FR. DON DOLINDO RUOTOLO
(1882-1970)
(Image: Don Dolindo with
St. Padre Pio)
STATUS: cause for
canonisation currently open – Don Dolindo is therefore officially
known as a 'Servant of God'.
Someone recently drew my
attention to a new article published on Gloria TV regarding Don
Dolindo – that he made an “Angelic Pontiff” prophecy.
Surprised, of course I had to look into this.
Fr. Don Dolindo Ruotolo
was born in Naples in 1882, was a diocesan priest, a Third Order
Franciscan, also a renowned exorcist and spiritual director. He had
visions of Christ and the saints, had the gift of reading souls,
suffered the stigmata and also bore many other sufferings which he
endured patiently. Even in life he was famed for his holiness. St.
Padre Pio of Pietrelcina once said to the pilgrims who came from
Naples to see him: “Why do you come here, if you have Don Dolindo
in Naples? Go to him, he’s a saint!"
Fr. Don Dolindo was also accused of heresy
for years due to misunderstandings and calumny said against him, his
ministry was suspended in 1910, but obviously that was part of the
suffering he endured, he eventually he was restored to his ministry
after a long investigation and cleared of the charge in 1937.
Fr. Don Dolindo offered up his
tremendous physical sufferings and said: "I am totally poor, a
poor nothing. My strength is my prayer; my leader is the will of God
which I let Him take me by the hand. My security over the uneven
path is the heavenly mother Mary." In fact, he was so poor, his
own family disowned him over it. However, despite all his ailments
and sufferings, he had a great sense of humour about it, writing a
'medical prescription' for his incurable ailments by saying:
“Obedience to the will of God to be taken at all times, with
regular doses of Hail Marys.”
He also wrote of Our Lady
as the Mediatrix of all graces and Coredemptrix:
“The Church honours with
particular veneration the Most Holy Virgin, the masterpiece of
creation, the Mother of God, Co-Redemptrix of the human race,
Mediatrix of all graces, Mother of all mankind and the Church’s
Most Loving Mother […] it is very salutary to make Most Holy Mary
known and loved, since deep and ardent devotion towards a Mother so
great, is the infallible secret of the Christian life and eternal
salvation. (From "Slanci di amore", by Don Dolindo
Ruotolo).
However, he was not
above doing what it took to remind people how important their
immortal soul is. There is a story that when the new Metro system
opened up in Naples, he ignored the warning signs that read “Do
not cross the tracks. Danger of death!” and crossed the train
tracks. When he was questioned by shocked witnesses why he did that
and endangered his life, he replied he 'didn't believe it', he didn't
die, did he? When they wondered what he could possible mean by that,
he explained how some people apply the exact same logic with regard
to the Church's teachings on mortal sin – that there is a danger of
eternal death to the soul if you continue to live in sin – yet
people ignore this and say, “I don’t believe it. After all,
nothing has happened to me yet.” (Source).
His is particularly famous
for his prayers and spiritual practise of surrendering everything to
Our Lord with complete trust and confidence.
Despite his great
humility and hidden life, he was also known as a prophet. In 1965 he
that "a new John will rise out of Poland with heroic steps to
break the chains beyond the boundaries imposed by the communist
tyranny." This came true under St. Pope John Paul II when Lech
Walesa headed Solidarity, the Soviet bloc’s first independent trade
union that ultimately defeated communism in Poland. (Source.)
Fr. Don Dolindo was laid
to rest in the Church of ‘San Giuseppe dei Nudi’. He was always
available to help the poor and sick. He promised that anyone in need
could knock on his tomb if they wanted his help. Today people go to
his grave and knock thrice in the name of the Trinity with confidence
that Don Dolindo will help them.
Concerning his Angelic
Pontiff prophecy which has recently attracted attention, it is in his
commentary of the Bible, "La Sacra Scrittura”, in particular
in his comments on the Book of Maccabees.
