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Great Secret of Fatima Fr. Karl Stehlin SSPX Fatima The Great Secret of Fatima A spiritual light for our times Volume III Fatima The Great Secret of Fatima Fr. Karl Stehlin SSPX Fatima The Great Secret of Fatima A spiritual light for our times Volume III MI Kolbe Publications 2017 English edition copyright © 2017 by Kolbe Publications Pte Ltd Copies Available: Kolbe Publications Pte Ltd 286 Upper Thomson Road Singapore 574402 www.kolbepublications.com email: [email protected] ISBN 978-981-17-0160-3 First Printing All rights reserved Table of Contents Introduction 7 Chapter 1 “You Will Recognize Them by Their Fruits” — the Marvellous Results of Fatima 9 Chapter 2 Fatima Despised 40 Chapter 3 The Refusal of the Consecration of Russia 64 Chapter 4 The Third Secret Silenced 75 Chapter 5 The Disclosure of the Third Secret 96 Chapter 6 Fatima Fulfilled — the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart 139 Chapter 7 Fatima and the Militia Immaculatae 153 Appendix The Marian Apostolate Revisited — Mary’s Mission 177 Fr. Timothy Pfeiffer Introduction Whenever the term the “great Secret of Fatima” is used, it generally refers to the famous Third Secret written down by Sr. Lucia in January 1944, which should have been revealed in 1960, but which was kept in the greatest silence by the Vatican until 2000 when it was supposedly published The central chapters of this book will deal with this important matter. However, the essential message of this book wants to present a deeper reality: Fatima is, with its whole message and all appari- tions of Our Lady, a great Secret of God’s mercy, his mysterious plan reserved for the last times of the world, when He will reveal to the world the great majesty and grandeur of Our Lady as the last great gesture of his mercy and our ultimate hope Wherever her requests are accomplished, a shower of graces will fall in abundance on the countries, dioceses, religious orders, institutions, families, and on each soul. In the first chapter, we will admire the marvellous fruits of the Immaculate Queen triumphant in her peregrinations throughout the world But what happens if her requests are refused? This is another part of the “great Secret of Fatima”, an even deeper secret, a mystery difficult to understand: the ‘mystery of iniquity’. From thend 2 to the 5th chapter we analyse the history of “Fatima despised” and try to find a deeper understanding as to why such things could happen. It will 7 be the proof ex contrario of the greatness of Our Lady of Fatima, or in other words: God allows Fatima to be enveloped in deepest darkness only for one reason: to let her light shine ever more on the contrast of such a dark night However, the great Secret of Fatima will find its climax at the moment when her Immaculate Heart will definitely triumph. Then the world will understand that the history of Fatima as the great secret of God’s Mercy in the latter times exists only to show God’s greatest secret of all times, and this greatest of all secrets of God’s Love is Our Lady herself, the Heavenly Queen and masterpiece of all God’s works (6th chapter) Finally, there must be an answer from our part. It is not sufficient to admire God’s greatest secrets; we have to put this reality into our life. In chapter 7 we try to give an answer to the burning question, how to honour the great Secret of Our Lady: simply by becoming more than ever her children, slaves, apostles, Knights! Fr. Karl Stehlin Fatima, on the 22nd of August 2017, Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary 8 CHAPTER ONE “You Will Recognize Them by Their Fruits” — the Marvellous Results of Fatima Whenever heaven appears on earth, great fruits are produced These fruits are themselves the best means to understand the impor- tance of the apparition, motivate us to accomplish it faithfully and to propagate it, so as to receive the same fruits The first fruit is the eminent holiness of the seers themselves, as any fruit of a true heavenly intervention is holiness Concretely: the true fruits of a true apparition are always a) the overcoming of the darkness of sin and error; b) growth in the love of God and all good (= virtues). This has to be applied first of all to the three children themselves: the beatification of Jacinta and Francisco in 2000 was the final result of a process of 50 years beginning with the opening of their coffins and the miraculous fact that the face of Jacinta was incorrupt. Each of them was heroically faithful to Our Lady’s requests, and that fidelity alone brought them to eminent holiness. 