Fr Tutto's commentary on the message of 25 October 2008
During the past two centuries, since the French revolution, not only is Satan’s power is manifesting itself more and more among people and nations of the world through all the conflicts, wars, godless movements, terrorism, etc., causing the death of millions of innocent people and the loss of salvation of many souls, but also Heaven’s efforts to help mankind are being manifested more and more by God sending His mother, our mother, the Co-redemptrix, the Mediatrix of all graces, the Queen of Peace, during this period, the ‘Marian Age’, ever since 1830 when she gave us through Catherine Laboure the miraculous medal to protect us from Satan.
Through subsequent apparitions at La Salette, Lourdes, Fatima, Medjugorje and many other places Our Lady is guiding us and teaching us to grow in holiness of life so as to become effective instruments in her hands to overcome the power of Satan. We are in the latter part of this Marian Age, following Our Lady’s promises at La Salette and at Fatima: Ultimately my Immaculate Heart will triumph, when through her messages at Medjugorje Our Lady is preparing her willing children to be the apostles of the last times, the children of light, bringing light into a dark world, helping her Immaculate Heart to triumph over Satan and to save the world, as she indicated in her message on 25 September 1991:
Dear Children, Today, in a special way, I invite you all to prayer and renunciation. For now, as never before, Satan wants to show the world his shameful face, by which he wants to seduce as many people as possible onto the way of death and sin. Therefore, dear children, help my Immaculate Heart to triumph in the sinful world. I beseech all of you to offer prayers and sacrifices for my intentions so I can present them to God for what is most necessary. Forget your desires, dear children, and pray for what God desires and not for what you desire.
Our Lady is asking us to arm ourselves with prayer and fasting because prayer with fasting, or with any other kind of self-denial, is a powerful weapon against Satan, as Jesus told His disciples when they were unable to drive out an evil spirit: This is the kind that can only be driven out by prayer and fasting (Mark 9:29). The best prayer is, of course, the Holy Rosary which unites us with Jesus and Our Lady in a special way, and allows the power of Jesus to work through us against Satan. Through prayer and fasting God gives us the gift of peace which we have to carry into the world which is without peace, as Our Lady told us in another message:
Dear Children, Also today I call you to prayer, especially today when Satan wants war and hatred. I call you anew, little children: pray and fast that God may give you peace. Witness peace to every heart and be carriers of peace in this world without peace. I am with you and intercede before God for each of you. And you do not be afraid because the one who prays is not afraid of evil and has no hatred in the heart. (25 September 2001)
When Our Lady’s requests made at Fatima in 1917 were not fulfilled by the Church terrible events followed. I dare not to think what might happen to the world and to the Church if Our Lady’s present requests are ignored. I hope and pray that all those children of Our Lady who are reading this reflection are making a firm decision to live by the messages of Our Lady.
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