St Joseph Protector of The Church and the 3rd Secret of Fatima

Historical Timelines Link

 St. Joseph and Vatican II
 Fatima  with May Day

 The Conversion of Russia

   St Joseph Protector of the Church

Named Patron of Workers on May Day 1955

Originally I wanted to prepare a simple post to honor St. Joseph who has been a great aide to me in my physical and spiritual trials. I already covered the significance of his appearing at Fatima during the Miracle of the Sun in a previous post. St. Joseph's Appearance at Fatima Announces A Crisis of Fatherhood in Society & Church!
However as Divine providence would have it in my search for a photo of St Joseph Patron of a Happy Death I came across the History of May Day and decided to share what I just learned for others who also may not be aware of the historical background of the event and how it was used as a propaganda tool by the communists. There are those who today are supporting the idea that May 1st to be commemorated for the Victims of Communism. I think St. Joseph patron of a Happy Death and of workers would not be offended to share the day the Church has given to him to honor these many martyrs some for God and church others for love of neighbor and country.

The following historical events analyzed in the light of the Fatima Message, in my opinion, link St Joseph's appearance at Fatima with the 3rd secret of Fatima.  Studying the Historical events in the unfolding of time  one can see that St Joseph's appearance at Fatima is also linked  by Divine Providence  to the Second Vatican Council and the cold war.

St. Joseph  was named Patron of the Universal Church  and protector of the the second Vatican Council in 1960. This event in the unfolding of providence  linked St. Joseph with the 2nd Vatican Council. Remember that Lucia was told that the 3rd secret was not to be opened until 1960 and we would understand why. Those living at the time did not make the correlations with Fatima and the council. The pope probably did as he read the secret and decided not to reveal it. It was within his right as Christs Vicar not wanting to give the enemies of the church reason to fulfill a prophecy. Those who detracted the pope for this are in error!  
  
In spite of my best intentions not to make this post a long involved post well here it is another long post that I hope will be beneficial to help us see the finger of God writing in the historical events that have taken place during and in the unfolding of providence after the apparitions of Fatima ended. Meditation on the historical events that have taken place during and after the apparitions have ceased have helped to confirm and sometimes add a new urgency to the messages given at Fatima that God wishes to convey to humanity.

Fatima and Communism 

           in Historical Context


 In the apparitions of our Lady over the years there exists a certain correlation between Marian apparitions and specific historical situations of the times. For example Lourdes and the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. La Sallette and the approaching famine. Fatima and the World Wars. Knock, the Second Vatican Council and the Eucharist.  Our Lady the spouse of the Holy Spirit is sent to convey a message from the finger of God to help us see the writing on the wall.  Sometimes with words sometimes with symbols.

St. Joseph's appearance at Fatima during the miracle of the sun did not take place by happen stance! Just a sort of nice addition or after thought by God!  The holy trinity just talking amongst themselves and saying: "O well lets send St. Joseph to bless the world with Jesus." In previous posts we discussed that God does nothing without meaning.  There is a deep significance in each approved Marian apparition in its historical context but there is also a deeper hidden significance that can, need we say may only be uncovered in prayer and meditation.  God was indeed telling us something when he sent St. Joseph during the Miracle of the Sun

Over time the church with the help of the Holy Spirit reflects on these appearances of Our Lady and  discovers God’s finger writing once more.  They are not coincidences! God has a purpose in everything he does. A message to proclaim in the timing of the appearances as well as within the historical context. "But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, to the time appointed: many shall pass over, and knowledge shall be increased. Many shall be chosen, and made white, and shall be tried as fire: and the wicked shall deal wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand, but the learned shall understand." Daniel 12:9-10

In the past while meditating on the appearances of Our Lady in the approved Marian Apparitions and placing them in the historical context of the time: From Guadelupe to Fatima A prophetic Mystery.  We learned that we must also meditate and reflect on the events surrounding the approved Marian apparitions in its historical context of the moment as well as in the unfolding of time.  There are often hidden meanings, in some instances that God wishes to be revealed at a later time, in the unfolding of human history.

These  may also convey dire warnings as  in the book of Daniel: "Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand in fear as it wrote:  " Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin. This is what these words mean: Mene: God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end. Tekel: You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting. Peres: Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians." Daniel 5:26-28

      A Brief History of May Day

A Historical Timeline 

Today for most there is an assumption that May Day began and is a holiday  celebrated only in communist countries like Cuba or the former Soviet Union. Most Americans don't realize that May Day for "workers" has its origins here in this country and it also stemmed from pre-Christian pagan rituals  with the festival of Flora, the Roman goddess of flowers, and the Walpurgis Night celebrations of the Germanic countries.

A maypole in Munich, Germany

Before May Day became a labor holiday it had been a traditional day of pagan festivities celebrating springtime fertility and revelry with early community gatherings. Seeding had been completed by this date and it was convenient to give farm labourers a day off. Perhaps the most significant of the traditions is the Maypole, around which traditional dancers circle with ribbons.  The maypoles were in some way a continuation of a Germanic pagan tradition. One theory holds that they were a remnant of the Germanic reverence for sacred trees, as there is evidence for various sacred trees and wooden pillars that were venerated by the pagans across much of Germanic Europe, including Thor's Oak and the Irminsul. Various Neopagan groups still celebrate reconstructed (to varying degrees) versions of these customs on May 1st.  As Europe became Christianized the pagan holidays lost their religious character and either changed into popular secular celebrations, as with May Day, or were merged with or replaced by new Christian holidays.

