Our Lady of Fatimaand

Satan’s Last Roll of theDice

by

Damien F. Mackey

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At Fatima in May of 2010 Pope Benedict XVI said,“We would be mistaken to think that Fatima’s prophetic message

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It has been a very healthy sign for the Church and the worldin general that Church leaders, stung by the often badly-managed paedophilia crisis, have now begun to admit of anunderlying sinfulness. In the spirit of great men and women ofthe Old Testament, like Jeremiah (3:5; 14:20), and Daniel(9:5), and Queen Esther (14:6), they are saying: “We havesinned … we acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, theiniquities of our fathers ... we beg forgiveness”. The earliertendency to close ranks and to try to ignore the deep-seatedproblems has ever so slowly given way to a spirit ofrepentance and expressions of sorrow for the victims. Many ofthe latter have, not surprisingly, received this belatedturnaround with scepticism. And the distrust sown has evenprovided the secular authorities with an excuse to intervenein Church affairs, as in the case of the raids by Belgianstate police on Church property.How did this disastrous state of affairs ever come into being?Simply because, as in the case of the Jews of Jeremiah’s time,the genuine prophetic warnings were ignored; our own goingback at least as far as Fatima in 1917, when Our Lady of theRosary had warned (echoing her Son’s, ‘Unless you repent youwill all likewise perish’, Luke 13:3), that “If” humankindrefused to respond to the signs of the times, thenunimaginable devastations would follow, devastations bothphysical and spiritual. The horrors of two World Wars and theconcentration camps were not even to be the end of it. A tidalwave of “error” was next to be unleashed upon the world fromCommunist Russia. Fatima seer, Sister Lucia, spoke of that in1946.Chronologically, the World Wars and the spread of error havecorresponded closely with Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich’sprediction that the Devil would be let loose about 50-60 yearsbefore 2000 AD, with some lesser demonic unleashings to occureven earlier than that, in approximately her own time (i.e.,1774 – 1824).This period included the terrible French Revolution.Some sixty years after Catherine’s ‘own time’, Pope Leo XIIIexperienced a most terrifying demonic visitation that seemedto play out, on a cosmic scale, God’s formerly permitting ofSatan to buffet an individual, the righteous Job. Or, even

more notably, reminiscent of the “hour [of] the power ofdarkness” when Jesus Christ was handed over to his enemies(Luke 22:53). I refer to:

The Vision of Pope Leo XIII (October 13, 1884)

Exactly 33 years to the day prior to the great Miracle of theSun in Fatima, that is, on October 13, 1884, Pope Leo XIIIexperienced a remarkable vision. When the aged Pontiff hadfinished celebrating Mass in his private Vatican Chapel,attended by a few Cardinals and members of the Vatican staff,he suddenly stopped at the foot of the altar. He stood therefor about 10 minutes, as if in a trance, his face ashen white.Then, going immediately from the Chapel to his office, hecomposed the prayer to St. Michael, with instructions that itbe said after all Low Masses everywhere. When asked what hadhappened, he explained that, as he was about to leave the footof the altar, he suddenly heard voices – two voices, one kindand gentle, the other guttural and harsh. They seemed to comefrom near the tabernacle. As he listened, he heard thefollowing conversation[http://www.stjosephschurch.net/leoxiii.htm]:

The guttural voice, the voice of Satan in his pride,boasted to Our Lord:“I can destroy your Church.”

The gentle voice of Our Lord:“You can? Then go ahead and do so.”

Satan:“To do so, I need more time and more power.”

Our Lord:“How much time? How much power?”

Satan:“75 to 100 years, and a greater power over those who willgive themselves over to my service.”

Our Lord:“You have the time, you will have the power. Do with themwhat you will.”

Absolutely incredible! Almighty God, who assuredly does nottempt us to sin, here allowing Satan the freedom to exercisereal power against his Church, just as He had permitted in thecase of the trials of Job, and, later, of Jesus Christ. Tobring forth a greater good. In the first case, the perfectingof Job. In the second, the salvation of the entire human race.And, now, in our day, the purification of the Church – theBride following her Crucified Spouse by imitating his Passion,Death and Resurrection.Surely nothing better explains this chaotic age in which wehave found ourselves than the combined testimonies of BlessedCatherine, Pope Leo, and Lucia in this regard. All Hell breaking loose!And we are not to blame God for this. We have only ourselvesto blame, and our forefathers. And now our Church leaders arestarting to say it. But all Catholics need to say it, in thewords of Daniel (9:5): “We have sinned, and have dealtperversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, eventurning aside from thy precepts and from thine ordinances”.Catholics first, to lead the way, so that other Christians,but also Jews, and Moslems, and Hindus, and indeed the wholeworld, will follow suit. ‘For it is not sacrifice alone thatpleases God, but a humbled contrite heart’.But now we shall also have to pay the cost, and most surely weare already paying it. Did not Pope Francis comment recently(http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29190890):

"Humanity needs to weep, and this is the time to weep," he said.

"Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction" …. [?]

And Fatima may give a hint of other horrors yet to come;Fatima supplemented perhaps by some of those frightening post-1920’s Marian apparitions. Here of course we speak only ofthose apparitions that have been solidly approved by theChurch. So, perhaps it was wishful thinking that the contentsof the Third Fatima Secret were initially interpreted as beingall completely done and dusted by the end of the C20th. As ifthe C21st century has suddenly set humankind in the rightdirection. Thankfully Pope Benedict XVI en route to Fatima for thecelebrations of the 13th of May, 2010, offered a more realisticinterpretation of the Third Secret. Colleen Hammond gives thisaccount of it(http://www.colleenhammond.com/blog/2010/05/pope-fatima%E2%80%99s-prophetic-message-is-not-complete/):

Pope: “Fatima’s prophetic message is NOT complete”

Don’t remember seeing this in the news, eh?Pope Resurrects Third Secret of Fatima On board a jet bound for Fatima on May 11, 2010, PopeBenedict XVI answered a question regarding the Third Secret

that put him at odds with the ‘official’ Vaticaninterpretation of the Secret propounded in 2000. The year2000 Commentary claims that … the prophecy of the ThirdSecret is completely fulfilled by the 1981 assassinationattempt against Pope John Paul II.For a multitude of reasons … this interpretation wasdenounced as insufficient by tens of thousands of Catholicsthe world over. During Pope Benedict’s latest trip toFatima, however, the Pope did not speak of the Fatimaprophecies as already fulfilled, but linked the ThirdSecret with the present pedophilia scandals in the Church,and indicated the prophecy of the Secret includes futureevents. ….

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And the Pope associated his Fatima message with the oldBabylonian Captivity, the era of Jeremiah, Daniel and Esthermentioned above. (From the Vatican’s website):

HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI

Esplanade of the Shrine of Our Lady of Fátima Thursday, 13May 2010

Dear Pilgrims,

“Their descendants shall be renowned among the nations […],they are a people whom the Lord has blessed” (Is 61:9). Sothe first reading of this Eucharist began, and its wordsare wonderfully fulfilled in this assembly devoutlygathered at the feet of Our Lady of Fatima. Dearly belovedbrothers and sisters, I too have come as a pilgrim toFatima, to this “home” from which Mary chose to speak to usin modern times. I have come to Fatima to rejoice in Mary’spresence and maternal protection. I have come to Fatima,because today the pilgrim Church, willed by her Son as theinstrument of evangelization and the sacrament ofsalvation, converges upon this place. I have come to Fatimato pray, in union with Mary and so many pilgrims, for ourhuman family, afflicted as it is by various ills andsufferings. Finally, I have come to Fatima with the samesentiments as those of Blessed Francisco and Jacinta, andthe Servant of God Lúcia, in order to entrust to Our Lady

the intimate confession that “I love” Jesus, that theChurch and priests “love” him and desire to keep their gazefixed upon him as this Year for Priests comes to its end,and in order to entrust to Mary’s maternal protectionpriests, consecrated men and women, missionaries and allthose who by their good works make the House of God a placeof welcome and charitable outreach.These are the “people whom the Lord has blessed”. Thepeople whom the Lord has blessed are you, the belovedDiocese of Leiria-Fatima, with your pastor, Bishop AntonioMarto. …. In God I embrace all [Portugal’s] sons anddaughters, particularly the afflicted or outcast, with thedesire of bringing them that great hope which burns in myown heart, and which here, in Fatima, can be palpably felt.May our great hope sink roots in the lives of each of you,dear pilgrims, and of all those who join us through thecommunications media.Yes! The Lord, our great hope, is with us. In his mercifullove, he offers a future to his people: a future ofcommunion with himself. After experiencing the mercy andconsolation of God who did not forsake them along theirwearisome return from the Babylonian Exile, the people ofGod cried out: “I greatly rejoice in the Lord, my wholebeing exults in my God” (Is 61:10)”. The resplendent daughter of this people is the Virgin Maryof Nazareth who, clothed with grace and sweetly marvellingat God’s presence in her womb, made this joy and hope herown in the canticle of the Magnificat: “My spirit rejoicesin God my Saviour”. She did not view herself as a fortunateindividual in the midst of a barren people, but prophesiedfor them the sweet joys of a wondrous maternity of God, for“his mercy is for those who fear him from generation togeneration” (Lk 1:47, 50).

