“Precisely now, Holy Father, is the moment of truth.”
Windswept House.
A book in which a few lines more would leave the reader holding the proverbial bag.
What would, in the novel, John Paul do?
The “last Pope of these Catholic times” was the way the Blessed Virgin described the pontificate of the Polish vicar in this prophetic and revealing novel.
A novel in which many Truths were told under the cover of fiction in order to not only protect those who provided the information, but avoid in today’s absurd legal world the threat of lawsuits and reprisals by those who inhabit today’s hierarchy.
For the most compelling Truth told in the book was the 1963 “enthronement ceremony” of lucifer.
An “enthronement” designed to destroy the Church and bring about the reign of the evil one.
An “enthronement” that in light of the prophecies of our Queen Herself — whether
La Salette or Fatima — makes perfect disturbing sense.
Until his dying day, Father Martin assured all who asked that this “enthronement” was not fiction, but a reality.
Indeed, he said he even knew who some of the various participants were, including many high-ranking officials (those who rose as a result) in the Church today.
Re-reading Windswept House is like reviewing a prophecy of the last 40 years.
In it, there is no doubt of the deep respect for the institution of the papacy and all that it stands for.
No doubt of the deep knowledge of the incredible impact John Paul II has had on the world stage.
No doubt that the pope is indeed connected to Fatima.
No doubt that something bigger than John Paul was at work behind the scenes of shifting world history.
But the work also does not mince any words about the failures of the Church in the last generation.
As the hero of the novel confronts the pope on these failures, he emotionally recalls the negative events that have led the Church to the eve of the 3rd Millennium:
“ … what have you done to arrest that deterioration, Holiness?” the young priest asks in an emotional discourse with the pope. “You speak of your search for unity. But you have abandoned your seminarians to heretical teachers. You have abandoned your parish faithful to dissident, yes, to immoral bishops and Cardinals. You have abandoned your schoolchildren to a non-Catholic system and your nuns to a destroying wave of secularizing feminists. You protected none of them. Not even our sacred buildings themselves. You have allowed our very churches and chapels to be denuded of Altar and Tabernacle, of Confessional and Statue. In all of that, you have acquiesced continually. And now you are on the brink of acquiescing in the liquidation of your own pontificate.”
In his defense, the pope states, “All along I have waited for a sign of God’s holy will.”
And no one, as an expert and devotee of Our Lady of Fatima, understood that remark that Martin, as a writer, placed in the mouth of “Mary’s pope,” better than the former Jesuit.
For he knew John Paul was the pope of Mary’s secret.
He knew John Paul was the pope of Fatima.
He knew, most importantly of all, that John Paul was the pope “chosen by God … to be the special servant of His Mother.”
Malachi Martin died — as did his book — without knowing the ending.
John Paul has outlived one of the most insightful Catholic theologians and historians of the 20th Century.
But in outliving this brilliant author who foresaw and packaged together so much history to showcase its prophetic Truths, John Paul II has, in an eerie way, virtually come to the surrealistic ending spoken of in Windswept House.
The novel ended on the Holy Father yet to make a decision to resign his papacy.
While the novel did not have the decision being weighed as a result of John Paul’s health, are we not in virtual reality as to this possible forced resignation?
With his health a major concern, the plot thickens, as they say, as to whether God will call John Paul home before he is totally incapacitated and incapable of governing the Church.
The question we all must ask ourselves is why God — who NEVER allows anything to happen to those consecrated to Him without His approval — is allowing this scenario to occur with His vicar?
The obvious answer to those who love the Suffering Christ is that the incredible miraculous life of John Paul — even in his advance stages of Parkinson — is a symbol of love, trust, passion, and acceptance of the Will of God; to not only believers, but to the whole world.
There is, however, something far more deeper we believe.
It is in waiting “for a sign of God’s holy will.”
That sign can be seen easily.
It is in weakness.
For Christ never acts in the strong.
But in the weak.
In the weakness of John Paul II, the Church is now totally open to the “petty plots,” as Martin describes them in his book. “Plots,” perhaps, to further the stranglehold of the evil one and his followers.
We have discussed this before, as we have already seen the anti-Mary, we should, as Catholics, be prepared for the possibility of an anti-Peter (who could possibly be the false prophet) to set the stage for the ultimate personage of the antichrist.
For this pontificate of John Paul II is unique.
And its ending will be so as well.
As we have stated, the grandeur of John Paul as the Divine Mercy Pope is unequaled since the time of Peter.
Can we then, as believers, actually think that the next pope will just be more of the same?
More of the same whether in the autodestruction of the Church or the Mercy of God dispensed through the Hands of a Mother who has held back our ultimate chastisements?
Surely the end of John Paul II’s pontificate is a defining moment in the history of mankind.
It is, we believe, Zero Hour.
It may NOT be Zero Hour for the immediate return in Glory of our Lord and Savior. There will be time yet on God’s clock that has but a few grains of sand left.
But it is Zero Hour for the end of Divine Mercy as we have come to know it.
It is Zero Hour for the end of enough Rosaries to have been said.
It is Zero Hour for the end of enough messages from Medjugorje.
It is Zero Hour for the end of enough souls to wake up and convert.
It is Zero Hour for the end of enough reconciliation between believers.
It is Zero Hour for the end of enough is enough.
Please do not mistake what we are saying.
Will more Rosaries be said?
As long as there is breath in any of us who believe and know how to pray is the answer not obvious?
Will Mary continue to speak when She wishes?
Who, but Her Son, can stop our Queen?
The point we are making, as believers, is we need to, once again, ask our Lord when is enough enough for Him?
In running this web site we have learned some very valuable hard lessons.
It matters not that people see the Holy Face of Christ in every article opened.
For some, their hearts refuse to see.
As the third installment to the Matrix is geared for release, our five-month-old comments on it are making tremendous rounds.
Most who read it continue to embrace Neo and reject Christ.
Most continue to laugh at the pleas of the Woman they reject as their Mother.
And so, when the Divine Mercy Pope is taken from the world, will we, like Windswept House, be left wondering what the ending will be?
When — not what — will the ending be?
Shouldn’t we, who believe in Divine Mercy, ask our God for the ending we know should be?!
Now, after 25 years, as the hero of the novel asks, we, too, can ask, “Can this be what it all comes down to, Holiness? All your years as Pontiff? All the millions of miles in papal pilgrimages? All the billions of men and women and children who have seen your face and heard your living voice? All the vast rivers of words you’ve poured out in so many languages; all the cities you’ve seen; all the world leaders you’ve visited and who have visited you?”
Is this, we ask You, O Lord, the sole reason for John Paul’s pontificate?
So that another vicar can travel “millions of miles”?
So that another vicar can smile for “billions of men and women and children” who can see his “face” and instead of Yours, hear his “living voice”?
So that more Rosaries would be said?
More messages from Medjugorje?
More Divine Mercy for those who would rather curse than love You?
Or is it “precisely now” the time for “the moment of Truth”?
The moment when it is “not yet dawn, but it’s a matter of minutes.”
There is, as the last line of Windswept House speaks, “no trace of dawn yet in the eastern sky.”
For we, “all along,” as the Holy Father did in Windswept House, “have waited for a sign of God’s holy will.”
Therefore, we plead with You, O God, when You take Your Mother’s servant home, make it the defining moment in mankind’s history.
Make it not a trace, but a Glory of Your Dawn unfolding that which You and You alone have promised.
And that which You and You alone can fulfill.
For enough is enough.
“Precisely now,” O Lord, make the departure of our beloved pope, “the moment of Truth,” we plead with You, our God.
Make it Your Zero Hour!
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