The Spiritual Road Map to a New Golden Age—Revealed by Our Lady

As there is only one Our Lady, all her authentic revelations, judiciously put together, show a clear, coherent, common message with a genuine narrative, giving us a preview of the future. The most well-known message came from Our Lady of Fatima, where she called everyone back to repentance, prayer, and sacrifice in order to avoid conditional horrors that would otherwise affect the Church. Sadly, however, her message has remained unheard by the universal Church because of the regrettable behavior of several popes beginning with Pope John XXIII.

It was to call us back to this deep spirituality that Our Lady appeared at Fatima and elsewhere. The terrible consequences of failing to listen to her message could have been avoided if, in 1960 when the third Fatima secret was opened, her message had not been rejected but instead acted upon by the new pope and a group of cardinals. If, as Our Lady herself requested, it had been proclaimed to the Universal Catholic Church, calling us back to prayer, sacrifice, and repentance, our future would have been totally different. 

Instead, Pope John XXIII decided to call the Second Vatican Council, whose teaching was full of compromises, ambiguity, and obfuscations because almost every word had to satisfy three different factions. They were the Conservatives, the middle-of-the-road Progressives, and the left-wing Catholic Marxists who pledged to introduce liberation theology into the Church at the Pact of the Catacombs three weeks before the Council ended. Further to this, the Council had to be ecumenical as well as being open to the modern world. The Second Vatican Council then, has been—and still is—the perfect panacea that can be used for all and sundry to claim ecclesiastical approval for almost every conceivable theory that the human mind can conjure up.

Heresies spread like fungus underground, and they surface in the most unlikely of places and in the most unlikely of people. Semi-Pelagianism surfaced in Pope John XXIII when he called a council so that the Church could march triumphantly into the future. It blinded him to the truth that Christ, the head of his Church, had asked him to call His people back to the Gospel through His own Blessed Mother. He chose to do his own will instead of the will of Christ. 

Our Lady told Pope John to announce what was called the third Fatima secret to the world in 1960; she did not ask him to decide whether or not it was the right thing to do. Pride is the besetting sin of Semi-Pelagianism, and it induced him to take the first step toward the bedlam that now reigns in Rome. Saints begin like all of us, as sinners. They are not canonized for us to emulate the sins that they once committed but the sanctity which they finally achieved. While today pride, prejudice, and relativism rule in the corridors of power in the Vatican, we must try to turn the clock back by listening to the message of our Mother. 

Previous messages of Our Lady warning us of the terrible consequences of our sins have been disregarded for centuries, but those were always conditional. Once her message for the universal Church was flouted at that infamous meeting in 1960 with Pope John XXIII and a group of cardinals, the horrors that could have been avoided became inevitable. On leaving that meeting, Cardinal Bea said to his secretary and confidant, Fr. Malachi Martin S.J., “They have just condemned millions of people to death.” 

When the message she had been sent by God to deliver to His people at Fatima was rejected, Our Lady appeared once more—this time to four children at a remote village called Garabandal in northern Spain—to make sure that she would be heard, if not through the pope, then through innocent children. Although her spiritual message at Garabandal was the same as that delivered at Fatima, her promise of future dramatic events was no longer conditional. However, I am getting ahead of myself. First, let me ask if the appearances at Garabandal are true or false? 

If we still have people, including previously respected academics, who believe that the Holocaust did not happen, my chances of convincing everyone of the truth of Garabandal is nil. Sociopaths, semi-sociopaths, and self-centered hedonists tend to assess historical facts in the light of their own preconceived prejudices. And if they threaten to disturb or disrupt their cozy, comfortable lives of self-indulgence, then they simply have to be denied. It is from such as these that relativism is born, for everything has to be relative to the needs and desires of the new god, Narcissus, in whose image and likeness they are formed. However, the truth will win out. Meanwhile, let me give you the bare historical facts. 

Between 1961 and 1965, many thousands of people saw four young girls taken up into ecstasies over two and a half thousand times. The many priests, doctors, psychologists, and psychiatrists sent to discredit what was happening to them all failed. The girls were often seen to levitate and move at speed both backward and forward over impossible stony ground as well as remain immovable and insensible when pierced with sharp implements and burnt with flames.

So far, I say nothing about the cause of their unprecedented behavior but only that what happened was—is—a historical fact, for all who with open minds and without preconceived prejudices have taken the trouble to study the available evidence. Please remember that at Fatima, Our Lady appeared six times. At Garabandal she appeared over 2,000 times, with very many more people present, who saw many more miracles! That some sort of suprahuman power was responsible for their behavior cannot be denied, be it some power from Heaven or Hell. 

