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by | March 27, 2014 · 6:44 am

The Lord is my (German) Shepherd

The meditation below came in my email from Our Daily Bread. It was written by a woman who used to babysit my kids. I love how it gives a modern, positive and very accessible alternative to sheep herding. Most of us have no experience with sheep. But guide dogs? Heck yes!

There is some good meditation to be had here. Just off the top of my head … a guide dog is ready and waiting to lead, but it can do nothing if the blind person does not pick up the harness handle and say, “Forward” with complete trust in the dog. That’s a beautiful image, isn’t it?!

Guide dog

Meditation by Jennifer Benson Schuldt

For those who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. -Romans 8:14

By the time he was 16, Morris Frank (1908–1980) had lost his sight in both eyes. Several years later, he traveled to Switzerland where he met Buddy, the canine who would help to inspire Frank’s involvement with the Seeing Eye guide-dog school.

With Buddy leading the way, Frank learned to navigate busy sidewalks and intersections. Describing the freedom his guide provided, Frank said, “It was glorious: just [Buddy] and a leather strap, linking me to life.” Buddy gave Morris Frank a new kind of access to the world around him.

God’s Holy Spirit gives us access to abundant spiritual life in Christ. When we accept Christ as Lord, God washes our sins away and renews us “by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior” (Titus 3:5-6).

Once we know Christ, the Holy Spirit helps us:

Experience God’s love – “Hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the holy Spirit that has been given to us.” – Romans 5:5

Understand God’s Word – Jesus said, “The Advocate, the holy Spirit that the Father will send in my name—he will teach you everything and remind you of all that [I] told you.” -J ohn 14:26

Pray – “The Spirit too comes to the aid of our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit itself intercedes with inexpressible groanings.” – Romand 8:26

Abound in hope – “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the holy Spirit.” – Romans 15:13

Today, as you think about your relationship with God, remember that the Spirit is your guide to life in Christ.

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by | March 24, 2014 · 10:50 pm

Bury the dead

Bury the dead is the seventh in the traditional Catholic list of Corporal Works of Mercy.

  • The Corporal Works of Mercy: To feed the hungry; To give drink to the thirsty; To clothe the naked; To harbour the harbourless (offer hospitality to the homeless); To visit the sick (care for the sick); To ransom the captive (visit the imprisoned); To bury the dead.
  • The Spiritual Works of Mercy: To instruct the ignorant; To counsel the doubtful; To admonish sinners; To bear wrongs patiently; To forgive offenses willingly; To comfort the afflicted (sorrowful); To pray for the living and the dead.

Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin based their Catholic Worker Movement on living out these precepts.

Bury the dead is based on this passage from the Book of Tobit:

In the days of Shalmaneser I had performed many charitable deeds for my kindred, members of my people. I would give my bread to the hungry and clothing to the naked. If I saw one of my people who had died and been thrown behind the wall of Nineveh, I used to bury him. Sennacherib returned from Judea, having fled during the days of the judgment enacted against him by the King of Heaven because of the blasphemies he had uttered; whomever he killed I buried. For in his rage he killed many Israelites, but I used to take their bodies away by stealth and bury them. So when Sennacherib looked for them, he could not find them. But a certain Ninevite went and informed the king about me, that I was burying them, and I went into hiding. When I realized that the king knew about me and that I was being hunted to be put to death, I became afraid and took flight. All my property was confiscated; I was left with nothing. All that I had was taken to the king’s palace, except for my wife Anna and my son Tobiah. (Tobit 1:16-20)

Burying the dead WITH RESPECT is God’s work. 

Whatever God wants us to do, SATAN PERVERTS.

Moloch

2014_03 24 UK hospitals burn babies as trash

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by | March 24, 2014 · 3:37 am

We are saved by faith to works

The relationship between the free salvation offered by Jesus and the value of our own works has been confusing and dividing Christians for way too long. This InTouch Ministries Bible teaching by Dr. Charles Stanley clarifies the big picture beautifully.

Saturday, March 22, 2014: The Final Exam – Part 1

Do you remember when you came to your last year in high school and had final exams. When you finished you probably felt relief that it was the last one. And then maybe you went to college and the same thing happened. There is, however, one more exam-the final exam of how we invested our lives for Christ. Live to do well on the test.

