5. “The chiefs, the leaders of the people of God have neglected prayer and penance, and the devil has bedimmed their intelligence. They have become wandering stars which the old devil will drag along with his tail to make them perish. God will allow the old serpent to cause divisions among those who reign in every society and in every family. Physical and moral agonies will be suffered. God will abandon mankind to itself and will send punishments which will follow one after the other for more than thirty-five years.
6. “The society of men is on the eve of the most terrible scourges and of the gravest events. Mankind must expect to be ruled with an iron rod and to drink from the chalice of the wrath of God.
7. “May the Vicar of my Son, Pope Pius IX, never leave Rome again after 1859; may he, however, be steadfast and noble, may he fight with the weapons of faith and love. I will be at his side.
8. “May he be on his guard against Napoleon: he is two-faced, and when he wishes to make himself Pope as well as Emperor, God will soon draw back from him. He is the mastermind who, always wanting to ascend further, will fall on the sword he wishes to use to force his people to be raised up.
9. “Italy will be punished for her ambition in wanting to shake off the yoke of the Lord of Lords. And so she will be left to fight a war; blood will flow on all sides. Churches will be locked up or desecrated. Priests and religious orders will be hunted down and made to die a cruel death. Several will abandon the faith, and a great number of priests and members of religious orders will break away from the true religion; among these people there will even be bishops.
10. “May the Pope guard against the performers of miracles. For the time has come when the most astonishing wonders will take place on the earth and in the air.
11. “In the year 1864, Lucifer together with many demons will be loosed from hell; they will put an end to faith little by little, even in those dedicated to God. They will blind them in such a way that, unless they are blessed with a special grace, these people will take on the spirit of these angels of hell. Several religious institutions will lose all faith and will lose many souls.
12. “Evil books will be abundant on earth and the sprits of darkness will spread everywhere a universal slackening of all that concerns the service of God. They will have great power over nature: there will be churches built to serve these spirits. People will be transported from one place to another by these evil spirits, even priests, for they will not have been guided by the good spirit of the Gospel which is a spirit of humility, charity, and zeal for the glory of God. On occasions, the dead and the righteous will be brought back to life.
[That is to say that these dead will take on the form of righteous souls which had lived on earth, in order to lead men further astray; these so-called resurrected dead, who will be nothing but the devil in this form, will preach another Gospel contrary to that of the true Christ Jesus, denying the existence of Heaven; that is also to say, the souls of the damned. All these souls will appear as if fixed to their bodies].182
“Everywhere there will be extraordinary wonders, as true faith has faded and false light brightens the people. Woe to the Princes of the Church who think only of piling riches upon riches to protect their authority and dominate with pride.
13. “The Vicar of my Son will suffer a great deal, because for a while the Church will yield to large persecution, a time of darkness and the Church will witness a frightful crisis.
14. “The true faith to the Lord having been forgotten, each individual will want to be on his own and be superior to people of the same identity. They will abolish civil rights as well as ecclesiastical; all order and all justice will be trampled underfoot and only homicides, hate, jealousy, lies and dissension will be seen without love for country or family.
15. “The Holy Father will suffer a great deal. I will be with him until the end and receive his sacrifice.
16. “The mischievous will attempt his life several times to do harm and shorten his days, but neither he nor his successor will see the triumph of the Church of God.
17. “All the civil governments will have one and the same plan, which will be to abolish and do away with every religious principle to make way for materialism, atheism, spiritualism, and vice of all kinds.
18. “In the year 1865, there will be desecration of holy places. In convents, the flowers of the Church will decompose and the devil will make himself like the King of all hearts. May those in charge of religious communities be on their guard against the people they must receive, for the devil will resort to all his evil tricks to introduce sinners into religious orders, for disorder and the love of carnal pleasures will be spread all over the earth.
