APPARITIONS
OF JESUS AND MARY

UNITED FOR THE TRIUMPH OF THE IMMACULATE HEART
An apostolate founded to respond to Our Lady's plea for the Triumph
under the guidance of Bishop Paolo Maria Hnilica, S.J.
Director:Denis Nolan


NEWSLETTER

JANUARY 31, 1995

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January 31, 1995

May the peace of Our Lord, and His Mother, the Queen of Peace, be with you! (I'm sending you this copy of a letter I've sent to several people - not to ask for any donation - but to keep you informed of what this apostolate is about - and to stay in your prayers!)

I note that in one of the very first interviews with the visionary in Medjugorje who first saw Our Lady, Ivanka (February 27, 1983) in answer to the question, Which message of Our Lady is most important?", she said, "Peace!" I didn't understand her answer in the past. Looking at the condition of the world today, twelve years later, I do.

Attached you will find an article I have written for Tom Petrisko's third newspaper - to go out to five million people in February. Unfortunately, space limitations necessitate it being cut to one third of its size. I am therefore giving you the whole article before hand. (Several misspellings were corrected after I made the attached copy for you.) It helps present the work of our apostolate, United for the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart. If you are able to help with nothing else, please at least read this article!

Two recent developments since I wrote the article: First, the Cardinal of the Philippines - with whom Bishop Hnilica spent time these past weeks, also believes there is nothing more important in the Church now than unity within the Marian Movements. Second, the Holy Father is scheduling time to meet privately with Bishop Hnilica again next week.

The Church stands at a critical juncture. Even as I write this letter to you, the Bishops of Bosnia Hercegovina are meeting for the first time in Mostar. The new cardinal of Sarajevo is there, as is the Nuncio. I understand that they are discussing the need to reconstruct diocesan lines for Bishop Franjo Komarica's diocese (he, incidentally, heads the commission investigating Medjugorje) has no more Catholics after 17 centuries of the presence of the Church there! They will also be discussing Medjugorje. Recently the Bishop of Mostar, Msgr. Peric, again made public his demand that Medjugorje be "shut down". This meeting could be critical. It seems the greatest battle for the Triumph of Mary's Immaculate Heart is taking place within the Church itself! This is where Mary's children come in. She has placed all her hope in them (us). The smaller you are, the more important role you have in this battle. Only one thing is necessary in order to be an apostle for Our Lady's Triumph - a pure heart!

I am stepping out in humility to once again make an appeal (not to you - but that you can keep in prayer (that's my appeal to you!) - and to keep you informed of what United for the Triumph is doing.) There are several projects United for the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart in America is called to and I need help.

#1) We are being called to put out our first newsletter. It will be twenty pages long and contain much of the Bishop's guidance for the Marian Movement. It will cost $2,300 to print and $3,000 to mail to those on our mailing list. At present our apostolate does not have any funds for this project. I will ask for contributions through this first newsletter - and, although I can't at this point guarantee it - I hope a response to my appeal will make it possible for me to pay back to you anything you are able to contribute to this effort. (Our Not For Profit Tax I.D.number is 33- 1935308.)

AS THE THIRD MILLENNIUM DRAWS NEAR

"Mary most holy, the highly favored daughter of the Father will appear before the eyes of believers [in "1999, the third and final year of preparation"] as the perfect model of love toward both God and neighbor... so that they will return to the house of the Father....The mother of fairest love, will be for Christians on the way to the Great Jubilee of the third millennium the star which safely guides their steps to the Lord."

- #54, #59 November 10, 1994 Pope John Paul II

"'I will set enmity between you and the woman...'

- (Gen. 3:15).

"Today Mary is mobilizing her generation"

- October 14, 1989 Bishop Paolo Maria Hnilica, S.J.

The Holy Father laid down the gauntlet. In his last Apostolic Letter of 1994 he made clear his intention to guide the Church into the third millennium. Just two weeks before, an increasingly vocal movement in the church had been joined by several bishops calling for the Pope's retirement!

In August of 1994, the first year of preparation for the Great Jubilee of the year 2000, referring to his imminent trip to Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina, "the star which safely guides [our] steps to the Lord," made clear in her public message from Medjugorje that it was she who had chosen this Pope to lead the church into the third millennium: "I am united with you in a special way, praying for the gift of the presence of my beloved son [Pope John Paul ll] in your home country. Pray, little children, for the health of my most beloved son, who suffers and whom I have chosen for these times. I pray and intercede before my Son, Jesus, so that the dream that your fathers had may be fulfilled. Pray, little children, in a special way because Satan is strong and wants to destroy hope in your heart."

Time Magazine, in proclaiming Pope John Paul II "Man of the Year" in its last issue of 1994, reported: "The Vatican received a veiled threat [against the Holy Father's life] from Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader... That indirect but personal threat - together with the dangers facing the citizens of Sarajevo who would gather for a papal Mass - scuttled the trip." The Holy Father's hope hasn't diminished. The following month in his Apostolic Letter mapping out the path for the Church over the course of the next five years before the Great Jubilee of the year 2000, the Vicar of Christ wrote, "At present, it is my fervent wish to visit Sarajevo in Bosnia-Hercegovina...!"

Our Lady's hope hasn't diminished either. In her first message after the Holy Father was forced to cancel his trip to Sarajevo, she called from Medjugorje: " Dear children! I rejoice with you and I invite you to prayer. Little children, pray for my intention. Your prayers are necessary to me..." The Battle lines couldn't be more clear. Her children throughout the world are now being called to a singular mission: stand with Our Lady beside the Holy Father, protecting him spiritually with prayer and sacrifice - "ready to lay down our very lives for the protection of his person" - as he takes on the forces of evil leading the Church and the entire world into the third millennium where, he has told us, "Mary most holy, the highly favored daughter of the Father will appear before the eyes of believers.... Her motherhood...will be felt during this year [1999] as a loving and urgent invitation addressed to all the children of God so that they will return to the house of the Father!"

