Out of many hearts, thoughts may be revealed.
The First Sorrow of Our Lady: The Presentation at the Temple
Yesterday (March 18th, 2024) Fr Rion, in a conference on Fatherhood, said something very profound. "God did not create man in the natural state." Now, this Wolf could quibble about eschatology here, but, leaving that aside, he will agree with Fr Rion that God certainly did not create man in the "natural state" envisioned by John Locke and the gang.
When one understands that Our Lady was the First Thought of God from all Eternity, and that Our Lady was the First from God Who was Not God, one sees the True Importance of Our Lady of Fatima, and could never demote the awesome cycle of events that occurred in Portugal in 1917 to the status of a "Private Revelation". The heart of the Fatima Message is not "The Consecration of Russia" but that "God wishes to establish devotion to My Immaculate Heart".
"And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us." If Our Lord Jesus Christ is the Eternal Word made Flesh, Our Lady is the Wisdom of God made Flesh. That the Wisdom of God is a Creature is apparent from the first chapter of the book of Ecclesiasticus: "Wisdom hath been created before all things, and the understanding of prudence from everlasting." Meanwhile, that Our Lord knew Our Lady from all eternity is obvious from Jeremiah: "Before I formed thee in the bowels of thy mother, I knew thee." If God could say this of Jeremiah, how much more so of Our Lady, from whom He would be incarnate!
Consequently, we can safely say that all things, from angels to the dust of the earth, were made with Our Lady in mind. God made all things in the context that One Day He as a Helpless Babe would be placed in the Arms of His Mother. God is certainly the center of history- all that happened before culminated in the Incarnation, and all that has happened since is the unfolding of the Prophecies of Our Lord Jesus Christ which will be fulfilled on the Last Day. And the Cross is the Center of the Life of Our Lord. And that is precisely where Time and Eternity meet and kiss. (Each Mass is a window into Eternity, as it is One with the Eternal Sacrifice of the Cross, a sacrifice unending, where Our Lord Jesus Christ is Eternal High Priest and Victim.)
Shame on the Soul that is not intimately familiar with the following prophecy of St Simeon from the second Chapter of Luke: "Behold this Child is set for the fall, and for the resurrection of many in Israel, and for a Sign which shall be contradicted; and thy own soul a sword shall pierce, that, out of many hearts, thoughts may be revealed."
And when did this pain of Our Lady start? Long before the Immaculate Conception, one can be sure. Those familiar with the Gospel know Our Lady agonized over her Conception of the Christ Child. (Does one really think that the Most Tender Immaculate Heart of Our Lady was not more intensely afflicted over the Sorrowing St Joseph, as described by St Matthew in his first chapter, than St Joseph himself? Our Lady knew nothing she could say would be of any avail, or she certainly would have said it.) She also shared St Joseph's sadness in his failure to procure them lodgings on a night "of piercing cold", as the Novena prayer says. But it started even before that. Surely Our Lady wept over the sins of her people, as recorded by the Prophets and the Chronicles of scripture.
And, of course, that Sword pierces her Heart to this day. On Dec 12th 1925, at Pontevedra, Our Lord and Our Lady appeared to St Sr Lucia and Our Lord complained: "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 Lady said in turn: "Look, My daughter, at My Heart, surrounded with thorns with which ungrateful men pierce Me at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude"
At every moment. Even as this is being read. At every moment, from the time of the Sin of Adam to the end of the World. At every moment, even when Her Greatest Feasts are being commemorated. Now, can people understand why this Wolf constantly speaks of Our Lady of Fatima, and sees the history of the popes from that momentous day of October 13th 1917 as simply one ongoing chronicle of buffoonery?
Pius X, in his first encyclical, applies the words God said of Jeremiah to himself: "Lo, I have set thee this day over the nations, and over the kingdoms, to root up, and pull down, and to waste, and to destroy, and to build, and to plant." Pius X consequently wished to make the Papacy the center of all things, and consequently would embark on a foolish plan to oppose the Revolution by building a "Catholic Workers' Paradise'". Nevertheless Our Lord Jesus Christ took him up on that offer, and sent His Mother to Fatima, who told St Sr Lucia: "I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of Reparation on the First Saturdays." The timing was impeccable. On June 13th 1929, even as the Cristeros in Mexico were on the verge of total victory over the Revolution and the inauguration of a Truly Catholic State, Our Lady appeared to St Sr Lucia and told her that "The moment has come in which God asks the Holy Father to make, and to order that in union with him and at the same time, all the bishops of the world make the consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart, promising to convert it because of this day of prayer and worldwide reparation.”
