Our Lady of Sorrows and the Reign of the Antichrist

The Time Grows Ever Shorter

Our Lady is our Co-Redemptrix and the Mediatrix Of All Grace.  These are not just fluffy titles we give Our Lady.  They are deep metaphysical realities with very profound consequences.  Our Lady, on the feast of the Annunciation, in 1858, told a little Peasant Girl  "I Am The Immaculate Conception", instantly recalling Moses at the Burning Bush where God declared, "I Am Who Am."  The Feast of the Annunciation is also, Traditionally, the date of the First Good Friday, where Our Lady was at the Foot of the Holy Cross.  Here too, we can be sure, amid sorrows, desolation, and contradiction, she repeated, almost like a Buddhist mantra, "Be it done unto me according to Thy Word," recalling that moment when she became the Spouse of the Holy Ghost.
Those familiar with the Theology of the Most Holy Mass may be familiar with the term "Epiclesis".  In the Greek Rites, the Epiclesis is more forthright.  Here is an example from the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom: "Again we offer unto Thee this reasonable and bloodless worship, and we ask Thee, and pray Thee, and supplicate Thee: Send down Thy Holy Spirit upon us and upon these gifts here offered. And make this bread the precious Body of Thy Christ. (Amen)  And that which is in this cup, the precious Blood of Thy Christ. (Amen)  Making the change by the Holy Spirit. (Amen, Amen, Amen).  [Please note:  The "Liturgy of St John Chrysostom" was not the work of this venerable doctor of Holy Mother Church, but came to him by way of St John the Apostle.  St John Chrysostom merely wrote various chants and composed some prayers to embellish the liturgy, and put the stamp of his character upon it.  And that is why it bears his name.  The very idea of concocting a Mass from whole cloth, as was done after Vatican II, would have been anathematized as most detestable by all the holy Fathers of the Church.]  In the Roman Rite, the Epiclesis is much more subtle, begins with the following in Latin: "Supplices te rogamus..."  The complete prayer, translated, is as follows: "Most humbly we implore Thee, Almighty God, bid these offerings to be brought by the hands of Thy Holy Angel to Thine altar on high, before the face of Thy Divine Majesty; that as many of us as shall receive the most Sacred +Body and +Blood of Thy Son by partaking thereof from this altar, may be filled with every heavenly blessing and grace.  Through the same Christ our Lord.  Amen."
Theologians in the past argued whether the Epiclesis was essential to the validity of the Mass.  The Council of Florence had both Eastern and Western theologians energetically debating this, and came to the conclusion the words of Consecration were sufficient for validity.  In the Roman Rite, of course, those words are as follows:  (For the Sacred Species): "For this is My Body", (And for the Precious Blood): "FOR THIS IS THE CHALICE OF MY BLOOD, OF THE NEW AND ETERNAL TESTAMENT, THE MYSTERY OF FAITH, WHICH FOR YOU AND FOR MANY SHALL BE SHED UNTO THE REMISSION OF SINS."  However, the vast majority of theologians also insist that these words of consecration only have power WITHIN THE CONTEXT of the Roman Canon.  In other words, a priest cannot just point to a loaf of bread, say over it "This Is My Body", and expect transubstantiation to occur.  One should take away from the discussion the fact that the validity of a sacrament, and Holy Mass, is not a cut-and-dried logical argument, but stems from the unfathomable mystery of God.
But what this Wolf wishes to emphasize here is the work of the Holy Ghost insofar as the liturgy is concerned and, moreover, also the work of His Spouse, Our Lady.  Can we not say that at every Mass Our Lady, as it were cries out in travail, as St John recorded, and brings forth a Man destined to rule with an Iron Rod, who is then caught up to God and His Throne?  Can we not say that, at each Mass, as the Priest pronounces the Words of Institution, that another Annunciation Occurs, and Our Lord Jesus Christ is conceived anew through Our Lady in a most mysterious manner?  Is this why Our Lady linked her Immaculate Conception, implying it was somewhat eternal and co-terminous with her very being, with her Annunciation, and the Passion of Our Lord?  And, if so, what are the consequences of this?
Imagine how Our Lady, Virgin Most Pure, must feel when the Words of Institution and Consecration proceed from the lips of an impious priest celebrating a "Black Mass", where Our Lord will be brought forth to be subsequently horribly outraged.  Or imagine what must be the thoughts of Our Lady when the Priests brings Our Lord into the midst of an assembly of lukewarm and lax souls, many conscious of mortal sins, who will in a few minutes partake of Holy Communion.  And yet she placidly repeats: "Be it done unto me according to thy word."  
Even while still on Earth, after Our Lord had ascended to His Father, Our Lady in a mystical way was present at every Mass.  Imagine her thoughts as tepid and even vicious souls approached the Holy Table- I hesitate to refer to the Altar as a Table, doing so only because it was the language of the Church Fathers, to be understood here as a Mystical Banquet.  Her Sorrows most certainly did not end with the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ, but continue even now.  "Have compassion on the Heart of your Most Holy Mother, covered with thorns with which ungrateful men pierce It at every moment, and there is no one to make an act of reparation to remove them," Our Lord Jesus Christ told St Sr Lucia in the apparition of Pontevedra in 1925.  What can be more ungrateful than priests who say Mass for ulterior motives, such as financial gain, human esteem, or worse?
And is not this the reason why the Wrath of God has removed, in the vast majority of cases, the presence of His Most Beloved Son from these profane assemblies?  At the time of Pius XII, which many today hold to be the epitome of Christendom, the "good old days" before Vatican II, most Catholics, especially those in the United States, were downright worldly.  They were only interested in the bare minimum.  And the Church of Pius XII was most accommodating.  The venerable communion fast was discontinued, and evening masses were allowed.  And this after most of the ancient vigils had fallen into obscurity.  The church of Pius XII asked only a most minimal compliance so the faithful would be free to expend the bulk of their time to worldly pursuits and amassing all the trinkets of suburban life.  Good Pope John would go a step further, and proclaim that between the gospel and the world hardly any distinction need be made, and Vatican II would ratify all these desires, assuring modern man he had come of age, and the church was advancing to meet him.
People today think in terms of material chastisements- of wars, floods, storms, and fire from heaven.  But they hardly think of spiritual chastisements.  They care not to think that their churches have become a desolation, where invalid priests simulate mass and the sacraments, and their confessions are invalid, except those where the heartfelt compunction of the penitent himself excites the mercy and pardon of God.  This Wolf thinks that the vast majority of churches, even "Traditional" ones, are a desolation.  The priests either have been invalidly or dubiously ordained, and their congregations are largely duped by wishful thinking, and a longer for the security of being under the umbrella of Holy Mother Church.  Alas, no easy way exists.
Here below, only one thing has utterly no limit, and that is the Holy Cross.  Even St Francis, the Desert Fathers, and the Holiest of the Canonical Martyrs could have practiced more Self-Abnegation, partook of a courser diet, spent more time in long vigils, bewailed the louder their sins, and undertook still crueler tortures.  Only Our Lady carried the Cross after Her Lord to the utter limits, going into the realm of the infinite without losing her humanity and her creaturehood- something we cannot hope to do.
The reign of the Antichrist will be the zenith of confusion and the nadir of sanctifying grace.  Some priests cannot fathom how the "sacraments" of the "New Rite" could be categorically invalid.  "How could God allow the vast portion of His Church to go astray?"  They conclude He would not.  They forget that the whole world was worthy to perish in the deluge of Noah, and that God had promised Abraham He would spare Sodom if He could find but Ten Good Men.  (Apparently, such was not the case amid the hundreds of thousands in Sodom.)  Those who currently shout "This is the Rock of Peter, The Gates of Hell will not prevail" are akin to those in the days of Jeremiah who boasted: "The Temple of the Lord, The Temple of the Lord.  THIS is the Temple of the Lord!"

