever. It invites us to approach anew the Fountain of Mercy by an act of consecration.
Mary wishes to draw near to this fountain. That's what Marian Consecration is,
drawing us to the Fountain of Mercy.
This is the whole message of Fatima. This is
why we Marians focus on Marian Consecration and Divine Mercy, the two spiritual weapons. This
is why we're called the Marines of the Immaculate Conception. But, Father, you're all about Divine
Mercy. What was God's greatest Act of Mercy ever bestowed on a creature? The Immaculate
Conception. We were the first men's community ever to bare the term, Immaculate Conception.
Centuries before the, the dogma was declared. We were the first men's community in Poland and
the first ever to bring this focus together of Mary and Divine Mercy. This is the message of
the world and we crazy little Marians have been given this message to do it. This is, boggles the
mind. And so you're with us in that mission.
If you're watching and you're not part of
this mission. I apologize. I should have made a slide for this, but go to MICprayers.com.
It's as simple. Takes you less than 10 seconds. You want to share in this mission, you want to be
part with us, MICprayers.com. I think Mark may, Brother Mark may have had a chance to get it
up there. But if you go there, it takes less than 10 seconds. You can join us in this mission.
There's no cost, just MICprayers.com and join our mission to the world, to bring Mary to Divine
and through Mary to Divine Mercy. All right. This is the ending goal of the message
of Fatima, to bring us through Mary to God's Divine Mercy. John Paul Two.
What about all this talk of the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart? It's not independent. It's tied
in here. The Triumph of Mary's Immaculate Heart, John Paul Two said is we allow Her to wash us in
the Fountain of Mercy, which is, She is especially free to do when we are Consecrated to Her. So,
I'm going to be doing a talk next week on Marian Consecration. That's my subject next week. So,
it ties from Fatima into Marian Consecration. So join me next week as we talk about how we
do that. When you are, John Paul Two says that Mary is especially able to wash us in the
Fount of Mercy when we're consecrated to Her. So, what is the Triumph? The Triumph is when man
turns with trust to Jesus through Mary in prayer and penance for the sins of the whole world.
This is basically the Chaplet. The Eternal. The Chaplet. Eternal Father, I offer You the Body,
Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your Dearly Beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for
our sins and the sins of the whole world. You see how this all connects.? It's phenomenal.
John Paul Two realized there would be peace as Heaven promised through Fatima, but also
Saint Faustina. And he brought them together. Faustina said mankind will not have peace until
it turns with trust to My Mercy. Remember that? Well, how do we bring it? How do we bring this
trust? This peace? Through the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Don't despair but trust.
This is all connected. Join us in this mission. I believe that you're watching for a
purpose that God has chosen you.
You don't have to get on a plane and fly to Africa
and build schools or something. If you can that's great. But you can be the hands and feet of Jesus
through the Marians of the Immaculate Conception through your prayers and, and support whatever
you can offer. Now, let's look at this next thing now. Finally, John Paul Two realized
this connection of Mary and Divine Mercy.
So, what did he do? Next slide. On March 25,
1984, 100 years later, from the discussion with Pope Leo where I started this talk, in union with
the Bishops, John Paul Two solemnly consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Now
before you turn me off and you say, Father, sorry, Russia has not been concentrated,
I'll grant you Russia's not been converted. But we're going to talk about the Consecration
right now. Some say the Pope did not specifically say Russia in his public prayer. But when John
Paul was thanked for consecrating the world because he said, I consecrated the world, John
Paul Two himself added quote, And Russia.
Now let's look at our next slide. Very important.
Sister Lucia said he made the Consecration in the way in which the Blessed Virgin had wished
that it should be made. Afterward, people asked me if it was made in the way Our Lady wanted, and
I replied: Yes. From that time on it is made. All right. Some of you may still not believe
this. You're free not to believe it, that you're not going to be punished by God that you don't
believe it's been consecrated or not consecrated. Remember, this is private revelation.
However, I want to make a few points here. Shortly after Sister Lucia said that in
1991, the Soviet Union began to collapse. Now, do you know when Gorbachev signed the actual
paperwork to dissolve the USSR? Take a guess. The Feast of the Immaculate
Conception and he didn't even know it. Then the official ending of the USSR. You
guessed it. December 25th, Christmas Day. Now, people still argue that it's not been consecrated,
I grant you not converted. There's a difference. But the Consecration, we Marian Fathers stand with
the Holy See. All right. And the Holy See issued a document, the Congregation of the Doctrine of the
Faith. This is official Church teaching. Issued a document called The Message of Fatima.
