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Catholic Encyclopedia, 1911: The more noteworthy of the prophecies bearing upon “latter times” seem to have one common end, to announce great calamities impending over mankind, the triumph of the Church, and the renovation of the world . All the seers agree in two leading features … “First they all point to some terrible convulsion, to a revolution springing from most deep-rooted impiety, consisting in a formal opposition to God and His truth, and resulting in the most formidable persecution to which the Church has ever been subject. Secondly, they all promise for the Church a victory more splendid than she has ever achieved here below.”

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Catholic Encyclopedia, 1911:

The more noteworthy of the prophecies bearing upon “latter times” seem to have one common end, to announce great calamities impending over mankind, the triumph of the Church, and the renovation of the world. All the seers agree in two leading features … “First they all point to some terrible convulsion, to a revolution springing from most deep-rooted impiety, consisting in a formal opposition to God and His truth, and resulting in the most formidable persecution to which the Church has ever been subject. Secondly, they all promise for the Church a victory more splendid than she has ever achieved here below.”

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Catechism of the Catholic Church, sections 676 and 677

1)The Antichrist's deception already begins to take shape in the world every time the claim is made to realize within history that messianic hope which can only be realized beyond history through the eschatological judgment.

2)The Church has rejected even modified forms of this falsification of the kingdom to come under the name of millenarianism…

a) ... especially the “intrinsically perverse” political form of a secular messianism. 3)The Church will enter the glory of the kingdom only through this final Passover, when

she will follow her Lord in his death and Resurrection. The kingdom will be fulfilled, then, not by a historic triumph of the Church through a progressive ascendancy, but only by God's victory over the final unleashing of evil, which will cause his Bride to come down from heaven. God's triumph over the revolt of evil will take the form of the Last Judgment after the final cosmic upheaval of this passing world

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Denzinger section 3839:

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Catechism of the Catholic Church:

The Church will enter the glory of the kingdom only through this final Passover, when she will follow her Lord in his death and Resurrection. [Footnote 579 – Revelation 19, the condemnation of the Whore of Babylon and the preparation of the Bride for the marriage with the lamb]

The kingdom will be fulfilled, then, not by a historic triumph of the Church through a progressive ascendancy, but only by God's victory over the final unleashing of evil, which will cause his Bride to come down from heaven [Footnote 580 – Revelation 13, 20, and 21, describing Satan loosed AFTER the “thousand year” peace and then the Heavenly Jerusalem with no more tears/death/pain]. God's triumph over the revolt of evil will take the form of the Last Judgment after the final cosmic upheaval of this passing world...

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Pope St. Pius X, E Supremi (On the Restoration of All Things in Christ), teaching that the Antichrist was likely already in the world and that all things would nevertheless be Restored in Christ with the people enjoying the fullness of peace:

§4-5: “...every effort and every artifice is used to destroy utterly the memory and the knowledge of God. When all this is considered there is good reason to fear lest this great perversity may be as it were a foretaste, and perhaps the beginning of those evils which are reserved for the last days; and that there may be already in the world the "Son of Perdition" of whom the Apostle speaks (II. Thess. ii., 3)....according to the same apostle [this] is the distinguishing mark of Antichrist, man has with infinite temerity put himself in the place of God…Verily no one of sound mind can doubt the issue of this contest between man and the Most High.”

§14-15: “Oh! when in every city and village the law of the Lord is faithfully observed, when respect is shown for sacred things, when the Sacraments are frequented, and the ordinances of Christian life fulfilled, there will certainly be no more need for us to labor further to see all things restored in Christ. Nor is it for the attainment of eternal welfare alone that this will be of service—it will also contribute largely to temporal welfare and the advantage of human society ... when [piety] is strong and flourishing ‘the people will’ truly ‘sit in the fullness of peace… May God, “who is rich in mercy”, benignly speed this restoration of the human race in Jesus Christ ... And let us, Venerable Brethren, “in the spirit of humility”, with continuous and urgent prayer ask this of Him through the merits of Jesus Christ. ”

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…The kingdom will be fulfilled, then, not by a historic triumph of the Church through a progressive ascendancy…

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St. Justin Martyr:

I and every other orthodox Christian feel certain that there will be a resurrection of the flesh followed by a thousand years in a rebuilt, embellished, and enlarged city of Jerusalem, as was announced by the Prophets Ezekiel, Isaias and others… A man among us named John, one of Christ’s Apostles, received and foretold that the followers of Christ would dwell in Jerusalem for a thousand years, and that afterwards the universal and, in short, everlasting resurrection and judgment would take place.”

These are the words of Isaiah concerning the millennium: ‘For there will be a new heaven and a new earth, and the former will not be remembered nor come into their heart, but they will be glad and rejoice in these things, which I create… There shall no more be an infant of days there, nor an old man that shall not fill up his days; for the child shall die a hundred years old… For as the days of the tree of life, so shall be the days of My people, and the works of their hands shall be multiplied. My elect shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth children for a curse; for they shall be a righteous seed blessed by the Lord, and their posterity with them.

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Tertullian:

But we do confess that a kingdom is promised to us upon the earth, although before heaven, only in another state of existence; inasmuch as it will be after the resurrection for a thousand years in the divinely-built city of Jerusalem…We say that this city has been provided by God for receiving the saints on their resurrection, and refreshing them with the abundance of all really spiritual blessings, as a recompense for those which we have either despised or lost…

St. Irenaeus:

The predicted blessing, therefore, belongs unquestionably to the times of the kingdom, when the righteous shall bear rule upon their rising from the dead; when also the creation, having been renovated and set free, shall fructify with an abundance of all kinds of food, from the dew of heaven, and from the fertility of the earth: as the elders who saw John, the disciple of the Lord, related that they had heard from him how the Lord used to teach in regard to these times ... and that all animals feeding [only] on the productions of the earth, should [in those days] become peaceful and harmonious among each other, and be in perfect subjection to man.

Barnabas (Apostolic Father):

“And God rested on the seventh day from all his works… Therefore, a sabbath rest still remains for the people of God.” (Heb 4:4, 9)…when His Son will come and destroy the time of the lawless one and judge the godless, and change the sun and the moon and the stars—then He shall indeed rest on the seventh day… after giving rest to all things, I will make the beginning of the eighth day, that is, the beginning of another world.