The modern labor protests 

on May Day began  in 

the United States in 1886

 The labor movement starting in the United States with fair treatment of workers and an 8 hour work day is a good end for families but the movement was later exploited by the communists throughout the world to meet their own political ends. 

This 1886 engraving shows beginning of the Riots

May Day in the United States began with and originally commemorated the Haymarket Massacre in Chicago in 1886. Chicago police fired at workers who were striking to establish the eight hour work day. Many workers died in the event. The May Day labor movement spread to France



1889

July 14, The hundredth anniversary of the fall of the Bastille, leaders from organized revolutionary proletarian movements of many lands, assembled in Paris to form once more an international organization of workers, patterned after the one formed 25 years earlier by their great teacher, Karl Marx.  They heard from the American delegates about the struggle in America for the 8-hour day during 1884-1886. Inspired by the example of the American workers, the Paris Congress adopted the following resolution: "The Congress decides to organize a great international demonstration, so that in all countries and in all cities on one appointed day the toiling masses shall demand of the state authorities the legal reduction of the working day to eight hours, as well as the carrying out of other decisions of the Paris Congress."  Since a similar demonstration has already been decided upon for May 1, 1890, by the American Federation of Labor at its Convention in St. Louis, December, 1888, this day is accepted for the international demonstration. The workers of the various countries must organize this demonstration according to conditions prevailing in each country.

                May Day in Russia
 1900  

Lenin proceeds to write about the significance of May Day:  Lenin  wrote that May Day was a rallying point for "the irrepressible struggle for the political liberation of the Russian people," for "the class development of the proletariat and its open struggle for Socialism."  In a Weekly Worker of a generation Eugene V. Debs wrote in the May Day edition of the paper, published April 27, 1907: regarding May Day "This is the first and only International Labor Day. It belongs to the working class and is dedicated to the Revolution."

   


The Queen of May 
 Appears at Fatima

1917

Divine Providence sends the Queen of May to Fatima with her requests for World Peace: "If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace. The war is going to end; but if people do not cease offending God, a worse war will break out during the reign of Pius XI. When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that this is the great sign given you by God that He is about to punish the world for its crimes, by means of war, famine, and persecutions against the Church and the Holy Father. To prevent this, I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of Reparation on the First Saturdays. If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions against the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated.

Our Lady spouse of the Holy Spirit is the Hand of God conveying a message to the world powers  and the kingdoms of our era. "Some I will cure others I will not. They must amend their lives and ask forgiveness for their sins." Looking very sad, Our Lady said: "Do not offend the Lord our God any more, because He is already so much offended." Fatima October 13,1917

1918 

November 11,- As our Lady predicted that the War will end soon
---World War I ended with a German defeat.


1921 
July 29 - Adolf Hitler becomes leader of National Socialist (Nazi) Party.

1923 
November 8/9 - Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch.

1923
"For the May Day,edition of the Weekly Worker, C. E. Ruthenberg wrote: "May Day – the day which inspires fear in the hearts of the capitalists and hope in the workers – the workers the world over – will find the Communist movement this year stronger in the U. S. than at any time in its history.... The road is clear for greater achievements, and in the United States as elsewhere in the world the future belongs to Communism. The world is nearer to Communism today. We are living in a more advanced period now. Capitalism has swung downward and is progressively moving in that direction. The sharpness of its own contradictions is making its ability to carry on more difficult.  In the Soviet Union the workers will review on May Day the phenomenal achievements of the building of Socialism. In the capitalist countries May Day will be as always a day of struggle for the immediate political demands of the working class, with the slogans of proletarian dictatorship and a Soviet Republic kept not far in the background."  Quote from The History of May Day

The apparition at Pontevedra

1925, December 10
 Our Lady appears to Sister Lucy at Pontevedra in Spain to relate the specific requirements for the Communion of Reparation on the First Saturdays.

1929

October 29, - Stock Market on Wall Street crashes.

Apparition in Tuy of Holy Trinity

1929, June 13

In fulfillment of Her promise at Fatima on July 13, 1917, Our Lady of Fatima appears to Sister Lucy at Tuy, Spain in the visible presence of the Most Holy Trinity and asks for the consecration of Russia to Her Immaculate Heart.

1930
September 14- Germans elect Nazis making them the 2nd largest political party in Germany.

1931

August: Jesus says to Sister Lucy: “Make it known to My ministers, given that they follow the example of the King of France in delaying the execution of My command, they will follow him into misfortune.” Our Lord gives to Sister Lucy in Rianjo, Spain this warning.

On June 17, 1689, Our Lord also told St. Margaret Mary to tell the Catholic King Louis XIV that France must be solemnly consecrated to His Sacred Heart. This command was ignored by the king and also by his heirs and descendants. As a result, France – first daughter of the Church – was not "triumphant over all the enemies of Holy Church" when France was besieged by the “enemies of the Church exactly one hundred years later, on June 17, 1789, the reigning Louis XVI was stripped of his kingly power and authority by the godless “Third Estate” of the French Revolution. Thus the Reign of Terror went into full motion. The king and his entire family (including children) were imprisoned and executed.

1933
June - Nazis open Dachau concentration camp.
July 14 - Nazi Party declared Germany's only political party.
October 14  - Germany quits the League of Nations. 

                                      
              The Great Aurora

1938, 
January 25,   The Fatima Storm was seen over the whole of Europe and as far south as Southern Australia, Sicily, Portugal and across the Atlantic to Bermuda and Southern California.  
      