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The Pope then later went on to make the all-importantstatement relevant to the Third Fatima Secret:

We would be mistaken to think that Fatima’s propheticmission is complete. Here there takes on new life the planof God which asks humanity from the beginning: “Where isyour brother Abel […] Your brother’s blood is crying out tome from the ground!” (Gen 4:9). Mankind has succeeded in

unleashing a cycle of death and terror, but failed inbringing it to an end…In sacred Scripture we often find that God seeks righteousmen and women in order to save the city of man and he doesthe same here, in Fatima, when Our Lady asks: “Do you wantto offer yourselves to God, to endure all the sufferingswhich he will send you, in an act of reparation for thesins by which he is offended and of supplication for theconversion of sinners?” (Memoirs of Sister Lúcia, I, 162).

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The Holy Father’s Fatima Homily is filled with a realistichope, based on the promised Triumph of the Immaculate Heart ofMary “in the end”. And we, too, can share in that same hopebased on that same promise. We must ever resist a tendencyfound amongst some Christians to focus upon all the ills ofthe world, seeing a conspiracy around every corner; or, likeSt. Peter, taking one’s eyes off Christ to focus on theterrifying, storm-tossed waves. Nevertheless, we must also berealistic. We well know of the great ancient enmity, thatthere is most definitely a diabolical conspiracy in processeven in our own very era. And so we have our work cut out.Theologian Frits Albers (RIP), who had studied for thepriesthood at Nijmegen (Holland), used to tell of theTeilhardian modernism in supposed Catholic places like LouvainUniversity back as early as the 1940’s.By the 1970’s, things had of course become far worse still. OnJune 29, 1972, His Holiness Pope Paul VI stunned the worldwith the alleged (some have disputed this) words: “From somefissure the smoke of satan entered into the temple of God. ...”.The testimony of veteran exorcist, Fr. Gabriele Amorth, mayserve to bring us right up to date about the present horrificstate of affairs even in the Vatican: the consequences of thatsatanic infiltration included power struggles at the Vaticanas well as “cardinals who do not believe in Jesus, and bishopswho are linked to the Demon”. It is always difficult toconfirm or verify, from a distance, the full accuracy of suchreports. But sometimes insiders will let the cat out of thebag, as did Communist, Bella Dodd, whom Archbishop Fulton J.Sheen converted in 1952. And as has Lt. General Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking intelligence officerever to have defected from the former Soviet bloc, who has told of his involvement in

a plot to discredit Pope Pius XII(See:http://article.nationalreview.com/303351/moscows-assault-on-the-vatican/ion-mihai-pacepaOn occasion readers can send us some very startling reports,certain of which tend, quite unrealistically, to attribute allpresumed conspiracies to the Jews. There was something of a light-hearted moment in the 2005documentary Protocols of Zion, which documents the rise of anti-Semitism in the US after the 9/11 attacks. Here wascommentator Marc Levin walking up and down the streets askingrandom people about Jews and anti-Semitism. He then comes upona group of feisty young street protestors, black Americans,one of whom argues with him about how, as he thinks, all theJews have taken over New York. Levin asks him what he means,and the guy responds,

“Even the mayor of New York [at the time, Giuliani] isJewish!”Levin tells the young pontificator that he’s wrong. “Oh really?” he says, “Jew-liani? Jew-liani? That doesn’tsound Jewish to you?” Everyone laughed.

Far less humorous, and much closer to home (Australia), isthis item:

Australian Adept Unveiled World SatanicControlby Henry Makow Ph.D.

January 3, 2010In an explosive deathbed confession, a former head of thesatanist “Alpha Lodge” in Sydney, Australia, revealed thepervasive worldwide power of organized Satanism, which issynonymous with the Illuminati.“Things are not as they seem – and they have not been for along, long time,” he wrote, describing a wholesale betrayalof society by its ostensible leaders.“Petor Narsagonan” aka “Frater 616” died March 25, 2004.Recently, his executor, an “Aloysius Fozdyke” (their

