Mary - Mother of The Church - By: Rev. Francis Ripley

MARY, MOTHER OF THE CHURCH

By Fr. Francis J. Ripley

Mary - Mother of The Church. What recent Popes have said about the Blessed Mother's role in the Church--especially her role as Mediatrix. Goes back to Pope Pius IX (1846-1878); compiled in 1969. Arranged by topic. A valuable source showing just what the Popes have said about Our Lady. Impr. 85 pgs, PB

About The Author
Canon Francis Ripley, also known as Francis Joseph Ripley, was an English priest born in 1912 at Lancashire. He became a Jesuit novitiate in London after graduating from a local Catholic grammar school with honors. After being convinced that his vocation was not with this order, he was ordained in 1939 following his studies at the archdiocesan seminary of Upholland. Father Ripley is the author of Terrible as an Army, The Diary of a Small Town Priest, Souls at Stake (with Frank Duff), Letters to Muriel, and This Is the Faith. He served with the Catholic Missionary Society and Royal Air Force before his death on January 7, 1998.

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CANONS AND DECREES OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT (1545-1563)

A CATECHISM OF MODERNISM By Fr. J. B. Lemius, O.M.I.

THE CATECHISM OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT

THE CHURCH TEACHES DOCUMENTS OF THE CHURCH

DOGMATIC CANONS AND DECREES

A LIGHT IN THE HEAVENS The Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII

MARY, MOTHER OF THE CHURCH By Fr. Francis J. Ripley

THE NEW REGULATIONS ON INDULGENCES By Rev. Winfrid Herbst, S.D.S.

CHURCH HISTORY
Roman Catholic Books

CHARACTERS OF THE INQUISITION By William Thomas Walsh

CHARACTERS OF THE REFORMATION By Hilaire Belloc

CHRIST AND THE AMERICAS By Anne W. Carroll

CHRIST THE KING-LORD OF HISTORY By Anne W. Carroll

CHURCH HISTORY By Fr. John Laux, M.A.

THE CRUSADES By Hilaire Belloc

EUROPE AND THE FAITH By Hilaire Belloc

THE FACTS ABOUT LUTHER By Msgr. Patrick F. O'Hare, LL.D.

THE GREAT HERESIES By Hilaire Belloc

A HISTORY OF THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION IN, ENGLAND AND IRELAND By William Cobbett

HOW THE REFORMATION HAPPENED By Hilaire Belloc

ISABELLA OF SPAIN (1541-1604) By William Thomas Walsh

IS THE ORDER OF ST. JOHN MASONIC? By Fr. James F. Wathen

THE MARTYRS OF THE COLISEUM OR HISTORICAL RECORDS OF THE GREAT AMPITHEATER OF ANCIENT ROME By Fr. A. J. O'Reilly, D.D.

MEXICAN MARTYRDOM By Fr. Wilfrid Parsons, S.J.

THE OLD WORLD AND AMERICA By Most Rev. Philip J. Furlong

OUR PIONEERS AND PATRIOTS By Bishop Furlong

PHILIP II (1527-1598) By William Thomas Walsh

POPE ST. PIUS X (1903-1914) By F. A. Forbes

THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH THE CHURCH IN THE DAYS OF THE APOSTLES By Rev. D. I. Lanslots, O.S.B.

THE RHINE FLOWS INTO THE TIBER A History of Vatican II By Fr. Ralph Wiltgen, S.V.D.

THE RISE AND GROWTH OF THE ANGLICAN SCHISM By Rev. Dr. Nicholas Sander and Fr. Edward Rishton

ST. JOAN OF ARC By John Beevers

ST. PIUS V (1566-1572) By Robin Anderson

ST. TERESA OF AVILA (1515-1582) By William Thomas Walsh

THE STORY OF THE CHURCH Her Founding, Mission and Progress. A Textbook in Church History.

WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR By Hilaire Belloc

FREEMASONRY

True Church and Bible

Record Album on Heaven

"THE SOUNDS OF HEAVEN"
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Catholic Prophecy:

