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November 26, 2023 - By mmca

Communism

“A huge mistake of the modern pastoral care is that it does not explain clearly the problem of the Church and of Christian life: God, the Supreme Good! Satan, the Evil! And between them, the man who is the subject of constant struggle.” (The message of Jesus to the priests – Satan to monkey God – Ottavio Michelini)

Created in God’s image, man is a tribal being allowing him to fulfill the commandment of love of God and neighbor and to serve them (God and man) using his God-given talents. These talents, skills and knowledge passed from generation to generation determine a man’s status and wealth in society. Many early Christians voluntary gave up their wealth and profits and chose to serve their communities out of a deep love for Jesus.

This idea of serving the community is used to persuade man to accept communist philosophy. Communism was officially introduced to the world on February 21th, 1848 by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the founding fathers of the Communist League. The league was an international secret society established before the release of The Communist Manifesto, laying the groundwork for modern Communism. The Communist Manifesto set forth the principal basis of Marxism: “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”

Marx and Engels understood that people would usually act in accordance with their own economic interests. To exploit this, they asserted that there was a clash of interests between the Bourgeoisie, the business owners with the means of production, and the Proletariat, their working-class employees. Marx and Engels then postulated that, by appealing to the desires of the Proletariat, they could mobilize the masses to start a revolution and reorganize society in to one without classes. To accomplish this, the communist government must be in charge of every aspect of life, especially the economy. In the Communist system, the sacred character of human life, the parents’ right to raise their children, private property rights and moral restraints must all be revoked for the sake of social justice and equality.

Unfortunately, by guaranteeing equality of outcome there is no incentive to do more and better. Over time people become less and less productive which leads to widespread poverty. New initiatives are perceived as a threat to the established order and are snuffed out. Mediocrity becomes the way of life. Effectively, Homo Sapiens (the ‘wise man’) is stripped of his humanity, becoming livestock on the communist farm. To achieve and contain absolute control over man, communist regimes must constantly indoctrinate their people beginning early on with the education of kids. They’re taught that the government is the highest authority, and by extension, there is no place for God, and that God and the Church are the first enemy of the state.

Who is the true enemy?

The devil.

The war against the error of communism started in 1689, when St. Margaret Mary Alacoque received a private request from Jesus to urge the King of France, Louis XIV, to consecrate the nation to the Sacred Heart, so that he may be “triumphant over all the enemies of Holy Church.” The King chose to ignore the command, as did subsequent kings of the “eldest daughter of the Church.”

Around 1760 started a period when God’s magnificence as creator was revealed to man through new inventions, a period known as the Industrial Revolution which initiated the global transition of the human economy from agriculture to manufacturing. Two new social classes emerged within society: the wealthy capitalist class dubbed the bourgeoisie and the working class known as the proletariat. The Devil has always exploited divisions between people, and the creation of these new classes multiplied the number opportunities to pit man against man. The birth of liberalism soon followed and through academia and the free press it slowly infiltrated into people’s hearts and minds.

In April 1789, the French Revolution broke out, clearing the path for Communist Ideology. Civilians and priests were massacred, the Catholic faith was condemned, King Louis XVI was executed by guillotine and Europe was drawn into the bloody Napoleonic Wars.

This was the beginning of a new era in the war for human hearts, mind and souls.

To restore and reinforce the faith in countless souls wounded by revolutionary ideas, in 1830 the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared one night in the convent chapel to Catherine Labouré, a novice of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, and asked that a specific medallion be made, promising that “all who wear this medal will receive great graces.” This medal is commonly known as the Miraculous Medal due to the many miracles that are connected to it.

In 1832 Pope Gregory XVI released the encyclical Mirari vos, which condemned liberalism, religious Indifferentism, and freedom of the press.

On Saturday, September 19th, 1846, around 3 p.m. Our Lady appaired to two young shepherds, 14 year old Mélanie Mathieu and 11 year old Maximin Giraud at La Salette, a small hamlet in the French Alps. She was in tears.

Mary’s message to the two children at La Salette was the warning of a mother concerned over her wayward children. She complained: “If my people refuse to submit, I will be forced to let go the arm of my Son” and more specifically: “Those who drive the carts cannot swear without using my Son’s name…they labor all day Sunday…there are none who go to Mass… A great famine is coming…” She promised: “If [my people] are converted, rocks and stones will turn into heaps of wheat, and potatoes will be self-sown in the fields…”

Two years later during the foretold famine, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, commissioned by the Communist League, published in London the Communist Manifesto which started the 1848-49 Springtime of Nations, the largest and bloodiest revolutionary wave in European history.

In 1858 Our Lady pushed back against materialism. Bernadette Soubirous, a 14-year-old shepherd girl reported seeing Mary appear to her while she was out gathering firewood in the countryside of the town of Lourdes in southern France. Mary identified herself as “the Immaculate Conception” and told Bernadette of the location of a spring, promising miraculous healing from its waters. Since 1862, more than sixty medical cures associated with Lourdes have been certified as “miraculous” by the Catholic Church.

