Catholic Church
“This is the instruction he left us: fly to the Immaculate One in all your hardships. This exhortation he took from Jesus Himself, who, while hanging from the cross, charged the Apostle John to take Mary as his own mother.” So spoke John Paul II of Fr. Stanislaus Papczynski, founder of the Marian Fathers, whose Beatification took place on September 16, 2007 in the Shrine of Our Lady of Lichen, in Lichen, Poland.
Rue du Bac and the gift of the Miraculous Medal, Lourdes and the gift of the healing spring, La Salette, Fatima—all Marian revelations forming a chain of miraculous divine interventions in our time. Now that a full ninety years separates us from the last of these, the apparitions at Fatima, it might be worthwhile to take stock of the events and their results. Have Our Blessed Mother’s appeals been heeded? Have her instructions been carried out? Have her requests been fulfilled?
The Fatima revelations seemed to come at the least propitious time; and yet their political context made them all the more powerful, for God acts through historical events and the final victory belongs to Him
This is part two of the testimony of Yitzhak, a Polish Jew, who after a period of many years returned to Poland from Israel to make peace with his adoptive parents. In the process, he helped to reconcile them with God in the Sacrament of Penance and revealed to them the love of Jesus, who not only forgives but also bestows the gift of forgiveness, which is Truth wrapped in Love.
It remains a little known fact that, seven years prior to Our Lady’s revelations at Fatima, Portugal had fallen under the control of the Freemasons. Dismissing religion as the “opiate of the masses”, the “progressive powers” resolved to destroy the Catholic faith in two generations. Persecution of the Church ensued
John Paul II reminds us that the warning and urgent call to conversion contained in Our Lady’s message at Fatima is “not limited to one time. The call must be taken up by every generation in accordance with the ‘signs of the times.’ We must return to it constantly, respond to it ever anew.”
The collapse of morality along with the attendant loss of a sense of sin has led, among other things, to the rejection of the revealed truth about the existence of hell. The truth of eternal damnation was recalled at Fatima in the famous vision of hell and in the first Fatima secret. Many people object strongly to the notion of an everlasting hell. They claim it is incompatible with the truth about God, who always loves and always forgives.
Benedict XVI in Poland
