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Message of Fatima - A Russian Orthodox View
Message of Fatima - A Russian Orthodox View
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Introduction
In six visions over a period of six months in 1917 three peasant children from
a Portuguese village were told by the Mother of God of the destiny of a
country called Russia. These shepherd children, who had never been to
Lisbon, let alone heard of Russia, came to hear of this at the most important
turning-point in the history of that country. Coincidence?
Each of these six visions took place on the last day of each month between
April and September according to the Orthodox Church calendar (that is, on
the 13th of the next month according to the secular calendar). Coincidence?
During the last vision, a crowd of 70,000 people saw the miracle of the sun
‘dancing’. Mass hallucination? Not only devout peasants saw it, but also
convinced freemasons and Communists, as well as many who were not in the
crowd, but in several other places, miles away.
There was also said to be a secret message, ‘The Third Secret’, given by the
Mother of God, but which was to be revealed only in 1960. This was not done
and it is considered by many devout Roman Catholics that the message has
still not been revealed, despite an announcement on 26 June 2000 (1). The
message, they say, has been hushed up because it will suicidally compromise
institutional Roman Catholicism.
That the original Roman Catholic interpretation of the message of the Mother
of God (and this appears to have been renounced by Roman Catholic officials
over the last fifty years or so, including by the present Pope (3)) is false, is
clear to Orthodox. And that the Pope and his bishops have never consecrated
Russia to the Immaculate Heart of the Mother of God is also a fact,
suggesting that Roman Catholic officials themselves never believed in their
own former interpretation.
The fact is that the original interpretation is inconsistent. There are no fewer
than five inconsistencies, which we will describe in the next section.
First of all, how could Russia renounce ‘its’ error of Communism? The
Russian Revolution had not been about Communism, but about a takeover of
Orthodox Christian Russia which had been carefully prepared and heavily
backed by pro-Western freemasons, aided and abetted by Germany and
financed and encouraged by Britain, France, the USA and the Vatican itself?
Moreover, Communism was not at all a Russian error, but a Western error,
introduced into Russia by a coup d’etat in October 1917, according to the
Church calendar, weeks after the last vision in Portugal had taken place.
Communism was a purely Western error, simply taking typical Western
materialism to its logical extreme.
Secondly, why did the Mother of God require Russia to be consecrated to Her
by Roman Catholic bishops? For centuries Russia had been known as ‘The
House of the Mother of God’ and She had already taken charge of Russia,
before any of these visions, through the miraculous appearance of Her
Reigning Icon, on the day of the forged ‘abdication’ of the Lord’s Anointed,
the betrayed Tsar Nicholas II.
Thirdly, how could Russia possibly become Roman Catholic, when Russia
had never been this and when its greatest enemy throughout its history had
been precisely Roman Catholicism? Indeed, after the Communist takeover, it
was Roman Catholicism, under its agents Pacelli (the future Pope Pius XII) in
1924 and then D’Herbigny, which conspired together with Communism
against anti-Communist Russian Orthodoxy.
Finally, how can there be truth in the deformed Roman Catholic interpretation
of Fatima that Roman Catholicism is triumphant and Orthodoxy finished?
Today, Orthodoxy is resurgent in Russia and Roman Catholicism is
everywhere in a state of spiritual decadence and apostasy and many of its few
remaining clergy are viewed as perverts.
Only this can explain why, when in 1991 the Communist Soviet Union
collapsed under the weight of resurgent Orthodoxy, which it had so cruelly
persecuted, the demons at once exited the fallen atheist Soviet Union and
comfortably settled in their legions in the newly atheist European Union, a
product of Roman Catholicism. Thus, the Soviet red star became the ring of
twelve yellow stars of the European Union. ‘One Ring to bind them all’,
indeed.
spreading its evils around the world, including to My House, Orthodox Russia,
where ‘the bishop dressed in white’, the holy father Patriarch Tikhon, will
suffer with millions of others, then those errors will completely take over the
West. If the West does not wish to be punished, it must repent, consecrating
itself to the Mother of God, as Russia has done, and so return to the Orthodox
Faith after its near-millennial apostasy to materialism’.
Notes:
Other bishops, priests, men and women religious going up a steep mountain,
at the top of which there was a big cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-
tree with the bark; before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big
city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and
sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on this way; having
reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big cross he
was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in
the same way there died one after another the other bishops, priests, men and
women religious and various lay people of different ranks and positions.
Beneath the two arms of the cross there were two angels each with a crystal
vessel for holy water in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the
martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God.
3. ‘Although the Church recognises the Fatima apparitions, She does not
pledge Herself to guarantee the veracity of the words which the three
shepherds claim to have heard from Our Lady’. Vatican Communiqué through
the A.N.I. agency on 8 February1960). See also the then Cardinal Ratzinger’s
interview in ‘Jesus’ magazine, published on 11 November 1984, which also
debunked the traditional interpretation of Fatima.