On the 8th of December, 1864, the Holy See, under Pope Pius IX, issued The Syllabus of Errors, a compilation of 80 errors or heresies. Among them are Socialism, Communism and Liberalism.

The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared again at the height of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Pontmain, a village of about 500 inhabitants, found itself in the path of the Prussian army as it marched on the city of Laval in western France.

On the evening of January 17th, 1871, Joseph and Eugène, aged ten and twelve, were helping their father in the barn. Eugène saw in the night sky an apparition of a beautiful woman smiling at him; she was wearing a blue gown covered with golden stars, with a black veil beneath a golden crown. As a crowd gathered, two girls arrived on the scene, Françoise Richer and Jeanne-Marie Lebosse, ages nine and eleven. None of the adults could see Mary, their view was limited to three stars forming a triangle. The crowd began praying the Rosary, while the children saw a banner unfurl beneath the Lady with a message: “But pray, my children. God will hear you in time.” The apparition lasted about three hours. It was later discovered that the advance of Prussian troops under General von Schmidt was halted when the apparition began; the general reported that the advance was blocked by a “Madonna.”

Six and half years later, on June 27th, 1877, in the middle of Kulturkampf (a conflict between the Catholic Church led by Pope Pius IX and the government of Prussia led by Otto von Bismarck) a 13-year-old girl named Justyna Szafryńska of the village Gietrzwald in northeastern Poland reported that, while praying the Angelus she saw a woman seated on a gold throne near a maple tree, accompanied by an angel. The following day, she saw another apparition, this time also with the Christ child. Three days after the first event, both she and 12-year-old Barbara Samulowska saw Mary, and Justyna asked: “What do you want, Holy Mary?” Mary answered in the local Polish dialect, “I want you to pray the Rosary daily.” During the apparition the next day, Justyna asked, “Who are You?” and Mary replied, “I am the Blessed Virgin Mary of Immaculate Conception.” In the coming days, Mary promised that fervent prayer would be able to end the persecution of Catholic Poles that had occurred under Kulturkampf. The apparitions continued for three months. On September 8, about a week before the apparitions ended, Mary blessed a spring of water, from which pilgrims have subsequently reported being healed.

In 1903, Pope Pius X devoted his papacy to Instaurare Omnia in Christo, “to restore all things in Christ.” In his first encyclical E supremi apostolatus, released on the 4th of October, 1903, he stated: “We champion the authority of God. His authority and Commandments should be recognized, deferred to, and respected.” Pope Pius X vigorously condemned modernism, a movement which reflected a desire for the creation of new forms of philosophy, social organization, and art.

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was one of the key events that led to World War I. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated on the 28th of June 1914 by Bosnian Serb student Gavrilo Princip, a member of a student revolutionary group known as Young Bosnia. Austria-Hungary held Serbia responsible, and declared war on July 28th. Russia came to Serbia’s defense, and by August Germany, France and Britain were drawn into the war, with the Ottoman Empire joining in November the same year. This local conflict turned into a global fight between two coalitions, the Allied Powers of France, the United Kingdom, Russia, Italy, Japan, and eventually the United States; against the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria. Fighting took place throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia.

Beginning in the spring of 1916, three shepherd children – Lúcia dos Santos, Francisco and Jacinta Marto – reported three apparitions of an Angel in Valinhos, a countryside place on the outskirts of Fátima, Portugal.

On 13 May 1917, in Cova da Iria, the first out seven apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary were reported. The children described her as “a Lady more brilliant than the Sun”. She said,

“Do not be afraid. I will do you no harm. I am from Heaven. I came to ask you to come here on the thirteenth day for six months at this same time, and then I will tell you who I am and what I want. And afterwards, I will return here a seventh time. Yes, you [Lucia] will [go to heaven]. She [Jacinta] also [will go to heaven]. Yes [Francisco will go to heaven], but first he must say many rosaries. Would you like to offer yourselves to God to accept all the sufferings which He may send to you in reparation for the countless sins by which He is offended and in supplication for the conversion of sinners? Then you will have much to suffer, but the grace of God will be your comfort.”

June 13, 1917

“I want you to come on the thirteenth day of next month and to pray the Rosary every day and I want you to learn to read. If she [sick woman] is converted, she will be cured within a year. Yes, I will take Francisco and Jacinta soon [to heaven], but you must remain on earth for some time. Jesus wishes to use you to make me better known and loved. He wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. No, my child [you will not be alone], and would that make you suffer? Do not be disheartened. My Immaculate Heart will never abandon you, but will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God.”

July 13, 1917

“I want you to come on the thirteenth day of next month and to continue to pray the Rosary every day in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary, in order to obtain peace for the world and the end of the war for she alone can help. Continue to come here every month. In October I will tell you who I am and what I want. And I will perform a miracle so that everyone may see and believe. Sacrifice yourselves for sinners and say often, especially when you make some sacrifice, ‘O my Jesus, this is for love of You, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for the offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.’ [A vision of hell] You saw Hell where the souls of poor sinners go. In order to save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart.

