Signs of the Times  

    On the eve of the anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima--May 13, 1917:


  "......You are still in the period described by me in my apparition.  Above all, you are in the heart of my message.  The struggle between the Woman Clothed with the Sun and the Red  Dragon has, during these years, reached its highest peak.  Satan has set up a kingdom in the world.  He is now ruling over you as a sure victor.
       The powers which are directing and arranging human events, according to their perverse plans, are the dark and diabolic powers of evil.  They have succeeded in bringing all humanity to live without God.  They have spread everywhere the error of theoretical and practical atheism.  They have built the new idols before which humanity is bowing down in adoration; pleasure, money, pride, impurity, mastery over others, and impiety.
     Thus, in these years of yours, violence is spreading more and more.  Egoism has made the hearts of men hard and insensitive.  Hatred has blazed up like a scorching fire.  Wars have multiplied in every part of the world, and you are now living in the danger of a new terrible world war which will bring destruction to peoples and nations, a war from which no one will emergy victorious.
     Satan has succeeded in entering into the Church, the new Israel of God.  He has entered there with the smoke of error and sin, the loss of faith and apostasy, of compromise with the world and search for pleasure.  During these years, he has succeeded in leading astray bishops and priests, religious and faithful.
     The forces of Masonry have entered into the Church, in a subtle and hidden way, and have set up their stronghold in the very place where the Vicar of my Son Jesus lives and works.
     you are living the bloody years of the battle, because the great trial has now arrived for all....


to be continued.....