The John-Henry Westen Show - Here is What the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart will Look Like

00:00:00.000 So, the triumph of the Immaculate Heart seems to be the spread of the devotion to the Immaculate Heart

00:00:06.140 as a result of a spectacular conversion of Rasha, which can be explained in no other way,

00:00:12.140 and this devotion attaining a place comparable to that of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

00:00:20.120 I'm sure you've all heard about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary,

00:00:25.100 would you ever wondered what is that exactly in the end my immaculate heart will triumph

00:00:34.200 is what she said our lady of fatima said that to the children of fatima on july 13 1917 and those

00:00:41.220 words came at the end of the so-called second secret right before the third secret which

00:00:49.920 many of us know has never been properly revealed. The triumph of the Immaculate Heart is a concept

00:00:58.820 which actually fills many Catholics with hope, and rightly so, but hope for what?

00:01:05.360 What do these words actually mean? So in this show, I'm going to take a look at what we know

00:01:13.280 about this triumph, what we can hope for from it, and what we can do to help bring it about.

00:01:20.480 What most people don't actually know is that Our Lady showed us what the triumph of the Immaculate

00:01:26.460 Heart would look like. She gave us examples. Let's begin, as you always do, with the sign of the

00:01:32.140 cross. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. On July 13, 1917,

00:01:40.620 Our Lady of Fatima had already appeared twice to the three children of Fatima, Lucy, Yesinta,

00:01:47.780 and Francisco. The apparitions had already become known to some of the townspeople who had taken up

00:01:54.520 the practice of going to the Cova d'Iria, the place where they happened, to say the rosary at

00:02:02.100 the foot of the little home oak where Our Lady appeared. Because it was known that Our Lady was

00:02:08.740 appearing on the 13th of those months, a crowd had already gathered there in expectation. There's

00:02:15.040 probably around 4,000 people, we're told. Some of which were skeptics, by the way. Weren't all

00:02:22.080 believers, but they came out to see. The children went there with their families, and at the end of

00:02:28.980 the rosary, Lucy cried out, shut up your umbrellas, which they had been using to shield themselves

00:02:36.440 from the burning Portuguese sun.

00:02:39.540 Our Lady is coming, she said.

00:02:42.640 As usual, only the children could see anything.

00:02:47.440 Lucy asked Our Lady what she wanted of them,

00:02:49.820 and I quote,

00:02:51.260 I want you to come here on the 13th of next month, she said,

00:02:57.120 and to continue praying the rosary every day

00:03:00.400 in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary

00:03:02.500 in order to obtain peace for the world.

00:03:05.540 and the end of the war because only she can help you. Well, Lucy asked the apparition to tell them

00:03:13.320 who she was and to work a miracle so that everybody would believe in what they were saying.

00:03:19.460 She replied, continue to come here every month. In October, I will tell you who I am and what I

00:03:28.380 want, and I will perform a miracle for all to see and believe. Lucy then presented some requests,

00:03:36.140 and Our Lady said that it was necessary to pray the rosary to obtain them. And then she said this, 0.50

00:03:44.200 Sacrifice yourselves for sinners, and say many times, especially when you make some sacrifice,

00:03:51.560 O Jesus, it is for love of Thee, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for the sins

00:03:59.520 committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary. And it was then that she revealed the three great

00:04:06.520 secrets of Fatima. The first was a vision of hell. Here's how Lucy described it herself. 0.76

00:04:13.620 As Our Lady spoke these last words, she opened her hands once more, as she had done during the

00:04:20.580 two previous months. The rays of light seemed to penetrate the earth, and we saw, as it were,

00:04:28.400 a great sea of fire. Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like transparent

00:04:36.200 burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, floating about in the conflagration.

00:04:43.540 Now raised into the air by the flames that issued from within themselves, together with great clouds of smoke, now falling back on every side like sparks in a huge fire, without weight or equilibrium, amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and made us tremble with fear.

00:05:07.460 It must have been this sight which caused me to cry out as people say, they heard me.

00:05:14.300 The demons could be distinguished by their terrifying and repellent likeness to frightful

00:05:19.360 and unknown animals, black and transparent like burning coals.

