Mother, Who at the
first apparition had promised to take us to Heaven. Without that, I think that
we would have died of terror and fear.”[2]
“You see Hell, where the souls of poor
sinners go. To save them God wishes to
establish in the world the devotion to my Immaculate Heart,” Our Lady
said.
The
Fatima children shortly after the vision of
Hell… one can see in their terrified countenances the truth of their words:
that they would have died of fright at the vision of Hell if they had not been
promised Heaven
On July 13, 1917, Our Lady also told the
children that on Oct. 13, 1917 she would work a miracle that all would have to
believe:
“Lucia said, ‘I
wish to ask you to tell us who you are, and to perform a miracle so that
everyone will believe that you have appeared to us!’
‘Continue to come here every month,’
answered the Lady. ‘In October I will tell you who I am and what I wish, and will
perform a miracle that everyone will have to believe.’”[3]
(Our Lady of Fatima, July 13, 1917)
Since the children had announced months in
advance of Oct. 13 that the Lady would work a miracle, 70,000 to 100,000 people
gathered at Fatima on Oct. 13 to see the miracle that was predicted to take
place. There were also many nonbelievers
who came to scoff when the predicted miracle didn’t occur. However, as even the secular press confirmed,
the Miracle of the Sun – as it’s now known – did occur, just as it was
predicted by the children and by Our Lady of Fatima. It stunned the gathered multitude, converted
hardened unbelievers, including atheists and Freemasons, and confirmed
thousands in the Catholic Faith.
Above:
the stunned crowd at Fatima on Oct. 13, 1917
witnessing the predicted miracle by Our Lady of Fatima
What was the Miracle of the Sun that so
stunned and converted the enraptured audience of 70,000-plus at Fatima on Oct. 13, 1917?
A brief examination of the miracle and its significance will go a long
way in revealing: The Truth about What
Really Happened to the Catholic Church after Vatican
II.
“The
sun stood forth in the clear zenith like a great silver disk which, though
bright as any sun they had ever seen, they could look straight at without blinking,
and with a unique and delightful satisfaction.
This lasted but a moment. While
they gazed, the huge ball began to ‘dance’ – that was the word all the
beholders applied to it. Now it was
whirling rapidly like a gigantic fire-wheel.
After doing this for some time, it stopped. Then it rotated again, with dizzy, sickening
speed. Finally there appeared on the rim
a border of crimson, which flung across the sky, as from a hellish vortex,
blood-red streamers of flame, reflecting to the earth, to the trees and shrubs,
to the upturned faces and the clothes all sorts of brilliant colors in
succession: green, red, orange, blue, violet, the whole spectrum in fact. Madly gyrating in this manner three times, the fiery orb seemed to tremble, to
shudder, and then to plunge precipitately, in a mighty zigzag, toward the crowd.
“A
fearful cry broke from the lips of thousands of terrified persons as they fell
upon their knees, thinking the end of the world had come. Some said that the
air became warmer at that instant; they would not have been surprised if
everything about them had burst into flames, enveloping and consuming them.”[4]
“All over Portugal, in fact, the
anti-clerical press was compelled to bear witness of the same sort. There was general agreement on the
essentials. As Dr. Domingos Pinto Coelho
wrote in O Ordem, ‘The sun, sometimes
surrounded with crimson flames, at other times aureoled with yellow and red, at
still other times seemed to revolve with a very rapid movement of rotation, still again seeming to detach itself from
the sky, to approach the earth…’”[5]
During the miracle the sun was seen to be
speeding toward the earth and the
people thought the end of the world had come. The significance should be obvious: Fatima was an apocalyptic sign; it was a sign
that the end was near, that the events which would precede the culmination of
the world and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ were to begin. Men must amend their lives before the end of
the world really came.
Based on some of these considerations, many
have concluded that Our Lady of Fatima is the woman clothed with the sun
described in chapter 12:1 of the Apocalypse:
“And a great sign appeared in heaven:
A woman clothed with the sun,
and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.”
