MYSTICISM AND RELIGION
Below are newspaper extracts from Independent
Sunday, July 16, 2000 made by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger while committing on the
third part of Fatima “secret” shown below in respect of Queen Virgin Mother
Mary revealing Religious Mysteries.
“No Unchangeable
Destiny”
“There is no Immutable Destiny and That Faith and
Prayer Are Forces Which Can Influence History”
So said Cardinal Joseph
Ratzinger Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith while shedding light,
through his commentaries, on the third part of the Secret of Fatima.
Continuing. The cardinal
further expressed that penance is
the key to the‘secret’. The ‘Key Word of the Third Secret of Fatima’is
the triple cry, "Penance, Penance,
Penance!”
Other key words are “My Immaculate Heart Will Triumph” and “The Heart Open To God, Purified By
Contemplation Of God Is Stronger Than Guns And Weapons Of Every Kind.”
“The Fiat Of Mary, The Word Of Her Heart Has Changed
The History Of The World.”
The paper reporting
further on the cardinal's comment on the ‘secret’ said:
“In the theological
commentary of the prefect of congregation, the doctrine of the faith is divided
into 3 parts:
Public Revelation and
Private Revelations, the Anthropological Structure of Private Revelation and
‘An Attempt to Interpret the Secret of Fatima’.
The term public revelations
refers to the revealing action of god directed to humanity as a whole and which
finds its literary expression in the two parts of the bible, the old and new
testaments.
Private revelation on
the other hand, refers to all the visions and revelations which have taken
place since the completion of the New Testament. This is the category to which we
must assign the message of Fatima. The authority of private revelations
is essentially different from that of the definitive public revelation.
The former demands
Faith. Private Revelation, on the other hand, is a help to this Faith and shows
its credibility precisely by leading (one) back to the definitive Public
Revelation.
This is precisely what
the Fatima message in the newspaper excerpt below is all about. Also below is
another newspaper excerpt explaining that we are part of god's divine plan.
‘The rule of life that
Jesus asks us to keep, if we are loyal followers of his, is not a series of
prohibitions and Don'ts. It is rather
a succession of sign post on the straight road to heaven, making our journey
easier and safer’.
By Rev. Fr. Ambrose,
Windbacher,
From Independent,
Sunday, 16, 2000
If man lives to obey
these rules, man will discover that God relents for repentant souls. Hence
speaking further on the Fatima ‘secret’, the Cardinal further elaborates on the
issue saying:
Indeed the Whole Point
of the Vision is to Bring Freedom onto the Scene and to Steer Freedom in a Positive
Direction.
The vision speaks of
dangers and how we might be saved from them.
What remains was
already evident when we began our reflections on the test as the ‘secret’. The
exhortation to Prayers as the path
of salvation for souls and, likewise, the summons to Penance and Conversion”.
Yes, God relents when
man repents. Let us have confidence in God's promise and repent. He did it for
the people of Nineveh.
THE CALL OF NINEVEH TO REPENTANCE
The Conversion of Nineveh;
The word of the Lord
came to Jonah a second time;
“Set out for the Great
city of Nineveh, and announce to it the message that I will tell you.”
So, Jonah made ready
and went to Nineveh, according to the Lord's bidding.
Now Nineveh was an
enormously large city; it took three days to go through it. Jonah began his
journey through the city, and had gone but a single day’s walk announcing;
“Forty Days More and
Nineveh Shall Be Destroyed!”
When the people of
Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast and all of them,great and small
put on sackcloth.
When the news reached
the King of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, laid aside his robe, covered
himself with sackcloth, and sat in the ashes, then he had this proclaimed throughout
Nineveh;
“By decree of the King
and his nobles, neither man nor beast, neither cattle nor sheep, shall taste
anything;they shall not eat nor shall they drink water.
Man and beast shall be
covered with sackcloth and call loudly to God. Every man shall turn from his
evil way and from the violence he has in hand. Who knows God may relent
forgive and withhold his blazing anger so that we shall not perish”.
God saw their efforts to
renounce their evil ways. And God relented about the disaster which He had threatened
to bring on them, and did not bring it”
(Jo,
3: 1-10)
And so the people of
Nineveh were saved because they did the will of God, by repenting.
Hence the Holy Bible
tells us:
“Yahweh supports all
who stumble and lifts up those who are bowed down.”
