Beloved
daughter of my heart, I am Our Lady of Good Fortune, your Mother
and Protectress, carrying my Most Holy Son on my left arm and
holding the scepter in my right hand. I have come
to tell you some good news: in ten months and ten days you will
close your eyes to the earthly light of this world in order to
open them to the brightness of light everlasting.
Oh,
if only human beings and religious knew what heaven is and what
it is to possess God, how differently they would live, sparing
no sacrifice in order to enter more fully into possession of it!
But some let themselves be dazzled by the false glamour
of honors and human greatness while others are blinded by self-love,
not realizing that they are falling into lukewarmness, that immense
evil which in religious houses destroys their fervor, humility,
self-renunciation and the ceaseless practice of religious virtues
and fraternal charity, and that child-like simplicity which makes
souls so dear to my Divine Son and to me, their Mother.
This
house will be attacked with a fury out of hell to destroy and
annihilate it; but Divine Providence and I will be watching over
it to preserve it, by favoring the virtues practiced by the nuns
in this house....Know also, my beloved daughter, that my motherly
love will watch over the convents of the Order of my Immaculate
Conception, because this Order will give me great glory through
all the daughters I shall have here. I shall take
special care of the convents formed in this land by the members
of this house. Often they will be on the brink of
annihilation, but miraculously they will come to life again.
Only one will close, in conformity with God’s will: you
will know which, when you are in heaven.
The
sanctuary lamp burning in front of the Prisoner of Love, which
you saw go out, has many meanings...
First
meaning: at the end of the 19th and for a large part of the 20th,
various heresies will flourish on this earth which will have become
a free republic. The precious light of the Faith
will go out in souls because of the almost total moral corruption:
in those times there will be great physical and moral calamities,
in private and in public. The little number of souls
keeping the Faith and practicing the virtues will undergo cruel
and unspeakable suffering; through their long, drawn out martyrdom
many of them will go to their death because of the violence of
their sufferings, and those will count as martyrs who gave their
lives for Church or for country. To escape from
being enslaved by these heresies will call for great strength
of will, constancy, courage and great trust in God, all of which
are gifts from the merciful love of my Divine Son to those He
will have chosen for the work of restoration. To
put to the trial the faith and trust of these just souls, there
will come moments when everything seems lost and paralyzed, and
just then comes the happy beginning of the complete restoration.
Second
meaning: My communities will be abandoned; they will be swamped
in a fathomless sea of bitterness, and will seem drowned in tribulations.
How many true vocations will be lost for lack of skilful
and prudent direction to form them! Each mistress
of novices will need to be a soul of prayer, knowing how to discern
spirits.
The
third meaning of the lamp’s going out is that in those times,
the air will be filled with the spirit of impurity which, like
a deluge of filth, will flood the streets, squares and public
places. The licentiousness will be such that there
will be no more virgin souls in the world.
A
fourth meaning is that by having control of all the social classes,
the sects will tend to penetrate with great skill into the heart
of families to destroy even the children. The devil
will take glory in feeding perfidiously on the heart of children.
The innocence of childhood will almost disappear.
Thus priestly vocations will be lost, it will be a real
disaster. Priests will abandon their sacred duties
and will depart from the path marked out for them by God.
Then the Church will go through a dark night for lack
of a prelate and father to watch over it with love, gentleness,
strength and prudence, and numbers of priests will lose the spirit
of God, thus placing their souls in great danger.
Pray
constantly, cry out unwearyingly and weep unceasingly with bitter
tears in the depths of your heart, asking Our Father in heaven,
for love of the Eucharistic Heart of my most holy Son, for His
Precious Blood so generously shed and for the profound bitterness
and sufferings of His Passion and death, that He have pity on
His ministers and that He put an end to such fatal times, by sending
to His Church the prelate who will restore the spirit of His priests.
Upon
this my beloved son, whom my divine Son and I love with a love
of predilection, we shall heap many gifts—of humility of heart,
of docility to varying inspirations, of strength to defend the
rights of the Church and of a heart with which he will, like a
new Christ, take possession of the mightiest of men as of the
lowliest, without scorning the least fortunate amongst them.
With a wholly divine gentleness he will lead consecrated
souls to the service of God in religious houses without making
the Lord’s yoke weigh heavy upon them. He will hold
in his hand the scales of the sanctuary for everything to be done
in orderly fashion for God to be glorified. This
prelate and father will act as a counterweight to the lukewarmness
of souls consecrated in the priesthood and in religion.
Satan
will gain control of this earth through the fault of faithless
men who, like a black cloud, will darken the clear sky of the
republic consecrated to the Most Sacred Heart of my Divine Son.
This republic, having allowed entry to all the vices,
will have to undergo all sorts of chastisements: plague, famine,
war, apostasy, and the loss of souls without number.
And
to scatter these black clouds blocking the brilliant dawning of
the freedom of the church, there will be a terrible war in which
the blood of priests and of religious will flow....That night
will be so horrible that wickedness will seem triumphant.
Then will come my time: in astounding fashion I shall
destroy Satan’s pride, casting him beneath my feet, chaining him
up in the depths of hell, leaving Church and country freed at
last from his cruel tyranny.
The
fifth meaning of the lamp’s going out is that men possessing great
wealth will look on with indifference while the Church is oppressed,
virtue is persecuted, and evil triumphs. They will
not use their wealth to fight evil and re-construct the Faith.
The people will come to care nothing for the things of
God, will absorb the spirit of evil and will let themselves be
swept away by all the vices and passions. Ah, my
beloved daughter, were it given you to live in those fatal times,
you would die of grief at seeing everything I have told you come
about. My most holy Son and I have such a great
love for this earth, our property, that it is our wish as of now
to apply your sacrifices and good works to the lessening of the
duration of such a terrible catastrophe.
