By David Martin —— Bio and Archives March 11, 2018
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"The tail of the devil is functioning in the disintegration of the Catholic World. The darkness of Satan has entered and spread throughout the Catholic Church even to its summit. Apostasy, the loss of the faith, is spreading throughout the world and into the highest levels within the Church." (October 13, 1977)
“I am worried by the Blessed Virgin’s messages to Lucy of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the Church is a Divine warning against the suicide of altering the Faith, in Her liturgy…. I hear all around me innovators who wish to dismantle the Sacred Chapel, destroy the universal flame of the true Faith of the Church, reject Her ornaments and make Her feel remorse for Her historical past. “A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to believe that man has become God.”Hence, we can understand the significance of 1960 as the appointed year for disclosing the Third Secret, since it was only two years later that they would convene the Second Vatican Council, setting into motion this insidious departure from tradition that would make the Church "feel remorse for Her historical past." Our Lady was attempting to avert this disaster to the Church. What we have seen since the Council is a new epoch of denial. The great tragedy of our time is that the Church has lost confidence in the rule of tradition that Christ left us, while it now seeks a new-found ecumenical unity with man. The Church has truly been “tempted to believe that man has become God.” Consider now the vision of nineteenth century Freemason and excommunicated priest, Canon Roca (1830-1893), who predicted that “the liturgy of the Roman Church will shortly undergo a transformation at an ecumenical council” in a move “to deprive the Church of its supernatural character, to amalgamate it with the world, to interweave the denominations ecumenically instead of letting them run side by side as separate confessions, and thus to pave the way for a standard world religion in the centralized world state.” More than once it has surfaced that the Third Secret of Fatima spoke of “a bad council and a bad Mass.” This was reported by the Fatima Crusader in May 2009 and again by One Peter Five in May 2016. According to both reports, it wasn't long after the supposed publication of the Third Secret by the Vatican in June 2000 that Cardinal Ratzinger [now Benedict XVI] told his good friend *Fr. Ingo Dollinger—a long-time friend and spiritual child of St. Padre Pio—that there is still part of the Third Secret that they have not published. “There is more than what we published,” Ratzinger said. He went on to tell Dollinger that the unpublished part of the Secret speaks of “a bad council and a bad Mass” that was to come in the future. (OnePeterFive) A bad council and a bad Mass would certainly tie with Canon Roca’s prediction that the liturgy "will shortly undergo a transformation at an ecumenical council." Among the instructions that accompanied this ecumenical council was the September 26, 1964, Instruction on the Liturgy, Inter Oecumenici, which outlined the new ruling for the Mass and sanctuary. Article 91 reads:
“The main altar should preferably be freestanding, to permit walking around it and celebration facing the people"Unfortunately, celebration “facing the people” was universally implemented after Vatican II. This change, which was unprecedented in the 2000-year history of the Church, was calculated to bring about a shift of focus so that the emphasis is on the community, and not on God. This was the essential part of “the suicide of altering the Faith in Her liturgy” that Cardinal Pacelli dreadfully prophesied. The ancient serpent has done his work well. Unfortunately, many lash out at this, arguing that the gates of hell can never harm the Church, but their argument holds no water. When Christ said that the gates of hell would never prevail against his Church, he in fact was telling us that the infernal gates would wage battle against the Church, but was nonetheless assuring us that the enemy would not succeed in eliminating the Church altogether. Scripture makes it clear that only a remnant would remain to meet with Christ at his Second Coming. (Apocalypse 1:7, 1 Thess. 4:15,16) Needless to say, the powers of darkness are now waging their final battle against the Church as several popes and saints of the past warned would come to pass. St. Paul himself tells us that “in the last days, shall come dangerous times.” (2 Timothy 3:1)... “For there shall be a time, when they will not endure sound doctrine.” (4:3) The Church indeed is in the grips of the worst crisis of its 2000-year history, a crisis in which every member of the Church is being tried for his valor and strength. (Apoc. 3:10) It is a test to see if they will remain allegiant to the rule of tradition or if they will flow with the new order of change that has ensued since Vatican II. Unfortunately, a great many are carelessly flowing with the times and can no longer distinguish between right and wrong, so great is the “diabolical disorientation” wrought by these “spirits of wickedness in the high places.” (Ephesians 6:12) Under the illusion of divine guidance, the church today is being guided by temptation because these dark powers have captured the Church’s ruling body and are using it to mislead the faithful with the errors of modernism and change. The pirates have hijacked ship and have landed it shipwreck onto secular coasts.
David Martin is the former moderator for St. Michaels Radio which is the one radio program of our time specializing in Catholic prophecy. He has also authored numerous articles on the Church and the Papacy which have appeared on various blogs and websites.
David presently resides in Los Angeles, California where for thirty years he has coordinated a Catholic ministry. He is a daily communicant in his parish church and strongly supports Benedict XVI’s aspiration to see the Traditional Latin Mass returned to every Catholic parish of the world.