19. “France, Italy, Spain, and England will be at war. Blood will flow in the streets. Frenchman will fight Frenchman, Italian will fight Italian. A general war will follow which will be appalling. For a time, God will cease to remember France and Italy because the Gospel of Jesus Christ has been forgotten. The wicked will make use of all their evil ways. Men will kill each other, massacre each other even in their homes.
20. “At the first blow of His thundering sword, the mountains and all of Nature will tremble in terror, for the disorders and crimes of men have pierced the vault of the heavens. Paris will burn and Marseilles will be engulfed. Several cities will be shaken down and swallowed up by earthquakes. People will believe that all is lost. Nothing will be seen but murder; nothing will be heard but the clash of arms and blasphemy. The righteous will suffer greatly. Their prayers, their penances, and their tears will rise up to Heaven and all of God’s people will beg for forgiveness and mercy and will plead for my help and intercession. And then Jesus Christ, in an act of His justice and His great mercy will command His Angels to have all His enemies put to death. Suddenly, the persecutors of the Church of Jesus Christ and all those given over to sin will perish and the earth will become desert-like. And then peace will be made, and man will be reconciled with God. Jesus Christ will be served, worshipped, and glorified. Charity will flourish everywhere. The new kings will be the right arm of the holy Church, which will be strong, humble, and pious in Its poor but fervent imitation of the virtues of Jesus Christ. The Gospel will be preached everywhere and mankind will make great progress in its faith, for there will be unity among the workers of Jesus Christ and man will live in fear of God.
21. “This peace among men will be short-lived. Twenty-five years of plentiful harvests will make them forget that the sins of men are the cause of all the troubles on this earth.
22. “A forerunner of the Antichrist, with his troops gathered from several nations, will fight against the true Christ, the only Savior of the world. He will shed much blood and will want to annihilate the worship of God to make himself be looked upon as a God.
23. “The earth will be struck by calamities of all kinds (in addition to plague and famine which will be widespread). There will be a series of wars until the last war, which will then be fought by the ten Kings of the Antichrist, all of whom will have one and the same plan and will be the only rulers of the world. Before this comes to pass, there will be a kind of false peace in the world. People will think of nothing but amusement. The wicked will give themselves over to all kinds of sin. But the children of the holy Church, the children of my faith, my true followers, they will grow in their love for God and in all the virtues most precious to me. Blessed are the souls humbly guided by the Holy Spirit! I shall fight at their side until they reach a fullness of years.
24. “Nature is asking for vengeance because of man, and she trembles with dread at what must happen to the earth stained with crime.
25. “Tremble, earth, and you who proclaim yourselves as serving Jesus Christ and who, on the inside, only adore yourselves; tremble, for God will hand you over to His enemy, because the holy places are in a state of corruption. Many convents are no longer houses of God, but the grazing-grounds of Asmodeus and his like.
26. “It will be during this time that the Antichrist will be born of a H
ebrew nun, a false virgin who will communicate with the old serpent, the master of impurity, his father will be B. At birth, he will spew out blasphemy; he will have teeth; in a word, he will be the devil incarnate. He will scream horribly; he will perform wonders; he will feed on nothing but impurity. He will have brothers who, although not devils incarnate like him, will be children of evil. At the age of twelve, they will draw attention upon themselves by the gallant victories they will have won; soon they will each lead armies, aided by the legions of hell.
27. “The seasons will be altered; the earth will produce nothing but bad fruit; the stars will lose their regular motion; and the moon will only reflect a faint reddish glow. Water and fire will give the earth’s globe convulsions and terrible earthquakes which will swallow up mountains, cities, etc.
28. “Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of the Antichrist.
29. “The demons of the air together with the Antichrist will perform great wonders on earth and in the atmosphere, and men will become more and more perverted. God will take care of His faithful servants and men of good will. The Gospel will be preached everywhere, and all peoples of all nations will get to know the truth.