00:05:25.060 Sister Lucy later wrote that this vision lasted only a moment, and that if it were any longer,

00:05:32.060 and if not for her promise that they would be taken to heaven, then she thinks they would have

00:05:39.100 died of fright. This was the first secret. Our Lady then revealed the second. I'm going to read

00:05:48.240 it to you in full because we can't actually discuss the triumph of the Immaculate Heart

00:05:52.560 without the full context. And here it is. You have seen hell, Our Lady said,

00:06:00.880 where the poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to

00:06:06.580 my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace.

00:06:15.140 The war is going to end, but if people do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out

00:06:21.940 during the reign of Pius XI. When you see a night illumined by an unknown light,

00:06:28.580 know that this is the great sign given you by God that He is about to punish the world

00:06:34.900 for its crimes by means of war, famine, and persecutions against the Church and the Holy

00:06:41.660 Father. To prevent this, I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart

00:06:48.820 and the communion of reparation on the first Saturdays. If my requests are heeded, Russia 0.74

00:06:56.500 will be converted and there will be peace. If not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, 0.99

00:07:02.620 causing wars and persecutions against the church. The good will be martyred. The Holy Father will

00:07:09.160 have much to suffer. Various nations will be annihilated. And then, as a part of that second

00:07:17.700 secret, she said this. In the end, my immaculate heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate

00:07:26.920 Russia to me, and she will be converted, and a certain period of peace will be granted to the

00:07:33.140 world. She then revealed the third secret immediately following the second. Look, media's 0.77

00:07:40.300 everywhere, and it's very hard today because you want to go and participate in it, but every time

00:07:45.120 you want to take your family to a movie, you're like, I can't do that because it's weird. And

00:07:48.500 it's going to hurt their faith. Well, there's a film opening on October the 4th, runs through the

00:07:52.880 8th that you're definitely going to take part of because it's awesome. It promotes Eucharistic

00:07:58.720 adoration. It's a docudrama. So there's part of it that's a movie movie. And so take your kids,

00:08:04.820 take your family, take your neighbors who you want to encourage in Eucharistic adoration to

00:08:09.160 Adore Him. The film Adore Him opens October 4th through 8th everywhere. Go to adorehimfilm.com

00:08:17.700 for more information. Do it right now and enjoy the movies once again. And at the same time,

00:08:23.920 you're going to evangelize for Christ's true presence in the Blessed Sacrament.

00:08:27.720 From Times Square, God bless you. All that Sister Lucy wrote of it is as follows, and I quote,

00:08:35.580 in Portugal the dogma of the faith will always be preserved etc do not tell this to anybody

00:08:45.840 Francisco yes you may tell him so that etc indicates a text that was not revealed publicly

00:08:56.760 Lucy wrote this third secret down in 1943 for the bishop and it was sent to Rome to be opened

00:09:05.560 and released to the world at Lucy's death, or in 1960, whichever came first in her words.

00:09:16.360 In 1955, Cardinal Otiavani asked Sister Lucy why she had specified that date, and she replied,

00:09:26.160 because it will appear clearer. This secret has become the subject of a lot of speculation and

00:09:33.380 controversy, especially when a text was revealed by the Vatican in 2000, which many people believed

00:09:40.720 was either incomplete or fabricated. There's much that could be said about this third secret,

00:09:47.180 and LifeSite News has covered it previously quite extensively. But today, we're looking primarily at

00:09:53.940 the second secret and trying to pin down exactly what triumph of the Immaculate Heart really is.

00:10:00.360 if we look at what Our Lady said, it seems like we already have our answer. Let's hear it again.

00:10:08.040 In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me,

00:10:14.500 and she will be converted, and a certain period of peace will be granted to the world. 0.54

00:10:20.120 It seems to be made up of three components. One, the consecration of Russia by the Pope.

00:10:26.820 two, the conversion of Russia, and three, a certain period of peace granted to the world.

00:10:34.780 And it's a clear statement that all this will happen. Our Lady doesn't say that her Immaculate

00:10:41.580 Heart might triumph or that it will triumph if something happens. She says it will triumph.