If people do what I ask, many souls will be saved and there will be peace. The war is going to end. But if people do not stop offending God, another, even worse one will begin in the reign of Pius XI. When you shall see a night illuminated by an unknown light know that this is the great sign that God gives you that He is going to punish the world for its many crimes by means of war, hunger, and persecution of the Church and the Holy Father. To prevent it, I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart and the Communion of reparation on the first Saturdays. If people attend to my requests, Russia will be converted and the world will have peace. If not, she [Russia] will scatter her errors throughout the world, provoking wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, and various nations will be destroyed. In the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me; it will be converted, and a certain period of peace will be granted to the world. In Portugal the dogmas of the Faith will always be kept. [A vision of the Pope suffering and being martyred] Do not tell this to anyone. Francisco … yes, you may tell him” [Lucia and Jacinta both saw and heard Our Lady but Francisco only saw the apparitions]. When you say the Rosary, say after each mystery: O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of Hell and lead all souls to Heaven, especially those most in need.”

On 13 August 1917

The provincial administrator Artur Santos took the children into custody, jailing them before they could reach the Cova da Iria, but Our Lady was prepared. At the time set for apparition, many saw a small cloud approaching the designated holm oak and then moving away. Later, everyone heard a strong blast that caused a stampede, interrupted by shouts of “Miracle.” Everybody understood that the Virgin had manifested Her displeasure for the absence of the seers.

August 19, 1917

“Pray, pray a great deal and make many sacrifices, for many souls go to Hell because they have no one to make sacrifices and to pray for them. St. Joseph too will come with the Holy Child to bring peace to the world. Our Lord will also come to bless the people. Our Lady of the Rosary and Our Lady of Sorrows will come too.”

September 13, 1917

“You must pray! Continue to pray the Rosary every day in order to obtain the end of the war. In October Our Lord will come, and Our Lady of Sorrows and of Mount Carmel and St. Joseph with the Child Jesus to bless the world. God is pleased with your sacrifices, but He does not want you to sleep with the rope on; wear it only during the day. [Regarding miraculous cures] Some I will cure, others not. In October I shall perform a miracle so that everyone may believe.”

October 13, 1917

“I am the Lady of the Rosary. I have come to warn the faithful to amend their lives and ask for pardon for their sins. They must not offend Our Lord any more, for He is already too grievously offended by the sins of men. People must say the Rosary. Let them continue saying it every day. I would like a chapel built here in my honor. The war will end soon.”

On the 13th of October, a huge crowd, possibly between 30,000 and 100,000 people including reporters and photographers gathered at Cova da Iria. What happened then became known as the “Miracle of the Sun.” According to eyewitness accounts, after a period of rain the dark clouds broke and the Sun appeared as an opaque, spinning disc in the sky. It was said to be significantly duller than normal, and to cast multicolored lights across the landscape, the people, and the surrounding clouds. The Sun was then reported to have careened towards the Earth before zig-zagging back to its normal position.

Witnesses reported that their previously wet clothes became “suddenly and completely dry, as well as the wet and muddy ground that had been previously soaked because of the rain that had been falling.”

The Fatima message can be summed up as a passionate appeal of the Blessed Virgin Mary for the world’s conversion through devotion to Her Immaculate Heart to obtain special graces for that conversion. This devotion was to be manifested in the Communion of Reparation of First Saturdays and the consecration of Russia as Our Lady requested.

Our Lady warned that if this path of mercy was rejected, “He [God] is going to punish the world for its many crimes by means of war, hunger, and persecution of the Church and the Holy Father.”

On the 26th of October, 1917, just half a year later, the Winter Palace (the seat of the Provisional government located in Petrograd, then capital of Russia) was captured by communist forces, signaling the birth of Soviet Russia. The repercussions propagate even now, over a hundred years later, with the education system spreading Socialist and Communist ideologies, gaining followers all over the world.

These apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary are approved by Catholic Church and endorsed by the Holy See. They reveal how deeply Our Lady loves us and how eager She is to assist us in this valley of tears. She loves and cares for us more than we do.

Pope St. Pius X once said: “All the strength of Satan’s reign is due to the easygoing weakness of Catholics.”

If only King Louis XIV had accepted Our Lord’s protection. If people had paid attention to all those messages sent by the Blessed Virgin Mary and Popes, and followed their directives, tragic events such as the French Revolution, WW I, WW II, and countless other conflicts could have been avoided. So much suffering, millions butchered, and millions of souls lost to the flames of hell.

“So for one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, it is a sin.”

(James 4:17)

Today we have chance to do what is right, what our predecessors failed to do and paid a grievous price for their negligence.

The Blessed Virgin Mary has asked us to pray the Rosary daily and observe the First Saturdays Devotion so She can exchange them for the necessary graces from God for the conversion of nonbelievers and enemies of the Church. This offering in conjunction with an act of consecration by the Bishops are needed to make Minnesota Catholic.

To receive God’s light and recognize what God wants of us and yet not do it is a great offense against majesty of God. Such a soul deserves to be completely forsaken by God. It resembles Lucifer, who had great light, but did not do God’s will. (St. Faustina Kowalska – Divine Mercy in My Soul 666)

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