The children insisted that it was Our Lady; and if Christ’s own method of testing the truth is employed, then who is to say that they were wrong: “It will be by their fruits that you will know them,” He insisted. And the first fruits that we have on which to test whether or not it was Our Lady who was present are not so much the many miracles that occurred but the spiritual teaching that she imparted to the children.

It was exactly the same message that Christ Himself imparted to the early Church. So, to the question is Garabandal approved by the Church, the answer must be twofold. The Church has already come a cropper from denying clear scientific evidence in the past, so it has never for a moment doubted the historical facts of what happened to the four children at Garabandal. 

However, the Church has so far remained silent in believing in Our Lady’s presence. But even more important is believing in her spiritual teaching. The True Church cannot but approve of that because it is nothing other than the teaching lived and taught by Our Lord Himself and then by the first apostles in His name. This is the teaching that Our Lady, with God’s own authority, wanted to be proclaimed to the Universal Church in 1961 to give His people one last chance before the impending disasters that have long since begun in Rome itself. That is why, together with my mentor St. Padre Pio, whom Conchita, the eldest of the visionaries, visited in San Giovanni Rotondo after being interview by the pope in Rome, I totally and unconditionally believe in Our Lady of Mount Carmel—as she called herself when she appeared at Garabandal.

We can hardly expect the further impending disasters promised by Christ, Our Lady, and the Scriptures, to be approved by a decadent hierarchy, as it is the result not just of its own faults and failures but of its radical attempt to turn the teaching of Christ, its only true head, upside down. This has been done in favor of following not the Wisdom of God but the wisdom of the world—no matter how woke and wanton, no matter how libertarian that is—and by cancelling, condemning, and now excommunicating all who would oppose them. 

Despite what some may think is the final message of Our Lady at Garabandal, it is in fact one of unalloyed hope. For despite the failure of the authorities in the Church, God will give His people one last chance. There will be what is called an “Illumination of Conscience.” In principle, God, as the prophet Joel had predicted (Acts 2:16), has already poured out His Spirit on all mankind, through the apostles on the first Pentecost day. But because of our failure, all mankind never did receive what had been promised.  There will be what is called an “Illumination of Conscience.” God has already poured out His Spirit on all mankind at Pentecost…but because of our failure, all mankind never did receive what had been promised. Tweet This

The Good and exciting news of Garabandal is that, in the near future, “all mankind,” whether Catholic or Protestant, Theist or Atheist, will receive His inner presence to illuminate their consciences giving them one last chance. That this will happen soon is made clear because all the occurrences that have to precede this event, like synodality for instance, have taken place; and only one remains. So that there is no misunderstanding, let me quote this final occurrence in the words of the children of Garabandal. The warning they were told would take place after “something like a schism takes place in the church,” and previously they were told that it would take place when everything was at it very worst. 

That a schism has already taken place tacitly is evident, but it would seem to me that Our Lady is referring to a more clearly defined and explicit schism that is now only a matter of time. About a year later, Our Lady promised that there would be a massive miracle at Garabandal for about fifteen minutes, immediately followed by a permanently supernatural and miraculous sign. What the authorities in the Church refused to do, so the world could once more hear the voice of God through His people, will now be heard directly through the Holy Spirit. 

Yes indeed, after that, terrible consequences may follow for those who still refuse to listen to God, that will determine their ultimate destiny. However, and please note, these consequences will not depend on the decisions of God but, as Our Lady insists in her apparitions, it will depend on the choice of each one of us. If you, despite the “Illumination of Conscience,” steadfastly refuse and refuse permanently to love God, not just with your words but with your actions, then that decision will be respected by the God who gave us free will; but there will, of course, be consequences in this life and in the next. 

In addition to being inspired by love, fickle human beings also need fear to galvanize them. That was present in the early Church thanks to their pagan oppressors. But contemporary pagans do not oppress. They do something far more spiritually pernicious. They simply seduce others into the comfortable, self-indulgent, modern ways of pleasure-seeking that soon anesthetize them to all but their own personal self-satisfaction. That is why God will, as Our Lady has promised, have to step in—to teach us anew that it is indeed “The fear of the lord that is the beginning of wisdom” (Proverbs 9:10). 

Believing that this is the next and only thing that will galvanize Catholics into action, I have specifically spent the last thirty-five years preparing for just such an event. For when it takes place, believers must have somewhere to go immediately to find the sure and tried principles of the Royal, Sacrificial, Contemplative, and Redemptive Spirituality that Jesus Christ Himself first lived before introducing it into the early Church. It was here that Our Lady spiritually presided over the faithful, while the apostles were being prepared to become witnesses of the Resurrection to the pagan world.

