News Flash: In my rosaries I pray for some sign
from our Mother on the demise of the family these days. Never was it known that
anyone, in this case myself, was left unaided…. Rorate Caeli has
published a translation of a remarkable interview, originally published in 2008, with
Cardinal Cardinal Carlo Caffara of Bologna. In it, he references
correspondence he had with Sister Lucia, the principle visionary of Our Lady at
Fatima:
Q. There is a prophecy by
Sister Lucia dos Santos, of Fatima, which concerns “the final battle between
the Lord and the kingdom of Satan”. The battlefield is the family. Life and the
family. We know that you were given charge by John Paul II to plan and
establish the Pontifical Institute for the Studies on Marriage and the Family
.
Yes, I was. At the start of this
work entrusted to me by the Servant of God John Paul II, I wrote to Sister
Lucia of Fatima through her Bishop as I couldn’t do so directly. Unexplainably
however, since I didn’t expect an answer, seeing that I had only asked for
prayers, I received a very long letter with her signature – now in the
Institute’s archives. In it we find written: the final battle between the
Lord and the reign of Satan will be about marriage and the family. Don’t be afraid, she added, because anyone who operates for the sanctity of marriage and the
family will always be contended and opposed in every way, because this is the
decisive issue. And then she concluded: however, Our Lady has already crushed its head.
Talking also
to John Paul II, you felt too that this was the crux, as it touches the very
pillar of creation, the truth of the relationship between man and woman among
the generations. If the founding pillar is touched the entire building
collapses and we see this now, because we are at this point and we know it. And
I’m moved when I read the best biographies of Padre Pio , on how this man was
so attentive to the sanctity of marriage and the sanctity of the spouses, even
with justifiable rigor on occasion.
Does this come as any surprise to
those watching the events currently unfolding in the Church? We have referenced
various apparitions in the past that are related to this, beginning with Our Lady of Good Success, in the 17th century:
“Thus I make it known to you that
from the end of the 19th century and shortly after the middle of the 20th
century…the passions will erupt and there will be a total corruption of morals…
As for the Sacrament of Matrimony, which symbolizes the union of Christ with
His Church, it will be attacked and deeply profaned. Freemasonry, which will
then be in power, will enact iniquitous laws with the aim of doing away with
this Sacrament, making it easy for everyone to live in sin and encouraging
procreation of illegitimate children born without the blessing of the Church…
In this supreme moment of need for the Church, the one who should speak will
fall silent.”
When we reflect on the division
among prelates at the Synod, Our Lady of
Akita comes to mind:
“The work of
the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see
cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against bishops. The priests who venerate
me will be scorned and opposed by their confreres…churches and altars sacked;
the Church will be full of those who accept compromises and the demon will
press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord.”
Catholics are not required to
believe in even the most approved and venerated private revelations, but many
of us choose to do so. Does this battle relate to the famous discourse Pope Leo
XIII was alleged to have heard in a vision between
Christ and Satan, which led him to compose the prayer to St. Michael? How long
the final battle will last, and what will come after?
It is impossible to know. But
the notion that there is at this very moment a battle taking place for the
heart of the Church and the souls of the faithful is no longer in dispute.
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