Catholic Candle note: In the article below, the pope is sometimes called a “papal monarch” – which he is – to draw attention to the comparison made below to the French monarch, because of their similar and mutual disobedience to God’s commands that they perform consecrations of their realms, as He directed.

 

Our Lady of Fatima revealed that God Wills that Russia be consecrated to her Immaculate Heart.  In 1929, Our Lady of Fatima told Sister Lucy:

The moment has come when God asks the Holy Father to make, in union with all the bishops of the world, the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, promising to save it by this means.…[1]

Earlier (viz., in 1917), Our Lady of Fatima revealed that the pope definitely will consecrate Russia to her Immaculate Heart and through this means God will grant peace.  Here are her words:

The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and she [viz., Russia] shall be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world.[2]

However, Our Lady of Fatima warned in 1917 that, when she came in the future (viz., in 1929) to ask for the consecration, if the pope delayed this consecration, his delay would cause great harm throughout the world.  Here are Our Lady’s words:

I shall come [viz., in 1929] to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, by the Holy Father and all the bishops of the world.  If my request is heeded, Russia will be converted and there will be peace.  If not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, provoking wars and persecution against the Church.[3]

In 1931, Our Lord assured Sister Lucy that the pope and bishops will perform this consecration – but He revealed that there will first be a long delay.  Here are Sister Lucy’s words describing Our Lord’s revelation to her:

Later on, by means of an interior communication, Our Lord said to me, complaining: “They [viz., Pope Pius XI and the bishops of the world] did not want to heed My request!  …  Make it known to My ministers, seeing that they follow the example of the King of France in delaying the execution of My demand, they will also have to follow him into misfortune.  Like the King of France, they will repent and do it, but it will be late.[4]

 

What misfortune did the king of France suffer because of his disobedience in refusing to consecrate France to the Sacred Heart of Jesus?

Our Lord’s threat (viz., about the Church’s hierarchy following the king of France into misfortune), refers to King Louis XIV ignoring Our Lord’s request (through St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, on June 17, 1689), that France be consecrated to His Sacred Heart.  Our Lord’s request came exactly one hundred years before the Masonic French Revolution stripped the French king of his legislative power, on June 17, 1789.

Not only did that French king (Louis XIV) ignore Our Lord’s request, but the next king, Louis XV did so too.  Likewise, Louis XV’s son, King Louis XVI, also ignored Our Lord’s request until he was imprisoned and was about to be executed during the French Revolution, in 1793. 

Thus, Our Lord waited one hundred years to the day, before allowing the godless Masonic revolutionaries to declare the French monarch to be stripped of his legislative power.  Our Lord waited a little more than one hundred years (104 years) before allowing the French to kill their king.

 

Eight popes, beginning with Pope Pius XI, ignore God’s demand to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Pope Pius XI ignored God’s 1929 request that he consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, just as King Louis XIV ignored Our Lord’s request that he consecrate France to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

This consecration of Russia has not yet been made.  After Pope Pius XI’s death, the next seven popes (Pius XII, John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis)[5] likewise ignored God’s request for this consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.  This is like the next two kings after Louis XIV ignored Our Lord’s request for the consecration of France (until Louis XVI’s last, desperate days in prison, before his execution).

The present, worldwide, conciliar revolution is a Divine Punishment for our papal monarch’s disobedience, just as the French Revolution was a Divine Punishment for the French monarch’s disobedience.

Our Catholic Faith assures us that the Church can never be completely destroyed.  Further, Our Lord and His mother both assure us that the consecration of Russia will occur, although after a long delay.  As Our Lord predicted:

Like the King of France, they [viz., the pope and bishops of the world] will

repent and do it [viz., the consecration], but it will be late.[6]

 

When will the pope consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary?

How late will the consecration of Russia be and when will it be?  Although we don’t know for certain, here are four considerations which suggest the answer:

1.    If we infer the year the pope will consecrate Russia, by drawing a parallel to the time which elapsed before the consecration of France, this means that the pope will consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in the year 2033.

2.    Using the parallel which Our Lord Himself drew to the consecration of France, it seems we must wait more years before the consecration of Russia, because matters are not yet quite extreme and desperate enough.

 

3.    Our Lady of Quito predicted that her victory in this Great Apostasy will not occur until all seems hopeless.

4.    It seems that God will allow a number of additional years to elapse, in order to increase the severity of our present conciliar crisis, so that the miraculous character of the Restoration will be all-the-more undeniable.

