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PROPHECY: DEATH OF WORLD'S
MOST FAMOUS LOCUTIONIST COINCIDES WITH INTRIGUING REMARK
It
seemed like a slow news week, on the prophetic beat. Perhaps not any longer.
First was the news that Italian priest-locutionist
Father Stefano Gobbi of Milan -- known around the world for cenacles and
alleged messages from the Virgin Mother (the Vatican advises that they be
called "meditations") -- had died at 81 after suffering a heart attack.
At least according to initial information from the
Marian Movement of Priests -- which Father Gobbi founded -- his death came
at three p.m. -- the Mercy Hour, and a fitting one for a priest immersed
in the mysticism of Mary, which has always been linked to the Divine Mercy
revelations.
The death of Pope John Paul II, who was a
powerfully Marian pontiff, was likewise connected to Divine Mercy.
According to Tammy Ouellette, national
secretary for the U.S. Marian Movement of Priests in Maine (which was founded on
Father Gobbi's reputed locutions), the priest's heart was "very
damaged" by an attack on June 19. He underwent a bypass operation in 1998 but doctors
were
unable to operate further. Funeral arrangements are pending.
Was
there mystical significance in the death of this locutionist who issued
many "meditations' about prophetic aspects of the time in which we live?
It was Father Gobbi who saw the current time
as a "decisive," apocalyptic one -- often mentioning the anti-christ and
red dragon. He also mentioned natural events coming as "chastisements,"
and referred in his messages to the secrets of both Fatima and Medjugorje.
At the same time, there was the thirtieth
anniversary of the first alleged apparitions in Medjugorje and release of
an interview with seer Ivan Dragicevic that on its face seemed a bit
surprising -- coming from a seer who virtually always avoids discussion of
the future.
In the interview
(conducted by long-time Medjugorje supporters Denis and Cathy Nolan of
Mary TV
in Notre Dame,
Indiana) Ivan said, "These apparitions of Our Lady are a great crossroads
for humanity, a new call, a new way, a new future for mankind. But how
aware are we of the messages? Do they go to our heart? Do we live them?
"For thirty years we have had a message, you
could say, each day from Our Lady. Can we live these messages in one life
time? For a few years we had a message every Thursday and then we had a
message once a month. Why? Our Lady was giving us more time to
understand each message. It is important to use our time well, to live
the messages.
“Many pilgrims, even priests, don’t understand why Our Lady has been
coming every day, what she could be saying to me every day and what I have
to say to her every day. I have to tell you we talk a lot! One day when
things are revealed, you will understand, your eyes will be opened.
"When we see the
physical changes that will happen in the world, we will understand
why she came every day. (I am not talking about the secrets!) The time
before us is one of great responsibility."
Ivan doesn't usually use such words. When
we see the physical changes that will happen in the world, we will
understand why she came every day.
Clearly, if we believe in Medjugorje
(currently under Vatican study) we are galvanized by his confirmation that
the world will change around us. It is also fascinating that such change
may not be what is in his secrets, or at least not in their entirety.
Secrets are a unique phenomenon, and
visionaries throughout history who have received them have not necessarily
been given the entire prophetic picture in those secrets -- which can be
small snippets of larger events that are not fully covered in prophecies
they have been given: pieces of a puzzle.
Indeed, we were with seer Marija Pavlovic of
Medjugorje two days before September 11, 2001, and she indicated no
awareness of imminent events -- even jabbing at us jokingly when we spoke
at a joint conference of "fire" that was about to fall on the U.S. because
of its waywardness (later, she sent word expressing fascination that
indeed fire had fallen).
Let us recall that while, at Fatima, seer
Lucia dos Santos received secrets predicting the coming of another great
war, as well as persecution, there was no explicit mention of the Nazi
holocaust nor of the great Ukrainian famine that interwove with the war.
It is fascinating stuff and it was discussed
at great length in the meditations of Father Gobbi -- which galvanized
many priests who otherwise may have been discouraged.
His predictions were not etched in stone.
Indeed, one saw the major events he was prophesying as occurring by the
year 2000 (which obviously they did not). There were other "misses" as
well. Church authorities requested that the title of his message book be
changed from Our Lady Speaks to Her Beloved Priests to the less
definitive, To the Priests, Our Lady's Beloved Sons. We must be
careful in discerning this. Take only what is good. He once quoted the
Blessed Mother as saying "that at the end of the Marian Year (1987-88) the
secrets that I gave in Medjugorje will be announced." Of course, they were
not.
But the gist of his messages seemed to
coincide with world events -- and Gobbi foresaw the shocking fall of
Communism (when political commentators and other "experts" never saw it
coming). In fact, Father Gobbi pronounced the imminent fall of Communism
while speaking during 1988 in Vienna to priests from countries under the
yoke of Communism -- quoting Mary as saying that "the moment of their
liberation is close." Again, we must recall how swiftly Communism soon
fell -- and unexpectedly.
