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Living the Fatima Message

The following is an edited transcript of a talk given by Father Nicholas Gruner to hundreds of bishops, priests and laypeople listening to the “Last Chance for World Peace” conference given in Tuy, Spain.

by Father Nicholas Gruner, S.T.L., S.T.D. (Cand.)

We will live the Fa-tima Message by praying five de-

cades of the Rosary every day, and wearing the Brown Scap-ular of Mount Carmel which the Blessed Virgin held out on October 13th, in the last ap-parition to the three children. She wants us all to wear the Scapular of Mount Carmel, as Sister Lucy explained. She explained that the Rosary and the Scapular go together.

Many people, including my-self, have had this grace, that when you put your Scapular on and wear it all the time you find it easier to pray the Rosary every day. I remember putting the Scapular on in the place where Our Lady gave the Scapular promise. In 1251 She appeared to St. Simon Stock and She said, “Take this Scapular. It will be a sign of salvation and a protection in danger and a pledge of peace.

Whosoever dies wearing this Scapular shall not suf-fer eternal fire.” Every Pope since the year 1280 has worn the Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

The Scapular is a cut-down version of the Carmelite Mantle. The mantle of Elias is written about in Sacred Scripture. Elias, when he wanted to cross the Jordan, took his mantle off, touched the river and walked across without getting his feet wet. When Elias was taken up to Heaven and his succeeding prophet asked for his power he said, “If I leave behind my mantle, know that you have received my prophetic au-thority.” And when the fiery chariot split Elias and Eliseus apart, then Elias’ mantle was left behind for Eliseus.

Why Elias?The mantle is therefore

a symbol of Elias. Why

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Elias? Elias was the one who prayed that there would be a drought.

Elias, like all prophets, I suppose, had a problem get-ting people’s attention. And so after a while, when he couldn’t get their attention some other way, he asked God to stop the rain from falling. So for three and a half years there was no rain. Elias had succeeded; he finally got their attention!

Elias then asked God for rain to come. After all, peo-ple were starving. He was on Mount Carmel. He had his assistant with him and he prayed for rain. And he sent his assistant from the top of Mount Carmel down to the sea. The man came back up the mountain and said “no rain”. Elias prayed a second time and a third time and a fourth and a fifth and a sixth time. Each time he sent the man down the mountain, and each time the man came back up the mountain with the same message, “no rain”.

So Elias prayed the seventh time for God to send rain. His assistant went down the mountainside, went to the sea, and lo and behold, com-ing out of the saltwater sea was a little cloud. It was in the shape of a foot. This cloud

grew and grew and grew un-til it covered the whole land of Israel. The man ran up the mountain trying to tell Elias about the rain. The cloud got there before the man. But Elias understood something from this cloud.

Her Foot Shall Crush the Serpent’s Head

Apart from the answer to his prayer, he understood that this cloud symbolized the Blessed Virgin Mary be-cause it was in the shape of a foot. It symbolized the foot that would crush the serpent’s head, the foot of the Woman promised by God in Genesis 3:15. That is why Elias found-ed a group of hermits living on Mount Carmel, to prepare for the coming of the Savior and His Mother. That group of hermits continued on Mount Carmel for centuries and be-came the Carmelite Order of our present times.

St. Bonaventure tells us there is another reason why that cloud represents the Blessed Virgin. The cloud was a freshwater cloud but it came out of the saltwater sea. Out of sinful humanity, represent-ed by this saltwater sea, came our solitary nature’s only boast, as the Virgin is some-times called, because She is


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Father Gruner leading our pilgrimage, visiting the graveyard in the child seers’ village. Above is the grave where Francisco was first laid to rest.

the Immaculate Conception. Other Doctors of the Church

have discerned a third reason for seeing Our Lady being foreshadowed by that same cloud. It was from the one cloud that the rain came. That one cloud was the source of all the rain for that drought- stricken land. And the water represents grace symboli-cally. All graces that come to mankind come through the Blessed Virgin Mary, come through Our Lady who is the Mediatrix of All Graces.

Are You a Child of Mary?Centuries later, Our Lady

came to the Superior General of the Carmelite Friars who were the successors of the

Hermits of Mount Carmel. She promised that if you wear the Scapular — the Scapular, by the way, is worn over the shoulders in the front and the back, like the mantle — you place yourself symbolically under Her protection, under Her mantle.

