News Item: : October 13th - A Significant Date in Salvation History
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Thursday 13 October 2016 - 22:02:03

Events, My Dear Boy, Events...

A few days ago, the mainstream media kept the masses looking firmly the other way, whilst the latest Wikileaks data dump was revealing a shocking series of e-mails from Hillary Clinton's political campaign.

Among them was an e-mail from former Clinton administration official Bill Ivey to campaign chairman John Podesta, which spoke about the ''need'' to maintain political power by producing ''an unaware and compliant citizenry''.

That most people are still unaware of this news demonstrates just how successful they have been!

Of course, that has been the case for a long time in a secularist culture with dumbed-down education, entertainment and media systems.

Not that you would notice in the MSM, but the latest batch of released Wikileaks e-mails have also impacted greatly on the Catholic Church.

In varying degrees of discomforture, many ''mainstream'' Catholic sites have by now responded to the news that Hillary Clinton's campaign communications director Jennifer Palmieri and Center for American Progress fellow, John Halpin, had mocked ''conservative'' Catholicism as an ''amazing bastardization of the faith''.

More troubling was the confirmation of the worst-kept secret regarding the infiltration of the Catholic Church.

This is no news to anyone who has read up on their Bella Dodd, Alice von Hildebrand or Ion Mihai Pacepa. We have dealt with this issue a few times here, particularly in a series of articles last year entitled And Russia Will Spread Her Errors. Nevertheless, the latest news has a particularly disturbing quality given the state of the Church and the Geo-political situation throughout the world in these days.

I am referring, of course, to the revelation of the dire exchange of e-mails from 2012, between the above-mentioned campaign chairman John Podesta and Sandy Newman, the President of Voices for Progress.

In case there is anyone who has still not read up about this exchange, Newman had asked Podesta whether a so-called ''Catholic Spring'' could be engineered to draw some of the 98% of US Catholic women who break the Church's teaching on contraception (!) into a resistance movement against the US Bishops, who were then fighting against the contraceptive coverage of the HHS Mandate.

Obianuju Ekeocha, the dynamic foundress of Culture of Life Africa, has tweeted a splendid response to this situation: ''Are you Catholic? Are you part of Podesta's 98%? An atheist has recognized you as a trigger for revolution against the Church and the Gospel''.

Thought provoking, isn't it?

Anyway, the supposedly Catholic Podesta (!) had replied to Newman as follows: ''We created Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good to organize for a moment like this. But I think it lacks the leadership to do so now. Likewise Catholics United. Like most Spring movements, I think this one will have to be bottom up.''

As Steve Skojec reflects over at 1 Peter 5, this is a text-book example of Alinskyian Trojan Horse tactics. It certainly calls to our minds the tactics revealed by the late Bella Dodd in her writings and speeches about Communist infiltration of the Church and State.

Even as I type this, various outlets are now reporting that RAF pilots have been ordered to shoot down ''hostile'' Russian fighter jets over Syria.

Not exactly the Battle of Britain is it?

Then again, a Russian general made a similar threat to US fighter aircraft in the region last week.

All of the above is written by way of highlighting the apocalyptic nature of the times through which we are presently living. They also serve as an up-to-the-minute introduction to the concluding section of this article as it regards the significance of October 13th in Salvation History.

What follows is pretty much a re-blog of what we posted up this time last year. In light of all that is happening in the Church and world, I wouldn't put that Rosary down yet...

October 13th and the Battle for the Church

Christopher Ferrara has frequently drawn attention to the historical importance of the date of October 13th in recent Church history.

Fatima

It was on that date, in 1917, when a crowd of 70,000 witnesses, including a number of atheistic reporters from secularist newspapers, witnessed the Miracle of the Sun. It will be remembered that this miracle had been promised by Our Lady beforehand. The fulfillment of this promised miracle before so many witnesses marks Fatima out as a truly historical series of supernatural events. They ought not to be dismissed by anyone, whether presently Catholic or not.

So beautiful, though also terrifying, was the Miracle of the Sun that many fallen-away Catholics repented and returned to the Sacraments of the Holy Church on that very day.

