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Special Rosary Issue Issue 72 Reprint In This Issue … Rosary of Our Lady, Hope of the World by Father Nicholas Gruner ........ 3 25 Million Rosaries for Peace .................................................................. 7 Pope John Paul II Proclaims 2003, Year of the Rosary ............................ 8 Mary’s Holy Rosary The Scourge of Satan by Father Gino Burresi ....... 11 A Gift from Heaven by Father Stefano Manelli ..................................... 16 No Sword Like It by Father Lawrence Underdonk ................................ 20 Sister Lucy Speaks on the Rosary .......................................................... 20 Arm of Peace by Father P. Leite.............................................................. 21 I Witnessed the Rosary Miracle by Stephen Wells ................................. 27 Rosary Before the Blessed Sacrament ................................................... 28 Prayers of the Rosary ............................................................................ 29 54-Day Rosary Novena .......................................................................... 30 15 Promises for Praying the Most Holy Rosary ..................................... 35 Block Rosary – You Can Do This ............................................................ 36 Is Your Family Protected? by Mary Michele .......................................... 38 Rosary Intentions by Joseph Cain ......................................................... 42 Dear Mary – I Love You by Josephine .................................................... 44 The Faithful Abandoned by Father Nicholas Gruner ............................. 45 Petition to Our Holy Father ................................................................... 47 Ideals of the Crusade of Mary Immaculate Extracts from writings of St. Maximilian Marie Kolbe ........................ 48 Rosary of Our Lady, Hope of the World By Father Nicholas Gruner, S.T.L., S.T.D. (Cand.) “I want you to come here on the 13th of next month and to continue praying 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, because only She can help you.” ...Our Lady of Fatima, July 13, 1917 oday, the world and the learned its lesson and repeats Church are in the gravest history. God promised there Tcrisis in the history of would never be another world- mankind. wide flood but He foretold, Sin has run rampant. Good is through His Holy Mother at Fat- out, evil is in, even worse than ima, of an even greater chastise- the days of Noah and the chas- ment about to befall mankind. tisement of the Great Flood. It was in 1917 that Our Lady God almost always sends appeared at Fatima to three prophets and warnings before children with the following He chastises, but too many look message: upon His warning as not apply- “You have seen hell, where ing to themselves. the souls of poor sinners go. To Then God allows some signifi- save them, God wishes to estab- cant disaster or chastisement lish in the world devotion to to happen and many still look My Immaculate Heart. If what upon this wake-up call as not I say to you is done, many souls their fault, as not really fair. will be saved and there will be Some might be tempted to blas- peace ... pheme God by saying that He is “When you see a night illum- without compassion. ined by an unknown light, They have not learned suf- know that this is the great sign ficiently nor thought suffi- given you by God that He is ciently enough to realize that about to punish the world for God allows this short-term its crimes, by means of war, suffering to save us from eter- famine and persecutions of the nal suffering in hell. Church and of the Holy Father. Mankind, today, has not “To prevent this, I shall come 3 The Fatima Crusader to ask for the consecration of of Mary, has STILL not been Russia to My Immaculate Heart, done. The simple request for and the Communion of Repara- the Communion of Reparation tion on the Five First Saturdays. on the First Saturdays has not “If My requests are heeded, been widely heeded. (See page Russia will be converted, and 6 for this simple request). there will be peace; if not, she World Goes in will spread her errors through- Wrong Direction out the world, causing wars Pope John Paul II said when and persecutions of the Church. he went to Fatima in 1982 The good will be martyred, the that the world has gone in the Holy Father will have much to opposite direction from the one suffer, various nations will be indicated by Our Lady, that sin annihilated ... has institutionalized itself. “In the end, My Immaculate In 1917, when Our Lady first Heart will triumph. The Holy told us that we were in a crisis - Father will consecrate Russia to abortion was not even yet legal- Me, and she will be converted, ized anywhere in the world, not and