And I'm sorry, I should have made a slide here but it's from June 26, 2000. It's stated
Sister Lucia personally, and I'm quoting here. Sister Lucia personally confirmed that this
Solemn and Universal Act of Consecration corresponded to what Our Lady wished. Yes, it has
been done, just as Our Lady asked on March 25th, 1984. Hence, any further discussion or request
is without basis. End quote. That's not my words. That's the words of the Congregation of the
Doctrine of the Faith from June 26, 2000. So, we need to listen, I think, to the Church.
But many will argue, rightfully so, Father, we haven't seen the Triumph of the Immaculate
Heart. Russia hasn't been converted. Although, I think there's more Churches being
built in Russia than anywhere else.
I think the conversion has started. But Father,
there's no peace. Mary promised peace with the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart. How come we
haven't seen the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart? Therefore, Russia must not have been converted.
Excuse me. Consecrated. Because she's not fully converted, Russia must not have been consecrated.
There's no peace. So, Father, if there's no peace, there means there's no Triumph. And if
there's no Triumph of the Immaculate Heart, that means Russia wasn't consecrated. All right.
To answer to that, we have a fascinating answer. For Russia to be converted, Mary said two things
have to happen. One, Russia must be concentrated. But Mary didn't stop there. If that's all
Mary asked for, I would agree with you.
It seems Russia wasn't consecrated, but Mary
said there's two things that need to happen. One, Russia needs to be consecrated. I believe
we've done it. The Church says we've done it. But then why isn't Russia being converted?
Haha. Because Mary said there was a second thing that must happen. Now, you and I shouldn't worry
about the Consecration. We can't control it. You and I have no say over whether or not Russia
was consecrated. That s between God, the Bishops and the Holy Father. But Mary gave part two
that had to happen that does involve you and me. That we do have an effect. And what
is that? Let's show our next slide. Back to the Five First Saturdays Devotion.
Mary said, in order for Russia to be converted, she not only has to be consecrated, but
those Five First Saturdays have to be done. Now, this is what is we're not doing. Remember, we
got to go to Confession, receive Holy Communion, pray the Rosary and meditate on the Mysteries, or
one or more of the Mysteries for an additional 15 minutes. I ask you all, I'm not pointing fingers.
I can point it at myself. Are we doing this? Are we fulfilling our part of the bargain?
Let's suppose, as the Church says, that the Holy Father did hold up his end of the bargain and
Russia was consecrated, but she's not converted. That means Mary s second, part of
Her request wasn't fulfilled.
Who's to blame if the Five First
Saturdays haven't happened yet? Us. Not enough people are doing it. Do you? How many
people do you know? Raise your hands. Right. If you're doing the Five First Saturdays Devotion.
God bless you if you are. But it's a forgotten devotion. I feel it's important we tell the world
we got to start doing this again. This is what is important and we don't even realize it. Have
most of us been faithful to this request of Mary? I don't think so. It doesn't matter if Russia was
consecrated or not. If we're not doing our part of the Five First Saturdays, which also
needs to happen before Russia's converted. So, let's get busy, everybody. Let's get busy.
But there was another problem that I think explains this. Even if Russia was consecrated.
Remember that what I said earlier, the problem is it was late. Let's look at the next
slide. Jesus said to the Three Children: They did not heed My request. Like the
King of France, they will repeat, repent and do it but it will be late. Russia will have
already spread her errors throughout the world, provoking wars and persecutions against the
Church; the Holy Father will have much to suffer. I already read this, but I wanted to show
it in a slide to bring it back, to emphasize that there was a problem with Russia being consecrated
late. Now, my good friends down at the World Apostolate of Fatima also have an answer for
whether or not Russia was consecrated.