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Lactantius:

The earth will open its fruitfulness and bring forth most abundant fruits of its own accord; the rocky mountains shall drip with honey; streams of wine shall run down, and rivers flow with milk; in short the world itself shall rejoice, and all nature exalt, being rescued and set free from the dominion of evil and impiety, and guilt and error.

Therefore, the Son of the most high and mighty God… shall have destroyed unrighteousness, and executed His great judgment, and shall have recalled to life the righteous, who… will be engaged among men a thousand years, and will rule them with most just command…

…beasts shall not be nourished by blood, nor birds by prey; but all things shall be peaceful and tranquil. Lions and calves shall stand together at the manger, the wolf shall not carry off the sheep

These are the things which are spoken of by the prophets as about to happen hereafter: but I have not considered it necessary to bring forward their testimonies and words, since it would be an endless task; nor would the limits of my book receive so great a multitude of subjects, since so many with one breath speak similar things; and at the same time, lest weariness should be occasioned to the readers if I should heap together things collected and transferred from all

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Venerable Pope Pius XII, in his Encyclical Promoting Biblical Studies Divino Afflante Spiritu (30 September, 1943), 47:

... all moreover should abhor that intemperate zeal which imagines that whatever is new should for that very reason be opposed or suspected ... in the immense matter contained in the Sacred Books—legislative, historical, sapiential and prophetical —there are but few texts whose sense has been defined by the authority of the Church ... There remain therefore many things, and of the greatest importance, in the discussion and exposition of which the skill and genius of Catholic commentators may and ought to be freely exercised, so that each may contribute his part to the advantage of all, to the continued progress of the sacred doctrine and to the defense and honor of the Church

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St. Augustine, in his own words, confirming the orthodoxy of those disagreeing with his own Amillennialism (City of God, Book 20, Chapter 7):

…as if it were a fit thing that the saints should thus enjoy a kind of Sabbath-rest during that period [of a ‘thousand years’], a holy leisure after the labors of six thousand years since man was created… [and] there should follow on the completion of six thousand years, as of six days, a kind of seventh-day Sabbath in the succeeding thousand years… And this opinion would not be objectionable, if it were believed that the joys of the saints, in that Sabbath, shall be spiritual, and consequent on the presence of God

… and, within the same book, Augustine insists his Amillennialism is just an onion, and that only the events themselves will give clarity:

And at or in connection with that judgment the following events shall come to pass, as we have learned: Elias the Tishbite shall come; the Jews shall believe; Antichrist shall persecute; Christ shall judge; the dead shall rise; the good and the wicked shall be separated; the world shall be burned and renewed. All these things, we believe, shall come to pass; but how, or in what order, human understanding cannot perfectly teach us, but only the experience of the events themselves. My opinion, however, is, that they will happen in the order in which I have related them [i.e., his famous Amillennialism].

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The Entire 20 th Chapter of the Book of Revelation:

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the Devil and

Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and

sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years were ended. After that he must be loosed for a

little while.

The orthodox reading of the clear sense of Scripture:

This immediately follows Revelation 19’s description of the defeat of the

Antichrist (Beast and False Prophet). The devil -- to whom the Antichrist was subservient -- is now himself

banished from the earth for a “thousand years,” to thereafter be

briefly loosed upon the earth.

With the deceiver sealed in the pit, the earth can enjoy a glorious Era without any impact of his hitherto

constant attacks.

Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom judgment was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony to Jesus and for the word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life, and reigned with Christ a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he who shares

Here we see an initial event of the Glorious Era.

This is clearly not Judgment Day itself, which is depicted later in this passage, but rather a great Divine

Intervention wherein many who were martyred during the Great

Persecution are brought back to life -- a “first resurrection” -- not at all

unprecedented in Church History. Consider how many saints have

raised the dead in accordance with Christ’s command (Matthew 10:8)

and how many came back to life upon

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in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and they shall reign with him a thousand years.

the Resurrection of Christ, too (Matthew 27:52-53: "The tombs also were opened, and many bodies of the

saints who had fallen asleep were raised, 53 and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they

went into the holy city and appeared to many.")

And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be loosed from his prison and will come out to deceive the nations which are at the four corners of the earth, that is, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea. And they marched up over the broad earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city; but fire came down from heaven and consumed them, and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

After the “thousand year” Era of Peace -- reign of the Kingdom on

Earth -- Satan is briefly unleashed through “Gog and Magog” to commence the Final Battle of

Armageddon. God’s permissive Will allows this as it would not be fitting for the end of the world to come in

the midst of the Glorious Era of Peace. Here, there is no hint of a

lengthy persecution, apostasy, period of Chastisements, falling away from the Faith, etc., of which the earlier

Chapters of Revelation are full.

Then I saw a great white throne and him who sat upon it; from his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, great and small,

Here we see the clear end of time with the Second Coming of Christ in the flesh and commencement of the

General Resurrection and Last Judgment.

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standing before the throne, and books were opened. Also another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, by what they had done. And the sea gave up the dead in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead in them, and all were judged by what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire; and if any one’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

The next two Chapters -- the final ones of this book and of the entire bible -- describe the glory of the

Heavenly Jerusalem.

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Catholic Encyclopedia, 1911:

The more noteworthy of the prophecies bearing upon “latter times” seem to have one common end, to announce great calamities impending over mankind, the triumph of the Church, and the renovation of the world. All the seers agree in two leading features … “First they all point to some terrible convulsion, to a revolution springing from most deep-rooted impiety, consisting in a formal opposition to God and His truth, and resulting in the most formidable persecution to which the Church has ever been subject. Secondly, they all promise for the Church a victory more splendid than she has ever achieved here below.

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Our Lady of Fatima:

"The good will be martyred; the Holy Father will have much to suffer; various nations will be annihilated. In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and she shall be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world”.- July 13, 1917

Cardinal Ciappi, Theologian of the Pontifical Household to five Popes:

"…a miracle was promised at Fatima. And that miracle will be an era of peace, which has never really been granted before to the world… Our Lady promised us this era of peace..."