(Apocalypse 12:1)
The Fatima
seers also reported that Our Lady was made all of light – she was more
brilliant than the sun. The evidence is
very strong that Our Lady of Fatima was the woman clothed with the sun
prophesied in the Apocalypse, chapter 12.
In fact, there is a stunning confirmation that Our Lady’s appearance at Fatima was the fulfillment of the prophecy in the
Apocalypse about the woman clothed with the sun.
The
Masonic Daily Paper, O Seculo,
stunningly confirms without even knowing it that Our Lady was the woman clothed
with the sun of the Apocalypse 12:1
The Miracle of the Sun worked by Our Lady of
Fatima was reported by anti-Catholic papers throughout Portugal. The liberal, Masonic and anti-clerical daily
of Lisbon, O Seculo, had its Editor in Chief,
Avelino de Almeida, on hand to report on the event. To his credit, he honestly reported on the
solar prodigy. What we want to draw to
your attention is the title of his article which was published in O Seculo on Oct. 15, 1917. Giving an account of the extraordinary event
at Fatima on Oct. 13, his article in O Seculo of October 15 was entitled:
“How the sun danced in broad daylight at Fatima. The
apparitions of the Virgin. – The sign
of Heaven. – Thousands declare it a miracle. – War and peace.’’[6]
Please notice that the Masonic, anti-clerical
daily of Lisbon described the event of Fatima and the Miracle of the Sun as “The sign of Heaven.” Does
that sound familiar?
Apocalypse 12:1-
“And a great sign appeared in Heaven:
A woman clothed with the sun, and
the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.”
Are we to believe that the Masonic newspaper
of Lisbon had
Apocalypse 12:1 in mind when publishing this article shortly after the solar
prodigy in 1917? Were the anti-clericals
considering the possibility that Our Lady’s appearance constituted the woman
clothed with the sun and the “sign of Heaven” described in the Bible? Of course not; not even Catholics at that
time had connected Fatima with the woman
clothed with the sun, let alone the anti-clericals who didn’t even believe in
Sacred Scripture or probably didn’t even know about the prophecy in Apoc.
12:1! This headline, therefore, is an unknowing confirmation, by a public and anti-Catholic source,
that Our Lady of Fatima
and her miracle on Oct. 13 were indeed the sign prophesied in Apocalypse 12:1!
It’s almost as if one were to ask God the
question: Lord, how will we know when the great “sign of heaven,” which you predicted
in Apocalypse 12:1, will occur? And the
Lord responded: just read the headline in the Masonic newspaper, for when this
sign will occur it will be reported even in it.
This stunning fact not only serves to confirm
that Our Lady of Fatima is the woman clothed with the sun of Apoc. 12:1, but
also further confirms the authenticity of the Catholic Faith and Sacred
Scripture.
Therefore, to finally round out our point
about Fatima and its relevance to what has happened to the Catholic Church
after Vatican II, we can say: since
Fatima was the sign prophesied in Apoc. 12:1, this means that we are in the
Apocalyptic era, the last days of the world.
Fatima,
the sign of Apoc. 12:1, and the great red dragon (Communism), the sign of Apoc.
12:3, both come on the scene in 1917
Lending further support to the idea that Fatima was the “sign” of Apocalypse 12:1 is the fact that
the Apocalypse speaks of the “great red dragon” just two verses later. Scripture seems to indicate that the two will
come on the scene at the same time.
Apocalypse 12:3-
“And there was seen another sign in Heaven: and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten
horns: and on his heads seven diadems: And
his tail drew the third part of the stars of Heaven, and cast them to the Earth…”
Many commentators consider the “great red
dragon” to be Communism, since Communism is undeniably associated with red, and
was responsible for the murder of over 20 million people in Russia
alone. Under Vladimir Lenin, the Bolsheviks took over Russia for Communism – gaining the significant
victory which would make Communism a world power – on Nov. 7, 1917, immediately after the appearances of Our
Lady in Fatima, which had warned of the spread of “the errors of Russia.”[7] Even today we speak of Communist China as
“Red China.” The Communist revolution in
China
was launched in celebratory fashion by men with “Enormous red banners, tens of
thousands of red flags, and masses of red balloons flew over them.”[8] The
evidence that the “great red dragon” describes the Communist Empire is quite
strong.
