Inside Story – I
Eleison Comments
After 1917 it was made clear to the world by Our Lady of Fatima that
the salvation of Church and world (“a period of peace”) depended upon
two things: not only upon the Consecration of Russia to her Immaculate
Heart by the Pope with all the bishops of the world, but also upon
Catholics making reparation to her Heart by receiving Confession and
Communion and by meditating for 15 minutes and praying a rosary on each
first Saturday of the month. Therefore let no Catholic think that there
is nothing they can do to help Church and world out of their present
appalling crisis. Every single Catholic responding to her second request
will help the Pope to respond to her first request.
But this
response has not yet been sufficient. For instance in the 1930’s, Pope
Pius XI was well aware of Our Lady’s first request, but he never
performed the Consecration of Russia. Why not? According to Brother
Michael of the Holy Trinity in the second of his excellent
three volumes on
The Whole Truth About Fatima, it was because
Pius XI was engaged at that time in diplomatic contacts with the Russian
authorities in Moscow, and he thought that his own diplomacy was a
better way of dealing with Communists than Our Lady’s Consecration. He
preferred the human to the divine way of dealing with the problem, and
so of course the problem remained unsolved. The world plunged into World
War II, and the Church was broken from within by Vatican II.
Now
in the 2010’s a parallel story has been coming to light of Our Lady
appealing through a messenger to Bishop Fellay for the Society of St
Pius X to organize a Rosary Crusade to pray for the Consecration of
Russia to take place. If this story is true (as I believe it is, and
some other priests also believe), it is worth telling in a few issues of
these
Comments, not to discredit Bishop Fellay (whose preference
for human means is as understandable as that of Pius XI –
God is
their judge), but in order to emphasize how urgent the Consecration of
Russia remains, and especially the devout practice of the five first
Saturdays, even nigh on 100 years later. But is the story true? In
particular, how reliable is the messenger?
I myself have met with
her several times, and I believe her story has every likelihood of being
true, firstly because she is a serious adult person who gives every
sign of telling the truth, but mainly because what she tells is an
inside story that corresponds to, and explains, a large number of public
facts and well-known events on the outside, so to speak. As to the
messenger, readers are entitled to distrust my personal judgment, but as
to the perfect correspondence between inside story and outside facts,
readers can judge for themselves.
The story begins on Good
Shepherd Sunday of 2004, when the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to the
messenger and gave her a message to be passed on to the Bishop of the
Society of St P
ius X.
In
it she asked for the SSPX to lead the faithful in a Rosary Crusade for
the Consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart, that same
Consecration that Heaven has been asking for since the 1920’s. The
understanding in the 2000’s was that if this were done as she asked, it
would at last obtain, through her, the graces to bring about the much
needed Consecration.
In June of 2006 the messenger gave the
message in person to Bishop Fellay. He discussed it with her, but did
not yet know that it was in fact a directive from the Mother of God. And
so on his way back to Switzerland he took a first important decision.
As Americans say, “Stay tuned”!
Kyrie eleison.
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