They said this: If Russia had been
consecrated as Our Lady asked back in 1917, then Communism would have been stopped and
World War Two never would have happened. Instead, because of the Consecration s long delay,
World War Two did happen and Russia did spread her errors of atheism throughout the world. Therefore
by 1984. Listen to this. This is fascinating. This is in Father Mike Gaitley s Book. Therefore, by
1984, not just Russia, but the whole world needed to be consecrated because Russia, errors had
infected. So, John Paul explicitly consecrated, quote, the world, end quote as well as,
quot,e nations that particularly need to be thus entrusted and consecrated So what he did
was he consecrated Russia plus more nations. What's wrong with that? Nothing. He
did more than what Our Lady asked.
So, it took a long time for Russia to be
consecrated. It may take a long time for her to be converted. You see the connection there.
All right. So, the Consecration was not soon enough and we didn't listen. That's why the evils
of the 20th century and more martyrs than any time in human history have happened. All right.
However, God brings a greater good. What's all this gloom and doom, Father? God brings a greater
good. Remember I said John Paul Two started to realize the connection between Fatima and Divine
Mercy. This is a bigger, greater story. Let's look at our next slide. Here are the two power hitters.
This whole thing is not just the story of Fatima, but it makes it even better. The story is John
Paul Two, Saint Faustina and Divine Mercy. It's all connected here. All right. Let's look
at our next slide. Through the blood of the martyrs. The 100 years after Fatima. The blood
of the martyrs has been the seed of the Church. It has been. A time of mercy has been granted.
Remember, I said the Angel sprinkled the blood over the people walking through the ruins.
You and I are the people walking through the ruins. Now physically of our cities being
burned but earlier through the destruction of our culture, the ruins of, of destruction of our
culture. The ruins doesn't have to mean physical buildings, although now I think it is. The ruins
of our culture being decimated and destroyed. You and I are walking through a destroyed culture
right now. It's laying in ruins. But the blood of those martyrs, the Angel sprinkled over you and
me, sprinkled over us, to get us through. This is why the blood of the martyrs, through the last
hundred years has, has sustained this time of mercy. It's fascinating. Our Loving God gave us
a way out of the mess. The Second Greatest Story Ever Told as Father Mike says Faustina, John Paul
and Divine Mercy. It all connects. John Paul gave a voice to the powerful connection between Mary
and Divine Mercy and Fatima and Faustina.
All right. Last page. So, as we await,
obviously, the full conversion of Russia and the world, with Mary, in this time of mercy,
we can call down an ocean of graces upon us like Divine Mercy Sunday. That is the day that we
call down a whole ocean of graces, Jesus tells us, on the whole world. John Paul Two said this is the
final message of Fatima and the way that we can prepare the world for the Lord's final coming.
Remember, it connects to Saint Faustina. Jesus said You, Saint Faustina will be hand, I m hand
picking to help prepare the world for My final Coming. So, through Marian Consecration, which I'm
going to be talking about next week. Join us. And Divine Mercy Sunday. Our soul will never
be cleaner. We're wiped clean by the blood of the martyrs in this time of mercy.
Just accept that grace. This was laid out by Jesus through the great prophetic
Saints, Faustina and John Paul. Wow. Now, I have another question. Well, Father,
I want to be a saint. I want to be used by Jesus like that. Do you have to be a canonized Saint to
be used by Jesus and God for this mission?
Let's look at our next slide. No, this man
was not a canonized Saint, even though I think we could sure use him today. God can use
anybody. This is Ronald Reagan as you may know. He too was shot in the spring of 1981. Do you know
he was shot just six weeks apart from John Paul and they met eachother? They became great friends
and they said to each other they both believed that God had spared both of them for a special
purpose. Both should have died in transit. They both believe that their
mission was to bring down Communism. And we know now it was proven that the Soviets
were behind the assassination of John Paul. So, John Paul and, and Reagan, there's a
statue, the two of them in Gdansk, in Poland, did this. And that's why Reagan had
an intent interest in Fatima.
You may not know that he actually went there
and Ronald Reagan gave a talk about Mary and the Three Children. And he said, quote, in simple
people like the Children of Fatima, there is more power than all the armies of the world. You
know, Ronald Reagan, when he died, he had only one request at his funeral and Nancy, his wife
honored it. And that was to have Ave Maria sung at his funeral in the year 2004. You know, he grew
up just down the road from Bishop Fulton Sheen. So, this is amazing. So, the bottom line,
Mary's message is this: there is still time. We're in this time of mercy. This is why Pope
Francis dedicated the time of the Year of Mercy.
