October 23, 1947prev home next
Jesus says:
“You had your Holy Year in your fiftieth year. You had Me in a way only you know.326 And you are remaining in this jubilee year of yours until it turns into your eternal century of heavenly peace. But the Holy Year that will come must be marked by a special character: the Marian character.
“The extraordinary Holy Year was celebrated for the nineteenth centennial of my Passion. Infinite Wisdom would love there to be a celebration of this other centennial as well - of the glorious Assumption of my Mother into Heaven - and to have this celebration give a special character to the next Holy Year.327 Infinite Wisdom would love to have this duty, this need, and this far-sightedness be felt as regards providing a note of Marian triumph and thus a stimulus for devotion to Mary, your Salvation - in this terrible conclusion to this terrible century in which the complete opening of the seven seals328 may take place, as God’s punishment - in the next Holy Year. For too many centuries now Christendom has been awaiting this triumphal proclamation of the Virgin Mother, taken up into Heaven by God to be a joy for God, whose living Temple on earth she was, and the Queen of the heavenly choirs and the people of the Saints.
“Many of the seals have in reality already been opened. But woe if they were all opened or should come to be!
“Hasten the hour of the triumph of the Woman, foundress of the lineage of those marked with the sign of the servants of God, the chosen whose dwelling is Heaven. Hasten the hour of Mary’s triumph over Satan, the world, matter, and death, overcome by Us twice, overcome in Her as a creature, too, in her not knowing the spiritual death of sin, in addition to not knowing death in her flesh, which was not corrupted and lives here. Hasten the hour of Mary’s triumph. Let the men, women, and children of the One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman Church join the Angels, headed by Michael so that the dragon with seven heads, ten horns, and seven accursed diadems - the seven seductions329 - will be cast down for a certain period and Christendom will have time to gather together and fortify itself in charity and faith and close ranks as a defense for the final battle.
“Woe if the woman dressed in purple and scarlet where the unclean beast with blasphemous names sets his throne were to be proclaimed queen before the Queen of the Angels and men is proclaimed with infallible words, the Woman dressed in sunlight, whose feet tread upon the moon and whose head is crowned with stars.330
“There cannot be a second Redemption carried out by Me, Christ. But there can still be one to save a greater number of spirits from the coils of hell: that of glorious Mary. In devotion to Her lies the secret of the last Redemption.
“If they hear Me in the words of the Work, you know who you should communicate these other words to.”
326 On March 16, 1947, in connection with March 14, her fiftieth birthday.
327 In 1933, under Pope Pius XI, the extraordinary Holy Year of the Redemption had been celebrated. In 1950, and ordinary Holy Year, Pope Pius XII would define as a dogma of faith the Assumption of Our Lady in soul and body into the glory of Heaven.
328 Revelation 5 and 6.
329 Revelation 12:3.
330 Revelation 12:1, 17:3-4.