Our Ladys E-Newsletter: April 2014 The Only Hope for Ukraine and the World

We receive daily reports from the media of what, according to secular journalists, is happening in Ukraine and how it may affect the nations outside that beleaguered country. As with all secular reporting, the emphasis is on parsing what the principal politicians involved in the conflict are saying in response to developments, as though the situation were to be resolved by rhetoric and media commentary. We have, among other ironies, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pontificating over what constitutes justice for the Ukrainian people, denouncing the use of force as 19th century behavior. Implicit in Kerrys comments is the presumption that what is modern is what is best and that all our predecessors were necessarily more benighted and primitive than we are. Kerry also fails to acknowledge the obvious: that his assumption of authority in the matter is based squarely and solely on the force commanded by the United States, militarily through NATO and economically through its capital investment in Russia. Apparently, 19th century behavior is acceptable from some quarters. But is the U.S. government vitally concerned with the welfare of the Ukrainian people? Of course not. It is concerned about containing Russian power and influence. Who has the interest of the Ukrainian people at heart? The Ukrainian Catholic Church, for one. In the most significant development during the month of April (one almost entirely ignored by the media), the Patriarch of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, His Beatitude Svatioslav, re-consecrated his nation to the Blessed Virgin Mary. (See: The Act of placing Ukraine under the Intercession of the Blessed Mother .) He reminded his nation and the world, if it cared to listen that history is in the hands of God. What secular leaders do may have grave consequences, but those consequences will be directly proportional to whether they have acted according to Heavens will or their own presumed wisdom. His Beatitude also reminded us of our own responsibility for the larger happenings in the world for which we may believe we bear no responsibility. He said the consecration of Ukraine to Our Lady must happen alongside a consecration of each individual life to Our Lady. We must participate in such a consecration, he stressed, if we hope to receive Our Ladys blessing and help for the nation. The same is true in the matter of the consecration of Russia to Our Lady of Fatima. We must further the consecration not only by urging our Church leaders to obey Our Ladys request, but by conforming our lives to what Our Lady has asked of each and every one of us: to pray the daily Rosary, perform the First Saturday devotions and make sacrifices for the conversion of sinners. It is easy to scapegoat our leaders in Church or state for their failures, but we must acknowledge our own responsibility for the problems we face as an international community. If we sanctify our lives, the channels of grace may flow in unexpected directions, influencing events in the world at large. And we should not presume, as

does John Kerry, to know what constitutes the best possible outcome in any situation. All is in the hands of God, as the patriarch of Ukraine has reminded us. Should Russia take control of greater portions of her former empire that may not necessarily be undesirable. A strange thing is happening with Vladimir Putin and, one may be permitted to think, with the national mood of the Russian people. Putin is stressing Russias past as a Christian nation at every opportunity and urging a return to the moral values of Christendom (see: The Message of Fatima: Ignore It at Your Peril). If Russia is to be Heavens instrument for either the chastisement or salvation of the world, we do not know how Providence may prepare us for that eventuality. We do know that Russia will eventually be consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary by the Pope and the bishops of the Catholic Church and that peace will be granted to the world. To what extent the world will have to suffer until that happens is unknown. It has been placed in our hands. So we must do all we can to conform our lives to the Fatima Message and to urge those capable of performing the consecration to act without further delay. The situation in the Ukraine may mark the beginning of a greater chastisement that could engulf the world.

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We must work and pray ever more fervently that the Holy Father and the bishops will heed the requests of Our Lady of Fatima. (See: Petition to Our Holy Father The Consecration of Russia and Petition to Our Holy Father The Release of the full Third Secret.)

We must also keep informed. Read the recent Fatima Perspectives articles listed below.

A New, New Mass? Lets Pray Not!

An announcement that elicited little media comment may have large consequences for the Catholic Church and the deepening crises She faces. On April 1, Pope Francis signed a declaration to work on a new Ecumenical English Missal. One might wish this were an April Fools joke, but it is quite real. (See: Pope sanctions Ecumenical Missal: this is really big news.) The group designated to produce a Missal acceptable for use in both Catholic and Protestant worship consists of four people: Pope Francis and three Protestant bishops two of whom are women. The announcement was made on the feast of St. Theodora, a woman saint, to which some attached significance, suggesting this was the Popes way of announcing that women will have a larger role in important matters in the Church (even Protestant women pretending to be bishops?). The Novus Ordo Missae the New Mass of Pope Paul VI has been a source of confusion and a vehicle for heterodoxy for almost a half-century. Under Pope Benedict, some had hoped for a return to liturgical sanity, that is, a return to the Traditional Latin Mass. There seemed reason for such hope with the wider use of the Latin Mass granted by Summorum Pontificum. But Pope Francis has, from the start, shown himself

inimical to the Traditional Latin Mass, as most notably evidenced in his suppression of its use by the Friars of the Immaculate. Now, the Holy Father has initiated a project designed to produce a new Missal that will necessarily avoid any doctrinal statement or scriptural interpretation that conflicts with the Protestant rejection of Transubstantiation and the Real Presence. When these elements are removed from the Mass, there is no Mass! What we so desperately need in the Church now is not a new Missal, but a return to clarity and emphasis in dogma (see: If We Lose Dogma, We Lose Our Soul). And the Mass is where the faithful see dogma expressed in worship: lex orandi, lex credendi we pray as we believe. If we pray in a Protestant manner, can we avoid believing in a Protestant way? We must pray that this does not happen. That means we must, as Our Lady of Fatima has urged us to do, pray for the Holy Father.

Latest Fatima Perspectives

The Message of Fatima: Ignore It at Your Peril Recent alarming developments in the Crimea and Ukraine have made it clear that, thirty years after John Paul IIs failed attempt to consecrate Russia without mentioning Russia, that poor nation as Sister Lucy called it, remains at the center of the world events prophesied in the Message of Fatima. We Must Love the Truth St. Paul tells us that a love of the truth is foundational, as a necessary condition, to the spiritual life. The seduction of error and sin, he says, gets all its power over souls from this one cause, that they do not have a love of the truth.

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