It’s also very interesting that the great red
dragon drew the third part of the stars of Heaven:
Apocalypse 12:3-
“And there was seen another sign in Heaven: and behold a great red dragon… And
his tail drew the third part of the stars of Heaven, and cast them
to the Earth…”
Is it just a coincidence that Communism, at
its height, held a third of the world in
its grasp?
Warren H. Carroll, The Rise and Fall of the Communist
Revolution, p. 418: “As Joseph Stalin walked into the Valley of the Shadow
of Death, the international communist
movement which he led held a third of the world in its grasp.”[9]
Sister
Lucia of Fatima told Fr. Fuentes in 1957 that
we are in the last times
One of the three visionaries of Fatima, Sr.
Lucia, told Fr. Fuentes in 1957:
"Father, the Most Holy Virgin did not tell me
that we are in the last times of the world but she made me understand this for
three reasons.
The first reason is because she told me that the Devil is in the mood
for engaging in a decisive battle against the Virgin. And a decisive
battle is the final battle where one side will be victorious and the other side
will suffer defeat. Hence from now on we must choose sides. Either
we are for God or we are for the Devil. There is no other possibility.
“The second reason is because she said to
my cousins as well as to myself that God is giving two last remedies to the
world. These are the Holy Rosary and Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of
Mary. These are the last two
remedies which signify that there will be no others.
“The third reason is because in
the plans of Divine Providence, God always, before He is about to chastise the
world, exhausts all other remedies. Now, when He sees that the world pays
no attention whatsoever then, as we say in our imperfect manner of speaking, He
offers us with a certain trepidation the last means of salvation, His Most Holy
Mother. It is with a certain trepidation because if you despise and
repulse this ultimate means we will not have any more forgiveness from Heaven
because we will have committed a sin which the Gospel calls the sin against the
Holy Spirit. This sin consists of openly rejecting with full knowledge
and consent, the salvation which He offers. Let us remember that Jesus
Christ is a very good Son and that He does not permit that we offend and
despise His Most Holy Mother. We have recorded through many centuries of
Church history the obvious testimony which demonstrates, by the terrible
chastisements which have befallen those who have attacked the honor of His Most
Holy Mother, how Our Lord Jesus Christ has always defended the honor of His
Mother."[10]
As discussed already, the main feature of the
end times is an apostasy from the Catholic Faith. In “the holy place” itself (Rome) there will be “the abomination of
desolation” (Mt. 24:15), and a deception so profound that, if it were possible,
even the elect would be deceived (Mt. 24:24).
The New Testament tells us that
this deception will happen in the very heart of the Church’s physical
structures, in “the Temple of God” (2 Thess. 2:4). It will arise because people receive not
the love of the truth (2 Thessalonians 2:10).
That is precisely why the very last words that Our Lady of Fatima gives
us in the great secret of July 13, 1917 are:
“In Portugal the dogma of Faith will
always be preserved, etc.”
These are the last words given before the
undisclosed third secret of Fatima. From this scholars of Fatima
have concluded that the third secret undoubtedly deals with a massive spiritual
crisis and apostasy from the Catholic Faith among those who purport to hold
positions of authority in the Church.
Since we don’t have the complete sentence of
Our Lady’s last words of the July message, we cannot say for sure what they
mean; but the sentence could be: “In Portugal the dogma of Faith will
always be preserved in a faithful remnant…”
Or: “In Portugal
the dogma of Faith will always be preserved until the Great Apostasy…” Or: “In Portugal the dogma of Faith will
always be preserved among those who heed my warnings…”
The third secret undoubtedly deals with the present apostasy of
the Vatican II sect. We will document
this apostasy in great detail in this book.
