World Peace NOW!

God, in His great love for mankind, wants to give all men the great gift of world peace. In all the 6000 years of mankind’s recorded history, there have been more than 14,400 wars. God wants to bring an end to all wars but mankind does not deserve this great grace. As Our Lady of Fatima said: “War is a punishment for sin.” Peace, on the other hand, comes only from God through the Prince of Peace — Jesus  Christ.

Our generation is worse than many other times. Pope Pius XII said: “The world today (1951) is worse than before the flood.” Today, in 2008, the world is even worse with legalized crimes against God and man, such as the abortion of 50,000,000 innocent victims every year whose blood cries to Heaven for vengeance. Nevertheless, God still wants to give peace to all mankind but only if we will obey the Fatima Message.

Why this Consecration?

Why is it that God insists on the Consecration of Russia to bring about world peace? The reason is simple and is as follows: God knows that if He gave us this gift, this great grace of world peace, somehow proud mankind would think that they deserve it and that it was due to their own human efforts and their secular (that is, excluding God) procedures and diplomacy which brought about this peace. Thus, mankind’s state would be worse than before because it would increase men’s pride and make them even more arrogant and displeasing to God.

So God cannot simply give this great gift. He has to find a way to give it to us without increasing our pride and stubbornness. That is why God will only give this gift through the merits and intercession of a saint. The book The Confessions of St. Augustine explains that certain graces God reserves, God will not give except through the merits and intercession of the saints. World peace is a great grace and it is reserved to the Blessed Virgin Mary alone. That is why at Fatima, Our Lady says: “Only I can help you.”

Why Our Lady?

St. Alphonsus explains that it is a great thing for a man or a woman to live a holy enough life to actually merit to save his own soul. It is a greater thing, he tells us, for a man or woman to be holy enough to merit not only his own salvation but the salvation of other souls. And this, St. Alphonsus tells us is what the canonized saints of the Catholic Church have done.

But, he says, the greatest of all things is for one human person to merit enough grace for the salvation of all other human persons and that, the Blessed Virgin Mary alone has done. That is why God has decreed that He will give the grace of world peace only through the merits and intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Why this Consecration Must be Public
and Solemn

God wants the rest of mankind to recognize that this gift of world peace has come to them not through their own merits and their own good works and their own efforts but only through the merits and prayers of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

That is why He will not convert Russia unless, and until, the Pope and the bishops publicly, solemnly consecrate specifically Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary so that when the miraculous conversion of Russia takes place, everyone can see that it was a result of the consecration, of the dedication of that people and country to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Once Russia has formally and publicly and solemnly been given to Her by the chief ministers of Her Son’s One True Church, then She will be allowed by God to give the graces of conversion to the whole people of Russia at once.

Sister Lucy of Fatima has pointed out that Russia is a very well-defined country and when the people of the world see that that one country is converted suddenly and miraculously, they will be able to see that it is a result of the obedience of the Pope and the bishops to the command by Jesus and Mary that Russia be consecrated to the Immaculate Heart.

To Establish in the World
Devotion to the Immaculate Heart

Then people everywhere will recognize that it is through the merits and intercession of the Blessed Virgin that Russia has received this stupendous grace. Thereby, the world will turn to the Blessed Virgin Mary asking for Her intercession on behalf of themselves for their spiritual and temporal needs and those of their dear ones. Thus, they too will receive great graces from Our Lady because they have asked Her and prayed to Her and honored Her. Thus, the devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary will be established in the world. And because of this devotion, many more souls will be saved.

When Lucy of Fatima asked Our Lord why without the Consecration of Russia He would not convert Russia away from its errors and convert it into fervent believing Catholics, He answered: “Because I want My whole Church to recognize that consecration as a triumph of the Immaculate Heart so that later on My Church will place devotion to the Immaculate Heart beside devotion to My Sacred Heart.”

So that Many Souls Will be Saved

So many souls go to hell because of their sins committed against Her Immaculate Heart. By establishing this devotion these crimes against Our Lady will diminish or disappear altogether. So many more souls will be saved.

Also, many do not realize that devotion to Our Lady is necessary for salvation. By establishing devotion to the Immaculate Heart throughout the world, many souls who would be lost because they did not ask for Our Lady’s intercession will now be saved because they learned to turn to Her in their spiritual needs.

Our Lady of Fatima said, after showing the three children the vision of hell: “You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. In order to save sinners God wills to establish in the world devotion to My Immaculate Heart.”

“If My requests are heeded, many souls will be saved and there will be peace.” Amen.

Let us hasten to obey Her requests and also do all we can to cause all Her requests to be obeyed.