a period of peace will be even in Russia. It only became granted to the world ... legal in Russia in the 1920s. “When you pray the Rosary, And, by now, that error of Rus- say after each mystery: O my sia has spread around the world Jesus, forgive us our sins, save so that we now have 50 million us from the fires of hell. Lead babies murdered every year. all souls to Heaven, especially As St. Thomas Aquinas those most in need.” explains, the first fruit of error So, not only did God warn us, is injustice. With the error He gave us a solution, a way that God and God’s rights are out. We didn’t have to suffer excluded from out laws and through these trying times, but other social institutions – such we are, because His Message as our hospitals then the false sent through His Holy Mother “right” of men and women is has been ignored. The simple proclaimed, “my body is mine I request that the Holy Father, do not owe any service to God.” together with the Catholic bish- Today, mothers proclaim their ops of the world, on the same “right” to legally murder their day, to consecrate specifically own children in their womb. A Russia to the Immaculate Heart real right comes from God, and The Fatima Crusader 4 God does not give us the right prayer of the Holy Rosary ...” to kill our fellow man. All of us have plenty of prob- Clearly, mankind has progres- lems today; even the Church is sively deteriorated in morality being torn apart and attacked and spirituality at an alarm- from within and without. But ing pace, even after Our Lady it is our Rosary prayers that warned of our crisis in 1917. The will assist us in staying in the world has gone in the opposite Church by our faithfulness, direction from that which Our thus benefiting from Our Lord’s Lady came to show us. promise: “Thou art Peter, and Even so, Our Lady never ceases upon this rock I will build My to give us hope. Jesus Himself Church; and the gates of hell said, “It is never too late to have shall not prevail against it.” recourse to Jesus and Mary.” Matt. 16:18 The Rosary Cause Reparation for Sin is for Great Hope Necessary to Restore Peace Heaven knew where the world It was the Flemish mystic Pere and mankind was heading. Lamy - called “another Cure of Heaven knew Their urgent Ars” by his bishop - who was message would be ignored, told by God that World War I distorted, silenced. So Heaven “had three causes: blasphemy, sent those of us who would Sunday labor, and the desecra- listen, a coat of armor, a weapon tion of Marriage.” At Fatima, to defend ourselves and our the Blessed Virgin confirms families, and carry us through this teaching, when She tells these very hazardous days. us; “war is a punishment for That Heaven-sent weapon, as sin” and announces in the great you will read in this Fatima Cru- Secret: “if people do not cease sader, is the Rosary. offending God, another worse The Rosary can heal our coun- war will begin in the reign of tries’ problems, our personal Pius XI.” Thus, World War II problems, our children’s prob- broke out. lems, our fears, our frazzled The Fatima Message is nerves, all our troubles. Sister designed to remove the cause Lucy tells us: of war, which is sin. Just before “There is no problem, I tell the great miracle of Oct. 13, you, no matter how difficult it Our Lady had said: is, that we cannot resolve by the “People must amend their 5 The Fatima Crusader lives and ask pardon for their surrounded with thorns with sins,” and then, growing sad- which ungrateful men pierce der: “They must not offend Her at every moment without Our Lord any more, for He is there being anyone to make an already too much offended.” act of reparation in order to Many years later, reflecting on take them away.” these words, Sister Lucy wrote: Then the Most Holy Virgin “Of all the words spoken said to her: at this apparition, the words “Look My daughter, at My most deeply engraved upon Heart, surrounded with thorns my heart are those of the with which ungrateful men request made by Our Heavenly pierce Me at every moment Mother: ‘Do not offend Our by their blasphemies and Lord and God any more, for He ingratitude. You at least try is already so much offended!’ to console Me and announce “How loving a complaint, in My name that I promise to how tender a request! Who assist at the moment of death, will grant me to make it echo with all the graces necessary through the whole world, so for salvation, all those who, that all the children of Our on the First Saturday of five Mother in Heaven may hear consecutive months shall con- the sound of Her Voice!” fess, receive Holy Commun- Later on, in the Fatima appar- ion, recite five decades of the itions, Jesus Himself came to Rosary, and keep Me company tell us that the Immaculate for 15 minutes while meditat- Heart of Mary has been much ing on the 15 mysteries of the offended.