'My plan has been foretold to you in its wonderful fulfillment"
The last public Message given by Our Lady to Don Gobbi, on December 31, 1997
The following Message was given by the Blessed Virgin Mary to Don Gobbi on December 31, 1997. Our Lady announced that it was Her last public Message to him. This Message is part of a series contained in the book, "To the Priests, Our Lady's Beloved Sons." Fr. Stefano Gobbi, an Italian priest from Milan, has been receiving "interior locutions" from Our Blessed Mother since 1973.. The book begins with the following statement: "It is hereby stated that the Messages contained in this book must be understood not as words spoken directly by Our Lady, but received, in the form of interior locutions, by Don Stefano Gobbi. Their publication is in conformity with the directives published by Pope Paul VI on the 14th of October, 1966." In March, 1996, an Ecuadorian Cardinal and an American Bishop granted their Imprimatur to this book (which means there is nothing in it contrary to faith or morals). We publish this Message with the kind authorization of the Marian Movement of Priests, Box 127, Station Limoilou, Quebec City, Canada, G1K 4V1. (To obtain a copy of the book, you can also write to the U.S. National Headquarters of the Marian Movement of Priests, P.O. Box 8, St. Francis, ME 04774-0008.)
Milan, December 31, 1997 Last Night of the Year
"Beloved sons, in silence and in prayer, spend with me the final hours of this year which is about to end. Do not spend it in dissipation and entertainments, as so many of my children do.
This year has been particularly important for my plan. You are now entering into my times. For this, I have traced out for you a light-filled way, along which all of you must walk, in order to live the consecration which you have made to my Immaculate Heart.
Now all has been revealed to you.
All has been revealed to you: my plan has been prophetically announced to you at Fatima and, during these years, I have been carrying it out through my Marian Movement of Priests. This has been revealed to you in its gradual preparation.
This century of yours, which is about to end, has been placed under the sign of a strong power conceded to my Adversary. Thus, humanity has been led astray by the error of theoretical and practical atheism; in the place of God, idols have been built which everyone adores: pleasure, money, amusement, power, pride and impurity.
Truly Satan, with the cup of lust, has succeeded in seducing all the nations of the earth. He has replaced love with hatred; communion with division; justice with many injustices; peace with continuous war. In fact this entire century has been spent under the sign of cruel and bloody wars, which have claimed millions of innocent victims.
So then the Most Holy Trinity has arranged that your century be placed under the sign of my powerful, maternal and extraordinary presence. Thus, at Fatima I pointed out the way along which humanity must journey for its return to the Lord: that of conversion, prayer and penance. And as a safe refuge, I offered you my Immaculate Heart.
All has been revealed to you: my plan has been pointed out to you even in its painful realization. Humanity has fallen under the domination of Satan and of his great power, exercised with the satanic and masonic forces; my Church has become obscured by his smoke which has penetrated into it. Errors are being taught and propagated, causing many to lose true faith in Christ and in his Gospel; the holy Law of God is openly violated; sin is committed and often even justified and thus the light of grace and of the divine presence is lost; unity is deeply split apart by a strong contestation directed against the Magisterium, and especially against the Pope; and the wound caused by painful lacerations becomes ever wider.
In order to give the suffering and crucified Church of your time my motherly help and a safe refuge, I have brought the Marian Movement of Priests into being and have spread it through every part of the world, by means of my book, which traces out for you the road along which you must journey in order to spread my light. With this book, I teach you to live the consecration to my Immaculate Heart, with the simplicity of children, in a spirit of humility, of poverty, of trust and of filial abandonment.
I have now been guiding you for twenty-five years, with the words which I have spoken to the heart of this, my little son, whom I have chosen as an instrument for the realization of my maternal plan. During these years I myself have carried him several times to every part of the world, and he has allowed himself to be led with docility, small and fearful but totally abandoned to me, like a little baby in the arms of his Mother.
As of now, all that I had to say to you has been said, because all has been revealed to you.
Therefore, on this night, there come to an end the public messages which I have been giving you for twenty-five years; now you must meditate on them, live them and put them into practice. Then the words which I have caused to come down from my Immaculate Heart, as drops of heavenly dew upon the desert of your life, so threatened by snares, will produce fruits of grace and holiness.
From now on, I will manifest myself through the word, the person and the actions of this, my little son, whom I have chosen to be your guide and whom I am now leading to the painful summit of his mission.
All has been revealed to you: my plan has been foretold to you especially in its wonderful and victorious fulfillment.
I have announced to you the triumph of my Immaculate Heart in the world. In the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph.
This will come about in the greatest triumph of Jesus, who will bring into the world his glorious reign of love, of justice and of peace, and will make all things new.
Open your hearts to hope. Throw open the doors to Christ who comes to you in glory. Live the trembling hour of this second Advent.
Become thus the courageous heralds of this, his triumph, because you little babes consecrated to me who live from my very own spirit - are the apostles of these last times.
Live as faithful disciples of Jesus, in contempt for the world and for yourselves, in poverty, in humility, in silence, in prayer, in mortification, in charity and in union with God, while you are unknown and despised by the world.
The moment has come for you to come out from your hiddenness in order to go and shed light upon the earth.
Show yourselves to all as my children for I am with you always. Let the faith be the light which enlightens you in these days of darkness, and let zeal alone consume you, zeal for the honor and glory of my Son Jesus.
Fight, children of the light, because the hour of my battle has now arrived. In the harshest of winters, you are the buds which are opening from my Immaculate Heart and which I am placing on the branches of the Church, to tell you that her most beautiful springtime is about to arrive.
This will be for her the second Pentecost. For this reason, I invite you to repeat often in the cenacles of prayer that I have asked of you: 'Come, Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your well-beloved Spouse.'
With the love of a Mother who, during these years, has been listened to, followed and glorified by you, I bless you all in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."
I will pray the Rosary every day to help the Blessed Virgin to save the world.