BECAUSE of his prophetic relevance in our days, I am again quoting Fr. Ottavio Michelini (14 August 1906 - 15 October 1979) of Mirandola, Italy. In 1967, he was designated Monsignor as a chaplain of the Pope.
Fr. Michelini became an advocate of the Marian Movement of Priests which was founded by Fr. Estefano Gobbi in 1973. He spent the last four years of his life having encounters with Jesus and the Blessed Mother. Messages from these supernatural events were later published in six volumes titled Confidences of Jesus to a Priest.
Here are interesting quotes from Our Lord Jesus, as quoted by Fr. Michelini in his book:
“My son, the matter of which I shall speak to you this evening is not new. I have told you of it several times in previous Messages. It is the struggle that Satan has unleashed against man.
“Unable to face God directly, he fights it indirectly by unleashing his desperate wickedness (made of hatred, envy and jealousy) over the man destined to fill the open gaps with his rebellion to God.
“Satan is called Prince of darkness because his fundamental intent is to obscure and overshadow the light of God in souls.....
“The war declared by Satan against man in hatred of God has assumed so vast and grand proportions in its horrible reality that it has no comparison in human history.
“The war, in general, is formed by a chain of battles. This battle, of a war that will continue until the end of time, is the greatest and dreadful one. Its epilogue is not far off, it will happen by the direct intervention of the Mother of mine and yours.
“She will crush the Serpent's head again. She, the humble Servant of the Lord, by her humility has overcome pride and pride, and will definitely overcome it at the end of time.
“Satan is darkness and therefore he does not see. His desperate pride prevents him.
“Nevertheless he fears the defeat of this battle, which for him will be a cause of shameful debasement, while for my purified Church will be a long period of peace and so will be for the newly healed people of the many evils they suffer today.
“This is why Satan has committed all his possibilities and those of his legions.
“All the cunning, all the insidias of his corrupted nature but rich in innumerable gifts of power, intelligence and will, are used in his mad attempt, born and matured in him from the moment of his rebellion against God.
“Destroy Me, the Christ, the Word of God made Flesh, and the Church out of my open Heart are the goal desperately longed for, and tenaciously pursued.
“But the crazy blindness has made him commit numerous tactical errors, typical of that of discovering too much.
“An insightful general never lets his plans glimpse at his enemies, knowing full well that this is an unpardonable recklessness. Instead Satan has discovered many of his letters.
“This is why My Vicar on earth has recently been able to say that today in the Church there are facts that cannot be explained humanly: in them the direct interventions of the Prince of Darkness are evident.
“However Bishops, Priests and almost all of the faithful do not see. They do not see because they close their eyes to the light, because they have their minds and hearts wrapped in darkness.
“When Paul VI said: "The smoke of Hell has entered the Church" what did he mean? The contagion of Satan has entered the Church. The contagion of Satan is pride, pride.
“I repeat: Satan in his mad, desperate illusion intends as a main objective to erase from the face of the earth Me, the Eternal Word of God ...
“With the fall of Adam and Eve he thought to have defeated God, to have secured forever a complete dominion over the children of guilt; He was convinced that he had snatched away his creatures by deception and cunning from God the Creator by subjecting them to his undeniable dominion, in time and in eternity....
“Nowadays Satan, being darkness does not have the right vision of things, is convinced that he has the victory in his hands so that not without dramatic, horrible and dreadful convulsions he will let escape his prey, which is the humanity infected by his Evil: pride and presumption.
“This war will have its epilogue to the end of time, but war is a chain of battles as I said; And the battle now in action is the largest, after the battle by St. Michael and his legions against the rebel powers.
“Many battles have since been fought over the centuries but none of these are comparable to this present battle in which nations and peoples from all over the world are included...
“I who am Wisdom, Mercy, Love and Omnipotence will know how to bend the dark manoeuvers and the crazy pride of Satan and his legions to get a triumph from all this; My Church purified.
“Woe to those, my son, who refuse to see! An act of sincere humility is enough to allow light to seep into their souls...
“Materialism, the incarnation of Satan, denying and replacing God intends to give men a paradise here on earth, a happiness that she does not possess and therefore cannot give.
“A tragic lie, a shrewd deception to which many Christians, priests and even Bishops have clung in the name of progress, forgetting the end of Creation and of Redemption!
“This is why we are no longer talking about the New Ones, the true enemy of man, the sin with which Satan's work is identified. Bishops, many priests, are responsible for this.
“Almost all Christians have allowed themselves to be seduced by straying from the straight path. Meanwhile every man as an individual is on the march towards Eternity, or eternal joy or eternal damnation.
“The man, the prey of Satan, is at the centre of a furious struggle of Satan, unleashed to snatch it from God who, with a providential design, has sent to the earth his Word made Flesh, to liberate man and thus to give him primitive grandeur, dignity and freedom...
“The time is near when my Church will groan in fierce and unheard of persecution to be reborn One, Pure, Holy and Immaculate. She will be the mother of the peoples who will gather under her wings and in peace and justice, she will be a teacher and sure guide for all men of good will.
“Here's why I tell you: it's urgent to do it soon. I want bishops and priests to prepare themselves in humility and penance, in prayer that must be unanimous. Do not forget that My Passion followed My Resurrection. I bless you, my son.”