00:10:49.480 In her memoirs, Sister Lucy explained it all a bit more. During the visions she received as a nun

00:10:57.240 in Tui, she asked our Lord why he would not convert Russia without the Pope making the

00:11:03.620 consecration. And he said to her this, because I want my whole church to recognize that consecration

00:11:10.740 as a triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, to extend its cult later on, and place devotion to

00:11:18.980 this Immaculate Heart beside the devotion to my divine heart. The Immaculate Heart of Mary will

00:11:26.300 save Russia. It has been confided to her. So the triumph of the Immaculate Heart seems to be the

00:11:34.840 spread of the devotion to the Immaculate Heart as a result of a spectacular conversion of Russia,

00:11:40.780 which can be explained in no other way, and this devotion attaining a place comparable

00:11:47.960 to that of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Frère Michel de la Saint-Trinité, the foremost expert

00:11:54.520 on Fatima, wrote these words. What will be the triumph which has been foretold? The universal

00:12:01.140 expansion of devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. As for this devotion, it is summarized

00:12:07.740 completely in two words, consecration and reparation. Now, that might seem like something

00:12:14.940 of an anti-climax. Isn't it supposed to involve a great renaissance of the Church? Well, of course.

00:12:22.660 Our Lady speaks of a period of peace as a result of this conversion of Russia and the spread of

00:12:29.480 this devotion. But it is a period of peace. The same thing as the world, many nations becoming

00:12:35.880 Catholic? Or what is it exactly? Well, there are a few important things that we draw out of this,

00:12:43.400 and which can give us further clarity on what has been promised.

00:12:47.820 First of all, God sent the Blessed Virgin Mary to reveal all this to three children

00:12:53.460 and worked a stupendous miracle, the miracle of the Son, in order to confirm its truth.

00:13:01.860 Now, God, of course, doesn't do this kind of thing for an anti-climax.

00:13:07.460 Next, look at what Our Lady said.

00:13:09.760 A certain period of peace will be granted to the world.

00:13:13.400 Now, some people might say that the triumph of the Immaculate Heart comes after the end of the world.

00:13:19.780 But eternity is not a certain period.

00:13:23.660 That shows us this promise is actually for the world.

00:13:27.360 And it will happen before the end of the world. 0.93

00:13:31.360 Because of that, it may be the principal means by which Catholics will be prepared for the persecution of Antichrist.

00:13:39.980 because a lot of people just say, okay, well, if it comes now, we're dead in the water because

00:13:44.980 there's just no way for us to do anything with the state of the church and of the world right now.

00:13:51.660 And as I just said, if God sends the Blessed Virgin to prophesy a period of peace for this

00:13:57.920 world, and as a result of a miraculous national conversion of Russia, and confirms both with a

00:14:05.860 huge miracle, then we can bet that this conversion will have an amazing effect on the whole wide

00:14:14.380 world. It will have an amazing effect on Russia, of course, a country that has been lost to 0.87

00:14:20.940 communism and the schism of the Eastern Orthodox sect for centuries. It will suddenly become

00:14:28.020 Catholic. All the good religious instincts of the Russians, which have been written about

00:14:34.680 for many, many years, will find their fulfillment in the Catholic Church and the true religion of

00:14:42.200 our Lord Jesus Christ. And all the secular aberrations of modern Russia, which in spite 0.64

00:14:48.560 of what is good there, are still mirrored in divorce, abortion, and so on, will be purified.

00:14:56.340 Russia's population is over 140 million. Whether the conversion of Russia means that all its

00:15:02.400 citizens become super pious and holy Catholics, or something less than that, it's got to be

00:15:07.520 something super significant. It's going to be millions and millions of souls put on the path

00:15:13.560 of salvation that currently are not there. That is a massive good. But what does a national

00:15:21.800 conversion look like? What does it mean? That's the clue to another massively important good

00:15:29.240 that was promised at Fatima. The conversion of a nation does not mean that its citizenry becomes

00:15:36.440 all Catholic and that its government stays secular or even Eastern Orthodox. That

00:15:44.560 second possibility would just be a move from atheism to schism, which would not really be

00:15:52.500 a conversion, that at least Our Lady would count as such. Nope, the conversion of Russia means it 0.82

00:16:00.160 inevitably will become Catholic, and it will do so sort of immediately, because that's what our 0.95

00:16:08.020 Lord said. He wants to make it known that this will be a conversion attributed to the consecration.