I discovered this
particular set of his works was placed on the Index of Forbidden
Books in 1940, however, this may have been due to the fact he
challenged the historical-critical method of looking at
the Bible, which obviously caused him some trouble, not to mention
the calumny of heresy that was accused against him for years, and
also in that he predicted in the text itself that the Church would
fall prey to pagan spirits, and that people would raise altars 'to the
earth', apparently a reference to nature-worship, (the Church in the
1940s must have wondered how on earth that could come about!), but as
we have seen recently, his prophecy proved true with the recent
Pachamama scandal at the Vatican during the Pan-Amazonian Synod that took place in October 2019 and the
nature worship rite that happened on the Vatican grounds as a result.
Also, the Index of
Forbidden books was suspended in 1966, and, considering many cardinals and theologians are
discovering what a spiritual treasure Fr. Dolindo Ruotolo's works
are, and, he has an open canonisation process, it is obvious the rest
of his prophecy may be safely read. It agrees with the
other Angelic Pontiff prophecies that a great pontiff will rise up and restore the Church after a terrible time of heresy, confusion and even apostasy.
Unfortunately, I
can't find an actual copy of his commentary on the Book of Maccabees
available online, so I will have to trust what Gloria TV has provided
instead. (Source,
click here.)
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(From Gloria TV)- The Prophecy of the Angelic Pontiff
Father compares the
Maccabeens who weep about the idolatry in the temple, to the priests
and faithful who weep when the Church is overwhelmed by pagan spirits
and by its enemies.
New Pope Will Face Evils
Father Ruotolo writes, that a Pope will restore the suffering Church. The redemption through the Maccabees is for him a prophetic figure of the Church that is almost extinct. According to him, a Pope, full of zeal and love, God’s gift to the Church and to the world, will rise. He will face renegade Christians and perverts who are raising altars to the idols of the earth and to their passions, and attempt to undermine Christianity from its foundations.
New Pope Will Be Humiliated into the Dust
This Pope will strike down apostasy and take action against the perverts and their impious altars and reveal their pitfalls with a powerful voice. He will gather the best of all Christians, and begin the conversion of the world. He will suffer terribly but lead the Church to victory and triumph. He will find himself in insurmountable difficulties, but overcome them, giving back to the Church independence and freedom. Like Joseph in Egypt, he will be humiliated to the point of dust, but then exalted as the ruler of the world.
New Pope Will Be Fearless
This pope is not afraid of the sinners who dominate the earth. He will consider their glory as dung, and their power as that of a worm, or rather as dust that rises for a short time and then returns to the earth. He will unite the faithful souls in one body and a single block, claim the rights of the Church among the nations, and bring all peoples back to God. There will be martyrs, but their blood will be the seed of new Christians. All pious souls will unite with this Pope, especially those souls consecrated to God. They will crush the wicked, and restore God's Law in the world.”
New Pope Will Face Evils
Father Ruotolo writes, that a Pope will restore the suffering Church. The redemption through the Maccabees is for him a prophetic figure of the Church that is almost extinct. According to him, a Pope, full of zeal and love, God’s gift to the Church and to the world, will rise. He will face renegade Christians and perverts who are raising altars to the idols of the earth and to their passions, and attempt to undermine Christianity from its foundations.
New Pope Will Be Humiliated into the Dust
This Pope will strike down apostasy and take action against the perverts and their impious altars and reveal their pitfalls with a powerful voice. He will gather the best of all Christians, and begin the conversion of the world. He will suffer terribly but lead the Church to victory and triumph. He will find himself in insurmountable difficulties, but overcome them, giving back to the Church independence and freedom. Like Joseph in Egypt, he will be humiliated to the point of dust, but then exalted as the ruler of the world.
New Pope Will Be Fearless
This pope is not afraid of the sinners who dominate the earth. He will consider their glory as dung, and their power as that of a worm, or rather as dust that rises for a short time and then returns to the earth. He will unite the faithful souls in one body and a single block, claim the rights of the Church among the nations, and bring all peoples back to God. There will be martyrs, but their blood will be the seed of new Christians. All pious souls will unite with this Pope, especially those souls consecrated to God. They will crush the wicked, and restore God's Law in the world.”
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UPDATE: Fr. Don Dolindo also wrote of the GREAT CATHOLIC MONARCH as well as the ANGELIC PONTIFF.
