SHOOTING STRAIGHT
By Bobit S. Avila
The Philippine Star
The Philippine Star
Tomorrow is Holy Thursday and since The Philippine STAR won’t be out on Friday and Saturday, this will be my only column for the week. In deference to Holy Week, let me continue with what we wrote about the Secret of Fatima, which I know a lot of our readers want to know about.
Exactly a week ago, we already featured the first two Secrets of Fatima. So now here’s the third secret and the most enigmatic secret of Fatima, which was contained in a sealed envelop by Sister Lucia and revealed only by the Vatican on June 26, 2000. This is the exact words of Sister Lucia.
“After the two parts which I have already explained, at the left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendor that Our Lady radiated towards him from her right hand; pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice, ‘Penance, Penance, Penance!’.
And we saw in an immense light that is God: ‘something similar to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it’ a Bishop dressed in White ‘we had the impression that it was the Holy Father’. Other Bishops, Priests, men and women religious going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark: before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and half trembling with halting steps, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way.
Having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way there died one after another the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and various lay people of different ranks and positions. Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a crystal aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs and with its sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God.” The big question here is whether the man in white is the Pope? Specifically, whether it was the late Pope John Paul II or another Pope?
Writer Antonio Socci who wrote the book that we are quoting says that if it was Pope John Paul II, then the prophesies of Fatima have already been fulfilled. But many analysts insist that in the 3rd Secret, the Pope was actually killed, while we know that Pope John Paul II survived his assassination, insisting that it was the Blessed Virgin Mary herself who “deflected” the bullet fired by Ali Agca in St. Peter’s Square. So if the Pope in the 3rd Secret wasn’t Pope John Paul II, then writer Socci asks, “Who then was the Blessed Virgin Mary referring to… the present or a future Pope?”
After all the analysis, writer Socci insists that the 3rd Secret contains two texts, and since the first text that we have reprinted here is already out… he thinks that part of the 3rd Secret that is still unrevealed has yet to be made public. This is why he calls it the 4th Secret of Fatima. He concludes that the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II was not contained in the 3rd Secret of Fatima but nonetheless that attempt on his life was already prophesied by the Madonna on earlier apparitions of Mama Mary in Rue du Bac in 1830 and La Salette in Sept. 1846. Now does this 4th Secret contain the natural disaster the world is currently suffering? I hope not.
One thing is very clear; our Blessed Mother prophesied the start of World War II and the end of Communism. What she prophesied really came true! When Pope John XXIII read the 3rd secret, he decided to send the sealed envelope back to the Holy Office and had it “Quarantined” so it won’t be revealed to the public, so it won’t cause panic among the people. Pope Paul VI also read the sealed envelope, but decided that it contained nothing that wasn’t already written in the Bible, specifically in Revelations.
Hence these Popes never obeyed Mama Mary’s message to the children when she said, “If Russia is not consecrated to my Immaculate Heart, she will spread her errors.” Since these Popes never consecrated Russia, Communism spread at the end of World War II and ignited the Korean War, the Vietnam wars and all the other wars that the USSR engaged in, which entered into a “Cold War” with the United States of America and its NATO allies vs the Warsaw Pact countries.
Finally it was only Pope John Paul II who read the 3rd Secret of Fatima on July 18, 1981 after his assassination attempt in St. Peter’s Square on May 13, 1981. His first thoughts were to immediately do the Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. So what’s hanging now is whether the 4th Secret revealed in Fatima was about the natural disasters happening around the world at this time. For this Holy Week, let’s listen to the words of the angel, “Penance, Penance, Penance…” and never stop praying the Rosary as it is the most effective tool against evil.
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For email responses to this article, write to vsbobita@mozcom.com or vsbobita@gmail.com. His columns can be accessed through http://www.philstar.com.
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