00:16:15.660 So it will be the establishment of the social kinship of Christ in Russia and of Russia as a

00:16:24.340 Catholic state. The Catholic Church teaches that states and civil powers have just as much a duty

00:16:32.300 to recognize our Lord Jesus Christ as God and King as individuals do. That's what Pope Pius

00:16:39.980 the 11th encyclical Quas Primus was all about. And it's what the Feast of Christ the King

00:16:46.860 is all about as well. Until, of course, it had its meaning changed after the Second Vatican Council.

00:16:54.540 But throughout history, nations have converted because their kings and rulers have converted

00:17:01.140 and submitted themselves to the Church. This has always been the way. A growing number of Catholics 0.74

00:17:07.600 in a nation will have an effect, but it's not until the authorities become Catholic that a

00:17:13.780 nation really converts. And so a Catholic Russia, under the social kingship of Christ, will have

00:17:21.120 a Catholic government. The social kingship of Christ means that their laws must be in conformity

00:17:29.020 with the gospel, and there must be a communal social worship of Christ in the holy sacrifice

00:17:35.380 of the Mass, or to put it in terms that would no doubt be used when that happy day arrives,

00:17:42.180 the Divine Liturgy. We can use that term because the rites of the Eastern Orthodox sects

00:17:48.160 are Catholic rites and are still used in the Catholic Church, and it will surely be those

00:17:55.580 rites that are used by Catholic Russia. And those rites are beautiful and glorious, and by the way,

00:18:03.700 just as fitting for the worship of god as the traditional latin mass the history of russia

00:18:10.100 will also mean that there will be public and national repentance for the crimes carried out

00:18:17.980 by the communists the repression of the church the mass murder the enslavement of so many in 0.93

00:18:24.660 gulags and the terrible atheistic and immoral influence the ussr exercised over the whole world 0.94

00:18:32.780 And public repentance requires reparation, not just in terms of prayers, but in terms of repairing 1.00

00:18:40.440 the damage done to those other nations. Russia is a major world power, allied with other

00:18:47.120 significant powers. The conversion of Russia will require using these alliances for the common good

00:18:54.340 of the world. Would the secular and godless countries of the West,

00:19:00.000 which are already opposed to Russia now suddenly accept Catholic Russia purifying an influence on 0.77

00:19:07.140 them? Well, that seems unlikely. But even if there are initial conflicts, we know from Our Lady that

00:19:16.920 a certain period of peace will be granted to the world. And given everything else I just mentioned,

00:19:23.420 it does seem that this period of peace will result in the flourishing of the Catholic Church

00:19:30.880 herself. How could it be otherwise? If powerful nations become her sons and advocates, Portugal,

00:19:39.080 Spain, and Austria have already shown us what it will be like. Heaven has given us proof that

00:19:47.680 Russia's conversion involves everything I just said. In the immediate aftermath of the Fatima 0.98

00:19:54.240 apparitions, the world was given a foretaste of what would happen to Russia and the world

00:20:00.040 under the influence of devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. So let's start with Portugal itself.

00:20:06.300 Sister Lucy explained that the extraordinary blessings given to Portugal in the 20th century

00:20:13.000 were intended as a partial demonstration of what the full triumph would be like when heaven's

00:20:18.840 requests were fulfilled. Cardinal Serra Jera, patriarch of Lisbon, who was initially a skeptic,

00:20:25.660 said, and I quote, what has taken place in Portugal proclaims the miracle, and it foreshadows

00:20:32.120 what the Immaculate Heart of Mary has prepared for the world. In 1953, he also said, and I quote

00:20:40.160 again, Fatima has become the altar of the world. Fatima is rising as the miraculous anti-Russia. 0.62

00:20:47.400 What did he mean by the miraculous anti-Russia? Well, he meant that Portugal, under the influence 0.83

00:20:54.060 of Fatima, was the opposite of Russia, under the influence of communism. But to see how miraculous

00:21:02.340 it all was, we have to see how bad things were in the first place in Portugal.