Crowds in Vienna awaiting the imminent birth of Princess Juliana's baby cheered the aurora as a lucky omen. The immense arches of crimson light with shifting areas of green and blue, radiated from a brilliant Auroral Crown near the zenith instead of appearing as usual in parallel lines. It was also considered to fulfill  one of the Fatima Prophesies by Catholics worldwide.

1938 

March 12/13 - Germany announces 'Anschluss' (union) with Austria.

Oct. 15 German troops occupy the Sudetenland; Czech government resigns.

May Day Show of Russia's Military Might after Germany declares War

1939  

January 30 - Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech. 

1945
February 4-11-- Yalta Conference Cold War Begins  

August 6 -- United States first used atomic bomb in war ushering in the Nuclear Age and the cold war. With this event the prophecy at Fatima that various nations will be annihilated could have a literal fulfillment by man in a Nuclear War.
                    
            St. Joseph the Worker 

1955
May 1, Pius XII  responding to the propaganda tool by the communists in order to heat up the cold war with their version of “May Day” protests for workers. Promoting the Worker to sacrifice themselves for the state and its power.  Pius XII instituted the feast of St. Joseph the Worker on May 1.  The pope held up to Catholics and other Christian believers the teachings relating to Joseph and the Holy Family. He frequently stressed the  patience, persistence, and hard work of St. Joseph as admirable qualities which Christians should adopt and follow.

The Secret of Fatima opened

by John XXIII and not revealed

St. Pope John XXIII

1959
August 17,  Pope John XXIII had the envelope  with the 3rd secret of Fatima  brought to him at Castelgandolfo. It was said that he did not immediately open the envelope but stated: "I am waiting to read it with my confessor." The secret was read a few days later, with Assistance in reading the Portuguese given by Monsignor Paulo Jose Tavarez of the Secretariat of State. Later John XXIII had it read by Cardinal Ottaviani, Prefect of the Holy Office.

Note: Towards the end we will discuss in more detail the controversy by the followers of Fr. Gruener chastising successive popes for not revealing the secret. If you look at the historical events of the day. The cold war heating up ect, the popes aware of the contents of the secret did not want to make it a self fulfilled prophecy so decided not to reveal its contents. They have the keys to the kingdom to bind and loose no one else!

1960
February 2, it was suddenly learned through a simple Portuguese press agency communique that the 3^rd secret of Fatima would not be published, and that it probably never would be disclosed.  

The Cold War Heats UP! 

• 1960: May -- Soviet Union reveals that U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory
• 1960: November -- John F. Kennedy was elected President
• 1961: April -- Bay of Pigs invasion
• 1961: July -- Kennedy requests 25% spending increase for military
• 1961: August 13 -- Berlin border closed
• 1961: August 17 -- Construction of Berlin Wall begin
  • 1962: -- U.S. involvement in Vietnam increased
  • 1962: October -- Cuban Missile Crisis 

1961 
March 19, Bl. Pope John XXIII choose St Joseph as a protector of the the second Vatican Council, in his Apostolic Letter  Le voci che da tutti. St Joseph was also given the title Patron of the Universal Church.

1962
  
October 11-Bl. John XXIII opened the second Vatican Council 

December 8-At the closing of the first session of the second Vatican Council Blessed John XXIII, inserted St Joseph into the Canon of the Mass. 

1968
July 25 HUMANAE VITAE (On The Regulation Of Birth). Pope Paul VI. Encyclical Letter Of His Holiness Pope Paul VI. The encyclical re-affirmed the traditional teaching of the Catholic Church regarding abortion, contraception, and other issues pertaining to human life. The encyclical has been controversial because of its prohibition of all forms of artificial contraception, and did not set will with the new cultural revolution taking place. Pope Paul VI did not issue any additional encyclicals in the remaining ten years of his pontificate.   Pope Benedict in 2008 stated that  Humanae Vitae Controversial & Crucial for Humanity's Future    
  
 Christian Europe becoming Muslim

Recent Catholic convert, Magdi Allam, recently asserted that it is relativism that has caused the growth of Islam in the West. Excerpts from (CNA).- "Magdi Allam, warned this week that Islam is growing as a result of the ideology of relativism that pervades the West and claims that there are many truths instead of one unique Truth. 

I believe relativism is a part of the problem but not the real cause. Catholics need to face the fact that Christian Europe is falling because Catholics disobeyed God and the Church by not following the teachings of Pope Paul VI in Humane Vitea.  Non westernized Muslims as a whole do not contracept and they do not abort their babies. 


The birthrate in western nations are dropping quickly well below the "replacement rate" — that is, an average of 2.1 children born to every woman. A recent demographic study shows 1.3 live births per woman in Catholic countries like Portugal and Spain where Muslims are making great in roads. The declining population created a need for an imported work force and Muslims are very happy to immigrate and fill in the gaps we have created by our disobedience to the church.    The Muslim population in Spain will grow by 82 percent by 2030 as the number of people converting to Islam has shown an increase over the past seven years, a new survey shows. See Video: Spain is becoming Muslim Country....Islamic Empire is returning!  


1970's Clown Masses
One would like to believe Masses like these are isolated incidents, but there is evidence that abuses like these (and other reprobated liturgical abuses) are quite common in the United States and abroad. How long is such nonsense to be tolerated? How many warnings from the Holy See condemning such actions need to be written, promulgated, and ignored, before more concrete action is taken? The abuses have to stop.  I believe we are being punished by God because of them. It is part of the reason we have not stemmed the tide with abortion Read more....

1972, June 29

    Smoke of Satan entered Church!

Paul VI  asserts that he has the feeling that “from some fissure the smoke of Satan has entered into the temple of God” (da qualche fessura sia entrato il fumo di Satana nel tempio di Dio (Insegnamenti [1972], 707).