He was praying in a chapel built at the spot
of the Fatima apparitions when he first experienced "an interior force."
During
the following twenty years Mary would speak regularly to Gobbi not in
apparition but as a "voice" in his heart and consciousness. His last
public message was on December 31, 1997.
Such locutions are subject to great question,
since a voice can easily be a trick of the subconscious, but there was
power and coherence in certain of Father Gobbi's messages, and if he was
truly hearing the Madonna's voice, we are indeed in those days immediately
preceding the fulfillment of major prophecies (as well as the clash
between Mary and the dragon spoken about in the thirteenth chapter of
Revelation).
Night had now fallen upon the world, Mary
seemingly lamented to Gobbi. It was the time of Satan's greatest triumph.
There were even people attacking the purity of Jesus---"such a
horrible and satanic blasphemy that all Heaven is, as it were, dismayed
and incredulous!" For that and other reasons, a "tremendous and now
inevitable storm" was about to break upon humanity; the "demon of
corruption, the spirit of lust, has seduced all the nations of the world!
Not one of them is any longer preserved."
Our Blessed Mother also lamented that Satan
would "make every effort to remove me further from the hearts of my
faithful, in order to keep me even more obscured in the Church. He is now
engaging in the greatest battle against me, the decisive one, in which one
of us two will be defeated forever."
Because the demon of lust has "contaminated
everything," nothing could any longer hold back "the hand of God's
justice, which will soon be roused against Satan and his followers."
In ringing words nearly identical to those which would be spoken at
Medjugorje, she declared that "this is the hour of the power of
darkness."
Father Gobbi was 42 at the time of his first
locution, a native of the lake region north of Milan, ordained in 1964
after working for a real estate and insurance company. His locutions were
specifically addressed to priests whom Mary sought to form into a special
cohort for her struggle. "My angels have already begun the battle,"
she told Gobbi on October 24, 1975. "At my order they are bringing
these sons of mine together from all parts of the world." It was the
crucial role of these priests to "live only for my Son Jesus, carrying
out the Gospel to the letter," which would enable them to outweigh the
faithless priests "who no longer believe and yet they still remain in
my Church, true wolves in sheep's clothing."
Though Satan might rage against her cohort,
she said he would not be able to touch a hair on the head of anyone
consecrated to her.
The angels were being sent, she said, to keep
them from the devil's snares.
But priests needed to pay more attention to
the high praises of Christ and recitation of the Rosary.
That was what Mary most desired, what she most
persistently urged, what she always, always begged: prayer.
Prayer would defeat Satan. Prayer would help
the Church through its Calvary. You couldn't pray too much. "At Fatima,
I pointed to my Immaculate Heart as a means for the salvation of all
humanity," she said. "I pointed out the way of return to God. But I
was not listened to." The First Saturday devotion never really caught
on, and as for fasting and sacrifice, it was now even difficult to get
Catholics to forsake meat on Fridays, let alone to fast on bread and
water.
On July 28, 1973, Mary told Gobbi that the
time of apostasy---the great loss of faith emphasized at Fatima and
mentioned long before by Paul in his Second Letter to the Thessalonians---was
unfolding. Attendance at Mass continued to decrease, both in America and
in strongholds such as France, where she'd made such an effort through
apparitions, and priests were being seduced or discouraged by Satan.
Enemies of the Church were seizing professorships in the seminaries and
colleges, making them into what Pius X called "chairs of pestilence" and
sin was justified and even extolled by academics, movie makers, and the
media. Laymen had stopped going to Confession, acting like devotion to
Mary or the communion of saints was an antiquated superstition. Many
Christians have been made a "sport" by Satan, complained the Virgin,
"obscuring my place in the Church and obliterating me in souls!"
Such an hour is the hour "when the
abomination of desolation is truly entering into the holy temple of God,"
said the meditations. Even the pope, Paul VI, remarked in 1977 that after
rereading the biblical accounts of the end times, "I attest that, at this
time, some signs of the end are emerging."
The Church had been forsaken, deprived of its
inhabitants, desolated, the subject of apostasy, and as a result, mankind
was approaching the brink of what Mary called "the greatest storm in
history."
Mary,
Take Over! an
anointed, inspirational account of how the Blessed Mother -- as Undoer
of Knots -- should be handed our daily trials large and small as we
watch her work wonders with them -- turning obstacles into miracles! This
booklet is by the same group that brings us 'Mary Undoer of Knots' and
though small brims with powerful examples of how the Virgin Mary can enter
any situation -- can help you against any 'Goliath' -- and make things better than ever.
CLICK HERE