Consecration of Russia - has it been done?



  

Be calm and pray.

The Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph!

 



Definitely, Pope John Paul II effected the Consecration in 1984. Sadly, however, it was done late (about six decades), just as Our Lord had said regretfully that it would be:

 

"HE (THE POPE) WILL DO IT BUT IT WILL BE LATE."

 

On another occasion, Our Lord spoke to Sister Lucy. She records the conversation as follows: "LATER ON THROUGH AN INTIMATE COMMUNICATION, OUR LORD COMPLAINED: 'THEY HAVE NOT CHOSEN TO HEED MY REQUEST . . . AS THE KING OF FRANCE THEY WILL REGRET IT AND THEN WILL DO IT, BUT IT WILL BE LATE. RUSSIA WILL ALREADY HAVE SPREAD HER ERRORS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, PROVOKING WARS AND PERSECUTIONS AGAINST THE CHURCH, THE HOLY FATHER WILL HAVE MUCH TO SUFFER'."

 

This contains the answer to the question: “… has the pope consecrated Russia to the BVM?”

By 1984 Russia's errors had ‘already spread’, so that the entire world was now Russia's errors, so to speak. In the 1920's this could not have been the case. So we can't view Fatima in 1984 in the same way as we might have done in the 1920's.

Frits Albers, again, had pressed this latter point, and hence the following became included in our book, The Five First Saturdays (http://amaic2.blogspot.com.au/2008/04/five-first-saturdays-of-our-lady-of.html):

 

1920’s

 

In the 1920’s, Fatima, by the provident Wisdom of God, had not yet been officially approved by the Church. The simple narrative of the events which took place in 1917, though meaning the same as it does today, must of necessity have been viewed from a different perspective by the faithful of that era. When Our Lady and her Divine Child appeared to Lucia at Pontevedra and at Tuy between 1925 and 1929, there had been little by way of positive reaction form the official Church in regard to the Fatima apparitions. This is understandable enough as, outwardly, the Church can never pronounce on a series of apparitions unless the series has been completed, which, as far as the Fatima apparitions are concerned, did not take place until 1929. A notable exception in this regard had been the encouraging letter written by Pope Benedict XV in 1918, in reply to a report by the Portuguese bishops. The Holy Father had informed the bishops on this occasion that he had always hoped that the depressing situation of the Church in Portugal was a passing one, because the ardent devotion of that country to the Immaculate Conception merited for it an extraordinary aid from the Mother of God (Fatima in Lucia’s Own Words, p. 195).

Back in the 1920’s, without the full body of Church teaching on Fatima that we enjoy today, and, yes, even without the strong support of ecclesiastical approbation, Lucia and the other chosen souls of that time were taught by God to build the universal and global destiny of Fatima on prayer and suffering, in the light of Faith and Hope alone; but firmly anchored on the unprecedented public Miracle of the Sun. Like Esther of old, these chosen souls had been called by God to follow Him in tremendous Faith; to trust Him in His apparently impossible demands. They were to be the suffering members of His Mystical Body, at the same time allowing Christ to be the omnipotent Head of that Body, so as to achieve the seemingly impossible: saving the world by hastening the triumph of the Immaculate Heart.

In this way Lucia, and the other chosen souls of the 1920’s era, were called in anticipation of all the subsequent teaching of the Catholic Church, which, ultimately, would make their seemingly impossible Faith look so reasonable.

The historical perspective is a highly important factor for us to keep in mind when looking back on the events which occurred in 1917 and in the 1920’s. Again we find comfort and understanding in the analogy of the drama of Queen Esther, a development which is quite obscure in its early stages, and cannot be fully comprehended until near the end, when it has all been unravelled. Similarly, neither shall we properly unravel the meaning of Fatima if we go no further than studying the early events, up to and including the 1920’s. We must be careful, therefore, not to look at Fatima of 1917, and Fatima of the 1920’s, merely from a 1920’s perspective; otherwise there will be for us a certain strangeness, something enigmatic, about what Lucia was called to do prior to official Church approval of the Fatima apparitions in 1930.

In other words, our restrospective view of Fatima from the vantage point of [today], must consider Fatima in the light of the subsequent decades of Church teaching, from the 1930’s until now, which Lucia naturally did not have in those early days, but that were, of course, known to God. Today, the age of Mary has grown, from a fresh beginning at Fatima in 1917, to a great maturity in our own time, through the action of the Holy Spirit. We live in the age of the second Vatican Council, whose fruits have included a host of Marian initiatives, especially during the pontificate of Pope John Paul II. ….

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The Consecration of Russia, so necessary until, say, 1946 (when Sr. Lucia commented that things were at the stage when “Russia was about to spread her errors throughout the world”), was no longer, by 1984, sufficient alone to stem the tide. Russia’s errors had spread to the ends of the earth. It now had to be the consecration of the entire world (which, of course, included the consecration of Russia) as the great John Paul II had fully realised.

What an unspeakable tragedy that the message of Fatima was not heeded those six decades earlier! We would have been living in a world far more blessed and happy than we do today.

We Catholics have only ourselves to blame.