...If There Be Any Sorrow Like To My Sorrow
The 6th Sorrow of Our Lady: The Body of Jesus Is Placed In Her Arms.
On that first Good Friday, also the Anniversary of the Annunciation, Our Lady, unlike Peter, John, James, Andrew, or Matthew, retained the Light of Faith. When she held the Sacred Body of her Son, she mourned not for Him whom she was certain would soon rise from the tomb. Rather, she mourned for the Apostles, and, by extension, for the Church. Our Lady wept over all the apostates, worldlings, and turncoats who would use the episcopal and priestly dignities bestowed by her son to accumulate the acclaim of men and the treasures of this world. And what is worse, some would even use those very powers to crucify Our Lord anew in the members of His church, in the attempt to wreck that church.
Our Lady, as Queen of Prophets, surely had some inkling of the Great Plan that would unfold in the mystical life of Holy Mother Church. That Great Plan had been foretold by Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Gospel of St John when He had said to the perfidious Jews: "I am come in the name of my Father, and you receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive."
Our Lady surely knew what St Paul clearly laid before the Thessolonians: "Let no man deceive you by any means, for unless there come a revolt first, and the Man of Sin be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposeth, and is lifted up above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself as if he were God... And now you know what withholdeth, that he may be revealed in his time. For the Mystery of Iniquity already worketh; only that he who now holdeth, do hold, until he be taken out of the way. [And no, Archbishop Vigano, that is not Donald Trump.] And then that wicked one shall be revealed whom the Lord Jesus shall kill with the spirit of his mouth; and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming, him, whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in all power, and signs, and lying wonders, and in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish; because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. Therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying."
About the same time as the Synagogue of Satan was making inroads in their plan to capture the Papacy, Our Lady gave the Most Holy Rosary to St Dominic, and God raised up St Francis, whose order would take those Beads to the Four Corners of the World. Those Beads would save the Church in Japan from destruction after it had lost pope, bishops, priests, and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, unlike the Church in India, which died with St Thomas the Apostle. (Can any contemplative doubt the power of the Most Holy Rosary.)
The Great Plan took shape during the reign of Pius VI. In 1776, the same year the impious sect of the Illuminati was founded by Adam Weishaupt in Bavaria, the Whore of Babylon mounted the Scarlet Beast which had come forth from the Bottomless Pit of the Abyss opened by Martin Luther. Pius VI appointed John Carroll, a priest with a penchant for vernacular liturgies, having pastors of the "Separated Brethren" preach in his churches, and consorting with Freemasons such as Benjamin Franklin, as primate of that most peculiar institution, the "American Catholic Church". This body of proto-Jesuits would quickly begin the project of accommodating the Faith of the Fathers to secular Protestantism, the "Enlightenment", "Progress" and "Manifest Destiny" while aiding the United States in its Evangelical Mission to bring Freedom and Democracy to a world groaning under the chains of Popes and Kings.
The Whore of Babylon, which sitteth upon the Seven Mountains of Occult Technological Progress and the Many Waters of Global and Cosmopolitan Trade and Finance, would quickly ascend to dominate the corrupted kings of Europe, who nevertheless "hate the harlot... make her desolate and naked... eat her flesh... and burn her with fire." She shall have a very bad end. "For in One Hour are so great riches come to nought; and every shipmaster, and all that sail into the lake, and mariners, and as many as work in the sea, stood afar off. And cried, seeing the place of her burning, saying: 'What city is like to this great city?' And they cast dust upon their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying: 'Alas! alas! that great city, wherein all were made rich, that had ships at sea, by reason of her prices: for in one hour she is made desolate!'" [But we are getting ahead of the Story.]
The Whore of Babylon, drunk with the Blood of Martyrs, who from her Conception in 1776 and birth in 1789 made war against Our Lady of Guadalupe and Catholic Mexico, banished the Franciscans from her lands and crushed Catholic Kings and opposed the Catholic resistance everywhere, whether they be from the Vendee or they be Carlists or Cristeros. And all the while the Popes would praise her (or at least mightily overlook her many crimes and abominations).
But the Great Plan would also raise up a mighty beast from the Sea. This work was begun under the Pontificate of Pius IX, when Vatican I forged the newfound Papal Infallibility. This was necessary that the first error of Russia, Cesaro-Papism, be established upon the Holy Chair of Peter. Henceforth the Battle Cry of the Ultramontanes would be "Everything under the Pope, Everything for the Pope, and Everything with the Pope" even as the pontiffs began to steer the Barque of Peter into the perilous waters of Schism, the Second Error of Russia.
