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October 7, 1986
Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary Anniversary of the Victory of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lepanto |
a "I am the Queen of the Holy Rosary. I am your Leader
who is guiding you
in the terrible battle against Satan and all the spirits of evil. If you allow yourselves to be led with
docility by me, you will
always feel at your side the precious help which is given to you by the angels of the
Lord, the blessed and the saints of paradise, and all the souls who
are still being purified in purgatory.
b I am, in fact, the Leader of one single cohort.
Today, as you recall the date of one
of my great victories, I want to call
upon you to fight, with courage and confidence, without allowing yourselves to become alarmed at the
subtle and dangerous tactics made use of by my Adversary to bring you to discouragement.
d For this reason, I want to uncover for you three traps
which form part of a
particular strategy employed by my Adversary, in this
great battle.
— The
first is that of
spreading about the certainty that he has already succeeded in conquering the whole world, that he
has established his
reign in it and that he fully exercises his power there. His great conquest is this
human race, which has rebelled against
God and which is repeating his proud act of defiance:'I will not serve the Lord!'A most
dangerous means, made use of by
Satan in these times, is that of giving the impression that there is no longer
anything more to be done, that one will no longer succeed in changing anything, and that it has
already become useless to
make any kind of an effort to lead humanity along
the road of return to God and to good.
f And so your heavenly Mother is assuring you that even
this humanity forms a precious part of the
people of God, won by Jesus at the
price of his blood, shed to the last drop for its salvation. God, especially today, is alone the victor;
and He loves all the poor sick
humanity which has been snatched from Him; and He is preparing the moment when, by the greatest miracle of
his
merciful love, He lead it along the road of return to Himself, that at last it may be able to know a new era of peace, of love, of holiness and of joy. For this reason, I
am inviting you always to make use
of the powerful weapon of trust, of filial abandonment, of a great and boundless charity, of a complete availability for all the spiritual and material needs
of your neighbor and of a motherly and unlimited mercy.
9 — The second is that of having succeeded in putting the Church in a state of grave difficulty, shaking it to its
foundation, by the wind of
contestation, of division, of infidelity and of apostasy. Many are losing courage, as they see how numerous
today are those pastors who are
allowing themselves to be deceived by his subtle and dangerous action.
h The means which you must use to fight back against this
ambush of his is
that of your consecration to my Immaculate Heart, because the Church, even though it appears wounded, darkened and routed today, has been
entrusted by Jesus to the loving protection of
your heavenly Mother. I want to help it, console
it and heal it through you, beloved children consecrated to my Heart and
docile instruments of my motherly will. Through
you, I am pouring balm upon its painful wounds, comforting the hours of its desolate passion and
preparing the moment of its greatest renewal.
I am doing this, in these times, in a very special way,
through my Pope John
Paul II, who is bringing the sign of my motherly presence
everywhere. He is giving you the battle sign; he is guiding you in the struggle; he is teaching you courage and confidence; he is already announcing to you my sure
victory. Follow him along the road
which he points out, if you wish to prepare, with me, a new and radiant Pentecost for the whole Church.
— The third is that of succeeding in spreading
everywhere, through all means of social communication, his
wicked works of destruction
and death. Thus, divisions are multiplying; impurity is being exalted; corruption is extensive; violence
is becoming more and
more widespread; hatred is flooding the land, and wars are expanding menacingly.
k To fight and conquer all this evil,
which is attempting to submerge the entire
human race, you must have recourse to the powerful weapon of prayer. In fact, the new era will be able to come to you only as a gift of the Spirit of the
Lord, not as the fruit of the work of man. And so it is necessary to ask for
this gift through a continual, incessant, and trusting prayer.
I Pray with me. All the Church must
enter into the cenacle of my Immaculate
Heart, to invoke, with the heavenly Mother, a very special outpouring of the Holy Spirit, which will lead it to live
the experience of a second and radiant Pentecost.
M Pray
above all the prayer of the holy rosary. Let the rosary be, for everyone, the powerful weapon to be made
use of in these times.
* The rosary brings you to peace. With this prayer, you are able to obtain from the Lord the great grace of a change of hearts, of the conversion of souls, and of the return of all
humanity to God, along the
road of repentance, of love, of divine grace and of holiness.
Then
you will no longer say: 'But, always and everywhere, everything remains just as it was.
Nothing ever changes!' —This is not true, my
beloved children. Each day, in silence and in hiddenness, the heavenly Mother is waging her battle against the Adversary and is working, by means of most
extraordinary signs and
manifestations, to change the heart of the world."
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