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…BECAUSE <\/strong>we have not listened. We have not heeded a consistent warning from Heaven that the world is creating a future without God.<\/p>\n To my surprise, I sensed the Lord ask me to set aside writing on the Divine Will this morning because it is necessary to rebuke the cynicism, hard-heartedness and unwarranted skepticism of believers<\/em>. People have no idea what awaits this world that is like a house of cards on fire; many are simply\u00a0Sleeping as the House Burns<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>The Lord sees into the hearts of my readers better than I. This is His apostolate; He knows what must be said. And so, the words of John the Baptist from today’s Gospel are my own:<\/p>\n …[he]\u00a0rejoices greatly at the Bridegroom\u2019s voice.\u00a0So this joy of mine has been made complete.\u00a0He must increase; I must decrease. (John 3:30)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n IGNORING HEAVEN<\/p>\n I want to speak to my brothers and sisters in the Church who hold the following position: “I do not have to believe in private revelation because it is not necessary for salvation.” This is only partially true. In the words of Pope Benedict XIV:<\/p>\n One may refuse assent to “private revelation” without direct injury to Catholic Faith, as long as he does so, \u201cmodestly, not without reason, and without contempt.\u201d <\/strong>\u2014POPE BENEDICT XIV, Heroic Virtue<\/em>, Vol. III, p. 397; Private Revelation: Discerning with the Church<\/em>, page 38<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n That is to say, that if we have “reason” to believe that God himself is speaking to us, we actually have an obligation to assent to it, particularly when it involves directives according to His Divine Will:<\/p>\n He to whom that private revelation is proposed and announced, ought to believe and obey the command or message of God, if it be proposed to him on sufficient evidence\u2026 For God speaks to him, at least by means of another, and therefore requires him to believe; hence it is, that he is bound to believe God, Who requires him to do so.<\/strong> \u2014BENEDICT XIV, Heroic Virtue<\/em>, Vol III, p. 394 Thus, this commonly stated notion that one can simply dismiss “private revelation” out of hand is inaccurate. Moreover, it is a false notion that God has ceased speaking to the Church since the death of the last Apostle. Rather, what has ceased is the “Public Revelation” of Christ pertaining to all that is necessary for salvation. That’s all. It doesn’t mean that the Lord has nothing more to say about how that salvation unfolds, how the fruits of Redemption are applied, or how they will triumph in the Church and the world.<\/p>\n \u2026even if Revelation is already complete, it has not been made completely explicit; it remains for Christian faith gradually to grasp its full significance over the course of the centuries. <\/b><\/span>\u2014Catechism of the Catholic Church<\/i>, n. 66<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Jesus taught this himself!<\/p>\n I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. (John 16:12)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n How can we say, then, that this “more” that God has yet to say is not important? How can we simply ignore him as He speaks through His prophets? Doesn’t this sound absurd? It’s not only absurd, it’s dangerous<\/em>. Humanity rests on a precipice precisely because we have lost the child-like capacity to hear His voice and obey. The cries of Our Lord in Gethsemane were not because He was afraid to suffer; it was because He saw clearly into the future that, despite His Passion, many souls would reject Him\u2014and be lost forever.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A CUP OF TEA WITH MOTHER?<\/p>\n Why is God sending His mother to earth to speak to us if it is not important? Has she come to have a cup of tea with her children or assure little old ladies with rosary beads how nice their devotion is? I have heard this kind of condescension for years.<\/p>\n No, Our Lady has been sent by the Holy Trinity to tell the world that God exists, and that without Him, there is no future. As Our Mother, she comes to prepare us for not only the catastrophes we are blindly walking into and which we have created by our own hands, but the triumphs that await us if we but surrender ourselves into her<\/em> hands.\u00a0I will give two examples of why disregarding such “private revelation” is not only foolish, but reckless.<\/p>\n You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace. The war [World War I] is going to end: but if people do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out during the Pontificate 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 of the Church and of 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 of the Church. The good will be martyred; the Holy Father will have much to suffer; various nations will be annihilated.<\/strong><\/em> \u2014from the “Third Memoir” of Sr. Lucia, August 31st, 1941, for the Bishop of Leiria-Fatima in a message from Our Lady in 1917; “The Message of Fatima”, <\/span>vatican.va<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Despite the “miracle of the sun<\/a>” to confirm Our Lady’s words, the Church took thirteen years to approve the apparitions, and then several more decades after that before the “consecration of Russia” was made (and even then, some dispute whether it was done properly<\/a> since Russia was not explicitly mentioned in John Paul II’s “Act of Entrustment.”[1]<\/sup><\/a>cf.\u00a0“The Message of Fatima<\/a>“<\/span><\/span>\n
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You have heard of Fatima, but listen more carefully again to what Our Lady said:<\/p>\n\n