Apostles of the Last Times...

Fr. Stefano Gobbi


Dongo (Como, Italy) June 8, 1991

"Today you are celebrating the liturgical memorial of my Immaculate Heart. This is your feast, my beloved ones and children consecrated to me.
You have been chosen by me and called to form part of my victorious cohort. You form part of my estate. I have a great design upon you. This design of mine has been revealed to you in every detail. It must now appear to the Church and to humanity in all its splendor, because these are the times of your maturity and of your public witness.
Show yourselves to all as my consecrated ones, as the apostles of these last times.
As apostles of the last times, you must announce with courage all the truths of the Catholic faith; proclaim the Gospel with force; and resolutely unmask the dangerous heresies which disguise themselves with truth in order to better deceive minds and thus lead astray from the true faith a great number of my children.
As apostles of the last times, you must withstand with the strength of little ones the proud force of the great and the learned, who, seduced by a false science and by vainglory, have torn to pieces the Gospel of Jesus, by propounding an interpretation of it which is rationalistic, humanistic, and entirely erroneous. The times foretold by St. Paul have come, times when many announce false and strange doctrines, and thus they go running after these fables and stray away from the truth of the Gospel.
As apostles of the last times, you must follow Jesus along the road of disdain for the world and for yourselves, of humility, of prayer, of poverty, of silence, of mortification, of charity and of a more profound union with God. You are unknown and despised by the world and by those who surround you; you are often obstructed, marginalized and persecuted, because this suffering is necessary for the fecundity of your mission.
As apostles of the last times, you must now illumine the earth with the light of Christ. Show yourselves to all my children, because I am always with you. Let the faith be the light which illuminates you in these days of apostasy and of great darkness, and, in these times of such a vast infidelity, let it be zeal alone for the glory of my Son Jesus which consumes you.
As apostles of the last times, there befalls you the duty of carrying out the second evangelization, so much asked for by my Pope, John Paul II. Evangelize the Church, which has strayed from the spirit of Christ and has allowed itself to be seduced by the spirit of the world, which has penetrated it deeply and has pervaded it entirely. Evangelize humanity, which has again become pagan after almost two thousand years since the first announcement of the Gospel. Evangelize all men, who have become victims of errors, of evil, and of sin and who let themselves be swept away by the impetuous wind of all the false ideologies. Evangelize the peoples and the nations of the earth, immersed in the darkness of the practical denial of God, as they prostrate themselves in the worship of pleasure, of money, of power, of pride and of impurity.
Your times have come, and I have formed you during these years, so that you may be able to give now your strong witness as faithful disciples of Jesus, even to the shedding of your very own blood.
When, from every part of the earth, all of you, my little children, will give this witness as apostles of the last times, then my Immaculate Heart will have its greatest triumph."
-To The Priests-Our Lady's Beloved Sons, MMP (2009); Interior locutions to Fr. Stefano Gobbi, MMP [1973-97]. #451, pp.687-89. Bold print is the emphasis of the blog author.
Prayer:
Renewal of Baptismal Vows...
I renew my baptismal vows, I renounce Satan and all his works
and all his pomps, I take Jesus Christ for my Model and my Guide
and I promise to be faithful to Him unto the end of my life...Amen.
*Prayer is taken from My Sunday Missal [Latin/English, 1944], Rev. Joseph F. Stedman,
Confraternity of the Precious Blood, Brooklyn, NY.

The Understanding of the Whole and Entire Truth...

May 19, 1991 [Berlin, Germany] Solemnity of Pentecost...