The Dome of ST Peters might still tower above Rome, but mystically and spiritually, we can lament with the Prophet Jeremiah: "How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people!  How is the mistress of the Gentiles become as a widow...The ways of Sion mourn, because there are none that come to the solemn feast...Her adversaries are become her lords...The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath cursed his sanctuary...Thy prophets have seen false and foolish things for thee: and they have not laid open thy iniquity, to excite thee to penance...He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood...How is the gold become dim, the finest color is changed, the stones of the sanctuary are scattered in the top of every street..."  Do not these words from the Lamentations describe so succinctly the city of Pope Frantic, which has become the lair of every unclean bird?

Meanwhile, we must recover a proper sense of discernment.  Pope Frantic is splitting the Conciliar Church down the middle.  But left or right, all remains the Conciliar Church.  None of the bishops resisting Pope Frantic's ordinance has bothered to retrace his steps to Tradition.  Not one of them is questioning the principle and foundation upon which they stand.  For them it merely a question of degree, not of essence.  Amid so many blows and counter blows, they will become rudderless, without the compass of Faith nor Tradition.  The shepherds each go his own way, leading a portion of the Faithful after him, and all becomes hopelessly divided, and quibbling and scrabbling over tertiary details, having lost sight of the essentials.

Our Lady of Fatima is a lamp at our feet in the present darkness; the Most Holy Rosary our only hope for retaining sanctity amid a world where depravity boils over and heaps a measure sevenfold upon sinful men while iniquity abounds and walks the streets by day and celebrates by night.

The Antichrist cometh.  His disciples are rising.  And they take many forms.  No truth is in them, but rather their boasts, their attempts to enrich themselves off the travails of Holy Mother Church, and their increasing depravity.  Many are charismatic and lead many into the servitude of worldliness and pomps.  They underestimate the horrors of sin, the anger of God, and the present apostasy.  They look for a minor chastisement and a restoration of temporal Christendom.  They have not contemplated whether the times of kings and nations are ending, and the time universal justice is at hand.  

These are the Birth Pangs of the Coming Age of the Immaculate Heart.  Courage amid all the waves that crash and roar.  Set the rudder in deep waters and keep the helm constant and pointed to the Morning Star.  Beyond the Clouds of the Gale behold the rising of the Son of Justice.