IL 100ESIMO ANNIVERSARIO DELL'APPARIZIONE DI FATIMA. Per l'occasione, condivido due articoli che ho trovato online. 13 MAY 2017- 100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY THE APPARITION OF FATIMA. I'm sharing two articles, about this topic, which I found online. The article in English is at the bottom. Articolo inglese in fondo.
Durante una visione del 1820, fu rivelato alla beata Anna Caterina Emmerick
che Satana sarebbe stato liberato dalla catene circa ottanta anni
prima dell’anno 2000. Tale periodo di libertà per l’Angelo decaduto
sarebbe durato un secolo.
Questo viene confermato da un messaggio della Madonna di Medjugorje dato ai veggenti il 24 aprile 1982 il messaggio dice :
Cari Figli dovete sapere
che satana esiste . Egli si è presentato davanti al trono di Dio e ha
chiesto il permesso di tentare la Chiesa per un certo periodo con
l’intenzione di distruggerla. Dio ha permesso a satana di mettere la
chiesa alla prova per un secolo , ma ha aggiunto :” non la
distruggerai”. Questo secolo in cui vivete è sotto il potere di satana (
1900) , ma quando saranno realizzati i Segreti che vi sono stati
affidati -il suo potere verrà infranto. Già ora comincia a perdere il
suo potere perciò e diventato più aggressivo distrugge i matrimoni,
solleva discordie anche tra le anime consacrate, causa ossessioni,
provoca omicidi. Proteggetevi dunque con la Preghiera e col Digiuno,
soprattutto con la Preghiera Comunitaria, portate addosso oggetti
Benedetti e poneteli anche nelle vostre case. E riprendete l’uso dell’
acqua benedetta . Quando potrebbero concludersi i cento che satana ha
disposizione per distruggere la Chiesa.
Una ulteriore conferma arriva da una visione avuta da Papa Leone Xlll così descritta :
La mattina del 13 ottobre
1884, al termine della Santa Messa, papa Leone XIII rimase immobile
davanti al Tabernacolo per circa 10 minuti. Quando si “riprese”, il suo
volto era preoccupato e angosciato. Raccontò ai suoi collaboratori che
aveva assistito ad un “colloquio” tra Nostro Signore e Satana.
Quest’ultimo dichiarava con orgoglio che avrebbe potuto facilmente
distruggere la Chiesa, se avesse avuto maggiore potere su coloro che si
mettono al suo servizio, e più libertà per circa 100 anni. Il Signore
rispose a Satana che gli avrebbe concesso sia più libertà che i cento
anni necessari.
Leone XIII rimase così sconvolto da
questo “colloquio” che scrisse la famosa preghiera a San Michele
Arcangelo per la protezione della Chiesa e volle che fosse recitata, in
ginocchio, dopo ogni Santa Messa. Purtroppo, però, con la riforma
liturgica post-conciliare, questo dono che Cristo ci fece tramite il suo
Vicario, fu messo nel cassetto. La preghiera non è stata più recitata e
la stragrande maggioranza dei fedeli nati dagli anni ’70 in poi del
secolo scorso non ne conoscono neppure l’esistenza.
La Emmerick parla di
circa 80 anni prima dell’anno 2000, dunque verso la fine degli anni ’10 e
gli inizi degli anni ’20 del XX secolo. Leone XIII vide quell’insolito
“dialogo” un 13 ottobre. Pensandoci bene. Satana Potrebbe essere
stato liberato dalle catene il 13 ottobre del 1917, giorno dell’ultima
apparizione mariana a Fatima, quando ci fu il “miracolo del sole”, e la
Madonna promise che «il mio Cuore Immacolato trionferà».
Oltre a queste coincidenze di date, la conferma arriva da altri due elementi.
Benedetto XVI
durante il suo viaggio apostolico a Fatima (11-14 maggio 2010) ricordò
l’importanza del centenario delle apparizioni.