John Haffert, one of the world’s most respected and prolific promoters of the message of Fatima:

[Many] have said “Yes” to the Lord. They have joined with Mary in prayer and sacrifice to help save us all and bring the Era of Peace. In some, this Triumph of a faith-filled “Yes” has been in their hearts for many years …. [but] for the vast majority, the Triumph seems to have not yet begun. ... the Triumph will come. By Her prophecy quoted above, the Queen of Heaven assures us that the present situation will be reversed by the intervention of God. By His great mercy, by the intercession of the Immaculate Heart and of those who join with Her in Her efforts to turn the world around, it will happen. The conversion of the world is sure to come. The world will become His by our conversion and His intervention. The Triumph of the Immaculate Heart will arrive… The Triumph will be a conversion event that will be so powerful and universal that all will be compelled to praise God for the magnificent works He has done in His creature, Mary.

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The awesome might that this humble handmaiden possesses as she shares in the redemption of the world will be abundantly clear before all eyes. The Triumph will be recognizable in the total conversion of the world. It will be a historical event of such magnitude that it will make all former moments of glory seem like shadows ...

St. Faustina (Divine Mercy):

“In spite of Satan's anger, The Divine Mercy will triumph over the whole world and will be worshiped by all souls.”

Lady of All Nations (Ida Peerdeman) Approved apparitions with many fulfilled prophecies:

“When the dogma, the last dogma of the Marian mystery, will have been promulgated, it will be then that the Lady of All Peoples (Nations) will give peace to the world, true peace ... The lady of All Nations may now come in order to expel Satan. She comes to announce the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit will then come over this earth…”

Blessed Conchita:

“On sending to the world a new Pentecost, I want it inflamed, purified, illuminated, inflamed and purified by the light and fire of the Holy Spirit. The last stage of the world must be marked very specially by the effusion of the Holy Spirit. He must reign in hearts and in the entire world…it is My will that in the whole Christian world the Holy Spirit be implored to bring peace and His reign into hearts. Only this Holy Spirit will be able to renew the face of the earth. He will bring light, union and charity to hearts….May the whole world have recourse to this Holy Spirit since the day of His reign has arrived. This last stage of the world belongs very specially to Him that

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He be honored and exalted…..He will come, I will send Him again clearly manifest in His effects, which will astonish the world and impel the Church to holiness … I want to return to the world in My priests. I want to renew the world of souls by making Myself seen in My priests. I want to give a might impulse to My Church infusing in her, as it were, a new Pentecost, the Holy Spirit, in My priests”

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Edson Glauber (Itapiranga, Brazil)

Together with those who wish to listen to this call of mine I will realize my kingdom on earth just as it is in heaven and we will be one, united to the Father, for whoever is united to me knows and is united to the Father, for the Father is with me.'—November 24, 1998

Courage, courage, courage my children. The world is already about to be renewed and a new dawn will arise for all Christians. July 6, 2000

The Lord is returning to fulfil all his promises. His kingdom on earth will be as it is in Heaven. [ ... ] Renew your lives through prayer and thus the Lord will transform you totally, renewing everything and all things. My maternal and Royal blessing to you all. As mother and Queen I tell you: prepare for the wedding with the Lamb, for behold, he comes—July 8, 2000

I desire [to have] saints for my kingdom of love. The earth will yet be a great paradise. First will come the sorrows, but then will come the great transformation, when all will be renewed and all things will be made new. Humanity will be revived in love and peace. Thus my kingdom on earth will be as in heaven. March 23, 2004

I love you and I tell you that those who listen to my appeals will be blessed before the Lord when he returns in the last times/final moments, in the glory of his kingdom. Jesus is about to establish his kingdom of love in the world and all those who are prepared will receive their final reward. March 25, 2004

My Lord sends me from Heaven in order to tell you that great trials will come to the world, but also times of great peace when he will renew the world. Those who are listening to the Lord's appeals will shine like a great light when he establishes his kingdom of love in the world. There will be no more suffering. There will be no more weeping. God will wipe away

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the tears of all those who hope with patience and do not lose faith. Little children, take heart. Courage. A while more and everything will be transformed. Do not fear life's trials, but accept them as a means of purification by which the Lord frees you from all your defects and weaknesses. August 7, 2005

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Gladys Quiroga (San Nicolas)

Approved apparitions:

If [man] desired to discover God, this would be an earth of peace for all, because only God can make peace reign, that peace so longed for by many!—June 7, 1985

My daughter, the evil one is triumphant now, it is true, but it is a victory that will last briefly.—October 11, 1986

…the Holy Church will soon come to shine like the brightest of stars. Glory be to God. Make it known.—November 9, 1986

I am the Mother of Heaven, who wants to reach salvation for mankind: The Mother who gives to the children, out of Her Great Kindness. The Mother, who today cares for the Son's fold. Nothing will prevent the victory of my Motherly Mission.- June 3, 1988

As Mother of the Church, I suffer the most unbearable pain; my suffering joins that of the Pope, because his sorrow is my sorrow. The most intense Light of Christ will rise again. As at the Calvary, after the Crucifixion and death came the Resurrection, the Church will also be reborn by the strength of Love. Amen, Amen. You must make this known!—July 10, 1988

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Pedro Regis (a seer who enjoys the support of his Bishop):

I want to make your saints for the glory of the reign of God. Open your hearts! Very soon the world will be transformed into a new world, without hate or violence. The world will be a new garden and all will live happily.—October 8, 1988

Firmly believe that the world will be transformed, first passing through a purification, and then there will be the triumph of My Immaculate Heart.—May 7, 1996

The Lord will transform humanity into a new garden. When all this happens the world will be abound with goods and man will lack nothing. It will be a time when the fruits of trees will be multiplied and there will be two crops per year. Hunger will no longer exist for humanity.- June 3, 2000

Trust in Jesus and you will see the transformation of the earth. Humanity will be made new by the Mercy of Jesus. A great sign from God will appear, and mankind will be astonished.—December 24, 2011

You still have long years of trials ahead of you, but the great day is coming. My Jesus will give you the grace to live in complete peace. The Earth will be completely transformed and all will live joyfully.—December 24, 2013

When everything seems lost, a miracle of God will occur and peace will reign upon the Earth. Go forward.—February 3, 2015

…you will see the transformation of the earth with the Definitive Triumph of My Immaculate Heart”—June 2018

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Elizabeth KindelmannApproved revelations:

The soft light of my Flame of Love will ignite and take fire on the whole surface of earth, and Satan, humiliated and reduced to impotence, will no longer be able to exercise his might. However, these pains in giving birth, don’t try to prolong them !”