In his first general audience (May 15, 1991) upon his return to Rome from Fatima, the Holy Father said: "I consider this entire decade to be a free gift, given to me in a special way by Divine Providence - a special responsibility was given to me that I might continue to serve the Church by exercising the ministry of Peter...The events which have taken place on our European continent, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe, give this Gospel appeal ["The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and believe in the gospel,"] a contemporary meaning on the threshold of the third Millennium. These events compel us in a special way to think about Fatima!" (In 1982, the Holy Father told Bishop Paolo Hnilica, S.J., before the assembled bishops and cardinals in the Basilica at Fatima, "You are the happiest bishop in the Church today!" It was Bishop Hnilica who had reminded the Holy Father, after his Act of Entrustment the year before, that Our Lady's request of the Pope at Fatima had been more specific: She had asked explicitly for a "Consecration"!) THE BATTLE LINES ARE DRAWN: "SATAN IS UNLEASHED NOW MORE THAN EVER AGAINST THE PERSON OF THE POPE." Bishop Hnilica

On June 13, 1994, two months before Our Lady's call to be united with her in prayer for the Pope "whom I have chosen for these times," Bishop Paolo Hnilica sent a "heartfelt appeal" to Mary's children throughout the world:

"The gravity of the times in which we live today impels me to write to you in the name of our common love for and devotion to our Heavenly Mother, to whom we are consecrated. This letter is intended to be a heartfelt appeal for prayer and for union in charity to support the Holy Father, who, united with Christ Crucified, carries the weight of all humanity on his shoulders.

"Like Peter at the time of the first persecutions of the Christians under Herod, today too we see that the Holy Father is being made the target of a true and authentic persection; once present only in the East, today it extends to all the West as well. Forces hostile to him have declared war against the Truth that Peter bears inscribed in His Heart for the very Will of God, and which today more than ever they want silenced because the entire world lives immersed in falsehood.

"In this apocalyptic clash between Light and Darkness, there is manifested to us who are consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary the light of hope: the Woman clothed with the sun. On the horizon of our Twentieth Centtury, this "great sign" appeared at Fatima, where the Virgin came to forewarn the entire world to prepare her children for this great battle, which in the East - with militant atheism - as in the West - with materialism and the consequent decline of faith - would spare no one. "'God wants to establish the devotion to My Immaculate Heart in the world.' Only thus can catastrophes at every level, spiritual and natural, be avoided. Many of these have hap- penned - the Second World War, the Communist persecution of the Church in Russia and in the East, and others are happening right before our eyes. Day after day, humanity is degraded more and more. We see this especially in the fight against life itself, in particular with abortion. One becomes weary of listing all the tragedies that trouble us, so many that the list is made dreadfully long, and we who are consecrated to Mary cannot remain passive.

"Our Lady has given us a Pope totally consecrated to Her, John Paul II. I believe this is the reason why precisely this Pontificate is the greatest threat to hell; this is the reason why the struggle of the 'father of lies', that is, Satan, is unleashed now more than ever against the person of the Pope.

"The Pope will have to suffer much. Our Lady told us this at Fatima, and we see this suffering in a particular way in the Pontificate of John Paul II, not only because of the attack on his life in St. Peter's Square thirteen years ago, precisely on the day of Fatima, but in all those other "attacks" which the forces of evil have launched and are launching against him from every direction.

"At Fatima Our Lady foresaw all this, and like a mother tender and solicitous towards her children, she has brought us the remedy: consecration to Her Immaculate Heart. Just as this maternal Heart of Hers has become the refuge of our Holy Father, so should it become the personal refuge of every Christian, of every single man. Otherwise, there will never be peace in the world, because peace has been entrusted to Her by God the Father.

"John Paul II is the Pope who has been chosen by Mary, prepared by her to be the apostle of consecration. Now he has need of each of our hearts so that through him Our Lady can bring to completion what she promised at Fatima: 'In the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph'. This Triumph of Her Heart will be the Triumph of unity within Christianity. Indeed unity is the gift Christ asked the Father for at the Last Supper with the apostles, '...so that the world may know that You have sent me and have loved them as you loved me'. (Jn. 18:23) "The deepest wound that should be healed within Christianity is the separation of the two sister Churches, as the Pope calls them, a wound which has bled for so many centuries. As the Holy Father said to the Cardinals assembled in the consistory meeting today [June 13, 1994], this work to reestablish unity beteen the Orthodox and the Catholic Churches ought to be the goal that we should reach for in the beginning of the Third Millennium.

"But this union between sister churches can never be realized if we do not first attain the true unity within our Catholic Church. Our Lady foresaw this too at Fatima, when she spoke of the evils that were coming into the world and into the Church in our century. The evil with the most disastrous consequences that the devil has raised up to work in our Catholic Church is precisely division. 'Divide and conquer.' This is the logic of evil, used by the Communists in the persecutions in our lands where they wanted thus to separate the bishops from the Pope and the priests from the bishops. A class struggle within the Church. And how many separations there are today in the midst of Christ's flock!

"In Fatima Our Lady asked, in the name of God, for consecration to Her Immaculate Heart as the only valid remedy for the conversion of Russia and thus of the entire world. The condition that God placed almost at the foundation of this was the consecration by the Pope united with all the bishops of the entire Catholic Church. The Pope made this consecration on March 25, 1984, but the intensity of this has been diminished, because today perhaps more than ever this solid union between bishops and the Pope is lacking.

"So many times, just meeting you personally, in your Marian prayer groups, you have shown your sorrow over the lack of a solid union between the priests and bishops, between the bishops and the Pope. What has consoled me the most is that you, children of Mary, never complained about the Holy Father. Indeed, in your midst I found a fidelity and union with the Vicar of Christ that I have not found in any other part of the Church. For this reason I trust you and entrust to you my poor appeal for prayer and for the personal offering of your very selves for the Person of John Paul II.

"For unity the Lord has given us but one key: prayer to the Father. For this reason I invite you to this unanimous prayer for the union of the successors of the apostles with Peter as the message of Fatima stressed the Pope united with the bishops as a condition for the consecration and the conversion of Russia.

"In this century of Fatima God wants the role of Our Lady to be recognized in its fullness. As in the beginning of the Church, Our Lady ought also today to reign in the midst of the Cenacle, with the apostles and Peter, harmoniously united in prayer.

"Today we are convinced and we thank God that this position of Our Lady is fully recognized by our beloved Holy Father. But we ought to pray so that Mary's role can be fully communicated and accepted by all the successors of the apostles. We pray that each bishop can have in his heart and so communicate to his diocese that same intensity of consecration to Mary that the Vicar of Christ, our Father and Brother in faith, personally lives as "Totus Tuus".

