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Subject:      Secrets of Fatima

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Note 127.0              POPE AND SECRET LETTER OF FATIMA              16 replies
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    Pope John Paul II, on his visit to Germany in the fall of
    1980, was asked by pilgrims about the Secret Leter of fatima.
    His response appeared in the paper STIMME DES GLAUBENS
    after his visit.  According to the paper the Holy Father said the
    following:

       "It should have been made public in 1960, but because of
    its troubling content, and to dissuade the superpowers from
    undertaking war, my predecessors in the papal chair have
    chosen the diplomatic way."  The Pope thus admitted the
    authenticity of th excerpt made by Pope Paul VI."  All chris-
    tians should be content in the knowledge that the oceans will
    inundate whole continents, and millions of people will die from
    one moment to the next.  Hearing this, people should not long
    for the rest of the secret."

       "Many people would like to know the secret only for
    sensation.  They forget, however, that along with knowledge
    goes responsibility.  They want only to satisfy their curiosity;
    they are not concerned to do anything to avert the impending
    times of trouble-and this is a dangerous attitude." Then the
    Pope took in his hand the rosary and said, "This is the remedy
    that should be used in our struggle against evil.  Pray the rosary
    daily! Pray, pray, and do not inquire anymore.  Everything else
    should be entrusted to the Holy Mother of God."

        He was then asked about the future of the Church.  He said
    the following: "We shall prepare for trials in the near future.
    Yes, even if it costs us our lives.  Furthermore, it is necessary
    to
    give ourselves completely to Christ, and for Christ! The trials
    can be mitigated by your and our prayers, but to prevent it is
    no longer possible, because only this way can the real renewal
    of the Church come about.  How often the Church has been
    renewed in blood!  It won't be otherwise now.  Be strong! Be
    prepared! We should trust ourselves to Christ and His Mother.
    Pray often, and say often the rosary.  Then, although we will
    have done a little, we will have done everthing."

        We published the following excerpt-made by Pope Paul VI for
    the diplomatic circles-for those responsible Christians who
    want to be prepared, and who want to lessen the severity of the
    approaching chastisement.  While the Pope's hands are bound in
    many ways, ours are not, and by publishing the letter we obey
    only the express desire of Our Heavenly Mother: "Go, my child,
    and proclaim it!" The excerpt itself is shocking, but it is not
    the shole text of the secret.  As we have seen, the Pope even added
    to it.  But it is enough to instigate more prayers.  Therefore we
    join the Pope and say: "Pray, pray, especially the rosary!"



                THE SECRET LETTER OF FATIMA

                      (EXCERPT)


    "The Blessed Mother's exact words [Lucia stated.) 'Don't
    worry, dear child, I am the Mother of God speaking to you and
    begging you to proclaim in my name the following maessage to the
    entire world....In doing this, you will meet with great hostility.
    But be steadfast in the faith and you will overcome this hostility.
    Listen and remember well what I say to you: Men must become
    better.  They must implore the remission of the sins which they
    have committed and will continue to commit.  You ask me for a
    miraculous sign so that all may understand the words in which, through
    you, I address mankind.  This miracle you have just seen was the
    great miracle of the Sun!  Everyone has seen it-believers and
    unbelievers, country and city dwellers, scholars and journalists,
    laymen and priests.  And now, in My name, it is proclaimed:

      "A great punishment shall come to all mankind, not as yet
    today, nor even tomorrow, but in the second half of the twentieth
    century.  What I have already made known at La Salette through the
    children Melanie and Maximin, I repeat today before you.  Mankind
    had not developed as God expected.  Mankind has been sacrilegious
    and has trampled underfoot the gifts which were given it.

      "There is no order in anything.  Even in the highest positions,
    it is Satan who governs and decides how affairs are to be conducted.
    He will even know how to find his way to the highest positions in
    the Church.  He will succeed in sowing confusion in the minds of
    the great scholars who invent arms with which half mankind can be
    destroyed in a few minutes.  He will bring the mighty ones under
    his thumb and make them manufacture armament in bulk.  If mankind
    does not refrain, I shall be forced to let fall my Son's arm.  If
    those at the top in the world and in the Church do not oppose these
    acts, it is I who shall do so, and I shall pray God My father to
    visit his justice on men.

      "Then it is that God will punish men, more harshly and more
    severely then he upnished them by the flood, and the great and
    powerful shall perish thereby as well as the small and weak.

      "There will also come a time of the hardest trials for the
    Church.  Cardinals will be against Cardinals, and bishops against
    bishops.  Satan will put himself in their midst.  In Rome, also,
    there will be big changes.  What is rotten will fall, and what will
    fall must not be maintained.  The Church will be darkened and the
    world plunged into confusion.

      "The big, big war will happen in the second half of the twentieth
    century.  Then fire and smoke will fall from the sky and the waters
    of the oceans will be turned to steam-hurling their foam towards
    the sky, and all that is standing will be overthown.  Millions and
    more millions of men will lose their lives from one hour to the
    next, and those who remain living at that moment will envy those
    who are dead.  There will be tribulation wherever the eye can see
    and misery over all the earth and desolation in all countries.

      "The time is continually approaching, the abyss is growing
    wider, and there is no end. The good will die with the wicked, the
    big with the small, the Princes of the church with their faithful,
    and the sovereigns of the world with their subjects.  Satan's henchmen
    will then be the only sovereigns on earth.

      "This will be a time which neither king nor emperor, cardinal
    nor bishop is expecting, but it will come, nevertheless, in accordance
    with My Father's Plan, to punish and avenge.  Later, however,
    when those who survive all things are still alive, God and
    His glory will once more be invoked and will once more be served
    as He was not so long ago, when the world had not yet been corrupted.
    I call on all true imitators of My Son Jesus Christ, all true
    Christians and later day Apostles.  The time of times is coming
    and the end of all ends, if mankind is not converted and if this
    conversion does not come from above, from the directors of the world
    and the directors of the Church.  But woe, woe if this conversion
    does not come about and if all remains as it is, nay, if all
    becomes even worse.

      "Go, my child, and proclaim it!  I shall remain always by your
    side, to help you."

                                   PRAY THE ROSARY!





                                         your brother in Christ

                                             Dave E.
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