He said the Mercy of God is infinite, but the
time of Mercy is not. So, he declared the Year of Mercy. It seems that the Pope, all last three
Popes, John Paul, Benedict and Francis, see this connection between Divine Mercy and Fatima, and so
should we. As I said, that's why Pope Francis.
Let's look at our next slide. Do you
know he actually dedicated his Papacy to Our Lady of Fatima? Pope Francis did, and
he declared the Year of Mercy, as I said. And do you know this? He also re-consecrated
the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Bet you didn't know that. All right. So
let's finish. I wanted to finish with a question. What does Fatima mean for us today?
I gave you all the history, I showed you the connection of Fatima and Divine Mercy. But what
does it mean today? We still live in the age of Fatima, but yet we await the Triumph, full Triumph
of the Immaculate Heart and the full era of peace. So what does it mean? How do we summarize
this message, this message of Fatima to bring about the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart?
I found something amazing to answer this question and I want to share with you and I promise
it is nothing you probably ever thought of. Do you know what it means for us today, what the
message of Fatima is as applies to you personally about the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart and
how to bring it about? It involves you.
Father, I'm not doing anything. I'm not in
Fatima. Oh yeah. Listen to this. According to Barb Ernstler of the World Apostolate of Fadama,
she quoted Saint Lucia or Sister Lucia from 1946. Listen to this. The essential request of Our
Lady of Fatima was conveyed to the Children in that very first question on May 13th. Quote.
Are you willing to offer yourselves to God and bear all the sufferings He wills to send you
as an act of reparation for the sins by which He is offended and in supplication for the conversion
of sinners? Now, here's where it involves you. Mary asked that question to the Children but She's
asking it of us to. Here's how. Mary emphasized that it is the fulfillment of one's daily duties
according to their own state in life and the sanctification of this effort in reparation for
the sins and conversion of sinners, which is the primary condition for the turning back of the
tide of evil which threatens the world today.
The request was most essential because Mary is
inviting us to unite all our sufferings with the sufferings of Christ, just as She did, to accept
and bear with submission all that happens to us, makes everything about our normal day holy and
at the service of God's will. It invites us to trust in our Lord and surrender all things to Him.
Okay. Here's the bottom line. I hear all the time from people, Father, I get up every day, 5:00 the
alarm goes off. I have to hassle around, get ready for work, make breakfast, get my husband off to
work. Then I have to get ready for work. Then I got to get the children off to school. Then I have
to hassle with traffic. Then I have to fight with my boss at work. Nobody appreciates anything I do.
Then I got to come home. The kids are a mess. I got to get dinner ready. I got to feed them. Then
I have to help them with their homework. Then I have to sit down and fight with my husband about
paying bills. Then I go to bed and I got to wake up tomorrow and do it all over again.
Father, there's got to be more to life than that. Guess what? Mary's words at Fatima was
that very day that you go through in your daily duties based on your state
in life If you're a mother and a wife, that is how you are sanctified, made holy and
evil is stopped. This is what brings the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart. Part of the reason
we may not have seen it is because people are realizing that's the way to do it. We, we, we
live our daily duties faithfully. So husbands and wives be faithful to each other. Love one
another. Instill in your children an act of Faith. Do your duties. Offer them up when the sufferings
come. And I know they do. You offering them up to God. He will reward that. This is the message of
Fatima and it all connects to God's Mercy because in the midst of that suffering, God's having
mercy on us. This is incredible. This is amazing. And yet we don't know this message. And so ,I
hope that in a little way, you'll share this, you ll share this message, because this is
how we are sanctified, holy, made saints and get to Heaven. It's a way of life.
The message is one of yes, as Mary said, of reconciliation, reparation and prayer. Father,
you're forgetting this. No, I'm not. The message, yes, is reconciliation, prayer penance, and
particularly reciting the Rosary. Lucia said she was frustrated because people always wanted
to focus on the miracles and the secrets. And Sister Lucia said. Quote. The miracles and
secrets aren't what's important. Whoa. Really? What is most important is we must
concentrate on Our Lady's message to live the Ten Commandments in our daily
duties. That is what is important. To this, Lucia added the 11th Commandment:
Do whatever God tells you. Do the will of God. That's what Our Lady wants.