00:21:10.160 and where the truth is there is god the world is basically going the way of the church and

00:21:19.220 vice versa everyone who's being named a bishop is being named because he's a nice guy does he

00:21:26.480 have the catholic faith well that's not really important he's nice i started studying the early

00:21:31.100 church and i realized wow the church was all centered around the eucharist god has sent again

00:21:38.560 the Blessed Virgin Mary, to ask us through an imploring and loving voice to convert while there

00:21:45.220 is still time. St. Peter the Apostle on the first Pentecost Sunday to tell these pious Jews who came

00:21:51.540 to Jerusalem in pilgrimage that they need to come into the church and be baptized. And the faithful

00:21:57.040 were crying out, blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord. Peace in heaven and glory in

00:22:02.620 the highest. So the Pharisees complained, tell him to shut up. And Jesus said in reply, I tell you, 0.98

00:22:08.660 if they keep silent, the stones will cry out. In other words, the truth will never be silenced.

00:22:15.020 My friends, we're inviting you to Fatima, Portugal, the greatest place of prophecy since

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00:22:30.400 in the footsteps of the shepherd children in the land that Our Lady graced over a hundred years

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00:22:53.440 Before the Fatima apparitions, Portugal had endured 150 years of Masonic domination.

00:23:00.400 And I mean that literally.

00:23:03.040 Portugal actually had openly Masonic governments and civil leaders who were fanatically anti-Catholic.

00:23:09.880 It's quite well known that the mayor of Urem, Artur de Oliveira Santos, who arrested and threatened to boil the three shepherd children in oil, was himself a Freemason and rabid anti-clerical.

00:23:25.380 He actually founded a Masonic lodge in his native town shortly before being appointed mayor.

00:23:32.800 In 1759, the Jesuits were expelled from Portugal, and that was when the Jesuits were one of the

00:23:39.540 most powerful forces for good in the world. An order of Father James Martin's, they were certainly

00:23:46.820 not. Missionary orders were expelled from Portuguese colonies and territories. At certain

00:23:52.680 periods, the church was actively persecuted and banned from public life. Following the 1910

00:23:59.720 revolution, persecution became really ferocious, and a host of immoral laws were promulgated.

00:24:07.600 Religious teaching in schools was suppressed, cassocks banned in public, church bells banned

00:24:13.820 from being rung, public celebration of religious feasts suppressed, government involvement in

00:24:19.820 seminaries, even to the point of naming professors and determining the curriculum, the revolutionary

00:24:25.480 government also legalized divorce, cremation, and all sorts of other things. The great historian of

00:24:33.080 Fatima, Frère Michel de la Saint-Trinité, said of this epic, and I quote,

00:24:39.220 finally the victory of Freemasonry was complete. And he quoted the grand architect of these laws,

00:24:47.480 Alfonso Costa, saying, and I quote, in two generations, Catholicism will be completely

00:24:54.660 eliminated in Portugal, end quote. So, humanly speaking, the whole thing was hopeless. Cardinal

00:25:03.320 Sarajera actually described the state of Catholic Portugal at this time as, and I quote,

00:25:09.980 old stripped down trunk, which had suffered the acts of persecution. But heaven turned things

00:25:18.520 around. And when things are humanly hopeless, that's when heaven tends to act. And in the same

00:25:26.060 breath, the cardinal said how this trunk, which of course he described as old and useless and

00:25:33.420 hollowed out and cut down, this trunk grew green once more and was covered with branches, flowers,

00:25:39.680 and fruits and shelters its children anew. So what was it that actually happened to make this

00:25:47.440 miracle turnaround? Well, after initial resistance, the Portuguese hierarchy with the encouragement

00:25:54.220 of Rome came to embrace the messages of Fatima. The various public acts that took place were met

00:26:00.780 with more and more blessings and culminated on May 13th, 1931. And on this day, the Portuguese

00:26:08.880 bishops all consecrated the nation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, inspired by Sister

00:26:14.460 Lucy herself. Frère Michel explains that the extraordinary graces that followed corresponded

00:26:21.740 to the fact that the bishops and the hierarchy engaged themselves in the devotion. Do you remember

00:26:27.920 what Heaven said to Sister Lucy about Russia? The Pope and all the bishops were to consecrate

00:26:33.900 Russia to the Immaculate Heart. What we have with the 1931 consecration of Portugal is an act which

00:26:41.860 parallels the structure of the main request and brought about a parallel result. Frere Michel

00:26:48.740 talks about a triple miracle, a miracle of conversion, of political, social renewal,

00:26:54.980 and of peace. Let me give you some statistics that illustrate the miracle of conversion.

00:27:01.300 In the Diocese of Porto Alegre, seminarians went from 18 in 1917 to 120 in 1929 to 201 in 1933.