Perhaps too few have considered the symbolism contained in that historical miracle. We would all do well to reflect on the fact that the descent of the Sun on the massive crowd calls to mind the punishment of fire from Heaven which befell Sodom and Gomorrah.

Akita

In this context let us not forget, either, that Our Lady of Akita gave the following explicit warning to Sister Agnes Sasagawa: ''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 has never been 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.''

An important part of the Akita message, relating to events preceding the punishment by fire, warns: ''The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against bishops. The priests who venerate me will be scorned by their confreres... churches and altars will be sacked; 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.''

Sadly, we have all lived to see such things happening in the Church. The Rome Synods of '14 and '15 were punctuated, if not dominated, by them. More recently, at the end of September 2016, two ''former'' nuns have attempted to ''marry'' each other, with an ''ex''-priest officiating at a civil ''ceremony'' in the Italian town of Pinerolo.

And what was the date that this prophecy was given in Akita? October 13th, 1973.

Rome - Vatican II 

Christopher Ferrara has also drawn attention to the fact that the 13th October, 1962, was the date on which Cardinal Achille Leinhart seized the microphone, out of order, and derailed the Second Vatican Council's preparatory documents with his revolutionary demands. Drawing on Professor Romano Amerio's classical study Iota Unum, Ferrara notes that the Church is still living with the consequences of that derailment to this day.

Rome - Synods '14 and '15

Indeed, much closer to our own times, the 13th October has turned out to be a very significant date for the Church.

On that date in 2014, the disgraceful mid-term report was manipulated, pushed through and released to the world's media - without having been so much as seen by the bishops gathered for that autumn's Extraordinary Synod. As Bishop Schneider said at the time, and Christopher Ferrara recalled later: ''This is the first time in Church history that such a heterodox text was actually published as a document of an official meeting of Catholic bishops under the guidance of a pope...'' Of course, the release of the document became the watershed for a resistance led by Cardinal George Pell of Australia against the so-obvious behind-the-scenes manipulations.

In the distressing build up to Synod '15, Christopher Ferrara had thus wondered aloud what might be the significance of October 13th that year.

Although few seemed to spot it at the time, we did observe here at Torch of The Faith that this was the date on which the news broke, in the German Die Tagespost, that Pope Francis had been hosting a kind of miniature ''Shadow Synod'' each day with some specially chosen members of the Synod proper, and some undisclosed outsiders, in the Domus Sanctae Marthae...

Rome - Pope Leo XIII

There is one source which claims that October 13th was also the date on which Pope Leo XIII had his terrifying experience of the devil demanding a period of 100 years to try and destroy the Catholic Church. Whatever the veracity of that source, it remains the case that Fatima, and the 13th day of October, have been extremely significant in the ongoing battle between Christ's True Church and the false anti-church of Antichrist.

At the beginning of the present stage of the battle, the importance of Fatima was again highlighted when it was announced in 2013 that Pope Francis was to consecrate his entire papacy to Our Lady of Fatima. This is an important detail, and source of ultimate hope, that should not be forgotten by any of us in these dark times.

What Must We Do?

Yes, these certainly are grave times. October 13th, 2016, marks the 99th anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima. At the end of this month, within weeks of the beginning of the 100th year since the occurrence of this apocalyptic event, Pope Francis plans to travel to Lund to ''commemorate'' the condemned heretic Martin Luther.

Luther, the troubled monk who was condemned by a Church Council, disparaged the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, sacrileged his vows by attempting marriage with a nun, split countless souls from the Church, helped to sunder European Christendom, and paved the way for the secularized post-Christian anti-culture that we have all around us today.

This planned visit, and the mysterious silence of the world's cardinals and bishops on the matter, is nothing short of apocalyptic.

What can we do as lowly members of the faithful?

We must all stop offending God, sincerely repent of our sins, receive God's forgiveness, grace and strength in the Sacraments, honour the First Saturdays and pray the Rosary every single day.

We have all heard the warnings of Our Lady at Fatima and Akita. Now let us heed them!

Our Lady of Fatima and Akita - Pray for us!   

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