THE END DAYS
Messages by The Blessed Virgin Mary
Given to Fr. Don Stefano Gobbi:
The Beast Like a
Lamb
Anniversary of the Second Apparition of Fatima, Dongo, June 13,
1989
- "Beloved sons, today you are calling to mind my second apparition, which
took place in the humble Cova da Iria in Fatima, on June 13, 1917. Even as of
then I foretold to you that which you are living through in these times. I
announced to you the great struggle between me, the Woman Clothed with the
Sun, and the huge Red Dragon, which has brought humanity to live without God.
- I also foretold to you the subtle and dark work, carried out by
Freemasonry with the purpose of separating you from the observance of the law
of God and thus making you victims of sins and of vices.
- Above all, as a Mother, I have wanted to warn you of the grave dangers
which threaten the Church today, because of the many and diabolical attacks
which are being carried out against Her to destroy Her.
- To attain this end, there comes out of the earth, by way of aid to the
black beast which arises out of the sea, a beast which
has two horns like those of a lamb.
- The lamb, in holy scripture, has always been a symbol of sacrifice. On the
night of the exodus, the lamb is sacrificed and, with its blood, the doorposts
of the houses of the Hebrews are sprinkled, in order to remove them from the
punishment which on the contrary strikes all the Egyptians. The Hebrew Pasch
recalls this fact each year, through the immolation of a lamb, which is
sacrificed and consumed. On Calvary, Jesus Christ sacrifices Himself for the
redemption of humanity; He himself becomes our Pasch and becomes the true Lamb
of God who takes away all the sins of the world.
- The beast has on its head two horns like those of a
lamb. To the symbol of the sacrifice there is intimately connected
that of the priesthood: the two horns. The high priest of the Old Testament
wore a headpiece with two horns. The bishops of the Church wear the mitre --
with two horns -- to indicate the fullness of their priesthood.
- The black beast like a leopard indicates Freemasonry; the beast with the
two horns like a lamb indicates Freemasonry infiltrated
into the interior of the Church, that is to say, ecclesiastical Masonry, which has spread especially
among the members of the hierarchy. This Masonic infiltration, in the interior
of the Church, was already foretold to you by me at
Fatima, when I announced to you that Satan would enter in even to the summit
of the Church. If the task of Masonry is to lead souls to
perdition, bringing them to the worship of false divinities, the task of
ecclesiastical Masonry on the other hand is
that of destroying Christ and his Church,
building a new idol, namely a false christ and a false church.
- Jesus Christ is the Son of the living God, He is the Word Incarnate, He is
true God and true Man because He unites in his divine Person human nature and
divine nature. Jesus, in the Gospel, has given his most complete definition of
Himself, saying that He is the Truth, the Way and the Life.
- Jesus is the Truth, because He reveals
the Father to us, speaks his definitive word to us, and brings all divine
revelation to its perfect fulfillment.
- Jesus is the Life, because He gives us
divine life itself, with the grace merited by Him through redemption, and He
institute the sacraments as efficacious means which communicate grace.
- Jesus is the Way which leads to the
Father, by means of the Gospel which He has given us, as the way to follow to
attain salvation.
- Jesus is the Truth because it is He -- the living Word -- who is the font
and seal of all divine revelation. And so ecclesiastical Masonry works to obscure his divine
word, by means of natural and rational interpretations and, in the attempt to
make it more understandable and acceptable, empties it of all its supernatural
content. Thus errors are spread in every part of the Catholic Church itself.
Because of the spread of these these errors, many are moving away today from
the true faith, bringing to fulfillment the prophecy which was given to you by
me at Fatima: 'The times will come when many will lose
the true faith.' The loss of the faith is apostasy. Ecclesiastical
Masonry works, in a subtle and diabolical way, to lead all into apostasy.
- Jesus is the Life because He gives grace. The aim of ecclesiastical Masonry is that of justifying sin, of
presenting it no longer as an evil but as something good and of value. Thus
one is advised to do this as a way of satisfying the exigencies of one's own
nature, destroying the root from which repentance could be born, and is told
that it is no longer necessary to confess it. The pernicious fruit of this
accursed cancer, which has spread throughout the whole Church, is the
disappearance everywhere of individual confession. Souls are led to live in
sin, rejecting the gift of life which Jesus has offered us.
- Jesus is the Way which leads to the Father, by means of the
Gospel. Ecclesiastical Masonry favors those
forms of exegesis which give it a rationalistic and natural interpretation, by
means of the application of the various literary genres, in such a way that it
becomes torn to pieces in all its parts. In the end, one arrives at denying
the historical reality of miracles and of the resurrection and places in doubt
the very divinity of Jesus and his salvific mission.
