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Letter from the Editor

Let us place ourselves under Mary’s protection

In the past five years, the October/November/ On September 4, 2021, in a message to one of
December issue of MICHAEL has included a calen- the seers of Medjugorje, Ivan Dragicevic, the Bless-
dar for the coming year. We have again inserted ed Mother said: “Dear children, I, through your pray-
a calendar for 2022 and hope you will be pleased ers and through you, I can stop Satan’s plans that
with the images and find helpful the catalogue of every day take you further and further away from
the feast days of the Church. If you notice that this God, destroying all that is beautiful in the world.”
issue has only 32 rather than 48 pages, be reassured In the book, Crossing the Threshold of Hope pub-
that this was due to technical issues lished in 1994, Pope St. John Paul
at the printer’s shop. We expect II said: “Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski
everything will be back in order for told me that his predecessor, Car-
the January/February 2022 issue. dinal August Hlond, had spoken
The coming year brings unique these prophetic words as he was
concerns, given public health man- dying: ‘The victory, if it comes, will
dates around the world, threats of come through Mary.’ During my
war and continuing economic tur- pastoral ministry in Poland, I saw
moil. A particular threat for all of us for myself how those words were
is the burgeoning surveillance state coming true. Christ will conquer
and totalitarian controls that origin- through her because He wants the
ated in China with the ironic name Church’s victories now and in the
“social credit”. future to be linked to her.”
To prevent the collapse of so- At Fatima on July 17, 1917,
ciety, people must learn the tricks Our Lady said to the three shep-
of the International Financiers who herd children: “You have seen hell
create money out of thin air and where the souls of poor sinners
then lend it at interest to govern- go. To save them, God wishes to
ments and the public. In reality, purchasing power is establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate
the fruit of society’s productive capacity and should Heart… In the end, my Immaculate Heart will tri-
be distributed by society and not by private corpor- umph.”
ations (see page 28). The solution is expounded in To consecrate oneself to Mary is to choose,
each issue of MICHAEL and it is the monetary re- like the many saints of the Church, to belong to her
forms we call Economic Democracy. in a special way and to follow Jesus with her and
Many are calling these times apocalyptic but, through her. “Do not be afraid to take Mary home”
paradoxically, these are also times of hope accord- said the angel of the Lord to St. Joseph in a dream
ing to Pope Francis who recently said at the 25th (Matthew 1:20). At the foot of the cross, Jesus en-
International Marian Conference “the times we are trusted his Mother to St. John, who from then on
living in are the times of Mary.” took her into his home (John 19:27). To consecrate
The Virgin Mother does indeed have a special oneself to Mary is to take her into your home and
role in the present time. She will crush the serpent’s into your heart.
head. St. Maximilian Kolbe, the Polish priest who In his Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed
was martyred in 1941, was a great devotee of Mary. Virgin, St. Louis Marie Grignon de Montfort ex-
He wrote: plained that God begins all his great works with
“Modern times are dominated by Satan and Mary, and that it will be so at the end of time. The
will be more so in the future. The conflict with hell devotion to Mary is a preparation for the reign of
cannot be engaged by men, even the most clever. Christ. Mary wants nothing more than to lead us to
The Immaculata alone has from God the promise of her Son Jesus. “Do whatever He tells you,” she said
victory over Satan. However, assumed into Heaven, at the wedding feast at Cana (John 2:5).
the Mother of God now requires our cooperation. Let us take refuge under the mantle of Mary and
She seeks souls who will consecrate themselves consecrate ourselves to her Immaculate Heart. She
entirely to her, who will become in her hands ef- will infallibly lead us to victory, to her Son Jesus,
fective instruments for the defeat of Satan and the Redeemer of the world. v
spreading of God’s kingdom upon earth.” Alain Pilote, Editor

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