To hear the rest, go to http://www.intouch.org/broadcast/today-on-radio and scroll down to the March 22 file and click on the arrow. The teaching is about 18 minutes long. You can pause and restart it without difficulties.

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by | March 23, 2014 · 5:58 am

Give the new Noah movie a big fat MISS

Reasons to NOT go:

  • It never mentions God.
  • It preaches rabid environmentalism.
  • Noah is portrayed as a drunk.
  • It mutates the first line of the Bible into “In the beginning there was nothing.”

For my money, the best Noah movie ever made was Evan Almighty, which was clearly a modern, somewhat comical fantasy, so didn’t mess with sacred text in any way. Yet it still managed to present God in a very appealing and respectful way while giving insights into the original Noah story that I’d never thought of before.

By contrast, check out what a pre-release review says about one aspect of the new Noah movie:

But by far the most startling apparition in this context are the Watchers, the so-called Nephilim, or fallen angels only glancingly mentioned in the Bible. Here they take the form of giant, ferocious-looking rock people (given great, gravelly voice by Nick Nolte, Mark Margolis and Frank Langella, no less) who not only come to Noah’s aid by doing the heavy lifting in building the ark but cut down, stomp on and otherwise decimate the hordes who eventually besiege the ark in hopes of climbing aboard at the last minute.

Rock people?? Nephilim were FALLEN angels!! Soooooooo (a) angels, not “rock people” and (b) enemies of God who wouldn’t HELP God’s people. Sheesh.

If you want to read a biblical Noah story with Nephilim, get Many Waters by Madeleine L’Engle. It’s a wonderful science fiction fantasy story that is respectful of what is actually in the Holy Scriptures.

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by | March 22, 2014 · 1:59 am

Chivalry: What it is and why we need it

SOLDIER kneeling in prayer

The Code of Chivalry was a list of nine admonitions that were given to the Crusaders of the 12th century before they went to war. For centuries after, these principles were at the cornerstone of what being a knight was supposed to be all about.

The Code of Chivalry

  • Thou shalt believe all that the Church teaches and shalt observe all its directions.
  • Thou shalt defend the Church.
  • Thou shalt respect all Weaknesses and shalt constitute thyself the defender of them.
  • Thou shalt love the Country in which thou wast born.
  • Thou shalt not recoil before thine enemy.
  • Thou shalt make war against the Infidel without cessation and without mercy.
  • Thou shalt perform scrupulously thy feudal duties in accordance with the law of God.
  • Thou shalt be generous and give largesse to every one.
  • Thou shalt be the champion of the Right and the Good against Injustice and Evil.

ZMalfoy has written meditations about the first five. I would especially recommend them to the warriors among us and by that I mean not just soldiers in camo, but also parents and others who do battle with evil on a regular basis.

EXCERPT from Part 1 which deals with the first admonition “Thou shalt believe all that the Church teaches and shalt observe all its directions”:

Let us first address this idea of “the Church.” Remember, this is pre-Reformation. “The Church” is the collective term for all of Christendom. … “Observe all its directions” includes the 10 Commandments, the Beatitudes, the entire Bible. All of it. If one would be a knight, the first thing you need to do is realize that you are more than this decaying mass of physicality. You are a soul using a body. … If you would rise above, you start by kneeling.

Read the rest @ http://4gfc.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/a-bit-late-for-the-feast-of-st-michael-the-archangel/

EXCERPT from Part 2 which deals with the second admonition “Thou shalt defend the Church”:

When the leaders of the State wanted to enforce their decisions, the knights were the strength of their armies. By admonishing knights to defend the Church, the Church is thus giving a counter-order to every member of the cavalry, giving them an “out” when the orders of their local (or higher) Lord go against what the knight perceives to be right under the first admonishment.

Read the rest @ http://4gfc.wordpress.com/2012/10/10/chivalry-day-2/

EXCERPT from Part 3 which deals with the third admonition “Thou shalt respect all weaknesses, and shalt constitute thyself the defender of them”:

The knight will defend the weak and the weak (in their assumed humility) will be a sign of Grace to the knight. Incidentally, this is why the current “Cult of the Victim” is such an abomination– because it combines weakness and Pride, which is the worst of both worlds. A person chooses to be weak, and then in their Pride, shuts out the redemptive Grace that can sanctify such weakness. … This admonition, then, is about impressing this basic civil trust upon the knight. It is a reminder that all are weak, and that the knight uses his strength to respect and defend the weakness of others, and in turn accepts the strength of others to assist with his own weaknesses.