Ven. Paul VI Fatima, 1967

1972, June 29  Pope Paul VI in his homily given on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul made a famous remark about the “smoke of Satan” entering into the temple of God. The full text of the homily was not reproduced in the Vatican collection of Paul VI’s teachings (Insegnamenti di Paulo VI Vol. X, 1972). Instead, a summary of the homily was given. 
Within the summary, however, there are some direct quotes from the Pontiff. Two of these are memorable for their references to Satan and the preternatural.

This state of uncertainty even holds sway in the Church.  There was the belief that after the Council there would be a day of sunshine for the history of the Church.  Instead, it is the arrival of a day of clouds, of tempest, of darkness, of research, of uncertainty.  We preach ecumenism but we constantly separate ourselves from others.  We seek to dig abysses instead of filling them in.  How has this come about?  The Pope entrusts one of his thoughts to those who are present:  that there has been an intervention of an adverse power.  Its name is the devil, this mysterious being that the Letter of St. Peter also alludes to.  So many times, furthermore, in the Gospel, on the lips of Christ himself, the mention of this enemy of men returns

Later, Paul VI is also quoted as saying: “We believe … that something preternatural has come into the world specifically to disturb, to suffocate the fruits of the Ecumenical Council, and to prevent the Church from breaking out in a hymn of joy for having recovered in fullness the awareness of herself (Crediamo … in qualcosa di preternaturale venunto nel mondo proprio per turbare, per soffocare i frutti del Concilio Ecumenico, e per impedire che la Chiesa prorompesse nell’inno della gioia di aver riavuto in pienezza la coscienza di sé (Insegnamenti [1972], 708).  Read more:

1980's Eucharistic Reforms begin but not followed just like Humane Vitea was not followed by the bishops and the people in 1968. 

April 17,  Inaestimabile Donum  Instruction Concerning Worship of the In 1916 the Angel of Portugal came to Fatima and taught the Children how to make reparation for sacrileges against the Eucharist. This was not taking place in 1916 it has started to take place since Paul VI said the Smoke of Satan entered the church! It's time to stop the wave of liturgicalEucharistic Mystery Sacred Congregation for the Sacraments and Divine Worship Approved and Confirmed by Bl. Pope John Paul II.

 Fatima Begins & Ends with the Eucharist

Adoration and Reparation

In 1916 the Angel of Portugal came to Fatima and taught the Children how to make reparation for sacrileges against the Eucharist. This was not taking place in 1916 it has started to take place since Paul VI said the Smoke of Satan entered the church! It's time to stop the wave of liturgical experimentation and liturgical abuse that has overtaken the Catholic Church in many parts of the world. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass needs to be celebrated with reverence and dignity. Clown Masses and Halloween Masses (with Barney Blessings) demonstrate an appalling ignorance as to what really and truly takes place during Holy Mass: The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.  

In 244 Origen taught: "Reverence should be given to the smallest particle of the host.  I admonish you as you take part in the Divine Mysteries, when you have received the Body of the Lord; you exercise every care lest a particle fall and any of the consecrated gift perish. You are guilty, and rightly so, if any of it be lost through negligence.” 

 

I have come across extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist who are not properly trained for their commission by their bishops or pastors.   

They were never taught to purify their pyx so consecrated particles remain and our Lord is carried to unspeakable places even into the rest room. I have witnessed priests breaking the extra large hosts while held over their heads. Consecrated particles falling into their hair on their shoulders, the altar and the ground only to be trampled on by the Eucharistic ministers who approach the altar. 

It is my belief that the church and the world are suffering because of how we treat the Blessed Sacrament. Is is also a central part of the Fatima message. It is how the message began in 1916 with the apparition of the Angel.  If we do not correct the abuses we will like Sr Lucia said bring the punishment upon ourselves. 

"Since we did not heed this appeal of the Message, we see that it has been fulfilled, Russia has invaded the world with her errors. And if we have not yet seen the complete fulfillment of the final part of this prophecy, we are going towards it little by little with great strides. If we do not reject the path of sin, hatred, revenge, injustice, violations of the rights of the human person, immorality and violence, etc.-And let us not say that it is God who is punishing us in this way; on the contrary it is people themselves who are preparing their own punishment. In his kindness God warns us and calls us to the right path, while respecting the freedom he has given us; hence people are responsible”. Sister Lucia 1982


Lord I beg you remove the blindness from our eyes so that we can see the abyss we are descending into before it is too late. The events of 9/11 and the world wide financial melt down are all warnings. Bishops and priests instruct your extraordinary ministers and choose them well! Listen to our Lady and make reparation for these sacrileges!

See: A Wonder That We Finite Creatures Created by an Infinite God are Able to Console Him by Worthily Receiving Him in Holy Communion! Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist and Common Sense!  My friends Remember Who you Carry and Where you are Taking Him! Read More!

Historical Events

Leading to Dissolution

of the Soviet Union

Pope Pius XII and the popes after him in subsequent years consecrated and reconsecrated the world and later Russia but never in union with all the Bishops of the world. Our Lord stipulated this condition so the world would know that this grace came from the Immaculate Heart of his Mother. Even the pope has to be exactly obedient to a higher authority when it is requested by God.

On May 13 1981 
Pope John Paul II is shot in St. Peters Square on May 13. During the long months of suffering and recuperation in Gemelli Hospital, the Holy Father requests and studies more deeply documents relating to Fatima. His determination to consecrate Russia with bishops of the world grows stronger. In leaving the clinic he remarks: I have come to understand that the only way to save the world from war, to save it from atheism, is the conversion of Russia according to the message of Fatima.

