Continued...
The Message of Fatima, sent from Heaven for our times, is often dismissed today by saying that it is a
private revelation that one is free to accept or reject. Well, some 70,000 people, over a radius of 70 miles, publicly witnessed the Miracle of the Sun on October 13th, 1917, which was foretold by Our Lady on July 13th, "so that all may believe."
In addition, the Message of Fatima is a Church-approved compendium of Traditional Catholic Church teaching and a reaffirmation of the Gospels, twin fonts of Truth, from which no Catholic is free to reject.
Saint Padre Pio had a great devotion to Our Lady of Fatima. Someone, perhaps a Modernist, once said to Saint Padre Pio: "I don’t believe in hell." Padre Pio responded: "You will when you get there."
In conclusion:
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• Dare we hope that 2 + 2 = 5?
NO. As much as one may wish for that, the answer is logically and always 4. A ‘hope’ is irrational if it is not possible. Likewise ...
• Dare we hope that
all
men be saved?
NO. Jesus was asked that question when a certain man said to Him: "Lord, are there few that are saved?"
Our Lord and God responded: "Strive to enter by the narrow gate; for many, I say to you, shall seek to enter, and shall not be able" (Lk13:23-24). "Many" here means that many will NOT be saved. In the Syllabus of Errors of the Great Blessed Pope Pius IX, the following error condemned in the Encyclical Quanto conficiamur of 1863 was cited: "Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ" (#17).
• Dare we hope that hell is empty and that God and Our Lady of Fatima are wrong about the souls of the damned being there?
NO. That would be blasphemous and contrary to Sacred Scripture and opposed to Sacred Tradition. In addition, it would contradict the Churchapproved Message of Fatima, which includes the vision of hell.
• Dare we hope that no other
souls are in danger of joining the others in hell?
NO. The Church has traditionally taught that the devil and his demons are prowling the world seeking the ruin and damnation of souls. We are all in danger of eternal hell fire.
Dare we hope that all Modernists be saved?
NOT much hope for them if they remain a Modernist spreading their pernicious errors which lead souls to hell.
BUT hope remains if they repent, recant their heresies, and embrace "the doctrine of the Faith that was handed down to us from the Apostles through the orthodox Fathers in exactly the same meaning and always in the same purport" (from the "Oath Against Modernism" by Pope Saint Pius X). Making a good Sacramental Confession and receiving the Last Rites, including the Apostolic Pardon, at the point of death, would also be in their best interests. To this end,
we will pray for them and for all other sinners, in accord with the Message of Fatima: Hail Mary, Full of Grace, the Lord is with Thee, Blessed art Thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of Thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Always remember my
Three R’s of Modernism: Recognize it;
Refute it; and
Return to Tradition. ■
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