Unlike the horrors originally predicted in the third Fatima Secret that it seems to me have already happened, the miraculous events promised by Our Lady at Garabandal are not conditional, they will happen in the near future. I am not the sort of prophet who can tell the future. I am only a scholar who is trying to interpret the current evidence accurately. Finally, at least as far as Our Lady of Mount Carmel is concerned, one final, miraculous, and horrific event that is conditional may take place. It logically follows the above-mentionedevents because logically and justly, if despite all the miracles that are meant to rekindle the world with the love of God, sufficient numbers of people refuse to turn back to God, some sort of punishment on earth will take place, as God Himself will initiate an unprecedented punishment that will affect all humankind.

However, this is, according to Our Lady, not the end of time as we know it but the beginning of a new time, a New Spring in the Church. So, I am afraid contemporary prophets of doom who are searching apocalyptic literature that predicts the end of time are wrong. The events that are about to happen will precede not the end of time but the end of this particular period of time that will roughly, if not exactly, correspond to the first 2,000 years of Christianity. We know this from another source: namely, from “conversations” between Our Lady and St. Bernadette shortly before she died. 

The story of St. Bernadette is so well-know that I need say no more, except to tell you of five revelations she received from Our Lady shortly before she died that are little known but momentous. They were written in French in her own hand and sent to Pope Leo XIII. Although they have now been rediscovered in the Vatican and proved authentic at the end of the last century, they probably did not see the light of day at the time because they seemed so utterly outlandish and bizarre. They were so utterly outlandish that those responsible for building the Basilica at Lourdes and making it into a world center for Marian devotion might have had second thoughts about the sanity of St. Bernadette. Further to this, future pilgrims may have had second thoughts about their pilgrimages, and millions would have been spent in vain.

St. Bernadette was dying and in horrific pain. This pain was being offered for the future Church. So, as a loving mother, Our Lady did not burden her by emphasizing the terrible apostasies that would take place in the future but rather consoled her with the promise of what her sufferings would help to achieve: a new glorious age in the history of the Church. But first, she told her about some future secular events, perhaps as any loving mother would do, to help give her some temporary relief to keep her mind off her sufferings. As many of these events have already come true, I will mention them, as they will help confirm what is ultimately Good News for God’s Kingdom on earth, although it might only come after much suffering.

Our Lady told her about the coming of electricity and electric lights; the coming of horseless carriages, some of which could fly; the rise of an evil madman in Germany who would involve most of the world in war; and then, later, of astronauts who would walk on the moon. Further to this, she spoke of something that still has not happened: namely, of a terrible bomb that would fall on Persia killing over 5 million people. She used the word Persia because, of course, Iran as such did not exist at the time. 

However, and now this is to my purpose, she was told by Our Lady that science, that had for all too long been the great opponent of the Catholic Faith, would finally prove not only that God existed but that the whole teaching of His incarnate Son, Jesus Christ, was correct. It would seem to me that Our Lady was referring to the Shroud of Turin that has now been scientifically proven to be genuine. This would therefore mean not just that Christ was indeed a genuine historical figure, for those who still doubted, but that He had been raised from the dead by the power of God, as the final act of a plan for all humanity that would guarantee all faithful believers eternal life in Heaven. This plan is what St. Paul called the Mysterion, God’s secret plan for all humanity that progressively unfolded first in the Old Testament and then in the New Testament.

Our Lady told St. Bernadette that she was suffering for the future Church that would eventually be seen as a “Golden Age” for humanity, and her sufferings and her sacrifices would help to bring this about in the 21stcentury. Knowing and believing that the next step toward God’s plan for the imminent future is what has been called an “Illumination of Conscience,” I have spent the last two or three years preparing and delivering a free 23-part course on prayer and the spiritual life, together with several books, for those following what I have called “Metanoia Retreats.” I have done this because the very next day after the “Illumination of Conscience,” if not before, everyone will be asking, “But what precisely must we do to follow Our Lady’s teaching to repent, to pray, and to sacrifice?  

This practical course teaches how authentic Catholic Family Spirituality, as practiced first by Our Lord, Our Lady, and St. Joseph in Nazareth, was introduced into the early Church and can be successfully adapted for modern Catholics. Fifteen of these talks are on my own website; the remaining eight are on the website of LifeSiteNews, introduced by Bishop Athanasius Schneider. For a preview, please listen to the last talk, as this is a good introduction. Then begin at the beginning on my website. If you wish to listen while reading from the book that I have written to accompany it, please go to the website of Mercier Press, Cork, Ireland. 

But why wait until an intervention of God. It is far more meritorious to begin now, in these days of darkness, and in this veil of tears, so that when He does come, the death of living for so long without Him will be swallowed up in victory, and our tears of sorrow will be transformed into tears of joy.