In my thesis for the Dominicans in Rome in the 1970s, I pointed out that by putting yourself under Our Lady’s mantle you are sym-bolically acknowledging that you are making yourself Her child. St. Louis de Montfort and St. Augustine tell us that just as we die with Christ and rise with Christ, so we are, with Christ, carried in the womb of the Blessed Virgin



Mary, and that we are born of the Blessed Virgin when we go to Heaven.

Our natural mother and father may be our sister and brother in Heaven but Our Heavenly Mother Mary re-mains as Our Mother in Heaven because we are born of Her when we enter into Heaven. We are carried mys-tically in Her womb and that is symbolized by wearing Her Scapular. You are under Her mantle.

And so Our Lady holds out the mantle — the Scapular of Mount Carmel — and asks us all to wear it. That is part of Her Fatima request. All of us then can make this promise to Her in our hearts.

Let us personally, first of all, do what Our Lady asks of each of us, personally let us then:

Pray at least five decades of the Rosary every day; wear the Scapular of Mount Carmel; do our daily duty; keep the Com-mandments; and consecrate ourselves to Her Immaculate Heart. Let us then make Her known

to all!Secondly, let us person-

ally, do all we can, from wherever we are, to make Our Lady’s Fatima Message

known. Sociologists tell us that all of us know at least two hundred people. Some of us know, personally, as many as five thousand people. All of us, through others, can reach thousands, if not tens of thou-sands, or millions.

God has given a little world to each of us. So we must do our part to use the influence that God has given us, wher-ever we are, to reach oth-ers with the Blessed Virgin’s Message.

We Must Choose Sides We must choose therefore

to be on the side of God rath-er than the side of the devil. I have done work in exorcism, and I can tell you that most of the time the devil hides himself. His work is evident if you look very carefully but he doesn’t manifest himself to most people, as you see in exorcism. It’s not a pretty picture. He is not a good mas-ter. But we are being asked to choose our master. We have to choose between God and the devil.

Let us then say that we will do our part.

The Fatima Movement of Priests

I would like to tell you more now about our Fatima



Movement of Priests. There is another movement of priests which depends upon locu-tions. I have no locutions. The message is simply based on the Catholic Faith as high-lighted by the Blessed Virgin Mary. I refer to the Catholic Faith as understood, not in a modernist sense but in the classic traditional teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas, who is only summarizing and syn-thesizing the teachings of all the Doctors and the Fathers of the Church.

Taking the Message of Fatima as our light, we can understand the hierarchy of truths and the hierarchy of who and what we must obey. First we must obey God the Father, then equally of course, God the Son in His sacred hu-manity, and then the Blessed Virgin Mary, in that order. Then we must believe the Catholic Faith that has been taught and understood for all time. That includes what the Church teaches us today, but only that which is consis-tent with what the Catholic Church has always taught. The traditional teachings of the Church are, of course, consistent with what Jesus and His Blessed Mother Mary have taught us in the Fatima

Message.We Must Follow What the

Church has Always TaughtAs the Secretary of the

Second Vatican Council pointed out, we must follow the Second Vatican Council in all that the Church has al-ways taught. But in things which are new we must use caution. If the new things contradict what the Church has always taught, then we must follow what the Church has always taught, because the Second Vatican Council refused to engage its author-ity to teach infallibly. It did that deliberately and explic-itly. You will find that in the Prefatory Note published at the end of the third session on November 21, 1964. Pope Paul VI made this a part of the Council Documents.

God Sends Prophets to Every Generation

So we come again to the Message of Fatima. What is its role? St. Thomas tells us, in Part II - II, QQ 171-176, of the Summa Theologicae among other things, that God sends prophets to every generation. He does so, not to give a new doctrine, but to remind the faithful of what they must do to save their souls.



My grandfather was a re-searcher in cancer. For the work he did in 1915 he re-ceived an award in 1965. You might say he was ahead of his time. He said that doctors — some of them or many of them — are in the hands or pockets of the pharmaceutical companies. They do what the pharmaceutical companies tell them to do, to sell their pills. (I don’t wish to pick on doctors. Both my grandfa-thers were doctors. I have a brother who is a doctor and doctors do lots of good work.) But whether it’s medicine or whether it’s law, people sometimes allow themselves to be swayed by those around them, even against their bet-ter judgment.