"In your Marian groups around the world there are three basic characteristics that I have always found in my visits, in Oceania as well as in America, in Europe as well as in Asia. When the prayer and offering of self is genuine, the fruits are love and adoration of the Most Holy Eucharist, unconditional fidelity to the Holy Father and consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. These three characteristics, if considered together fully, that is, without any compromise, make of you a great hope for the Pope and for the future of the Church.

"For more than forty years I have sought to communicate to everyone this conviction that I bear in my heart. The message of Fatima contains the entire program to confront and win this apocalyptic struggle of the Twentieth Century where God has been challenged by Satan himself, as Leo XIII saw in a vision and therefore had recourse to Saint Michael the Archangel for help.

"The message of Fatima, with its entire secret, which the Pope knows, is the prophecy of our century. It is the purest and simplest program because it is entirely evangelical.

"Why seek alternative solutions if none exist? The Pope has the courage to testify with His Person, his love and his fidelity to the message of Fatima, which he consid- ers today more con temporary and urgent than ever before. So has he done even today, speaking precisely on the importance of the message of Fatima to all the cardinals gathered in consistory in Rome.

"In the message of Fatima, Our Lady is presented by God him self as the true and only solution to the problems of the entire world, as Coredemptrix who mobilizes all her children to coredemptive works: 'Are you ready to accept all the crosses for the salvation of sinners? .... To believe, love, adore the Lord for all those who do not believe, who do not love, who do not adore the Lord?' She was also presented at Fatima as Mediatrix and Advocate between God and humanity. She alone can and wants to obtain for us the greatest gift: peace. This peace, "shalom", is the perfect harmony between the creature and Creator, between the creature and the creation, among the creatures themselves!

"We watch how it is happening in our own time, for example at Medjugorje in Bosnia Hercegovina, and at Kibeho in Rwanda in Africa: waves of pilgrims, drawn by Mary's maternal call. Now in both places there is a satanic war of disturbing pro portions, which only our response to the message of peace and reconciliation, brought to this earth by Our Lady her self, can stop! Unfortunately, as at Fatima, this maternal voice is ignored by almost everyone. Her warnings are not believed, although they were accompanied by fruits of conversion which we do not find coming from any other place in such intensity.

"Heaven continues to say: If you don't accept Mary, how can you accept Jesus? For our part, we think of other solutions, purely human ones, which have betrayed us so many times; they have left us empty-handed, and I tell you this as a bishop from the persecuted Church of the East.

"Dear friends consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in this spirit of authentic dependence on Mary Most Holy, who guides each one into the refuge of Her Immaculate Heart, I invite you to pray novenas of prayer and adoration for the Holy Father. We want to give this gift to the Pope. Novenas that each one of you can decide to make when it is most convenient for you and according to the circumstances in which you find yourself.

"The ideal would be to be able to receive Holy Communion every day, to spend some time before the Blessed Sacrament and to pray the Rosary, all for the special intention of supporting the Holy Father in this particular hour, as he leads the Church and the world into the third millennium.

"In our novenas of prayer, united and in heart, we will pray for a common and holy cause: that the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary be realized under the Pontificate of John Paul II. Let our prayer throughout these last years of the second millennium bring to him our most profound embrace of support and protection. May it give him consolation and strength to bring the entire Church into the Third Millennium through the immaculate portal of consecration to the Heart of Mother Mary, Coredemptrix, Mediatrix and Advocate. This is the very portal through which God the Father Himself sent to us His Son 2000 years ago."

The Marian movement had received its "marching orders" until the Great Jubilee of the year 2000! Our Lady's August 25th message - and subsequent revelations in John Paul's Crossing the Threshold of Hope - have confirmed for many the providential role of Bishop Hnilica's guidance for those working for the Triumph!

THE GREATEST THREAT TO HELL: UNITY OF OUR LADY'S CHILDREN

In his Apostolic Letter, As The Third Millennium Draws Near, the first sins the Holy Father directs the church to repent of ["during the first stage (1994 to 1996)"] are "those which have been detrimental to the unity willed by God for His people." Likewise, unity is the first petition the Holy Father directs the church to intercede for during this time of preparation. On June 13, 1994, Bishop Hnilica wrote the worldwide Marian movement: Unity within Christendom "can never be realized if we do not first attain the true unity within our Catholic Church. Our Lady foresaw this too at Fatima, when she spoke of the evils that were coming into the world and into the Church in our century. The evil with the most disastrous consequences that the devil has raised up to work in our Catholic Church is precisely division. 'Divide and conquer.' This is the logic of evil."

Recalling his recent pilgrimage to the Baltic countries during his Angelus message of September 19, 1993, the Holy Father prayed: "Christ's prayer [for unity] shows us the way for the future and we must follow it. Who was more closely associated with Christ's prayer for unity than you, Mother of God, Theotokos? This is the prayer for your Son's Body! The Church is the Body of Christ. Inasmuch as it is a body it must have unity. Mother ...pray with us at the foot of Christ's cross, pray with us who remember the blood of the martyrs! Pray with us for unity! Christ has made the faith of the whole world depend on this unity: 'May they be one in us, that the world may believe that you [Father] sent me' (cf. Jn. 17:21). Mother of all the shrines throughout the world, pray with us for unity: so that the world may believe!"

The unity that is the greatest threat to hell is unity within Our Lady's family, the Marian movement. The very heart of the Church are the hearts of her children consecrated to Mary! While the Pope was on pilgrimage to the Baltic countries, Bishop Hnilica, who had "been planted" in Medjugorje nine years earlier by the Holy Father himself, at their request wrote on August 22, 1993, to the priests in Medjugorje:
"...The greatest gift given by the Queen of Peace, that of reconciliation and therefore of union, is exposed today more than ever to the greatest danger: division.

"Our Lady's plan is a global plan that embraces every heart; it is the project of the Triumph of Her Immaculate Heart; to offer to Her Son the unity of our hearts for the salvation of the world. Our Lady has made this stupendous spiritual family arise to contribute to surmounting the crisis in which, of course, the world, but also the Church, finds itself - a crisis of unity! Indeed the role of the Mother is that of bringing unity among her children, this most sublime task of Christianity, Jesus's mission par excellence: that all might be one with Him with the Father...