Below, we discuss each of these considerations.

 

1.   If we infer the year the pope consecrates Russia, by drawing a parallel to the time which elapsed before the consecration of France, this would mean that the pope would consecrate Russia in about 2033.

Our Lord patiently waited a little more than one hundred years (1689 – 1793) after His command for the consecration, during which time He endured the disobedience of a line of French monarchs.  After about 104 years, the French monarch finally obeyed and performed the consecration of France to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Our Lady of Fatima appeared in 1929 to ask for the consecration of Russia.[7]  The parallel which Our Lord Himself made to the consecration of France, would suggest that, a little after the year 2029, the pope will perform this consecration.  If the same number of years (104) separate Heaven’s two requested consecrations and their two fulfillments, the consecration of Russia would occur about the year 2033.

 

2.   Guided by the comparison which Our Lord Himself drew to the consecration of France, it seems that we must wait longer because the situation is not yet quite desperate and extreme enough.

Using the parallel which Our Lord Himself draws between the pope and the king of France, the consecration of Russia will seemingly occur when circumstances are extremely desperate and are seemingly hopeless, as they were for King Louis XVI when he consecrated France to the Sacred Heart of Jesus while in prison, when he was soon to be executed by the Masonic revolutionaries.

Faithful and informed Catholics might suppose that the situation now is so extreme and so desperate in the human element of the Church, that things seemingly cannot get worse.  However, using the parallel which Our Lord Himself draws between the Masonic French Revolution and the present Masonic conciliar revolution in the Church, circumstances in the human element of the Church are apparently not yet desperate enough. 

French King Louis XVI did not obey Our Lord’s command for the consecration of France when the situation in France became bad, even when it became very, very bad.  King Louis XVI saw and suffered many extreme events which alarmed him.  However, those events did not alarm him enough to end his refusal to obey Our Lord’s command to consecrate France to the Sacred Heart.  Here are events which, although dire, did not alarm the king enough to cause him to obey God:

➢  A mob ruled Paris;

 

➢  The king was forced to flee for his life from the revolutionary mob

 

➢  The revolutionaries “suspended” their king’s legislative authority;

➢  The revolutionaries “abolished” the monarchy;

 

➢  The revolutionaries overthrew the king’s established government assemblies;

➢  The long parade of public executions began (often using the guillotine), causing terror and executing loyal subjects of the king and the opponents of the revolution;

 

➢  Revolutionary forces attacked the king’s palace, killing hundreds of his defenders;

 

➢  The king was forced to place himself under the power of the “more moderate” revolutionaries, for his own protection against the more blood-thirsty wing of the same revolution;

 

➢  The revolutionaries placed their king under house arrest (until he was later moved to a jail);

 

➢  The revolutionaries stole the property of the Catholic Church and of the nobility; and

➢  The revolutionaries persecuted all priests who did not swear an oath to the Masonic, anti-Catholic errors of the revolution.

Using the parallel which Our Lord Himself draws between the disobedience of the pope and of the king of France, it appears that, however desperate and alarming conditions are now in the human element of the Church, they can and will get worse before the pope is so completely frantic that he will consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.[8]  This suggests that some more years will pass before the consecration of Russia, while conditions in the human element of the Church become more dire.

 

3.   Our Lady of Quito predicted that her victory in this Great Apostasy would not occur until all seems hopeless.

At Fatima, in 1917, Our Lady promised us that:

In the end, My Immaculate Heart will triumph![9] 

Our Lady also prophesized at Quito, Ecuador, that she will completely triumph.  However, she added that her triumph will only occur when all seems hopeless.  Here are her words:

When everything will seem lost and paralyzed, that will be the happy beginning of the complete Restoration. This will mark the arrival of My hour, when I, in a marvelous way, will dethrone the proud and cursed Satan, trampling him under My feet and chaining him in the infernal abyss.[10]

Our present situation in the human element of the Church does seem very bad.  However, the situation does not yet quite seem completely lost and hopeless.  Thus, it seems we must endure some additional years before the consecration of Russia and the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, because the situation does not yet seem completely hopeless.

 

4.   It seems that God will allow a number of additional years to elapse, in order to increase the severity of our present conciliar crisis, so that the miraculous character of the Restoration will be all-the-more undeniable.