The story of the distortions of the Vatican concerning this request and the repeated "consecrations" of popes starting with Pius XII who pretended to fulfill this request (the latest being that of Pope Frantic on March 25th, 2022) while not actually doing it will not be recounted here.
Meanwhile, Our Lady of Fatima has revealed the thoughts of many hearts, especially of those men who in actuality run the world today. They might sit deep underground in their somber dens of iniquity, surrounded by the glories of civilizations long forgotten by most mortals. They might have reduced popes and politicians to being their vassals, but they cannot conquer or harm Truth Incarnate or the Deposit He bequeathed to Mankind. And their Great Plan to destroy, or at least paralyze, The Eternal Sacrifice, the machinations of which have spanned over fifteen pontificates, lies exposed.
Many Traditional Catholics are fooled by the alleged Great Divide between Pope Pius XII and Good Pope John, who called the Liberal Vatican Council II. That Great Divide does not exist. The liberalism of Pius XII is on full display for those who inquire, and the conservatism of Good Pope John is equally present. And this Wolf is constantly bashed for pointing out the obvious. That is because many people prefer "Crisis Lite" to the Great Apostasy. "All we have to do is Undo Vatican II and Restore the Mass and all will be well" is their constant mantra.
Our Lord Jesus Christ said that a man cannot serve two masters- He cannot be a man of God and a man of this world. And at every turn, both God and the world are saying: "Choose". Over the past few years, many people were forced to get The Death Injection in order to keep their cushy jobs working for The New World Order. That. of course, was just a Beta Test. That is just the Sneak Preview of Coming Attractions. "And he shall make all, both little and great, rich and poor, freemen and bondmen, to have a character in their right hand, or on their foreheads. And that no man might buy or sell, but he that hath the character, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."
The Big Tent will let people have their Latin Mass and their Bells and Smells from invalid priests and bishops. It will even allow a truncated and distorted version of Our Lady of Fatima. But it will not brook the Truth nor the Recitation of the Most Holy Rosary in opposition to The Great Plan. Nor will it tolerate True Devotion to the Immaculate Heart.
"I said that this will happen especially towards the end of the world, and indeed soon, because Almighty God and his holy Mother are to raise up great saints who will surpass in holiness most other saints as much as the cedars of Lebanon tower above little shrubs. This has been revealed to a holy soul whose life has been written by Monsignor de Renty. These great souls filled with grace and zeal will be chosen to oppose the enemies of God who are raging on all sides. They will be exceptionally devoted to the Blessed Virgin. Illumined by her light, strengthened by her food, guided by her spirit, supported by her arm, sheltered under her protection, they will fight with one hand and build with the other. With one hand they will give battle, overthrowing and crushing heretics and their heresies, schismatics and their schisms, idolaters and their idolatries, sinners and their wickedness. With the other hand they will build the temple of the true Solomon and the mystical city of God, namely, the Blessed Virgin, who is called by the Fathers of the Church the Temple of Solomon and the City of God. By word and example they will draw all men to a true devotion to her and though this will make many enemies; it will also bring about many victories and much glory to God alone. This is what God revealed to St. Vincent Ferrer, that outstanding apostle of his day, as he has amply shown in one of his works." -Saint Louis Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary, #47-48.
“Father, we should not wait for a call to the world from Rome on the part of the Holy Father to do penance. Nor should we wait for a call for penance to come from the Bishops in our Dioceses, nor from our Religious Congregations. No, Our Lord has often used these means, and the world has not paid heed. So, now each one of us must begin to reform himself spiritually. Each one has to save not only his own soul, but also all the souls that God has placed on his pathway." -St Sr Lucia to Fr Augustine Fuentes, December 26th, 1957.
Where True Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary is, there is the Church. Accept no Substitutions or Imitations. "For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect Behold I have told it to you, beforehand... For there will rise up false Christs and false prophets, and they shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce (if it were possible) even the elect. T ake you heed therefore; behold I have foretold you all things."
Where Pope Frantic is, there is the Seat of the Antichrist.
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us. You are our only hope!