30. “I make an urgent appeal to the earth. I call on the true disciples of the living God who reigns in Heaven; I call on the true followers of Christ made man, the only true Savior of men; I call on my children, the true faithful, those who have given themselves to me so that I may lead them to my divine Son, those whom I carry in my arms, so to speak, those who have lived on my spirit. Finally, I call on the Apostles of the Last Days, the faithful disciples of Jesus Christ who have lived in scorn for the world and for themselves, in poverty and in humility, in scorn and in silence, in prayer and in mortification, in chastity and in union with God, in suffering and unknown to the world. It is time they came out and filled the world with light. Go and reveal yourselves to be my cherished children. I am at your side and within you, provided that your faith is the light which shines upon you in these unhappy days. May your zeal make you famished for the glory and the honor of Jesus Christ. Fight, children of light, you, the few who can see. For now is the time of all times, the end of all ends.
31. “The Church will be in eclipse; the world will be in dismay. But now Enoch and Eli will come, filled with the Spirit of God. They will preach with the might of God, and men of goodwill will believe in God, and many souls will be comforted. They will make great steps forward through the virtue of the Holy Spirit and will condemn the devilish lapses of the Antichrist.
32. “Woe to the inhabitants of the earth! There will be bloody wars and famines, plagues and infectious diseases. It will rain with a fearful hail of animals. There will be thunderstorms which will shake cities, earthquakes which will swallow up countries. Voices will be heard in the air. Men will beat their heads against walls, call for their death, and on another side, death will be their torment. Blood will flow on all sides. Who will be the victor if God does not shorten the length of the test? All the blood, the tears and prayers of the righteous, God will relent. Enoch and Eli will be put to death. Pagan Rome will disappear. The fire of Heaven will fall and consume three cities. All the universe will be struck with terror and many will let themselves be led astray because they have not worshipped the true Christ who lives among them. It is time; the sun is darkening; only faith will survive.
33. “Now is the time; the abyss is opening. Here is the king of kings of darkness; here is the Beast with his subjects, calling himself the Savior of the world. He will rise proudly into the air to go to Heaven. He will be smothered by the breath of the Archangel Saint Michael. He will fall, and the earth, which will have been in a continuous series of evolutions for three days, will open its fiery bowels; and he will be plunged for all eternity with all his followers into the everlasting chasms of hell. And then water and fire will purge the earth and consume all the works of men’s pride and all will be renewed. God will be served and glorified.”
Mélanie Calvat, Apparition of the Blessed Virgin on the Mountain of La Salette (Lecce, Imprimatur by Msgr. Bishop of Lecce, 1879).
180 The 1870 Siege of Paris was followed by widespread destruction in the city, during which much of its historical heritage was lost.
181 The Germans systematically destroyed the old industrial sector and port of Marseilles in 1944.
182 Mélanie added the comment (in brackets) about the dead and righteous who will appear to be brought back to life. In a letter to Abbé Combe, the editor of the 1904 edition of Le Secret de Mélanie, she states that she made this comment “according to the Vision which I had in the moment that the very Blessed Virgin was speaking of the resurrection of the dead.” Le Secret de Mélanie, 29–30.
Timeline of Liturgical Changes
1911: Pope Pius X introduces a new arrangement of the Psalter for use in the breviary.
1949: Pius XII gives permission to the Chinese to celebrate the vernacular Mass except that the Roman Canon had to remain in Latin.
1955: Pius XII issues a thorough liturgical reform of Holy Week. Changes include that the priest is assigned more to the chair and less to the altar. On Holy Saturday, the triple candle (trikirion) is abolished. The Maundy Thursday and Easter Vigil Masses are moved from the morning to the evening.
1957: Pius XII reduces the Eucharistic fast to three hours before Communion.
1958: Pius XII gives permission (months before he died) to bishops of Germany, Austria, and the German parts of Switzerland to proclaim the Lesson/Epistle and Gospel of the Mass in the vernacular from the altar.
1959: In the missal, John XXIII removes the word perfidis (Latin: “faithless”) from the Good Friday prayer for the Jews and adds the name of Saint Joseph to the Canon of the Mass.
