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First of all, today is the Feast Day of the Blessed Trinity, and so we would wish all of you a Happy Feast Day, and in particular we would wish the Eternal Father a Happy Father's Day! For those who are unaware or need to be reminded, belief in a Trinitarian God, that is Three Persons, One God, comes to us from our elder brothers and sisters in the faith, the Jews. The belief in the Trinitarian God as described is the universally accepted criteria to receive and accept the designation as a true Christian. So we Catholics should be...

St. Matthew 24:34~39: "Amen I say to you, that this generation shall not pass till all these things be done. Heaven and Earth shall pass, but My words shall not pass. But of that day and hour no one knows, no not the angels of Heaven, but the Father alone. And as in the days of Noe, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days of the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, even till that day in which Noe entered into the Ark, and they knew...

In all my years in the priesthood, the topic of Fatima, as so many people like Fr. Gruner and the Fatima Crusader, and many other authors too many to count, have made the central focus on the Consecration of Russia to Our Lady's Immaculate Heart with a close secondary focus on the Third Secret. Neither of which will get any body to Heaven. My priestly function and Jesus Christ's mission center on the salvation of souls. Therefore, the more important part of what Our Lady had to say to the three seers in 1917 at Fatima was just to one...