"All of us - I speak for myself as a bishop - have corresponded too little to the graces which Our Lady has wanted to give us through this fountain of peace that is Medjugorje. We all ought to ask pardon and forgive each other for not having been sufficiently engaged for this project of unity that Our Lady has for all Her children. We know what happens when the spirit of division enters into our hearts. We see the consequences of it everywhere. If reconciliation is not experienced, there will be war on every level!...Medjugorje is too great a gift and cannot be compromised by personal interests!

"...I am certain that these are not only my sentiments, but they are the intentions of all those who feel the urgency of this 'return to the sources', which I would call a conversion to unity...

"Sincere love for the Mother of God and Her unifying project of global peace - of the total Triumph of Her love over evil - will help us overcome all the divisions which the devil has succeeded in spreading. This will help us walk together hand in hand, feeling ourselves to be all children of the same Mother; only thus will no one feel himself more important than another.

"Every one who comes to Medjugorje ought to become an apostle of the Triumph of Her Immaculate Heart, a missionary of reconciliation and of unity at any price whatever!...

"To each one of us the Mother Coredemptrix - like John the Baptist - in the desert of a human race so far from God, continues to repeat to us, supplicating: 'Be converted, for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand!'"

Twelve months before the Holy Father released his Apostolic Letter declaring 1994 the first year of the Church's preparation for the Great Jubilee of the year 2000, Cardinal John Carberry stated publicly:
"I share with Bishop Hnilica the conviction that under this pontificate has to come the fulfillment of the promise of Fatima, the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. I do hope with all my heart that this next 25th of March [1994] will bring to the entire Church a new effusion of graces that we need so much to support the Holy Father in this most difficult time."
For many, the Cardinal's hope - in one humble way at least - was significantly realized: On March 25, 1994, in response to requests from Marian leaders throughout the world, a new apostolate began in Rome: United for the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart, "An apostolate founded to respond to Our Lady's plea for the Triumph under the guidance of Bishop Paolo Maria Hnilica, S.J."
"He that is not with the Pope is not with God, and he that wants to be with God, has to be with the Pope!" -- Sr. Lucia of Fatima
Bishop Hnilica is a true shepherd - an extension to Our Lady's family of the mind and heart of Her "most beloved son", Pope John Paul II. At his May, 1994 retreat for 185 American Marian leaders who had requested his guidance for the mission of the Triumph, he taught:

"Jesus prayed for the faith of Peter that it never fail. This faith of Peter will never go in a wrong direction. Jesus has given this privilege only to Peter. The other apostles and bishops have had no such promise. The only guarantee they have to not go in the wrong direction is Peter, the Holy Father! Jesus gave to Peter the task in the Church of correcting them and lifting them up when they become weak. He will strengthen them. Therefore we have to pray for the Holy Father that he may have the light and the strength to support and correct those who are not strong. Each one of us can have wrong opinions, wrong convictions. We can get a wrong conviction from the theologians or from a bishop.

"If we really want to be guided straight by the Holy Spirit - in the right path - we have to take every conviction that we have heard here - every other teaching - in the light of the teaching of the Holy Father. We have to listen to him, to each one of his words..... What is lacking today in the Church the most is truth. Satan, the father of lies, has penetrated the Church from the inside. Therefore we have to know very well the true doctrine of the Church.

"This is my wish; to pray for the Holy Father, and to read and listen to all he says so that you are able to defend the truth in the Church even in front of those shepherds with whom you have difficulties. You first must pray for all those who have been led astray, for all those who have refused to follow the Holy Father."

Proclaiming unity with the Bishop for the mission of the Triumph, Dr. Joseph Bagiackas, founder of Alliance of Laity for Implementation of Vatican II, wrote A Lay Person's Guide to Pope John Paul II's Teaching on the Laity in "Christifideles Laici" specifically for the Bishop's retreat at Notre Dame. He states:
"Through Bishop Hnilica I have come to understand that Mary's Heart IS A HEART! And through Her Heart I have been able to write my books on John Paul II."
(His fourteen book series - at $2.00 each - is available through United for the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart.)

When asked in October of 1992 what message she had "for this confused world of today", Sr. Lucia of Fatima, with whom the Bishop has had a close relationship for many years, responded:

"He that is not with the Pope is not with God, and he that wants to be with God, has to be with the Pope!"

If there be any doubt about Bishop Hnilica being an extension of the mind and heart of the Holy Father, one needs only to read CROSSING THE THRESHOLD OF HOPE:

"...when I inherited the Ministry of Peter in Rome, more than anything else, it was this experience and devotion to Mary in my native land which I carried with me... Cardinal August Hlond had spoken these prophetic words as he was dying: 'The victory, if it comes, will come through Mary.' ... I saw for myself how those words were coming true... If victory comes, it will be brought by Mary. Christ will conquer through Her, because He wants the Church's victories now and in the future to be linked to Her. I held this conviction even though I did not yet know very much about Fatima...

"And thus we come to May 13, 1981, when I was wounded by gunshots fired in St. Peter's Square. At first, I did not pay attention to the fact that the assassination attempt had occurred on the exact anniversary of the day Mary appeared to the three children at Fatima in Portugal and spoke to them the words that now, at the end of this century, seemed to be close to their fulfillment," (pp.220,221).

It was to Bishop Hnilica that the Holy Father turned, while convalescing in the hospital after the assassination attempt, for help to learn more about Fatima. It shouldn't be surprising then that this bishop would himself become the focus of attacks when John Paul II's total consec- ration to Mary "is precisely the reason this Pontificate is the greatest threat to hell; this is the reason why the struggle of the 'father of lies', that is, Satan, is unleashed now more than ever against the person of the Pope."

On April 2, 1993, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, his friend of more than 30 years, came to Rome asking to see "the Bishop," as she calls Bishop Hnilica. In recorded comments that day she told him:

"Any attack against you now is a gift from God. God wants something special from you! He has something for you to do!"

"I THEN UNDERSTOOD I WAS IN FRONT OF A PROPHET" Sr. Emmanuel

It has become increasingly clear to many in the Marian movement just what that "something" is. Cardinal John Carberry, Cardinal Ruiz Echevarria, Bishop Michael Pfeifer, Wayne Weible, Sr. Isabel Bettwy, Daniel Lynch, Dr. Tom Petrisko, Sr. Emmanuel Maillard - to name but a few - share the conviction expressed by Bishop Nicholas D'Antonio:

"Unity of the hearts of leaders of Medjugorje and Marian Apostolates [will] hasten the triumph of our Mother's Immaculate Heart. This kind of unity is willed by Holy Scripture and Tradition. And who, better than Bishop Paolo Maria Hnilica, a confidant to the Holy Father and authentic 'slave' of Mary, to take the lead in humble service!"