May 13, 1982 
Pope John Paul II invites the bishops of the world to join him in consecrating the world and with it Russia to the Immaculate Heart. Many Bishops do not receive the invitation in time for the Pope's trip to Fatima, where he accomplishes the consecration. Sr. Lucia later says it did not fulfill the conditions.

October, 1983 
Pope John Paul II, at the Synod of Bishops, renews the 1982 Consecration. This also did not fulfill the conditions as many bishops were not present and were not asked.

Collegial Consecration in Rome

March 25, 1984 
Finally Pope John Paul II, has the statue of Our Lady in the little chapel brought to Rome and in advance sends invitations to every bishop to join him on this date "united with all the pastors of the Church in a particular bond whereby we constitute a body and a college, "consecrates" the whole world, especially the peoples for which by reason of their situation you have particular love and solicitude." shortly after events began to take place that led to the rapid dissolution of the former Soviet Union.

Note:  This was also 100 years after the Vision of Pope Leo XIII  

on October 13, 1884.  Pope Leo XII had a locution hearing Satan and Jesus conversing. Satan boasted to Jesus he would destroy his Church and was granted 100 years to try and destroy God’s Church. It was after this that the pope composed the prayer to St. Michael, which was prayed after each Mass at the foot of the altar.

   Consecration of Russia Fulfilled
 Sr. Lucia tells the papal nuncio to Portugal that the Consecration is fulfilled.

May 13, 1984
One of the largest crowds in Fatima history gathers at the shrine to pray the Rosary for peace.

May 13, 1984
An explosion at the Soviets’ Severomorsk Naval Base destroys two-thirds of all the missiles stockpiled for the Soviets’ Northern Fleet. The blast also destroys workshops needed to maintain the missiles as well as hundreds of scientists and technicians. Western military experts called it the worst naval disaster the Soviet Navy has suffered since WWII. Again in the same year on Dec 13. An explosion in Siberia destroyed Russia’s largest ammunition base.

December 19 1984 
Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Ustinov, mastermind of the invasion plans for Western Europe, suddenly and mysteriously dies. Three days later December 22 Marshal Sodolov, the 2nd Minister of Defense died.

March 10, 1985  
Soviet Chairman Konstantin Chernenko dies

March 11, 1985  
Soviet Chairman Mikhail Gorbachev elected

April 26, 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident.     

A little known fact the word Chernobyl 
in Ukrainian is translated as Wormwood Rev. 8:10-11: The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water-- the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.


May 12, 1988   
Fatima Vigil An explosion wrecked the only factory that made the rocket motors for the Soviets’ deadly SS 24 long-range missiles, which carry ten nuclear bombs each.

August 29, 1989

Sr. Lucia affirms  once more because of the followers of Fr. Gruner in correspondence that the consecration “has been accomplished” and that “God will keep His word.”

November 9, 1989  
Fall of the Berlin Wall  the picture below is a portion of the Berlin Wall donated to the Fatima Sanctuary as part of a thanksgiving for Our Lady of Fatima's role (and many, many rosaries being prayed) in helping bring about the fall of Communism.

Nov-Dec 1989  

Peaceful revolutions in Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania

1990   East and West Germany are unified

August 19, 1991 -
74th Anniversary of Our Lady's fourth apparition at Fatima - Communist coup attempts overthrow of Gorbachev who contributed largely to dismantling of Soviet Empire.

August 22, 1991
Feast of the Queenship of Mary -The attempt of Communist coup to return to hard Communism is defeated.

October 12 - 13, 1991 -
First Russian Pilgrimage to Fatima: Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, Roman Catholic Archbishop from Moscow leads first Russian pilgrimage group to Fatima. It is televised in Russia on 150 stations and 350 radio stations. Fr. Robert Fox director of Fatima Family Apostolate is asked to be present in Fatima with the Russian group.

December 1991 -

Gorbachev meets the Pope in the Vatican a second time; diplomatic relations were opened between the Vatican and Russia and Latin-rite churches were opened.

December 8th, 1991
Feast of the Immaculate Conception. There begins the Commonwealth of Republics, the end of the USSR. Twelve days later Yeltsin of Russia met with the Pope at the Vatican.

December 25, 1991 

Dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.  The Communist flag is taken down for the last time over the Kremlin in Moscow. Gorbachev resigned and sent a letter to Pope John Paul II. Fifteen republics were freed from Communism.

December 30, 1991
Sister Lucia is reported saying that the defeat of Communism was through Marys intercession.

Russia was converted

from Communism to relative

Freedom of Religion.

Its conversion is ongoing and free. God respects the free will of men. They have freedom to convert or reject the faith. Our Lady never said that Russia would be converted to Catholicism. She said, simply, that it would be converted and a period of peace would be given to the world. If you examine the Historical Events that took place leading to the final dissolution of the Union of Soviet Union It would be impossible for you not to see that God’s hands were involved in the dismantling of the Soviet Union. Beginning on May 13, 1984 just two months after the pope made the consecration in Rome, an explosion took place at the naval base in Russia! God is speaking in providence!

See post: Yes Russia is Consecrated! 

Those who follow Fr. Gruner still argue that Russia was, not converted and the consecration was never made. These people are misleading many from the truth and into disobedience and possible loss of their Catholic faith to disobey legitimate church authority.  They also Argue that the popes were wrong in not revealing the 3rd secret in 1960.