1960: Pope John XXIII changes the liturgical calendar and removes the feast of the Circumcision from January 1.
1962: Vatican II opens under John XXIII.
1963: Vatican II passes Sacrosanctum concilium, the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, calling for the vernacular and more lay participation.
1964: Pope Paul VI reduces the Eucharistic fast to one hour before receiving the Communion.
1964: The Leonine Prayers are suppressed by the instruction Inter oecumenici.
1965: Vatican II closes under Paul VI.
1965: A provisional missal is issued. The changes include these: use of the vernacular is permitted; freestanding altars are encouraged; the psalm Judica at the beginning and the Last Gospel and Leonine Prayers at the end are omitted.
1966: National episcopal conferences are ratified by Pope Paul VI’s motu proprio Ecclesiae sanctae.
1967: Priestly concelebration is allowed, and Communion under both species is allowed to the laity.
1967: Married deacons are allowed by Pope Paul VI in Sacrum diaconatus ordinem.
1968: Pope Paul VI changes the Rites of Ordination for bishops, priests, and deacons.
1969: Paul VI grants an indult for Holy Communion in the hand to nations where it is “already the custom” (Holland, Belgium, France, and Germany).
1969: Pope Paul VI promulgates the Novus Ordo Missae with his Apostolic Constitution Missale Romanum of 3 April.
1970: The Novus Ordo Missale of Pope Paul VI is published.
1970: The Society of Saint Pius X (Fraternitas Sacerdotalis Sancti Pii X) is founded by Archbishop Lefebvre in order to allow priests to celebrate the 1962 Mass.
1971: Paul VI bars cardinals over eighty years old from voting in papal elections.
1972: The minor orders of porter, exorcist, and subdeacon are abolished by Pope Paul VI in Ministeria quaedam.
1973: Extraordinary lay Eucharistic ministers are allowed.
1975: Pope Paul VI expands number of cardinal electors from the traditional 70 to 120.
1977: An indult to receive Communion on the hand is granted to United States.
1988: SSPX Archbishop Lefebvre consecrates four bishops at Écône.
1988: The Priestly Fraternity of Sai
nt Peter (FSSP) is created.
1992: Altar girls are allowed by John Paul II.
2007: The option to celebrate the Latin Mass is granted to all priests by Pope Benedict XVI in Summorum Pontificum.
Dates of Indults for Communion in Hand
On the following dates, the indults for Communion in the Hand were granted by Pope Paul VI:
Holland, Belgium, France, and Germany, 29 May 1969
South Africa, 3 February 1970
Canada, 12 February 1970
Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), 2 October 1971
Zambia, 11 March 1974
New Zealand, 24 April 1974
Australia, 26 September 1975
England and Wales, 6 March 1976
Papua and New Guinea, 28 April 1976
Ireland, 4 September 1976
Pakistan, 29 October 1976
United States, 17 June 1977
Scotland, 7 July 1977
Malaysia and Singapore, 3 October 1977
Timeline of the Life of Ex-Cardinal McCarrick
July 7, 1930: Theodore E. McCarrick is born to Theodore E. McCarrick and Margaret McLaughlin. When McCarrick is three, his father dies. As a child, McCarrick attends Catholic elementary school.
1946: McCarrick is expelled from Xavier High School.
September 1947: McCarrick begins at Fordham Prep.
May 1949: McCarrick graduates from Fordham Prep with honors.
1949–Aug 1950: McCarrick in Sankt Gallen from ages nineteen to twenty.
20 July 1950: At a Carthusian monastery in Switzerland, McCarrick receives his calling to be a priest.
September 1950: Twenty-year-old McCarrick returns to New York to study at Fordham University.
31 May 1958: Francis Cardinal Spellman ordains McCarrick to the priesthood in the Archdiocese of New York.
1958–1963: McCarrick earns a second master’s degree in social sciences and a Ph.D. in sociology from the Catholic University of America.
1963–1965: McCarrick is assistant chaplain, dean of students, and director of development at the Catholic University of America.
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