What the pope's Consecration of Russia will mean for the world
Summary
On Friday, March 25th, during the celebration of Penance, Pope Francis will be presiding at 5 PM in St. Peter's Basilica. The same act on the same day will be carried out in Fatima by His Eminence, Cardinal Karol Krajewski, the Apostolic Almoner, and he s the envoy of the Pope there. This is The John Henry Weston Show, where we re going to be discussing this and what it means. Stay tuned.
Transcript
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There is huge breaking news out of the Vatican today on Friday, March 25th, during the celebration
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of penance at which the Pope will be presiding at 5 p.m. in St. Peter's Basilica, that's
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5 p.m. Rome time, Pope Francis has said he will consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the
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The same act on the same day will be carried out in Fatima by his eminence, Cardinal Krajewski,
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the Apostolic Almoner, and he's the envoy of the Pope there.
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This is the John Henry Weston Show, where we're going to be discussing this and what it means.
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Russia has factured in a huge way into the messages of Our Lady of Fatima in 1917.
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On July 13th, 1917, after having shown the three children of Fatima a terrifying vision
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of hell, Our Lady of Fatima said the following words to the children of Fatima.
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Listen to this quote, and listen especially if it pertains to Russia.
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You've seen hell, where the souls of poor sinners go.
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To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart.
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If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace.
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But if people do not cease to offend God, a worse one will break out during the reign of Pius XI.
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Now, of course, that's interesting because there was no Pius XI in 1917.
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To prevent this, I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart
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and the communion of reparation on the first Saturdays.
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If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted and there will be peace.
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If not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions against the Church.
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The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me and she will be converted
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and a certain period of peace will be granted to the world.
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So, these words are part of what has come to be known as the Second Secret of Fatima.
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They've been the subject, of course, of much controversy over the last hundred years,
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particularly over whether the prophecies have been fulfilled or are yet to come.
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But what is clear is Russia has a tremendously important role in the fate of the world,
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A few months before this message, in February of 1917,
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the revolution had broken out in Russia and leading to the abdication of the Tsar.
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Now, less than a month after the final Fatima apparition and the miracle of the sun in October 1917,
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the Bolsheviks took power in the October Revolution.
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Communist revolutions sprung up in many different places
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The year 1917, the year of this revolution, is itself full of meaning.
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1517 was the year of Luther's rebellion against the Church.
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1717, Freemasonry was established, rebellion against Christ and the idea of Christianity.
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But in 1917, the year of atheistic communist materialism represented a rebellion against God himself.
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Now, we are all aware of the horrors of the Russian communist regime,
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whose effects are continuing to this day through cultural Marxism and other means.
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We are told that Sister Lucy, or Lucy at the time, the oldest of the three Fatima children,
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did not actually even know what the word Russia meant at the time.
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Russia does not feature very greatly in the later messages at Fatima,
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but returns with greater force once Sister Lucia had entered the convent
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and Our Lady returned to make her request for the consecration of Russia.
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So, there were also visions at Thouy in France.
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In 1929, Our Lord told Sister Lucy that the time had arrived.
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At a late holy hour, kneeling in darkness, lit only by a red sanctuary lamp,
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praying before the Blessed Sacrament at the communion rail,
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and saying the prayers that the archangel taught her in Fatima,
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A great cross appeared on the altar, held and supported by God the Father,
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with Christ hanging upon it, and with a luminous dove at His breast.
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with drops of blood falling from Christ into the chalice.
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To the right was Our Lady, with her immaculate heart crowned with thorns and flames,
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and on the other were very large letters spelling the words grace and mercy.
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The moment has come when God asks the Holy Father to make,
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the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart,
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that Russian communism played over the last many years,
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not least toward the Russian people themselves.
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And it's said that the way the communists behaved
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showed that they hated the Russian people more than any others.
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It enslaved around 18 million in the gulag system
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based on ludicrous show trials and denunciations.
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But it's estimated that 3.5 million Ukrainians died in the Holodomor,
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a man-made famine that the Ukrainian government and others
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This is to say nothing of the horrendous, blood-stained atrocities
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carried out by the communists in other Soviet republics.
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but why the Immaculate Heart, and why consecration?
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and these are the quotes from our Lord to Sister Lucy,
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because I want my whole church to recognize that consecration
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The Immaculate Heart of Mary, he said, will save Russia.
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and indeed the USSR, has appeared to have fallen,
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but it's hardly been replaced with anything that we can clearly recognize
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how can we imagine that consecration happened in 1984
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when we've seen more unborn children massacred since 1984
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So, after the 1929 vision that I just mentioned,
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Sister Lucy sent letter after letter to her confessors
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asking that these messages reach the Pope and be fulfilled.
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Again and again, she stressed the danger facing the world
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and the importance of this consecration for averting it.
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this is six years after our lady first came to ask for the consecration,
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So, six years later, she said in her letter to a priest,
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if you worked to make the Holy Father comply with his wishes.
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and I made this fact known to the bishop in a letter.
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it seems to me that he is ready to show mercy toward Russia,
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So, it's really striking how frequently and urgently
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There are many more examples in her other letters.
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Sister Lucy attributed the outbreak of the Second World War
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by the nations since the war in Spain, end quote.
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which was a prelude to World War II in many ways,