… my heart overflowed with a huge cheerfulness … In my heart, I saw how Satan becomes blinded, and also the beneficial effects that men will reap from it, in the whole world. Under the effect of that gladness, I could hardly close my eyes during the whole night, and when a light sleep came on me, my guardian angel woke me saying: “How can you sleep like that, with such a great gladness which will shake the world?”

Immediately after her guardian angel said these words, Jesus revealed to Elizabeth more about what this blinding of Satan entails. Jesus said:

That Satan becomes blind means the world triumph of my Sacred-Heart, the liberation of souls, and that the road of Salvation will open in all its plenitude.

In an undated entry from August 1962, Jesus said to Elizabeth:

…let the coming of my Kingdom be the aim of your life on earth…

…speak, all of you, with repentant soul, to my Divine Son and to Me when you think of the Reign of my Divine Son and you make everything for it to happen to you all. That is why I want to make overflow my Flame of Love on earth for you to see the road which leads to the Reign of my Divine Son

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Our Lady of Zaro

At one point, I saw something like a great sun illuminating the whole earth and Mother told me: “Behold, when my heart will triumph everything will shine more than the sun.” December 26, 2018

In St Peter's Square [I saw] … [people] start praying forcefully, clutching the Holy Rosary in their hands and everything stops: evil disappears, the screams and pain, the dead are gone, a great peace reigns and a single prayer is heard rising to heaven… [Our Lady:} My beloved children, learn to say to the Lord “Thy Will be done” and learn to accept it.. “—August 8, 2018

My children, your ears will hear distant noises and clashes of war, the earth will yet tremble, but I am with you, do not be afraid; after the tribulation there will be peace and my Immaculate heart will triumph.” May 8, 2018

Mother said: “The Church will be attacked, there will be a period of great doubt on men's part, many will turn away from her but then everything will shine and shine more than before.” December 8, 2016

Pray, pray, pray! First all these [Chastisements] and many things will have to happen, and finally my Immaculate Heart will triumph. June 26, 2014

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Servant of God Maria Esperanza:

“The environment will be fresh and new, and we will be happy in our world, without the feeling of tension.”…”This century is purifying; after will come peace and love.”…”It will be in a way never before imagined by man, because the Light of His New Rising will be evident to everyone. And of course, man is still not ready for this, to accept these profound things, which actually are so simple and so clear, just as the water which comes down from the spring.”

… [The Lord told me] … “I will come among you in a resplendent sun. My rays will reach all nations to illuminate you, to enlighten you, that you may rise and grow as plants grow, with fruits. You all have the right to receive the grace of God the Father ... ”

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Medjugorje

One of the seers, Mirjana, recently published a book, the very title of which speaks of the Era of Peace. Entitled My Heart Will Triumph, we see in it clear teachings, based on the messages of Medjugorje, that the Era is coming:

I cannot divulge much more about the secrets, but I can say this—Our Lady is planning to change the world. She did not come to announce our destruction; she came to save us, and with her Son, she will triumph over evil. If our Mother has promised to defeat evil, then what do we have to fear?

In Međugorje, Our Lady continued calling for peace. In 1995, she asked people to transmit her messages to the world so that “a river of love flows to people who are full of hatred and without peace.” She also invited everyone to be her “joyful carriers of peace in this troubled world,” and she asked for our prayers, “so that as soon as possible a time of peace, for which my heart waits impatiently, may reign.”

… After the events take place as predicted, it will be difficult for even the staunchest skeptics to doubt the existence of God…

…. We have this time that we are living in now, and we have the time of the triumph of Our Lady’s heart. Between these two times we have a bridge, and that bridge is our priests. …

When people ask me gloomy questions about Biblical catastrophes and the end of the world, I feel sorry for them. Some seem to think that all the secrets are negative. Maybe they have a guilty conscience; maybe they are afraid of how they’ve lived their life and so they fear God’s punishment. Perhaps when we do not have enough good inside, we expect bad things. ... The people who are concerned about the secrets have not

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seen Our Lady and do not know about God’s complete project—why Our Lady comes here at all, or what she’s preparing us for. But if your life is in her hands, and God is in your heart, what can harm you?

Mirjana ends the book with the following exhortation:

This is how I see all the confusion in the world today. This is how I see Our Lady’s apparitions and God’s plan. A truly clean house starts with a big mess. Will you be like most children who stand back while Mom cleans, or will you not be afraid to get your hands dirty and help her? Like Our Lady said in one of her messages, “I desire that, through love, our hearts may triumph together.” May the triumph of her heart begin with you.

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Luz de Maria

Revelations that bear both the imprimatur of the Seer’s Bishop and his express encouragement with the words:

…. I have reviewed with faith and interest these volumes entitled: “THY KINGDOM COME”, and have come to conclusion that they are a call to Humanity to return to the Path that leads to Eternal Life. ... I DECLARE that I have not found any Doctrinal error that attempts against the faith, morality and good habits, for which I grant these publications the IMPRIMATUR. Together with my blessing, I express my best wishes for the “Word of Heaven” contained here to resonate in every creature of good will. I ask the Virgin Mary, Mother of God and Our Mother, to intercede for us so that the Will of God be fulfilled “…on earth as it is in Heaven.” (Mt, 6:10)

The messages themselves:

THE ERA OF PEACE IS COMING FOR MANKIND. [An] Era in which everything will be reborn; man, purified and fused with God’s Will, Creation, which will then feel in harmony with mankind. Total and complete happiness. Peace and harmony are coming. In order for mankind to overcome that great transition, it must first come to be ….—January 30, 2011

{In} the end, the Immaculate Heart of my mother will triumph, and my Divine Will, will reign on earth as … in Heaven.- July 7, 2014

Continue holding My Hand, that My Son’s people will find Me, though they be just a few! …but the faithful, those who love My Son in spirit and in truth, who will never deny Him and remain standing, those who are firm and true, they will be the one who will give My Son the Reign of His Will.- September 21, 2014

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Each one of the volumes of Luz de Maria’s messages bearing the imprimatur contains the following words in its initial pages (in which Luz de Maria herself presents the volume to the readers), all in bolded, uppercase letters so that no one misses it:

WITH THE ASSURANCE THAT THE WOMAN CLOTHED WITH THE SUN WILL CRUSH THE HEAD OF SATAN AND THE CHILDREN OF GOD WILL ENJOY THE ERA OF PEACE.

