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Posted on 06/07/2002 9:06:53 PM PDT by Askel5
July 9, 1975
| Your Heaviest Cross How often I tell you: remain always in My Heart and fear nothing. Never become preoccupied, even concerning my Movement; all I want of you is prayer, suffering and a most complete surrender to me. At this time, I have not wanted to put you to the test. You are so little and so completely mine that your Mother cannot leave you alone, not even for a moment. I have wanted you to taste just a little drop of the great bitterness which overwhelms my heart because of so many of my poor priest-sons of whom Satan has now taken complete possession … My poor sons, what anguish they cause me ! Priests of my Son, they no longer believe in my Son and continually betray Him; priests called to be ministers of grace, they now live habitually in sin: their live is an uninterrupted succession of sacrileges. Priests sent to proclaim the Gospel of salvation, they have now become propagators of error. Priests chosen to save many souls, they lead so very many souls along the road of perdition. This is hour when the abomination of desolation is truly entering into the holy temple of God. They are no longer the salt of the earth, but a salt without savor, corrupted and nauseating, good only to be strewn on the ground and trampled under foot by everyone. They are no longer the light on the candlestick, but darkness which makes the night even more obscure. They are all poor ailing priest-sons of mind, because they have fallen under the dominion of Satan … My beloved son, how can my heart not be submerged in an infinite sea of sorrow? Priests of my Movement, you beloved sons of my sorrowful Heart, what must you do in order to save all these priests who care so ill and so much in need of my motherly help?
Help them, without ever judging them. Love them always. Do not condemn them; this is not your role. Love them by your suffering, by your witnessing, by your good example. |
On the 8th of May, 1972, Father Stefano Gobbi, a priest from Milan, Italy, was taking part in a pilgrimage to Fatima. While praying in the Chapel of the Apparitions for some priests who, besides having given up their own vocations, were attempting to form an association in rebellion against the authority of the Roman Catholic Church, an interior force urged Fr. Gobbi to have confidence in the Immaculate Heart of Mary.What Fr. Gobbi had just experienced was an interior locution. It is not an apparition or other communication perceived by the human senses, but a spiritual phenomenon present in the life of the Church and described in manuals of Catholic theology. The messages (interior locutions) are the gift by which God wishes to make something known to humanity, in Fr. Gobbi’s particular case by means of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Starting in July 1973, Fr. Gobbi began to write down these interior locutions he was receiving. The messages now number over 600 and are published in the book entitled, "To the Priests, Our Lady’s Beloved Sons."
By means of these messages, Mary began to make use of Fr. Gobbi as a humble instrument to gather all priests who would accept her invitation to consecrate themselves to her Immaculate Heart, to be strongly united to the Pope and to the Church in union with him, and to bring the faithful into the secure refuge of her motherly heart. Thus a powerful cohort would be formed and spread throughout every part of the world, created not with human means of propaganda, but with the supernatural power that emanates from silence, prayer, suffering and constant faithfulness to one’s duties.
In 1972, Fr. Gobbi asked Our Lady interiorly for a sign of confirmation, and she gave it to him promptly at the Shrine of the Annunciation in Nazareth. In October of the same year, a timid attempt was made to initiate the Marian Movement of Priests; three priests gathered for prayer and fraternal sharing in the parish of Gera Lario (Como, Italy). By March 1973, the number of priests inscribed was about forty. In September of the same year the first national gathering took place, with twenty-five priests taking part out of the eighty already enrolled.
The M.M.P. has succeeded in expanding in a powerful and extraordinary way. In practically all the countries of Europe, America, Asia, Africa and Oceania, National Headquarters have been established and entrusted with the task of gathering the membership and assisting in the formation of prayer cenacles.
Beginning in 1974, the first cenacles of prayer among priests and faithful took place. These gradually spread and by the end of 1996, Fr. Gobbi had many times visited the five continents. The membership of the M.M.P. now numbers at least 400 cardinals and bishops, more than 100,000 priests, and millions of religious and faithful around the world.
Ran into a few ConSpiratio fellows at Mass. Looks like First Fridays will be a good chance for some to gather and have a week's time to prepare for Second Saturdays at the Rectory. The meeting rooms out back should be done by July for sure.
I do not believe the real Virgin Mary would give a message supporting another apparition of herself which has not been approved by the church.
Think about it. Anyone familiar with apparition and theological terminology could sit down and pen words such as these with no help from above . . . or below for that matter.
People need to be careful what they get involved with.
As a stand-alone, however, I still like what is said here.
I was not previously aware of this term. Thanks; very useful.
Please keep me posted about ConSpiratio developments.
I have heard of the Marian Movement before ... (have you?)
Is this it?
This is beautiful. I pray that it comes true.
Only recently have I begun to grapple seriously with Mary. It was gratifying to discover a feast to Nuestra Señora de Soledad, celebrated every Decem. 18 in Oaxaca. One year I'll have to go. The devotion is to Mary at the moment of her Son's death, pierced through her heart by the tempting thought that her Son was a failure, and that God's angel-sent promises were cruel frauds. She who in her very body had served as "the holy temple of God" knows better than any of us what it is to "live simply in surrender and trust," even while confronting the abomination of desolation.
"the abomination of desolation" It is a potent and sobering phrase. It speaks as a periphrasis for Hell -- the ontological nullity of those who, having preferred radical individualism above unity, have achieved the ultimate alienation. For what can it even mean, to "exist" in a no-place where even omnipresent God is absent? But it also speaks particularly to the rational despair of Good Friday, the day when the dying Christ recited a psalm that begins as a lament for alienation, the day when Mary herself perhaps invented the rosary -- reciting to herself over and over Gabriel's greeting at the Annunciation and struggling to reconcile this evangelium with the harrowing spectacle of God suffering and dying before her eyes. Mary by right encourages her priests, her alii Christi, to bear up in the face of sorrow and faith-shaking scandal, having herself endured all of it and more.
It deserves further investigation. Maybe in August.
Thanks for bringing up the Rosary. I was just talking to a dear friend about Mary and the Rosary last night, as a matter of fact. I think -- given the fact that she was "chosen" for the greatest suffering any human's ever experienced on the planet save that of her Son -- her being born with original sin seems almost a necessary. She was only human.
I like yours on the repetition. I've always thought of it as a joyful and hopeful chorus that's repeating as you contemplate either the mystery or whomever or whatever it is your praying for on that decade.
You do mean "without original sin", right?
Ended up talking with one of the ConSpiratio guys after the service last month. I was interested to hear his thoughts on why in the world they would keep reading from Fr. Gobi who he described as a "pious fraud".
I've been meaning to read up on this. Strange you'd ping me out of the blue.
I will never believe in Medjugorje. It has all but driven me out of the church. I am convinced it is a fraud and possibly satanic, even though some of the messages resonate with faithful catholics.
From what I have read about Father Zovko, I wouldn't go near him if he were the last priest on earth. He creeps me out.
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