Our Lady predicted that her complete triumph will occur “in a marvelous way”.[11]  Her triumph will be miraculous, leaving no doubt that it is God’s work – and not merely a triumph caused through human efforts and human ability.

However, our fallen nature is quick to suppose that when we act as God’s tools, our own human efforts, not God, achieved the victory.  For this reason, God often chooses poor instruments for His work, to manifest that the victory belongs to Him.  Saint Augustine remarks that, when Our Lord founded His Church, “He chose not kings, senators, philosophers, or orators, but he chose common, poor, and untaught fishermen.”[12]

We see countless examples of God making sure that His victories are manifestly His work.  God leaves no doubt that His victories are not merely the result of human efforts.  One example of this is in the Old Testament, when the pagan Madianite army made war upon the Israelites.  Although the Madianites had 135,000 fighters, God Willed to give victory to the Israelites.[13]  He chose to give this victory through Gedeon, who was “the least” member of the lowest family in Manasses.[14]

Thirty-two thousand Israelites answered Gedeon’s call to fight against the far larger Madianite army.  In other words, Gedeon’s army was outnumbered more than 4:1.  But God refused to allow them to fight the Madianites yet.  God told Gedeon:

The people that are with thee are many, and Madian shall not be delivered into their hands: lest Israel should glory against me, and say: I was delivered by my own strength.[15]

God told Gedeon to send home all of his fighters who were afraid.  Gedeon sent home twenty-two thousand fighters and ten thousand remained.[16]

God then told Gedeon that his fighters were still too numerous.  God told Gedeon to bring his fighters to a river and watch them drink.  Some fighters lapped water like dogs, and God told Gedeon to keep those fighters.  Most fighters drank like men, and God told Gedeon to send those fighters home. 

Three hundred men lapped water like dogs and God instructed Gedeon to conquer the Madianites with these 300 men.[17]  Gedeon’s army was outnumbered 450:1.  With this tiny army, God gave Gedeon complete and sudden victory without losing a single man.

When Gedeon’s original army was outnumbered 4:1, those odds were bad.  After Gedeon sent home those men who were afraid, his army was outnumbered more than 13:1.  Those odds were very, very bad.  But Gedeon’s chances of victory were not yet so seemingly hopeless that the men would not credit themselves with the victory.  Only when the odds were 450:1 were things so “hopeless” that God allowed Gedeon to fight and to win the complete victory that God Willed.

In the present Great Apostasy, Our Lady promised that the consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart would bring about the coming complete Restoration.  But because of our fallen nature, man is ready to steal credit for this Restoration, like Gedeon’s men were ready to steal credit for their victory over the Madianites.  Thus, the situation is not yet dire enough because man remains ready to boast that God’s victory is really from us.

We see an example of this in the N-SSPX recently bragging that there is no other way for the Church hierarchy to be reminded about Catholic Tradition (concerning the Church’s form of government) except by the N-SSPX.  Here are the N-SSPX’s words:

Only the Society can help the Church, in reminding the popes and the bishops that Our Blessed Lord founded a monarchical Church and not a chaotic modern assembly.[18]

This recent example shows us that things do not yet seem hopeless enough, since the largest group that calls itself “traditional” remains ready to consider itself indispensable in the Catholic Restoration.  So, if the Restoration came now, the N-SSPX (and perhaps, any of the rest of us) would steal the credit from God for the return to Tradition.

Because the Great Apostasy is not yet so severe so as to make things look completely hopeless, things must continue to get worse so that human leaders do not deceive themselves that victory came from their own human efforts.

 

Conclusion

We know that the pope will consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and that there will be a complete Restoration and peace in the Church and in the world.

However, this consecration and Restoration are likely still years away, perhaps in the year 2033 (calculated by using Our Lord’s Own parallel to the consecration He commanded of the king of France).

Further, the situation in the human element in the Church is not yet hopeless enough:

➢  To sufficiently correspond to the situation in France during the French Revolution;

 

➢  To sufficiently fit the circumstances prophesied by Our Lady of Quito; and

➢  To show everyone that the Restoration is miraculous and not caused by the N-SSPX or other human causes.

Meanwhile, let us be of good heart!  We are in a time of great merit!  The Imitation of Christ assures us:

When you are troubled and afflicted, that is the time to gain merit.[19]

The Restoration of the human element of the Church is God’s work and victory, not ours.  God only put us here to be His faithful little tools, to use however He sees fit – not more, not less.  What more could we ever want out of our life?