Inside Story – II 
When the idea of a Rosary Crusade for the Consecration of Russia
was first put to Bishop Fellay in June of 2006, he did not yet know
that the idea was in fact a directive from Our Lady – the messenger had
been too shy to tell him. So he did not knowingly go against Heaven’s
will when on returning to Switzerland after his meeting with the
messenger, he decided to take up the idea of a Crusade, but to apply it
primarily to the liberation of the Tridentine Mass, leaving Russia’s
Consecration among the secondary intentions. So, as Our Lady told her
messenger, while she would bless the first Crusade as a sign that the
messages were really from her, it would not be to confirm that the
liberation of the Mass was what she really wanted. The true answer to
the crisis of Church and world lay in Russia’s Consecration, as would
soon be made very clear to the Bishop.
So, given the backing of
Our Lady, the first Crusade was an
unexpected success, both in the number of rosaries prayed by the people,
and in Pope Benedict XVI’s fulfilment of Bishop Fellay’s long-standing
wish by the declaration in his Motu Proprio of July 2007, that the Tridentine Mass had never been abrogated.
However,
already in August of 2006, Our Lady had directed her messenger to send
to Bishop Fellay a letter in which he was this time fully informed of
all the details of her original request, including that it came from
Heaven. To this letter the Bishop had responded positively, saying that
he would use the boost from the first Crusade to launch the second, and
that it would be best if he himself took the matter in hand. But one
year later, soon after the Motu Proprio until the end of 2007,
Our Lady directed the messenger to write to him, again and again, to
remind him of her wish for a second Crusade that would be properly
dedicated to the Consecration of Russia.
Still Bishop Fellay
hesitated to
commit himself, so in early 2008 Our Lady came back even more
insistently with the same request for the Crusade to be dedicated to the
Consecration. The problem was that Bishop Fellay had long been working
on his own plan to solve the Church crisis by a reconciliation between
the Society of St Pius X and Rome, and Our Lady’s request did not fit in
with that plan. Therefore the more progress he seemed to be making with
the Romans towards reconciliation, the more difficult it was becoming
for him to keep his promise of doing what she asked, because he knew
that what she asked would upset the Romans. Indeed . . .
It was
at about this time that the messenger, being unaware of why the Bishop
was continuing to stall over Our Lady’s request, asked her if the reason
was that the Bishop was not sure that the request was indeed coming
from Our Lady. “No,” came the simple answer, as Our Lady lowered her
head and shook it gently from side to
side,
“that is not why.” Our Lady did not say what the real reason was, she
only said that it was not because the Bishop did not believe that it was
herself making the request.
We approach the climax of the drama.
Drama it was. In early 2008 the Blessed Virgin’s message concerning the
Consecration of Russia was becoming urgent, as she knew that the Bishop
was seriously thinking of making use of the second Crusade for his own
purposes. This time he wanted to use it to achieve the second of the
pre-conditions for discussions with Rome – the lifting of the so-called
excommunications of the four SSPX bishops in 1988.
Kyrie eleison.
(*Famous line from a poem by the Scot, Robbie Burns (1759–1796), meaning “go often wrong.”) |
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