Sr. Louis Marie de Montfort, founder of Montfort Children of Mary, states:
"When I saw Bishop Hnilica for the first time I sat there listening to him, trying to contain myself from standing up and clap- ping for joy! My spirit was drawn to him in a powerful way.... I remember thinking I've never met a Bishop before who understands, who is imbued with and is promoting the consecration of Mary's Heart like him. So much did he confirm my soul. He was the first and only Bishop (besides our Holy Father) focusing entirely on what I believe is the greatest need in the Church today - the Consecration to Mary's Heart. I thought, 'He is the Bishop!'"

At the urging of his spiritual director, Padre Pio, Fr. Andrea D'Ascanio began The White Army, the largest international movement of children consecrated to Mary in the world. He feels that we have entered a time of great spiritual warfare - during which much will be decided. He is convinced that the Marian movement must now become strongly unified in order to support the Pope. Fr. D'Ascanio recently invited all Marian Leaders in Italy to come into unity for the Mission of the Triumph under the guidance of Bishop Hnilica:

"It is the Hour! Great is the confusion and the action of Satan in the Church and the world. It is urgent to realize that Unity that Jesus prayed for before going to die.

"Mary implores Her children to CONSECRATE themselves to Her Immaculate Heart and to be united in a great army, which She, Mary, will lead in the last great battle against evil.

"She - "terrible as an army arrayed for battle" (Songs 6:4) - gives us the weapon: the Rosary, Mary's great and only weapon. And with this She will bring about the Triumph of Her Immaculate Heart, which is the Tri- umph of Love.

"She, Mary, will clothe us Herself (Our Lady of Carmel, the last appari- tion of Fatima) and present us to the Father. And the Father will return to walk in the midst of Her children and to rule the Nations.

"Do you want to be united with us under the guidance of Bishop Paolo Hnilica, true son of Mary, fervent apostle of the consecration, witness and martyr for the truth?"

At the time of Fr. D'Ascanio's appeal to the Marian leaders of Italy the Echo of Medjugorje, the International Movement "Consecratio Mudi"; GAM - Gioventu Ardent Mariana; CEM - Eucharistic Marian Center, and the Armata Bianca had already come into unity for the mission of the Triumph and come under the Bishop's guidance! (United for the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart in Italy held its first retreat in January, 1995.)

The experience of Sr. Emmanuel, who has placed her apostolate for the Gospa in Medjugorje under the guidance of the Bishop, reflects a growing Sensus Fidelium:

"I received a shock when I heard Bishop Hnilica in Medjugorje on the 24th of March, 1994. (We were celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Holy Father's consecration that fulfilled Our Lady's request at Fatima.) As a spouse of Jesus, I became jealous. While mentioning his terrible years in the communist jails, he could only express the joy he had to "complete in his body what is lacking in the Passion of Christ". And that joy was amazing; we could feel it flowing on us. Oh, if I could love Jesus as he does!

"But that was only to prepare my heart for another shock: when he spoke about Our Lady's plans in Fatima and Medjugorje, and the Triumph of her Immaculate Heart, I then understood I was in front of a prophet, a man who had been for over 40 years assimilating, living, spreading out in an astounding way the message of Fatima that great cry from God that burst through Mary upon our world! It is not by chance that Providence has placed him for many years in the intimacy of Sr. Lucia and of Pope John Paul II, whose spirit he faithfully spreads. It is not by chance that to him John Paul II made the statement in 1984, "Medjugorje is the continuation of Fatima!" for he sees ahead. He doesn't care about anything except the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart whatever men can say, whatever Satan does to spoil his name.

"Being under his wings will bring tremendous fruits. We have had enough teachers. We are in need of witnesses! We do not seek for more theoreticians or speakers, but for true shepherds who live within the heart of God in order to let His treasures flow down upon us like a river in order that the sheep might drink, not from their own human wisdom, but from the very substance of God.

"All those who want to live the "exchange of hearts" with Our Lady will recognize in Bishop Hnilica an example. True UNITY can only come from an attraction of love, never from discussions. I trust him as being the child that Our Lady chose to manifest this attraction, attraction, of course coming from her motherly Heart."

"FORGET YOUR DESIRE, DEAR CHILDREN, PRAY FOR WHAT GOD DESIRES,
NOT FOR WHAT YOU DESIRE!"
Our Lady in Medjugorje

On September 25, 1991 Our Lady invited us,

"to prayer and renunciation, for now as never before Satan wants to show the world his shameful face by which he wants to seduce as many people as possible onto the way of death and sin. Therefore, dear children, help my Immaculate Heart to Triumph in this sinful world. I beseech all of you to offer prayers and sacrifices for my intentions so I can present them to God for what is most necessary. Forget your desires, dear children, pray for what God desires, not for what you desire."

At Fatima in the beginning of the 20th century Our Lady promised,
"Nevertheless in the end my Immaculate Heart will Triumph!"
She presented there Heaven's peace plan for the world and is now bringing that plan to completion at the close of this millennium through the Pope she has chosen for these times. Marian movements in America and throughout the world are being called to set aside their own agendas - even as each continues with the individual work of its own apostolate - and to recognize the call for her Triumph is the call above all other calls. We are called to unity now for the mission of the Triumph of her Immaculate Heart. Only her Triumph will usher in the reign of the Sacred Heart!