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UPDATE: Fr. Don Dolindo also wrote of the GREAT CATHOLIC MONARCH as well as the ANGELIC PONTIFF.
I've
recently discovered on an Italian site (Source: Prophecies
for the Third Millenium) that Fr. Don Dolindo also wrote of the
Great Monarch and the Angelic Pontiff in his commentary on the Book
of the Apocalypse in his 'La Sacra Scrittura' – he believed these
two figures were represented by the symbols of the two olive trees
and the two candlesticks seen in the Books of Zacharias and the
Apocalypse, the images of the olive trees and candlesticks doubling
as a symbol for these two world leaders as well as functioning as
symbols of the return of Enoch and Elias during the time of the
Antichrist.
Of
importance, Fr. Don Dolindo also confirms the traditional teaching of
the Church and also the authentic Great Catholic Monarch and Angelic
Pontiff prophecies by saying the Great Monarch and Angelic Pontiff
will come first to restore the Church and the world, the
secular and spiritual realms. They are represented by the two olive
trees and the two candlesticks seen in the visions of Zachariah, and,
also in the Book of the Apocalypse. Then, the Antichrist will
come after them to crush the Church and the Kingdom, but, the
Antichrist's seat will NOT be in Rome, but Jerusalem as the
Scriptures and the Fathers of the Church foretold. Enoch and
Elias will come and preach against him and defend the rights of the
Pope and the crushed kingdoms. They too are represented by the two
olive trees and the two candlesticks according to Fr. Dolindo. They
will preach against him for three and a half years.
Don
Dolindo finishes his commentary remarking how the times of the
Monarch and Pontiff will be like that of the Antichrist
near the End of Time, but in a lesser measure. This Restoration
comes after a great exterminating war.
The King and Pontiff will find themselves in an apostate world an
will come in penitential garb like Enoch and Elias will when they
arrive later during the Antichrist's time. The Pope and King will
endure a hard struggle for thee and a half years just like Enoch and
Elias while trying to convert the world while Rome is trampled by the
evil ones. This is in complete agreement with other prophecies that
state there will be a horrific world war, and, Rome will suffer at
the hands of the evil ones for about three and a half to four and
half years before the Restoration is complete. Fr. Don Dolindo notes
the King and Pontiff will fulfil their mission with remarkable
miracles.
Here
is the text of Fr. Dolindo's commentary on the Apocalypse (From
Sacred Scripture - The Apocalypse ):
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“In
the Redemption the Anointed One par excellence, the High and Eternal
Priest was Jesus Christ, for which the grace of the Holy Spirit came
to us in the seven Sacraments and in the seven gifts of the Sacrament
of Confirmation. He was Priest and King at the same time, but he used
the civil power of Constantine the Great, who gave freedom to the
Church, to affirm the Kingdom of his love in the world.
In the restoration of
recent times, which, like the other two, will take place not
by means of an army or by force, but by virtue of the Holy Spirit, it
is very clear that the two olive trees, the two witnesses seen
by St. John, are a religious leader and civilian leader, a Pope
and a King [also in the prophecies of many saints and mystics
there is talk of a Great Monarch and a Holy Pope who will introduce
the Age of Peace; Ed]. At the time of the antichrist, then, when the
kingdom of evil will be triumphant, when the only king will be the
antichrist, and the dignity of the Pope and that of any other
legitimate King will be supremely disheartened, (i.e. when the reign
of the Antichrist comes after that of the Monarch and Pope) the two
olive trees will be Enoch and Elijah who with prodigies and great
force of God will reaffirm the rights of the Pope and that of the
Kings dethroned and indulged against him by the wretched antichrist.
To this explanation, which
flows logically from the Sacred Text, of the visions of Zacharias,
and of the clear allusion made to you by St. John, the fact that in
the vision of Zechariah we speak of only one candlestick, and in that
of St. John the two witnesses are called two olive trees and two
candlesticks; the only candlestick of the Temple meant, in fact,
the civil and religious power which in Israel was accumulated in the
High Priest, but which in the development of the life of the Church
would be distinct.