And if you are faithful to your daily duties, honest, loving, faithful, charitable, you're doing
the will of God and that's how we thwart evil.
The next picture on the slide.
There you see the shrine of Fatima. The Sacraments. Where do you get the Sacraments?
In that Church. Our Church. Your Church. In 1916, the Angel brought the Children
the Eucharist, the Bread of Life. The promise of the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart
calls for us to have immaculate hearts through Baptism and Confession. So, the Sacraments are
also the answer of what Fatima s message is today. What about Works of Mercy? Yes. Mary said
pray, pray a great deal and make sacrifice for sinners for many souls go to Hell because
they have no one to sacrifice or pray for them. This is important. In fact, Saint Faustina
said that you have three ways to do deeds or to do Works of Mercy. Word, Deed and Prayer. If
you can't do something nice for somebody, you can pray for them. If you can't say something nice
for somebody, you can pray for them. So, Works of Mercy. Very important. And finally, Marian
Devotion. Let's look at our next slide. There's a beautiful picture. That's Marian Devotion. We're
not worshiping Her. People see that picture.
We're not worshiping it. We're honoring Her. This
is what we do to a Queen. A Queen is not the King but you still honor the Queen. And this
is what we're going to talk about with Marian Consecration next week. We pray to
God to help us through Her intercession. Mary appeared as Our Lady of the Rosary and Our
Lady of Mount Carmel. Those are Marian devotions. She said, pray the Rosary daily for peace in
the world, for the conversion of poor sinners and for the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart.
Let me repeat that. Pray the Rosary daily for peace in the world, the conversion of poor sinners
and for the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart. This is Marian devotion to Our Lady, Mount
Carmel and Our Lady of the Rosary.
She also said, be invested in the Brown
Scapular. I just blessed the Brown Scapular on my way up here to the talk. Then, of course,
don't forget your Five First Saturdays Devotion to make reparation to Her Immaculate Heart for
the blasphemies. And then finally, as I said, the topic of next week, consecrate to Mary. Let's
look at the last slide. You can see that beauty in the concentration of Mary. There you see all those
lights. I hope those are candles, not cell phones, but whatever it takes. Right? We
consecrate to Her. And then finally, what is the message of Fatima for today?
Devotion to the family. This is why Sister Lucia said the final battle will be between good and
evil will be do over marriage in the family.
You know, during the October 1917 Apparition, the
three Children saw Our Lady Saint. Joseph and the child Jesus. That's the Holy Family. The model
for our families today, which are falling apart. Turn to the Holy Family. Sister Lucia said
to Cardinal Carlo Caffarra. Quote. Father, a time will come when the decisive battle
between the Kingdom of Christ and Satan will be over marriage and the family and those who will
work for the good of the family will experience persecution and tribulation. Man, are we seeing
that today? But do not be afraid because Our Lady has already crushed his head. Wow. What an amazing
message. Please. I'm finished now but share this message. You know, down below the video, you're
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you and yours. And we hope to see you next week. In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of
the Holy Spirit. Amen. And God bless you.
Unfortunately, all of us know someone
who is affected in some way by either substance abuse or some form of addiction and
we want to invite you in this month of October, which is actually Substance Abuse Prevention
Month, and for those struggling with addiction, to get the grace and the help they need.
You know, on October 24th and 25th, we are going to have a special awareness weekend.
We're going to have several events. The first will be Father Chris Talk and his Explaining the
Faith Series that is every Saturday at 11 a.m. Father will talk about grace and addiction. The
next day we will be offering a special Mass at 9 p.m. Eastern time. We are going to offer
all the names that you've submitted to us at Marian.org/addiction, where we are
going to offer all those who suffer from any addiction or substance abuse on the
Altar of Sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
You know, the key is to be able to get the
grace for those people. You don't have to send their full name. This is anonymous. You
can put initials, you can put first names only. God knows who they are. The key is
that we just get those from you so that we can offer them up in prayer. We
will literally print those names out, place them on the Altar. I'll be celebrating
the Mass with Brother Jason, and we are going to offer that Mass for those of you and your
loved ones who are suffering in such a way.
And right after the Mass, we're going to have
a healing service. I'll be offering a talk, and then we are going to expose the Blessed
Sacrament with Our Eucharistic Lord.