Read the rest @ http://4gfc.wordpress.com/2012/10/16/chivalry-day-3/

EXCERPT from Part 4 which deals with the fourth admonition “Thou shalt love the Country in which thou wast born”:

This is not love of the state, government, or even the current culture. I would say that love of the Country in which one is born (and, I am inferring from the statement, raised) is a love of the essence of that particular place, the essence that underlies and endures through civil wars, invasions, reckless and weak generations. One is to love that which makes your people your people, and to love the land itself– mountains and valleys, deserts and oceans, all the work of God in the place He has placed you. … You were born where you were born, and when you were born, for a reason.

Read the rest @ http://4gfc.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/chivalry-day-4/

EXCERPT from Part 5 which deals with the fifth admonition “Thou shalt not recoil before thine enemy”:

There are certainly some things that should never be allowed under one’s roof. But it is very easy to go too far, and cross the line from prudent protection of the innocents you have responsibility for, into coddling them and leaving them defenseless against the snares and enticements of evil. … in teaching them to recoil, you are teaching them to cede ground, to abandon the lost and the hopeless who need the help of Heaven’s Soldiers the most. (Who needs our prayers more than Lady Gaga, and the typical Hollywood elites?)

Read the rest @ http://4gfc.wordpress.com/2013/09/21/chivalry-day-5/

ZMalfoy reports, “I’m not done with the series but … time. sigh.”

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by | March 21, 2014 · 7:07 am

A Century of Trial

In 1982, Mirjana (one of the seers at Medjugorje) reported that the Blessed Mother had told her:

“You must realize that Satan exists. One day he appeared before the throne of God and asked permission to submit the Church to a period of trial. God gave him permission to try the Church for one century. This century is under the power of the devil; but when the secrets confided to you come to pass, his power will be destroyed.”

This wasn’t the first time we were given a message from God that Satan would be permitted up to a century to test the church. On October 13, 1884, just after Mass, Pope Leo XIII suddenly stopped at the foot of the altar and stood, as if in a trance, for about 10 minutes, his face ashen white. Immediately after, he went to his office and composed the Prayer to St. Michael.

Prayer to St Michael the Archangel

When asked what had happened, Pope Leo explained that he heard two voices – one kind and gentle, the other guttural and harsh. They seemed to come from near the tabernacle. As he listened, he heard the following conversation:

  • The guttural voice, the voice of Satan in his pride, boasted to Our Lord: I can destroy your Church.
  • The gentle voice of Our Lord: You can? Then go ahead and do so.
  • Satan: To do so, I need more time and more power.
  • Our Lord: How much time? How much power?
  • Satan: Seventy-five to 100 years, and a greater power over those who will give themselves over to my service.
  • Our Lord: You have the time; you will have the power. Do with them what you will.

It’s a lot like what happened in the story of Job. Satan asked for authority to try to destroy Job’s faith and God gave him the right to take everything from Job except his life. In short order, Job lost his property, his wife, his children and his health. But even when his so-called friends came to play Blame The Victim, Job refused to give up his faith. In the end, God restored Job’s health and wealth, then gave him a new wife and family.

“After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; and he saw his children, his grandchildren, and even his great-grandchildren. Then Job died, old and full of years.” (Job 42:16-17)

I’ve pondered a lot about when Satan’s century began; I’ve found a whole lot of evidence for 1917.

October 13, 1917: The Miracle of the Sun at Fatima.

Exactly 33 years after Pope Leo XIII’s vision, extraordinary solar activity was witnessed by tens of thousands of people not only at the site of the Marian apparitions at Fátima, Portugal, but also miles away. Jesus was 33 years old when he was crucified and rose again.

1917: Russian Revolutions 1 and 2

One of the greatest tests the church has ever faced has been the rise of Atheistic Communism. As I explained in my blog “Vladimir Lenin and Our Lady of Fátima”, the timing of the Fatima apparitions coincides in an extraordinary way with the timing of the activities of Lenin and the German high command, activities that led directly to the takeover of Russia by Atheistic Communism.