The two witnesses,
therefore, were the two olive trees because two anointed by
the Lord, one as Pope and the other as King, and they were
two candlesticks, because both together
expressed the two religious and civil powers vivified by the gifts of
the Holy Spirit, signified by the the only candlestick with seven
arms and seven lamps, and with two distinct olive trees, on the right
and on the left, because the two powers united in one head among the
Jews, had specific and distinct tasks.
In recent times, when the
most wicked antichrist presumes he is the only candlestick, indeed
the only god in place of the living God, they will come into the
world, indeed they will reappear, because Enoch and Elijah are not
yet dead. Enoch was descendant of Adam for Jared who begot him, and
represented a chief of people; he lived three hundred and sixty-five
years, walked with God, living holy, and disappeared
because the Lord kidnapped him (Gen. V, 21-23). Elijah, defender
of the honour of God against idolaters and tyrants, fully represented
priestly authority, and was kidnapped to heaven in a whirlwind (IV
Kings, II, 11). Both of them will come suddenly, when the persecution
of the antichrist against the Church will be more proud, they will
come as vindices of the royal power and authority of the Pope, and
they will also be two candlesticks for the faith and two olive trees
for the fullness of grace of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus Christ or an Angel
therefore speak to St. John of the two witnesses of the glory of God
who will restore the world and the Church against the perfidious who
will have upset the one and disheartened the other; they speak of
a great King and a great Pope who, after the terrible war, will give
peace to the earth with the full triumph of the Church, and they
speak of Enoch and Elijah who will be seen again in the world at the
time of the antichrist, to fight against him and revive the faith of
Christians, greatly shaken by persecutions.
In determining the two
witnesses they stop in a particular way, as appears from the Text, on
Enoch and Elias [for anticipation the Sacred Text alludes here to the
time of the antichrist, of which he will speak later; this confirms
that the sad figure of the antichrist is placed here before those
villainous ones who would have been like] because they are the two
most impressive figures, and they say of them in a proper and literal
sense what could perhaps be said in the mystical and spiritual sense
of the two witnesses who will restore the world and the Church after
the great scourges suffered by all humanity. We say perhaps,
because it may well be that these two witnesses will perform great
miracles.
Enoch and Elijah will
therefore find themselves at the end of the world not only in front
of the most wicked of men, the antichrist, but in front of the
peoples, completely led astray by him, who will break against them
with insults and deadly persecutions. A great manifestation of power
will be needed to dominate them, and therefore fire will come out
of the mouths of the two witnesses, which will devour their
enemies, and kill those who want to harm them. This fire will
either be a flash of lightning, which will electrocute their enemies,
or it will be such a strong word of curse that it will cause them to
collapse dead on the ground.
The perverse, now slaves
of the antichrist, will resist them, mocking their threats of divine
punishment; they then, with a public manifestation of supernatural
authority, will hit the earth with a great drought, will turn the
waters that will still flow from the sources into blood, and will
strike the earth with numerous scourges in the time of their
preaching. Defenders of the honour of God and of the Church in an
almost completely apostate and corrupt world, they will not be able
to dominate it with persuasion and sweetness, but with fear. For this
they will hate everyone, and will be regarded as a great scourge for
humanity.
Everyone will then appeal
to the antichrist, to the beast that comes up from the abyss,
to the infernal man, who came to earth like another satan, asking him
to be freed from those men for their calamity. The antichrist will
move their war by having them captured, win them,
manage to put their hands on them, and kill them. They, who
lived mysteriously for very long centuries, will pay their tribute to
death. They will be killed in the big city square where they
will remain unburied.
This great city,
spiritually called Sodom for corruption and Egypt for apostasy and
infidelity, will be Jerusalem [the Sacred Text says explicitly
that it is the city where even their Lord was crucified ],
rebuilt by the antichrist with his temple , in which he will be
worshipped as a god. Having become a cosmopolitan city, it will host
people of every tribe, people, language and nation, who will
see the bodies of the two witnesses killed, and out of hatred and
extreme contempt, they will not allow them to be buried. The news of
their death will spread in a flash all over the earth, with all the
means of the civilization of the time, and the inhabitants of the
world will celebrate it, exchanging gifts for the exultation of
having freed themselves from flagellators so powerful of their
iniquities.
