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It was Lucia who helped formulate the
simple Blue Army Pledge: Consecration -
Penance - Daily Prayer to challenge
a triple foe: the world, the flesh and
the devil! Our Lady’s Message was clear:
Men must cease offending God who is
already too much offended. If mankind
would do their part, God’s Mother
promised to do hers. St. Padre Pio was
the first spiritual director of the Blue
Army. This pledge is possible for everyone
and it is not just a vague spiritual
plan, but a concrete plan of action:
WE PROMISE TO:
† Practice the devotion of Consecration
by faithfully wearing the Brown
Scapular;
† Pray and carry out the duties of our
state in life, bearing our trials patiently
and expending ourselves in the service
of our needy brethren.
It is this wave of reparation and
holiness that will bring about the Triumph
of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, of
which it is already the beginning!
Christianity was brought to Russia by
priests who followed the Byzantine Rite
and the great See of Constantinople in
the East. Pope Pius XI told us explicitly
in Quo Primus that all the troubles of
the present world are due precisely to
the fact that the religion of Christ has
been placed on the same level as false
religions. It is our apathy, lethargy,
disloyalty and cowardice that are the
very agents driving the nails into the
flesh of Christ’s Mystical Body.
Our Lady of Fatima asked us to live
our lives in a Catholic manner. To end
the threat of Communism, the spiritual
vacuum must be filled by the prayers
and penances of those who have the
Faith. The Catholic who does not live
according to the Faith he professes, will
be swept away defenseless in this deluge
of evil which threatens the world.
The Fatima Message is addressed to all
men without exception, independently
of belonging to any ecclesiastical
organization. God has made Mary,
Queen of Heaven and earth, leader of
His armies, keeper of His treasures,
dispenser of His graces, worker of
His wonders, restorer of the human
race, and mediatrix on behalf of men.
(St. Louis Marie de Montfort)
We are at cross-roads in the history
of the world. God has established only
one enmity between Mary and the
devil. The humble Mary will always
triumph over Satan, the proud one; and
so great will be her victory that She
will crush his head, the very seat of his
pride. She will unmask his serpent’s
cunning and expose his wicked plots.
She will scatter to the winds his devilish
plans and, to the end of time, will
keep her faithful servants safe from
his cruel claws.
“Listen to Mary! Love Mary!
Do all that She asks!”