In the 8th century before Christ, the prophet Isaiah prophesied about the coming of the Messiah. In particular, he predicted that the Jewish people would be regathered to their homeland.

“The Lord shall again take it in hand to reclaim the remnant of his people … and gather the outcasts of Israel. The dispersed of Judah he shall assemble from the four corners of the earth.” (Isaiah 11:11-12)

The worldwide regathering of the Jewish people to their homeland and the reestablishment of their state began in 1917.

November 2, 1917:  Five days before Lenin would lead the Bolshevik revolt, Great Britain announced in the Balfour Declaration that it intended to establish in Palestine “a national home for the Jewish people.” (N.b., Russia was still using the Julian Calendar at the time, so Russian references often date the revolution at October 25th, but in the west, that date was November 7, 1917.)

December 11, 1917: General Edmund Allenby liberated the city of Jerusalem from 400 years of Turkish rule.

If I’ve got this right, then the extra power Satan was granted to try to destroy the church will be taken away again in 2017.

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by | March 17, 2014 · 8:12 pm

I love St. Patrick. I hate St. Paddy’s Day.

I’m 50% Irish, 100% Roman Catholic, and a Die Hard March 17th Grinch.  I don’t mean this to disrespect those of you who enjoy the day.  Last year, I just held my tongue cuz I also hate Political Correctness and all that “wahh I’m a victim” crap.  But damn.  This year, I want to say my piece … just this once.

SPECIAL APOLOGIES TO PISTOL PETE. I am not, Not, NOT bothered about your St. Paddy’s day post … or anyone else’s for that matter.  

Happy casual racism day

St. Patrick was a holy man who brought the Light of Christ to the Irish people who then contributed enormously to preserving civilization during the Dark Ages.

Did you know Patrick wasn’t even born in Ireland? When he was a teen-ager, he was kidnapped from his home in Britain by raiders who sold him into slavery in Ireland.  During his years in captivity, he learned the Irish language and customs. Years later, he escaped from his owner, made his way back to Britain and entered the priesthood. Ultimately, he returned to the land where he’d been enslaved in order to bring those he saw as the true slaves the truth about freedom in Jesus Christ.

If any of this is ringing any bells for you … try to imagine if Martin Luther King Day was celebrated primarily by Americans painting themselves up with black face make-up and hosting drunken parties featuring watermelon and fried chicken?

MLK Day - The Saint Paddy's Day racist version

Sources:

http://www.history.com/topics/st-patricks-day/who-was-saint-patrick

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by | March 17, 2014 · 5:33 pm

God always lights a candle in the darkness

2014_03 Original Bible survives fire

Today’s Our Daily Bread meditation by Dennis Fisher is so appropriate!

In 1927 the silent film Wings, a World War I film about two American aviators, won the first Academy Award for Best Picture.

When it was being filmed, production stopped for several days. Frustrated producers asked the director why. He responded:

“All we have is blue sky. The conflict in the air will not be as visible without clouds. Clouds bring perspective.”

He was right. Only by seeing aerial combat with clouds as a backdrop could the viewer see what was really going on.

We often wish for blue skies instead of storm clouds. But cloudy skies may reveal God’s faithfulness. We gain perspective on how God has been faithful in our trials as we look back on the clouds.

At the beginning of his terrible suffering, Job lamented:

“May the day perish on which I was born . . . . May a cloud settle on it” (Job 3:3-5).

His experience of despair continued for a long time until God spoke. Then Job exclaimed,

“I have heard of You . . . but now my eye sees You” (Job 42:5).

Job had encountered the sovereign Creator, and that changed his perspective on God’s purposes.

Do clouds of trouble fill your skies today?

Sooner than you think, God may use these clouds to help you gain perspective on His faithfulness.

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by | March 15, 2014 · 10:18 pm

Why a Rapture?

My good friend ZMalfoy raised the very interesting question, “Why a Rapture?”  She said she doesn’t buy the idea that it is just to spare God’s people from suffering through the Great Tribulation.  She’s got a point.