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Fr Ottavio Michelini

Fr. Ottavio Michelini, priest, mystic, and member of the Papal Court of Pope St. Paul VI (one of the highest honors bestowed by a Pope on a living person), received many private revelations:

… it will be the Mother, most holy Mary, who will crush the head of the serpent, thus beginning a new era of peace; IT WILL BE THE ADVENT OF MY KINGDOM UPON EARTH. It will be the return of the Holy Ghost for a new Pentecost. It will be my merciful love that will defeat Satan's hatred.[14]

In another passage, Fr. Ottavio was told:

Hell will be defeated: my Church will be regenerated: MY KINGDOM, that is a kingdom of love, of justice and of peace, will give peace and justice to this humanity, subjected to the powers of hell, which my Mother will defeat. A LUMINOUS SUN WILL SHINE upon a better humanity. Courage, therefore, and do not fear anything.

… the ADVENT OF MY KINGDOM and the victory of the Immaculate Heart of my Mother are at the doors.

And again,

In my regenerated Church, there will no longer be so many dead souls, that are numbered in my Church today. This will be my proximate coming to the earth, with the ADVENT OF MY KINGDOM IN SOULS, and it will be the Holy Ghost who, with the fire of his love and with his charisms, will maintain the new Church purified, …. This intermediate coming is the Kingdom of Jesus in souls, a kingdom of peace, a kingdom of justice, that will have its full and luminous splendor after the purification.

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… the Church is present the divine Redeemer; it cannot perish, but it must suffer its tremendous passion, just like its invisible Head. Afterwards, the Church and all of humanity will be raised up from its ruins, to begin a new path of justice and of peace, in which THE KINGDOM OF GOD WILL TRULY DWELL IN ALL HEARTS, THAT INTERIOR KINGDOM THAT UPRIGHT SOULS HAVE ASKED FOR AND IMPLORED FOR SO MANY AGES.

….. The earth … will be made arid and desolate then “purified” by fire to be fertilized by the honest labor of the just escaped for the divine goodness to the tremendous hour of the divine anger. Then … there will be the reign of God in the souls, that reign the just ask from God invoking “Thy Kingdom come.”

Bishop Miguel Garcia Franco, who says, “…I find all the doctrine contained in the book [the one quoted above] 100% orthodox, more yet, in whole coincident with the writings of Mrs. Conchita Cabrera de Armida ... and with the book of Father Esteban Gobbi, books for which we have ecclesiastic approbation…”

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Barnabas Nwoye (Precious Blood Revelations)In revelations that bear the Nihil Obstat, we see:

“Agonizing Jesus, I offer You my heart to be united with Your Agonizing Heart as a co-bearer of Your agony. Jesus, I wish to be in agony with You so as to hasten Your Glorious Reign of Peace. Amen.”

Another prayer of this devotion is the “Prayer for the Manifestation of the Divine Will,” the entirety of which is as follows:

Eternal Father, You are the creator and author of life. You love the world You made. That is why You sent Your only-begotten Son to come for its redemption, so that Your Kingdom will come. Look upon Your Son and rise up on Your throne. Raise Your right hand and save Your people. I offer You all the sufferings, pains, and death of Your only begotten Son Whom You love, for Your triumph and reign on earth. May You, through the Precious Blood of Your Son, make a new covenant and bring all Your children back to Your Holy Will. Amen. Precious Blood of Jesus Christ—reign forever. Agonizing Jesus Christ—Thy Kingdom come. Amen.

In the same approved devotional, we find another prayer revealed to Barnabas. Entitled “The Prayer for the Reign of Glory on Earth,” it reads as follows:

O Loving and Merciful Father, all knowing and all powerful, the Alpha and the Omega, the Eternal Father Who created all things, that You should forsake Your children, Your nature forbids. Look kindly on Your begotten Son Jesus Christ Who came to save men and bring Your Kingdom down on earth. …May [the enemies of the holy Cross], through the Precious Blood of our Redeemer and His last breath on earth, disappear like foam exposed under the sun, so that Your Kingdom may quickly come on earth. Amen.

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Servant of God Cora Evans

I am giving this gift through you, better to establish My Kingdom of love within souls. I desire all souls to know I am real, alive, and the same today as after My Resurrection. For My kingdom in souls to be better known is another step in the golden age, golden because souls in sanctifying grace resemble the light of the golden, noonday sun. In that golden kingdom, I may personally dwell if I am invited, for I have said, “The kingdom of God is within you.” Through this knowledge many souls still loan Me their bodies. Thus they actually become My Mystical Humanity, and in them I relive My life on earth as I did after My Resurrection.’[21]

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Alicja Lenczewska

Messages that bear the imprimatur:

“… it will seem that [the Church] has died. And Satan and his servants will rejoice—as they rejoiced then in Jerusalem. But the time of their apparent victory will be short, for the morning will come of the Resurrection of the Holy Church, immortal, giving birth to new life on earth—the holiness of My children.” (November 11, 2000).

“The Immaculate Heart of My Mother will triumph. …[the Church] walks towards Resurrection through Golgotha and Crucifixion, also that of many saints…And the dawn and spring of the Holy Church is coming, although there is an anti-Church and its founder, the Antichrist…

A purification will be given that will bring the sons of darkness to the light of God's Truth, and every person will according to their own will in the light of that Truth will have to choose the Kingdom of My Father or give themselves over eternally to the father of lies. And the world will be freed from the spider's web of the Great Harlot of the Church of the Antichrist and those who served him from among My children.

Mary is the one through whom will come the rebirth of My Church, so that it would shine with the full splendor of God's Holiness. ….” (June 8, 2002).

“Christians and the Church must be crucified, in order that My Sacrifice be completed and so that the resurrection of humanity would occur in the Holy Spirit. I will die again in My people, so that the Holy Spirit would give new birth to humanity. …” (February 15, 2000).

“The escalation of evil must be completed. Just as it was completed for Me two thousand years ago, so now it strives for fullness with regard to My Church and to many of My faithful

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children. Then there will be the miracle of the resurrection of faith and love when I come in with power in order to put an end to the rule of Satan and his servants “(April 29, 2006).