"THE CONVERSION OF RUSSIA IS THE CONTENT AND MEANING OF THE MESSAGE OF FATIMA!"
Pope John Paul II

We in the West are especially in need of humility to accept the fact that we have yet much to learn about the plan given by Our Lady at Fatima. It is impossible to understand that plan without recognizing the central importance of Russia. The Triumph of the Immaculate Heart will come out of Russia and only then extend to the rest of the world. America will be saved by turning its attention to Russia! And yet how many of our speakers at conferences or leaders in the Marian Movement in general understand and speak about the importance of Russia today in the plan of Our Lady? Upon leaving the hospital in 1981, the Holy Father told Bishop Hnilica, who for forty-four years has recognized within his heart that her Triumph is the only hope for Russia and the world:

"Paolo, in these three months I have come to understand that the only solution to all the problems of the world, the deliverance from war, the deliverance from atheism, and from the defection from God is the conversion of Russia. The conversion of Russia is the content and meaning of the message of Fatima. Not until then will the Triumph of Mary come... Russia is the hardest, most urgent, most dangerous mission field; and it is necessary to look for the best strengths of the Catholic Church!"
Seven years later, at Marienfried, Germany, Bishop Hnilica shared:

"When I accompanied the Holy Father as he was returning from Fatima, he asked me, 'Paolo, when and how will we be successful in converting Russia?' The conversion of Russia is a desire of the Holy Father's heart, because he knows the third mystery of Fatima, and the desire of Mary. He wants Totus Tuus, to belong to Mary totally. I answered him, 'Padre Pio is said to have said, "Russia will convert, if you find as many Christians as there are atheists." And that is the the message of Fatima: believe, pray, adore and love God for all those who don't, and for those who are most in need of the mercy of God. ...Thousands and tens of thousands of the inhabitants of the towns of Sodom and Gomorrah would have been saved, if ten just men had been found.' And the Holy Father made a gesture with his hands and asked, 'How many just men are necessary today to save the world?' A very serious question spoken by the highest authority in all of Christianity, the representative of Christ.... Today Our Lady has this mission. She is not lacking in trust. But she has to find a certain number... And we? Haven't we left her in the lurch? For seventy years we have not taken the essential message of Fatima seriously, namely the conversion of Russia."

There is a celebrated photograph - the personal favorite of the Pope - well known to the Marian movement: the Holy Father at Castel Gandolfo, with his hand over his heart, slightly bent forward and looking as if he was 'in conversation' with the serenely beautiful and appealing statue of Our Lady which is standing just in front of him. This statue was a gift to him from Bishop Hnilica.
"When John Paul II left the hospital, I brought a statue of Our Lady of Fatima to him at Castel Gandolfo. He had a small church constructed in Poland, in a forest on the border with the Soviet Union, to house that statue. It is there now, in the exact position John Paul II wanted it: with its gaze directed toward Russia! The Mother of God looks to Russia. But she wants us to look to Russia as well!"

The greatest intervention by Satan in all of human history took place when just a few people came together in unity - their souls having been corrupted through Satan's diabolical influence upon their minds - and at precisely the right moment in 1917 the gates of hell opened and through the Russian Revolution all the forces of hell were unleashed - as never before - upon the earth. It will be the same with the greatest victory of God's mercy upon the face of the earth - Our Lady's Triumph. The conversion of Russia and an era of peace will come for the world through a miracle of God. Hearts consecrated to Mary are being called to unity. At precisely the right moment, the doors of heaven will open and Mary's Heart will be poured forth over the face of the earth. Her Triumph is overdue. The world has already received more than enough grace. Division now within Our Lady's family is what delays her victory!

The Triumph of Mary is to come now under the Pontificate of her "most beloved son," Pope John Paul II. "This is the reason why precisely this pontificate is the greatest threat to hell; this is the reason why the struggle of the 'father of lies', that is, Satan, is unleashed now more than ever against the person of the Pope."

SATAN'S PLAN: DIVISION OUR LADY'S HOPE: UNITY

On September 25, 1991, just after the failed coup attempt to re-estab- lish hard line communist rule in Russia, Our Lady warned: "...now as never before Satan wants to show the world his shameful face by which he wants to seduce as many people as possible onto the way of death and sin. Therefore, dear children, help my Immaculate Heart to Triumph..." The world is witnessing "his shameful face" in the increasing divisions among peoples, societies and nations. Today Our Lady is guiding her children into a new time. "The signs of this time" call for unity.

She told us in her first message of 1993, the year preceding the Church's first year of preparation for the Great Jubilee of the year 2000: "I guide you into a new time!" In his homily in St. Peters that day, January 25th, the Holy Father spoke of "the new times" in the Church and

"the desire to hasten the journey towards unity. ...All of us [have prayed] that the time of the full realization of the divine plan may hasten. An essential element of this plan is the unity of those who believe..." The Pope concluded his Angelus Message the previous day (January 24th) by calling upon Mary: "This is the time for a great conversion. It is time to be converted to the sentiments of solidarity ... peace ... fraternity ... dialogue, to the search for everything that can unite human beings rather than divide them. ...Let us ask Mary, Mother and disciple of the Redeemer to prepare our hearts for a true conversion."

The next day, in her January 25, 1993 message from Medjugorje, she responded:
"Dear children! Today I call you to accept and live my messages with seriousness. These days are the days when you need to decide for God, for peace and for the good. May every hatred and jealousy disappear from your life and your thoughts, and may there only dwell love for God and for your neighbor! Only thus shall you be able to discern the signs of this time. I am with you and I guide you into a new time, a time which God gives you as grace..."
The "new time" into which Our Lady guides us is the time of the Triumph of Her Immaculate Heart. It is to come now under this Pope. But her Triumph - in Russia and so in the world - will come only through unity!

America's growing zeal for Our Lady prompted the front page of the September 27th, 1992 National Catholic Register to state, "Mary, it seems, is on the mind of everyone these days. From Medjugorje to ...the message of Fatima, to the words of Pope John Paul II, devotion to Mary is enjoying a tremendous, perhaps unprecedented, revival." Her picture had graced the cover of Time magazine's last issue in 1991. But as zeal for Our Lady has increased (there were more than 100 Marian conferences in America in 1993) so too has confusion, division, and even competition - Marian apostolate sometimes set against Marian apostolate. If we remain divided - each primarily concerned with its own agenda - our zeal will not have helped Our Lady's Immaculate Heart triumph over Satan's "shameful face". In putting his two apostolates, Jesus King of All Nations and The Missionary Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, under the guidance of Bishop Hnilica, Daniel Lynch declared: "... For three years I have worked in the Marian Movement for unity of minds and hearts. I have seen too much pride, jealousy, division, criticism and judgmentalism. Now the simple and humble of heart have an opportunity to join Our Lady's army for HER triumph by our personal total conse- cration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, our reparation by prayer, fasting and Eucharistic adoration and our apostolic activity United For The Triumph Of The Immaculate Heart of Mary!"