00:27:16.940 The bishop of that diocese had been skeptical, but in 1929, Pope Pius XI himself told him to thank Our Lady of Fatima for these results.

00:27:28.360 In Braga, there were 478 seminarians by 1933, and in Laeria, the seminary went from being

00:27:37.980 closed to numbering 75 by 1933.

00:27:43.240 As I already said, religious were expelled in 1910, and up until 1926, there were only

00:27:49.760 370 in the whole country. But by 1941, there were over 300 Jesuits again and 1,321 professor

00:28:00.920 religious. That's quadrupling in 10 years. Among the laity, the pious union of crusaders of Fatima

00:28:09.160 quickly garnered 500,000 members in 1934. This lay movement was strongly devoted to the sacred

00:28:18.280 heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and was fiercely anti-communist. Frankly, so much

00:28:26.180 good happened in this area that it's impossible to recount it all here. I can only give you a little

00:28:32.000 taste. Then there was the political and social renewal of the country. After decades of languishing

00:28:39.360 under Masonic rule, Portugal gained Dr. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar as its leader. Salazar was

00:28:48.060 a daily Mass goer, former seminarian, and dedicated Catholic. The night before he accepted power,

00:28:55.840 he kept a vigil before the Blessed Sacrament in the tabernacle. The foundations of the state

00:29:01.400 under his rule were God, country, authority, family, work. His laws were in keeping with the

00:29:09.320 gospel. The Concordat of 1940 suppressed divorce and gave the church full liberty in all necessary

00:29:16.580 matters of education, marriage, and so on. Pope Pius XII later said of Salazar,

00:29:23.980 I bless him with all my heart, and my most ardent wish is that he can carry to its completion

00:29:30.080 his work of national restoration, both material and spiritual, end quote. In short, what we see

00:29:37.640 here is the establishment of the social kingship of Christ. And that's the crucial part, because

00:29:43.920 today some people see it as utopian, idealistic, or a pipe dream. And yet it happened in Portugal,

00:29:51.140 a European country, not long ago and after 150 years of Masonic horror. If that doesn't give 0.87

00:30:00.480 you hope for America and the rest of the West, I don't know what will. So finally, there was the

00:30:06.940 miracle of peace. And this is really remarkable. In February 1939, Sister Lucy wrote to her bishop

00:30:14.380 informing him that Portugal would be spared because of the consecration of 1931. Remember,

00:30:21.040 Adolf Hitler had a detailed plan for invading Portugal, which had been drawn up under the title

00:30:27.820 of Operation Felix. You can go look it up. Everything was ready. Eight divisions, 2,000

00:30:35.480 aircraft, a Panzer Division, but Spain's General Franco refused to cooperate, and the plan was

00:30:43.300 abandoned. Pius XII later told the Portuguese that the war has raged around your borders,

00:30:48.880 but has not crossed them, and why? Thanks especially to Our Lady. Sister Lucy said that

00:30:55.140 this protection was not only thanks to the consecration, but a proof of what would have

00:31:01.160 been granted to other nations if they had done the same. She later wrote to Pius XII saying exactly

00:31:08.880 that. Listen to this, and I quote, our Lord promises a special protection to our country in

00:31:16.000 this war due to the consecration of the nation by the Portuguese prelates to the Immaculate Heart

00:31:22.160 of Mary as proof of the graces that would have been granted to other nations had they also

00:31:28.380 consecrated themselves to her, end quote. But while they did not receive the same protection

00:31:34.360 as Portugal, other countries which did have recourse to Our Lady at this time did receive

00:31:40.120 other remarkable graces. Austria, for instance. After the Second World War, an eastern zone

00:31:47.600 was occupied by Soviet forces and the USSR had no incentive to withdraw. There were oil wells,

00:31:56.060 there was a foothold into Central Europe. And yet in 1955, after somewhere between 700,000 and a

00:32:03.700 million Austrians, that's 10 to 12 percent of the population, signed a pledge to say the rosary

00:32:09.560 every day in response to Our Lady of Fatima's request, Moscow unexpectedly agreed to a complete

00:32:16.980 withdrawal. Eastern Austria avoided the fate of East Germany. Teresa Nauman, the stigmatist,

00:32:23.720 was clear about it. She said, it was definitely the prayers and numerous rosaries of the Austrian

00:32:29.800 people which acquired their liberty from all Russian domination. That took place in the Germanic

00:32:38.400 Central European country of Austria, showing it wasn't just about Portugal or Iberia. The Australian

00:32:46.280 people did what Our Lady requested, the rosary devotion to the Immaculate Heart, and it produced

00:32:52.360 the concrete geopolitical result of the withdrawal of the Red Army.