In Sinu Jesu

The book, In Sinu Jesu: When Heart Speaks to Heart—The Journal of a Priest at Prayer, contains the locutions received by an anonymous Benedictine monk beginning in the year 2007, and is considered authentic by the monk's spiritual director. It contains both an Imprimatur and a Nihil Obstat and is strongly endorsed by Cardinal Raymond Burke. In it, Jesus tells this priest-monk:

[My priests] will assemble around My Immaculate Mother, who will instruct them and, by her all-powerful intercession, obtain for them all the charisms necessary to prepare the world—this sleeping world—for My return in glory. I tell you this not to alarm you or to frighten anyone, but to give you cause for an immense hope and for pure spiritual joy. The renewal of My priests will be the beginning of the renewal of My Church …

… I will undo the destruction [the demons] have wrought and I will cause My priests and My Spouse the Church to recover a glorious holiness that will confound My enemies and be the beginning of a new era of saints, of martyrs, and of prophets. …[Mary’s] intercession has obtained a victory over the powers of darkness that will confound unbelievers and bring joy to all My saints.[22]

The day is coming, and it is not far off … when I will intervene to triumph in My Eucharistic Heart by the conquering power of sacrificial love alone; when I will intervene to defend the poor and vindicate the innocents whose blood has marked this nation and so many others as did the blood of Abel in the beginning.[23]

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If more souls would give Me this freedom to act as I will, My Church would begin to know the springtime of holiness that is My burning desire for her. These souls, by their entire submission to all the dispositions of My providence, will be the ones to usher in My kingdom of peace and holiness on earth.

Look at My most pure Mother; this was her way and this was her life— nothing but My will and the will of My Father, in complete submission to the Holy Spirit. Imitate her, and so will you too bring My presence into a world that waits for Me.

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Sr. Natalia of Hungary

Sr. Maria Natalia of the Sisters of St. Mary Magdalene was a 20th century nun and mystic whose revelations bear a Nihil Obstat and an Imprimatur. Some of her messages read:

When somebody asked the Lord about the end of the world, He answered: “The end of sin is close, but not the end of the world. Soon no more souls will be lost. My words will be fulfilled, and there will only be one flock and one Shepherd.” (Jn. 10:16) I saw people of other denominations enter the Church, purified and sanctified, but only after sin is defeated and Satan is chained.

Jesus said to me: Do not be afraid, rather rejoice, because my Immaculate Mother with her power of Queen, full of grace, along with the celestial legions of angels, will annihilate the forces of hell.

Jesus also gave Sr. Natalia a direct vision of the Era itself, which she describes in the following diary entry:

Jesus showed me in a vision, that after the purification, mankind will live a pure and angelical life… The Savior showed me that unceasing love, happiness and divine joy will signify this future clean world. I saw the blessing of God abundantly poured out upon the earth. Satan and sin were completely defeated. After the great purification, the life of the monks and the laypeople will be full of love and purity. The purified world will enjoy the peace of the Lord through the Most Holy Virgin Mary

…[Jesus said] “I brought peace when I was born, but the world has still not enjoyed it. The world has a right to this peace. Men are children of God. God instills His own Spirit in them. God cannot let Himself be put to shame, and that is why the children of God are entitled to enjoy the peace that I promised.”

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Jesus: “My Immaculate Mother, Victorious Queen of the World, show Your power! Now You will be the savior of humanity. As you were part of My saving work as Co-Redemptrix according to My will, so I want to share with you My power as King. With this I entrust you with the work of rescuing sinning humanity; You can do it with your power as Queen…

Jesus explained to me: “My Immaculate Mother will overcome sin by means of her power as Queen. The lily represents the purification of the world, the arrival of the era of paradise, when mankind will live as without sin. There will be a new world and a new era. It will be the era when humanity will recover what it lost in paradise. When my Immaculate Mother steps on the neck of the serpent, the doors of hell will be closed. The armies of angels will take part in the battle. I have sealed My own with My seal, so that they will not perish in this battle.”

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Fr. Stefano Gobbi (Marian Movement of Priests)

Father Stefano Gobbi, the founder of the worldwide and incredibly fruitful Marian Movement of Priests, received thousands of pages of revelations which bear full Ecclesiastical approbation; having an Imprimatur from even a Cardinal. The latter did not merely give his imprimatur, but went so far as to urge heeding the messages, which include the following revelations:

I have chosen you and prepared you for the triumph of my Immaculate Heart in the world, and these are the years when I will bring my plan to completion. It will be a cause of amazement even to the Angels of God; a joy to the Saints in Heaven; a consolation and great comfort for all the just on earth; mercy and salvation for a great number of my straying children; a severe and definitive condemnation of Satan and his many followers. December 1973

By your prayer, your suffering and your personal immolation, I will bring my plan to completion. I will hasten the time of the triumph of my Immaculate Heart in the Reign of Jesus, who will come to you in glory. Thus a new era of peace will begin …. November 1, 1981

The Father wants to mould with His own Hands a new creation, in which His divine imprint will be more visible, welcomed, and accepted and His Fatherhood exalted and glorified by everyone. The breath of this new creation will be the breath of the Father's love ... And Jesus will reign ... Jesus, Who taught you the prayer for asking for the coming of God's kingdom upon earth, will at last see this prayer of His fulfilled, for He will establish His Kingdom. And creation will return to being a new garden in which Christ will be glorified by all and His divine Kingship will be welcomed and exalted; it will be a universal Kingdom of Grace, beauty, harmony, communion, justice and peace. July 3, 1987

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In the hour of the great trial, paradise will be joined to earth, until the moment when the luminous door will be opened, to cause to descend upon the world the glorious presence of Christ, who will restore his reign in which the divine Will shall be accomplished in a perfect manner, as in heaven, so also on earth . November 1, 1990

The new era, which I announce to you, coincides with the complete fulfillment of the divine will, so that at last there is coming about that which Jesus taught you to ask for, from the Heavenly Father: 'Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.' This is the time when the divine will of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit is being accomplished by the creatures. From the perfect fulfillment of the divine will, the whole world is becoming renewed, because God finds there, as it were, his new garden of Eden, where He can dwell in loving companionship with his creatures. August 15, 1991