As cited at the beginning of this
section,“Fr.” Mario Luigi Ciappi, the papal theologian to Pope Pius XII,
stated:
“In the Third
Secret it is foretold, among other things, that the great apostasy in the
Church will begin at the
top.”[11]
Another
“cardinal” of the Vatican II Church incredibly admitted that the Third Secret
deals with the post-Vatican II apostasy.
“Cardinal” Silvio Oddi:“… the Third Secret [of
Fatima]… is not about a supposed conversion of Russia…. but regards the
‘revolution’ in the Catholic Church.”[12]
Testimonies
that Heaven asked that the third secret of Fatima
be revealed by 1960 at the latest[13]
- Canon
Galamba:
“When the bishop refused to open the letter, Lucy made him promise that it
would definitely be opened and read to the world either at her death or in 1960, whichever would come first.” (La Verdad sobre el Secreto de Fatima, Fr.
Joaquin Alonso, Spanish Edition, pp. 46-47)
- John
Haffert: “At the bishop’s house (in Leiria), I sat
at the table on his right, with the four Canons. During that first dinner, Canon Jose
Galamba de Oliveira turned to me when the bishop had left the room
momentarily and asked: “Why don’t you ask the bishop to open the Secret?”
Endeavoring not to show my ignorance concerning Fatima—which
at that time was almost complete—I simply looked at him without
expression. He continued: "The
bishop can open the Secret. He
doesn’t have to wait until 1960.”
(Dear Bishop! John Haffert, AMI
1981, pp. 3-4)
- Cardinal
Cerejeira:
In February 1960 the Patriarch of Lisbon reported the directions which the
Bishop of Leiria “has passed on to him” on the subject of the Third
Secret: “Bishop da Silva enclosed (the envelope sealed by Lucy) in another
envelope on which he indicated that the
letter had to be opened in 1960 by himself, Bishop Jose Correia da
Silva, if he was still alive, or if not, by the Cardinal Patriarch of
Lisbon.” (Novidades, February
24, 1960, quoted by La Documentation
catholique, June 19, 1960, col. 751)
- Canon
Barthas:
During his conversations with Sister Lucy on October 17-18, 1946, he had
the opportunity to question her on the Third Secret. He writes: “When will the third element
of the Secret be revealed to us?” Already in 1946, to this question Lucy
and the Bishop of Leiria answered me uniformly, without hesitation and
without comment: “In 1960.” And when I pushed my audacity so far as
to ask why it was necessary to wait until then, the only response I
received from either one was: “Because
the Blessed Virgin wishes it so.” (Barthas, Fatima, merveille du XXe siecle, p. 83.
Fatima-editions, 1952)
- The
Armstrongs:
On May 14, 1953, Lucy received a visit from the Armstrongs, who were able
to question her on the third Secret.
In their account published in 1955, they confirmed that the third
Secret “had to be opened and divulged in 1960.” (A. O. Armstrong, Fatima, pilgrimage to peace, The
World’s Work, Kingswood, Surrey, 1955)
- Cardinal
Ottaviani:
On May 17, 1955, Cardinal Ottaviani, Pro-Prefect of the Holy Office, came
to the Carmel of Saint Teresa at Coimbra. He interrogated Lucy on the third
Secret; and in his conference of 1967 recalled: “The message was not to be
opened before 1960. I asked Sister
Lucy, ‘Why this date?’ She answered, ‘Because then it will seem
clearer (mais claro).’” (La
Documentation catholique, March 19, 1967, col. 542)
- Father
Joaquin Alonso, official archivist of Fatima: “Other bishops
also spoke—and with authority—about the year 1960 as the date indicated
for opening the famous letter.
