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The Smoke of the Antichrist by Fr. J. Vida Elmer

THE happenings of our days are supplying strong arguments that the prophecies of the Holy Scriptures are coming to their realization. Better information means better preparedness.

THE SMOKE OF THE ANTICHRIST is not available in book stores. The distribution of this book is carried out by the goodwill and ingenuity of its readers who wish to be the "fragrance of Christ for God" (II Cor. 2, 15), by sharing the light of Christ with their fellow men, in this age of general confusion brought into the world by "the world rulers of this darkness" (Eph. 6, 12).

"The Smoke of Satan entered the Church." Paul VI, 1972
"All the earth followed the beast in wonder." (Apoc. 13, 4)

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First Edition - February 1983
Second Edition - May 1983
Third Edition - August 1983
Fourth Edition - February 1984
Fifth Edition - January 1987
Sixth Edition - November 1987
Seventh Edition - August 1989

Persto · « **Reply #1 on:** August 12, 2026, 06:10:22 PM »

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Fr. J Vida Elmer (later Bishop)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Father J. Vida Elmer was born in Hungary in 1912. He was ordained for the Catholic priesthood in 1936. After his ordination, he served as religion-teacher in one of the public schools in the city of Szeged; then, in different country parishes in Hungary as assistant pastor and administrator.
     In 1956, the Russian army defeated the Hungarian freedom-fighters. Cardinal Mindszenty, who after eight years of imprisonment could enjoy four days of freedom, took refuge at the American Embassy in Budapest, Hungary. That time, about 300,000 Hungarians fled the country. Among them was Father Vida Elmer. He came to the United States in 1957. He found employment in the Catholic Diocese of Albany, NY. Thanks to the Latin language, he was able to offer the ancient Latin Mass to the American faithful without any difficulty whatsoever.
     In 1964, however, when the Vatican II reforms began to proliferate, he asked and received permission from his own bishop in Hungary that he might go into voluntary retirement.
     In 1974, a group of traditional Catholics approached Father Elmer with a problem. The members of that group could not accept the un-Catholic innovations in the Church. Several of them stopped going to church. They said, however, if Father Elmer would serve them with the True Mass and Sacraments in the old way, they would gladly resume the practice of their Catholic religion. Father Elmer complied with their request. From that time, up until the present day, he has been serving this traditional group without interruption, offering them the blessings of the true Catholic religion.
     On July 2nd, 1987, the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Father Vida received the episcopal consecration from the hands of the Most Reverend Bishop, Robert Fidelis McKenna, O.P. in the Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary, in Monroe, Connecticut. Fr. Vida died in 1993.

Persto · « **Reply #2 on:** August 12, 2026, 06:13:31 PM »

FOREWORD
     Father J. Vida Elmer, the author of this work, is one of the approximately 65 priests in the United States adhering to the public celebration of the traditional Latin (Tridentine) Mass and ministering to the needs of the remnant faithful, alienated from their parishes by the changes following the Second Vatican Council. For the past nine years he has been shepherd for the "traditionalists" in the area of Albany, N.Y. at their house-made-chapel of St. Michael in (significantly) Bethlehem, N.Y.
     And as the great Father of the Church St. Jerome retired to Bethlehem, where Christ was born, to study and translate the Scriptures, so Father Vida, retiring from the Albany Diocese and the Conciliar Church (as a Vatican prelate himself has named it), has pondered those same scriptures over the years - prayerfully, as his writings show - and despite the demands of his pastoral duties has written prolifically in the cause of the beleaguered remnant. To date he has published 60 articles (monographs) of which this booklet is the fruit. Many of them have been broadcast on the radio and printed in newsletters.
     Father Vida may be said to be twice a refugee - the first time in 1956 when he escaped from the Communist recapture of his native Hungary to Austria and later to this country, and the second in figuratively taking flight from the postconciliar Church. As this little treatise shows, the shadow of the Antichrist is there to be seen. "When you see the abomination of desolation, spoken by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place - let him who reads understand - then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains" (Matt. 24:15). Those who have read Father Vincent Miceli's recent book The Antichrist may particularly profit from the bolder strokes here of Father Vida's pen.
Father Robert McKenna, O.P.

Persto · « **Reply #3 on:** August 12, 2026, 06:15:06 PM »

- PREFACE -
     On April 25, 1982, a full-page advertisement appeared in The New York Times and in several other newspapers in major cities of the world announcing the coming of "THE CHRIST" within two months. According to the ad, this "CHRIST" would speak to mankind through a worldwide television and radio broadcast. His message would be heard inwardly, telepathically, by all people in their own language. From that time, with his help, mankind would build a new world. His presence in the world would prevent a third World War.
     We know from the Scriptures that before the second coming of Christ, the Antichrist will appear on the scene. Catholics who are well versed in their religion could easily discover that the description which appeared in the ad was fitting the Antichrist rather than Christ.
     According to raw estimates, somebody spent at least a quarter of a million dollars for the above advertisement. Thus, we cannot dismiss the ad as a practical joke. We can assume that it was a serious attempt to pave the way for the advertisers' "modern man . . . with love for all humanity."
     By this time, however, everybody is able to recognize that the bold promise of the above ad did not come true; the Antichrist did not take over the leadership of mankind - at least not publicly. Something or somebody has restrained him, at least, for a while.
     The question of the Antichrist reminds us that we are all involved in a struggle where spiritual forces and armaments are engaged in a tremendous conflict for the victory of good or evil in this world and in the world to come. "Our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but . . . against the spiritual forces of wickedness on high" (Eph. 6, 12). The struggle is mainly spiritual, nonetheless real.
     What is that mysterious spiritual force which has been able to restrain the Antichrist from the beginning of Church history up until now?
     The well advertised book on The Antichrist by Fr. Vincent Miceli, S.J. gives you a detailed docuмentation about the present devastation of the Church. However, it does not recognize the fact that Satan could not claim these "victories" for himself as long as the invincible spiritual barrier against evil has been present in the Church. Also, Fr. Miceli failed to convey the significance of the prophesies given us by Our Lady of LaSalette in 1846. Among others, here is the sentence which still seems unbelievable to many Catholics today: "Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of the Antichrist."
     The purpose of this brief treatise is to show the reader the real cause of the tragedy. THE SMOKE OF SATAN entered the church only after Paul VI had removed the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass from the Church, and introduced in its place the "New Order of the Mass" for the cult of man.
Rev. J. Vida Elmer
Bethlehem, N.Y. January 1983

Persto · « **Reply #4 on:** August 12, 2026, 06:16:07 PM »

THE ANTICHRIST
     Nowadays there is much talk and speculation about certain prophecies of the Bible which refer to the coming of the Antichrist before the end of the world. In his second letter to the Thessalonians, St. Paul the Apostle says the following: Before the end of the world arrives, a general revolt (apostasy) against God will take place, and "the man of sin will be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes, and is lifted up above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he sits in the temple of God, showing himself as if he were God" (2 Thess. 2, 3-4).
     This person would be the Antichrist who, with the help of Satan, will have great influence over people, will make signs and false miracles to seduce those persons who have no respect and love of truth - the truth which has been revealed by God. "Therefore God shall send them a misleading influence, that they may believe falsehood, that all may be judged, who have not believed the truth, but have preferred wickedness" (Ibidem, 10-11).
     From this you can see how important it is to have and hold the truth, to love the truth, to proclaim the truth. The modernist sophism does not recognize truth, only opinions. However, personal opinion is not enough for salvation. You need the truth, as Our Lord said: "The truth shall make you free" (Jn. 8, 32).

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