True love receives all things that come from the Beloved--prosperity, adversity, even chastisement--with the same evenness of soul, since they are his will. And they afford her joy and delight because, as St. John says: Perfect charity casts out all fear [1 Jn. 4:18]. ---- St. John of the Cross

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In the apparition of July 13, Our Lady warned the three seers that if people did not stop offending God, He would punish the world "by means of war, hunger and persecution of the Church and of the Holy Father," using Russia as His chosen instrument of chastisement. She told the children that "to prevent this, I shall come to ask for the Consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart" and promised that, by this single public act, Russia would be converted and peace would be given to the world.

The Mother of God cautioned that if Her requests were not granted, "Russia will spread its errors throughout the world, raising up 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."

Fatima, Portugal 1917

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Is World War III Next?

by Fr. Paul Kramer July 2006

Time is running out rapidly for our world. The catastrophe is near at the door. I have been closely following the events in the Middle East, and I am now convinced that we, at the present point in time, are in the immediate prelude to the World War (unanimously foretold in Catholic prophecy). Jihad possibly as soon as next year and Russian invasion of the West possibly by 2008.

Russia is Behind the War in the Middle East

First of all, Hezbollah is not acting on its own but is directed by Syria and Iran, especially Iran. The leaders of Hezbollah are Persian speakers who take their orders from Iran (and ultimately from Soviet born Ayatollah Kamemei). The war at present waged against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas is a proxy war fought on behalf of Syria and Iran (and ultimately on behalf of Soviet Russia). Both countries have been longtime Soviet satellites. The hardline military leaders of Hamas are based in Syria, where military directives and orders originate for Hamas operations in Gaza and elsewhere in Palestine against Israel. Iran created Hezbollah in the 1980s.

Israel has been suckered into its present war with Lebanon because the Soviets wish to provoke a regional war in the Middle East and to unify and mobilize Arab rage against Israel, USA and the West. The Soviets have been preparing for this since the 1960s.

The Israelis are unwittingly doing exactly what the Russians want them to do in order to mobilize the Arabs against the West. The wholesale slaughter and destruction taking place at present in Lebanon is guaranteed to galvanize and focus Arab rage against the USA (and its allies), whose government wholeheartedly supports the brutal bellicose policies of Israel.

Targeting Europe and North America

Islamic terrorists and Soviet Special Forces are already well established throughout Europe and North America. In England, 13% of the local Islamic population are already radical Islamists, and that percentage will soon grow because of the present crisis in the Middle East which will inevitably also spread to Syria and Iran even if the present crisis should be temporarily defused. There is a large Islamic population in France and Germany and a sizable Islamic population in England, Italy and other European nations as well.

A regional war between American supported Israel and less conspicuously Soviet backed Islamic regimes will mobilize a Soviet encouraged Arab and Islamic rage (in general rage against the West). This will eventually lead to the great Jihad which has been planned against the West and it will bring great destruction to North America and Europe. The present hostilities in Lebanon are already heightening tensions between the USA and the (former) USSR who have been contending for control of the center of the geopolitical chessboard: the Middle East and Central Asia.

There is also a great but less visible struggle going on for dominance and hegemony over Europe: Russia through its proxy and secret ally Germany on the one hand and Britain (supported by the USA) on the other trying to prevent Soviet-German hegemony over Europe. If Germany were to be allowed to gain hegemony over Europe, then the Soviets will turn the EU into the ‘New European Soviet’ that the Russians have been trying to make of it since its inception. To allow Germany to turn the EU into ‘Greater Germany’, which is what they have planned all along, would be tantamount to surrendering all of Europe to the Soviets without a fight.

The New Cold War

The tensions in The Middle East and in Europe both have the same polarity as the Cold War; Russia and the Western Powers. Not only did I call one of my articles ‘The New Cold War’ but I have seen that expression used a couple of years ago by The Wall Street Journal and even in recent weeks in an article appearing in Pravda. The events taking place now are not a chance occurrence, but have been meticulously planned out long in advance. The plans are now being put into action by both sides, each contending for its own version of the New World Order. Only the Consecration of Russia can stop it (at Fatima Our Lady said, “only She can help you”), otherwise the end result will be a worldwide Russian ruled Union of Soviet Socialist Republics which will implode in its own time after a few years when Russia will be invaded by China…and then the Chinese will attempt to establish their own godless Communist world empire (if God would allow it).

The New Axis, led by Russia and China with their many Islamic and other anti-American allies, are more powerful than the combined western forces of the USA, Britain, France and Israel. Only the image of Communism has been destroyed in Russia, which remains staunchly allied to its traditional Communist and other anti-western partners. The image of Communism was the Stalinist image of textbook Marxism conjured up for consumption by the masses. Christian G. Rakovsky, a founding member of the Bolshevist Revolution described that image of Communism as “elementary Marxism, the demagogic, popular one.” Now that this image has been destroyed in Russia, the deceived western nations believe that Communism is dead.

Communism Is Still Ruling in Russia and China

It was, however, not Communism that collapsed in the Soviet Union, but it was Socialism that underwent a strategically planned demolition in a restructured (perestroika = restructuring) Soviet Union. Now, since the carefully planned metamorphosis of the Soviet Union has brought about the mutation of Communism from the Dictatorship of the Proletariat into what Gorbachev called the (Leninist) State of the Whole People, the real Communism described by Rakovsky in his January 25-26,1938 interview is exactly what has emerged in contemporary Russia today.

In order to understand how it is that Russia is not only still Communist, but is more firmly and staunchly Communist than ever, it is necessary to consider exactly and essentially what Communism is: What is the essence of Communism. Rakovsky explains, “Marxism, before being a philosophical, economic and political system, is a conspiracy for the Revolution.” In accord with this fundamental principle, it does not matter what degree of political and economic freedom is permitted in a liberalized Marxist State, because “words and facts in Marxism are subject to the strict rules of the higher science: the rules of conspiracy and revolution. The State as such is only power. AND MONEY IS EXCLUSIVELY POWER.” Thus it logically follows, as Rakovsky explains, that “Moscow is subjective Communism, but [objective] Capitalism. New York: Capitalism subjective, but Communism objective.” What he means by “New York” is: “The Financial International, the Capitalist-Communist one [i.e. Communist International…”] When one thus understands the true nature of Communism, it becomes easy to understand that in spite of all the cosmetic changes in the Soviet Union with all the bourgeois corruption and liberalism, Russia remains Communist.

The same is happening to a lesser degree in economically “liberalized” China which remains dominated by and firmly in the grip of iron Communist Party rule.

The Goal: Exterminating Christians

Soviet Russia will inflict such suffering on all humanity such as the world has never seen. For the Communist world revolution to succeed, the extermination of all Christians is a necessary pre-condition. The Catholic Church is still very much persecuted in Russia and China. “Communism,” Rakovsky explains, “cannot be the victor if it will not have suppressed the still-living Christianity…”

Only Obedience to our Lady of Fatima Can Save Us Now

The ultimate Soviet objective remains unchanged since Lenin declared: “It matters not that three fourths of the world be destroyed provided that the remaining fourth is Communist.” Khrushchev foretold, “We will bury you…Your grandchildren will be Communist.” Our Lady of Fatima warns us that God will allow them to accomplish that objective if Her requests are not fulfilled in time. The Great Tribulation foretold by Our Lord in the Gospel is at hand.