Thus, when the then titular Bishop of Tiava, and Auxiliary Bishop
of Lisbon
asked Lucy when the Secret was to be opened, he always received the same
answer: in 1960.” (La Verdad sobre el Secreto de Fatima, Fr.
Joaquin Alonso, Spanish Edition, p. 46)
- Father
Joaquin Alonso:
“When Don Jose, the first Bishop of Leiria, and Sister Lucy agreed that
the letter was to be opened in 1960, they obviously meant that its
contents should be made public for the good of the Church and the world.”
(ibid., p. 54)
- Bishop
Venancio: “I
think that the letter will not be opened before 1960. Sister Lucy had asked that it should not
be opened before her death, or not before 1960. We are now in 1959 and Sister Lucy is in
good health.” (La Verdad sobre el Secreto de Fatima, Fr.
Joaquin Alonso, Spanish Edition, p. 46)
- Father
Fuentes:
Father Fuentes interviewed Sister Lucy on December 26, 1957, who told him:
“Father, the Most Holy Virgin is very sad because no one has paid
attention to Her Message, neither the good nor the bad. The good continue on their way but
without giving any importance to Her Message… I am still not able to give
any other details because it is still a secret. According to the will of the Most Holy
Virgin, only the Holy Father and the Bishop of Fatima are permitted to
know the Secret, but they have chosen not to know it so that they would
not be influenced. This is the third part [third Secret]
of the Message of Our Lady which will remain secret until 1960.” (La Verdad sobre el Secreto de Fatima, Fr.
Joaquin Alonso, Spanish Edition, p. 103-104)
- F.
Stein:
“The testimonies which have announced the revelation of the Secret for
1960 are of such weight and so numerous that in our opinion, even if the
ecclesiastical authorities of Fatima [in 1959 the experts themselves were
still unaware that Rome had taken the Secret from the Bishop of Leiria
over two years previously] had not yet resolved to publish the Secret in
1960, they would now see themselves forced to do so by the circumstances.”
(Mensagem de Fatima,
July-August, 1959)
- Father Dias Coelho:
“… we can use, as an unquestionable fact, this assertion of Dr. Galamba de
Oliveira (in 1953) in Fatima, Altar
do Mundo: ‘The third part of the Secret was sealed in the hands of His
Grace the Bishop of Leiria, and will be opened either after the seer’s
death or at the latest in 1960.’” (L’Homme
Nouveau, No. 269, November 22, 1959)
All testimonies and statements reveal clearly that Heaven wanted the
third secret of Fatima revealed to the whole
world no later than 1960, because it would be clearer then.
Why would the third secret of Fatima
be clearer in 1960?
It
was on Jan. 25, 1959 that John XXIII
announced that he had a special inspiration to suddenly call a new ecumenical
council. (Jan. 25, by the way, was
the same day on which the unknown light that illuminated the world prior to
World War II lit up the skies of Europe. This unknown light that appeared on Jan. 25,
1938 was predicted by Our Lady of Fatima as a warning that God was going to
punish the world with the things that were revealed in the second part of the
secret. Was the fact that John XXIII
called Vatican II on a Jan. 25 a warning about the coming punishment described
in the third secret?)
This
council called by John XXIII in 1959 would turn out to be Vatican II, the
disastrous results of which are the subject of this book. Is the calling of this council in 1959 the
reason that Our Blessed Mother requested the third secret of Fatima
to be revealed by 1960? Was she directly
warning us of the apostasy that would result from this council, which truly
gave birth to a new, phony Counter-Catholic
Church, as we will see in
this book? Truly, the only major sign
that had occurred by 1960, in regard to the tremendous apostasy we are now
living through that would makes things “clearer,” was that John XXIII had
announced his intention to call a new council in 1959. In our view, it’s quite obvious that the
third secret of Fatima deals with the apostasy
resulting from a false council; otherwise the third secret wouldn’t make more
sense in 1960, as Our Blessed Mother said it would.
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Most Holy Family Monastery.
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