Signs of the Times  

    "Beloved children, begin this new year in the immaculate light of my divine maternity.  I am your Mother as well, by the Will of my Son, Jesus.
     And, as Mother, I want to take you by the hand and accompany you on the threshold of this decade...It is a very important decade.  It is a period of time particularly marked by a strong presence of the Lord among you.  During the last decade of your century, the events which I have foretold to you will have reached their completion.  Therefore it is necessary that you allow yourselves to be formed, one and all , by my motherly action.

   --I am forming you in your hearts, in order to bring you to conversion and to open to yuo a new capacity for love.  In this way, I heal you of the malady of egoism and aridity.

  --I am forming you in your souls, helping you to cultivate in them the great gift of divine grace, of purity, and of charity.  And, as in a heavenly garden, I am bringing to blossom the flowers of all the virtues which cause you to grow in holiness.  Thus I remove from you the shadow of evil, the coldness of sin, the wilderness of impurity.

  --I am forming you in your bodies, causing to shine forth in them the light of the Spirit who is dwelling there as in a living temple of his.  Thus I lead you along the way of purity, of beauty, of harmony, of joy, of peace, of communion with all Paradise.

    During these years I am preparing you, by my motherly action, to receive the Lord who is coming.  This is why I have asked you for the consecration to my Immaculate Heart; to form all of you in that interior docility which is necessary for me in order that I may be able to work in each one of you, brigning you to a profound transformation which should prepare you to receive  the Lord worthily.

   I am the Mother of the Second Advent.
   I am preparing you for his new coming.  I am opening the way to Jesus who is returning to you in glory.  Make level high hills of pride, of hatred, of violence.  Fill in the valleys dug by vices, by passions, by impurity.  Clear away the barren soil of sin and of the rejection of God.
   As a sweet and merciful Mother, today I urge my children: I urge all humanity to prepare the way for the Lord who is coming.  At the beginning of this last decade of your century, the task which the Lord has entrusted to me is that of preparing his coming among you.  For this reason, I ask all to return to the Lord along the road of conversion of heart and of life, because this is still the favorable time which the Lord has granted you.
     I urge all to consecrate themselves to my Immaculate Heart, entrusting yourselves to me as little children, so that I may be able to lead you along the road to holiness, in the joyous practice of all the virtues; of faith, of hope, of charity, of prudence, of fortitude, of justice, of temperance, of silence, of humility, of purity, of mercy.
    I am forming you to prayer which must always be carried out by you in union with me.  Multiply, in every part of the world, the cenacles of prayer which I have asked of you, like torches lit in the night, like sure points of reference, like shelters needed and sought for.  Above all, I ask that family cenacles be multiplied more and more, in order to provide you with a safe dwelling place in the great trial which is now awaiting you.
    I am the Mother of the Second Advent.  Allow yourselves therefore to be formed and prepared by me, during these years, so that you can be ready to receive Jesus, who will come in glory to restore among you his reign of love, of holiness, of justice and of peace."

                                                                                                         Rubbio (Vicenza, Italy)
                                                                  Jan. 1, 1990-Solemnity of the Mary, Mother of God

  Note:  Anyone interested in obtaining the book, "Marian Movement of Priests" and how to start a cenacle in your area can write to their national headquarters @ POB 8, St. Francis, ME 04774-0008--we would also direct you to one of our past shows on Fr. Gobbi where there is more info)