"WE ARE ALL SIGNS, A SIGN OF MARY OR A SIGN OF SATAN"
.... Bishop Hnilica

Seven years ago Bishop Hnilica addressed the Marian Movement:

"We are called children of Mary. But have we really earned this name? The message of Fatima is the activation of all powers. Didn't Hitler com- mand the general mobilization in Germany in 1939? Well, the Mother of God did the same, and that she did at Fatima. She, the Coredemptrix calls us to this coredemption, to pray for , to believe, to hope and to love God for all those who don't - for all those most in need of the mercy of God. The Holy Father said the same. When the mother country is in danger, defence is of the first rank. All else is secondary. Because the enemy wants to destroy all. It's the same in our case. Everything else should be put aside so we can fight for Russia. Through us the Blessed Mother has to become Coredemptrix for our brothers. That's right! We too are to be coredeemers for our brothers. I make up in my body what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ (cf. 1 Col. 24). The Blessed Mother calls us to the highest career possible: 'To become coredeemers for our brothers in Christ.' This is the meaning of the message of Fatima, the message of peace. We shouldn't only ask, but we should apply ourselves with all our hearts. Pope Paul VI wrote Signum Magmun - The Great Sign - the sign of the end, the Triumph of Mary. He wrote it in 1967, for the fiftieth anniversary of Fatima. We live in these last times. We are all signs, a sign of Mary or a sign of Satan."

In her first message of 1993, Our Lady warned that we will be able "to discern the signs of this time" only if our lives and thoughts are filled with love for God and love for one another. She instructed us in the only way to successfully engage her enemy in battle: if our relationships - with God and with one another - are filled with love. She calls us to unity!

If we who are involved in Marian Apostolates can raise the level of our concerns - if we can set aside debate over which apparitions are authentic or which apostolate's work is most important, America's zeal will hasten her Triumph. If we can set our sights on Our Lady's plan - her final and most urgent call, the Triumph of her Immaculate Heart, the good we each have to contribute - as apostolates and as individuals - will come together in one great torrent helping her to crush the head of her enemy. On February 19, 1994, the visionary from Medjugorje, Maria Lynette, who traveled with the Bishop to Russia in October, 1990, said:

"Do you know what is my greatest suffering? It is that all these hundreds of Medjugorje groups are one against the other!"

On April 19, 1983, the Queen of Peace in Medjugorje taught us to pray in the Prayer to the Mother of Goodness, Love and Mercy:
"I pray you [Mary] to give me the grace to be merciful towards you."
The priests in Medjugorje have taught that this sentence means, "Give me the grace to love your will [Mary] which is different than mine." Our Lady needs our unity behind the plan She began in Fatima and is now bringing to completion at the close of this Age. The "signs of this time" make clear that the call for the Triumph is the call above all other calls. All authentic apparitions of Our Lady today point not to themselves, but to the Triumph of her Immaculate Heart! To be an apostle for her Triumph only one thing is required: a pure heart; only one virtue is necessary: humility!

On July 31, 1993, Cardinal John Carberry presented a picture of himself with Bishop Hnilica to Karen Ruberto, whose apostolate, United Apos- tolates of Jesus and Mary, sponsor of the St. Louis Eucharistic Rosary Congress, has come into unity with the Bishop for the mission of the Triumph. In presenting the picture the Cardinal said, "Bishop Hnilica is a man of God, a man who has suffered very much. He is a man of great humiliation. Notice how he is sitting right under a portrait of Our Lady of Humility!" Our Lady of Humility has formed him from his earliest youth.

When he was six years old, for example, he was falsely blamed for setting a fire that burned down his village, (the name of his family's village is Unity)! When giving a retreat on "coredemption" in 1989 to Mother Teresa and her sisters in Rome the bishop remembered:

"When I was six years old I saw the anxiety of my mother when I was unjust- ly accused of having set fire to our village. We lost our house and material goods. But that did not make my mother sad. It was the fact that my good name was destroyed - that I would always be called the one who set fire to the village - that was her greatest suffering... In our last meeting my mother told me something which I did not remember. She told me that after the event I had told her: 'It does not matter that people don't believe me, the child Jesus believes me. He knows that I am innocent.'"
(Seven years later the mother of the child who had actually committed the arson, upon her deathbed, confessed to the village his innocence!)

On June 2, 1993, Cardinal Korec told those with whom he was traveling to America:

"I've never met anyone like Bishop Hnilica. There isn't another man like him in all the world!"
Before escaping from communist persecution Bishop Hnilica ordained Cardinal Korec a Bishop, but, first, before making his way to freedom, he snuck back into the concentration camp in order to let the seminarians there know that a bishop remained in the country so there was still hope for them to be ordained! His prayer on that day, December 4, 1951: "Lord, I pray I will suffer in the West the same persecution my brothers and sisters are experiencing in the East!" If he made it safely to freedom he promised Our Lady that he would devote the rest of his life to the Church's proclaiming her, Coredemptrix!

BISHOP HNILICA: A SIGN OF UNITY

It has become an undeniable fact that laity throughout the world experience around this bishop the presence of Our Lady. He is a child - a child being carried in the arms of his Mother. Returning to Rome in March, 1994, after having secretly said Mass in a church in the Kremlin where he consecrated Russia, in union with the Holy Father, to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the Pope said to him:

"On that day, Paolo, the Mother of God led you by her hand."
"No, Holy Father,"
he responded.
"On that day she carried me in her arms!"
For forty-four years as a bishop he has waited patiently for the fulfillment of her promise at Fatima. Pope Paul VI offered to make him a cardinal, with a responsible position in the curia. Bishop Hnilica deferred, choosing instead to remain a humble shepherd for the suffering church of the East - for whom he still carries but one hope: Our Lady's Triumph.

When Cardinal Ruiz Echevarria, the leader of the Marian Movement in Ecuador - who has also expressed his union with Bishop Hnilica and his personal belief in the Bishop's providential role of leadership for the mission of the Triumph - recently spoke with the Holy Father about the importance of unity among Marian Movements, the cardinal shares that the Pope was so encouraged he took paper and pen in hand and started taking notes!