satanic names) sent the 15 pp. document by email to ArthurCristian, webmaster of “loveforlife.com.au”.“I have felt it necessary to edit very little of thiswork,” “Fozdyke” wrote to Cristian, “although legalconsiderations have ensured that some names and detailswere excised. It was his intention to have this publishedin the popular media.”What follows is a synopsis of this shocking documentfocusing on Satanic power and influence. Satanic influenceis “now so pervasive as not to be readily noticed,” Fratersays. Satanists are laced throughout Australian society,and the pattern is replicated everywhere. They includepoliticians, doctors, high ranking police officers,lawyers, decorated military men, media personalities,fashion models and social workers. The most talented havelifestyles maintained by crime under a veneer ofrespectable professionalism and knowledge. Marginal types(prostitutes, drug dealers) are important to Satanism butare merely tools.Frater explains he got involved in a satanic group inuniversity in 1971. “I fell through a crack in reality... Iescaped the mundane through one of western society’s faultlines”. “A mentor” in the Satanic network set him up in thetravel business and for years Frater live a life ofunimaginable wealth, occultism and debauchery. He studiedthe black arts: divination, dark meditation, sacrifice,sexual vampirism, voodoo dolls and sex magic. Each dayended with a “Black Mass orgy of unforgettable andunspeakable delight.” ….

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Excerpt from a Poem by recently deceased Sydney poet, PatrickMoylan

The woman of agony from the flaming furiesCame winging up from the underworld depthsTo start quarrels and warsUpon the Earth for unfortunate man.Her only pursuit to revel instrifeWith her mind a whirling

Locked into her hairNestle two coiled snakesPoised rearing to strike

vortexOf a thousand odd tricksTo deceive and cajole thenaivety of manAnd exploit opportunityTo cause any argumentOf one with anotherAnything she hopesThat will lead to blood-shedDestruction and famineSuffering and deathMadness among menBeing her greatest objective.

At her given commandBy the slightest pretextFrom her horrific snarledmouthLike that of a mad savage dogWith out-turned bared lipsFrom the underworld depthsHell-bent she rises in furyTo drag men down to the deepburied pitWonder you must in the eventsof manHow far she has advancedIn her planned Goal ofDeath ....

Now she glides across slowly...To stir the strifecauldronAs she wings on her wayWonder just whereShe is perched right thisminutePerhaps scanning the horizonFor more likely preyInnocently unsuspecting herinvisible presenceNever resting but planningunceasingTo satisfy her desire forbloodshed and death

Our blessed Lady years agorequestedDuring a time of violence andwarAt a place called FatimaFor your Rosary of PrayerTo block the HellspiritAnd stop her marauding andsowing of strifeTo regain world peaceIn the Great World WarYet since that distant timeSome well thinking religiouspeopleOutright refrainTo speak about FatimaAnd our Lady's requestsAs part of their choresOf church canon lawsBut please God let's hopeJust the sameThey'll not be blown up ....

We find a sharp contrast between the Marian-inspired hope ofpopes Benedict XVI and Francis, and the prevailing despair ofour times. It is like a drama story that is filled with manydark twists and turns, but with the author knowing that

ultimately it will finish on a happy note. The basis ofBenedict XVI’s and Francis’s hope has the same foundation asit had for the three Fatima seers: Jesus Christ.Pope Benedict again:

Moreover, that Light deep within the shepherd children,which comes from the future of God, is the same Light whichwas manifested in the fullness of time and came for us all:the Son of God made man. He has the power to inflame thecoldest and saddest of hearts, as we see in the case of thedisciples on the way to Emmaus (cf. Lk 24:32). Henceforthour hope has a real foundation, it is based on an eventwhich belongs to history and at the same time transcendshistory: Jesus of Nazareth. The enthusiasm roused by hiswisdom and his saving power among the people of that timewas such that a woman in the midst of the crowd – as weheard in the Gospel – cried out: “Blessed is the womb thatbore you, and the breasts that nursed you!”. And Jesussaid: “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of Godand obey it!” (Lk 11:27-28). But who finds time to hearGod’s word and to let themselves be attracted by his love?Who keeps watch, in the night of doubt and uncertainty,with a heart vigilant in prayer? Who awaits the dawn of thenew day, fanning the flame of faith? Faith in God opensbefore us the horizon of a sure hope, one which does notdisappoint; it indicates a solid foundation on which tobase one’s life without fear; it demands a faith-filledsurrender into the hands of the Love which sustains theworld.

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We must allow hope to evaporate the paralysing fear of ourtimes. In fact, though it might not seem so, the turning point mightalready have been reached. According to the conversationoverheard by Leo XIII, Satan was granted “75 to 100 years”.That was in 1884. And to what date do 100 years bring us fromthere? To 1984, and that was a most significant date inrelation to the Fatima prophecies (and possibly the yearintended in St. Don Bosco’s Dream). For it was in 1984 thatthere occurred the long-awaited and long-neglected collegialconsecration of Russia - but now also including the entireworld (since ‘Russia’s errors’ had by now gone out worldwide)

- to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. On the 25th of March 1984,in the square of St. Peter’s Basilica, the great Marian Pope,John Paul II, achieved the consecration in union with a moralmajority of the world’s bishops.

