Liberates us from
Pop-slogans

The truth has a liberating quality. Our Lord said “the truth shall make you free”. And the Fatima Message liberates us from falling for the many empty slogans so popular today. It keeps us from falling for the slogan that the godless United Nations is “the last great hope of peace for mankind.” It keeps us from falling for the slogan that we are now entering a “new springtime” with the advent of the new millennium. It keeps us from falling for the slogan that we are now on the threshold of some new “civilization of love” where Catholics and members of false religions can play down their differences to work together in order to make the world a better place. (Interestingly, the notion that Catholics and non-Catholics can work together to build some sort of new “civilization of love” was actually condemned by Pope St. Pius X when he condemned the Sillon movement in France in 1910.)

We must notice that those two terms so popular right now “A New Springtime” and “A Civilization of Love” — neither one of those two terms contain any mention of Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart. Yet Our Lady at Fatima did indeed promise a great victory. But She did not call it a “new springtime”, nor did She call it a “civilization of love”. It was called “The Triumph of My Immaculate Heart.”

Our Lady came to Fatima with the Message that “God wants to establish in the world devotion to My Immaculate Heart.” There will be no victory, there will be no “new springtime” without a sufficient number of Catholics fulfilling faithfully the requests of Our Lady of Fatima. This has to be our center of gravity.

Now, let’s take a quick review of Her requests.

At Fatima, Our Lady asked us to:

• recite at least Five Decades of the Rosary every day,



• wear the Brown Scapular,



• offer our Daily Duty to God as an act of sacrifice,



• make Five First Saturdays of Reparation to Her Immaculate Heart,



• Our Lady also requested that the Pope, in union with all the bishops of the world, consecrate Russia to Her Immaculate Heart, promising Russia’s conversion through this means, and a period of peace to be given to the world.

This consecration has yet to be accomplished.

My little contribution to the demonstration that Russia has not been consecrated, and has not converted, comes from a short article in the August 9, 1999, Toronto Sun; which reported that Larry Flynt, the so-called “King of Pornography,” has just launched in Moscow a Russian version of Hustler magazine.

Now, for any of you who don’t know what this is, Hustler magazine is one of the most graphic, pornographic magazines in the United States. It is a multi-million dollar industry with a huge circulation. Larry Flynt boasted that he has sent free subscriptions of this magazine to every member of the Russian parliament. This is 15 years after the 1984 consecration; a consecration which did not mention Russia by name, as Our Lady had requested.

In the Triumph of Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart, Larry Flynt will not be able to get away with that!