From the Book of Job (alleged to be one of the oldest books of the Bible) straight through to the Crucifixion of God’s own Son and the subsequent persecution of the first century Christians, the Bible records the worst suffering often being inflicted on God’s most faithful servants.

So, again … why a Rapture?

Rapture

When Jesus taught the Rapture during the Olivet Discourse, He specifically mentioned Noah and Lot. These families were spared destruction, but they most certainly did not escape suffering!

It seems to me that the key point was not that they escaped destruction, but that they escaped destruction so they could fulfill God’s plan.  Noah’s family and the animals repopulated the Earth and Lot fathered Moab, among whose descendants was Ruth, who appears in the genealogy of Jesus.  See See Luke 17, Genesis 6-9, Genesis 19, Ruth 1, Matthew 1.

What if the point of the Rapture is similar – i.e., that God has work for us to do during the End Times that will require us to have glorified bodies like Jesus got when He rose from the dead?

I think this is how the Bible says it’s going to go down:

At the Rapture, everyone will see Jesus in the sky, riding on the clouds. He will send out his angels with a trumpet blast to gather his elect. The dead in Christ will rise first, then those who are alive will be caught up together to meet Him in the clouds and receive immortal, physical bodies like Jesus had after He rose. “Then those who lead the many to justice will be like the angels.”  See Acts 1:9-11; Matthew 24:30-31; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17; I Corinthians 15:51-54; Daniel 12:1-3.

I think that last line – “Lead the many to justice” (Daniel 12:3) – is an important clue to at least some of the work Jesus will have for the raptured to do during the last seven years.  Preaching.  Teaching.  Demonstrating what eternal life is going to look like for those who choose Jesus.

It’s a lot like what Jesus did between the Resurrection and the Ascension, isn’t it? Popping in and out of locked rooms, walking along the road to Emmaus, appearing to crowds?

Jesus on road to Emmaus

I found another clue in John’s vision of the final war at Armageddon, where Jesus rides in on a white horse, leading “the armies of heaven” who are also “mounted on white horses.” Revelation 19:11-14.

In the past, I’ve paid a lot of mind to Jesus on the horse, particularly as contrasted with Jesus on the donkey riding into Jerusalem before He died. But ZMalfoy pointed out something I hadn’t paid any mind to, which is the army behind Him. Who is on the horses?

Jesus on white horse with army

I guess if I’d been asked, I’d have said, “Probably angels,” but now that I look at it closely, I realize the text says the armies of heaven are “wearing clean white linen” which, just a few verses before is used to describe Jesus’ bride, the church. In other words, the army is made up of righteous humans, not angels. And they’re riding on horses like Jesus is, so we can presume they all have glorified bodies as well. See Rev 19.

It looks to me like the “armies of heaven” will be made up of raptured humans.

Dearest had another thought about how the Lord might use the raptured, which is to assist the underground church during the Great Tribulation. Those who refuse the Mark of the Beast won’t be allowed to buy or sell ANYTHING. So food, water, shelter, Bibles … you name it, they’ll need it. Maybe the raptured could help with that, you know? I haven’t found a Bible passage (yet?) but it makes sense and I know Dearest would really enjoy that kind of work.

Background Reading:

I had such a blessing today by Chrissy the Hyphenated (blog AND comments)

https://polination.wordpress.com/2014/02/28/i-had-such-a-blessing-today/

A Reply for Chrissy by ZMalfoy

A Reply for Chrissy

Two more significant events coming in April 2014 by CtH (blog AND comments)

https://polination.wordpress.com/2014/03/10/two-more-significant-events-coming-in-april-2014/

Vladimir Lenin and Our Lady of Fátima by CtH

https://polination.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/vladimir-lenin-and-our-lady-of-fatima/

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by | March 14, 2014 · 11:19 pm

Vladimir Lenin and Our Lady of Fátima

Lenin and Fatima

I promise that the following will astonish you. Keep in mind that World War I was raging throughout this time.

1917 March: The Russian monarchy was overthrown* by a moderate, democratically-oriented regime. At this point, the Bolsheviks were minor players in Russian politics, with no more than twenty thousand members, out of a population of one hundred and forty million. They had taken an insignificant part in the revolution, had made many enemies as the most radical wing of the socialists, and their leader, Vladimir Lenin, was in exile.