October 11,1992  in an interview that  took place between Sr Lucia and Anthony Cardinal Padiyara of India, Bishop Francis Michaelappa of India, and Fr Francisco Pacheco of Fort Ceara, Brazil. Sr Lucia was asked by Cardinal Padiyara,

"Do God and Our Lady still want the Church to reveal the Third Secret?" Sr Lucia answered, "The Third Secret is not intended to be revealed. It was only intended for the Pope and immediate Church hierarchy. Our Lady never said that it was to be revealed to the public by 1960 at the latest. The Secret was for the Pope."

In Conclusion the Church has suspended Fr. Nicholas from his priestly faculties and is unable to offer Masses at Fatima. As far as I am aware this suspension has not been revoked. In following the Fátima message one must choose between Fr. Gruner’s example of disobedience to legitimate ecclesiastical authority, or Sr. Lucia’s heroic example of obedience to the Church during a difficult time in Church history.
  Sr. Lucia's response to the 1984 Collegial Consecration pdf.

Prayer to St Joseph for a Happy Death!

I would like to conclude what I only started out to do to  invoke St Joseph the model worker who God sent to Fatima during the Miracle of the Sun The church invokes  also you as the Terror of Demons, and her Protector. I also invoke you as the Patron of a Happy Death for all of us when we end the work God has given us in this life. 

O Blessed St Joseph, you were blessed to yield your last breath in the fond embrace of Jesus and Mary. When the seal of death shall close my career and end the work God has given me in this life to do. Please come holy father, with Jesus and Mary to assist me in that hour. Obtain for me this only solace which I ask for, to die like you encircled in their holy arms. Into your sacred hands living and dying, Jesus, Mary and Joseph I commend my soul. Amen

 

From Guadelupe to Fatima a Prophetic Mystery

The First in a Series of Modern Apparitions

 over the past  500 Years

Fatima is undoubtedly the most prophetic of all the modern apparitions over the past 500 years. If we understand the implications of this statement then it will lead us to meditate on each of our Lady's appearances in the light of the Fatima Message. 

Over time the church with the help of the Holy Spirit reflects on these appearances of Our Lady uncovering these hidden mysteries. She discovers God’s finger writing a story within the symbols contained in these Marian events. They are not coincidences! God has a purpose in everything he does. A message to proclaim in the timing of the appearances as well as within the historical context of these Marian events meditated on in the Light of Fatima.

  

Our Lady of Guadalupe 1531

The first apparition of Modern Times  

A mystery is hidden within each  approved Marian Apparition outside of their historical significance that can, need we say must, be learned through prayer and meditation. Throughout history there have been supernatural apparitions and signs which, to the surprise of believers and non-believers alike, play their part in the unfolding of human history.

   

Guadalupe is considered to be the greatest place of pilgrimage in the world after Rome.  As well as the first apparition which established a sanctuary of influence, national and worldwide.  It was estimated that in 2009 more than 6.1 million pilgrims visited the Basilica of Guadalupe on December 11-12  marking the 478th anniversary of the apparitions  of the Virgin to Juan Diego on the hill of Tepeyac.  
 

Guadelupe is one of the most significant  of the approved Marian apparitions in the Church rich with symbolisms. The symbolism's on the tilma. although primarily directed to Juan and the Aztec people of the time,  are speaking, or rather shouting, to us in our modern era. 

They echo without words or sound in modern time. A prophetic marker for our era.  The imprint of Mary on the tilma speaks to us prophetically in a  manner as the scriptures. Speaking in the language of the Holy Spirit. The drama around the Tilma also gives witness during the course of the apparition. The events between our Lady, Juan, the bishop and Juan’s uncle. Later in the witness Juan Diego gave with his life after Our Lady appeared. All of these give testimony!

Guadalupe linked to Fatima as

the book of Daniel is linked

with Revelation or Apocalypse. 

Daniel is considered by biblical scholars to be the apocalyptic book of the Hebrew bible, the first apocalypse.  A  Divine revelation concerning things to come. Preparing the way for its sister book Revelations. After Daniel received his visions he was instructed by the Angel with these words:

“But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, knowledge shall be increased. Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand Daniel,12:9-10

If Guadalupe is on the same historical plane with the Book of Daniel it  is also pointing to a future messianic event since Jesus already appeared it has to be the return of the bridegroom for its church the second coming of the Lord.  Fatima is alongside the book of Revelation and is preparing the church for the return of her bridegroom at the end of time. Recall how Our Lord told the   apostles in John Chapter 16:12-13

“I have many more things to say to you,
but you cannot bear them now
But when He, the Spirit of truth comes, 
He will guide you into all the truth;
for He will not speak on His own initiative,
whatever He hears, He will speak; and will 
disclose you to you what is to come." John 16:12-13

We know that in the interpretation of scriptures there is a historical significance that the writers were inspired to write for. Later, as the church reflects on these events in the unfolding of human history we see a foreshadowing of future messianic times in the writings of the ancient prophets. The mysteries are hidden in the timing of the event or in the actions and words that are spoke by the persons involved in the drama being recorded.        

This same principal may be

applied to supernatural events

in all Approved Apparitions

Contemporary men are in some sense blinded to reading these signs and symbols. Outside of our own neglect to pray and meditate, another reason for modern mans failure to penetrate these unspoken mysteries in Marian Apparitions could be that the interpretations may be sealed until the time appointed as in the book of Daniel.  Take Fatima for instance. As we examine the secret of Fatima it was revealed slowly by degrees over time and not completely disclosed until the year 2000. And the symbolisms contained within the recently revealed portions of the secret are also prophetic in nature pointing to a possible future calamity or apocalypse if men do not stop offending God. The Message of Fatima also predicted that if the requests at Fatima are not honored, many souls will be lost, "the Holy Father will have much to suffer", there will be further wars and persecutions of the Church and "various nations will be annihilated." The annihilation of nations predicted at Fatima has not yet occurred, but many fear that it will soon happen, given the growing immorality and corruption of the world.