Teresa Neumann
(1898-1962), la “stigmatizzata bavarese”, la quale ebbe dal Cielo anche
il dono delle profezie. In una delle ultime profezie prima della morte
disse che il maggior periodo di dominio sul mondo da parte di Satana –
potere che avrebbe usato per scagliare un attacco, secondo lui, mortale
alla Chiesa, in particolare al papato – sarebbe durato circa 18 anni,
dal 1999 al 2017. Concludendo i cento anni dovrebbero terminare con il
centenario delle apparizioni di Fatima cioè il (2017 ) con molta
probabilità nel frattempo inizieranno a essere svelati i 10 segreti di
medjugorje, il trionfo del cuore immacolato di Maria promesso a Fatima è
paragonabile al tempo di pace e giustizia promesso a Medjugorje.
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Source/Fonte: http://retenews24.it/13-ottobre-2017-100-anni-dalla-liberazione-di-satana/
Will you join me in special prayer this year, the 100th anniversary of the Fatima apparitions?
Msgr. Charles Pope
I have written elsewhere
about why I think that 2017 will be a critical year. I believe it will
be a year of hidden blessings or one of something so shocking that it
will usher in a blessing that will only be understood later. It has been
100 years since the apparitions at Fatima and 500 since the Protestant
revolt. The 1517 revolt ushered in a shocking, wrenching pruning of the
Church. So did the apparitions in 1917, when Our Lady warned of great
suffering if we did not pray and repent. God seems to permit (not cause) such things either as penance or as purification.
The last 100 years have seen horrifying warfare, death tolls
in the hundreds of millions driven by ideological conflict, abortion on
demand, the destruction of marriage and the family, sexual confusion and
misbehavior, and the rise of the culture of death (the demand for the
right to die and the right to kill). Indeed, Christendom in the West is
in the midst of a great collapse: tepid and compromised faith, a tiny
minority who attend Mass, and the growth of militant secularism. Who
among us can deny that the Church, especially in the affluent West, has
been under attack. We have preferred to sleep through most of it and
make one compromise after another. Who among us can deny that we need
another “counter-reformation”?
Two significant prophecies warned us of these events if we did not repent. For indeed, Scripture says, Surely the Sovereign LORD does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets (Amos 3:7). And while many apparitions occurred (some approved, some not), two in particular stand out:
First,
it is said that in 1884 Pope Leo XIII had an experience during which he
heard God say that he would permit a period of 100 years that would
test the Church in Job-like fashion. This alarmed Pope Leo enough that he penned the well-known Prayer to St. Michael
the Archangel and asked that it be prayed at the end of Mass throughout
the universal Church. Some dispute the accuracy of this and call it
mere legend, but it is hard to deny that the attack/test occurred. But
when and what is the hundred-year period? That leads to…
Second, in 1917, Our Lady appeared in the region of Fatima, Portugal to three young children: Jacinta, Francesco, and Lucia.
Mary indicated that the horrific First World War was soon to end, a war
that featured the use of chemical weapons so devastating that an
international agreement was developed banning their use. However, she
warned that an even more terrible war would ensue if people did not
repent and pray. Our Lady went on to say that in the aftermath of the
war, Russia would spread the errors of atheism and materialism, leading
to grievous suffering for the Church and many of the faithful. She also
prophesied that there would be a final warning of light in the sky just
prior to the onslaught of this new war.
In order to provide veracity to her message, Our Lady promised a
miracle at her final apparition. On Oct. 13, 1917, the “Miracle of the
Sun” took place, and as many as 70,000 people witnessed the sun dancing
about in the sky and moving toward the earth.
In January 1938, a display of the aurora borealis vividly lit the
skies far south of its normal reach; newspapers throughout the world
reported the event. Later that same year, Germany entered
Czechoslovakia, and in 1939, Poland was invaded; the Second World War
was under way, a consequence of our failure to repent.
More than 60 million people were killed in World War II. At the end
of the war, Russia dropped the Iron Curtain and atheistic communism held
sway in the Eastern Bloc. Churches were closed, clergy and religious
were killed, and great suffering came to all who would not acquiesce.