Marie-Julie Jahenny of La Fraudais (19th century, France)
"The crisis will explode suddenly; the punishments will be shared by all and will succeed one another without interruption... "( January 4, 1884). 1. "The three days of darkness will be on a THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. Days of the Most Holy Sacrament, of the Cross and Our Lady. . . . three days less one night." 2. "The earth will be covered in darkness, says Our Lady on 20th of September 1882, AND HELL WILL BE LOOSED ON EARTH. Thunder and lightning will cause those who have no faith or trust in My Power, to die of fear." 3. "During these three days of terrifying darkness, no windows must be opened, because no one will be able to see the earth and the terrible colour it will have in those days of punishment without dying at once... " 4. "The sky will be on fire, the earth will split... During these three days of darkness let the blessed candle be lighted everywhere, no other light will shine.... " 5. "NO ONE OUTSIDE A SHELTER.. will survive. The earth will shake as at the judgement and fear will be great. Yes, We will listen to the prayers of your friends ; NOT ONE WILL PERISH. We will need them to publish the glory of the Cross.... "(8th of December 1882). 6. " THE CANDLES OF BLESSED WAX ALONE WILL GIVE LIGHT during this horrible darkness. ONE CANDLE alone will be enough for the duration of this night of hell... In the homes of the wicked and blasphemers these candles will give NO LIGHT." 7. "And Our Lady states : Everything will shake except the piece of furniture on which the blessed candle is burning. This will not shake. You will all gather around with the crucifix and my blessed picture. This is what will keep away this terror" 8. "During this darkness the devils and the wicked will take on THE MOST HIDEOUS SHAPES... red clouds like blood will move across the sky. The crash of the thunder will shake the earth and sinister lightning will streak the heavens out of season. The earth will be shaken to its foundations. The sea will rise, its roaring waves will spread over the continent..." 9. "THE EARTH WILL BECOME LIKE A VAST CEMETERY. The bodies of the wicked and the just will cover the ground." 10. "Three-quarters of the population of the globe will disappear. Half the population of France will be destroyed." (Marquis de la Franquerie, Marie-Julie Jahenny)

Full Text of the Third Secret of Fatima not revealed?

In a 1980 interview for the German magazine Stimme des Glaubens published in October 1981, John Paul II was asked explicitly to speak about the third secret. He said: "Because of the seriousness of its contents, in order not to encourage the world wide power of Communism to carry out certain coups, my predecessors in the chair of Peter have diplomatically preferred to withhold its publication. On the other hand, it should be sufficient for all Christians to know this much: if there is a message in which it is said that the oceans will flood entire sections of the earth; that, from one moment to the other, millions of people will perish... there is no longer any point in really wanting to publish this secret message. Many want to know merely out of curiosity, or because of their taste for sensationalism, but they forget that 'to know' implies for them a responsibility. It is dangerous to want to satisfy one's curiosity only, if one is convinced that we can do nothing against a catastrophe that has been predicted." He held up his rosary and stated "Here is the remedy against this evil. Pray, pray and ask for nothing else. Put everything in the hands of the Mother of God." Asked what would happen in the Church, he said: "We must be prepared to undergo great trials in the not-too-distant future; trials that will require us to be ready to give up even our lives, and a total gift of self to Christ and for Christ. Through your prayers and mine, it is possible to alleviate this tribulation, but it is no longer possible to avert it, because it is only in this way that the Church can be effectively renewed. How many times, indeed, has the renewal of the Church been effected in blood? This time, again, it will not be otherwise. We must be strong, we must prepare ourselves, we must entrust ourselves to Christ and to His holy Mother, and we must be attentive, very attentive, to the prayer of the Rosary.

Lúcia herself is reported to have explicitly stated that the Third Secret contains Apocalyptic content. According to one source, when Lúcia was asked about the Third Secret, she said it was "in the Gospels and in the Apocalypse", and at one point she had even specified Apocalypse chapters 8 to 13, a range that includes Apocalypse 12:4, the chapter and verse cited by Pope John Paul II in his homily in Fatima on 13 May 2000.

A news article quoted former Philippine ambassador to the Vatican, Howard Dee, as saying that Cardinal Ratzinger had personally confirmed to him that the messages of Akita and Fatima are "essentially the same."

A TERRIBLE WARNING - THE MESSAGE OF OUR LADY OF AKITA, JAPAN: The third message on October 13, 1973, the actual anniversary of the final visions and miracle of Fatima is as follows: "As I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one will never have seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead. The only arms which will remain for you will be the Rosary and the Sign left by my Son. Each day, recite the prayers of the Rosary. With the Rosary, pray for the Pope, the bishops and the priests. The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, and bishops against other bishops. The priests who venerate me will be scorned and opposed by their Confreres. The Church and altars will be vandalized. The Church will be full of those who accept compromises and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord.

From Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Vatican

Text of The Third Secret of Fatima:

COMPLETE TRANSLATION OF ORIGINAL TEXT

VATICAN CITY, JUN 26, 2000 (VIS) - Given below is the complete translation of the original Portuguese text of the third part of the secret of Fatima, revealed to the three shepherd children at Cova da Iria-Fatima on July 13, 1917, and committed to paper by Sr. Lucia on January 3, 1944:

"I write in obedience to you, my God, who command me to do so through his Excellency the Bishop of Leiria and through your Most Holy Mother and mine.

"After the two parts which I have already explained, at the left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendor that Our Lady radiated towards him from her right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice: 'Penance, Penance, Penance!'. And we saw in an immense light that is God: 'something similar to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it' a Bishop dressed in White 'we had the impression that it was the Holy Father'. Other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark; before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way; having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way there died one after another the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and various lay people of different ranks and positions. Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a crystal aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God."

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