Could this be the beginning of a chastisement from Russia?
We have the "canonizations" looming.
I always suspected that the 100 year period of Satan's "power" (per Leo XIII) began right after the death of St. Pius X. He died on August 20 1914, and the 100 years began on August 21, to [be] concluded on an August 22nd (in 2015?)
Aug 20th, 1915 marked year #1, or the 1st anniversary; Aug. 20th 1924 was year #10, or the 10th anniversary; Aug. 20th, 1964 was the 50th anniversary; therefore Aug. 20th, 2014 is the 100th anniversary of the death of Pope St. Pius X.
on the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Not to suggest that Benedict XV et al. were Anti-Popes or any of that nonsense. But it's [well-known] that Benedict XV immediately started to dismantle the anti-modernist apparatuses put into place by St. Pius X. Vatican II didn't happen overnight.
Good point. It could be said that Benedict XV took the first steps toward "progress" that would culminate with the events following 1960, under the influence of the unclean spirit of Vat.II. It should be no great wonder why he did not make the Collegial Consecration, then, but he did do some other good and important things, such as when he promoted the Act of Reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1924, and when he canonized saints, for example, St. John Eudes in 1925.
It's either that or the Fatima apparitions in 1917.
There are 3 principal dates to watch: Aug. 20th, 1914, May-October 13th, 2017, June 13th, 2029 (Feast day of St. Anthony of Padua).
The first you already described; the second is the centenary of the Apparitions of Fatima on the 13th of each month from May to October, culminating with the Miracle of the Sun (the single most prodigious public prophetic miracle in the history of the word), and the third is the centenary of the theophany of Tuy, Spain, when Our Lady said that the moment has come for her (in the Name of God and in His presence) to ask for the Collegial Consecration of Russia, etc:
Source"The moment has come in which God asks the Holy Father to make in union with all the bishops the consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart, promising to save Russia by this means." (Regarding the papacy of Benedict XV in regards to devotion to the IHM) :
http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/ctsa/article/download/2276/1870(THE THEOLOGY OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY -
from PDF pp 23-24) :
Now in the devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary the notion
of reparation has also entered and is analogous to that of the Sacred
Heart. Reparation follows consecration. Having offered the world
and the Church to Mary, it is fitting, in order that our gift may be
acceptable, that we make reparation for the outrages and blasphemies
directed against her loving Heart.
Reparation has not always been an integral part of this devotion.
For example, Eudes and the earlier apostles do not mention reparation
as a distinct practice, although the foundation for it was already
prepared by them. In 1919 the Archconfraternity of the Guard of
Honor to the Immaculate Heart of Mary was approved by Pope
Benedict XV and one of the particular purposes recommended to the
members was reparation for the blasphemies and ingratitude of her
ungrateful adopted children who afflicted her loving Heart. Each
member considers himself a guard surrounding the throne of the
Queen of Heaven, making up for the insults of others by his own
prayers of love and praise.45
On June 13, 1912 Pope Pius X, through the Congregation of the
Holy Office, granted a plenary indulgence under the usual conditions
to all the faithful who would perform some special exercises of
devotion in honor of Mary Immaculate on the first Saturday of any
month to make reparation for the blasphemies committed against
Mary's name and prerogatives.46 This reparation is not directed
specifically to the Heart of Mary, but it does show that the way is
open to papal approval for the reparation directed to the Immaculate
Heart. This latter aspect of the devotion, we think, is still in
fieri.
Today* the Saturday reparation in honor of the Immaculate Heart
is an established devotion in some places, and no doubt is a result
of the Apparitions of Fatima and of the revelations made to Lucia.
In these revelations, it is reported, Our Lady said to Lucia: "My
child, behold my Heart all pierced with thorns which the blasphemies
and ingratitude of men drive deeper at every moment. Do thou, at
least, try to console me, and make known to men that I promise to
assist at the hour of death with the graces necessary for salvation
all those who, on the first Saturday of five consecutive months, go
to confession, receive Holy Communion, say the Rosary, and spend
a quarter of an hour with me in meditating on the fifteen mysteries
of the Rosary, with the object of making reparation to me." 47
44
Sum Theol., II-II, q. 81, a. 8, c.
45 Campana,
op. cit., p. 243. [Campana, Emilio, "La Devozione al Cuore Purissimo di Maria,"
Maria nel Culto Cattolico, Volume 2, Torino (1933), from Fn. #12, p. 106; PDF p.5]
46 Donaghy, Wm., S J., "The Apparitions of Fatima,"
Review for Religious,3 (1944), p. 250. Cf.
Preces et Pia Opera, 1938, n. 335.
47 Barthas and da Fonseca, G., S.J.,
Our Lady of Light (Milwaukee:
Bruce, 1947), p. 228.
*"Today the Saturday reparation..." -- this PDF does not include any description of the publication date of the work quoted, but since the referenced works are dated no later than 1947, this paper may have been published no later than 1948. The author is not indicated.
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