Three and a half days will
remain exposed to the schemes of the wicked multitudes, and after
three and a half days the spirit of life coming from God, that
is , their soul will return to their bodies, and they, risen
to immortal life, will stand up with great fright of those who will
witness such an impressive scene. Then a great voice will be heard
from heaven inviting them to rise, and they will ascend in immense
glory, enveloped in a cloud, as one day Jesus Christ ascended to
Heaven. Their enemies will see them and be amazed and confused by
them, and in that same hour there will be a formidable earthquake
that will ruin the tenth part of the city, killing seven thousand
people under its rubble. The survivors of such a scourge will
recognize the hand of the Lord, and will give him glory,
confessing their truth and power.
This terrible event,
very particular of the time of the antichrist at the end of the
world, will be preceded by something similar, albeit in lesser
proportions, at the time of the restoration of everything in Jesus
Christ, after the great exterminating war. The two witnesses of the
time, the great King and the great Pope of love, will also find
themselves faced with the apostate and wicked world, and will present
themselves to him not in the royal or pontifical paludations, but
dressed in sackcloth, in penance and humility. They will be two
olive trees for the anointing of grace, and two candlesticks
for the light of faith that will shine in them. They will undergo a
ruthless struggle for three and a half years, during which the most
wicked people will trample the holy city, that is papal Rome,
keeping it under their tyrannical dominion. Despite the terrible
opposition encountered in Rome and around the world, they will fulfil
their mission with extraordinary signs.
Fr.
Dolindo's Explanation of Chapter 11 of the Apocalypse
Fr. Don Dolindo also interprets Chapter 11 of the
Apocalypse as a timeline of events, that the Great King and Pontiff
come first, the Restoration / Age of Peace, which he described as the
first great triumph of the Church, then, the Antichrist comes after.
After the great exterminating war, Fr. Dolindo notes God
will send the Monarch and Pontiff who will give this 'first great
triumph' as they are destined to prepare that last particular
generation for the struggle against the Antichrist. Hence, again Fr.
Dolindo is in complete agreement with Church teaching that the
Antichrist comes near the end of time and AFTER the Age of Peace.
Then, the people grow corrupt again, the Antichrist appears, and
Enoch and Elias must come to preach against him, they are the next
'witnesses' that prepare for the 'Second Great Triumph' – the
return of Christ and the ultimate Triumph of His Church at His Second
Coming.
Again similar to the symbols of the olive trees and
candlesticks, Fr. Don Dolindo sees the term the 'two witnesses' also
symbolic of the Monarch and Pontiff as well as Enoch and Elias.
(Basically, he see that the mission of Enoch and Elias double as a
prophecy for the reign of the Great Monarch and Pontiff.)
Rome will be under the rule of evil people and the King
and Pontiff will work for three and a half years to convert it, (and
also the world). Don Dolindo then writes they will suffer and die
physically or morally at the hands of the evil ones, but after a
period of three and a half days, will 'rise up' victoriously. Also,
a huge earth shattering prodigy will happen at this time that will
convert all and bring in the Triumph.
Don Dolindo left it open what this could mean, but
personally I think it is possible that the King and Pontiff will
suffer 'morally' at the hand of the evil ones, and that the 'death'
that would happen for three and a half days could refer to the Three
Days of Darkness, as Fr. Dolindo noticed a huge punishment that
happens at this time of the 'Three and a half days' shakes the
apostate people into conversion, after which brings the 'rise' of the
King and Pontiff and also the Triumph. Don Dolindo calls this period
the 'Kingdom of Love' (while we call it the Age of Peace). Fr.
Dolindo then writes the Pontiff and King will prepare the generation
that lives then for the next upheaval, the rise of the Antichrist.
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“Chapter XI that we are meditating on
is central, so to speak, and lies between the two main parts of the
book. It contains a great mystery, as we have seen, and heralds a
first formidable struggle against the Church, and a first great
triumph of her against her enemies, at the time when, after an
exterminating war, her children will be well distinguished and
separated from the world, and the two witnesses, the Pope and the
King of Love, will have triumphed over perverts.
