We are members of the Holy Eucharistic Apostolate, and they send us a newsletter every month, and in this most recent issue, it states:
[The following statement was made] by Cardinal Wojtyla.. at the Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia in 1976. Here is what it said:
“We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has ever experienced. I do not think the wide circle of the American society, or the wide circle of the Christian community, realize this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-church, between the Gospel and the anti-gospel, between Christ and the antichrist. The confrontation lies within the plans of Divine Providence. It is therefore in God’s plan, and it must be a trial which the Church must take up, and face courageously.”
Confirmation of this statement came from another source decades later. According to the web log “Rorate Caeli,” Sr. Lucia, the Fatima visionary, also spoke of a final confrontation between the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of Satan. In an interview on February 16, 2008, three years after the death of Sr. Lucia, Carlo Cardinal Caffarra, the archbishop of Bologna, told the monthly magazine “Voice of Padre Pio” that he had written a letter to Sr. Lucia “through her bishop as I couldn’t do so directly.”
He said that he didn’t expect an answer since he had only asked for her prayers, but then was surprised to receive a long letter with her signature. Among other things the Fatima visionary said:
“The final battle between the Lord and the reign of Satan will be about marriage and the family. Don’t be afraid because anyone who works for the sanctity of marriage and the family will always be fought and opposed in every way because this is the decisive issue. However, Our Lady has already crushed its [Satan’s] head.”
During her appearances at Fatima in 1917, the Virgin Mary said that praying the rosary was the key to peace in the world......
-from Volume XXIX Number 3
“The Whole Truth about Fatima” by Brother Michel de la Sainte Trinité
VOLUME I SCIENCE AND THE FACTS
http://www.catholicvoice.co.uk/fatima1/
VOLUME II THE SECRET AND THE CHURCH
(1917-1942)
http://www.catholicvoice.co.uk/fatima2/
VOLUME III THE THIRD SECRET
(1942-1960)
http://www.catholicvoice.co.uk/fatima3/
Akita apparitions and Sister Sasagawa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBna_X9YuGY
That's worked well.
As a former RCC,
I say that the rosary is truly ....
a sad, sick, weak, worn-out diversion.
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