21 week baby clasps doctors finger from the womb during operation. Photo ©Speramus-We Hope

Symbolisms linking

Guadalupe to Fatima and our era: Culture of Life vs. Culture 
of Death

Five centuries ago, cruel human sacrificing rituals were performed by the Aztecs on a scale never approached, even remotely, by any other peoples. Men, Women and Children, were offered to appease their serpent gods. No one will ever know how many were killed this way. Estimates start from 20,000 to 50,000 a year in several sources. The leading authority on the demography of Mexico at the time of the conquest, has revised the estimated number of persons sacrificed in central Mexico in the fifteenth century to 250,000 per year and an early Mexican historian Ixtlilxochitl estimated that one out of every five children in Mexico were sacrificed. Click for more details on the Aztec Sacrifices

These ritual killings peaked around 1487 during dedication of their new serpents temple in Mexico City. A single ceremony lasted four days and four nights, with the constant beating of giant drums made of snakeskin that could be heard for two miles. More than 80,000 men were sacrificed. No where else in human history had the ancient serpent, Satan so formalized his worship with so many of his symbols. When Our Lady appeared to Juan Deigo she called herself Guadalupe. The word Guadalupe similar to the Aztec Nahuatl word of coatlaxopeuh pronounced "quatlasupe" sounds like Guadalupe. The Nahuatal word of coatlaxopeuh is translated Coa = serpent, tla="the” and xopeuh= “to crush or stamp out. So Our Lady called herself the one "who crushes the serpent. The Aztecs understood this and hearing her name while viewing the Image she left behind they converted by the millions to the faith. Certainly, in this case our Lady crushed the serpent. So it is not surprising that for the Christian one cannot help but identify Our Lady of Guadalupe with the Woman of the Apocalypse. This interpretation was first recorded by Father Miguel Sanchez in 1648.

"A great sign appeared in the sky,
a woman clothed with the sun,
the moon at her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars." Revelation 12:1

The following description of the symbolism's contained within the Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe and how she spoke to the Aztecs without words is related by a Fr. Elizondo who writes: "Mary appears as a beautiful young Indian maiden with a look of love, compassion, and humility, her hands folded in prayer. Her pale red dress is that of an Aztec princess. Her blue mantle symbolized the royalty of the gods, and the blue color symbolized life and unity. The stars on the mantle signified the beginning of a new civilization. Mary stands in front of and hides the sun, but the rays of the sun still appear around her, signifying she is greater than the sun god, the greatest of the native divinities, but the rays of the sun still bring light. Twelve rays of the sun surround her face and head. She stands on the moon, supported by an angel with wings like an eagle: to the Aztec, this indicated her superiority to the moon god, the god of night, and her divine, regal nature. Most important are the two crosses and the black maternity band that were present in the image. Mary wore a black maternity band, signifying she was with child. At the center of the picture is found an Indian cross, the center of the cosmic order to the Indian. This symbol indicated that the baby Mary carried within her, Jesus Christ, the Word made Flesh, is the new center of the universe. On the brooch around her neck was a black Christian cross, indicating she is both a bearer and follower of Christ, the Son of God, and our Savior, who died on the Cross to save mankind.  Mary wore a black maternity band, signifying she was with child. At the center of the picture is found an Indian cross, the center of the cosmic order to the Indian. This symbol indicated that the baby Mary carried within her, Jesus Christ, the Word made Flesh, is the new center of the universe. On the brooch around her neck was a black Christian cross, indicating she is both a bearer and follower of Christ, the Son of God, and our Savior, who died on the Cross to save mankind.”

Providence of God in
The Unfolding of Time

    The Stars on Our Lady's Mantle

                                                                                                                                                             Scientists were also amazed to discover that the pattern of stars on the mantle of  the tilma reflected the exact position of the constellations on the day her image appeared on the tilma, December 12, 1531,10:40 am The Boreal Crown is located above the Virgin's head,Virgo is on her chest, in the region of her hands; Leo is on her womb; Gemini the twins are in the region of her knees and Orion is located on the Angel at her feet. Go to the following link for detailed explanations on the New discoveries on the Tilma and more diagrams on the constellations reflected on the Tilma. Heaven does nothing by chance! 

The Aztecs recognized this and It was a great sign for them who followed the passing of time with the stars. It is also a sign for our era giving another historical date for the apparition even the exact time! Could it also be a marker for a future time? Has this same lineup of stars occurred since? Will it take place again?

  
Other miracles present on Tilma
Discovered after Fatima

Miracles within A Miracle 
Linking Guadalupe for Our Generation

There were other miracles also present on the tilma  that would not be discovered for another 400 years!  In 1929 images reflected in the eyes of the Virgin were discovered for the first time. To think that this miracle within the eyes of the Virgin was present for all these centuries just waiting to be discovered and were not discovered until after the Fatima drama began. What am I saying here? That God is also speaking to us through his line of providence in the various Marian Apparitions.  God also knew that he was already known by God and in a sense reawakens Guadalupe and links it to the drama of Fatima. 

In more recent times with the appearance of modern photographic technology and advances in the science of opthomalolgy images reflected in the eyes of the Virgin were discovered in 1929 we have the first documented note of an apparent reflected image of a man's head in the right eye of the virgin by photographer Alfonso Marcue who was advised to keep silent by the bishop.