00:32:58.120 If the Daily Rosary by 10% of the Austrians could possibly drive out the Soviets, what would be the

00:33:04.960 full consecration and conversion of Russia? What would it do? And what might happen if 10% of the 0.86

00:33:11.160 population of the United States or Canada or any other modern nation praying the Rosary achieved?

00:33:15.920 We can look at Spain. I've already mentioned that Franco refused to cooperate with Hitler's 0.80

00:33:21.780 invasion of Portugal. But Spain itself experienced an incredible Catholic renaissance following a

00:33:27.400 period of devotion to Our Lady of Fatima. We have to remember that Spain suffered an absolutely

00:33:32.380 atrocious civil war among the left, who were killing bishops, priests, and seminarians,

00:33:38.160 raping nuns, digging up the corpses of nuns and putting them on display, destroying holy statues, 0.80

00:33:44.520 and who knows what else. It was an attempt to destroy the Catholic Church in Spain, 0.76

00:33:49.560 And few of us know about it, well, that's because it doesn't appear in our history classes at school.

00:33:55.860 And can you believe it? Out of this chaos, the forces of order triumphed, and the communists

00:34:01.940 were scent-packing. But it was a hard-won war. From 1948, the pilgrim statue of Our Lady of

00:34:11.580 Fatima toured Spanish dioceses to great popular enthusiasm. Franco then signed a concordat

00:34:18.840 with the Holy See in 1953, which was praised as undoubtedly the most perfect the Vatican

00:34:25.800 had ever conducted, end quote. Franco re-established the church as the sole religion of the Spanish

00:34:31.840 nation, recalled the Jesuits who were expelled by the Republic, and made the Catholic education

00:34:38.220 obligatory in schools and universities. He abrogated divorce laws, and so on. Now that sounds

00:34:46.120 familiar, doesn't it? It should, because once again, this was what was meant by the social

00:34:52.840 kingship of Christ. In 1954, Franco himself consecrated Spain to the Immaculate Heart of

00:34:59.840 Mary, solemnly, officially, and irrevocably. Again, the consecration was linked directly with the

00:35:07.340 kingship of Christ, and Pope Pius XII joined the act of, on the same day, with his own prayer.

00:35:14.840 Can you imagine that? A head of state, consecrating his nation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and

00:35:22.640 invoking Christ as King. This is what the triumph of the Immaculate Heart looks like when taken

00:35:29.260 seriously at the level of a nation. Other countries, even further afield, felt the effects of those

00:35:36.260 graces. In 1949 alone, there was 120,000 conversions in the USA. Another great convert,

00:35:45.360 Hamish Fraser, a Scottish communist commissar during the Spanish Civil War, he attributed his

00:35:51.180 conversion to Our Lady of Fatima and became an ardent advocate of Fatima messages. In fact,

00:35:57.320 in 1952, he was about to give a speech in Paris on the messages. And just as he was about to start,

00:36:05.400 a dove flew down and landed on his head where it remained for 12 minutes. His talk was about

00:36:13.180 Our Lady of Fatima and how she can convert communists if we do what she asks. And this

00:36:20.940 was taken as a divine approval of this message. But look at all these incredible blessings.

00:36:28.040 They came about because partial responses to Fatima's requests. And Sister Lucy said explicitly

00:36:34.260 that they were proof of what would happen in the full triumph if the full requests were obeyed.

00:36:41.320 But here's a sobering thought. All those blessings lasted only so long as fidelity to Our Lady of

00:36:47.780 Fatima lasted. Portugal and Goa, in 1954, India's narrow threatened to invade Goa on the 15th of

00:36:56.740 August. There was a spiritual mobilization of Portugal with many prayers and devotions offered

00:37:03.280 in defense of the territory and a thousand pilgrims walked from lisbon to fatima on foot

00:37:09.520 arriving on august 14th and unexpectedly narrow ordered his forces to stand down however and get

00:37:16.980 this less than 10 years later in the 1960s once fervor had cooled portugal did indeed lose its

00:37:25.800 indian territories the lesson is very clear the protection of god and the period of peace

00:37:31.700 is conditional on the help sought from him and trust placed in him and in the Immaculate Heart

00:37:38.920 of Mary. Once that's gone, so is the protection. It's not a one-and-done magic spell, but calls for

00:37:46.840 continuous devotion to the Immaculate Heart and dependence on her and on God through her.