Christ risen is now bringing the will of the Father to perfect fulfilment, through his second coming in glory, to restore his reign, in which the Divine Will may be accomplished by all on earth. April 19, 1992

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Jesus King of All Nations

Revelations to an anonymous woman, but they bear ecclesiastical approbation and are endorsed by the great theologian Fr. Fehlner:

I rule Heaven and earth, and My Kingdom, My Reign, is near at hand. ... My Most Holy Mother is preparing the great triumph. The triumph of her Immaculate Heart ushers in the Reign of My Love and Mercy. …

Therefore let it also be known that a great renewal of My Holy Church, of mankind and indeed of all creation will follow the cleansing action of My Justice. How greatly I Love My people! It is for your good O mankind that I allow My Justice to be poured out in order to awaken your conscience and correct your sinful behavior

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Janie Garza

Janie Garza is a visionary from Austin, Texas, who has the support of her bishop

On September 5,1996 Janie Garza had a vision of the new earth. Janie said: “St. Michael showed me a vision of the world as it is in these evil times. Then he showed me a vision of the new earth. It was beautiful. There was no pollution, and the earth was impregnated with much life. The ocean was so beautiful and abundant with sea life. There was no poverty, no suffering, no violence, only true peace from Heaven. This was a vision of hope for all of God's children who keep their focus on God in these evil times”

… there will be no more weeping, no more calling for help. Babies will no longer die in infancy and all people will live out their life span. Those who live to be a hundred will be considered young and to die before that time will be a sign that My Father had punished them.

When the Dogma of Mary, Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix and Advocate is proclaimed, a new divine radiance will cover the world. The Catholic Church will be renewed and strengthened. Faith will be renewed in many fallen away priests and religious. The commandments of God will again be accepted by many. The Church will have its authority. …[24]

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Julka (Yugoslavian Visionary)

The messages received by “Julka,” a Yugoslavian widow born in the 1920s, were the subject of several books—allegedly even endorsed by Pope St. Paul VI himself—entitled Jesus Calls Us.:

The Roman Catholic faith will be the only one in the entire world. The pope will be the one true shepherd. “This will be the Little Flock and I shall hover over it. In those days there will be one Shepherd and one Faith, that of the Roman Catholic Church, which I established when I walked visibly on the earth. After the distresses, which I am now permitting to come upon My obstinate people on earth, there will arise a fair and pure race and the earth will abound with My gifts….The time is coming, when the face of the Earth will be renewed. After the great catastrophe, all regions of the world will be transformed.……. The air became crystal clear and the earth appeared newborn. “I shall fashion and renew it, and it will be more beautiful than it is now. My laws will be different from what they are now, because My Divinity will be present in everything. I shall go amongst My creatures so that many will see Me and countless numbers will hear Me and they will recognize that I am the Living God from Heaven…”

Everything was beautiful. “The Earth was transformed into a most beautiful garden full of flowers. It was soaked in bright sun-beams and veiled in gleaming purity. Everything seemed transparent, orderly and pure…”

Everything is new. “I will transform the Earth and it will be new . . The people whose lives I spare will revere My Holy Name. The hearts will be shaken by My Voice, which they will hear after the Great Tribulation.”[25]

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Papal Magisterium

Leo XIII- Annum Sacrum:

We must have recourse to Him who is the Way, the Truth and the Life. We have gone astray and we must return to the right path: darkness has overshadowed our minds, and the gloom must be dispelled by the light of truth: death has seized upon us, and we must lay hold of life. It will at length be possible that our many wounds be healed and all justice spring forth again with the hope of restored authority; that the splendors of peace be renewed, and swords and arms drop from the hand when all men shall acknowledge the empire of Christ and willingly obey His word, and "Every tongue shall confess that our Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father" (Philippians ii, II).

Pius X, E Supremi:

“Oh! when in every city and village the law of the Lord is faithfully observed, when respect is shown for sacred things, when the Sacraments are frequented, and the ordinances of Christian life fulfilled, there will certainly be no more need for us to labor further to see all things restored in Christ. Nor is it for the attainment of eternal welfare alone that this will be of service—it will also contribute largely to temporal welfare and the advantage of human society ... when [piety] is strong and flourishing ‘the people will’ truly ‘sit in the fullness of peace… May God, “who is rich in mercy”, benignly speed this restoration of the human race in Jesus Christ ... And let us, Venerable Brethren, “in the spirit of humility”, with continuous and urgent prayer ask this of Him through the merits of Jesus Christ.”

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Pius XI—in his proclamation of the Feast of Christ the King. In the Encyclical Quas Primas:

“When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony ... If the kingdom of Christ, then, receives, as it should, all nations under its way, there seems no reason why we should despair of seeing that peace which the King of Peace came to bring on earth ... Oh, what happiness would be Ours if all men, individuals, families, and nations, would but let themselves be governed by Christ!

And, in his Encyclical Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio:

“’And other sheep I have, that are not of this fold: them also I must bring.’ He cannot but rejoice in the wonderful prophecy which filled even the Sacred Heart of Jesus with joy. ‘And they shall hear my voice, and there shall be one fold and one shepherd.’ May God, and We join with you and with all the faithful in this prayer, shortly bring to fulfillment His prophecy by transforming this consoling vision of the future into a present reality.”

Venerable Pope Pius XII, in his Encyclical Le Pellerinage De Lourdes (an encyclical written in French for the hundredth anniversary of the apparitions at Lourdes):

But however important it may be, the conversion of the individual pilgrim is not enough. We exhort you in this jubilee year, Beloved Sons and Venerable Brothers, to inspire among the faithful entrusted to your care a common effort for the Christian renewal of society in answer to Mary's appeal. “May blind spirits ... be illumined by the light of truth and justice,” Pius XI asked during the Marian feasts of the Jubilee of the Redemption, “so that those who have gone astray into error may be brought back to the

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straight path, that a just liberty may be granted the Church everywhere, and that an era of peace and true prosperity may come upon all the nations.”

Pope St. Paul VI in an Urbi et Orbi message:

The unity of the world will be. The dignity of the human person shall be recognized not only formally but effectively. The inviolability of life, from the womb to old age… Undue social inequalities will be overcome. The relations between peoples will be peaceful, reasonable and fraternal. Neither selfishness, nor arrogance, nor poverty… [shall] prevent the establishment of a true human order, a common good, a new civilization.