- After having destroyed the historical Christ, the beast with the two horns
like a lamb seeks to destroy the mystical Christ which is the Church. The
Church instituted by Christ is one, and one alone: it is the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church, founded
on Peter. As is Jesus, so too is the Church founded by Him which forms his
mystical body, truth, life and way.
- The Church is truth, because Jesus has
entrusted to it alone the task of guarding, in its integrity, all the deposit
of faith. He has entrusted it to the hierarchical Church, that is to say, to
the Pope and to the bishops united with him. Ecclesiastical Masonry seeks to destroy this reality
through false ecumenism, which leads to the
acceptance of all christian Churches, asserting that each one of them has some
part of the truth. It develops the plan of founding a universal ecumenical
Church, formed by the fusion of all the christian confessions, among which,
the Catholic Church.
- The Church is life because it gives
grace and it alone possesses the efficacious means of grace, which are the
seven sacraments. Especially it is life because to it alone is given the power
to beget the Eucharist, by means of the hierarchical and ministerial
priesthood. In the Eucharist, Jesus Christ is truly present with his glorified
Body and his divinity. And so ecclesiastical
Masonry, in many and subtle ways, seeks to attack the ecclesial
devotion towards the sacrament of the Eucharist. It gives value only to the
meal aspect, tends to minimize its sacrificial value, seeks to deny the real
and personal presence of Jesus in the consecrated Host. In this way there are
gradually suppressed all the external signs which are indicative of faith in
the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, such as genuflections, hours of
public adoration and the holy custom of surrounding the tabernacle with lights
and flowers.
- The Church is way because it leads to
the Father, through the Son, in the Holy Spirit, along the way of perfect
unity. As the Father and the Son are one, so too must you be one among
yourselves. Jesus has willed that his Church be a sign and an instrument of
the unity of the whole human race. The Church succeeds in being united because
it has been founded on the cornerstone of its unity: Peter, and the Pope who
succeeds to the charism of Peter. And so ecclesiastical
Masonry seeks to destroy the foundation of the unity of the Church,
through a subtle and insidious attack on the Pope. It weaves plots of
dissension and of contestation against the Pope; it supports and rewards those
who vilify and disobey him; it disseminates the criticisms and the contentions
of bishops and theologians. In this way the very foundation of its unity is
demolished and thus the Church becomes more and more torn and divided.
- Beloved children, I have urged you to consecrate yourselves to my
Immaculate Heart and to enter into this, my motherly refuge, above all in
order to be preserved and defended against this terrible snare. In this way,
through the act of consecration of my Movement, I have urged you to renounce
every aspiration of building up a career. Thus you will be able to remove
yourselves from the strongest and most dangerous snare, made use of by Masonry
in order to associate in its secret sects so many of my beloved children. I
bring you to a great love for Jesus-Truth, making you courageous witnesses of
the faith; to Jesus- Life, leading you to great holiness; to Jesus-Way, asking
you to be in life the Gospel alone, lived out and proclaimed to the letter.
- Then I lead you to the greatest love for the Church.
- I bring you to love the Church-truth,
making of you strong proclaimers of all the truths of the Catholic faith, as
you set yourself in opposition, with strength and courage, to all errors.
- I make of you ministers of the
Church-life, helping you to be faithful and holy priests. Be always
available for the needs of souls, lend yourselves, with generous abnegation,
to the ministry of reconciliation and be burning flames of love and of zeal
for Jesus present in the Eucharist. In your churches may you once again hold
frequent hours of public adoration and reparation to the most holy Sacrament
of the altar.
- I transform you into witnesses of the
Church-way, and I make of you precious instruments of its unity.
For this reason, I have given you, as a second pledge of my Movement, a
special unity with the Pope. By means of your love and of your fidelity, the
divine plan of perfect unity in the Church will once again shine forth in all
its splendor.
- Thus to the dark force which ecclesiastical
Masonry is today exercising to destroy
Christ and his Church, I am opposing the powerful splendor of my
priestly and faithful army, so that Christ may be loved, listened to and
followed by all, and that his Church may be more and more loved, defended and
sanctified.
- In this there shines forth above all the victory of the Woman Clothed with
the Sun and my Immaculate Heart attains its most luminous triumph."
"Who is like unto God?"
Created July 16, 1996. Tenth update 9:25 AM 2/10/98.