Since all the Fathers see in these two
witnesses Enoch and Elijah, who will come at the end of the world to
fight against the antichrist, wanting us to always stick to what is
taught by the Fathers, we logically recognized in the Sacred Text
which concerns the two witnesses, an anticipation of what will happen
in the days of the antichrist. It is evident from the fact that the
antichrist is spoken only after. After the great war, the Lord
announces two witnesses who will have to give the Church a first
great triumph, for which she will gather her children, distinguish
them clearly from the world, and prepare the generation of saints who
will have to support the last struggle she will suffer. from Satan
and from the world, that is the struggle of the antichrist.
Since, according to the thought of the
Fathers, in the time of the antichrist two witnesses will come to
fight him, Enoch and Elijah, it is clear that the two witnesses of
the first triumph of the Church are the figure of Enoch and Elijah
who will come to the end of the world, at the time of the
'Antichrist. The Sacred Text speaks to us later of this calamitous
time, and therefore what he says of the two witnesses here is an
anticipation. Only in this way can the Sacred Text be reconciled with
the unanimous interpretation of the Fathers, which, according to the
precept of the Church, we must follow.
The Angel who stood upright on the sea
and on the earth, and had the little book in his hand, said to St.
John that in the days of the voice of the seventh Angel, when he
will begin to give breath to the trumpet [When it will begin,
therefore it will not be a period short or one event, but a series of
years and perhaps centuries in which the mystery of God will be
fulfilled . In these years or centuries the events will be like
the continuation of the sound of the seventh trumpet], the mystery
of God will be accomplished (X, 7), that is the final triumph of
the Church and the eternal Kingdom of the Lord in it; in this chapter
that we meditate, in verse 15 it is said that the seventh Angel
breathed the trumpet, and that at his sound great voices rose
in the sky saying: The kingdom of this world has become of our Lord
and his Christ, and He will reign for ever and ever. These voices
followed the adorations and thanks of the twenty-four seniors,
because the Lord had begun to reign, and because the time
had come for the dead to be judged, and to exterminate those who
corrupted the earth.
These words of applause and what the
Angel who placed on the sea and on the earth said would suggest that
as soon as the seventh trumpet sounded the mystery of God had been
accomplished. Instead, immediately afterwards, in the following
chapters, we speak of seven portents, and then of the antichrist, and
of the seven bowls of the Lord's wrath, that is, of the last great
scourges that will hit the earth before the final judgment. It is
therefore very clear that in this chapter we speak of a first triumph
of the Church on this earth, in which the kingdom of this
world will become of our Lord and of his Christ, and that this
triumph is a figure of the final and eternal triumph, like the two
witnesses who are an instrument are the figure of Enoch and Elijah
who will be instruments of the second and final triumph.
This mystery of two events, of which
one is the figure and announcement of the other, is not a confusion,
as it might appear at first glance, but
clearly indicates two periods of the life of the Church, one that
ends with a visible triumph over the
earth [here Don Dolindo seems to refer to
the so-called Era of Peace ; Editor's note] ,
and another that begins with this triumph, culminates in a new
corruption of the peoples and in the antichrist, has its crisis in
the new terrible punishments that hit the earth, and ends with the
resurrection of the dead, the final judgment, the eternal triumph of
Jesus Christ and the Church, and the glory of the Blessed.
When the two witnesses, risen from the
dead, were called to Heaven and ascended there in a cloud and when
the tenth part of the holy city fell and seven thousand men
perished, it is said in the Sacred Text that those who
remained were frightened and gave glory to God of the sky.
Immediately afterwards it is added that the second woe has passed,
and here comes the third woe, evidently the sound of the seventh
angel's trumpet. Meanwhile, when the seventh angel breathed the
trumpet, you did not follow trouble immediately, as it
would have been logical to expect, but great voices rose in the
sky that said: The kingdom of this world has become our Lord and his
Christ, and He will reign for the centuries of the centuries. At
these voices of exultation the twenty-four seniors prostrated
themselves to worship and thank God who, making use of his great
power, had begun to reign. Adoring and thanking they announced
the next universal judgment, and at their announcement the Temple
of God opened in Heaven, and the Ark of his covenant appeared in his
Temple, and thunderbolts, cries, earthquake and much hail followed.