And this, after several unsuccessful attempts by the modernpopes. Sr. Lucia, at that stage the sole remaining Fatima seer,ultimately accepted that this was the act of consecration thatOur Lady of the Rosary had requested at Fatima. It was aconsecration that Heaven had asked for, and expected, back inthe 1920’s. But Satan had managed to thwart and delay it,owing to the lack of will on the part of most Catholics.Perhaps it took the near violent death and then miraculous‘resurrection’ of this great Marian pontiff, John Paul II, toachieve what had for so long remained unfulfilled.In my Fatima book, The Five First Saturdays (1994), a decade later –updated at:

The Five First Saturdays of Our Lady of Fatimahttp://www.academia.edu/3731625/

The_Five_First_Saturdays_of_Our_Lady_of_Fatima

I took up in some detail the attractive theme introduced byBlue Army writers, that the Fatima series echoed the drama of the Book ofEsther, both having a beginning and a concluding on the 13th dayof a month. In the case of Fatima, the initial series ofapparitions occurred between May 13 and October 13 of 1917,

culminating in the great solar miracle, ‘so that all wouldbelieve’. I likened the wicked edict of Haman, the enemy of theJews in the Book of Esther - who had planned to destroy theentire Jewish race, the church of that time - to Satan’s pitchfor souls, especially in the modern era. The terrifying Fatima apparition of Hell was Satan’s callingcard. Mordecai’s countermanding edict echoed of course theDivine work of salvation, and Our Lady of Fatima’s key role(like Queen Esther’s) in it, with a special culmination in1984. Error had gone out universally (Haman’s edict), but now(in 1984) God had applied the brakes to it (cf. Mordecai’sedict). Haman was exposed and executed, but his minions werestill active and the final victory would therefore be delayed.In contemporary terms, the cap had been placed securely overSatan’s destructive oil leak, shutting down its flow, but thesludge and pollution still remain everywhere.Is it too much to say that, along parallel lines with the Bookof Esther, the 1984 consecration was God’s countermandingEdict against the former unleashing of error? And that, withit, the Devil’s 100 years of being let off the leash werebrought to an end. A final crushing of his already crushedhead? And that it remains to mop up the mess, along withSatan’s still very active minions? Error to be reined in byTruth?People of good will on earth must co-operate to cap the far-reaching error spill; Truth, the antidote to error, needing tobe held up everywhere, in everything, at every level. As said,we have our work cut out. And it may be that, as in the dramaof Esther, it will all come down to a last throw of the diceand to a last minute rescue, with much “bloodshed … suffering anddeath” (as in Patrick Moylan’s poem above) at the end. For, asMordecai had dreamed (Esther 10:10-11): “For this purpose [God] madetwo lots, one for the people of God and one for all the nations, and these two lotscame to the hour and moment and day of decision before God and among all thenations”. Our ‘ray of hope’ at the end of all this ‘gloominess’ is thesure fulfilment of that other great Fatima promise: an era ofpeace and the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart. Pope BenedictXVI had well in mind this happy future for humankind when hesaid at Fatima, may “the seven years which separate us fromthe centenary of the apparitions hasten the fulfillment of the prophecy of

the triumph of the Immaculate Heart, to the glory of the BlessedTrinity.” In the meantime, as he went on to tell us:

... we must cultivate an interior watchfulness of the heartwhich, for most of the time, we do not possess on accountof the powerful pressure exerted by outside realities andthe images and concerns which fill our soul (cf.Theological Commentary on The Message of Fatima, 2000).Yes! God can come to us, and show himself to the eyes ofour heart. An example and encouragement is to be found inthe shepherd children, who offered their whole lives to Godand shared them fully with others for love of God. Our Ladyhelped them to open their hearts to universal love. ....Only with this fraternal and generous love will we succeedin building the civilization of love and peace.

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We greatly look forward with Pope Benedict XVI to Fatima inthe year of 2017:

In seven years [now only two years] you will return here tocelebrate the centenary of the first visit made by the Lady“come from heaven”, the Teacher who introduced the littleseers to a deep knowledge of the Love of the BlessedTrinity and led them to savour God himself as the mostbeautiful reality of human existence. This experience ofgrace made them fall in love with God in Jesus, so much sothat Jacinta could cry out: “How much I delight in tellingJesus that I love him! When I tell him this often, I feelas if I have a fire in my breast, yet it does not burn me”.And Francisco could say: “What I liked most of all wasseeing Our Lord in that light which Our Mother put into ourhearts. I love God so much!” (Memoirs of Sister Lúcia, I, 42 and126).