Pope Leo XIII, even as he nurtured the Great Plan, pretended to oppose it. He did not need visions before the Tabernacle while saying Mass where Our Lord gave Satan a century to destroy His Church. He was fully aware of the plans of the Carbonari which they had outlined in the lying document "The Permanent Instruction of the Alta Vendita" which pretended the Illumined Ones were not already in complete possession of the Holy Seat. His predecessor had already successfully distorted the Divine Warning given on the Mountain of La Salette in 1846, diluting such pregnant phrases as "Seat of the Antichrist" and "Time of Times and End of Ends" with trite, gossipy quips about "The Antichrist being born of a Jewish Nun uttering blasphemies" that might have come from a supermarket tabloid. Nevertheless, he would be sure to write his "Prayer to St Michael the Archangel" to confuse the masses of the faithful, and convince them the Popes were leading the charge.
Meanwhile, even as the Grandson of the Rothschild Agent Marcantonio Pacelli was being groomed by Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro as a future pontiff, Great Signs and Wonders placed the Son of Polish Immigrants, Giuseppe Cardinal Melchiorre Sarto,
on the Chair of Peter. He immediately began a breathtaking series of "reforms". He placed Vernacular Missals, forbidden since the Council of Trent, in the hands of the faithful. He "reformed" the Divine Office. He slashed the number of Holy Days of Obligation. He allowed for Mass without a Server. Now, he did restore Gregorian Chant and promote devotion to Our Lady. But overall one is bewildered at his accommodations to the secular society that prevailed after the "unification of Italy" under a Freemasonic government. He claimed in 1914 his "reform" of the Divine Office was merely a foreshadowing of a "more general reform" of the liturgy, but that other projects had impeded his designs. One is permitted to wonder if what had been intended to be a long and vigorous pontificate was not cut short by Divine Providence in 1914. Nevertheless, much damage had been done, and, to this day, the image of Pius X as a "superpope" endures.
Then, of course, Our Lady came to Fatima and exposed the Great Plan. But her prophecy and warning would at first be studiously ignored, and then, despairing of that, mutilated by succeeding popes. Cardinal Pacelli, in a famous comment to Count Enrico Pietro Galeazzi in 1933, said "I am concerned about the confidences of the Virgin to the little Lucia of Fatima. This persistence of the Good Lady in the face of the danger that threatens the Church is a divine warning against the suicide that the alteration of the Faith, in its liturgy, its theology, and its soul, would represent." Of course, this was years before St Sr Lucia would write her memoirs and the Great July 13th Secrets. All Cardinal Pacelli had was the cryptic comments by Little St Jacinta that "the war [WW1] was going to end". Perhaps Cardinal Pacelli thought the Message of Fatima was merely geopolitical in nature, and not touching upon the Great Plan of the Popes to bring the Abomination of Desolation into the Sanctuary. Oops!
When Cardinal Pacelli would go on to say that "I hear around me innovators who wish to dismantle the Sacred Chapel, destroy the universal flame of the Church, reject her ornaments, and make her remorseful for her historical past," and that "in churches, Christians will search for the red lamp where Jesus awaits them, like the sinful woman crying out before the empty tomb: ‘Where have they taken Him?’" he was probably boasting. For at that very moment Cardinal Pacelli was busy in Bavaria overseeing the work of Don Odo Casel, who was designing a vernacular liturgy that was said to the accompaniment of strumming guitars, while all gathered around a table and held hands. (Pope Paul VI and his "Six Protestant Advisors" were just a road show to throw researchers off the trail.)
Indeed, when he succeeded Pius XI as pope, he hardly "[fought] this battle with the greatest energy on the inside of the Church." Instead, he would appoint the Great Architect of the Reform, Annibale Bugnini, to a liturgical commission in 1948 that produced the "reformed Easter Vigil" in 1951, the "reformed Holy Week" in 1955, and began butchering the Roman missal, eliminating octaves, feasts, and parts of the psalter. Meanwhile, Pius XII would diminuate the Ancient Communion Fast, allow for Evening Masses, introduce the "dialog Mass" and preside over other reforms too diverse and sundry to mention here. Does all of this explain another cryptic comment he made to Count Galeazzi: "All human heresies which alter the word of God are so that a Greater Light might appear.”
The 3rd Secret of Fatima is obvious today. St Sr Lucia, in her epachol conference with Fr Augustine Fuentes, was fixated on the year 1960. In 1962 the Second Vatican Council, the Great Coming-Out Party, was convened. And in 1969 Pope Paul VI gave us the Abomination of Desolation, the "Novus Ordo Missae". And the Demolition of Bastions has continued apace ever since.
In Chapter 11 of His Apocalypse, St John was given a "reed like unto a rod" to measure the Temple. Be sure you stay within that part that he measured.
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us. You are our only hope!