What does all this mean?
It is a confirmation of the two periods
of triumph of God and of the Church, of which we have now mentioned.
Those who survived the ruin of the tenth part of the holy city were
frightened and gave glory to the God of Heaven.
So after the triumph of the two witnesses there will be a great
movement of conversion to God, by men who escaped not only the ruin
of the holy city, but the scourges of the first and second troubles.
This conversion movement concerns not the end of the world, but the
end of the sixth period of the life of the Church; it does not follow
the triumph of Enoch and Elijah, but the triumph of the two witnesses
who are the figures, that is, to the Pope and the King of Love [here
a parallelism with the Holy
Pope and the Great Monarch of which many saints and mystics in
their revelations; Ed].
In the time in which Rome will be
pampered by perverse people for three and a half years, they will
perform their prodigious apostolate; then they will be defeated by
the perverts and killed, either physically, or morally with
their degradation ordered by the perverts themselves. For a divine
prodigy, after three and a half days, either
taken literally, or taken for a short period [ Seven
represents the perfect number in Scripture, and therefore a long and
complete period of time; half of seven, three and a half, therefore
represents a short and incomplete period. There is no difficulty,
however, in our case, to literally take the number of the three and a
half days in which the two witnesses will appear defeated and
overwhelmed] they will rise to life and their dignity; to
life, if really killed, to their dignity and prestige if only cut
down and excluded.
A scourge of God, particularly for
the holy city, in which the crime of the struggle against the two
witnesses will take place, will shake the souls led astray by
apostasy, and they frightened by punishment, will give glory to
the God of Heaven, recognizing Him and converting.
Meanwhile the seventh angel will begin
to give breath to the trumpet, that is , the seventh
period of the life of the Church will begin. The triumph of the two
witnesses and the conversion of the people to the Lord will be the
end of the sixth period and the beginning of the seventh, and for
this reason, instead of immediately following the third trouble,
follows the applause of gratitude from Heaven for the first triumph
of God and of the Church on earth: The kingdom of this world has
become of our Lord and his Christ.
This kingdom of love will come to
prepare souls for the last great struggle that the Church will have
from the antichrist in the seventh period of her life, and for this
the twenty-four senior, thanking God for the first triumph, and
seeing the final apostasy of the nations far away. angered
against God, they also announce the resurrection of the dead, the
universal judgment and the appearance of the Ark of God in the Temple
of his glory, that is, of the glorious Humanity of the Redeemer,
between lightning, shouts, earthquake and much hail, that is,
between the upheaval of the earth.
This complex and, at the same time, so
logical, orderly and clear series of events makes us understand once
again how mysterious it is to speak of God, who has everything
present, and can only speak as one who has everything present. We,
little atoms, cannot do anything before Him, eternal Trinity, Power,
Wisdom and Love, than to worship, thank and pray. In the midst of the
fluctuation of the centuries, we are like a small twig of straw
overwhelmed by the waves of the tumultuous ocean, and how can we
presume to rise up as judges of God?
Let us humble ourselves, humble
ourselves, and we treasure the small particle of time that is granted
to us to do good. We are just like an atom of an immense mountain, a
cell of a colossal tree, and we cannot evaluate and even less
criticize the profound reasons why God wants or allows so many events
in the life of the centuries and in that of the Church.
He alone knows what is right, holy and
harmonious in this life, for his glory and for the good and eternal
happiness of his creatures. We know that it is infinite Wisdom and
infinite Love, and we must trust in Him and abandon ourselves to his
love. Let us get used to humiliating ourselves deeply before God with
feelings of great trust and great love. It is so sweet to feel in the
hands of the Almighty, it is so reassuring to feel entrusted to his
Wisdom and his Love. What does it matter that we do not come to
understand all that He disposes of or permits in the world? It is
enough for us to join his will as a child joins that of his parents,
entrusting himself completely to them.
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