Pope St. John Paul II on the Millennium

We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through ... We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel versus the anti-Gospel ... Through your prayers and mine, it is possible to alleviate this tribulation, but it is no longer possible to avert it …

…the tears of this century have prepared the ground for a new springtime of the human spirit.

God loves all men and women on earth and gives them the hope of a new era, an era of peace. His love, fully revealed in the Incarnate Son, is the foundation of universal peace.

This is our great hope and our petition: “Your Kingdom come”—a kingdom of peace, justice, and serenity, that will re-establish the original harmony of creation.

God himself had provided to bring about that “new and divine” holiness with which the Holy Spirit wishes to enrich Christians at the dawn of the third millennium, in order to “make Christ the heart of the world.”

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Pope Benedict, as Cardinal Ratzinger, describing JPII’s thoughts:

The Pope [John Paul] does indeed cherish a great expectation that the millennium of divisions [the 2nd millennium] will be followed by a millennium of unifications. He has in some sense the vision that the first Christian millennium was the millennium of Christian unity—there were schisms, as we know, but there was still the unity of East and West; the second millennium was the millennium of great divisions; and that now, precisely at the end [of the second millennium], we could rediscover a new unity ...…

[Vatican II] is thus filled with the hope that the millennia have their physiognomy; that all the catastrophes of our century, all its tears, as the Pope says, will be caught up at the end and turned into a new beginning. .... The Pope’s untiring activity comes precisely from his visionary power ...

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In his Encyclical, Novo Millennio Ineuente Pope St. John Paul II taught:

…I did not hesitate to ask [the young] to make a radical choice of faith and life and present them with a stupendous task: to become “morning watchmen” at the dawn of the new millennium.

Lest anyone be confused about what the duties are of these “morning watchmen,” whom he is begging the youth to become, the Pope told us clearly two years later:

On this important occasion, I would like to renew to you the appeal I made to all the young people at Tor Vergata: accept the commitment to be morning watchmen at the dawn of the new millennium. This is a primary commitment, which keeps its validity and urgency as we begin this century with unfortunate dark clouds of violence and fear gathering on the horizon. Today, more than ever, we need people who live holy lives, watchmen who proclaim to the world a new dawn of hope, brotherhood and peace.

The following year, he said:

After purification through trial and suffering, the dawn of a new era is about to break.

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Pope Francis on the Kingdom

But where are we journeying? Is there a common goal? And what is this goal? The Lord responds to us through the prophet Isaiah, saying: “It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it, and many peoples shall come, and say: ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths”(2:2-3). This is what Isaiah says regarding the goal toward which we are travelling. It is a universal pilgrimage toward a common goal, which in the Old Testament is Jerusalem, where the Temple of the Lord rises. For from there, from Jerusalem came the revelation of the Face of God and of his Law. Revelation found its fulfillment in Jesus Christ, and he, the Word made flesh, became the “Temple of the Lord”: he is both guide and goal of our pilgrimage, of the pilgrimage of the entire People of God; and in his light the other peoples may also walk toward the Kingdom of justice, toward the Kingdom of peace. The Prophet continues: “They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more” (2:4). Allow me to repeat what the Prophet says; listen carefully: “They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more”. But when will this occur? What a beautiful day it shall be, when weapons are dismantled in order to be transformed into tools for work! What a beautiful day that shall be! And this is possible! Let us bet on hope, on the hope for peace, and it will be possible!

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In a book entitled Our Father: Reflections on the Lord’s Prayer, published on the fifth anniversary of his elevation to the Papacy, Pope Francis writes:

The kingdom of God is here and [emphasis in original] the kingdom of God will come. It is the treasure hidden in the field; it is the precious pearl for the sake of which the merchant sells all he has (cf. Mt 13:44-46). The kingdom of God is the good wheat that grows alongside the weeds, and you have to fight against the weeds (cf. Mt 13:24, 40). The kingdom of God is also hope; the kingdom of God is coming now but at the same time has not yet come completely. This is how the kingdom of God has already come: Jesus has taken flesh, he has become man like us, he walks with us, and he gives us hope for our tomorrow: “I am with you always, to the close of the age” (Mt 28:20). The kingdom of God is something that belongs to us, or rather, it is better to think of it another way: we must allow ourselves to be possessed by the certainty that it has come. This is true Christian faith. But at the same time there is also the need to cast the anchor there and to hold on to the cord because the Kingdom is still coming. We do not possess the rope fully, and there is always the risk that it will slip from our hands. This is true Christian hope. These two actions are very important: faith and hope.

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Option 1: Believe that the Kingdom is indeed coming on earth in the Glorious Era of Peace. Choosing this option entails:

Option 2: Believe that the Kingdom is not coming on earth and there will be no glorious Era of Peace because that would be the heresy of Millenarianism. Choosing this option entails:

1) Trusting the completely unanimous consensus of every single private revelation and papal proclamation that has ever spoken on the matter.

2) Granting that a few critics of the Era (laymen with no particular expertise in the matter) have, in their books of eschatological speculations, arrived at a mistaken conclusion.

3) Realizing that the Church’s condemnation of Millenarianism refers to something entirely different than what is being prophesied regarding the Coming of the Kingdom and the Era of Peace.

1. Believing that Our Lord did not mean what He said in the Our Father.2. Believing that the vast majority of the Fathers of the Church who spoke on the matter were espousing heresy.3. Believing that Pope Leo XIII, Pope St. Pius X, Pope Pius XI, Venerable Pope Pius XII, and Pope St. John Paul II all taught heresy in their Magisterial Documents. 4. Rejecting as heretical what the authoritative Catholic Encyclopedia rightly describes as the primary aim of ALL the latter-times prophecies given to the Church up to the year 1911.5. Believing that DOZENS if not HUNDREDS of approved or otherwise trustworthy private revelations since 1911 repeatedly taught heresy. 6. Believing that Our Lady of Fatima didn’t at all mean what she said in promising the Triumph of her Immaculate Heart and a period of peace for the world.7. Believing that the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta, in her revelations that have promising the coming of the Kingdom on earth as their entire purpose -- revelations which bear imprimaturs, are endorsed by multiple canonized saints and a Vatican

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biography -- espoused heresy thousands of times over the course of decades.

These are not difficult options to choose between.