"Today you are here to observe the liturgical solemnity of Pentecost, in a continual cenacle of brotherhood and of prayer, carried out with me and by means of me. Thus there is renewed the very same reality which took place in the Cenacle of Jerusalem when, under the form of tongues of fire, the Holy Spirit came down upon the Apostles, gathered in prayer with your heavenly Mother. That was the first Pentecost. That was the beginning of the earthly journey of the Church in the history of humanity.
With the extraordinary abundance of his charisms, the Spirit of the Lord has completely transformed the Apostles, from being timid and fearful to being courageous witnesses of Jesus and of His Gospel. With the powerful force of His divine action, He has brought them to the understanding of the whole and entire truth, and He has made them into perfect witnesses of Jesus, even to the shedding of blood.
You have now entered into the times of the second Pentecost. For this reason, it is necessary that these cenacles be multiplied in every part of the world. I ask that all the Church be gathered together in the spiritual cenacle of my Immaculate Heart. Then the Holy Spirit will bring you to the understanding of the whole and entire truth.
He will bring into the secret of the word of God and will give you the light of wisdom to understand all the Gospel and whatever is described in it concerning the times through which you are living. The Holy Spirit will make you understand the signs of your time. They are the times foretold by Holy Scripture as those of the great apostasy and of the coming of the Antichrist. They are times of great tribulation and innumerable sufferings for all, which will bring you to live through these final events in preparation for the second coming of Jesus in glory.
The Holy Spirit gives His perfect witness to Jesus and proclaims Him as the only-begotten Son, coeternal and consubstantial with the Father, He through whom all things have been made, the Incarnate Word, the King of all the universe, who must come again in glory to restore His reign in the world.
The Holy Spirit prepares hearts and souls for the second coming of Jesus. For this reason, He is today pouring out His charisms in a manner which is even stronger and more extraordinary than at the time of the beginning of the Church, because you have now entered into the last times, which will lead you to the new era.
The task of the Spirit is to prepare humanity for its complete change, to renew the face of creation, to form the new heavens and the new earth. For this reason, I ask you to persevere with fidelity in the cenacles which I have requested of you, and allow the Holy Spirit to mold you with His sweet and powerful action of love. Only thus can you be ready for the great plan which awaits you."
--To The Priests-Our Lady's Beloved Sons, MMP (2009);Interior locutions to Fr. Stefano Gobbi, MMP (1973-97). #450, pp.686-87

Prayer: Come Holy Spirit, and renew the face of the earth!
Come, Holy Fire, and burn within us,
Come, Holy Wind, and cleanse us,
Come, Holy Truth, and teach us,
Come, Holy Power, and strengthen us,
Come, abundant life, and fill us! Fill us, convert us, consecrate us
until we are entirely yours.

Send forth your Spirit , O Lord, and they shall be created. And You
shall renew the face of the earth.
You, O Lord, will open my lips.
And my tongue shall announce Your praise.

Incline unto my aid, O God.
O Lord, make haste to help me....Amen.

You are a priest forever....

"To touch the Sacred Species with their own hands and to distribute them is a privilege of the ordained." Pope John Paul II
[Dominicae Cenae, No. 11]

"Without the priest the death and passion of our Lord would be no use; the priest has the key of the heavenly treasures; he is God's steward and the administrator of His goods...
What is the priest? A man who holds the place of God, a man clothed with all the powers of God. Go, our Lord said to the priest, As my Father hath sent me, I also send you.
At the consecration the priest does not say, 'This is the Body of our Lord.' He says, 'This is my Body.'
Behold, the power of the priest! The tongue of the priest makes God from a morsel of bread! It is more than creating the world. Someone said, 'Does St. Philomena, then, obey the Cure of Ares?' Certainly, she may well obey him, since God obeys him. The Blessed Virgin cannot make her divine Son descend into the host. A priest can, however simple he may be.
How great is the priest! He will only rightly understand himself in heaven...to understand it on earth would make one die, not of fear, but of love...
If I were to meet a priest and an angel, I should salute the priest before the angel. The latter is the friend of God, but the priest stands in His place. St. Teresa used to kiss the ground where a priest had passed.
Great value is attached to objects which have been laid in the porringer of the blessed Virgin and the child Jesus at Loreto. But the fingers of the priest which have touched the adorable Flesh of Jesus Christ, been dipped in the chalice which has held His Blood, and in the ciborium which has held His Body--are they not more precious?"
--St. John Vianney, The Cure of Ars, Eucharistic Meditations (2001).

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