The prophesies of 1917 proved to be sadly and vividly true.
Another prophecy of the Fatima apparitions was kept secret until the
year 2000; it spoke of the murder of a pope as he walked past martyrs up
a hill toward a cross in a ruined city. In 1981, St. John Paul II,
nearly killed by an assassin, attributed his survival to the prayers of
many who did hear the call of Our Lady to pray. Cardinal Ratzinger, in his commentary on the “third secret” of Fatima, called it the Via Crucis
(Way of the Cross) of an entire century. Indeed it was: ruined cities,
martyrs, and the long shadow of a cross over those years for the Church
and the world.
A final aspect of the Fatima apparition came to light in 1981 when Sister Lucia wrote to Msgr. (now Cardinal) Carlo Caffara at the Vatican
to thank him and to assure him of prayers for the founding of the John
Paul II Institute on Marriage and the Family. In the letter she also
related something she heard from Our Lady: a final battle will signal
the end of the period in which we now struggle. Sister Lucia recounted
Our Lady’s words as follows:
The final battle between the Lord and the reign of Satan
will be about marriage and the family. Don’t be afraid, … 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 head.
I think the period of 100 years of trial seen by Pope Leo is coming to its culmination.
My premise is that, though it was foreseen by Leo in 1884, it actually
began in 1917 with the warning of Our Lady. Her message was clear: pray
and be converted or else suffer grievously the consequences of human
sinfulness. It is clear that we have suffered grievously for our
failures.
Attempting to follow Our Lady’s direction in 1917 at Fatima, three
popes (Pius XII, John Paul II, and Francis) have consecrated Russia to
the Immaculate Heart of Mary. But arguments go back and forth about
whether any of these was “valid” (e.g., Was the wording just right?).
But no technicality can eclipse our failure to repent and pray; I
believe that repentance and prayer are the true heart of Our Lady’s
message.
And so here we are at the culmination of the battle. Though it
is disheartening, the battle in the Church over the sanctity of holy
matrimony has reached the highest levels, just as our Lady said.
Cardinal is pitted against cardinal, bishop against bishop. In the wider
culture, marriage has been redefined; biblical and natural law
teachings have been set aside. At this point I don’t think that our
culture has a definition of marriage at all; it’s whatever anyone wants
to say it is. This is no minor error; it is a civilization killer.
Something tells me that this year of 2017 is going to be critical and
that we had better pray — a lot more than we have in the past.
Repentance is also crucial. Being sleepy in the battle cannot be an
option. We are at a turning point. Perhaps the hundred years of trial
are ending; they might end well or they might come to a dreadful
conclusion. That is why we must pray.
Cardinal Ratzinger, in the same Vatican document referenced above reflecting on Fatima, said:
The purpose of the vision is not to show a film of an
irrevocably fixed future. Its meaning is exactly the opposite: it is
meant to mobilize the forces of change in the right direction.
Therefore, we must totally discount fatalistic explanations. … Rather,
the vision speaks of dangers and how we might be saved from them.
Will you join me in praying with special fervency this year?
In my own parish, we will be observing the First Saturday devotions that
were requested by Mary at Fatima. This will be a communal way to engage
the call to prayer. It involves attending Holy Mass, praying the
Rosary, and going to confession (that day or within one week) on the
first Saturday of five consecutive months. Others also add the wearing
of the scapular and/or making a consecration to the Immaculate Heart of
Mary.
Such a communal observance ought not to eclipse personal prayer and
conversion; it is merely to augment it. Are there devotional practices
you can undertake, such as the daily Rosary, the Angelus, or the Chaplet
of Divine Mercy? Are there sins you need to make special effort to
avoid? Are there lawful pleasures you can set aside?
What will you do? This is a critical moment; I am convinced of it. Will you join me in special prayer this year, the 100th anniversary of the Fatima apparitions?
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Source/Fonte: https://catholicismpure.wordpress.com/2017/01/23/st-michael-and-our-lady-of-fatima-why-2017-is-such-a-critical-moment/