Lawyers, for example, sometimes go so far as to be more concerned about the rights of the accused than the rights of the victims. You’ll find that in accounting and you’ll also find it in the priest-hood. There are fads that even professionals fall victim to, even when they should know better. That’s when they need a whistle blower — someone to correct them and remind them of their duties and of what is right.

The Voice of ProphecyIn the case of the Church,

in the case of priests and theologians, we have the Heaven-sent corrective that is called the voice of proph-ecy. In Scripture we are told the Church is built upon the Apostles and the prophets. Now the most prophetic mes-sage of our time, the most authentic message, and the most authoritative message is the examined and proven Message of Fatima. So we are well advised to keep in mind the Fatima Message when we see what’s going on in the Church and what’s going on in the world. We need to see these things in the light of Fatima. Contemporary events in the Church and in the world are explained by the Fatima Message. No other explanation outside the Faith and Fatima makes any real sense.

War or Peace?The Church and each of

us are faced with a choice. As anyone can see, either we’re going to have war or we’re going to have peace. The Masonic idea of giving us peace is for us to put aside

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dogma, put aside religious truth as primordial and say, “We accept the temporal au-thorities that we ourselves install as supreme, and if you stand up against us on the ba-sis of conscience or defined dogma, you will be impris-oned or killed.” That is their solution. That is what they offer us and that is what they are offering to the Church to-day.

Convert Your EnemiesThe other solution is Our

Lady of Fatima’s, which is: convert your enemies to the truth of the Faith and to the practice of the Faith — not only Russia but the whole world.

In the Message of Fatima it is said that the whole world, not just Russia, needs conver-sion. But God will do this in a certain order. God will do it first of all by converting Russia, by the Pope and the bishops obeying Our Lady’s command. When that hap-pens, then the rest of the world will be converted and the prophecy of Isaias 2:3-4 will be realized. Isaias fore-tells our time when finally the Pope and the bishops obey

the Fatima command. To paraphrase Isaias, “Let

us go and climb the Lord’s mountain. Let us see what the will of God is for us. That is when all the nations of the world enter into the Church.” This prophecy of all nations and peoples living in peace and all converting to the Catholic Faith will be realized by means of the Consecration of Russia.

False EcumenismThe same thing for ecu-

menism. There is the Masonic way of false ecumenism and the way pointed out at Fatima, the true ecumenism. By obey-ing Fatima, all religions will be converted to the Catholic Faith but only in God’s way, not man’s way. It will not be by watering down or denying the truth, not by saying this is “less essential”. Yes, there is a hierarchy of truths, but when these truths are defined dog-mas you cannot deny them. Yes, of course, you can deny defined dogma because ac-cording to the modernists they are secondary; but do-ing such a thing, knowingly denying any defined dogma, will still send you to hell if you do not repent of it.

So for us, all of the defined



dogmas are essential for our salvation and we cannot let one iota of them pass. We will have true world peace and ecumenism realized only when the Consecration and conversion of Russia take place, with the Consecration taking place first.

Otherwise, the alterna-tive which is being offered to the Church by the Masons and the modernists is to say, “Water down the truth. Let’s not talk about religious dog-mas. Let us not talk about these things; they only divide us.” But in doing that we are denying Christ.

Christ said to Pilate, “For this was I born and for this I came into the world; that I should give testimony to the truth. Every one that is of the truth, hears My voice.” (John 18:37)

So we will either found a new world order, which is the world order which Christ wants, on the basis of the Gospel and His truth, or we will have the Masonic New World Order which George Bush Sr. and George Bush Jr. and their friends are promot-ing around the world.

Whether it’s done by the power of the sword or the Russian armies, or whether it’s

done with power of American influence and imperialism makes no difference. It is still a Masonic New World Order which is under the reign of Satan!

We have no other choice! You may think you have an-other choice, but let me tell you, you don’t. You must obey God, “Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.”

To choose to fight against the full Fatima Message is in effect to advance the new world order of Satan.

You Must DecideToday we are asked by Our

Lady of Fatima to make a fur-ther decision. I would like to ask the priests, including of course the bishops, to join the movement of priests for Fatima — The Fatima Movement of Priests. This is a movement of those who will be faithful to Our Lady’s Message in its entirety; who will defend the Message no matter what the personal cost; who will live the Message themselves, by praying the Rosary every day, wearing the Brown Scapular and consecrating themselves to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. May God bless you and Our Lady guide you as you decide. Thank you. |