00:37:53.700 So, in short, the triumph of the Immaculate Heart is indeed primarily about the consecration of

00:37:59.480 Russia and the spread of devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, but a secondary effect of these two

00:38:05.360 great goods, and contingent on that faithfulness remaining, is the triumph of the social kingship

00:38:11.480 of Christ for nations as a whole. That won't be a utopia any more than Franco's Spain was, 0.65

00:38:18.220 but it will be the restoration of justice toward God, who will receive the recognition and worship

00:38:24.520 from the state that he deserves. And it will allow many, many more people to be saved.

00:38:31.740 And that period of peace in the world is a definition of heaven. So it won't just be an

00:38:37.820 absence of war. It will surely mean peace in the womb as well. So nations will outlaw the killing

00:38:45.520 of children in their mother's wombs, just as we saw happened in Portugal and Spain. I think we

00:38:52.460 can safely say that it will be a great vindication of the Church, too. A definitive end to the crisis

00:38:59.860 in the Church that she's been experiencing for the last many decades. Here are a few of my thoughts

00:39:07.120 on what the triumph of the Immaculate Heart in the Church might look like. There will be public

00:39:12.400 repentance of the Pope and the bishops for leading the faithful astray. Repentance for fawning over

00:39:20.120 James Martin, SJ. Repentance for the LGBT pilgrimage into St. Peter's. Repentance for 0.97

00:39:26.500 the demotion of Our Lady from her titles as corredemptrix and mediatrix of all graces.

00:39:31.620 Repentance for pachamama idolatry. Repentance for naming a pedophile a venerable. Repentance

00:39:38.400 for false teachings of crediciones custodes, fiducius supplicans, amor estetitia, changes to

00:39:44.660 the Catechism on the death penalty, Gaudete exultate, and so many more. The errors of Russia 0.92

00:39:50.720 that infiltrated the church are going to be extinguished. Repentance for priests turning 1.00

00:39:56.500 their backs to our Lord in the tabernacle at Mass will be made. There will be repentance for shoving

00:40:01.760 tabernacles off to the side. Repentance for misleading women to yearn for ordination through 0.98

00:40:07.660 female altar servers and readers. There will be a ban on communion in hand. They'll get rid of any

00:40:14.040 kind of bass hymns and return to Gregorian chant and reverent sacred music, there won't be guitar

00:40:20.340 masses. There will be full restoration of the traditional liturgy and discipline. There will

00:40:26.860 be the rise of an angelic pope who leads this purification. So that's the goal. That's what

00:40:33.360 we have to work for and what we have to pray for. It means to achieve it. The means to achieve it

00:40:39.200 are very clear. On the part of the hierarchy, Russia must be consecrated to the Immaculate 0.84

00:40:44.720 Heart of Mary by a pope and the bishops in union with him. On the part of the faithful, the laity,

00:40:51.640 we are to carry out the first Saturday devotions. That is, on the first Saturday of each month,

00:40:58.140 we do the following. We go to confession, receive Holy Communion, say five decades of the Holy

00:41:04.580 rosary, spent 15 minutes meditating on the mysteries of the rosary, all in a spirit of

00:41:10.440 reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary. That's the devotion

00:41:15.440 that Our Lady gave to Sister Lucy in 1925. And the triumph of the Immaculate Heart, if that wasn't

00:41:22.540 enough, she attached astounding personal promises to it too, and you can read about those in the

00:41:28.920 link below. We have a clear goal. We have a clear way to achieve it, clear promises from heaven

00:41:34.700 that we will succeed, and thus clear grounds for great hope. So what are we waiting for?

00:41:42.820 For LifeSite News and Son of the Cross Media, I'm John Henry Weston, and may God bless you.

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The John-Henry Westen Show - October 02, 2026

Here is What the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart will Look Like

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