A Decisive Moment in
World History

In the year 2008, we face precisely the situation forewarned by the Virgin at Fatima if Her request for the Consecration of Russia were not heeded: Russia has “spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions against the Church.” The good have been martyred, with no end in sight, and the Holy Father has had, and will continue to have, “much to suffer.”

Abortion remains rampant around the world, while the march of homosexualism through once Christian nations threatens to impose criminal penalties on those who rightly uphold the Church’s condemnation of sodomy. The debacle in Iraq, the explosive situation in the Middle East, the threat of a nuclear Korea and a nuclear China allied with Russia, and the proliferation of earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes and other natural disasters around the world — combine to bring us ever closer to the brink of an apocalypse. Even non-religious people sense that the world cannot continue this way much longer. As the Mother of God warned us, if we do not act in time, “various nations will be annihilated.”

No other approach to world peace in our time will suffice, save the one God prescribed for man at Fatima. For once God has sent a prophet to proclaim a remedy for a problem of the human condition — as He did with Naaman, who was told to bathe seven times in the River Jordan to cure his leprosy — it is impossible for God to revise His instruction.

God does not change His mind, nor does God retract His commands to suit human preferences. “I the Lord do not change” (Malachi 3:6). In this case, therefore, God will not substitute a consecration of the world for a Consecration of Russia merely because the Pope’s advisors think a Consecration of Russia is politically inadvisable. All human efforts to amend God’s instructions will produce only failure and ruin. Just as Naaman would have remained a leper had he bathed only six times in the Jordan or chosen some other river in which to bathe, so will the decline of the world toward disaster continue to accelerate unless and until the precise remedy prescribed by God’s chosen prophet for our time — the Mother of God Herself — is applied.

An artist’s rendering of the Rianjo 1931 message “Make it known ...”

However, there is still time to avert catastrophe. Sister Lucy’s diaries record that at Rianjo, Spain in August 1931 Our Lord, speaking of a protracted failure of His ministers to consecrate Russia, told her:

"Make it known to My ministers that given they follow the example of the King of France in delaying the execution of My command,⁸⁹ they will follow him into misfortune … They [the ministers of the Catholic Church] did not want to heed My command. Like the King of France they will repent of it, and they will do it, but it will be late. Russia will already have spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions against the Church. The Holy Father will have much to suffer.”⁹⁰

How late it will be, and whether the final consequence of the annihilation of nations can be avoided, depends upon our prayers and sacrifices and upon those whom Our Lord referred to as “My ministers.” It is they — the Pope and the Catholic bishops of the world — who are able to heed the Virgin’s request and thus avoid the annihilation of various nations and the enslavement of the whole world which is the last unfulfilled warning of the Fatima prophecy.

Consequently, it is these ministers of the Catholic Church who must be petitioned to fulfill what the Pope himself called the obligation imposed upon the Church at Fatima.

We must pray for the Pope and the bishops to do the Consecration. Jesus said: “Pray a great deal for the Holy Father, he will do it but it will be late.”

We must remember Our Lady's promise and prediction. She said: “In the end, My Immaculate Heart will triumph, the Holy Father will consecrate Russia to Me, it will be converted and a period of peace will be given to mankind.” It will be “in the end,” after a great struggle. We need to remember that Jesus told us, “It is never too late to have recourse to Jesus and Mary.” We must pray, especially the Rosary. Remember the Fatima Message tells us:

“Only Our Lady of the Rosary can help you.”

We must remember Jesus said:

“Make it known to My ministers.” Take these words of Our Lord as directed to yourself. Be informed about the full Fatima Message. Read all the booklets shown on page 55 and be sure to tell others, especially the bishops of the Catholic Church, about their awesome responsibility to do the Consecration of Russia before it is too late for all of us in this generation! Give them a copy of this booklet and the other Fatima booklets to remind them of their duty.