1917 April: Eager to avoid a democratic, western-allied Russia, German High Command secretly escorted Lenin back into Russia during the holiest week in the Judaeo-Christian calendar.

April 2, 1917: Top secret German communique – “We must covertly do everything we can to deepen the differences between the moderate and the extreme parties, since it is definitely in our interest that the latter should win the upper hand; then another upheaval will be inevitable and will take forms which will shake the Russian state to its foundations.”

April 6, 1917 (Good Friday, Roman Triduum): Passover began at sundown and the United States officially declared war on Germany.

April 9, 1917 (Monday, Roman Easter Week): Lenin began his journey out of exile.

April 13, 1917 (Final day of Passover; Holy Friday, Orthodox Triduum): Lenin arrived in Stockholm, Sweden, where he met with leading Socialists and arranged with a representative of German High Command for financing of Bolshevik activities in Russia. The Germans would ultimately invest the rough equivalent to $100 million in today’s dollars in building up Bolshevik newspapers and membership throughout Russia.

April 15, 1917 (Orthodox Easter Sunday): Lenin and his group crossed into Russian territory at midnight, just as Easter was beginning.

1917 May to October: With German money and Lenin’s leadership, the Bolshevik movement grew rapidly. Meanwhile, the Blessed Mother appeared to three illiterate peasant children in Fátima, Portugal. Below are abbreviated forms of her messages to the children interspersed with key events in the rise of Lenin to power.

May 13: “I want you to return here on the thirteenth of each month for the next six months, and at the very same hour. Later I shall tell you who I am, and what it is that I most desire.”

June 13: “Jesus wishes you to make me known and loved on earth. He wishes also for you to establish devotion in the world to my Immaculate Heart.”

July 13: “If my wishes are fulfilled, Russia will be converted and there will be peace; if not, then Russia will spread her errors throughout the world, bringing new wars and persecution of the Church; the good will be martyred and the Holy Father will have much to suffer; certain nations will be annihilated. But in the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and she will be converted, and the world will enjoy a period of peace.” N.b., The Blessed Mother’s message made no sense at this time, because Russia was still a devoutly Christian nation and had been for 1,000 years.

Mid-July: Lenin’s revolutionary program met with its first serious reverses when the Provisional Government put down a premature Bolshevik insurrection and word began to leak out about German funding of Bolshevik activities. Lenin was forced to run back to Finland.

August 13: Anti-Catholics took the three Fátima children hostage, keeping them locked up and threatening them repeatedly with torture and death if they did not renounce their story about a heavenly visitor. They refused and finally, on the August 15 (the Feast of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven), they were returned to Fátima and deposited on the steps of the rectory. Our Lady appeared to the children on Sunday, August 19. “Come again to the Cova da Iria on the thirteenth of next month, my child, and continue to say the Rosary every day. In the last month I will perform a miracle so that all may believe.”

September 13: “Continue the Rosary, my children. Say it every day that the war may end. … In October I will perform a miracle so that all may believe.”

September 12: An attempted coup by the Russian military ended with its leader’s suicide. The Provisional Government had depended on the support it received from the military to keep the Bolsheviks at bay. With that support gone, the Bolsheviks began to win the upper hand.

October 13 (Saturday, The Miracle of the Sun): “I am the Lady of the Rosary. … People must amend their lives and ask pardon for their sins. They must not offend our Lord any more, for He is already too much offended!” The Miracle of the Sun was seen by tens of thousands, a great crowd that had come to the Cova but also people from far away. The event was recorded as fact even in an anti-Catholic newspaper.

October 12: Lenin returned to Petrograd from Finland. He then went underground, dating his letters as if he were still in Finland.

1917 November: The Bolsheviks led by Lenin seized power* and established an officially godless state that would aggressively spread its intolerant creed around the globe.

*The two Russian revolutions occurred in March and November on the Gregorian calendar. They are often spoken of as the February and October revolutions, because Russia at that time was still using the Julian calendar which was thirteen days behind the Gregorian calendar.

Source:

Lenin, Fátima and Holy Week By James J. Foley

http://www.ewtn.com/library/HOMELIBR/FR93403.TXT

Apparition messages

https://www.ewtn.com/fatima/apparitions/BVM.htm

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