On August 8, 1994, Bishop Hnilica, along with several priests of his community, Family of Mary, Coredemptrix, were invited by Pope John Paul II to celebrate with him a private Mass in his chapel in Castel Gandolfo. His secretary, Fr. Luciano Alimandi, shares: "Afterwards the Bishop and the Holy Father spent an hour together privately. They shared a great deal about Fatima and Russia and also about Medjugorje, because the Holy Father himself asked the Bishop many questions about Medjugorje. The Bishop told him about the consecration that we renewed there on the 25th of March, 1994. The Holy Father was very interested and listened with attention. At the end of their meeting the Pope and the Bishop repeated almost in unison the wonderful and majestic words of Our Lady: 'The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, it will be converted ... in the end my Immaculate Heart will Triumph!'" That meeting, the Bishop shared later, confirmed everything he had written the Marian movement in his urgent June 13th letter! Just before the New Year, at the end of his teaching on consecrated life, after inviting everyone to pray Pope John Paul II asked Bishop Paolo Hnilica to stand along side him "to participate in bestowing the concluding blessing." It was the first time the Holy Father had asked a bishop by name to join him in giving his Apostolic Blessing at the end of a Wednesday General Audience.

The Holy Father has declared his intention to lead the Church into the third millennium. He has set the course. While Satan continues to set his hope on confusion and division, Our Lady sets her hope on the unity of her children for the mission of the Triumph of her Immaculate Heart. If we in the Marian movement - who have received so much from her hands, aren't willing now to become more like children - setting aside our own priorities and putting first what God desires - we could miss the most crucial moment for our response.

We should be filled with joy! St. Louis de Montfort prophesied this day. Back to St. Peter, he wrote, the Church Victorious in Heaven would look with awe at those chosen to be alive in these days - who along with Mary, and under her mantle - would crush the head of Satan!

Our Lady's children are being called to unity for the mission of the Triumph of her Immaculate Heart - to stand in unity with her "most beloved son" whom she has chosen for these times. When Bishop Hnilica's secretary told the Holy Father, "We are praying that under your pontif- icate will come the Triumph," John Paul II, after pausing to look deep into his eyes, responded: "I hope!" It is Our Lady's hope as well. Now that the Holy Father has taken up the gauntlet - setting his face against the forces of hell as he leads the church (and the world) to the close of this Age - Bishop Hnilica calls to Our Lady's children:

"I turn to you anew with a humble request for adoration before the Blessed Sacrament for our beloved Holy Father. I ask this knowing that in your hearts, consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I will find that willingness to pray for the Holy Father in a very particular way. Being Marian groups you are also so faithful to the Vicar of Christ, whom the Virgin loves so much.

I invite you to pray for the calling of John Paul II, who has been chosen from the land of the east, the land bathed in the blood of martyrs of Communist persecution, to realize the promise given at Fatima: "In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph." I invite you to reflect on the enormous significance that this pontificate, 'Totus Tuus - All for Mary', has for the entire Church and the world in this last part of the twentieth century, which, as the Pope has often said, we ought to live out in a spirit of a new Advent.

"The prophetic words of the message that Jesus gave to the Blessed Sister Faustina Kowalska, together with the message of Fatima, reveal to us the mystery of our times. These are the times contained in the third secret of Fatima, which this Pope knows, times of mercy and justice, which the Lord, speaking to Blessed Faustina Kowalska, has described thus: 'I love Poland in a particular way and if it remains obedient to my will, I will raise it up in power and sanctity. From this will come out the spark that will prepare the world for my final coming.' We are fully convinced that this spark that the Lord has raised up from Poland is precisely the vocation of John Paul II. It is a spark that ought to ignite a fire in all the world, a fire of love and of prayer which prepares us to receive a new Pentecost that will renew the face of the earth.

"As at the time of the first coming of our Lord, our Lady also carries today the fire of the Divine Redeemer within her, in her Immaculate Heart. This fire comes to illuminate and warm up the entire world that is immersed in the night of its own sin and in the chill of hatred and of the rejection of the love of God and His Mother. Today, we are called to live in a new waiting, in a new Advent of the Lord. The pontificate of John Paul II and the voice of Our Lady in our century - from Fatima up to our own day with Amsterdam, Medjugorje, Kibeho and other places in the world - invite the entire world and the Church to conversion of heart, to a return to the Way of God.

"Like John the Baptist, the Pope and Our Lady cry out in the desert of our Godless society: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low, and the crooked ways shall be made straight, and the rough roads shall be made smooth; and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.' (Lk. 3:4 ff)

"We want to live out our hours of adoration before the Blessed Sacrament united with our beloved Pope and our beloved Queen, Mary the Coredemptrix. She ought to be raised up by the love from our hearts above the horizon of this new millennium. She is the one whom the Pope wants to honor with his pontificate, but unfortunately the forces of evil want to block this and now they attack him, Mary's pope, to make it impossible for the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart to come under his pontificate. "We, Mary's little children, are little Davids, who are robed with Mary's virtues, especially that of humility. Through consecration to her we should battle against the Goliath of human pride that has invaded the nations and does not even spare our Church; we should battle against the Herods of our day who have imprisoned Peter and do not want to free him.

"It will be our prayer that will save Peter and with him the entire Church. It will be our fidelity to the call of Mary Most Holy to pray the rosary, to self sacrifice, to adoration, to reconciliation with God and with our brothers and sisters. Woe to us if, instead of fighting our common enemy Satan, whom Jesus called 'Father of Lies', we fight other battles, those that carry the name of miserable human interests!

"Our Lady invites us to pray for her intentions so that they become completely our own! The hour of adoration on the last day of the year ought also to be our promise to the Lord of fidelity to his plan which His Mother presents to us, the plan for true peace and conversion, which was revealed at Fatima for Russia and the entire world.

"Have courage, dear friends consecrated to Mary. With the Pope, Mary too repeats to us 'Do not be afraid'. We should fear neither external enemies nor those who appear to be our friends, dressing like angels while in reality they are rapacious wolves. We should only fear our interior enemies, ourselves, our pride and our miserable interests.

"To fight this enemy which is within us the Lord has given us a unique remedy: consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary - to have her Heart at the center of our interior and exterior lives to prepare the Advent of her Triumph under this pontificate. This will introduce the entire Church and humanity to the manifestation of the merciful power of her most beloved Son Jesus!" __________

Denis Nolan is the director of United for the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart in America.

N.B. Bishop Hnilica conducts retreats for Marian Leaders wishing to come into unity for the mission of the Triumph. (His retreat at the University of Notre Dame will be held June 4th - 6th, 1995.)

Padre Pio told Fr. D'Ascanio, "The Children will save the world!" Sr. Emmanuel, in conjunction with United for the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart, is preparing a special book on Fatima for five-year-old to eleven-year-old children, Little Children, Help Our Lady! All interested in this project, and/or in receiving:

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