  

     The Mystery of Our Lady's Eyes

It has been said by pilgrims

 that it appears
that the eyes on the tilma are living!
Our Lady is actually seeing you

When you come before her image

She looks at you with a mothers love!

The photo shows the bearded man

Juan Diego on the right corner

discovered in 1929, 1956 and 1958.

The dark circle shows all the people present

discovered in 1979 under high magnification.

It wasn't until 1951 when another photographer Carlos Salinas examined the tilma and he observed the same reflection of a man’s head in the right eye of the Virgin. In 1956 and 1958, Dr. Torroela-Bueno and Dr. Rafael Torija-Lavoignet, both ophthalmologists examined the eyes of the Virgin on the tilma and published a study on the Purkinje-Sanson effect that is found in living human eyes. In 1979 another ophthalmologist Dr. Jose Aste Tonsmann used the latest sophisticated image processing techniques taking digitized photographs of both eyes he enlarged the image of the Virgin's eyes by 2500x magnification and said he saw not only the aforementioned single figure, but rather images of all the witnesses present when the tilma was shown to the Bishop in 1531.  Click on the following link for more Details on the Mysteries in Our Lady's eyes . Mary came in her glorified body at Guadalupe and her physical hands rearranged the roses in Juan Diego’s tilma, which makes this apparition so special like Miraculous medal apparition when St. Catherine Laboure put her hands on Mary’s lap who was sitting in a chair. An incredible list of miracles, cures and interventions are attributed to Our Lady of Guadalupe. It has been widely recognized for centuries that the preservation of the tilma is miraculous since it has maintained its integrity for nearly 500 years when similar garments normally last only about 15 years before suffering damage.

Guadalupe and Fatima reflect
Our Lady in Revelation 12:1-6  

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: And being with child, she cried travailing in birth, and was in pain to be delivered. And there was seen another sign in heaven: and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads, and ten horns: and on his head seven diadems: And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to be delivered; that, when she should be delivered, he might devour her son. And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with an iron rod: and her son was taken up to God, and to his throne. And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared by God, that there they should feed her a thousand two hundred sixty days. Revelaton:12:1-6

For the evil one and for his followers there is not much that they hate and fear more than the image of the Woman clothed with the sun the moon under her feet. This Image was shown to them before the whole creation was completed, and triggered their final rebellion and fall. This image of the one who will crush his head. But we also have a part to play in this drama, St Paul taught this when he exclaimed that we must fill up what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ. We must help our Lady with our prayers and sacrifices that she requested at Fatima. The outcome is up to us and what we choose to do with what we know. 

At Guadalupe Our Lady was hiding the sun only it's rays penetrated around her. At Fatima in the 3rd secret during the miracle of the sun she reflected a light brighter than the sun and this light from our Lady prevented the Angel of God's wrath from chastising the earth with the flames from his sword. 

There are prophetic meanings to be gleaned here. Heaven does nothing by accident. If Our Lady is prefigured in these appearances as the woman clothed with the sun in the book of Revelations she is also then the Queen of prophets. As our Lord came into the world for the first time through Mary. He will also come his second time through her. Mary the Queen of Prophets will prepare the world for his final coming at the end of time. Is this not what is happening today at Fatima and other approved Marian Sites?

What have we learned in 500 Years 

from Guadalupe to Fatima?

Granted in examining the apparitions of our Lady over the years there exists a certain correlation between Marian apparitions and specific historical situations of the times. For example Lourdes and the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. La Sallette and the approaching famine. Fatima and the World Wars.  Our Lady the spouse of the Holy Spirit is sent to convey a message from the finger of God to help us see the writing on the wall.  With sometimes a dire warnings in the book of Daniel Chapter 5: Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand in fear as it wrote: "This is the inscription that was written: Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin. "This is what these words mean: Mene: God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end. Tekel: You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting. Peres: Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians." Daniel 5:26-28 

Our Lady spouse of the Holy Spirit is the Hand of God conveying a message to the world powers  and the kingdoms of our era. "Some I will cure others I will not. They must amend their lives and ask forgiveness for their sins." Looking very sad, Our Lady said: "Do not offend the Lord our God any more, because He is already so much offended." Fatima October 13,1917

Do we think we will not see the justice of God if we continue on in our sins? If God allowed the Jewish nation to be scattered throughout the world and their temple destroyed because they did not recognize the time of their visitation.  Do we think we can continue to disregard the warnings from Heaven to ammend our lives and not have consequences to pay?  

In future posts we hope to detail the conditional prophecies at Fatima if the requests of Our Lady are not heeded. 

Our Lady said that Russia would "spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, and various nations will be annihilated.
 
There is not enough time to go into each apparition in order to glean the prophetic message from each one and apply them for these times. The Holy Spirit if invoked will unveil the hidden mysteries  and demonstrate their significance or connection to the Fatima Message and the Woman Clothed with the Sun in Revelation.
 
If the Apparition of Guadalupe resulted in the conversion of an entire Aztec native population from the worship of idols and human sacrifice to Christianity. Could we not hope for no less with the appearance of Our Lady at Fatima? We can and we should. She did say that in the end her Immaculate Heart will Triumph. If we follow the simple request God has asked of us from her we will see The Triumph of her Immaculate Heart and Victory over this culture of death? -Let us hope! 

Also Read: 

The Historical Story of Guadalupe translated from the Aztec Language Nahuatl

For another Historical Account of Guadalupe 

Shrine of Our Lady of Guadelupe in LaCrosse, WI 

  

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