Again Psalm 14 echoes
the same message:
“His pleasure is on
those who fear him and in those who hope in his faithful love”
(Psalm
147:11)
Similarly, as was with
story of NINEVEH, in the predictions of the third secret of Fatima, as described
in the following extract, the Queen Virgin Mother Mary's role opposes the force
of destruction.
Yes, Lord Jesus Her
Son, is “The Lamb Of God Who Takes Away Sins
Of The World”.
Hence,Lord Jesus died
between two thieves, showing that He came to call sinners and those who follows
Him will be saved like one of the two thieves crucified with him, who repented,
and to whom Lord Jesus said, as they were about to give up their ghosts;
“Assuredly, I Say To
You, Today You Will Be With Me in Paradise”
(Luke
23:43)
The vision then shows
the Power which stands opposed to the Force of Destruction, the splendour of
the Mother of God and stemming from this in a certain way, the summons to
Penance.
From that time forth
the word that prevails is this;
“In the world you will
have tribulations, but take heart; I have overcome the world”
The message of Fatima
invites us to trust in this promise.For Psalm 145 tells us that
“Yahweh is generous to
all, His tenderness embraces all His creatures”
(Psalm
145:4)
Lord Jesus himself
assures us, of His gift of life of union with Him for those who repent and do
God's will, by keeping His commandments;
“If you keep my
commandments, you will remain in my Love.Just as I have kept my Father’s commandments
and remain in His Love”
(John
15:10)
"Whoever holds to
my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me; and whoever loves me
will be loved by my Father, and I shall love him and reveal to him"
(John
14: 21)
God demonstrated this
love for the people of Nineveh in the above Love Story. Mother Mary's role for sinners
makes the Church to address her as Refuge of Sinners one of the numerous titles
of the Queen Virgin Mother of God is
This is because it is
an obvious fact that God saved king Hezekiah and extended his life for fifteen more
years when the King pleaded, requesting the intervention of Prophet Isaiah
through whom God had said to King Hezekiah.
“Put your affairs in
order for you are going to die, you will not live”
(Isaiah
8:1)
When the King pleaded,
the Holy Bible says;
“Then the Word of Yahweh
came to Isaiah.
Go and say to Hezekiah;‘Yahweh
the God of your Ancestor David, says this: I have heard your prayer and seen
your tears I shall add fifteen years to your life.
I shall save you and
this city from the King OF Assyria’s clutches and defend this city for my sake
and servant David's sake.’
Hezekiah said, ‘What is
the sign to tell me that I shall be going up to the Temple of Yahweh?’
‘Here,’Isaiah replied,‘is
the sign from Yahweh that He will do what He has said look, I shall make the shadow
cast steps to Ahaz's roof room go back ten steps’,and by which it had declined.
(Isaiah
38:4-8)
The purpose of the
above verse is to show that when man repents,God relents, hence the message of
Fatima was to draw all mankind to consciousness in respect of Penance, the Gift
of Forgiveness and Eternal Life.
From the above it
obvious that the world should be grateful to the Queen Virgin Mother Mary for it
is obvious from the vision and her follow up actions, over the world, that her
intervention rescued humanity, giving us a second chance to repent as God sent
Prophet Jonah to proclaim the following words to the people whose wickedness
were crying to heaven for vengeance;
“FORTY DAYS TIME
NINEVEH SHALL BE DESTROYED!”
As we have seen, the
Holy Bible tells us that they repented and God relented. Being aware that God
cannot lie nor deceive, there is need for us to listen to the message of life
after death; promised all mankind of which Lord Jesus said;
“I am the Living Bread which
came down from Heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever and the
bread that I shall give, is my flesh which I shall give for the life of the world”
(John
6:51)
This means that the
Queen Virgin Mother is alive in heaven confirmed by Revelation Chapter 12 and
Psalm 45. For, the most qualified person to benefit the presence of God in man
union hypothetically, is Mother Mary. We too experience this hypothetical union
with God when we receive holy, communion worthily, through God’sin-built device,
stated earlier.
In view of all what we
have heard on the third secret of Fatima; there is need for us mankind to
repent and listen to the advice of Mother Mary. Her message is better reported
through the story of her apparition in which she asks us to pray the Rosary or
Catholic Chaplet.
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