9 Similar fruits can also be found in the many conversions of the unbelievers and tepid Christians who were privileged to see the miracle of the sun on the 13th of October 1917 Ever since, millions of souls have been converted and have sanctified themselves because they got in touch with the message of Fatima, or more precisely with the Immaculate Heart of Mary herself through her various instru- ments But as these most important graces are largely invisible ones, we are bound to limit ourselves to the visible, verified and approved marvels accomplished directly by the Immaculate Heart of Mary, by means of her apparitions at Fatima We will only quote historical facts as proofs of authenticity, with all references being taken from the 2nd and 3rd volumes of Brother Michel de la Sainte Trinité’s The Whole Truth about Fatima as well as from the books written by Fr. Joaquin Alonso about the same topic1 1. Portugal — “Showcase of Our Lady of Fatima” a) History After almost 150 years of domination by the Freemasons, Portugal, at the beginning of the 20th century, was economically ruined and in a state of anarchy By means of a terrible revolution in 1910, the Freemasons passed a series of anti-Christian laws (divorce, separation of Church and state), persecuted the clergy, closed churches and monasteries, and banished the majority of the bishops Canon Barthas gives a summary of this situation: “Masonic impiety took advantage of 1 Father Joaquin Alonso, who for sixteen years was the official archivist of Fa- tima, wrote a monumental work on the Fatima Message, entitled Fatima Texts and Critical Studies This book, which consists of 24 volumes containing 5,396 docu- ments, was withheld from publication by the Bishop of Leiria-Fatima, Msgr. Al- berto Cosme do Amaral, at its completion in 1975 Since then, only two of the 24 volumes have been released for publication: “Secret of Fatima, Fact and Le- gend”, “Doctrina y espiritualidad del mensaje de Fátima ” 10 the disorder to sow irreligion in the masses Freedom of worship was hindered by numerous restrictions; the carrying out of apostolic works became almost impossible The religious orders were suppressed and paralyzed. Moreover, little by little the seminaries emptied, and the clergy, impoverished and chained by restrictive laws, became too scarce to maintain a profound religious life The Catholic press was suffocated, reduced to a few weeklies in the provinces, without serious influence on the masses. The times were evil. The future was even more sombre” In 1917, at the same time that Freemasonry was celebrating its second centenary in Rome and the Bolshevik Revolution was taking place in Russia, Our Lady appeared in Fatima to provide great means of salvation against these terrible instruments of the devil’s attacks. Immediately after the great miracle of the sun on the 13th of October, the Freemasons received a first defeat by losing the municipal elections in many places on the 14th of October Furious, they went to Fatima and demolished everything that made up the primitive shrine at that time, and organized a parody of a procession through the village shouting blasphemous litanies A meeting of protest “against the clerical-mercantile speculation going on at Fatima” was called, but almost no one attended it. On the 6th of December, Sidonio Pais, the Minister of State led a coup d’état with enormous support on the side of public opinion On the 8th of December, the patronal feast of Portugal, his national uprising obtained its definitive victory. Within 6 months, all anti-Christian laws were abolished, the bishops returned, convents reopened, churches were restored. After a few attempts on his life, Sidonio Pais was finally murdered on the 14th of December 1918 After his assassination, the country fell back into political anarchy and the Freemasons again took power and threw the country once more into anarchy and ruin However, thanks to pilgrimages of immense crowds to Fatima during those years (the Rosary was being recited almost uninter- 11 ruptedly on the spot of the apparitions), Portuguese Catholics regained their self-confidence and courage. The history of the beginnings of the sanctuary in Fatima is a striking illustration of the fight between the Catholic Faithful and the liberal civil and political powers dominated by Freemasonry. These latter tried all means to dissuade the people from making the pilgrimage. In vain! In April 1920 the faithful built a little chapel at the Cova da Iria (called Capelinha) according to the wishes of Our Lady from the 13th of October 1917: “I want to tell you that a chapel is to be built here in my honour” A month afterwards, the first Statue of Our Lady of Fatima was placed at the place of the apparitions (it is still the same today) On the 13th of May 1920 a force of infantry and cavalry of the Repub- lican guard was sent by the Freemasonic Minister of the Interior to profane the little chapel of Fatima, destroy the statue of Our Lady, and disperse the crowds of pilgrims For hours they tried to prevent the pilgrims reaching the place of the apparitions, but finally they had to give up because of the great number and the courage of the pilgrims Two years later, on the 6th of March 1922, the capelinha was dynamited.
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